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The UBI debate is fundamental to how we perceive society and what kind of society we want to build into the future.

If one's idea of human society is people working to earn money. Fullstop. And those who are better at it are the be all and end alls of human civilization and progress and the ultimate aspiration. Then words like lazy, people will not do anything, arguments that are generic enough to block any action, and are actually red herrings enter the debate.

This seems to be a pretty impoverished view of humanity. But one that our current capitalist system necessitates,

The other way is thinking of the billions of brains wasted every generation just trying to survive, exactly what humans did 2000 years ago. Now imagine if all these brains could be freed and god knows how much innovation, progress and intellectual output can be unlocked into a completely different kind of society. That's a vision.

But the reality is many will stick doggedly to the personal wealth and achievement mantra and because of the disproportionate influence of wealth and entrenched interests in our societies right from feudalism to now, and UBI or any such fanciful idea will be sabotaged and blocked.
If you gave everybody a dollar, wouldn't businesses increase their prices, and consumers be okay with that price increase because they have more disposable income?
I'm not very well versed in academia, so correct me if I'm wrong.

The research in these journals isn't funded by the journals, and researchers aren't payed royalties for people reading these journals (I assume they don't get paid by the journal at all).

So why are these journals so expensive to access? Is it all just a rort?
Why would you engage in street crime when you have an organization that can force someone to sell his property or business to you at half its market value and make 10,000x as much money? Street crime is for unorganized desperate people, not people who do crime as a profession.
So more specifically, HTTPS on pages where you log in is important, not necessarily on your landing / homepage? I am not disputing that may be a good idea, but it seems like the main complaint is that users are submitting credentials on an HTTP page?
Ireland would much rather keep its word with Apple and not make them pay anything more than previously agreed to, but the EU is forcing its hand.

The only deal being struck is between the EU and Ireland to make Apple pay additional tax that Ireland says Apple doesn’t owe, and it’s more of a threat from the EU than an actual deal.
One mitigation for this is to use `col -bp` as a git pager, but it seems clumsy.
However, for completeness I post it here with an example for how this makes the backdoor visible.

Reproduce instruction:

# clone repo and cd into it

git clone https://github.com/twistlock/gitPocDiff

cd gitPocDiff

# show diff (this includes the backdoor but it won't be visible)

git show ebc3f506a7ec8278e1a3ad4108612b66d10b41ca

# expose the backdoor, using `col -bp` as pager

git show ebc3f506a7ec8278e1a3ad4108612b66d10b41ca | col -bp
Self-sufficiency is very inefficient. By pooling our resources, we can live much more sustainably and prosperously.

Let's draw a parallel to cloud computing versus standalone computing, for the sake of familiarity.

While you sure can get reliable and scalable storage services for less money from a fat cloud provider, they're not equivalent to personally owned storage. For example access times and performance differ, mutually shared human language and the communications infrastructure become critical.

Let's draw a parallel to a windmill for flour production or a castle for military defence within a small community. What you wind up with is a de-facto political hierarchy emerging from centralization with its own dangers and overheads.

In summary perhaps nature has shown us that population-wide specialization is inefficient in the long term, and we should encourage diversity to survive black swan events... there is a middle ground between total self-sufficiency and totally shared infrastructure. The important thing is that we preserve a mix of approaches.
And it's so easy for anyone nowadays to get SSL with Let's Encrypt...

I remember a few years ago when there was no way you could do it for side projects because certs were 100/yr., now they're free.
No one here said it was strange. The original word was 'unhealthy'.

I'd be very interested to learn more about which semantics of APL-derivatives correspond to which of the 4 or 5 distinct meanings of the keyword 'static' in C.
I think they're just so big and have so much money now, it's only natural for them to expand everywhere they can.

In the US they will build factories and do the best they can with a US based factory. And same with everywhere else. Each location will give rise to various cost and performance attributes, but at the end of the day, they will:

1. Compete regionally with factories that share those exact same constraints.

and

2. Be Foxconn. All their factories belong to them, giving them unparalleled leverage and output capacity than the mere sum of their parts.

US companies will flock to Foxconn's "US" factory. It will be in quotes because nothing will stop them from doing absolutely everything beyond what will qualify as Made in USA elsewhere to minimize costs and maximize performance, as do US companies do already. But no one is Foxconn.
Academics =/= scientists

The former is a more expansive category than the latter. This is something which is true for all academics.
I had all kinds of neck problems staring down at a 13" laptop on my desk all day. Once I moved the screen up so I was looking straight, the neck problems went away.

It's one of those things where you don't notice it until you do. When you do, it's a big problem.
Or "You learn more about doing a startup by working at one"
Because even if I wind the windows right down to try and get some fresh air, I still feel like shit.
This is exactly the opposite of what the article states.

The HTTP landing page serves a link to the login page. This link could be modified by a hostile network to another site. The fact that the login page is served over HTTPS is immaterial for this attack.
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We have one, to an extent. AppleScript is supposed to be IPC, so the published interfaces for AppleScript are governed by the applications responding to the requests. However, the generic "simulate human input" response is restricted using the "Allow these apps to control your computer" setting in System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Accessibility.
Doesn't this compete with Triplebyte, a YC company that was founded to help YC companies hire engineers?
I guess the /s was not clear to indicate my attempt at humour :)
so when people used to say "be a man about it", were they contrasting with women? (instead of with little boys as I assumed?)
> The main thought was that the pilot doesn't seem to be eliminating the means testing (i.e. conditional welfare).

An immature UBI probably doesn't eliminate all means testing, it just increases from $0 the support level below which benefits aren't subject to a means test; which has similar but reduced benefits in terms of incentives (but lower cost) than full replacement of means-tested programs.

And, it's a pilot, not even the main study.

> The pilot seems to be just piling UBI onto people's existing federal/state/local welfare checks.

I think that's a misreading; it sounds like they did work to avoid beneficiaries losing non-cash aid like housing subsidies and food assistance, but it doesn't sound like (for people eligible to cash aid) they did anything to protect that, so the income would seem to reduce such benefits the same as other outside income would. (Which probably wipes out General Assistance eligibility, but might leave some TANF eligibility.)

> And additionally the pilot is giving it to people not already on welfare.

That's what the U in UBI is all about.
How does road damage not scale with vehicle weight? Or is it simply non-linear?

I can't imagine it not being related at least to GVWR / num_tires.
If you struggle with build quality with a $68,000 luxury car (the Tesla S) and then continue to struggle with build quality with a $35,000 luxury car (the Tesla 3), how does it make the least bit of sense to focus on increasing volume?

Electric cars being simpler to manufacture makes it more of a red flag that Tesla is struggling with build quality. It indicates that build quality is the harder-won competitive advantage, rather than the ability to design electric cars, the PR boost of having a "visionary founder", or being able to tap Silicon Valley for cash.

If that's the case, it's probably easier for Toyota to design, build, and sell electric cars as well as Tesla than for like Tesla to manufacture cars as well as Toyota.
The downvoters never explain.

My own guess is they hate when someone links to their own project. Every time I put any link to my projects I get a few downvotes no matter HOW good the rest of the comment is.
No, is an optimization of something already existing. An innovation, but not a breakthrough per se.

Edit: this is an oversimplification
> Well according to wikipedia it means knowledge independent of experience not "dependent on logic".

wikipedia:

> Thus, the two kinds of knowledge, justification, or argument, may be glossed:

> A priori knowledge or justification is independent of experience, as with mathematics (3 + 2 = 5), tautologies ("All bachelors are unmarried"), and deduction from pure reason (e.g., ontological proofs).[3]

> A posteriori knowledge or justification depends on experience or empirical evidence, as with most aspects of science and personal knowledge.

There's nothing wrong or controversial about my definition. Non-Experiental Knowledge is Logical Knowledge by exhaustion. "Feeling" is exactly the kind of thing "a priori" was intended to exclude.

> In this sense it is similar to saying that something is axiomatic.

In no sense of the word, colloquial or academic, does "a priori" mean "axiomatic". They are different beasts.

> Besides I'm not at all sure there is a difference between knowledge gained from logic or from experience: <skims youtube video>

The video redefines the Problem of Infinite Regress as "Modus Morons". I've read What the Tortoise said to Achilles myself. Yes, the truth of modus ponens is arguably derived from induction. But that's a topic I'm not going to get into right now. At the very least, the terms are useful to label their disparate track-records.

If you want to dig further, your general position is called Idealism.
(Tiny grey sans-serif body text means you hate your readers' eyes.)
It's moving that direction. As it stands, any website can opt-in to this behavior for future visitors with HSTS[0], or even for first time visitors with HSTS preload[1]. And Google has been doing HSTS preload on their .google TLD for several years, and recently rolled it out to their .foo and .dev [2] TLDs

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Strict_Transport_Security

[1] https://hstspreload.org/

[2] https://security.googleblog.com/2017/09/broadening-hsts-to-s...
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The sad fact is the terminals are painfully slow because US banks don't think US customers want or are capable of using PINs.

When you use a PIN you get a nice two factor signature from the card chip: it signs the current timestamp and the PIN you knew, and can do both as quickly as chip's processing capability and the bandwidth between the chip and terminal allows.

US banks came up with a dumb compromise just like most of their websites use Wish-It-Were-Two-Factor auth and secondary "Security Question" passwords, the chip cards in the US are doing their own Wish-It-Were-Two-Factor: sign a timestamp, wait some amount of wall clock time, sign a different timestamp.

Most of the wait in a chip purchase in the US is artificial just to make sure that two timestamps are "sufficiently" different. US banks should just give people PINs and stop this silliness.
Just one day prior, I wrote that people's mental model of the benefits that EV certs confer is broken [1]: "an EV cert asserts that the domain name is controlled by a legal entity in some jurisdiction. This is a very distinct notion from the site that you've arrived at being the site that you were intending to visit, but people use it as a terrible, flawed proxy for such."

This was on the topic of an EV cert being issued to a different 'Stripe, Inc'.

But also, I observed that for top sites, "people trust their website by fiat, simply by mental associations about their domain names (...)". This is why HTTPS on a landing page is so important: to safeguard the trust chain that most users use to arrive at the login page -- first, the name of their bank, then the bank's URL from memory, then the bank's login page from the homepage's URL.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15909273
Great! That will be very interesting. It was just guesstimation on my part but the diameter and separation of the strings looked similar to high impedance lines used in SW amateur equipment typically in the 400-600 ohm range. A couple sites I've read state that ASDL actually experiences about 100 ohms impedance as opposed to voice (600 ohms) due to the large frequency difference. If all that is true then bringing the strings closer together will lower impedance which should improve the match.
That's a comforting fiction, however the truth has more to do with the industrial revolution, and the fact that a joule from coal is significantly cheaper than a joule from a slave.

Then why not have slaves running your coal powered machinery? The truth is that the free labor of slaves was just a particular (and ultimately inefficient) pattern of organizing society, and the human capital of knowledge is the real driving force. If energy was the ruling force, then West Virginia wouldn't be so poor and rural, and Japan wouldn't be a world economic powerhouse.

Future high primary energy cost economies will almost certainly be based on slave labour, like they have in the past.

Even in the historical US, slaves that worked in agriculture and industries that required knowledge and attention to detail were paid. Otherwise, there is no motivation for energizing the human capital of skill and knowledge.

If the way you see the world were accurate, then totalitarian societies would be the wealthy ones. Instead, those with some degree of free trade and individual freedom are the wealthy ones.
Ethereum Is Better Than Bitcoin
And even then, a large corporation that provides steady office jobs for an area at the center of the Rust Belt? That's going to make people look fondly on you, too.

I mean hell, people in West Michigan think highly of Amway of all places, because they pay well and employ a ton of people at their headquarters in the area.
Sends like I've heard of that before... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sent-down_youth?wprov=sfla1
Nope, you can MITM the HTTP-only landing page so the link to the login page takes you to a page that looks just like the actual banks login page, but actually just submits your credentials to an attacker.

Modifying the link would not be possible if the landing page were served over an encrypted connection.
The main problem for me regarding this and other similar services (eg. Triplebyte) is that there is no reason to care if you live outside the US.

Gettings a visa is hard, startups do not sponsor visas and the large majority of startup roles are onsite. Unfortunately, this is yet another waste of time for me along with many other similar opportunities to find a job when you aren't part of a network of people working with startups.

That said, this seems like an interesting program by YC and I am looking forward to see how it will continue and how the other countries' expansion will actually work.

Congrats @mattlong.
Interesting to see how the standardization of escape sequences by ANSI leads to a vulnerability in code obfuscation.
About the same number of people that have been MITM'ed for personal.natwest.com and divulged login information.
>Last I checked, welfare does the opposite of this. It helps people merely subsist, not strive for greatness.

You're not wrong, but UBI isn't exactly welfare - it's more like a blanket grant to pursue whatever it is you'd like. If that's sitting on a couch watching tv - fine, but most everyone would likely bore of that very quickly.
We're discussing it because many of us think that basic income is one of our best bets to survive the oncoming storm. Sam Altman talking about it is one of the most interesting developments towards actually implementing basic income.

Whether this would be good or bad should be open to debate (preferably with evidence), but only two lines in your comment address this.
> Something that goes up and down so quickly and so frequently does warrant concern.

Why is "going up and down so quickly" inherently bad? There's no moral or legal standard on volatility. It's just a metric, everyone is aware of it, and everyone should act accordingly.
"Last I checked, welfare does the opposite of this. It helps people merely subsist, not strive for greatness."

Do you have an alternative for UBI? If so please provide you theory and factual data to support that will help people "strive for greatness"?
Then I only solve the issue on my browser: what about my phone, and all the random other programs that phone home?
The important thing for all of us to remember, is that in any given conversation we may be idiot.

Until I'm sure the other person doesn't know what they're talking about, I try and assume they're right.
> Intel Cannon Lake processors will support the SHA instruction extensions (currently available only on Goldmont)

They're also already available on AMD Zen (Ryzen, Threadripper, Epyc, Ryzen Mobile).
I can't downvote this because I'm OP, so I'll actually respond even though this is a somewhat ignorant HN middle brow dismissal style comment.

Simplygon is an acquisition that Micrsoft made recently. The company makes widely used middleware, originally targeted at AAA game developers for 3D model decimation. In this context, the name "Simplygon" makes a lot of sense. It is a simple solution for decimating meshes, made of polygons (triangles). The "gone" part of the pun also makes sense, because getting less of what you had originally (polygons) is what you want. I understand that pitched as a cloud product someone like parent with no context as to what the product actually does would think that it loses data, but this is a cloud service, so ideally there is no long term data store in the first place.
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Users care about lock-in. The fact they may not seem to care at the adoption point is more a case of lock-in, by design, being relatively opaque for most users, but they care when restrictions become apparent. Of course the nature of lock-in is that that's too late.
Sure, but that's just more reason to use HTTPS across their entire domain and would help prevent users from being phished as easily. If I enter "apple.com" I expect all links on that page to point me to the correct location. A MITM attack from a non-HTTP page could easily alter the page and link me to https://www.xn--80ak6aa92e.com/login instead.
Why does this link to visualstudio.com?
Recruiting process is so connected to applicant tracking systems, so applying via external services vs directly to career pages won't provide you benefits.

Do you plan to integrate with ATS?
That's horribly disappointing. The man hacked thousands of devices and used them to launch DDoSes. He attacked competing minecraft services to steal customers and generate a profit. His botnet was also used to attack Brian Krebs (security researcher) and Dyn.

This isn't up for despute- although Paras originally denied involvement in the botnet this plea agreement and his confession prove that he is both a liar and a criminal.

He may end up being a successful person in the long wrong, but that doesn't make him an ethical person.
Crypto traders. Many people doing international trade.
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If you receive your paycheck electronically, the transfer likely occurs over the ACH system, the primary operator of which is the Federal Reserve. The Fed also runs FedWire. The Federal Reserve has actually been at the forefront of electronic payment and settlement systems since their advent.

Though, the Federal Reserve is quasi-public/quasi-private. But for any systemically important transactional system you can be sure that the government is plugged in one way or another. The Clearing House company is the main alternative to the Federal Reserve electronic systems for interbank transfers (they're the "private" ACH operator), and they're heavily regulated, with the Federal Reserve given substantial oversight authorities.
FWIW I have noticed your posts and your arguments are lucid. A well-worn path to higher income as a communications professional is corporate PR and media management. You could consider developing an offering here for startups, either a course or a book or (preferably) a business, since we now see so many PR hacks for startups type articles yet as an actual founder I can tell you I don't have time to manually research hitlists for general PR nor source professional imagery, newswire services or upcoming conference/event/speaking/interview opportunities, etc. I think there is definitely room for a paid service in this space with a human touch and it won't take much to stand out, eg. professional translation and redistribution to specific language media of PR announcements as a default service. Good luck on your journey!
Unless it is good at ledging things other than Bitcoin itself, your argument that the Bitcoin ledger has inherent value is completely circular.
Yes, but you're missing the point. The point is that those developers were being paid 6 figures while they were building their platform / resume.
Whats even funnier is how inefficient we are with the capital we use in healthcare and education.
Do you have any links I could peruse that explain how UBI would flatten the demand curve, rather than just shifting it?
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Rust’s designers aren’t really interested in playing the “what is a systems language” game, honestly. We are even considering abandoning the term entirely when describing Rust, as we’re not sure it’s a particularly useful term.
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What storm? We're constantly being told that robots can do work better than workers on low wages but evidence presented to support this is very thin.
> It’s not cash, and has questionable value.

Again, much like being an insurance provider, that's how you make money off it. When I do consulting I generally aim to capture about 10% of the value I'm creating per hour in cash, leaving the client with the other 90%. (E.g. billing $200 per hour if you're creating 2,000 per hour in value or whatever.) This is basically an equal exchange because one party is getting the cash, and the other party is getting the risk, along with the potential benefit that taking on that risk entails.

The fact that different people have different economic needs and utility functions allows everyone to benefit. That's why I'm saying that if you need less cash because you don't have a family, that represents optionality, and that optionality can be used to make more money than you'd otherwise be able to make.