skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more complicated than this. There is rent control and rent stabilization, for example. I'm sure my landlord would LOVE to raise my rent to twice what I'm paying, but they're not legally allowed to. Yes it's weird and anti-free-market and unfair to people that didn't get in early and all that. But that's how it goes! UBI would not raise rent on rent stabilized apartments in NYC.
Thanks for this! I tried 3 songs and they came back not found. But on the 4th, I got a good hit! (Mix of Progressive, Deep House & Trance, designed for High Intensity Focus & Created for my Medical School Studying by Austin Nguyen)

https://playlists.dags.dev/tracks/7xdkou0YaNLW9hWXU9MRcR/pla...

Tried a bunch more without success. Granted, I like a lot of obscure electronica.
This is propaganda. I do not need to escape the question because the answer to it is obvious. UBI should be paid for by those people who, at the moment, pay for devastating wars and coups (e.g. Afghanistan), bailouts of banks and megacorps, and subsidies on destructive business models (fossil fuels, meat industry etc.). For some reason, these options are never on the table, not even on the supposed “left”. Only taking money away from existing welfare seems to be ever considered. I wonder why.
And where you work is probably on the “enterprise” side of the bimodal enterprise dev/tech company compensation bimodal distribution.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33140210

When talking about compensation, it might as well be an “enterprise shop”

Just in case you don’t read the link above, that’s not meant to be derisive. It’s just a pure statement of fact.

There are plenty of “startups” that locate in major cities in the US outside of tech hubs, find a bunch of MS developers to write the next CRUD SaaS app and pay enterprise dev wages. I should know, I spent over two decades working for them
This is not true. In a theoretical market it may be true but in a real world market it just is not. People don’t make rational decisions. Prices don’t reflect what “should”happen. Landlords increase rent because they can. No shade on landlords - because they are encouraged in the US to do so. But to pretend like this wont happen is naive.
UBI is great in spirit but easily exploited (as we see today). UBI relies on a "perfect market" with "perfect competition" to keep the costs of essential goods low like food or gas, etc. The reality is we do not have anywhere near "perfect competition", e.g. 1. OPEC just capped output to keep oil prices high; 2. prices at the grocery store are more attributable to corporate greed than increased costs.

Instead of UBI, we are better off with policies that raise the safety nets higher from the floor and encourage innovation to make doing so cheap.

- Single Payer Healthcare - which also includes preventative measures like nutrition. Cheap but healthy food like e.g. Potatoes, Rice, Beans, Lentils, Cheese, Pasta, etc should all be included in the Single Payer System. This also requires more Nurse Practitioners, and Physician's Assistants, Self-service appointments, Virtual care, etc to reduce costs.

- Rezoning the entire US for at minimum 10 story buildings, with guaranteed 10% low income housing. Including mixed use zoning so Services (restaurants and shops) are colocated with Offices and Residential. Encouraging fewer cars or public transit needs, by having grocery stores, theaters, gyms, etc all in walking distance and at most two elevators away. Ideally also cheap public transit between these neighborhoods into city centers, and each other.

- Incentivized higher-education programs - at public education centers - no government help for attending Harvard, or Stanford, etc. Government scholarships "full-rides" for in-demand industries like Plumbing, Electricians, Welding, 3D Printing, Software, Computer Chips, Robotics, Civil, Mechanical, Areospace, etc, etc. Including housing and entertainment stipends like in Germany, etc.

- Safe injection sites, with colocated housing first sites, near but outside every major US city that provide safe, clean narcotics to addicts. Keeping them off the streets, and encouraging help programs, rehabilitation and eventually education programs to get back into society.

- Creating/upgrading the infrastructure for energy abundance. Nuclear + Solar + Wind + Storage to meet 100x more energy than the country currently needs. Including investments into the Grid for local storage, generation, and incentives for smart usage that flattens peak distribution. Add regulation to cover all of the country's parking lots with Solar canopies and battery packs (where "the formula" showcases it is profitable over 30 years or a similarly long time horizon).

This is what I'd prefer we push towards rather than UBI. In the meanwhile, I'll happily support UBI if thats the only thing getting traction (cuz at least its better than what we have today).
My anecdotal evidence: I needed to get a new AC unit for my house last year (summer 2021). I finally was able to get a reputable HVAC company to come and replace the unit. Talking with the owner, he told me (very frankly) he could not get reliable help anymore because the weekly govt checks were higher than he could could pay for a full-time HVAC person in our small community.

And before anyone says, "he should pay them more"; no. If he payed more, he would have to take a paycut for himself because his prices would not be competitive. Especially in a rural community...
Reminds me of a classic quote from a stat mech textbook:

“Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.”

David L. Goodstein, States of Matter
That appears to be a broken link to some publication by a political punditry organization and not peer-reviewed research.

I don’t find that to be interesting, sorry.
There were record high # of businesses being created during the pandemic. There's anecdotes that it is because they had the opportunity to do so now with some extra cash + time off.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/19/business/startup-business...
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/12/1072057249/new-business-appli...

I had also seen some articles (citation needed!) that part of the employee crunch low-wage businesses are feeling is due to employees in those jobs taking their covid-money+time and training/interviewing/applying for office jobs.

I don't think we have a measure on how many people got to pursue their hobbies (rather than 'farting around'), though I'm not sure it matters. UBI proponents don't think that all people will do something 'valuable' though, just that it will be a net positive.
It's not really about traffic monitoring, it's because this bank is under sanctions and no certification authority wants/is able to issue them a certificate.

Government does not need to monitor traffic between you and your bank when it can get all the intel it needs from your bank directly.
graycat's pedantic approach to mathematical formalism is quite defeatist in that it basically disallows any mathematical concept to advance from precise but limited language towards the edge of imagination. The kind that forbids sqrt(2) from existing in the Pythagorean days.

A probability theory that accommodates the concept of "picking a random even number from all integers" can be valuable, isn't compatible with measure theory but is easy to grasp intuitively. When the mathematical tools aren't good enough you still want to be able to reason about concepts, which is why the tools are developed to begin with. Fortunately almost all things are conceptually tractable when dealing with finite space or quantities; if a statement can be transformed to something rigorous (if numerically imprecise) by forcing boundedness it's not too terrible to speak in unbounded terms when the physical world is what you want to model. I can understand why physicists don't want to be burdened with too much about rigor - they can afford the small risk they're wrong sometimes, but can't afford to slow down their search for new discoveries, when so many questions remain unanswered.
I wasn't really referencing the article directly when I mentioned the Bush administration, but that's a good point. I just brought up the Bush era because that was the New Atheist's heyday and the last time when the existence of God was a hot button public discussion topic, as it was also the heyday of Islamic terrorism and Christian evangelicals. Nowadays when people try to push atheism too hard they just get called cringe Redditors, even though public religiosity in traditional religions have declined.

Neocons are pretty secular so the moralogian reference isn't inaccurate. But it's probably more compatible with Bush's evangelical Christian worldview than the distinction between moralogian and theologian makes it to be.
This seems to have been proven to not be the case, and the code in-fact originates from a pre-stable-diffusion MIT licensed repo.

It's not even a particularly large or interesting piece of code, the only reason why it's controvertial is because of the code is only necessary to use the NovelAI leaked models.
Don't just fix errors, read the warnings from the compiler, understand what they mean and aim for a warning free compile. You'll improve rapidly and understand your build system.
I think it's a lot easier to comply with the GDPR now if you're just starting out as a brand-new company. The difficult bit was if you were an existing, smallish company with (in some ways understandably) lax data collection/tracking policies, and suddenly needed to spend a multiple of your revenue to clean all that up in order to comply with this new law that was coming onto the scene. Big companies also had a lot of trouble getting their systems in order, but often had a lot more resources available to do so.

If you are starting out now, and you want to avoid trouble, you just avoid collecting data about site visitors. And when you do need to collect data (perhaps you need customer accounts), then you spend some time thinking about what it means to furnish that data on request, or to delete that data. No, it's not zero work. But it's a hell of a lot easier to build these sorts of controls into a system from the start, than it is to build it in later. I don't really work with web/full-stack frameworks, but I would be surprised if there aren't built-in or third-party modules for the popular ones to help with this process.
PAKEs bring little to the table when looked at in context of an actual threat model[1], meanwhile they add a fair degree of complexity and their implementations are much less battle-tested. Using them correctly won't really make anything more secure, but using them incorrectly might blow everything up.

Don't avoid passwords with WebAuthn, either. "Fingerprints are usernames, not passwords".

1. https://palant.info/2018/10/25/should-your-next-web-based-lo...
How to recover from most incidents in under 5min
Really interesting insight, currently the site doesn't support bundling with multiple book orders, but if I build multiple book bundling and the site knows your location and can calculate full costs from the booksite itself with that info, it should be able to help you find the cheapest application of the "magic" range. I'll see how quickly I can make that happen for you.
Lichen are. (Lycan are werewolves I think.)
>One of those protocols is highly centralized and advertises users and their requested data packets as well as their available data packets to a centralized registry.

This hasn't been true for almost two decades. DHT exists so trackers are not required [0]. So now both protocols are decentralized.

[0] https://github.com/webtorrent/bittorrent-dht
EA is adjacent to Yudkowsky LessWrong Rationality-as-a-Lifestyle/Asimov's Second Foundation LARPing, which leads to some weird places like Roko's Basilisk and expensive places like the Center for Applied Rationality [0]; and it's also a fad among Silicon Valley VC/founder types [1], so it does have a rather specific techno-psuedo-intellectual sheen to it that can be suspect to those who aren't into such subcultures or scenes.

[0] $3,900 for four nights
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/17/magazine/the-happiness-co...

[1] https://haseebq.com/why-i-became-an-effective-altruist/
Hyperproperties and Why They're Hard
Thanks for posting this. Had no idea that the St Lawrence seaway was dangerous.
Exactly, we see this emerge in bloated corporations too
If you want to see the effects of UBI just write an extra zero on any note you see.

We need government programs that targets peoples needs not their wants. Money is used to meet wants not needs.

As a simple example a Stalinist food system in the US, with all the famines involved, would save lives for the first decade because people would start losing weight.
We have no proofs of a creator, period. Until that, the correct thing to do
is to say there's no god until there's some evidence.
Crypto fans were pushing Portugal because they had 0 tax on crypto. Still not bad, but >0 for those who optimized for that.
But wouldn’t that be true even if other social networks existed, but your friends and family all still chose Facebook?

(That is pretty much why Facebook is the only big one still around -- Myspace and Google both tried and failed. People had choice, and they picked a winner.)

Putting it another way, concentration and popularity don't mean there are no choices. It just means that the majority of consumers have chosen one or two of the options. That's different from the WeChat situation.

Another difference: you are free to avoid Facebook, even if your friends and family are on it. A lot of people do. Just ask them to phone you or use email. However, in China, if you don't have a WeChat account there are a lot of places where you just won't be able to pay for things because WePay is the only accepted form of payment.

Imagine if every restauraunt, retailer, etc. in your city would only accept Google Pay -- and they wouldn't even take cash. That is what an unavoidable service actually looks like.
Clickhouse is not a good fit here, use S3 select, Athena, even duck db etc.
Messaging people you're in a group with, or people that have an active ad isn't really what we're talking about.

Try messaging someone Facebook doesn't think you have a reason to message. It will go to a different inbox that I bet half of users don't know exists, and even those that do check it once a year.
ahh I see. Yeah that makes more sense.
> Metaverse might have been a clever scam to prop up stock value.

Did that even work though? I know that when I heard about that, it immediately made me discount Facebook's job offer (I was interviewing at the time).
Wasted how? Fraud how? Which charities are more efficient? You're pulling a massive "Source: Dude trust me" here.
Yes, I've inputted affiliate links already, I don't expect to make a heap of profit but if it's enough to cover my expenses I'll be happy with the result.
I would guess that it's to do with the fact that musicians generally use the key with fewer sharps/flats. E.g., Bb major (2 flats) instead of A# major (5 sharps). This also follows what's on the circle of fifths, where major keys clockwise from C use sharps, and vice versa.

In the case of drop Db, I would also guess that people just think of it as "slightly lower than drop D", hence just adding a flat symbol.
The page at https://computerender.com/cost.html has the title "How is computerender 4x cheaper than other services hosting Stable Diffusion?" but doesn't actually explain how/why it is cheaper, just that "crowd-sourced servers are much more difficult to work" without elaborating on how what you're doing is different than that.

Care to shine some light on it? Using something like runpod/vast.ai would be my guess?
With ASL, you can yell across a highway!
I want to believe in UBI, but it seems like such a massive stretch and risk. IMO, our time would be better spent on targeting specific issues: healthcare, housing, food, education. We've made strides towards universal health care, but there are still issues. And now might be a good time for some housing reform given how bad the market is.
I tried it without pi-hole and it was riddled with advertisements. so many it was almost unusable.
Good. It's not like crypto is creating any local jobs compared to the tax it's avoiding.
As someone who plays flight sim: the controllers hold zero value for me, because they're useless. However, the headset is the thing that turns a flight sim into a truly immersive experience, because it allows for the kind of situational awareness that cannot be replicated without a full monitor dome. A triple-wrap-around monitor setup doesn't even come close.

As it turns out, VR means different things to different people. The best VR implementations allow all those people to enjoy VR.
> You can't legislate charity.

...Except for all of the social programs that are literally just legislated charity?

What do you think TANF (welfare) and SNAP (food stamps) and Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security are...? Heck, what do you think schools and libraries are? Do you think those are all morally wrong as well?

You might as well say you can't legislate a military, or that you can't legislate courts to enforce contracts...
Every time UBI comes up on any discussion in libertarian-conservative circles I participate in, UBI always gets grudging hypothetical support conditional on replacing all other social spending with UBI.

A lot of people see UBI as a small-government low-overhead libertarianish solution to current social programs, and the universality of it is seen as making it less unfair/redistributive.

Anecdata is not data, but I don’t think this is a straw man; you just need to talk to some conservatives.

On the other hand, it’s not fiscally manageable. It costs as much as we currently pay in taxes, and we still have to pay for defense and pork on top of it. So implementing UBI would exceed our income.

This would require dramatically higher taxes which are politically unpalatable (such taxes would last no more than two years before any representatives who voted for it got voted out). The amount of money is not life changing for anyone other than the poorest. And it would cost way more than estimated due to fraud (see Medicare for an example). Plus why wouldn’t businesses grab a share of it by jacking up prices on things that poor people can now afford? From the mindset that brings you slum lords.

The market for US sovereign debt is drying up so we’re not going to be able to overspend in the profligate way we have over the last few years.

For these reasons UBI is a pipe dream.
It's possible to create a temporary URL (with data from an ArrayBuffer) entirely client side:

URL.createObjectURL(new Blob(...));

It creates a blob: URL that you can use as a link.
I think you can safely embed data URLs because they’re known to be static. What you can’t generally do is trigger a network waterfall or dynamic evaluation from an img tag’s SVG resource.
This is what intuition tells me as well, but it is not true. If a gambler has positive expectation of wining, even if you have gamblers playing until either broke or dead, the expectation is for the casino to lose money.
I’m a fan of UBI, only if coupled with the elimination of minimum wage rules. If UBI was high enough, and only eligible to US citizens, then non-citizens would have significant difficulty competing against the US citizens willing to sell their labor at $2/hr.

It effectively solves illegal immigration.

But like any increase in minimum wage, all of it will be taken by the landlord class.

I consider UBI to be the dream of unmotivated potheads everywhere. Sit around smoking weed, living out of a van, surfing every day.

Make UBI high enough, and I might forgo my top 1% income to join them. Sounds like a good life. But then, who’s going to do the real work?
If you use an undocumented API and it breaks, Apple will point at you and laugh. Then they will use the example to tout the App Store.

Especially if you're an org with the pedigree of Mozilla.
Do people really ignore their doctor's advice because they saw a headline? I'm sure there are some examples, but that can't be the norm. Obviously a colonscopy can still be indicated for an individual even if it doesn't help by doing it en masse for everyone. Specific symptoms could indicate a colonoscopy would provide more information and there are a number of other conditions where it would be used besides colon cancer.

I can't realistically see anyone saying "No thanks, doc, I'm not going to get that colonoscopy you recommended, because I saw a headline"

This trend of saying a thing is bad because you can imagine some unbelievably stupid person misinterpreting it and misusing it is getting out of hand. At some point people are responsible for their own decisions.
Fear and Loathing in Caracas (2002)
Oh you got me, I didn't read the policy when signing up. Like 98% of people.

Yet from a site dedicated to creating the modern web, I assume modern web practices are followed.

Even 20 years ago in forums you could go through and delete your posts and edit your comments to blank. Add in 20 years of "we should be able to delete our accounts!", I had figured HN follows this practice.

Whatever, I don't care, I just make a new username once every few months.
Putting words in his mouth to try to save his argument.
And the tribesmen from the headline aren't 'citizens'?

Just some retarded hillybillies which are in the way of 'progress', and have to go?
I've just been working on this over the last 2-3 weeks so it's only optimized for the USA at the moment. I'm planning on have some popular regions such as UK, Australia, Canada, Germany, and India, functioning before the end of next week. Hopefully then you will find the product more useful :)
I'm personally working on a UI as well, that is using InvokeAI :) It has a bit of a different focus, namely organization of generated images and facilitating generating a lot of images quickly via randomization. Here is the current page for it: https://patreon.com/auto_sd_workflow

Currently expanding it a lot with some fun features:

- multi-gpu support (first UI that would support that I think)

- no-click installer (installs everything when you start it up) that works on Windows, Linux and macOS

- A cloud version where you can "rent" access to the UI + very powerful GPU instances without having to run anything locally yourself.

Been waiting to submitting it all to HN as a Show HN but have to wait a bit for everything to get into place first :)
>>> What's randomness in a coin toss? If we had all the information we could perfectly predict the result of a toss. But if we know nothing then at most we can say is that both outcomes are equally probable.

That's because you know it's a coin toss. If it was something else like whether a seed will germinate or not, I wouldn't assume equal probability.

Admittedly, this is something that's always puzzled me about Bayesian statistics, though I'm not sure it's fundamental.
In major tech hubs, find the median salary of a single worker (eg seattle $100k). Divide by four ($25k), that’s roughly the cost of a one bedroom apartment (~$2k/month). Adjust for neighborhood and amenities.

They know their market. They know the max price they can set and fill easily.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/data/seattle-media...

https://www.zillow.com/rental-manager/market-trends/seattle-...
I can't imagine Meta winning in the end in California - the courts there are quite employee-friendly in such matters, and FAANG employees can generally afford lawyers.
Some Spanish "magufo" (think of Alex Jones but without the far right ideology and being a fake practicioner) are like that, search for Pamies in Google/DDG.
I'm worried about the reaction from these snake-oil scammers, too.

EDIT: I found an article in English:

https://english.elpais.com/elpais/2018/10/18/inenglish/15398...