skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think basic income is a great incentive for workplaces to be better.

it does need balances tho, to prevent abuse, especially against undeclared workers double dipping the state (not paying labour taxes and getting the income)

basic incomes tho has a series of drawback that current experiment cannot easily handle.

the first one is of principle: it doesn't solve what caused poverty in the population, and unilaterally ties recipient survival to the benevolence of the ruling class - without a strong economy to zero involuntary unemployment, it begins to look a lot like vassalage.

the second one is of application: punctual welfare is inherently less efficient than aggregated action - living universal income + private school and private healthcare is just a way to bleed state resources into private coffers. public school and public healthcare are much more efficient, and then the supplementary income should just cover the remaining quota of needs (housing, food etc)

there's also second order effects tied to basic income inelasticity - if housing or schooling or whatever price raises, it can displace all the recipient from an area. it's not unrealistic to expect basic income city quarters, at which point state provided housing seem a better alternative to prevent basic-slums.

and there's a question about what the long term goal of the society are - given that there will always be premium goods/service out of reach of people living off basic income, I'd wager that while basic income is sure helpful to bring people out of poverty and placing them into the same bucket of the working class, it rarely help bringing such people into middle class, as that would require the saving necessary to bootstrap a private action, which I rarely hear to be the goal of basic income.
Even if shitty jobs still exist, at least nobody is "forced" to. We can redistribute or change the way it's done.

I can clean the walkway, or toilets.. granted i don't spend my whole month on it with shoddy equipement.
Most Scandinavian folk I know are quite direct, Finns are direct++ :)
Why would we want to create tax policy that discourages automation investment in favor of human labor?
I think this is the essential fact, thanks for posting.

Lots of people complain about the “insecurity” of email, but as long as you want this feature (sending anyone a message knowing nothing more than just their email address), there will always be spam.

And if this is a feature you can do without, then there are lots of alternative communication systems, or you can always use signatures in email.
>How about this massive supply chain and manufacturing disruption, could that somehow be responsible?

That is part of it. Fortunately there are plenty of other examples in US and other country history where money handouts are clearly a driver, so it's not a question of whether or not easy money adds to inflation.

As mot economists put it, all long term inflation is ultimately the result of more money in the system.

>This stuff about pain sounds like it came out of a sadistic religious cult.

Not a rebuttal. If Bob willing to work job X for Y hours to get apartment Z, simply rescaling the value of money (inflation) will not change that Bob is willing to work job X for Y hours to get apartment Z.

Do you think this is not true? That he gets 37 yotobucks or 19 fishcoins or 39801892 bubblenotes is irrelevant. He is willing to trade time and effort for goods. If the value of the currency moves he is still willing to do this.

Free money will not, and historically has not, come without costs.
20+ year year old permanent program

https://www.wired.com/story/free-money-the-surprising-effect...
No, I think they said that they think that "working" towards an idea, a moonshot, wouldn't feel like working
The OP’s question was about how the bid got so high, i.e. it would take two people to get the bid that high.
> universe's frequently unhappy truths.

This phrase is usually used to force through otherwise unpopular economic policies. But here’s the thing, this isn’t actually an argument. You’re unilaterally asserting that you’re right and that anyone who disagrees with you is a child that refuses to accept “hard truths”. But you have offered literally no evidence for your assertions, only bluster. This is mere abuse of rhetoric, not an argument.

Oh, and it’s funny how only other people have an “agenda”. As if you aren’t also expressing a policy preference too.
I think that every and all markets are manipulated by groups with money and power. Everyone wants to game the system to act in their favor right? What would I want with more money? To earn more money of course.
If a job doesn't need doing, why waste a human's labor on it?

Though that said, I remember not too long ago a lot of people saying "oh if minimum wage goes over $15 we'll just automate the jobs" and now the McDonalds by my house is offering $23/hr for entry level work and robots are nowhere to be seen.
The benefit of Netflix was that you could binge 7 seasons of a show you didn't get to see back when it was new, for whatever reason. They have to heavily promote their own content and often there are only one or two "seasons", where a season is only about 10 episodes.

In short they may be spending a ton on content, but so does all the others and while I do pay for Netflix, I continually wonder if I should just cancel.
No, the whole point of MSCs is that they aren't part of the protocol - they are just random proposals for new ideas; the more the merrier. The protocol doesn't have extensions.
>muh generational wealth
Gone in two or three generations - irrelevant to policy decisions. Handing out these (false) mental crutches is unproductive and just creates resentment in the wrong places. Some people take a risk and are rewarded for it. Some people just work hard. Some people got a shit hand. You come across as one of those load voices clamoring for some policy without any appreciation for nuance.
I'm somehow both appalled, surprised, and unsurprised at the same time. Tech companies have a weird habit of jumping into language markets they don't actually have the staffing to properly serve. However, I never expected to see Google just outright machine-translating titles to do compliance checks on.

> After 4 full days of trying to teach Google staff how a dictionary worked

Google's moderation policy is to treat any sort of complicated business situation as some kind of DDOS attack, as if you e-mailed your appeal buried deep within a ZIP bomb. They have strict computation quotas on wetware.
For the orthoplices, the kissing sphere in the middle pokes through the facets in dimension 12.

I don't know when that happens with the simplices. I assume the middle sphere pokes thru before it does with the hypercubes, since the simplices are pointier.
PSA: Thread on dealing with lithium-ion battery almost emergency
> These emails are so bad and there is almost no chance of them finding their way through a spam filter,

I still get frequent emails in my gmail that say

> Hey It is your friend my e-mail <my email>
HRU?

Or

> Hi godelski, are you in Cincinnati?

Just this week I got one about a Norton 360 purchase that looks really legit but I see no statement on my bank.

Lots of spam still gets through.
At the end of the day, open source is built on trust. Even the more paranoid-architected flows outside of npm (checksums via side-channel, curated package distributions maintained by a third-party such as debian) don't protect the end-user from actual malicious action on the part of the trusted source. Consider the story of how Univesity of Minnesota got banned from adding patches to Linux (https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/30/22410164/linux-kernel-uni...). In that case, they were caught. But if they weren't caught (or if a critical mass of Linux maintainers went rogue and were in on it)? Enough malicious actors with the right credentials can publish and checksum a damaging package in any system that allows code reuse. It is, perhaps, riskier to rely on a system with one maintainer. If that's the case, moving Faker .js to community controlled was a great first step in restoring trust in the package; it's harder to compromise a group.

We can sit here and cluck our tongues and say "Should have known better than to trust someone else's code," but that's just victim-blaming. Marak broke trust. He took advantage of a system with a vulnerbility and he exploited it. And everybody uses a system that is vulnerable in some way.

Because he did this, the system interpreted his actions as damage and routed around them. The system may change to make this attack harder in the future. And the result will be more complex and have more failure modes, and everything will be slightly worse as a result because we have to replace with process what we were previously able to do with human-to-human trust. "Nice job breaking it, hero."
Value based pricing.
What threat model does AMD attempt to address by burning vendor keys into the CPU itself? It can't be physical attacks, because a physical attacker could just replace the CPU by one w/o PSB fuses blown and then go on his merry way to patch the board's firmware.

If physical attacks are not an issue, then why is there no separate ROM on the board that provides vendor PSB configuration instead of burning this info into the CPU? Remote attestation as described by the author of this article would continue to work nicely and securely with an out-of-CPU ROM.

A separate ROM seems to be the obvious solution to me, so either I am missing something, or the second-hand CPU market was (deliberately?) ignored to save the cost of a separate ROM chip.
Why mind is so complicated?
Our brain has evolved a lot with which we invented many miracles but the same mind generates lot of useless, meaning less, negative thoughts.. does all human being experience this..
this build process took a lot of work to make and polish...would love to hear your feedback guys!
That’s pretty surprising to me. Prime’s video playback UX is very bad on Roku TV, iOS, and the web. Netflix isn’t just faster to use, it also looks better, doesn't have shockingly pixelated elements on 4k displays, and is easier to control.
new yorker article that discuses this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28824890
To get this approach to work you need to mass email to get over the low hit rate. The next question that follows, is why don't providers crack down on these scammers who need to send mass emails for their numbers to even pencil out? I'm struck this all hasn't happened 25 years ago at this point.
Strange regression. There is a decent noise cancellation feature on the AirPods Pro, that's a first class feature instead of being buried in accessibility. It's unclear to me how much of the processing for that happens on the AirPods instead of the phone. I'm not saying that APP are a substitute for improving hearing ability on the handset (old term alert!) itself.
The study aside, it would reduce MY willingness to work and I have to imagine there are a lot of people, working a lot shittier jobs, out there who feel the same. In the end, the jobs still need to be done, so wages will need to go up, and the cost of the thing these jobs produce will go up, and then, inflation. Isn't that obvious?
What you stated is intended in perfect accordance with the Christian doctrine of various denominations. And if you can believe this, you will indeed live a happier more purposeful life. But not everyone can do that.

Unfortunately, this comment illustrates the issues with this line of thinking perfectly. There is no reason to strive to make life better for others or for one's self. The optimum Christian life optimises for the maximum confessed penance before death (but after baptism) in order to obtain salvation which is the optimum afterlife.

Precisely this overvaluation of afterlife and undervaluation of life results in this being called a death cult.

This is precisely why there is no empathy for the people who suffered from the pandemic. Millions died. Good for them.
About the log-in requirement, happened to me too on an app with a textbox used for searching (no login required anywhere). I just filled the login form with a sample search and wrote a little explanation. They accepted it on the spot (although I doubt they will ever read it)
Look up and demonstrate this "ton of bureaucratic overhead". All US programs have efficiency ratings you can find. There is not the overhead you (and UBI people in general) claim.

Pick the system you think is most inefficient, then look up to find admin budget versus money paid out. I've done all this, under the same initial belief you have, and it's simply not true.

And UBI will also require the same overhead to collect and dole out - it is simply a different tax redistribution method than current ones, and will not be zero overhad.
"Worker shortage" is capitalist propaganda. There is a well-paying job shortage.
How exactly is it luck to recognize the value in crypto and buy a bunch? Because that's not exactly luck. That's recognizing value and managing risk successfully.

It's true that some people just FOMO into anything going up. But those types will end up losing all their "gains" in due time anyways.
I recall people copy-pasting the job description and hiding it in their resume by making the text invisible just so that automated software would see a 100% keyword match. Bonus here if you use 2-3 alternate spelling for each buzzword (C++ and c++). Is that no longer done?
yeah- they call it time-domain-multiplex (or something) when you have different phones subscribing to listen at different points in time. Traditionally only the closest station would broadcast to each phone, because multiple stations broadcasting the same frequency leads to a mushy signal (on average). BUT, if all the stations are synced, they can align the phases of their signals so that they 'constructively interfere' into a brighter signal where the target phone is. The appropriate phase difference will be different for each phone, so each time slice signal is indeed tailored to each device-- they also need to track device movement, to best target the signal while it drives/walks around.

'beamforming' is a kind of confusing term, based on how a bunch of antennas in a tight group can time their phases into a cone of signal-- functionally aiming the antenna, but without anything physically moving. When the involved antennas are not in a tight group, the 'beam' that is formed starts to look less like a cone, and more like a target 'bean'... beanforming ....

anyway this demo page can show some of how it works, ui is kind of weird, type a number and click to add/move an antenna, hit 'r' and click to place the receiving device, 'o' to align the phases for best signal..
https://apenwarr.ca/beamlab/
When I find myself in such a suboptimal situation, I tend to fall back to

grep '^ *pub fn' <file>

or equivalent for the language in question.

A smarter approach would probably be a code folding plugin for my editor, but I tend to keep my editing environment deliberately stupid so I can spend my cognitive complexity budget elsewhere.

(this is not to downplay your annoyance, just it seems worth mentioning that stupid problems often have stupid workarounds and I have lots of practice at being stupid ;)
Yep, often praying on good will or desperation of older generations.

A lot of people think it's laughable that anyone would fall for "simple obvious scams" but I've met a good handful of older family and their more elderly friends who either fell to a scam or were only stopped once someone at a store questioned them as to why they were buying lots of gift cards all at once. In some cases scammers will work on people over a long period of time to gain their trust.
Being against CRT, which is by definition a racist ideology, is nothing at all similar to whitewashing history. If you don't believe me, read the words of Ibram X. Kendi himself, the leading CRT proponent in the US:

"The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. The only remedy to present discrimination is future discrimination."

Why would anybody support this racist nonsense? We can (and do) learn about history in the proper context. You hold the people accountable who "did the bad thing", you don't blame everyone who has the same color skin of being guilty of the same thing. Because that would be racist. That's why CRT is bad.
Yeah that’s why I’m being partly tongue in cheek. As a kid I enjoyed both models and Lego. Now they’re combined. I’m very sure it’s a killer profit driver, you need tons of sets and enthusiasts want the Death Star. Go wild. It’s just less creative, more exacting, can’t as easily have the experience we all had together. Get a set of blocks and you almost can’t stop yourself from clicking stuff together.

A friend got sets for her 4 year old. She builds them, kid breaks them. She builds them, kid breaks them. She is bored with building them, but it’s a jet (or whatever) and kid wants the jet, so…she builds them. She now wants the classic sets so the kid can play with the toy instead of the built model.

Friend’s kid just put lights on his millennium falcon. Awesome! I’m not trying to be the Lego police. It’s just a different toy.
I grew up listening to the goon show (parents were fans) and also do not know about brown Windsor soup.
Aftermath of Success: Stardew Valley, Darkest Dungeon, and Valheim
Banksy agrees and winks.
Did they collude to raise rents 10% this year?

People will bid up apartments because they have more money.
My fear is landlords will just increase rent by the UBI amount.
How do you handle a plutonium-powered pacemaker?
Everything is written in Python because early in on the process people realized that you are not doing anything special and are certainly not doing actual math: you are just wiring together libraries that you barely understand using a cookbook that someone else provided for you to generate results that you cannot explain so that an investor can tick a checkbox for a feature list that you never see. If you are just gluing together C/C++ libraries then there are worse languages that could have been selected, but once momentum gathered behind Python as the glue language it was hard to divert to another language (e.g. how hard the Julia folks are trying, and failing, to do just that...)
Its not tourists dumping fridges and cars on the side of the road and along the highway. Its not tourists polluting the beaches or driving over turtles with their fishing boats. There is a real misconception around the issues in hawaii and where the sources and sinks of environmental damage are found.
Well, it's still wayy cheaper than cable/DTH TV ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You won't get far trying to measure Indian consumers' purchasing power from the country's per capita GDP; it has never been a good measure for that. India's is the hottest market in the world after the US and China for most digital services and probably has the largest population of netizens globally (if you were to discount those behind the Chinese Great Firewall). The per-capita GDP gets brought down by a large segment of population living in abject poverty, but this segment generally does not get counted into measuring the prospective marketable population for most companies. If you were to exclude this population, Indians still are a formidable bunch of consumers.
https://archive.ph/uEt1V
I think your biggest challenge will be building/maintaining a community, along with basic moderation and forum rules. Definitely watching to see how it goes!
UBI would lower the effective tax, because it wouldn't put off everyone who might be able to work.

Denmark having high tax in general is another story, but at least with UBI not everyone who is getting paid will be thinking "hmm I lose all that income if I take a job, plus I can't be at home so much".
You are selectively cherry-picking data here. Dr Coetzee is one doctor with a relatively small number of patients, and she was always clear in stating that her observations were for her patients only. Nor has she or any other set of prominent South African doctors or scientists claimed that Omicron is no worse than the common cold.

Dr Coetzee was also clear to state that her patient base was all relatively young in a country where many of the elderly have been vaccinated and there are high rates of seroprevalence amongst the youth. A level of seroprevalence that was bought at the cost of one of the world's highest death tolls from the virus.

The broad studies that have been done suggest that Omicron may have been about 70% less likely to cause severe disease than Delta in South Africa. As for "hospitalized with Omicron is effectively meaningless", they found that the risks of death once hospitalised were the same for Omicron and Delta. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.21.21268116v...

They also caution that it's preliminary research without the ability yet to rule out other contributing factors. For instance, when Omicron hit South Africa it was in between waves and at the tail end of a massive and devastating Delta-wave, which created substantial seroprevalence in urban areas. This is unlike the case in the US and Europe, where a Delta and Omicron wave have coincided. South Africa's Omicron wave also peaked and subsided extremely quickly, faster than is being seen in Europe and the US.

Many of the elderly in the most affected areas had also been vaccinated, and they further caution that they can't predict Omicron's behaviour in a population with relatively low vaccination and low seroprevalence levels.

Again, even if Omicron is substantially 'milder' than Delta, with the right conditions it doesn't matter because the increased infectiousness is enough to overwhelm hospitals anywhere. As we're seeing in the UK, parts of Europe, and all over the US.
A lowering of work means a lowering of goods means society, including those not working, get less.

Sure, more leisure time is good, but mostly only so if mankind still gets the goods and services they are used to. UBI would not do that.

When national productivity drops a few percent, it's a recession, and people notice the lack of goods and services.

People can already work less. But people also like goods and services.
Sounds like she just isn't the audience Frank was writing for, which of course is a cardinal sin if you have a platform to complain about it.
I agree. I am paid more now than I ever have been in my life and I work less than I ever have. One of my roomates has worked in kitchens all his life and I assure you he works a hell of a lot harder than I ever did, yet makes a pittance.
Is the only "hard stuff" in life found in employment?

What about losing a friend? Learning who you are in relation to your parents? Attempting to cooperate with a partner? Sacrificing your goals for your children?

Life is much richer than the lessons learned by doing menial labor.
I have relatively poor parents. They work extremely hard, but for some reason they choose to work super hard on all the wrong things. It's almost like they are obsessed with busy work. I try to help them but it often falls on deaf ears.

I don't believe poor people are lazy. I think it's just very hard to make the mental shift needed to pull yourself out of that situation (which they are likely not even capable of doing on their own without help - very few are).

This is just my personal opinion, but people need more than money thrown at them. They need help. If we are going to help the poor in society it's going to take time investment and personal relationships. That's what so few in America (even myself, I'll admit it) want to hear.
There's not been enough thought on this. UBI is basically irreversible. If it ends up not being good policy you're still stuck with it forever.
No matter how secure I make my PCs and network, they still are constantly gaining control of my webcam and watching me play with myself. I don't know how they are able to see through the lens cover, but I don't want the video getting out so I just pay.