MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matheusmoreira | 2025-04-09 20:20:51+00:00
> There's only one reason I don't use it: there's no FLOSS app (AFAIK) to use it.

And there will never be one. Not too long ago I actually gave this a try. Tried to coordinate with my bank's managers and everything. I didn't even intend to publish the result, I just didn't want to use the bank's shitty apps anymore. Turns out that in order to touch the banking system you need an actual company with special permission from the central bank.

> Something as common as the dominant payment system should not depend on proprietary software.

Cryptocurrency is the only way to make that a reality. The sooner people accept this, the better.
by philg_jr | 2025-04-09 20:21:19+00:00
The amount of money that has been floating around since 2020 has really exasperated the demand in the Rolex market. Dealers have been playing the "exclusive" game with customers pretending like stock is limited because of the popularity of the watches and the willingness for customers to pay above MSRP in the gray market. There has been a lot of talk recently on the web that this is starting to cool and the dealers will go back to selling to whoever wants to buy one.
by conductr | 2025-04-09 20:21:20+00:00
East side bowery was very cheap back then (it was also a pretty rough part of town, which is easy to forget). You just need to convince a hoard of like minded folks to congregate somewhere cheap and you can live like this. There's plenty of cheap places to live in the US. I kind of feel like we need to learn how to build new cities, we have the land, it's mostly cheap, we just continue to choose to reside in expensive places chasing jobs that help us cover the rent while working us to death.
by bluGill | 2025-04-09 20:21:40+00:00
Volvo and Mercedes (freight liner) trucks are popular in the US. Truckers tell me Peterbuilt makes a good truck and compete well, but since I don't drive a truck I can't tell you what makes them better. I can tell you that Volvo and Mercedes are considered basic trucks for companies to own, while those who own their own truck like pay extra for luxury features in a Peterbuilt. (the only luxury I can see though is chrome decorations, again not being a trucker I have no clue if anything else is better or not)
by keybored | 2025-04-09 20:22:17+00:00
Some people think that basic income is the solution to the problem. I’m not sure. But I’m open to it. Maybe a basic income could serve as a transition for former millionaires and billionaires who didn’t have real jobs. Transitioning to a real job via a jobs program might not be in the cards for them considering their skillsets. But a basic income could help them transition over a few years.

But eventually they should try to find some kind of full-time, real job. Like the rest of us.
by fragmede | 2025-04-09 20:22:35+00:00
What the unemployment numbers, even digging into U4 vs U6, don't account for, is how hard people have to scramble to find those jobs. it's not that they aren't out there, people do still need to pay bills after all, it's that gone are the days when you'd just show up to the union hall and know you'd just be assigned some work. That feeling of solidarity, that you can just rely on the fact that you're needed and necessary and can get a dollar to feed yourself today, whenever you need a dollar. That doesn't show up on unemployment numbers.

Arguably driving for Uber/whatever does that today, but you can't seriously believe that you can build an entire economy off of everyone delivering people and food to the rich.
by mmooss | 2025-04-09 20:22:53+00:00
> "Wealth concentration" is not a policy related to markets, production, and trade. It's a policy related to taxation.

I agree with most of what you say, but the pre-tax results of income are not some single natural outcome, but the results of policies about business, economy, education, healthcare, international relations, trade, immigration, monetary policy (of course), regulation, government budget, etc. - pretty much everything.

Those things can be adjusted to result in less or more wealth concentration.

They also depend heavily on capital gains tax in particular.
by jerf | 2025-04-09 20:23:01+00:00
We don't need to hypothesize about our bodies not getting the natural opportunities to manufacture it. We know we don't. Plenty of people live in places where the sunlight is insufficient for significant portions of the year to generate any vitamin D. Many others live in places where they may nominally be getting enough ultraviolet to make enough vitamin D, but have too much melanin in their skin for the ultraviolet conditions where they live.

This isn't all about "oooh sooo much indoors too much screen time stop sitting so much lol lol lol". You can go outside all day in the middle of winter at the 45 degree latitude, where a lot of people live, and you will generate zero vitamin D, no matter what you do, because it isn't the visible spectrum you need. You need something that isn't in the winter sunlight at all. AIUI, it's technically not the same part of the UV spectrum that causes sun burns, but you're at least on the right track if you think of it as if you can't burn (modulo melanin), you can't generate vitamin D at all.
by serviceberry | 2025-04-09 20:23:34+00:00
Governments try stuff like that pretty regularly (you can only buy certain things with food stamps, etc), but it's typically expensive to administer and inherently prone to abuse. Buy groceries with food stamps, sell groceries, buy drugs. On top of that, it's just inherently difficult to structure this in a way that's fair and useful to every person. If I inherited or built myself a nice rural home, I don't want a government-issue apartment - either instead or in addition to what I have. Do I get nothing? That's unfair. Do I get the stuff I don't want?

"Lump sum in cash" is the most flexible and equitable system. But then - and that's a major problem with UBI - you end up with people who spend it irresponsibly and then need help to survive. So you end up with UBI in addition to all the existing social safety nets.
by claytonjy | 2025-04-09 20:23:48+00:00
money that you need soon shouldn’t be in the broader market.

for retirement savings, balance should shift to bonds or similar as you near retirement.

same principle applies to saving for other large events, like a down payment on a house. decrease risk as even nears.

no need to manage this yourself; every roboadvisor will do this for you rather cheaply
by djha-skin | 2025-04-09 20:23:54+00:00
Paying someone who provides no return on investment is simply a bad investment. Of course extra money doesn't hurt the person getting paid. It hurts the government. They are now giving someone value (payng them) in exchange for no immediate value in return. This kind of expenditure at any business or organization would be recognized as one of poor judgement. Value can't be generated out of thin air. People must pay for what they use, either by money or sweat. Lack of recognition of these basic facts isn't good. UBI is not viable.
by wat10000 | 2025-04-09 20:24:18+00:00
I'm deeply displeased with their treatment of legal residents here, but denaturalizing a citizen is about a million times more severe than deporting a legal resident alien. The executive has pretty much unlimited authority to decide which non-citizens are allowed to enter or stay within the country, and has for a long time, whereas that's not the case with denaturalization.
by piva00 | 2025-04-09 20:24:19+00:00
I prefer a system of rule of law that covers the spirit of the law rather than the letter.

I do not like the idea that law can become a game of finding loopholes that go against the spirit of it, it's whack-a-mole that costs the State a lot to keep patching. I much rather have the system most of the EU has where subjectivity can play into decisions since some loopholes can be clever enough to work around terminology, jargon, and non-specificities to skirt around what's written while being opposed to the intent of the rule.

Companies can still contest, and bring forth cases to be reviewed to check if those solutions comply with the law, their lack of cooperation is a choice to drive a wedge between the citizenry and the regulations by non-complying and crying foul to the public to gather sympathy. That's an active choice, the companies could work with regulatory bodies to cooperate, and find a solution (I work at a company who did that for DSA) but most would much rather give a bad rap to regulations to turn the public against it.
by aszen | 2025-04-09 20:24:31+00:00
I watched the video, and it didn't feel compelling honestly, backend frameworks like symfony have ways to compose client and server side code for years.

There are many ways to mix and match client(js) and server (php) in a composable way without react. Components can be created on the server side as well (mixing html+js+php). Only thing lacking is DX and type checking.
by vlucas | 2025-04-09 20:24:37+00:00
This is why Target Date Retirement funds exist.

Just plow your 401(k) into Fidelity Freedom Fund 2055 (or whenever your retirement year is - they have many options) and forget about it.

https://www.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/fidelity-fund-portfoli...

They are mostly equities and riskier investments early on, then auto-adjust to lower risk dividend stocks and treasuries when you are closer to the target fund date to support pulling out money every month to live on.
by James_K | 2025-04-09 20:24:38+00:00
It can be done on the scale of a city or region within a country. The idea it would have an inflationary effect is somewhat misguided. There are only so many goods available in the economy, and redistributing money can't decrease that. Your real wealth, that is the quantity of goods and services you have access to, will go up if you are below the mean, and down if you are above it, under a scheme of redistribution. The inflationary effect is actually a desired result, as it will increase the economic incentive to produce goods appealing to people on the lower end of the income scale. In the long term, you should expect a real terms decrease in the price of essential goods and an increase in the price of luxury goods as the spending power of the rich falls in comparison to the middle and lower classes. You can see the precise opposite of this at play currently. Rising inequality, the exact opposite of redistribution, has driven massive increases in the production of luxury goods and simultaneous inflation and decreases in the production of essential goods.

TL;DR A free market serves the consumers with money, and redistributing money re-balances the market towards serving a certain group of people. I believe a downwards redistribution would be favourable to the present upwards one.
by mgraczyk | 2025-04-09 20:25:07+00:00
My big questions that do not seem to be answered in the paper:

1. Did any participants drop out? Were there exactly 107 treated participants at both the start and end of the trial? Previous UBI experiments I've seen have huge biases where dropped out participants are excluded, but dropping out is affected by treatment.

2. The ~1700 participants were selected from the 20,000 applicants via a procedure that accounted for their opinion about UBI, "the sample was supposed to contain an equal number of proponents and opponents of a universal basic income". Why was this done? Can we see how these survey responses correlate with outcome? Maybe the participants are much more/less supportive of UBI than the German population.

3. The participation criteria required that participants "had a personal, monthly income between EUR 1,100 and 2,600" and "were not unemployed for more than one year". This seems like it would introduce a lot of bias, participants are all members of the 94% of Germans I would expect to have their labor participation least affected by UBI.

Seems quite a bit better overall than the studies in the Bay Area over the last few years
by fancyfredbot | 2025-04-09 20:25:17+00:00
In my defence I mentioned it was "Too late for those working on projects involving foreign manufacturers which have now been cancelled due to tariff uncertainty" which I think covers these auto workers?

Still I'm sure I unintentionally missed many examples of people who've been negatively affected by this saga. I didn't mean anything by that, it's just ignorance or lack of thought on my part.
by CobrastanJorji | 2025-04-09 20:25:47+00:00
Idiots, all. This feels like the sort of mistake I'd make. As in, me, myself, without a team of people planning and reviewing who could comfortably doublecheck when they thought I was getting something a little wrong in my orders. Which suggests to me that this is being done by one or two guys who do not have such a team. Which is insane.
by cess11 | 2025-04-09 20:25:55+00:00
I think this misses the point. The president and his closes aides are fascists. They aren't economics professors and diplomats trying to play some game, they're people who look towards the future and see that this world is going to end for a number of reasons. Productive capacity in China, climate change, the decline of patriarchal white supremacy, the facade of a 'rules based order', international payments and finance systems, &c.

Defending a world that is inevitably on the way out is for suckers and weaklings. And boy howdy do they despise the weak. How do you clean out the weak from finance and start preparing a command based war economy?

Volatility, the violence of markets. Move fast and break things. Then there's chaos under the heavens and the situation is excellent, or however the maoist saying goes.

At least to me this looks like trying to get advantages in an expected world war. Sensitive businesses need to die and release labour that can be transfered to a war industrial economy, and the plainly weak people need to die so the people that cares for them no longer have to and can labour with something else like pregnancy or trauma medicine.

Elon Musk is surprisingly not fully on board with this, either he doesn't understand the team he joined or he's started having second thoughts when his stocks crashed. I'm guessing the former, and that he to some extent joined the fash to look cool and manly, and liked it when he got to be on the world stage throwing about their taboo, highly recognisable signals. But now he doesn't find it exciting and refreshing to watch the world burn, he likely doesn't have his own vision for it.

None of the others are into deep sophisticated reasoning. It's not how they think. Mainly they lust, and the thinking they do is to dress up their lust in a way that doesn't turn public speeches and statements into moments of intimacy and vulnerability, because that would be effeminate and look weak.

The war they expect is north versus south, and not east against west. When the climate refugees come and the equator is unlivable, the far north will be the attacked home of the supreme humans, the masters of the future.
by rvnx | 2025-04-09 20:26:03+00:00
It's not a fixed tax where there is the same rate everywhere: when you check the tariff table, you can see that there is a different rate for each item (e.g. 9.4% for Cotton Jeans) and then it says in Chapter 99 that you pay "9.4% + xxx%" where xxx is the special rate for the country.

So it's xx% that goes on top of a rate defined by the type of the item.
by jimmaswell | 2025-04-09 20:26:05+00:00
I just installed Gentoo from WSL2 this way, on my secondary NVME on my Framework 16. Went without a hitch besides some minor things you need to be aware of:

-the lack of access to efi subsystem from wsl means you need to pass some extra flags to help grub/etc along, and you may need to set it as the boot partition in the bios manually

-you'll have to mount the drive to wsl with `wsl --mount <DiskPath> --bare`, after finding the right DiskPath with `Get-CimInstance -query "SELECT * from Win32_DiskDrive"`, and you might have to offline the disk first in Windows disk manager
by jlcases | 2025-04-09 20:26:47+00:00
Creator here. This article came from a pattern I observed across dozens of AI-augmented development teams: initial velocity skyrockets with tools like Cursor AI and GitHub Copilot, but productivity crashes months later when teams need to modify that same codebase.

The root issue is consistent: AI accelerates code generation while simultaneously eliminating the contextual knowledge that traditionally accompanies development. The decision-making that normally happens during programming gets compressed into ephemeral chat sessions that disappear instantly.

Our solution is based on MDC (Machine-Digestible Context) rules - a framework for systematically capturing context during AI generation without slowing down the development process. The key insight was that we needed to make documentation part of the workflow rather than a separate task.

Teams implementing this approach report 40% faster onboarding for new developers and a 67% reduction in context-related questions.

I'd love feedback from those who've experienced similar context issues with AI-assisted coding or thoughts on the sustainability of vibe coding approaches in professional environments.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-09 20:27:06+00:00
Incompetence is way more dangerous than people realize.

These tariffs are China's Four Pests campaign. Mao, a very trump like figure, decided to protect Chinese crops by destroying sparrows that were picking at them. Killing sparrows killed a predator of insects which did more damage to crops. This coupled with reality denying policies and ignoring experts led to one of the most devastating famines the world has ever experienced.

Hand waiving away this policy that denies reality and hurts America as a rational plan that went wrong is absolutely dangerous. Killing sparrows was "rational" in the same way these tariffs are. Authoritarians believe in power over reason. They do not like submitting to the authority of those who have studied problems because it is an attack on their own supremacy, so they fail to predict second order effects, which were likely obvious.

The damage this administration is doing to trust will be felt for generations. An agreement with America will have no value. No world leader will care what we say, they will only look at what we do. They will see power we have not as potentially being used for their own defense, but as a potential attack on their own sovereignty and they will wish to see us weakened so that they can spend less resources trying to determine our intentions.
by magicloop | 2025-04-09 20:27:08+00:00
It is a sound analysis but I think there are other non-legal factors at play.

If the president tries to do X, then the lawyers block X, then in political game theory the president "wins" in the eyes of the electorate because the president can argue "my plan was perfect, the execution failed due to the opposition, so I am not accountable to what has now happened".

The left might want to see a disaster play out to capitalize in the mid-term elections, laying the accountability directly on the president. The right might not have freedom of action because they fear a well-funded challenger for their seat.

In am interested in other people's opinions and ideas in this area. I agree it is too little discussed and analyzed. Please share your insights!
by 9rx | 2025-04-09 20:27:13+00:00
> just having a DAL with explicitly written (or generated) methods instead.

That's a bit orthogonal. Even if you use an ORM library, you'd be remiss to not put it behind a DAL. But from your DAL if you emit/accept objects of your own transformation: Congratulations, you've just invented an ORM. You can emit/accept relations, which is quite justifiable, but even then you are bound to have to map it to objects at some point. e.g. interfacing with third-parties that require objects. There is really no escaping ORM in any reasonably complex real-world application.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-09 20:27:25+00:00
There's no actual commitment here. He could reverse again tonight. He signaled ongoing dissatisfaction with countries that had retaliated, so may well take further action there during the 90 days, which 90 days are, again, meaningless in that they don't bind him at all, and even if they did, he's done a bunch of things he's "not allowed to" and so far has gotten away with tons of it.
by manas96 | 2025-04-09 20:27:33+00:00
Then again looking at the FAQ for Bitcraft, we have this:

"What engine does BitCraft use? The BitCraft client is developed using the Unity game engine. For the server, we have developed a sophisticated distributed system called SpacetimeDB, which hosts the entirety of BitCraft’s server architecture. "

Correct me if wrong, but this suggests the physics engine is Unity's, and not something implemented in SpacetimeDB.
by bluefirebrand | 2025-04-09 20:27:42+00:00
> I've learned through this process that as long as you get the data modeling basically right, everything else can be fixed up as you proceed through

"basically right" is not the same as "actually right"

> Imagine you can do massive refactors just by asking the model a few questions, what does that unlock?

It unlocks the ability to take an established codebase that is presumably well understood by the people who wrote it and turn it instantly into a completely new codebase that no one understands and is basically impossible to work on

You sound like a junior developer who still thinks that the job is writing lines of code
by ssl-3 | 2025-04-09 20:27:54+00:00
Right. That's still a thing that happens in series-wired batteries.

Voltage depression of individual cells seems to correlate more with deep discharges of a battery (perhaps combined with differences in cell quality within that battery) than anything else.

And deep discharges were what people were deliberately doing to fend off the evil spirits of "memory effect" probably made the problem worse.
by mre | 2025-04-09 20:28:01+00:00
The creator matters because they are the key to understand the reason was created in the first place and under which circumstances. You get to learn about their other work, which might also be relevant to you, the limitations of the tool based on the problem is was designed to solve, and the broader ecosystem at the time of creation. For example, if you're a frontend developer it helps to know who Brendan Eich is, where he worked when he invented JavaScript, and what Netscape wanted to achieve with it. You would even learn a bit about the name of the language.

Similarly, it helps to know who maintains the code you depend on. Is there even a maintainer? What is the project roadmap? Is the tool backed by a company or otherwise funded? What is the company's mission? Without those details, there is a supply chain risk, which could lead to potential vulnerabilies or future technical debt.
by Sgt_Apone | 2025-04-09 20:28:11+00:00
Seems they reversed course on that. Or, they don’t know what they’re doing.

> It's been a confusing day.

> As Verity said, it turns out Canada and Mexico are not getting a new 10 per cent tariff after all.

> The White House reversed its earlier announcement in a new statement just now. Here's the bottom line: No new developments for Canada and Mexico today.

> That means there are still worldwide 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum, on some auto parts in North America, and on some goods traded within North America outside the rules of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade (CUSMA).

> The bottom line here: Trump is starting an economic war on China, and U.S. allies are all taking some friendly fire. But a large swath of Canadian trade is spared.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/trump-pauses-most-gl...
by dannyfritz07 | 2025-04-09 20:28:11+00:00
Thank you for this. This is actually quite marvelous.

Here is what I'm using for fish:

if type -q neovim set -gx MANPAGER "nvim +Man!" # abbr --add man --set-cursor "nvim \"+hide Man %\"" end

I can finally retire fisher and decors/fish-colored-man.