skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Again with this red herring,
"Jeff Bezoses of the world remain largely unaffected".

Jeff Bezos consumes and releases way more carbon than the average person. Private jets, multiple mansions, a fleet or cars, a private rocket company. He would pay way more into a VAT and carbon tax than a median American. If the UBI is large enough to notice, Jeff Bezos would definitely be affected by the means to fund it.

Meanwhile a person living near the poverty line would get more back than they had to pay in increased prices. On top of the net transfer, they now have a guaranteed safety net without means testing, application procedures, and waiting times that they would still get even if they have to quit a job due to a crappy boss. They can also move cities/states without the fear of loosing their benefits.
Never see so much money, haha. But this just a beginning. Next challenge is to produce it and deliver. Also I'm afraid of NFC goal, because this is a HUGE part of new code. But I will do my best to get this project done.
Even the worst case you’re describing sounds like a win to me, relative to the present. If gaming the system looks like “the child doesn’t have to worry about stable housing while growing up”, that seems like an upside.

But I’d caution against the idea that lower-income parents are so predisposed to both gaming the system and stealing money from their children, which seems like an unintentional undertone of your comment.
i don't know what is this... But watching the scrollbar I left the page
If only there was a way to turn money into more housing on top of the same area.
UBI has always been a no-brainer. It's economically sound, the research is clear. But it's just not popular enough, because people are scared of the socialist undertones. Look at Yang's treatment in the last election.
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> resolves all issues of conflicting versions.

But isn't a problem in the browser, because you are always on the same version.
That's not a feasible solution. That's, frankly, callus to believe people can just uproot their lives.
I don't know what is this but watching the scrollbar I left the page
Spoken like a true economist talking from the ivory tower.

Just because average inflation is the same, doesn't mean every product's inflation is the same.

You will see much larger inflation in goods everyone needs, especially low income housing, and maybe some deflation in luxury goods.

On average theres maybe no inflation, but you haven't actually helped the poor. Well done.
In other words: the rebuttal is not clearcut.
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What stops a nation voting itself lower taxes?

If every unscrupulous politician can promise to lower taxes to get elected, what stops that?
Other than being a great editor, Vim has great value as a sort of practical joke you can play on people new to the command line.

"You can't figure out how to get out of the editor? I'm busy, stop asking me stupid questions. Look for the answer on Stack Overflow. Make sure to leave your mark there by up-voting the answer."
Yes, but many who saw the original story will probably forget about it in time. Moreover, the retraction did spread in a way that it wouldn't have if this controversy never got public discussion. People who saw the retraction will now be available to refute the assertion if it comes up again.
So does Apple keep the 30% or not? It’s too much information for my brain to process.
The scariest part of this for me is "I don’t know where I got the idea that it worked the way I thought it did". If it was based off of incorrect sources or whatever I'd understand, but how can you make such a bold claim in a public social medium and forget where the idea came from within 1-2 days?
I despise Nano. I support the effort of anyone working on open source, but really don't like using the editor personally. As a result, it's really frustrating when setting up a new box and VIM isn't the default.
I agree that offices can be beneficial. But most of us are comparing our work-from-home setup to a very sub-optimal office experience. It is usually a big open plan office with crappy air conditioning and windows that don't open. It is a complete lack of privacy unless you manage to book a glass walled meeting room. It is a boss who thinks that shorts on a hot day are "unprofessional". I would love to go back to the office, but not like that.
Possibly, but that sounds like a problem which could be solved separately, perhaps with stricter laws about what constitutes an onerous contract; we need not discount UBI entirely because it causes some problems, since the problems UBI causes might be better than the problems we have without UBI, and the problems with UBI might be easier to solve.
Getting a good education is a lot easier when you have notebooks, filling breakfast, and parents whose stress or sleep-deprivation doesn't exacerbate untreated mental health issues.
Yes, the naming convention does but the source code itself does not lend itself to it greatly with all the parentheses.

open paren sum open paren tick one two three close paren close paren
> In the event that Apple refunds any such price to an End-User, You shall reimburse, or grant Apple a credit for, an amount equal to the price for that Licensed Application.

And the sentence above that covers the regular refund too. Not sure why you left this part out of your quote unless it is your point that at least the practice in case of chargebacks is fair (to which I agree).
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Tyler Cowen writes [0] that the most important question in economics, to him, is

> how do differences of culture — however defined — interact with traditional economic mechanisms involving prices, incomes, and simple comparative statics? Are those competing explanations, namely cultural vs. economic?

Richie's answers are mostly focused on changing the culture of science, and while there are lots of ways we could change the incentives, none of them would be pretty.

Example: let's say we want to more closely align research and actionable results, e.g., a product a company can use (Brian Armstrong argues for something like this [1]).

Solution: radically reduce public funding for scientific research and for university education as a whole (in line with Bryan Caplan's arguments in "The Case Against Education" [2]). Academics, who would be many fewer in number, would then have to get more of their funding from companies, who (presumably) would:

A) guide them towards asking market-relevant questions, and

B) have a clear incentive to check the data, re-run the code, etc. -- so that the product they built based on that research didn't flop.

I think most people would recoil at this proposal. But that's what comes to mind when I think about fixing the incentives rather than the culture.

P.S. Small nitpick: Richie gives an _example_ of a perverse incentive in lieu of a definition.

[0] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2017/01/im...

[1] https://medium.com/@barmstrong/ideas-on-how-to-improve-scien...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Case_Against_Education
It is pretty much unthinkable from a pride perspective.

Processor IP is Intel's bread and butter.

I think if they do it it's the beginning of irrelevance, really.

What might be more interesting is if Intel became champion of Risc-V...that would be like Microsoft and Linux.
If you have some valuable knowledge about remote work, please post it. But I don’t see any reason to demand that everyone should be an expert on remote work before we allow them to share their experiences and thoughts about this thing that we’ve been going through.
Exactly what will not happen, and a major reason why UBI will be a colossal failure if implemented. In our current political climate there is no way in hell UBI is implemented fairly and with rational checks and balances. The effort to implement UBI will be riddled with "pork" and what end up with in reality will be a sad, sad joke.
UBI people also tend to be the same people that believe that housing costs will go down if you allow companies and non-profits to build more housing.
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Who would thought, years ago, seeing an email address "@linux.microsoft.com"?
> This was how his downvotes looked early this morning: https://imgur.com/a/GuTffzP

Judging from your screenshot I'd say that comment was styled as .commtext.c5a:

.c5a, .c5a a:link, .c5a a:visited { color:#5a5a5a; }

It only takes one net downvote to get there. Even one fat finger could flip that, and I fat finger on mobile a lot.

Anyway, discussions on downvotes are boring and guidelines-breaking, and even worse when it's misinformation, as a single comment could only contribute -4.

I've emailed the mods to detach this thread.

Edit: And... this comment has promptly contributed -4 within ten minutes. I don't really give a crap since I've got enough points to withstand a scratch like this. But the irony of being heavily downvoted for correcting misinformation on a thread supposedly correcting misinformation...
"...less than civil"

So no. No civil tone.
UBI, like block-chain, is a solution in search of a problem. It has the following problems:

1) Does not solve the issue of 'meaning' and 'purpose'. That is, now that UBI (and automation) has gotten rid of the need to work for a living, what is left? Said another way, why not fall into alcoholism, drub-abuse, and crime? We don't have any good examples of large populations living off the government dole and thriving.

2) UBI isn't actually that much of an improvement over a well-funded welfare state, which leads to #3 ...

3) Does nothing to help developing world. First-world countries don't actually need UBI. They already have deeply funded welfare states. How does UBI help a laborer from a developing world compete when his labor is no longer required? How does UBI help a government of a developing nation build prosperity?

3) UBI is ill-defined. There is tepid acceptance of it on the left, but only with the implicit assumption that it doesn't replace most (or any) current welfare programs. UBI's support on the right almost always comes with the assumption that it will replace much of the welfare state.
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Thanks for the suggestion! I've edited the question.
I agree. I think this will be the biggest gain for UBI that people doing miserable jobs may end up as the best paid people in society
Data could be breached in one of 10k exposed databases around the world
I’m referring to the fact that the title makes it sound like something nefarious and as always you can answer any headline that’s a question with the answer - no.
>Does that happen with any other product?

As someone who repairs and resells $200-$2k cars I assure you it very much does.

The price floor for a running, driving vehicle pretty much never goes below 2wk of pay at whatever the local minimum wage is.
I agree with the general point, but I'm still anxious about it. The mining lobby/industry is huge. If extra demand could justify opening a new mine or prevent closing one, I fully expect that to be abused.
It's great when people admit when they have changed their mind and the reasons why - but a lot of "political" people simply change and never admit they recommended anything else.
Very well done marketing pitch. I am convinced.

Honestly, my biggest worry is that the gadget will stay in a drawer after a day or two.
True. I've had an expensive education, and always saw it as a temporary setback. I didn't use that education to work my way out of it (that was manual labouring on a construction site for cash in hand). But I also didn't immediately spend that cash in hand on beer and smokes like many of my contemporaries.
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I'm a little disappointed that he didn't call it something like "Juicero World", given how on-the-nose he can rarely seem to help himself from being. But hey, he's the successful author, I have to assume he knows what he's doing.
Figures are based on UK [pre-UC] JSA claimant figures, but there's nothing particularly unusual about them globally; looks like the non-COVID figures for US unemployment benefit claims are lower and non-participation in the workforce higher. Unemployment benefit is the eligibility tested benefit UBIers universally agree should be entirely replaced with UBI payments [UBI advocates' views on retaining separate, variable disability allowances are more mixed, but there remains same basic logic that only a small fraction of the population currently receives them].

The existence of eligibility criteria ensures that unemployment benefits are, in normal times, paid out to only a small fraction of the population, because only a small proportion of the population is unemployed and looking for work. Eligibility testing admin isn't cheap, but it certainly isn't more expensive just paying everyone.
For comparison purposes, according to it's own stats the entire DWP admin bill is in the region of £6b, including all admin for all types of benefit to all ages of people and a typically overpriced new govt IT project. Even if UBI could get that down to zero which it clearly can't, it wouldn't pay for many people to receive a UBI.
Product management is at the mercy of the business. Until the potential financial pain of having poor security is well understood at the leadership level they will never change direction. Improved security is the least attractive thing to have on a roadmap. Sales, marketing, and the business pretty much roll their collective eyes at the concept because it gives them nothing. Marketing a product as more secure is begging for someone to prove you wrong, and it is so hard to prove what would have happened if you did not make something more secure.
You may not like the imposition of positive rights, but that doesn't in any way preclude their existence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_rights

The right to council in criminal matters, for example, is well established even in the U.S.
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I am the reverse, I hate when I ssh in a server and try to edit crontab and I get hit with vim. At least now vim shows you how to quit it if you attempt to ctrl+c it. I don't need vim when I want to edit a 10 line files.
>In Germany, the vast majority of homeless people are addicts or people with major mental health problems.

That's true in Canada and United States. The problem is that there are major legal barriers pushed through by activists to prevent forced institutionalization. Apparently it is a fundamental human right to live in a tent city off the freeway without basic sanitation.
I assure you, it’s not a concern. South Australia has so much rooftop solar coming online, the grid operator has real concerns they’ll see net zero demand on the grid for substantial periods of time. Renewables deployment is in full swing, and still accelerating.

I don’t see coal ever being cost competitive enough to keep digging out of the ground ever again once we make more headway.

The words “tipping point” are bandied about, but it looks like we’re there. That doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods, but it does mean it’ll be harder and harder to justify non renewables continued use. We just need to push the throttle down on more renewables.
> spend all their UBI on drugs and gambling

Maybe add more restrictions to gambling (and reclassify things like trading/investing as partially gambling), and keep policing drugs as usual.

Also, mandatory warning attention-abusive mediums, such as casinos and mobile apps; and stricter regulation against misleading advertisement. And greater scrutiny of lobbying..
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Do you happen to have some links to resources I could read a bit more about it?
there were attempts to use ; instead, many query parsers in standard libraries still split parameters pairs on semicolon. But who cares if browsers still generate & in GET forms
It would also help with those to some degree, though I feel like a lot of them could do a lot better with what's currently available.

I'm currently studying biochemistry and have a few years of experience as a software engineer. In trying to dive into the papers in the field and just trying to replicate the data analysis, I came to see how bad the state of data and code availability is. It varies a lot between subfields, but overall the current state seems pretty abysmal.
That, and the fact that all the benefits snacks beer gym etc will all be lost not replaced.
> Even with the loses you identify, it was an invaluable asset that could have kept Yahoo relevant.

And in this alternative future, if del.icio.us had kept its core as a social bookmark sharing service, it could even have kept the Web relevant.
My story is similar. I was near broke, but I was having so much fun with Blender at the time that I made the donation. I had been an Animation Master user on Amiga in the years before Ton bought the source code. Good times and great to see Blender flourish.
I thought the firm in firmware referred to the firm that had put the software onto the hardware that made the hardware work, so firmware is a type of software without which the computing hardware won't do anything at all, and non-firmware software is some software you buy or otherwise acquire and put on your device to enable it to extra things.
Falsehoods will spread, that's inevitable. But that's not the real misinformation problem. Falsehoods also get pushback, often strong pushback. Falsehoods can get corrected, eventually.

As a society, we have a real problem when people deliberately push falsehoods that they know to be false. This is not such a case, however.
As a guy that married with a girl that I did know first on MMOs (11 years of marriage, after 3 years playing Ragnarok Online), and played some others (WoW, WoT) for a while, connected entire day using Teamspeak, I do not feel this a negative point.

We can workaround and I made many acquaintances online.

Now I have a 5 year child and I turned my bedroom into a office. I just educated her during the last year (before covid) that this is a possibility.

I promised her that after 6pm my schedule is hers and we have fun after that.

Not commuting equals 5 extra hours / week of fun with my dear little girl, playing some games, doing activities like painting, board games and so on.

For me it was very positive.
I really don't think enough thought goes into the affordability of a UBI when it comes up in discussions.

Just a quick estimate, assuming that we're talking about the UK here

The UBI pays out to 53,000,000 people (very roughly the number of people 18 and over).

The amount the UBI pays out is £1,000 a month (whether you could really live on this is debateable, but it's certainly not possible in most of London for example).

53,000,000 * £1000 = £53,000,000,000 (£53 billion) monthly cost

53,000,000,000 * 12 (months) = £636,000,000,000 (£636 billion) yearly cost

Bear in mind the entire UK budget for 2018 was £842 billion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_United_Kingdom_budget

Infact, if you break this down to local/national spending, the national government budget for 2018 was £652 billion:

https://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/year_spending_2018UKbt_17...

So a UBI would cost pretty much as much as the entire UK national budget (healthcare, education, defence, infrastructure, welfare etc.)

I'm all for increasing taxes, but assuming that you replaced welfare with a UBI, you'd still have a (roughly) £400 billion shortfall - just where does that money come from?

It's affordable at a lesser amount, sure, but at that sort of level, what's the point?

This is before even getting to other arguements (if you want to use it to replace a welfare system, then in my opinion, it's essentially a regressive scheme, because everyone is getting the same payout, regardless of need).
> As a result, it's really frustrating when setting up a new box and VIM isn't the default.

However having Nano as default is the better choice. You as an expert know how to change the default. Newbies who don't likely will prefer a discoverable editor like Nano.
Are you being facetious? Because that is the biggest load of crap I've heard. There is no such thing as a non-violent bank robbery. The only reason why a bank teller would acquiesce to the demand, as polite as it is, is because there is a threat of violence. If the teller was guaranteed that no violence would occur if they denied the request, they would tell the would-be-robber to take a hike.
Gitea supports this, and https://codeberg.org is a good and fairly popular Gitea instance.
Woah, I never realised we don't actually have a good word for "firm" in Polish :)
No Apple states they are entitled to not refund credit card fees (which they would not get back) - they don’t state they are entitled to not refund the 30% cut
I just met a grandma that runs Linux. That surprised me. But it goes to show that sometimes wishful thinking can be achieved.

If we make something as a community that can replace GitHub in convenience and spread awareness of the problems with GitHub being our main code hosting platform, we may be able to convince the wider community to use a platform for FOSS that is itself FOSS (which is what I believe ekianjo was talking about).
The branding/art direction definitely makes it more interesting and sharable.

Makes a difference when you nail those things.
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I don't know if the comic properly represents the book, but all of the suggestions are somewhere between ridiculous and useless.

First, about identifying bad research: The "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" is already practiced. It's not that "we've overturned quantum theory" articles that are causing problem - those are quickly and effectively shot down. And it is rare that the "perfectly aligns with a political interest" can be applied. The only actionable one is "see what others think about it", and it's no panacea either.

Bad and fraudulent science like the recently retracted Surgisphere covid paper is abundant. I was trying to track down the origin of the "reduce salt intake" and "limit egg consumption to no more than 2 per day / 2 per week" recommendation in the past, assuming there was hard science behind them. There isn't; and indeed they're slowly being reversed everywhere - but they were prevalent for half a century, with a lot of other research taking them as axioms.

The remdesivir trials have been p-hacked to death - anyone who took an interest was seeing it happen in real time - yet, the scientific community turns a blind eye.

The ketogenic diet is vilified in every mainstream media and most nutritional "science" publications; the headlines are rarely inline with the the actual results, but that's what people remember (Not that nutrition science is really science)

And the other recommendations about fixing it are comparable to "lets solve evils of the US 2-party system! All we have to do is make those two parties vote to take away their power". Academia and science publishing are where they are now because it benefits essentially all the incumbents (at the expense of the rest of society).

The problem description (at least in the comic) is good. Any suggested action ... not so much.
Related, for more context: http://meta.ath0.com/2012/02/05/apples-great-gpl-purge/
This is my experience in the US, other than elections not being held on Sunday.
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