skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you give food to somebody who isn't hungry, it gets either trashed or they get fat. Neither are desirable outcomes. It also trashes the economy, since people will have a hard time selling foot when everybody already has some.

It is much more effective to simply give people money to decide for themselves what they need (except for maybe medical care, since getting sick isn't a choice), than having the government try to figure that out for 300 million people at once.
UBI isn't enough money to live on for free. It's about half that.

12k is enough money to live but your standard of living is worse enough to be visibly felt.

If you look at https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street/, 12k / yr generally the level where most essentials are visible around the world. But you're likely not going to have:

1) A car

2) A house

3) Feed a family

4) Savings

5) An expensive hobby

You'd need about another 5-10k on the UBI check to really make this argument for UBI... which you get through working.
"You can configure the built-in webserver to fork multiple workers in order to test code that requires multiple concurrent requests to the built-in webserver."

The built-in web-server itself was released with PHP 5.4 (2012). The only thing new about it is support for multiple workers to make it faster for concurrent request handling. But, it's still only intended for development environment and testing. I imagine multiple-workers support is very useful with SPA development, and especially improves testing speed if you run concurrent tests that rely on built-in web-server.
I think the move of Kali Linux from bash to zsh is sane. I sometimes have to use the default shell of Linux distribution, especially on servers, and my main pain points with bash are:

- The history is editable by default. If I move to a previous history line and change it, the old line disappears. Hitting Ctrl-c will remove it from the history.

- If I use simultaneous shells (screen, tmux, or several ssh connections), the history saved will be the one of the last shell to quit. The bash config `histappend` should be the default, IMO.

- Most of the time, I search the history by the beginning of the command I just typed, which zsh maps to alt-p and which bash does not map by default. I rarely use the ctrl-r search.

- No way to pause a command and view the man. With zsh, `git clone<alt-h>` will display `man git-clone`, then return to the incomplete command line.

- No way to set a command aside. E.g. if I realise while typing that I'm not in the right directory, `git clone<alt-q>cd src<return>`.
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While your link compares confirmed deaths due to Covid-19, it seems that this effect remains even when you look at excess deaths [1].

However, the US is still in the midst of the pandemic, and I expect the US to catch up on this lamentable metric.

[1] https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/07/15/tracking...
>but the common options are safe and in continuous use

Which would be Raid5/6 and 1
There are modern municipal housing buildings in Vienna that do this - mirrors for community space ilimunation during the day. :)
It's kind of like the military in that sense. Anything 'PvP' falls in that category.
Thanks a lot! It annoys me extremely every time I have to read such mess.
> The idea of UBI is that everybody gets it, but many/most of us will pay higher taxes that send it right back. It'll just add a little bit of overhead by moving the money around, but you don't get to keep it.

That's the worst sales pitch I've seen for it.

If most of us won't benefit, then most of us won't support it. How would it be different from one of the many means-tested welfare systems that already exist?
"If people are given enough money to live on for free I would wager there is zero incentive for them to be productive within society. Zero."

Take any country with wide social safety nets. You don't really need to work in them to live.

At least in my country most people prefer working. There is a small subculture of some families that seem to pass on unemployment as a way of life to their children but those are really ,really few.

My answer is - I don't know the general answer. In my culture people prefer working to not working, even though they don't have to. But I don't know if this applies universally.
> Why would you use twitter for something like this when you could simply

Ok, go on

> create a blockchain DAPP that runs on Ethereum? All you'd need to do is learn the Solidity language, compile it with Mist and purchase some initial startup gas to pay for the executions.

So much simpler than tweeting!

> globally distributed network of several mining organizations, rather than dependent on one politically-suspect US tech company.

Yup, those reliable and impartial miners that noone really knows who they are, but we’re 200% sure they’re not mostly in China and could absolutely never be influenced by Chinese authorities?
Pascal is still going?
That's not true at all, as many people pointed out in this thread there's a lot of bandwidth even with 3g connections however it is being artificially limited as a revenue stream.
Also they don't have to finance it themselves.
Note nº 1: don't!
I suppose I should clarify what I mean by productive.

I'm using it in it's lowest sense: paying back into society to fund all the other stuff that government will want money for.

So, basically, we will have more takers than producers, therefore, it cannot possibly work.

Sure, you'll get poets, artists and the like taking advantage of it and society will be better off in the long run for it... probably. I don't know, never studied that stuff before.

But the immediate problem is that you will have a shit-ton of leeches that will take the money and play video games all day long. It can't possibly be financially viable.

But to pick up a point from your comment:

> Is (for example) cooking and cleaning and caring for others 'productive'?

I'd wager that it can be for two possible reasons:

1. It perhaps allows the person being cared for to help society in some way (either directly through taxes or poetry etc.)
2. The cleaner gets paid and ultimately puts money back into society.

And yes, there are tons of "non-jobs" where nothing is ultimately created, I get it. But that won't go away with UBI: banks will still have too many employees doing nothing all day (source - worked in banks for years!)

On another note: I live in Scotland and I will bet that within 5 years we will have UBI... we're already bankrupt so, hey, what's another £50Bn a year added to the unpayable debt pile :)
> I would take a German nuclear power plant any day over coal.

I'd prefer ditching both. Germany lost more jobs in the solar and wind industry than there are left in coal ffs, we would stand way better in the Energiewende if it were not for Conservatives in government. When China started dumping solar the German government did nothing, and wind was famously sabotaged by Conservatives ("10H Regel").

Besides, just that a nuclear plant is operated in Germany does not mean at all it is safe. The list of accidents is long (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_meldepflichtiger_Ereigni...), way too long.

Nuclear fission cannot be operated safely and in contrast to the US we don't have ample lots of empty space away from civilization where we can chuck the waste into - we are not even close to finding a permanent disposal site.
Huh, I never knew this. For anyone else who didn't know, it's in the C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\ folders, it's the CSC.exe file included with each version of the .NET framework.

Edit: Good grief, there's even vbc.exe, which is a command line Visual Basic 2012 compiler. Also JSC.exe for Jscript, aspnet_compiler.exe for ASP and MSBuild. Kinda embarrassed that I didn't know this.
Sorry, but this is a pretty confused post, and your first sentence shows a lot of the problems with it.

> Most of the terrible economic outcomes have been due to the lockdowns not the actual deaths.

First, it's not lockdowns vs deaths. The biggest factor by far in the US was the existence of the virus. https://privwww.ssrn.com/abstract=3631180

"While overall consumer traffic fell by 60 percentage points, legal restrictions explain only 7 percentage points of this. Individual choices were far more important"

But you don't need a fancy study. States that didn't have lockdowns saw similar economic declines to other states, even though they should have experienced a boom on the border as people traveled in to do business if it was the lockdown.

Second, deaths are not the only cost. People get sick, too, and it's a pretty big deal for many of them even if you don't see it on TV. It's possible they'll have permanent organ damage and shorter lives. Those people call in sick, or worse, they go to work and get others sick.

Third, if you let it get out of control, you overwhelm the hospital system. It's hard to see how that helps.
Not entirely the same, but this may be helpful https://spinningup.openai.com/en/latest/user/introduction.ht...

Previously discussed on HN:
1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18408360
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24184270
Even putting aside the logistical impossibility and massive political difficulties of vaccinating everyone, there's a good chance it still wouldn't be enough to eradicate the virus. If herd immunity needs say 80% of people to be immune and the vaccine only protects 50% of those vaccinated - which are probably fairly realistic figures - then the vaccine can't stop it from spreading. (Note that this is also likely higher than the herd immunity threshold from people actually catching the virus naturally, since that gives immunity to people more likely to spread it but there's no way to control who gets immunity from vaccinating everyone.)

The general suspicion amongst experts seems to be that the current wave of vaccine candidates are probably not going to be effective enough to allow ending the control measures that have been put in place.
Fanboys...there was even a time when peoples defended Windows for being the best server-OS, and no one needs check-summing in the FS because HW-raid is the "professional" way.
Synology has solved it by running btrfs on top of mdraid, then patching it so that btrfs reports errors to mdraid and putting repair code into mdraid. This reliably works.

I'm sure some would be interested in this, but Synology seems to not take GPLv2 too seriously and nobody seems to care about this.

RAID 5/6 in btrfs is relatively neglected because the big users that pay developers to work on btrfs (and put the work up-stream) don't care that much about it. E.g. Facebook is probably using it for their HDFS storage, so HDFS gives them the RAID functionality.
What kind of percentage of people that have jobs today do you think are really productive in society and benefiting it? I think having a job does not mean you are benefiting society. You can be a telemarketer, a manager in a pesticide factory or developing new ad tracking technology. In my opinion, it'd be much better for those people to stay at home with their kids and get UBI.

And like I said in my other comment, there are a bunch of incentives. People usually want to have more money to save up, buy more stuff, feel more secure, etc. so people would work to have more money than the basic income. Apart from that, people want jobs to have a higher status among their peers and some people genuinely like what they do.

If UBI was introduced, would you personally sit around all day or would you continue working? If you'd continue working, what makes you think you're the only one?
Why not PostScript?
That's one problem. The other problem is that the fragmentation of streaming (HBO has 3 streaming services now ?!?) will make the pirate bay popular again.
So let's unplug them then?

If the theory says that it works and the small scale trial says that it works, it's time for the large scale trial.
For simpler math, lets assume someone makes $10k per month pre-tax. Their tax rate would increase by roughly 10%, and they would receive a $1,000 check in the mail. The net cost (and benefit) for most people could be 0.

Well, why do UBI at all?

I think the goal is to simplify our means based well fare system, which can create some economically inefficient incentives.

For example, imagine someone receiving disability checks who could go back to work. Going back to work would mean they stop receiving disability checks, and they could easily end up reducing their income.
Just by the pure fact that you have to invest time and effort to get the necessary documentation, voter ID laws introduce another barrier that will disproportionately affect poor people that might not have the option of just not going to work for half a day to clear the necessary bureaucratic hurdles.

If you want voter IDs; that's fine. And if you can really just walk to any grocery and get a voter ID, that's fine too. But let's take Iowa's planned voter ID law of 2007 as an example; this requires a drivers license or a passport or a US birth certificate. If you don't have such documentation (and surprise; poor people are more often lacking such documentation) then you have to invest time and effort.

You seem to think that voter impersonation seems to be a problem. It has been shown that this is not the case[0]. So, what problem exactly are voter IDs supposed to solve?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_impersonation
It's not for you it's for professionals they neither want cloud nor use cloud storage because of ndas.
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Applying is easy enough as it is. Developer jobs typically don't have complicated forms to fill, assuming you're a developer?

The challenge is not the time to apply, but the time to do the coding tests and phone tests and onsite interviews. Days for each company, which doesn't scale.

Consider that if you make applying more streamlined, you will actively hurt the chances to get a job. You want it to be one click, like linkedin? Guess what, companies are flooded by applications, hundreds -if not thousands- of applications from anyone and anything, it's just one click, so easy to apply. It's totally unmanageable to review so they're never read. Remember that there has to be human on the other side to review resumes and schedule phone calls.
Wouldn't those people with non-jobs just quit and receive UBI then? If that is indeed what would happen (as you claim), why would those non-job havers at the bank keep working them?
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> It will also execute libc.so and libpcre.so from that folder. That's simply how libraries are loaded on both Linux and Windows

That's true on Windows but NOT on Linux (which I actually find a bit annoying for deploying applications to users). On Linux you could explicitly add "." to your LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable but even then I think it would look in the working directory rather than the executable directory.
Yup. With the way how php has being deploying over the last 20 years I wouldn't be surprised.
you laugh but I have periodically thought about making a prediction service and considered that blockchain of course would be a good verification - however after playing with it in my head I can never figure out a way to monetize it adequately to pay back the effort required, as the only people I can think would actually want to use the service are paranoid know-it-all jerks like me who want to show everyone how right they are - and I know for a fact I'm too cheap to pay for that service.
I don't understand why Germany's socialist ministers don't accept the concept of universal basic income. It's baffling to me.
https://www.t-online.de/nachrichten/deutschland/id_88448378/...
I observed that on my ReadyNAS too and always thought it was a weird setup.

Now I know there are proper reasons for it. Good to know.
Also MacOS switch to zsh was pretty recent (used to be bash).
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050

Must have been some confusion here.
Pause command - I usually hit home, insert a # then enter then man then get the command back and continue. Or tmux it. Didn't realise zsh had that shortcut.
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Json is not popular because it saves bits but because it's easily readable and maps 1:1 with js objects. I've worked with xml and xslt and while I see the advantages I still prefer json for anything. Your validation should come from annotated objects on the backend anyways which should be a single source of truth and then it doesn't matter which markup format you are validating
All symmetrically encrypted data looks the same, but almost all encrypted wire formats and encrypted file formats contain some header information. In particular, GPG / OpenPGP encrypted files will contain a header with the public key's hash. Any investigator with more than a day's experience would check the same device for keyrings and check if any of the public or private keys in the keyrings match any of the messages.

It takes a lot of effort to make all of the metadata also not have distinguishable patterns. See DJB's "Elligator" papers for all of the work that goes into designing elliptic curves for this purpose.

It's really a pain to have a full protocol that looks like white noise even if the attacker has millions of message exchanges to look at. I designed a protocol like that about 20 years ago, using the Station-to-Station protocol with the largest 4096-bit safe prime as the DH modulus. I couldn't use the semantically secure version of DH, because in that case, the first 4096 bits exchanged each way would always be a quadratic residue. The modulus needed to be just under a power of 256, so that even with billions of samples, it wouldn't be surprising that none of them were between the modulus and the maximum N-byte integer. For the individual messages within the stream, I needed to encrypt the message length headers, etc., etc. Even with this white noise-looking protocol, I'm pretty sure the pattern of packet sizes used by TCP to encapsulate the stream would give away the protocol being used. It just really increased the amount of analysis a filtering firewall would need, and increased the false positive rate of attempts to block the protocol. These days, TLS is so common and the pain caused by blindly dropping all TLS connections is so great, that you're probably best off either tunnelling your hidden protocol through TLS, or else making your protocol look like a TLS handshake with common parameters.
People keep saying "inflation" with no theory for how that could happen without creating any additional money.

Alice pays $8000 in taxes and receives a $12,000 UBI. Bob pays $12,000 in taxes and receives a $12,000 UBI. Charlie pays $16,000 in taxes and receives a $12,000 UBI. $4000 is transferred from Charlie to Alice. Alice buys $4000 more stuff, Charlie buys $4000 less stuff. Where is the inflation supposed to come from?
Perhaps it's not that costly (or you can circumvent costs) if you work at Google, like Justine does IIUC.
I'm pretty sure the parent poster's tongue was cutting a hole through their cheek when writing the post.
> I wondered mainly how they'd handle the various cases where btrfs does not work well, e.g. files that change often inline (databases, VMs, etc).

It least for default libvirt locations fedora disables CoW (chattr +C). No change in software needed.
There is discussion of these partial lotteries in academia as a way to improve the procedure of getting grant money.

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Look up Nomad Capitalist on youtube. Lots of good info there. Including on Grenada and Panama.
Were men excluded from crowdfunding for Marie Curie? So bad.
Some of these are top scuba diving destinations. They depend on regional air hubs, all presumably closed to non-essential connecting flights.

I wonder if these ten nations, all Melanesian/Polynesian with historical ties to the Anglo sphere, represent a true COVID-19 resistant pattern or are just reporting anomalies.
What I quite like about the UBI is that it would raise the bar for bullshit jobs- currently they’re low paid because they are not valuable to society but enough desperate people need the money to persevere with this. I think UBI would make business owners think twice about making the workers do some stupid, pointless tasks or if they insist they would have to pay handsomely for it.
Personally I don’t mind doing some tedious work as long as I’m being paid fairly for it and I’d still do it on top of UBI.
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They already pretty much do
lol, why would they do that?

Then they will be found out since the differentiator between the top pool of 'good enough' undergraduate programs is merely being able to play king maker to students who were going to go far in life anyway. And in return, the top students help brand the university as being top.
Well, you have a natural experiment on this. People in western europe have a solid welfare net, with programs allowing them to effectively have cycles of work/welfare. Eastern Europe doesn't. Work market is open and free.

What is happening? You have lots of work migration from Romania to UK where both parties are very happy: employers would much rather hire people that are there to work and make money, as opposed to people that are just clocking their 12 months. And employees are happy to work hard and make a lot of money.

I'm not venturing to comment on what conclusions should be drawn from this, but I do caution against knee-jerk ones. On one hand the system seems to have self-balanced nicely. On another, it's basically taking advantage on the east-west difference, and that has an obvious time limit.
Or Stack Overflow's "We are less than three people who code."
Have you tried playing video games for a long period of time?

I think after a while I'd start my own projects
this is the only safe way to use wordpress or drupal imho :D
I imagine that Justin Tunney has bills to pay.

Long term we will be back to the shareware days and we will have the anti-GPL task force to thank for.
I think your argument is engaging in “what aboutism” and detracts from the issue this article is trying to address.

The problem they are trying to address is that true meritocracy only exists in a perfect system,
that is to say that you can not fairly compare individuals across different environments. More concretely one of the problems it is trying to account for the situations where wealth or post code privilege gives students an advantage over other students.

There are often situations where students just performed better on a standardized test because they could afford a couch or had better teachers and not because they are “smarter” or more capable.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawit_Isaak
If Cuba is the best example of socialism, I definitely don't want that.