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then downsize your offices.. It is what the company i work for did..

They were already friendly with remote work before, i for instance have worked fully remote for over 10 years already.

Before the pandemic they had space problem in their San Francisco office, if you were not in the office at least 3 times per week you were at risk of loosing your desk space.

During pandemic when everyone was forced to go full remote and performance was not impacted they just moved to a much smaller office space and kept everyone remote.
> The thing I’ve never understood about UBI is how it wouldn’t immediately be counteracted by inflation.

I think you are not wrong, but not completely right either! It's true that the income difference among people would not change, but the distribution would: homeless people begging on the street could afford something in a stable way, at last; people on minimum wage would double their income; medium class would see their disposable income increase; and rich people would not notice any difference.

Sure, the purchasing power of the UBI sum would be reduced the moment the UBI is introduced, but still poor people would see their situation get better: the poorer, the "more better"!

Furthermore, most of the money flowing to the poor people would be spent right away, boosting the economy, which is a very nice side effect. In the end, UBI would be a way to force the rich to take some of their money out of the vaults and spend it (1st benefit) for the poor (2nd benefit).

The only problem lies in how much money you'd need to take from the rich to implement UBI in a meaningful way.
This is at least two weeks old[0].

[0]https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/07/02/hhs-provides-176-m...
> It also makes the CERN's strategic decision to go full Open Source less appealing by time.

I think it's still the less risky option. Open Source at least usually makes migrating elsewhere easier. CentoOS -> AlmaLinux for example (or any of the other commercially supported CentOS replacements). Customers currently being exploited by Broadcom/VMware wish they had such options.
Return 0, but don’t do anything yet. Fire a cron with an N-minute sleep that destroys the FS on expiry. Also, rewrite various ZFS tooling to lie about the consumed space, and confound the user with random errors if they try to use the still-allocated space.

/s but I sincerely hope it isn’t necessary
I understand that. So the question arises: Is it more difficult for a new manager to ruin the work processes through inaction (not shielding the team) or by reworking established processes? My bet is on it being very easy through inaction.
I mean sure but ad blocking is still a killer feature. If users see ads the frog jumps out of the pot.
Ha, yeah. So, maybe a stretch here.

I'm thinking of use cases like distributed domain name lookup systems, identification systems, social networks.
Super cool path, man. I'm envious in many ways.

Any favorite restaurants in NYC which folks on HN may not have heard of?
Right, but that was the exact nature of the attack: it's a small commit that doesn't look like it needs a lot of scrutiny. Like, I get that you meant "it wouldn't take much scrutiny to find this" but I mean "it doesn't look like it needs to be scrutinized". Especially because, as mentioned in the first comment of the investigation, the change to an unsafe behavior is deliberately obscured by the formatting of the diff.

It's like Where's Wal(do|ly): once you know where to look, it's obvious, but if you don't even know you're supposed to be looking for it, you may never find it
I both second Ankidroid (oustanding) ...

... and concur when failing (as of yet) to find a way to use the system with other types of knowledge, sadly.-
Tell 'em!
I read this book:

<https://books.google.ca/books/about/Artificial_Intelligence_Through_Simulate.html?id=QMLaAAAAMAAJ>

in 1972. It was published in 1966.
'No Need to Panic': RockYou2024 Leak of 10B Passwords Is 'Mostly Garbage Data'
Without it, your phone's location services would be next to useless in any kind of more urban area (next to useless = you'd have to wait for minutes for the phone to get a fix and burn a lot of battery in the process). It would not function inside a lot of buildings _at all_.

People HATE HATE HATE and complain loudly at their phones if they fall back to pure A-GNSS positioning.
> Applications don't map too well onto HTML

I'm not sure if I totally agree with this take, but if it's true that's a great reason to not build web applications. If the medium isn't right for the use case, why force it?
Unfortunately Horizon replaced paper receipts.
That's what the inquiry is meant to do. British inquiries take forever and rarely yield any kind of justice, however.

tl;dr summary is that the root cause depends on your perspective. If you have a CS background you might define the root cause as being the bugs. If you have a management background, you might conclude the root cause was bad/malign management by the board, the civil service and the C-suite. If you have a legal background you might conclude the root cause was the unusual prosecutorial powers, the default assumption courts make that computers aren't wrong and so on.

As this is Hacker News let's roll with the first. There were many different bugs over many years and there was no single root cause. For example at least one case was caused by defective touch screen hardware that would go haywire when nobody was around to see it e.g. overnight, and start generating random clicks. Given enough random button pushes it was possible to ring up transactions that never happened, and thus never had money deposited in the till, creating phantom losses.

In other cases there was loss of transactional integrity. Database writes went missing or got duplicated due to race conditions, not helped by the original Horizon architecture in which the connection to the central DB was asynchronous, due to the existence of post offices in very rural places without good internet connectivity. It's what would nowadays be called a "local-first distributed edge deployment" or something similar. Lots of ways for that to go wrong, and if you don't have exactly-once execution in an accounting system it will appear that cash was stolen because the records say a sale or refund was made, but it wasn't.
Reminds me of the XKCD about standards.

1. There are 5 different standards.

2. Some well-meaning person says "this is ridiculous, this should be standardized"

3. There are 6 different standards.
I recently removed the arm rests from my shitty IKEA chair (to apply WD40 silicone, because the standard cheap mechanism was creaking every time I leaned back, even if it was locked), and decided not to put them back, because they incentivized slouching

so akcheually some people are sitting on a block of concrete!

theorizing that it was wrong to merge in itself is not victim blaming. but of course piling up in GH discussions and issues unconstructively, and just expressing opinions is bullying.
This is among the most frequent objections to UBI that I see. This is a legitimate concern, but we shouldn't blow it out of proportion. Just because there's a danger in pursuing a policy to it's logical extreme doesn't mean society shouldn't practice it in moderation.
Holy crap that's amazingly bad!
Wow what a smack down. Has to be unbelievably hard for someone like this to admit they lied publicly. It's so weird because like, obviously he knows he's not Satoshi why did he push it so hard? Is it just straight up mental illness?
Opensource fundamentally changes that situation. All you need is a maintained version of GCC/LLVM that supports your processor and you’ll have distro that supports your needs. Especially if it’s just about some performance boosting instructions. It’s not going to be an issue, we really aren’t in a binary world anymore for the most part.
It's still an improvement though.

In the iOS way, your guest can share the creds privately to another person.

In the normal way, your guest can share the creds verbally to another person, which might be overheard by other unintended listeners.

I guess the ideal would be to allow the network owner (which would be determined by what method?) to share to guests with a flag set for no further sharing (and no viewing of credentials).
As the person who runs one of the largest cloud CI/CD services around, I can tell you exactly how they're making money... Actions.

GitHub would be making a VERY healthy margin on every minute of build time run on their platform, especially considering they don't have to pay a cloud platform for the compute like Gitlab or Bitbucket Pipelines do.
If it’s funded by a flat tax, then yes, but then what’s the point? Seems like nothing more than a shell game.

If it’s funded by a progressive tax, then how is it anything more than a tax increase combined with increased welfare?

Either way, seems like nothing but a recipe for inefficiency and increased government bureaucracy.
Your understansing of programming is superficial to point of unfixable by explaining why :(
I do actually use <xmp> when authoring blog posts, though I wrote a preprocessor to convert to escaped <pre> in case some rendering environments don't support it: https://www.jefftk.com/p/i-want-xmp-but-i-know-why-i-cant-ha...
>> I didn't know that, but what I meant to say is that MIPS ISA is open and could be used instead. There's nothing special about RISC-V.

Market share. RISC-V is getting attention around the world where MIPS is not. The software ecosystem around RISC-V is getting contributions from everywhere while MIPS (even worse, modified China MIPS) is really just in China. They will benefit from using something that's more widespread. So while it may not be technically special, it is "better" in some sense.

As an example, both folks in China and at Google have made efforts to bring Android to RISC-V while the same can not be said for MIPS.
Here’s a benchmark https://github.com/lip234/python_313_benchmark

It’s much worse except in everything but a threaded test
The challenge entails investing the same amount in Amazon stock for every purchase you make—and now is the best time to do so since Amazon shares are trading at nearly six times cheaper than in June 2023, despite recently reaching a market capitalisation of $2.01 trillion.
I mean it's not quick, but everyone not brain dead can see weather getting more extreme and more unpredictable. And when you have basically scientific consensus that it's only going to get worse... it's pretty obvious what the ramifications will be. It's hard to estimate the costs, but massive would be an understatement.
It's still perfect, because guests can share passwords verbally or in writing too. Not supporting a digital password share just means the sharing will happen another way.
How does that even work? What if I spam you from a free sms gateway / unlimited sms plan?
I'll say this. There is more than one side to "object orientation".

A better comparison would be between the AS/400 architecture and Microsoft's COM. That is, you can write COM components just fine in C as long as you speak Hungarian. This kind of system extends "objects" across space (distributed, across address spaces, between libraries and application) and time (persistence) and the important thing is, I think, the infrastructure to do that and not particular ideas such as inheritance.

When I started coding Java in 1995 (before 1.0) it was pretty obvious that you could build frameworks that could that kind of extension over space and time and I did a lot of thinking about how you'd build a database that was built to support an OO language. Remember serialization didn't come along until Java 1.1 and than an RMI were still really bad and really cool ideas built on top of them often went nowhere, see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuple_space#JavaSpaces

there was the CORBA fiasco too. What's funny is that it just took years to build systems that expressed that potential and most of them are pretty lightweight like what Hazelcast used to be (distributed data structures like IBM's 1990s coupling facility but so easy... Not knocking the current Hazelcast, you can probably do what I used to with it but I know they've added a lot of new stuff to it that I've never used) Or the whole Jackson thing where you can turn objects to JSON without a lot of ceremony.

The more I think about it, objects have different amounts of "reification". A Java object has an 8-16 byte header to support garbage collection, locks and all sort of stuff. That's an awful lot of overhead for a small object like a complex number type so they are doing all the work on value types to make a smaller kind of object. If objects are going to live a bigger life across space and time those objects could get further reification, adding what it takes to support that lifetime.

I worked on something in Python that brought together the worlds of MOF, OWL and Python that was similar to the meta-object facility

https://ai.eecs.umich.edu//people/dreeves/misc/lispdoc/mop/i...

where there is a concept of classes and instances that build on top of the base language so you can more or less work with meta-objects as if they were Python objects but with all sorts of additional affordances.
"Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List" is an actual science paper accepted by a journal [1]

[1] https://www.vox.com/2014/11/21/7259207/scientific-paper-scam
This is not limitless. The government gets money by collecting taxes. In order to collect taxes, there have to be people doing paid work to collect taxes from. If the government takes over doing all the things that people currently get paid to do by engaging in commerce, then where is the government going to collect taxes from? Without collecting taxes, how is the government going to compensate all the workers providing the free food and healthcare?
> I do not, for one second, believe that any company is literally cut-and-pasting code straight out of ChatGPT into their production environments without their engineers understanding it.

It routinely happens with StackOverflow answers to the point of being a meme. LLMs are just the next iteration.
CEOs often leave with millions in golden parachutes even after abject failures. Employees don't have such luxuries, especially if they fail at their jobs.
RISC-V is not a ISA, but a family of ISAs. That is why is has a small core and plenty of extensions. So instead of having a dozen completely different ISAs you now have a dozen almost the same ISAs. It was meant to be forked and customized for needs.

Ideally, your needs can be met by selecting from the basket of already ratified extensions. So what if no one else has the exact set of extensions you do? A lot easier to support if you share a common core with already supported chips.

Look at how many programming languages look C and how much easier it is to pick them up than say APL. Think of Risc-V as the C of the future.
I haven't used IRC regularly since forever ago, but I've tried to get back into lately. Problem is, some of the channels I join, there's zero chat going on. I see a lot of users, so maybe they're all just messaging directly to each other?

-- prefer not to say what channels, but they're related to certain programming languages.
UBI makes most sense as a targeted way to increase wages by removing some people from the workforce.

It would be very good for society, for example, if we paid parents to stay home with the kids instead of sending the kids to day care and to homeschool their kids instead of sending the kids to school. We'd also benefit by paying creatives and scientists so they can pursue their calling without having to work a day job in the patent office like Einstein was infamously forced to and without having to work for a university where there are perverse incentives that discourage the most important work in favor of what is most likely to lead to publications and to governmental/corporate grants.

Of course UBI is only part of a plan to control the labor supply and thus drive up wages. We also need to preserve child labor laws, lower the retirement age (60 or maybe even 50 would be reasonable), tax outsourcing instead of subsidizing it and restrict the sort of immigration that takes our jobs instead of creating new jobs. In the case of immigration, that's why green cards for college graduates are preferable to guest worker visas because highly skilled immigrants seem to be disproportionately entrepreneurial but only if their immigration status isn't tied to a job. Prosperity for all rather than maximizing GDP needs to be the goal of economic policy.

The issue with most UBI proposals is that their supporters seem to have no understanding of economics and no bigger plan to achieve any real policy objective. So their proposals would just cause inflation unless corporations were able to automate away almost all jobs. In which case we'd basically have an imperial Roman style economy where most of the population is dependent upon the government for bread and circuses while a few accumulate great wealth from the machines (in the case of Rome, humans who had the misfortune to be born as "machines") that run everything. I don't think that's really the kind of future we should want.
Technical? Some.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/jan/09/how-the-post...

People? Not yet.
This is why PM’s are supposed to work with Business Analysts. Unfortunately, most companies do not have BA’s because, you know, cost. And, most PM’s are not technical and have no engineering background or experience.
Great things are coming to Meteor :)
your passion projects become paid studies and the implementation can be your social / civic / field work. it's still a guaranteed safety net, except with a growing level of accountability.

not everybody has passion projects, not everybody who had youth when he couldn't handle it, has money or peace of mind to go back to school, and a UBI won't hold you accountable. some people need to learn/ relearn how to take responsibility for themselves and a low end job where they learn the retarded rules of the hoarder-capitalist "we-run-on-magic-math-money" economy obviously isn't constructive or productive. if it was, the right / alt right wouldn't grow their follower base.

but yes, the implementation will need a huge bunch of devs and admin people who are technical, capable and, "under different circumstances, wouldn't work for so much less money than they earned during their previous employments"
Yeah, there are bound to be a few oddities, albeit in this case I think technical and market challenges are more a factor than design decisions, coupled with a bit of "this game doesn't really fit as anything else"

Anyway when I wrote different roles I didn't necessarily meant "trough multiple characters"
Older people in certain parts of France still use pound ("livre") to mean 500g. Pint ("pinte") for 500ml is more common.
I doubt it makes any appreciable difference anyway most of the time although Canola oil and Peanut oil do have a slightly higher smoke point than vegetable oil.
The carbon emission problem with crypto currency and AI is analogous to the oil and gas industry. When you boil it down to first principles, we are extracting resources from the Earth, and destroying our climate, in the hope of some sort of economic gain.

And the economic gain is tenuous at best.

I wrote an opinion on HN about the carbon problem in crypto as well.
It seems like GitHub encourages that? I mean, emoji reacts to issue comments? Not really sure what the point of that is besides "driving engagement".

I guess the argument for it is that it lets people easily "get involved"? Seems like there's some merit to making it easy for users to leave feedback. Maybe thumbs-up or thumbs-down on an issue really is valuable feedback in some situations. I'm torn between saying the social features are bad because they lower the barrier for low quality engagement, and saying that even low quality engagement can lead to valuable insights.
> But that means that if the algorithm is working properly, every single card is hard.

Could the algo be tweaked so as to regulate the "closeness to the edge", ergo, the difficulty?

PS. Then again, something tells me what makes SR so effective *might just be* (or be related to) that "difficulty".-
As far as I know there has not. However it's been known all along.

> Jason Coyne, who worked for Preston-based Best Practice Plc at the time, was instructed to examine the computer system called Horizon in 2003. He said he notified the Post Office the data was "unreliable" but he was ignored, sacked, and then discredited.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-67921974

>The 2016 investigation trawled 17 years of records to find out how often, and why, cash accounts on the Horizon IT system had been tampered with remotely. Ministers were told an investigation was happening. But after postmasters began legal action, it was suddenly stopped.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68146054
See https://handsfreecoding.org/
Show HN: I'm creating a platform for startups to get feedback and iterate faster
As the title says. After trying to create multiple startups I have found what I needed was a way to get feedback easier. I am currently building this app but wanted to get a waitlist out to see if there was any appetite. I look forward to seeing you there.
Explain why please
Create 100k platform threads and you'll find out.
I've personally found success with magnesium and serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Also if your diet is mainly grain try to get to a large mass of greens.

These were huge for me.
This is a bad faith argument that isn't even logical, we get lots of things for "free" (paid for by taxes):

* most roads

* firefighting services

* policing

* public schools

* libraries

* parks

* garbage collection (more varied)

* national defense

We can do the same for housing, food, and healthcare... there's no reason you can light your house on fire and get people coming out to risk their lives to save it for free... but if you trip and break your ankle that's 100% your responsibility.

Especially in situations like food and healthcare, where massive federal subsidies are funneled into the pockets of middlemen who provide very little value, but have captured the market to funnel money into their own pockets.
To copy/paste in Google docs you need to install an extension. Lol at Google engineers being so useless.
The best way for subpostmaster to defend themselves in court is to get the Horizon to prove itself through double-column, and recouncilation of their own general ledger.

Unable to do that? Horizon eats it.
Am I the only one a little concerned that no obvious attack has been found from this?

It seems doubtful that a state actor is trying to use terminal escape sequences to hide an error message... The state actor wants code execution, not the ability to backspace some warning on a developers terminal. Besides, using such a vulnerability seems far too dangerous - those escape sequences would be plainly obvious in any log file or any inspection of files on-disk.

And at the same time, if you are an undercover state actor, there is no point in potentially revealing yourself by inserting some security problem that isn't exploitable.
This is impressive and an easy read, well done. Regardless, the fact that so many rules are needed to write good, safe, efficient CSS indicates to me at least a disconnect with the technology and how people want to use it. Indeed, just a casual look around the world of CSS tooling reinforces my opinion. CSS has such an odd mix of declarative-feeling design but with occasional "hacks" to get some imperative-like behaviors that more than once in my career I've thrown in the towel and just reached for a bit of JS to get the result I needed.

Sorry a bit rant-y.
Does this not change who is responsible for the data shared with Google?

With this the owner of the host is sending the scripts collecting data, where before it was Googles servers.