MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by yorwba | 2025-04-09 20:56:14+00:00
> Of course people don't quit their jobs and careers because they are part of a small group enrolled in a 3-year scientific study.

Except the study did show people quitting their jobs at a higher rate. But they mostly switched to new jobs instead of becoming unemployed. Of course people given the choice between working less or making more money usually choose the money. People who choose otherwise are already part-timing/episodically employed/on unemployment benefits/getting subsidized by their family.

Presumably there's a level of UBI where most people wouldn't see the need to work anymore, but if they quit permanently, this will reduce the supply of goods, increasing prices and limiting how much UBI can buy, to the point where people are incentivized to start working again. So it's a self-regulating system. Of course it would be less disruptive to start with a very low UBI that gradually increases, instead of starting high and letting inflation sort out the rest.
by ForOldHack | 2025-04-09 20:56:15+00:00
"I encourage you to note assume that every Asian worker is a slave." I do NOTE, that I was on Korea for 18 months, and saw over 20 factories, and knew a few people that worked there. They were making 1/10 of the minimum wage in America at the time, $0.75 vs $7.50, Today they are making $6.94, so I would assume that They are making few shoes in Korea.

"While it's difficult to pinpoint exactly which country pays the absolute least for shoe manufacturing, countries like Vietnam and Cambodia are known for having lower labor costs and are major footwear exporters, making them likely to be at the lower end of the wage scale for shoe production."

In Cambodia, they pay $208 per month, which is assuming a 160 hour work month, which I guarantee is the bare minimum which gives them $1.30 in wages per hour.

"In Vietnam, shoe manufacturing workers typically earn wages that are significantly below a living wage, though some companies affiliated with the Fair Labor Association (FLA) pay double the minimum wage."

In Vietnam they pay $68/ month, which is $0.42 and 1/2 cents an hour.

The premise of the article, and the statistics they use are all based on preported manufactures claims, not the reality that exists in that country.

I would dismiss this article as pure fantasy.
by the_king | 2025-04-09 20:56:20+00:00
Thanks!

We're faster, more accurate, and have a streaming option. Aqua can go from key-up to paste in as little as 450ms. Flow was closer to 1000 in our tests.

Overall, you'll notice we make a few more tweaks to the output than Wisprflow.

For example, Aqua + Cursor is very powerful - we syntax highlight your transcript. The easiest way to see this is to use streaming mode (double press Fn) + deep context + cursor and try asking it to change something.

This also works in other "context rich" environments.
by LWIRVoltage | 2025-04-09 20:56:35+00:00
This annoys me to no end and is a serious problem in my own use cases...

This is an issue I face- I have a collection of thermal cameras that use apps to control them- after every install onto a phone, they then reach out t oa server to authenticate.

Here's the issue- though I have a few older phones- these apps are 32 bit ones, so no modern phone after Android 13 will run them. And they are all now not on the app store anymore,as they all came out about around 2016. i did use a APK extractor to pull the APKs to store them - but the native backup functionality wouldn't capture that authorization in the future, I might rob myself of my ability to use some extremely expensive, and long-term invested capable hardware, by backing up and restoring-

I suspect a full image would solve this problem, but I don't think one can do that outside of things like TWRP- but that requires unlocking the bootloader, and if you do that it wipes your device- AND is more vulnerable to Custom's usage of Cellebrite and etc, to my undertanding.

I don't have this issue with laptops ,as I can fully image them and wipe and restore ahavend have a perfect replica/ no issues. But my thermal cameras do not run off of PC and th eform factor wouldn't work if they did
by gwd | 2025-04-09 20:56:38+00:00
> If I needed more I'd probably use the API.

The API gets overloaded and you get blocked out as well; yesterday I had to go look up a bunch of bash runes on stackoverflow because Claude's API was busy in the one day a year* I happened to be writing bash scripts. (Maybe I should have tried out Gemini for a change.)

Part of the promise here isn't just usage, but priority: you pay your $200/mo, and (I presume) you never have to worry about being locked out.

* This is an exaggeration but not much of one
by slg | 2025-04-09 20:56:56+00:00
This just reads like pure fantasy to me. Have you not seen the account from numerous former Cabinet and White House officials about how lazy and incurious he is or how difficult it is to get him to read the reports put in front of him? Have you missed the way he has forced countless career officials out of the government through layoffs, firings, or pushing people to resign in protest? I don’t even know what to say to the idea that Trump is an “overplanner”, you even literally said “he hasn't thought about the side effects” a few sentences later. That’s “overplanning”?
by hemabe | 2025-04-09 20:56:58+00:00
China could not only be ‘equal’ but ‘better’ than the USA - we should get used to the idea. China has an average IQ of 104 out of 1.4 billion people, while the USA has an IQ of 97. In purely statistical terms, this means that the USA has around 700,000 people with an IQ >= 140. China has 11,480,000 people with this IQ. This human capital will make the difference.
by HenryBemis | 2025-04-09 20:57:45+00:00
It's not just that. I fear tha UBI will be 'frozen in time', so let's say it's something insanely generous, EUR 5000 per month. After that happens, every month we will have a record inflation, and soon enough the EUR 5000 will rent you Harry Potter's staircase-'flat' and 3 pizzas.

The only way I see this being sustainable is get as far as possible from the big cities, buy a tiny piece of land, by a durable tiny home, buy solar panels, get a tablet with all Gutenberg books, and find a soulmate that will follow you to that journey.

No kids, no private schools, no parties, no nothing. Everything will be swallowed by inflation.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-04-09 20:57:46+00:00
> .Any country can solve it, just incentivise families.

In the US, parenting time is up 20-fold, from a few hours per week to 24/7 adulting.

Companion to that is that free-range land has shrunk from many sq/mi to a few sq/yds. Car culture and trespassing culture has eliminated the irreplaceable environments where adult-free, peer time nurtured mental health and abilities.

As near as I can tell, parenting and childhood is irreparably broken in the US.

We certainly seem incapable of recalling what sustainable parenting once looked like.

On rare occasion someone will recall that kids once roamed all over. Maybe that gets connected to less mental health issues. Either way it's all forgotten moments later.
by iugtmkbdfil834 | 2025-04-09 20:57:52+00:00
<< I would be shocked if the US does not have a bunch of economic advisors who tell them

Oh, US does have its share of economic advisors[1] of all stripes. And, I would love to be corrected on this, when SHTF, they immediately argue for NOT the very thing they normally argue for. They can tell what should be done for sure.. just not when it comes to their money..

(edit)Therein lies the issue or at least a part of the it.

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/03/12/larry-summ...
by magicreadu | 2025-04-09 20:58:03+00:00
Having dollar being the worlds currency is not necessarily a good thing. Yes, you can borrow at low interests rate for a while. But guess what? Those are still debts. And eventually rates rise due to inflation. Now you have hollowed out your industrial base and you are stuck with tons of debts.

Even if dollar gets weaker, better to have less debts and more industrialization
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-04-09 20:58:29+00:00
> You cannot import something without exporting something else.

This is incorrect when your national currency happens to be the global reserve currency. All it requires is for the other country to be willing to accept dollars in payment.

[ EDIT: even that's wrong. All it requires is someone being willing to accept dollars, either in payment or as part of a currency exchange. ]
by taeric | 2025-04-09 20:59:07+00:00
Is an interesting thought, I think. If a comparison is likely to be wrong 10% of the time, how can you get it so that standard operation reduces the impact of the 10% of errors?

The bubble sort idea was that, since you compare things more often in bubble sort, you are more likely to correct one of the bad comparisons with a good comparison later? Versus insertion sort, where the insertion phase is more likely to compound the errors? (Effectively, if you have an out of order item "poison pilling" one side of your insert phase, it will exacerbate the error.)

I can see why that idea is appealing. I can also see why a sanity check pass should help, there.

A few questions. One, curious how much this impacts the runtime of the insertion sort? Having it in an infinite loop until it looks sorted feels a bit scary. I am curious if this is related to some sampling strategies out there? Finally, would be fun to see the "robustness score" across different rates of comparison failure.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-09 20:59:31+00:00
The more interesting finding is that people with low baseline Vitamin D levels (<25 nmol/L) did not show any improvement. Odds ratio of 0.98 (0.80–1.20).

A lot of previous Vitamin D research was dismissed with the claim that Vitamin D would be more effective if you only looked at people with low baseline Vitamin D status. This paper does not show that to be true.
by markus_zhang | 2025-04-09 20:59:52+00:00
Yeah I agree there are a lot of problems in this kind of schemes. I don't have answers for any of them, because giving a concrete answer to any of these questions probably leads to more questions.

You can still have some $$ in that package, so it's not entirely out of flexibility. I also guess people who receives food packages, as you said, may be willing to exchange for other stuffs. TBH the most important reason I pick provisions (with a bit of $$) over 100% $$ is because of the scale.
by jeswin | 2025-04-09 21:00:30+00:00
Contrarian opinion.

Irrespective of what you think of Trump, decentralization of production capacity is a good thing — maybe even essential. If this continued for, say, another twenty years, the West and the rest of the world would be completely stripped of all ability to defend themselves. Literally everything from picket fences to rolling stock to tableware is coming from one country.
by tudorgirba | 2025-04-09 21:00:55+00:00
Thanks for the feedback. And for the kind words.

>The only problem is that they seem to get unwieldy after a certain point. The view of all the different tools / libraries that come with it at the end of the presentation shows that.

That view at the end does not show that they get unwieldy at all. It shows that the contextual tools were needed everywhere. If the cost of tools is so low that you can amortize the cost of a tool on the first use, you can literally throw them away after that first use. In fact that's the fate of most tools. Those thousands of tools that you can see in a GT distribution are those that proved to be reusable. Many more were not :)

There were many tools that showed some visualization. But what we try to show with GT is that there exists a way to tackle arbitrary problems. This is possible because we see the environment itself as being a language made out of visual and interactive operators that can be combined in many ways.
by milesskorpen | 2025-04-09 21:01:02+00:00
I think that's an argument, but not necessarily a good one

Need to balance transparency in pricing vs. visibility of taxes. I don't think sales taxes are actually all that visible most of the time- it's not like the cashier is telling you "and your taxes are $X." But it does make it much harder to detect if the store is charging you more than list price.
by MVissers | 2025-04-09 21:01:03+00:00
Decoupling from China will lead to China annex Taiwan sooner. China will have the USA and the world by the balls then, so not sure we want that to happen quicker.

And I don't think anyone is calling themselves allies of the USA right now. The whole world is looking to decouple from the USA. Europe is completely over the USA, they can't rely on them for leadership, protection or for trade.

From a tech perspective, expect Europe to decouple from the USA from an economic and cultural perspective in the next decade. Smartest thing Europe can do is to create alternatives to US services, build its own defense industry and stop looking at the USA for any leadership.
AI in Autonomous Dining
by alexkarani | 2025-04-09 21:01:04+00:00
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But our vision doesn’t stop at the phone. We’re building an ecosystem that includes interactive ordering kiosks and AI waiters—devices that empower guests to explore menus, place orders, and even interact with the restaurant environment through human-like avatars. It’s not about replacing people; it’s about unlocking efficiency, reducing errors, and preserving the magic of dining out.

Consider the transformation seen in retail when Shopify and Amazon reinvented the industry. We want to do the same for restaurants. Autonomous dining is poised to explode—with the AI voice market in restaurants projected to leap from $10B to a staggering $49B by 2029. This means huge potential not only for operational savings but also for creating entirely new experiences that blend technology with the art of dining.

In this brave new world, restaurant owners could potentially open fully autonomous establishments: seamless operations run by AI that handles calls, orders, and table management, while staff focus on curating the culinary and social experience. Picture a takeaway restaurant where kiosks with lifelike avatars greet you, take your order, and guide you through a uniquely tailored menu experience—all powered by our cutting-edge voice and video technology. It’s a future where every interaction is efficient yet imbued with a distinctly human touch.

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by ljf | 2025-04-09 21:01:20+00:00
You aren't comparing the same things here - if only counting Warhammer employees, then you shouldn't you only count actual fishermen (c6500 people)?

For example, what about the people who work in Warhammer adjacent companies (plastics production, importing and labelling to name just a few, but also freelancers in publishing, illustration and design ) who would not appear in the 3000 Warhammer employees, but who earn the majority of their livelihood from Warhammer.

For a period my brother dated someone from the family that supplied grey plastic to Games Workshop - they probably had over 100 permanent employees, and were a 'small' regional company.
by impossiblefork | 2025-04-09 21:01:33+00:00
I disagree completely.

The first one doesn't even indicate that anyone has been killed with weapons. If you saw the first version you could think 'carbon monoxide?' with the second version you know that it wasn't.

Stabbed and slashed to death is critical information. Football star is maybe not important, but it signals in what sort of environment the killing happened, similarly the mention of the trendy neighbourhood.

The goal should be to minimize reconstruction error of excluded facts. If you do, then you will represent everything you have seen. This necessarily means focusing on the surprising bits.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-09 21:01:41+00:00
That's irrelevant. What's important is that LLMs are intentionally designed as fully general systems, so they can react like humans within confines of the model's sensory modalities and action space. Much like humans (or anything else in nature), they don't have separate control channels or any kind of artificial "code vs. data" distinction - and you can't add it without loss of generality.
by perrygeo | 2025-04-09 21:01:46+00:00
Mitochondria doping! People are already thinking how to use it for sports performance. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/02/14/new-doping-trick...

Beyond athletic performance and chronic fatigue, some neurologists and psychiatrists have recently suggested that every mental disorder (literally, the entire DSM) has a single underlying cause: mitochondrial dysfunction. If that's true, mitochondria transplants could solve the mental health crisis.
by Cieric | 2025-04-09 21:02:12+00:00
On of the people who implemented it is from unity, from my understanding he can't actually release the code. For the other guy, this was his last comment on the matter > Sure, my plan was to write a readme and share the code with my colleagues anyway. It should be ready by the weekend because I'm in the middle of a refactoring right now. > The gist of it: each time a System adds a "movable" component to a StDb table, it also adds the rigid body and collider in Rapier. Then, a scheduled reducers updates the simulation then fetches resulting positions and velocities from Rapier and updates the "movable" components. I have no client prediction at this time.

So my understanding is rapier is just compiled into the wasm and run like normal while the results are stored into the table for clients to receive via subscription. I won't say it's a perfect solution, but efforts are being made by the small community to see how we can really push the db.

Note: while it's all very procedure like you can just store data normally in the rust side, you just have to push the information to the table for it to be query-able.
by ForOldHack | 2025-04-09 21:02:41+00:00
Korea, despite developing MRI, still has a large amount of farmers, that do not get paid a living wage: No one really knows, because its a souce of shame.

"AI Overview

It's difficult to provide a precise number of Asian countries where farmers don't earn a living wage without specific, up-to-date data and a clear definition of "living wage." However, many Asian countries face challenges in ensuring farmers receive sufficient income to cover basic needs."

I will assure you, from being an eyewitness, its worse.
by ben_w | 2025-04-09 21:03:05+00:00
> From the perspective that, however harsh, 37signals is correct, is the software engineering skill trajectory linear or quadratic?

Undefined. Engineering skill metrics are vibes. One person's 10x dev is another's 0.1x.

Even if you can make a meaningful metric, given how fast frameworks and libraries change, the trajectory will be discontinuous wherever some knowledge or skill becomes suddenly obsolete.
by SCdF | 2025-04-09 21:03:19+00:00
I currently use Talon, which I note is not in your benchmarks.

I can't find any documentation on how Aqua works, or how it compares, so I'm not sure it's meant to be a replacement / competitor to Talon? What are you configuring? How are you telling it that you like "genz" style in Slack? Can I create custom configurations / macros?

One thing I like about Talon is it's not magic. Which maybe is not what you're going for. But I am giving it explicit commands that I know it will understand (if it understands my accent obvs), as opposed to guessing and constructing a human language vague sentence and hope that an llm will work it out. Which means it feels like something I can actually become fast with, and build up muscle memory of.

Also that it's completely offline, so I can actually run it on a work computer without my security folks freaking out.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-09 21:03:27+00:00
> prior Administration used the Justice Department to pursue a reckless strategy of regulation by prosecution

What was the idea before? It wasn't necessarily illegal but they prosecuted it anyway?

> Executive Order 14178 requires the Justice Department to prioritize investigations and prosecutions that involve conduct victimizing investors, including embezzlement and misappropriation of customers’ funds on exchanges, digital asset investment scams, fake digital asset development projects such as rug pulls, hacking of exchanges and decentralized autonomous organizations resulting in the theft of funds, and exploiting vulnerabilities in smart contracts. Such enforcement actions are important to restoring stolen funds to customers, building investor confidence in the security of digital asset markets, and the growth of the digital asset industry.

I guess before anyone using these crypto services was a target for prosecution and now they are not, just by the virtue of using them.
by RevEng | 2025-04-09 21:03:51+00:00
Because it's not the country getting rich - it's the government getting rich from its citizens. It's another form of taxation, but one with no plan and crazy fluctuations day to day that affect first and foremost businesses, who will put off investments are start layoffs in order to make themselves more resilient to the chaos, which affects the whole economy. And this long term downturn in the economy doesn't make the country rich, but rather poor.

If what Trump was saying about making the country rich were true, then sure, why would people complain? But it's not true; just a lie told to placate his followers. It's another version of "diamond hands" or "ride the dip" that you hear from people pumping and dumping crypto stocks.
by dahdum | 2025-04-09 21:04:47+00:00
Important to note their findings only apply to a smaller subset of people, and do not include those with the most need.

> The findings of the pilot project will be generalizable not to the entire German population, but to 21- to 40-year-old individuals in single-person households with middle incomes.

The reason:

> We were thus faced with the decision of selecting 122 people who represented the entire country but did not provide scientifically reliable data on the effects of a basic income, or selecting 122 people from a more limited group from whom we could draw definitive conclusions. In the end, we chose the latter.

https://www.pilotprojekt-grundeinkommen.de/en/blog/how-the-p...
by tudorgirba | 2025-04-09 21:05:03+00:00
No, AI is not Moldable Development. AI can help Moldable Development (mostly as an optimization).

Moldable Development is first and foremost about the interface. AI is an engine. The interface is the thing you interact through. Like the chat. Or the editor with chat abilities. That little layer is worth paying attention to. Because it will define how you think about your interactions with AI.