skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would file it under "things you want to believe are true are actually true" category. It gets clicks.
I work in the field of economic development and this universal basic income debate has been fascinatingly ideological with little grounding in fieldwork reality.
There are stones in this debate that nobody wants to touch; the relationship to work of different cultures around the world for one, as well as the very real effect of reserve wages increasing above the economic opportunities available in remittance receiving communities.

I really wish it was as simple as give people money and we will get economic development across the board, if that was the case a lot of sub-Saharan africa wouldn’t be in the situation it is right now.
I feel like there are two minutes of ads for every ten minutes of content on Hulu. It's ridiculous that you have to pay even more for an experience that is similar to the flat rate on Netflix and Disney+.
Same. Nearly 60. Familiar with plenty of less than appealing “traditional” Brit food but never heard of this.
Would it really be so bad if some people stopped working altogether?

One of the proposed justifications for UBI is that automation creates wealth that could (or in some arguments, should) go to everyone rather than the ultra wealthy. That automation is taking up a larger and larger slice of the workforce, reducing the need for people to work.

Many people will choose to do work that gives them meaning. Some people will do unpleasant jobs because since they can’t be automated, they pay well. And some won’t work at all. Is it so bad if there is an entire class of people who just don’t work?
You're not wrong but there's plenty of contemptuous cryptobros who got wealthy via luck and won't admit it.
What blue dress? It was clearly a gold dress :)
Or other improductive things. The more hardcore UBI defenders talk about paying Malibu surfers to surf all day, or to write haikus. That's pretty much doing nothing at a productive level.

One of the problems of those studies are that they are temporal, and everyone involved know it. If I enrole you for two years in an UBI experiment, you'll probably not leave your job, even if you hate it. But if I guarantee you the same income for the rest of your life... well, lets take a look at how many people keep their jobs, and specially their boring/shitty jobs, when they win a huge lottery price. Usually they don't do other productive things, or even other improductive things: they tend to destroy their own lifes.

Another problem is that you have to take into account how slowly people internalize the new situations. E.g. when central banks started to use inflation as a source of government income, in the first decades it was "free". But people adapted and started to track inflation and price indexes to peg the salaries to them, "learning" how to live with the new situation.
Parametric equations of the baseball seam curve (1996)
>If you're paying large numbers to do nothing, the value of that money plummets and people will starve.

We already pay large numbers of people to do nothing, retirees.
Is it "much less readable than Python"?
> success comes from hard work

The poor work very hard.

> and the courage to take advantage of the opportunities that time presents to everyone from time to time.

It's very easy to take risks when you can fall back on mommy and daddy's wealth if something goes wrong. It's easy to grab opportunities when mommy or daddy can co-sign your loan or put up the downpayment.

Those things are true even moderate amounts of stability or wealth.
I disagree. The future of Netflix is in harnessing shows made all over the world. They’ve had some success with Korean and Indian shows so far but it is a vast untapped market especially when their audience is global too. They’ve also set bars for production value which results in world class content. My only qualm with them is they seem to enforce a feminist agenda where every show has to have a “strong, independent” woman character that turns out to be extremely limiting.
I always tell people, "Life is inherently lazy."
If I'm receiving $1000 a month for a six month program run by a university research group, which states very clearly that the program will end after six months, I'm not going to go quit my job.

That's the problem with these "studies". They are completely different from a permanent government program. They can't tell you the impact on inflation, the impact on the labor market, or if it is affordable over the long term.
They are working on what they like, not what is needed, it's totally different. If the thing they do doesn't interested them anymore they will stop.
There is a documentation. In particular here https://viewi.net/docs/introduction you can read more about how it works, about the base idea and concept.
About the limitations, some of them are described here https://viewi.net/docs/caveats and in general - you can't use functionality and features that are meant for server side only.
Viewi is not the same as Livewire, it works differently and it's not tied to a specific framework.
Counter php and HTML, the same name and location and you get yourself a component, nothing else is needed, use it as a tag, more here https://viewi.net/docs/components. I appreciate your questions, will work on improvements with the explanation and examples.
While I agree that privacy is a human right, I only grant that right to individuals. The moment you enter politics, you SHOULD lose your privacy.

When you enter politics, you are either doing that to defraud people, or planning to do so at the first opportunity.
Not familiar with Svelte, but definitely see how React ecosystem favored overengineered solitions like redux etc. for a while.

Last versions of react seems to have overcame most of that burden though.
Then the guy who knew how it worked left?
The question is whether UBI reduces willingness to work, not whether small business owners struggling agrees with your politics, i.e. it is not “fine”.
Could you elaborate on how would one sustain themselves without UBI in the US (according who those here who would say the same)?

Things that I typically read:

- the lower class struggle even to sustain themselves for days/weeks in between jobs

- in the middle class there is people who fear not having health insurance in between jobs

How can one survive in US without any job at all? US's welfare is radically different from Denmark's.
> Why aren't Apple's shows (and movies?) appealing to you?

What actual content do they have?

I've seen a Beastie boys doc, Ted Lasso and The morning show * edited from Newsroom when my error was pointed out.

That's a month's worth of content. What else do they have to justify continuing a subscription?

Disney has more content with just the Simpson's episodes alone. Add on top of that the entire Marvel catalog, the entire Starwars Catalog and the entire Pixar catalog.
4:22 - I got stuck on the ID one because I felt like I was meant to do something than select each one individually. I also got stuck on :enabled and ended up writing something dumb in retrospect. Some of my selectors were quite hacky in the name of speed though.

It would have been nice to see what the intended solutions after because otherwise I have no way of finding out that using :enabled was the intended way and not input:not(disabled), button:not(disabled). Realized after I could have used an :is there but I don't use :is often in work due to browser support for IE so it didn't cross my mind at the time. It would also be nice to see that #one, #three, #five, #nine (or whatever the ID's where for that puzzle) was indeed the "intended" answer as a kind of trick question.

Without reading HN I would not have learned I was meant to use :enabled.
Welfare and Food Stamp Entitlements are Basic Income. And its been proven time and time again, that it incentivizes some people to avoid work.
WIRED 3 days ago reported on it in a less confusing manner. Also it included a comment from Google

> In a statement, Google said, “AG Paxton’s latest allegation—that we generated a ‘third price auction’ or manipulated our ad exchange—is entirely inaccurate. As of September 2019, we have been running a first price auction, but at the time to which AG Paxton is referring, AdX absolutely was a second price auction.”
Back in the day it would but nowadays people are craving luxury goods so they would be forced to work to earn them.
"By eating food of unknown provenance they are assuming some liability as well" isn't really an argument that would hold up in a court of law if someone intentionally taints the food.

> What you're advocating for is that if an open source developer changes their code, even to say, prompt the user to confirm executing when before they didn't prompt and that somehow breaks automation that the user has built (not the developer) then they should be liable for harm.

We should probably divide the conversation into two threads: one on the tainted-food analogy, and one on the changing-code reality. Because they aren't the same, and one can reach weird conclusions trying to conflate them.

Liability for tainted food is pretty settled law. If someone eats your food and gets sick, it's a problem for you. If they eat it and get sick and can prove you poisoned it, it's a real problem with real legal consequences. Food handlers and preparers go out of their way to avoid both of those scenarios.

Intentionally modifying code knowing you'll break downstream consumers hasn't been tested (to my knowledge) in court, so we can set that aside. But is it immoral? That's going to depend on one's morality, but I have a hard time seeing my way to agreeing with the standpoint "Sure, it's moral. User beware." That principle, written large, creates a strictly worse world, where people are hiding in their digital caves, unable to trust anything outside. A lot of people (including GitHub and NPM's owners) are trying ot build something better than that.

Marak had a right to do what he did, but that doesn't mean it was right, we don't have to agree that "because he could, it was good" (that's just rule-by-power, and almost nobody thinks that's a good moral philosophy), and I applaud the open-source community who stepped in to minimize his harm.
Depends.

If a minority of voters are dependent on the UBI and a majority decides that they do not like the system, or a politician persuades them so, they will vote against it. ("Working your ass off on lazy strangers" is a huge boon for populist politicians.)

If a majority of voters depends on the UBI and a minority is compelled to provide it to them, they basically have no recourse but to emigrate. At which point you lose their tax money, unless you impose draconic measures on emigration.
Was Big Sur one of those "incremental" updates?
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Not for the other group who will have products of their labor "redistributed" to pay for other's leisure time?
Which experiment? You mean the welfare queen concept?
Sooner or later it's going to get so absurd that I think they will write legislation to change the whole system because the optics of that theatre will get bad.

If we had to do another 5 trillion in fiscal spending for an upcoming downturn let's say.
A problem is that voting and getting recommendations is a tiny market compared to Disney basically pumping out what people are wanting to watch.

Yes, you can say they just focus on family content. But that is kind of the point. They identified their market and cater to them really well. Who is the market for Netflix?

Their curse is that they can find untapped markets, but then the content owners can invest surprisingly well into clawing back that market.
After my app got some traction due to a reddit post i made, admob instantly disabled earning for 2 weeks due to "suspicious activity" or something like that.

I tried to reach someone to at least get a clarification...am I not allowed to have a surge of ~100 real users? but there really was no way to present my issue to anyone. It really is bad, there was nothing I could do. If this wasnt a hobby project I would have been really frustrated instead of being just disillusioned.

Its a remake of an old 90s game that is also offline so there is not much risk in it.

I suspect there are a lot of these stories never shared.
how about the last 2 years ? about 4% of eligible workers stopped working (60% vs 64%)
There is better protection on credit card transactions so like many people I use credit card for online and debit card for contactless, and cash never.
Incarcerated at home - house arrest.
"shows what happens when people get money for free - prices rise to absorb it"

A - so prices of $40,000 cars have increased becauae people got $2000 or whatever for free? What is that as percentage of wages, 0.5%

How about this massive supply chain and manufacturing disruption, could that somehow be responsible?

B - the wealthy and corporations were getting money for free for 20 years, it's called quanittative easing, and it caused massive inflation of asset prices

> "pain Y for product Z, this does not change if you rescale the meaning of money."

Usually economic theories talk about productivity, resources and velocity of money. This stuff about pain sounds like it came out of a sadistic religious cult.
The definition of "manipulated" which allows "the dollar and BTC are both being manipulated" to resolve as true is so broad that it is effectively meaningless. The dollar is not being manipulated in the way that reasonable people understand the word to mean. BTC obviously is.
For the ASCII lovers, I made this simple web page to help convert dot to text diagrams:

https://dot-to-ascii.ggerganov.com

It's useful to embed diagrams directly in source code for example.

Here is a sample [0]:

0.6
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And a more complex example from a project of mine [1]:

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Thankfully, there's people who fight back:
https://www.419eater.com/
When did hard work (or any work for that matter) to move up the skills/pay ladder become obsolete?
For the record to this day I believe this aqua pill styled interface was way more clean and attractive than the flat design. I've never been fan of flat interfaces, it's the reason I hated Windows 8 onwards interfaces. Skeuomorphism was just perfect!
That would be great actually to move to a purely commoditized model where producers are paid directly. I think there's actually something extremely messed up about pricing. For example you can purchase the entire season of a show for less than a subscription and have permanent access to it.
To do that, the code would look something like:

mask = events["Date"].year == 2020
events[mask].groupby("EventType").agg(first_date=("Date", min), last_date=("Date", max), count=("Date", len))

Anyway, I don't understand why terseness is even desirable. We're doing DS and ML, no project never comes down to keystrokes but ability to search the docs and debug does matter.
Fewer people working reduces the size of the pie, making ourselves poorer. So yes. I would say it's a bad thing if we tax society in order to pay able bodied people not to be productive.
No it isn't. A real tax cut wouldn't affect people who don't pay taxes.
this has already happened in the food service industry. McDonalds used to hire a lot of teenagers; for many it was their first job. When minimum wage went up sufficiently high enough they replaced human labour with self-serve kiosks and reduced staff to a single register and kitchen staff. Tim Hortons switched to centralized bakeries and terminated all store-level bakers.

I'm not arguing either side of this, just that there are very real impacts. It's not a situation where every entry-level job is going to be floated by a rising tide, some people will drown.
I may be misguided on this, but I don't believe a critique of UBI is the reduction in an individuals willingness to work, but rather the act of working. Individuals who don't want to work but do so as an understanding of a means to provide for themselves still have an unwillingness to work that wouldn't change if provided UBI, but their likelihood of quitting their job and not filling that time with a productive replacement is what is being questioned by opponents.
It depends. If you have a high IQ and enjoy programming to the point where it consumes most of your time, then forego the degree. In this capacity, programming is fun and you thoroughly enjoy solving the next challenge.

If you have an average IQ and/or if you find programming more of a "job", then you need a degree. In this capacity, even though you should be programming, you'd rather be gaming or doing something else.
Inflation would rise if UBI is paid with newly printed money and deficit (e.g. covid checks). If it's paid with taxes, nothing should change in terms of inflation. Surely, prices close to the consumption should rise, and price of capital goods should fall, but overall it stay the same.
Yeah, let's extrapolate 20 years from now.
Sometimes they even get sent to jail:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/oct/23/jailing-italia...
> We've done that experiment. The results are self-evident.

Do you mean the Alaska Permanent Fund, or something else?
Right yes, they can accumulate like a game often times by playing games, but just as easily by moonlighting as a community moderator or launching their own projects. many do like the financials sector and use the defi space.

If its any consolation, I don't think this knowledge is known enough yet for unscrupulous marketers to be specifically target children and their money, as opposed to merely selective evolution of which goofy projects attract an audience at all. But yeah this will increasingly be something to watch for and assume, also remember that it will be other children marketing to each other more and more, in comparison to adults taking advantage (which will also happen). Not that there will be any way to tell who is taking advantage of who.
Haha there is nothing currently "web3" about this, but that's subject to change!
Stack: Ruby on rails
What drove that decision? I like coding in ruby, I'm quite familiar with it and wanted to be able to iterate on something quickly
Is this an alternative to Obsidian?
Respectfully, this is a lazy take. If you even slightly dig into the numbers the price increase makes complete sense. Netflix spent 17 billion dollars on content last year. They are outspending competitors 2 to 1 if not more. Their catalog is thriving - you have big names like DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Ryan Reynolds, Gal Gadot, The Rock etc signing on for movies. You have shows like Squid Game attracting ridiculous numbers.
Netflix is, if anything, signaling how confident they are of their position by asserting their dominance over the market by raising rates. They know their offering is too good for subscribers to cancel. And most will gladly pay and keep paying if the Netflix content engine keeps churning.
While I think streaming platforms are still a better experience than cable ever was, one thing that is really irritating is that I have to have half a dozen services if I want to watch a variety of content.

IMHO, the cable model of having all (most) content in one place was nice at least.
no, that it's not
Thanks for the info. I prefer the fancy punctuation. I wonder if I can switch it on in other browsers, an extension maybe..
guess what, satoshi made some prescient decisions designing bitcoin, with such level of complexity, that you in 2022 still don't understand them. to be fair, the (briefly) richest person in the world doesn't either.
It's more morally repugnant because it's much less transparent. Casinos are exploitative misery factories and I'd be happy to see them vanish forever. But they're at least carefully regulated to exploit people at an agreed-upon level and with all the rules known beforehand.
But ... it's not. It's not concave anywhere. If you draw a line from any point of the n-cube to any other point, it never passes outside the body of the cube. Perhaps your model gives better intuition in "curse of dimensionality" cases like this one, but it's clearly worse in other ways, right? It's simply not at all an accurate description of the shape.
The US has many fragmented welfare systems, rather than a single universal system. Many people do live on a combination of these benefit programs. This does not mean they do not struggle.

People who are out of work for short periods of time may not be familiar with all of the various programs and how to sign up for them, and it may take some time to do so. They may also have budgeted their expenses with their employment income in mind. This is why things are particularly difficult for people who intermittently lose their jobs.

But in general, anyone who finds their income unexpectedly unstable or close to the minimum amount necessary to meet their expenses will have a tough time, no matter where that income is coming from, or what value it is.
"It doesn't end."

To be more precise, it has no specific end date, but in a democracy, it can be repealed again with every new parliament. Or possibly via a ballot initiative.

At which moment the net recipients are in for a major shock.
> It's important to remember that Martin Luther King Jr.'s career did not end with "I have a dream" speech. He went on. He went on to extend his concerns and activism. And as he did, his popularity and reputation among northern liberal declined. He turned to protest against the Viet Nam war, correctly. He was assassinated when he was supporting the sanitary workers strike. And in fact, he was on his way to organize a poor people's movement. By that time, he was reaching class issues, not just racist Alabama sherriffs. And, as he turned to those issues, his reputation declined. I suspect, if you listen to the speeches today, about Martin Luther King, you won't hear a lot about that aspect.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/interview-transcript-noam_b_4...
>And the pay would obviously go up.

Maybe. Many jobs can be automated, but it was cheaper to just hire minimum wage people to do a job. If the pay required to find people got to be too high, automation would happen more rapidly.
Trying to spot the biggest fool is quite entertaining
As more jobs become automated, UBI will become a necessity to prevent the collapse of civilization.

Imagine something as simple as burger flipping became completely automated. There would be a million fast food workers suddenly unemployed. Add making espresso to the mix and half a million baristas lose their job.

There won't be a million new jobs created to maintain the automation to pick up the slack.
Thanks criddell. I checked the FAQ first and did a web search trying to find the answer, but the results were not related to HN notifications. Appreciate the pointers
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I agree. A process that's broken for everyone gets fixed. A process that can be worked around by everyone who has the power to get it changed can stay broken indefinitely.