skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what happens when somebody does take that cash, spends it non-essentials

That's the least worrying aspect of a UBI, IMHO. Charities will always exist to fill some of these gaps, and the extremes are always there.

The most worrying aspect is that UBI likely exacerbates inequality, between those who are naturally driven and those who are not. It also likely leads to a recession, and fairly quickly at that.

https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2019/basic_income_reduces... has a good summary, but this part is telling:

> The net result on labor supply is the following:

> - Husbands reduced their labor supply by about 7% in the 3-year treatment group and by 12-13% in the 5 year treatment group.

> - Wives reduced their labor supply by about 15% in the 3-year treatment group and by 21-27% in the 5 year treatment group.

> - Single mothers reduced their labor supply between 15 and 30%.

The effects of a UBI on work likely mean an acceleration of automation. the > 10% drop in hours is likely most pronounced at the bottom, and many companies will replace that with robots, which leads to even less hours and trouble for many people even entering the workforce.

A UBI likely benefits people who have a short term problem in service of a long-term goal. Think college student studying law or medicine.

I think a UBI is ideal in Kenya, Uganda or the Congo, where many driven, capable people are held back by a system where almost no one succeeds. I think it is less likely to lead to a positive change in the west, and is likely to exacerbate inequality and lead to those who make just UBI, and those who make a lot more.
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I don't really agree that my phone is a "general purpose computing platform". What detail makes something a general purpose computer? Is it true that only games can run on it (what about Netflix clients and media browsers)? My Android media player has a CPU, video output, and runs some games and some non-games. Does that make it a general purpose computer?
It’s more than that. Conservatives think that liberal social and economic ideas actively destroy the infrastructure people rely on to help themselves. An example of this is marriage. Liberals have sought to normalize divorce and the raising children outside of marriage. Both of those things are empirically proven to make people poorer—for obvious reasons. Indeed, welfare benefits are often structured to disincentivize marriage, which in turn keeps people poor. Liberals often don’t appreciate that conservative social and economic views are synergistic like that.
>The result is a two tier society, with a small group of rich individuals and a large group of poor individuals who rightfully are wondering how can they obtain the money/"luxuries" of life like a house, a car, good medical insurance (or fair medical prices), vacations, good schooling, etc, all of which were possible in the 1950s.

>The answer sadly, for those who are not gainfully employed, is that they need to somehow find a way to land a $100,000 a year job, which is not easy when there are not many on offer.

That's just not true. There are plenty of places where you can get the things in your first paragraph on far less than 100k a year.
I don't see how any of that leads to the failure of capitalism: it is, and will continue to succeed at explicitly everything it set out to accomplish.
It is a research reactor, so most of the openings are for instrumentation and ease of upgrades. A production design would have fewer ports.
I’m really curious about the things you were saying that were making people mad.
> Who are these settings for?

These are actually useful if you're ironing your clothes, which, admittedly, is not very popular these days. But yes, there should be "completely dry" option too.
Amazon engineers will also recognize Apollo as something else

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2014/11/apollo-amazon-d...
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or even any serious scholar (in any field) arguing that there is no biological basis for sex?

Sadly this is a thing:
https://twitter.com/RebeccaRHelm/status/1207834357639139328
https://twitter.com/ScienceVet2/status/1035246030500061184

It's a motte-and-bailey argument going from "a small percentage of people don't neatly fall into either the male or female category" to "the concept of biological sex is meaningless and the only relevant factor is a person's self-identification".
On the Nokia 3310? Or a rotary phone? What is a “phone”?
The time-orientation theory reminds me of the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_marshmallow_experimen...
People have to work harder now to maintain bubbles like people had in the past naturally, especially on platforms like twitter.

I don't think this speaks specifically to whether or not "things are better/worse now," it's a criticism of a particular pop-psych trope angle of measuring it.

I think the contact hypothesis is correct. People interacting with people they're bigoted against will generally ease or counteract their bigotry.

I also think that people overestimate the degree to which contact happened in the past and mistake modern forms of 'bubble-friction' (for lack of a better term) being more visible than the silent, implicit kinds in the past for it being new.

Middle class and rich white people literally left north american inner cities to struggle on their own with reduced tax bases to escape having to interact with black people. They did this quietly, and they did it in a way that appeared individualistic and rational.

The effect was far more profound than any possible consequence of being blocked on twitter or yelled at on facebook, but it was very easy to ignore happening.
Seems to be a common thread in the past 20 years. The ergonomics of the product is garbage now. Partly because more compute is put into them, and with it comes bloated software that seems to be written by people who don't understand that their avoidance of "premature optimization" is just stealing people's lives by making the work go slower.
> Limiting speech arbitrarily [...] is a terrible thing.

This is not true. We do limit speech, both through moderation (like here on HN), terms of service (e.g. on Twitter, Facebook etc.), codes of conduct (in our workplace), in our legal society (slander, hate-speech, etc.), etc. But also through our moral behavior. As humans we know that some topics are insensitive to talk about around some people (e.g. we don’t tell yo'mama jokes around a recently orphaned person).

Debating against abortion around a person that is at risk of being forced into pregnancy, or against gay rights against a person not allowed to openly express their love for their same-sex partner is a truly offensive thing to do. When a platform limits such a speech it is acting in a very human way.

Sussing an offensive party to protect the rights of the disenfranchised one is what normal humans do in a normal conversation.
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It doesn't work super well. It functions, but there's all kinds of funky interface design which basically exists because of the nature of inheritance.
I wonder how event handling will look in whatever rust gui library wins out.

What API alternatives are there to callbacks for widgets that may signal multiple events? One object would be to pass some implementation of some “Events” trait which would have methods to be called for each event kind. This is basically callbacks (I don’t think rust offers a way to make inline trait implementations and I don’t know if there’s a way to implicitly have default implementations that do nothing). This feels similar to in Java where you might subclass Button (I think. It’s been a while since I looked at any Java at all, let alone gui code).

One way to deal with events is a more imgui-like api where you write e.g.

if (make_button("click me")) {
/* just been clicked */
}

But I don’t see how this would work for lots of events (one option would be to have the return value be e.g. ButtonEvent option where the ButtonEvent type is an enum of all possible events a button may signal but there isn’t sub typing for variants so you either need lots of similar types for different controls and lots of pointless conversions or the types say that a control may signal events which it in fact never does. Also it may be possible to have multiple events hit a widget in a frame (eg mouseEnter, mouseMove; focus, mouseDown; mouseUp, click) so the option should be a sequence and you lose the ability to use “if let” when making the controls). A second issue is that this seems likely to add a frame of latency in many cases (eg if you have a wizard with a “next” buttons then you get the mouse event for the button being clicked by rerendering the dram as-is, and then on the next render you get to do the next page).

Perhaps I should just look at the code to see what Druid and crochet do.
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The description in this article from January (in Portuguese)[0] seems to indicate that the gloves are completely passive, constantly pulling his fingers outward. He says he wears them constantly to get used to his hands being open, as before they were always somewhat closed.

[0]https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/cotidiano/2020/01/joao-carlos-...
ordinarily would agree but i am about to buy an standing desk. never saw it before it popped up as an ad somewhere.
Apparently yes, given the amount of "Linux" developers that rather pay Apple for a UNIX desktop experience instead of making "Year of Desktop Linux" actually turn into a reality beyond the usual 2% from Steam surveys.
Completely agree. It's frustrating to see so many people dismiss the value of a religion when it has the potential to offer so many benefits. Of course there's plenty of dogma but what we've replaced religion with does not seem to be significantly better.
Even that is up to the people.

The US Constitution is the rules, set by the people, which the Federal government must follow.
It does not surprise me that weight watchers clients are less likely to lose weight - they are already looking for a miracle diet and miracle foods that don't have points to make them skinny.

Instead buy a kitchen scale, keep track of how much you eat in a journal for a few weeks to find your maintenance caloric intake, and drop it by 10% and add some physical activity like walking. If you still aren't losing weight you're probably eating calories you aren't tracking.

The problem with ketosis for people who struggle with diet control is that its easy to come out of,and then you're eating a high fat diet and not on ketosis.

Id rather a balanced diet that allows me to go out and eat with friends occasionally without worrying about ketosis.

Once you track and measure your normal food for a few weeks you get a better understanding of what 100grqms of pasta or 4 ounces of beef is, and it becomes easier to understand how much food you should be eating.

If the goal of a weight loss diet is compliance then weight loss should be fairly slow 1% a week without extreme caloric or food type restriction.
Just block it in your router. Everything has to go through it eventually.
Likely to work, but unlikely to lead to something economical. The volumetric power density (including the volume of everything inboard of the biological radiation shield) will still be grossly inferior to a fission reactor.
This all happens via a single web request. Most likely it’s gzipped meaning this amounts to 10s of extra bytes over the wire. Even at Google scale you’re not going to see much benefit from rewriting your front end to optimize bandwidth here.
I don't know if you realize it but you seem to give yourself a more nuanced existence while denying that same understanding in others' parent comments.

You (rightly) acknowledged that you can be privileged in some areas but disadvantaged in others, but seem to take the stance in a previous statement that there is no progress, just "gilded age nonsense" because there are still marginalized groups.

We can acknowledge progress while still admitting there is a lot of work to be done. There's no reason to treat them as mutually exclusive. My worry is that those who take the alternate stance ironically end up alienating potential allies. Or, to butcher the old idiom, they fail to realize that expecting perfection can get in the way of progress.
Congratulations. But don’t dump it! It costs nothing to distribute electronic versions from your own website.
Fantastically arranged and designed site, check out your hearing!

It's run by an actual hearing and sound guy, sorry, actual Doctor.
I don't think there is a single answer to improving how humans create and consume food. You're definitely right that transportation is a huge issue. So is waste, environmental damage from animal agriculture, etc. The closer we can get to Star Trek replicators, the better.
Due to the way that power is delivered in an EV, the lack of a regular gearbox, and the non-linear nature of air resistance, EVs have ranges that increase the slower you go. At 20mph the range of a Tesla damn near doubles by some estimates. This is the opposite of how ICE cars work, which typically get better MPG at higher speeds due to gearbox design and variable efficiency based on engine RPM.

That’s probably why milk floats could go so far at the time despite obviously inferior battery technology; milk floats didn’t go very fast.
This is too real. I had discussions like this about a big fat cookie wall we needed to track users.

“Why do we need to track users?”
“To give them recommendations!”
“But this wall you’re using takes 4 seconds to load. Do you think this improves user experience?”
“Yes, because the content is adjusted for the user. Besides, we did a test and 96% clicks accept, so the users don’t mind”
“Where is the decline button?”
“...”
“There is no other option. You have accept, or you have to hse settings with 100 checkboxes. I’m surprised 4% even bothered to check these!”
“Yeah but most just accept, so they don’t mind, and users really want the targeted content”

If I have to add it, I’ll at least make sure it won’t take freaking 4 seconds to load.
Amazon doesn't even let their customers choose the correct reason for returns when they receive counterfeit items. Instead of being able to choose "This item is a counterfeit" or "I believe this item is a counterfeit", the customer must choose between reasons for their return that aren't entirely accurate, like "Inaccurate website description" or "Item defective or doesn't work".

You'd think that a company that claims it is throwing vast amounts of resources at stopping counterfeiting on their platform would at least try to collect data on the counterfeits their customers receive.
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>No. It means they are able to generate more profit. And that is an indirect reflection of efficiency.

The result of this would mean all the most profitable companies are the ones that spent the most on advertising, which just isn't true.

It doesn't matter if targeting ads is actually worthwhile, as long as people are willing to buy tracking data a company that ignores your privacy will be able to generate more pee view.
I'm skeptical of plant-based burger alternatives. I'll wait until there's synth beef.

I was thinking about stuff like curries, pasta sauces, etc. I routinely use lots of chicken and beef for stuff like that, but I think it's mostly out of habit.

It's so hard to make make sauces with e.g. chicken or beef strips cooked just right so that they're juicy/delicious/salted just right - I still fail most of the time after doing it like 100+ times.

Using fattier cuts is easy, but I wanted to master making a juicy/properly-seasoned dish from lean proteine. I don't think I can, as a hobby cook.
Unfortunately, there are no antitrust laws whatsoever differentiating products based on whether they are "general-purpose" or not in the United States, and there is also no court precedent for such a distinction. Thus, from the law's perspective, an Xbox is a product just like an iPhone, and any ruling affecting one also affects the other. "General-purpose" has no legal meaning.
Must we descend into ad hominem attacks?

Let's call a spade a spade:
- market manipulation [0][1]
- culture [2]
- education [3]

0. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074...

1. https://www.apa.org/topics/kids-media/food

2. https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/eating-too-much-added-su...

3. https://www.healthyway.com/content/how-did-the-government-ge...
He's a programmer with a Wikipedia page. There's like what? Maybe 60 of those?

I've long ago accepted I'd never make that list. If it ever happened I'd probably commit myself to an asylum immediately because it'd be 1000x more likely I had actually finally cracked and started hallucinating things.

Actually let's be real. Being a famous programmer is probably within my reach. I lack the discipline, focus, and dedication to spend the right amount of time on the right parts of the right projects. If this is possible for me to fundamentally address and within my capacity (still questionable) than doing things of deep impact is probably feasible. Even if it isn't, I should do it anyway.

I avoided children and marriage so I'd never have to choose safety over taking risks. So, take, more, risks. Now is the only time there ever will be.

I should print out those last 2 paragraphs and read it aloud in front of my bathroom mirror every day.
Troubled Teens Mock Social Worker's Car

https://local.theonion.com/troubled-teens-mock-social-worker...

A lot of people on HN are from Upper-Middle-class backgrounds and it's funny how the same just-so stories and excuses come up when discussing the poor. The idea that poor folk are going to use their UBI to buy the 24 pack of eggs instead of the 12 pack, or the leather boots instead of the faux-leather boots, and spend the long-term savings towards a Coursera subscription just isn't realistic, howsoever common.
> massive, national-scale investments

A reminder of what could have been:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/U.S._his...
Yeah, it's definitely activation energy. Once I've actually started working on something, I can do anything, but damn, starting is tough.
They even ship brew now, don’t they?
The trick is that deuterium (and tritium) are vastly more reactive than ordinary protons. The fusion of the latter is extremely slow, because it involves the weak nuclear interaction to convert a proton to a neutron.
Also, people can have different preferences and that’s ok.
Stop buying cheap LEDs. Lookup tear down reviews on YouTube and make sure you get ones with the color temp you like.
The sun "burns" ordinary hydrogen. The first step in this proton-proton-chain is the reaction of two protons to a deuteron, which requires conversion of one of them into a neutron. This is an interaction of the weak nuclear force, which has very small range, so it is slow. Reactions considered for terrestrial fusion don't require the weak force, and consequently won't run on pure hydrogen.
Some technologies would be better off not existing, but I think the root problem is just unrestricted market competition. Without something to keep the bottom from falling out (<cough> <cough> regulations), a competitive market is a fearsome optimization force. It will suck out all joy and happiness from any activity, as everyone gets increasingly more creative and willing to sacrifice to squeeze out just a little more marginal profit, for however brief a moment before the competitors catch up.

You've linked to SSC; Scott Alexander has a whole other essay on precisely this family of problems: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/.
Everyone has the freedom to bring mostly-negativity into the world, but that doesn't mean I have to respect them for it even when it's in support of issues I completely agree with.
Yea. If you're fetching the html for a video page, you're presumably going to stream a video, which dwarfs the cost of "14 times a short string of text".

The article title had me anticipate to read that 14 separate requests were made to download the title multiple times. That would be bad, but this isn't that.
If your municipality uses a properly maintained landfill, you can just throw them into trash, after sealing them in a regular plastic bag. Such a trivial amount of mercury will not be significant in the big picture of a landfill. For what it's worth, you can also just trash regular alkaline batteries, there's nothing wrong with that either.
purchaser reviews with the product

No. Companies have been doing this for as long as there has been advertising and mail-order catalogs. Did Amazon do it on the web first? Unlikely, but cannot be proven.

and the 5-star rating system

Also unlikely. The five-star system has been around for at least a century. In digital form, I had it on one of the first web sites I built, around the same time that Amazon.com launched, and even that was cribbed from online review systems that existed before the web.
I am not a fan of that remote control at all. I constantly sit on it, skipping through shows; and I don't get the purpose of the touchpad vs a d-pad.

No one uses the trackpad on their playstation controllers, why did apple run with the same idea?

I'm a big fan of the Roku boxes.
yeah it doesn’t take a tech or legal genius to suss out that this wording leaves the door to fuckery wide open.
Find IP address is connecting to for the ad server, and block it at the router? Its a sad fucking world when I have to suggest this - I flat out wouldn't buy a tv with adware but yeah should work.
Just the little bit responsible for Chernobyl and Fukushima is not a part of the design at all. No big deal. :-)
>> Give me a fucking break, we pump cows so full of hormones 8 year old girls are getting their periods [0].

Who is "we"? The EU has banned the use of hormones in farm animals for growth promotion since 1981 and for most other uses in subsequent years:

In 1981, with Directive 81/602/EEC, the EU prohibited the use of substances having a hormonal action for growth promotion in farm animals. Examples for these kind of growth promoters are oestradiol 17ß, testosterone, progesterone, zeranol, trenbolone acetate and melengestrol acetate (MGA).

https://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/chemical_safety/meat_hormon...

Note also (same link):

The United States and Canada contested the prohibition of the use of hormones as growth promoters in food producing animals, and in 1997 a panel of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) ruled that the EU measure was not in line with the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS).

Eventually the EU was forced to accept importation of meat from animals treated with hormones.

In any case, there's no "we". Some countries do what you say, but not all.
80% of the energy from DT fusion comes out as neutrons, which enter a blanket and deposit energy there by collisions and nuclear interactions.
It would only be eclipsed, daily, during a small part of each half-year, no? And, on alternating sides of its orbit.

Usually people blame the moon, and three-body dynamics, for disrupting other Earth orbits.
This horse is beaten to death. 1.7% among 60+ (not 1.17 among 70% like you wrote) fatality rate is extremely high. Any attempts to isolate younger population from older did work, whoever tried - the virus would eventually find it way into older population. Besides these number are not right. NYC data suggests 2-3 times higher numbers.
Maybe first on the web, but not the first online.