MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jay_kyburz | 2025-04-09 21:05:06+00:00
Not the grandparent, but I've been waiting for somebody to ask!

The gov should guarantee a minimum wage job for everybody. You get out of bed, do something useful, you get a pay check. You might even learn a trade or develop skills.

Don't like your boss, or the work not right for you, there can be plenty of other jobs for you to move into.

What are all these jobs? I'm glad you asked!

We need to plant billions of trees to soak up CO2, then tend the forests. We could use a few massive desalination projects. We can convert the world to green energy. We can care for our elderly better. We could use a lot more teachers. (How does 10 kids per teacher sound!). Of course would could have more homes and nicer cities. (How good would it be for the gov to pay you to build your own house!)

There is a very long list of cool stuff we could do if you don't need rich people to invest in it first!
by ohgr | 2025-04-09 21:05:08+00:00
The market doesn't like this. All the professional investors got out ages ago (check out Berkshire's dumping) and are dumping to bagholders. Large fund holders are hanging on because they still make fees and it keeps their AUM up there and everyone else is dying at the same rate. Foreign investors are pulling bonds out because the currency is at risk. The market is being manipulated daily and there is no involvement from SEC. There is only risk left. Confidence is gone.

It is the textbook definition of a fucking shit show.
by ZeroCool2u | 2025-04-09 21:05:10+00:00
Yeah AI Studio is free with decent rate limits, though obviously more developer focused: https://aistudio.google.com/

The official Gemini app works well for me too and there's a nice free tier and it's free if you have a newer Pixel phone. Otherwise $20/month for the Advanced tier. There's no $200/month option.

https://gemini.google.com/app
by parpfish | 2025-04-09 21:05:31+00:00
as long as we're floating what-ifs...

what if UBI led people to think "i can go live wherever i want, regardless of job/market conditions"?

herds of young idealists and artist-types deciding to take over cheap realestate in rust-belt towns and rural areas because they no longer need to be next to a big urban center to 'make it'.

we started to see this during covid WFH, but true UBI would be even bigger
by johnisgood | 2025-04-09 21:06:11+00:00
For what it's worth, it is good to know:

- Low Vitamin D Status despite Abundant Sun Exposure (https://academic.oup.com/jcem/article/92/6/2130/2597445)

- Vitamin D deficiency can still occur despite supplementation (https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/128762-overview?form=..., https://www.ccjm.org/content/89/3/154, https://www.health.harvard.edu/healthbeat/9-things-that-can-...)

Thus, you can be deficient despite sun exposure and/or supplementation.

You should probably get tests done to be sure.

I have MS, I take daily 10k IU. I should probably get some tests done myself.
by muongold | 2025-04-09 21:06:31+00:00
The theory about moderation being a trait that applies to a person in general makes sense.

However, I think the most health-conscious people today probably don't drink at all due to recent sentiment leaning more toward even moderate drinking being harmful. I also assume their health-awareness would preclude them from replacing alcohol with sugary drinks or other unhealthy options.

So I continue to find it interesting when studies show reduced all-cause mortality for moderate drinkers.
by 9rx | 2025-04-09 21:06:58+00:00
> expecting to not have to vacate at the end of the term

Perhaps that's exactly where the need is foreseen? Such a takeover would assuredly lead to a bout of violent conflict, that very well could lead to all out civil war if not managed well. You wouldn't need the kind of manufacturing required to take on the world, but you'd need a little bit to keep the people at bay. Americans with manufacturing facilities might not be so friendly after that kind of stunt, but if you can make new friends from abroad with facilities on US soil...
by jopsen | 2025-04-09 21:07:35+00:00
Yes, but what's the rush here?

The EU should do what does best: make things boring.

If retaliatory tariffs is the way to go, maybe do it the boring way: considered bit by bit, no flashy announcement.

Or just make a 10 year deal on LNG so Trump can say we're paying the US money every year.
by mmx1 | 2025-04-09 21:07:57+00:00
I mean, it is obvious that you cannot sustain efficiency as you scale (Amdahl's law) but (1) $100M is not that crazy to be able to keep track of in your head, even for a single individual (I can imagine a successful real estate developer with a handful of ongoing projects and various other personal investments), and (2) in a high growth situation, it makes financial sense to sacrifice some economic gain for scale. In your original example, sure an investor would be better off, if they could actually find 10 good investments with zero cost, to spread their money, but very likely they'd be better off taking the big one and spend their energy raising more money.
by nemo44x | 2025-04-09 21:08:00+00:00
Genius move. Set the trap (massive global tariffs that seem irrational) and wait for target (china) to retaliate. Once the bait is taken, alienate china and take the pressure off everyone else. New reality still departure from previous order but feels better and gives everyone 90 days to figure it out. Meanwhile china is trapped and isolated.
by em-bee | 2025-04-09 21:08:16+00:00
the problem here was the USSR not the UBI. you need to disconnect the two. the USSR and the associated political repression came first and it's no surprise that any handouts thereafter were in service of that political system.

we are discussing UBI in a democratic system, and i feel it is rather unlikely that implementation of UBI would turn a country into something like the USSR.
by taeric | 2025-04-09 21:08:52+00:00
Sorta? For one, you don't always have to do full site optimization for this problem. As such, the "N" you are working over is going to be limited to the number of breaks within a section you are looking at. And you can probably divide work across the sections quite liberally on a page.

Yes, there can be edge cases where optimizing one section causes another section to be resized. My gut is that that is the exception, not the norm. More, for most of the resizes that will lead folks to do, it will largely result in a "card" being moved up/down in such a way that the contents of that card do not need to be re-optimized.

Yes, you could make this even harder by optimizing what the width of a section should be and flowing another section around it. But how many sites actually do something like that?
by daemonologist | 2025-04-09 21:08:59+00:00
Macs are a bit odd because you're using system memory (so, more but slower) and Apple's APIs, but it's definitely worth a try. I'd guess >= M2 Pro + >= 24 GB RAM would do okay. Also maybe try an MLX version? (e.g. https://huggingface.co/justinmeans/DeepCoder-14B-Preview-mlx...)
by LWIRVoltage | 2025-04-09 21:09:16+00:00
Does obtaining Global Entry minimize the chance of them deciding to harass a citizen crossing the border, I wonder? It is at the cost of your biometric - but data on your devices might be worth more, and as I note elsewhere in this thread, you can image a computer and back it up fully, but not a phone without some data loss, unfortunately. [ TWRP possibly can do it right perhaps, but it requires unlocking the bootloader (which wipes the phone), and once bootloader is unlocked, it's more vulnerable to Cellebrite and company, to my understanding, ]

seeing the latest (leaked?) Cellebrite info from 2024 Summer- BFU State[Before First Unlock state] after posting on, modernimoPuxelsiPhones on the latest OS, and graphene devices see moto be the hardest to get into.

Anyway- , with computers - this was a solved problem from a technical standpoint- Yes I'm talking Truecrypt then, and today Veracrypt. The Hidden Container feature is impressive- but the Hidden OS feature allows for a truly hidden OS behind the scenes that can't be found at all. However, there's a unfortunate weakness that makes this hard to use today- it's limited to MBR , not UEFI [GPT]systems- so unless you like your computer not being able to have more than 2 Tb - and only 4 partitions (so good luck If you do a lot of stuff from dualbooting to other whatnot) We need a Veracrypt Hidden OS equivalent for UEFI systems that's truly undetectable.(That also will work for Linux and maybemeMac not just Windows as Veracrypt currently does - you can only make the Hidden Volumes on the non Windows versions of VC) There was one project to do it - and there were articles and a black hat presentation on 'Russian Doll Steganogrpahy" for a OS- but it didn't go anywhere from what I can tell, and everyone is now wide open .... Unless you have a MBR system. I also think I've heard UEFI is more easily secured than MBR in general and for the foreseeable future...

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/russian-doll-steganograph...

https://i.blackhat.com/eu-18/Thu-Dec-6/eu-18-Schaub-Perfectl...
by iterance | 2025-04-09 21:09:24+00:00
I am not sure I entirely understand the game. In typical Fermi questions, the goal is to arrive at the appropriate order of magnitude. In this game, the order of magnitude appears to be provided for you. The extrema are ~220k and ~1.8M for the question regarding passengers in the air, and these extrema are less than an order of magnitude apart. Am I misunderstanding something...?
by bayarearefugee | 2025-04-09 21:09:46+00:00
Also cancelled Claude Pro due to a combination of unreasonable amounts of downtime and Gemini 2.5 just doing a better job for me.

I'd estimate there's probably like another 6 months to a year where I'll jump around to whatever 'cloud' LLM is currently winning on quality of the model (in terms of usefulness as a coding assistant) and just basic UI/availability and then I'll build a locally hosted system and just use that.

I certainly don't have anything like brand loyalty to any of them, so I'm down for a race to the bottom.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-04-09 21:10:19+00:00
There already is something similar to UBI. People don't starve, they have shelter, and they generally get taken care off when they have medical emergencies. That's true in most countries. What you get at that level is typically not great. But it is provided for by societies and governments across the world and lots of people are dependent on that.

That current system is actually more expensive than UBI. At its best it would be about as expensive. For example, some countries spend almost as much on unemployment programs as they do on the actual unemployment benefits. Which, if you think about it is mildly ridiculous. People that show up at a hospital are not going to die abandoned in the gutter (well mostly, Michael Moore documented a few negative examples for this in the US). And of course, having your life saved might bankrupt you in the US. Even if you are insured. And even there they'll likely patch you up at least. And in most other countries, everybody is insured so it's not a problem. The modern sign of poverty is being morbidly obese because of the excess of low quality nutrition people seem to be able to get their hands on via food stamps and what little benefits they can scrape together. Which then causes health issues. Which further burdens the unemployment and benefits system.

All this is stupid, inefficient, costly, and not that great if you are on the receiving end (to put it mildly). But formalizing the status quo in UBI form might make things a bit more efficient and better. It would still not be great or that attractive as a lifestyle. But then the message becomes "just get a job if you want/need more". Don't worry about starving. Worry about getting something nice for yourself and work to secure that. Most people have more ambition than just coasting on benefits. And would you employ the ones that don't?

People think of this in closed world terms (somebody has to pay for it), not realizing that most economic growth is a complex system with money being created and distributed (in complex ways) by central banks, which then causes inflation to happen, and spending to compensate for that. A lot of jobs are more about distributing money to people and getting them to spend it than getting people to do something that adds value. The most important function many people have in our economy is just spending their money. Skipping the part where these people pretend to be useful in some bullshit job isn't that big of a deal.
by bilbo0s | 2025-04-09 21:10:20+00:00
I'm sure China managed to catch up in some of the fields but I doubt all of them.

And if you could guarantee that they'll never catch up in the others, we'd all feel a bit better about the permanency of American superiority.

Absent that guarantee, we need to bench test those scenarios and be prepared with plans that best serve American interests should those scenarios come to fruition.
by davidguetta | 2025-04-09 21:11:07+00:00
Yeah sure but then you do promote EU alternatives out of necessity.

On the long term this can really make EU more sovereign, less dependent and it's not a crazy thing.

I have never understood the argument of "yeah tariff would hurt us because we are dependent on foreign tech". Yeah that's precisely a problem at a country level. Promoting local alternative is best than winner takes all.

There's also a price in not looking tough when you're getting bullied sometimes.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-09 21:11:10+00:00
> 1. People will stop working if they don't need to and won't need to in future. This is obvious to anyone who has met people.

Tons of people work jobs they don't like, instead of jobs they would prefer, because the former pays a ton better than the latter, even though they could (barely, perhaps) get by on the lower salary.

They do this because they like stuff, want prestige, and maybe want to raise a family in circumstances other than poverty.

It's not obvious to me at all that UBI at levels anyone is even half-seriously proposing would cause more than a very few people to stop working.
by an_aparallel | 2025-04-09 21:11:32+00:00
This is how we end up with people who cant write legibly, cant smell bad maths (on the news/articles/ads), cant change tires, have no orienteering or sense of direction and memories like swiss cheese. Trust the oracle son. /s

I think all of the above do one thing brilliantly, built self confidence.

Its easy to get bullshitted if what youre able to hold in your head is effectively nothing.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-04-09 21:11:36+00:00
The US was going down the "let dominate IP/technology" angle for awhile, but we only accomplished it with imported labor (look at any SWE shop). China is obviously developing the talent to do the same, and they are rapidly automating manufacture work as they approach a demographic cliff. They are basically making all the right investments for the future while we try to go back to the 1950s. It is extremely frustrating.
by Herring | 2025-04-09 21:12:07+00:00
That's weird, cause they sure smeared millions of people real fast as undesirables trans/illegals/DEI/woke, but Trump gets a million chances and coup do-overs and please explain take your time sir: What is the amazing 4D strategy behind telling people to drink bleach?

Nepotism feels good all the way until it sinks your company.
by insraq | 2025-04-09 21:12:18+00:00
Just want to chime in that although this comment is a bit harsh, it does hold a lot of truth. As a game netcode engineer, most of my time is spent on latency hiding techniques and its consequences (for example, we use rollback netcode and lots of efforts are spent on minimizing visual/sound glitches when mispredict, rollback and reconcile). There are lots of middleware that help with this (eg. Photon, SnapNet, etc) but in general there's no silver bullet - it's highly gameplay specific. Even for the same game, the solution can vary depending on different trade-offs (i.e. budget, correctness/anticheat).

As to how to store the game state in memory, it's usually not something that needs much thinking: it's simply done the same way (or similar) as the game's client code. After all, netcode is mostly about efficient state replication and this saves CPU time when replicating it across clients - and gives more CPU time for minimizing bandwidth (like delta encoding, quantization, etc). If you want, you can utilize some techniques like ECS to optimize for CPU cache locality, but it affect gameplay code a lot and would need to get the whole team onboard.

Also, I just noticed the username "gafferongames" - Glenn's blog[1] has been a must-read for netcode engineers. It helped me a lot when I started working on netcode in the 2010s

[1] https://gafferongames.com/
by tudorgirba | 2025-04-09 21:12:24+00:00
Thanks for the suggestion.

orgmode is certainly interesting, but again, its goal is a (small) subset of what is achievable with GT :). And as you say, even that is hard for beginners.

> Lastly, it is a bold statement to say something like "we have discovered a new development methodology, and have designed this toolkit around that philosophy". Such a statement requires a ton of evidence that such a methodology is useful, and currently there simply is not enough.

I am well aware of what that statement says. I did not utter it in the first 10 years of this journey. But by now, I do believe we do have the evidence, and a good deal of it is even available publicly and freely. Of course, there is still this little issue of people actually taking the time to evaluate that evidence. If people are not going to look at the evidence, it's never going to be enough. And that's just fine because eventually, some people will look at it :).
by niemandhier | 2025-04-09 21:13:10+00:00
I could not find numbers for warhammer related industries in the uk. Probably because they are to low. Warhammer has a large profit per piece sold, at least compared to fishing.

US citizens often fail to realise that earnings of an industry are almost irrelevant, it is how much said industry distributes into society that matters, both for people and the state.

Classical industries like mining and steel distribute a significant percentage of their revenue.

Digital businesses does not, neither does warhammer.

The interesting point is, that in the end the value of the money digital good as as well as plastic toys are measured in is based on physically realised wealth: Without physical businesses, the money warhammer is evaluated on would be ethereal.
by igouy | 2025-04-09 21:14:05+00:00
> Smalltalk is so all-in on object-oriented programming that it puts me in the wrong mental space for just banging out throwaway code for getting a question answered quickly.

otoh I can see what you mean.

otoh I can see someone start "banging out throwaway code" and testing it in less than 2 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXoxfmcDDJM
by jimbob45 | 2025-04-09 21:14:31+00:00
Harris was the only option for the DNC unless major election laws would have been changed very late in the cycle (moving funds raised to another candidate - highly improbable). There’s a strong argument that the DNC was at fault for not preparing a suitable backup candidate in case of emergencies. There’s even an argument that such a thing was done deliberately so that voters would be stuck with Harris. Nevertheless, once Biden dropped out, she was the only practical option.

Two important notes: the RNC would have been just as screwed if the DNC had succeeded in putting a bullet in Trump’s brain. Also, Harris performed unusually badly during her presidential primary, stoking angers that she was not only unelected, but that she wouldn’t have been elected given the chance.
by SubiculumCode | 2025-04-09 21:15:03+00:00
Being boring is profitable.

You want to do tariffs for national security reasons? Okay. I get it. Now get congress to pass a bill levying the tariff, have that bill be smart, encourage not just on-shoring, but also near-shoring (Mexico, Canada) of key manufacturing and minerals, apply the tariffs more strongly against the key geopolitical rivals (China), implemented in a graded, predictable manner. Do not piss of every ally in the world, in general pursuing this hierarchy U.S. > Mexico, Canada > European, African, and Pacific Allies > China, Russia. Finally, for key , and highly specific strategic industries, provide subsidies.
by johnisgood | 2025-04-09 21:15:30+00:00
I mostly use LLMs on PC, as I use LLMs mainly for coding.

Does AI Studio allow you to have projects with project files and whatnot?

How about its context window length, more or less than Claude's?

I am also interested in open-source alternatives to the web interface that claude.ai has, I know there are some but I have forgotten their names, would be cool to have a list here.
by airhangerf15 | 2025-04-09 21:15:30+00:00
We buy and waste a lot of stuff. Fast fashion is pretty insane. Look in the closets of your friends who are constantly clothes shopping and it's a ton of shit that never gets worn and eventually "donated" (5% makes it to thrift store shelves, but most of it gets burned or sent to Africa .. and then burned).

Reversing the transmission of western consumerism is not an easy change. Few people are willing to pay an extra $50 for a more durable good that lasts. Long term thinking isn't easy for most, and many can't even afford to think that way.

But the tariffs are really a tax, a federal sales tax on the consumer. Biden tried to put in "unrealized gains tax" (which is really Federal property tax). So both presidents are trying to use executive power and double speak to get their people to support new taxes that are ultimately horrible for every American.

Trump Derangement Syndrome runs both directions.
by Swenrekcah | 2025-04-09 21:16:47+00:00
This is not a contrarian opinion. This is a problem that was recognized long ago and production capacity for strategically important industries has been in the buildup both in Europe and the US.

Trump's actions will probably boost European, Canadian and Australian industries a bit more now. Investment in the US will be a hard sell for companies that care about the stability and level-headedness of governments where they operate.
by indigodaddy | 2025-04-09 21:17:01+00:00
There's also Google's https://idx.dev - which is a webide/vscode dealio and you can use gemini in agentic mode (mix of 2.0/2.5 but if you use your own gemini key you can guarantee 2.5 Pro i think)

edit, well it now appears to be https://firebase.studio/ - that is a recent change I haven't used it since it changed its name..
by munificent | 2025-04-09 21:17:25+00:00
This is, I think, one of the deepest arts in user experience design. It comes up in games, but I find myself applying it all the time when designing a programming language too.

A human sitting at a machine and pushing buttons is expressing some sort of intention. When the machine can do exactly what they requested, easy, do that.

But what happens if their intentions don't seem to make sense given the current state of the system and/or their previously indicated intentions?

In the context of Tetris, it's them trying to rotate a piece when they've moved it too close to the wall to do that. In a programming language, it can be that they've defined a function that's declared to take a string and then they wrote a call that passes it a number.

Sometimes, you can make a pretty confident guess as to what they are trying to do and have the system either do that instead or at least use that assumption to explain why the system can't do what they requested.

But deciding when a guess is a safe bet for the system to make and when it will be wrong often enough to confuse users is really hard, especially as the complexity of the system and the diversity of the userbase scales up.