175319091
submission
Seven Spirals writes:
The NBER conducted a study of the employment effects of a guaranteed income by providing $1,000 per month to 1,000 low-income participants for three years, compared to a control group receiving $50 per month. The results show a decrease in labor market participation by 2 percentage points and a reduction of 1.3-1.4 hours in weekly work hours. Most of the additional free time was spent on leisure, and there were no significant improvements in job quality or human capital investments. Overall, the guaranteed income led to a moderate reduction in labor supply without other substantial productive benefits.
174709478
submission
Seven Spirals writes:
A Universal Basic Income (UBI) sounds great in theory. According to a previous study by the Roosevelt Institute, it could permanently increase the U.S. economy by trillions of dollars. While such socialistic policies sound great in theory, history, and data, they aren’t the economic saviors they are touted to be.Link to Original Source
174576692
submission
Seven Spirals writes:
The already wonderful performance of the LZ4 compressor just got better with multi-threaded additions to it's codebase. In many cases, LZ4 can compress data faster than it can be written to disk giving this particular compressor some very special applications. The Linux kernel as well as filesystems like ZFS use LZ4 compression extensively. This makes LZ4 more comparable to the Zstd compression algorithm, which has had multi-threaded performance for a while, but cannot match the LZ4 compressor for speed, though it has some direct LZ4.
173892093
submission
Seven Spirals writes:
NetBSD committers are now banned from using any AI generated code from ChatGPT, CoPilot, or other AI tools. Time will tell how this plays out with both their users and core team.
107315820
submission
Seven Spirals writes:
As with every Spring, the Debian folks hold an election for their leader. There is some discussion as to if the job will be filled at all due to lack of candidates. The submission deadline has been extended due to no applicants. Alternatives discussed include an AI bot as leader or simply letting leadership fall to the next administrative functionary in line. It's anyone's guess if their code of conduct changes or systemd flap has made it harder to recruit for the position.
106107044
submission
Seven Spirals writes:
Twitchy reports journalists responding with anger and vitriol as they are given the same advice they were quick to give to coal miners and others who lost their jobs "Learn to code". Youtuber Black Pidgeon responds with an explanation for journalists which does nothing to calm them down or disperse the schadenfreude. Partisan Twitter-war ensues.
95380169
submission
Seven Spirals writes:
Recently, the FreeBSD folks have removed Fortune with a fairly predictable far right 4chan condemnation. Then last weekend saw a lively debate on NetBSD's current-users mailing list about the inclusion of Hitler quotes in the Fortune database with dozens of posts falling on the left and right. The quotes themselves are fairly tame material probably intended as cautionary. However, the controversy and the reaction of BSD users has been real and very diverse. So far, the result has been to pull Fortune out of FreeBSD and to relocate the quotes into the "offensive" database in NetBSD's case.
