MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kaelwd | 2025-06-25 00:59:37+00:00
Yes but not there, later they get 350MB/s with the same setup.

> I put that drive an ICY BOX IB-1817M-C31 enclosure, with a maximum theoretical speed of 1000 MB/s.

Checks out, it has a 10Gb/s USB port.

The mistake is

> the USB controller of the Pi has a bandwidth of 4GB/s shared across all 4 ports

It's actually 4Gb/s = 512MB/s
by djoldman | 2025-06-25 00:59:38+00:00
I would love to see the following be factored in if it isn't already:

1. airline ticket holder minutes wasted due to flight delays and cancelations.

2. amount of jet fuel wasted on empty flights for the purpose of keeping gate privileges.

3. money spent attempting to acquire or merge with other airlines and attendant FTC defense preparation.

4. (any and all other wastes of revenue that do not get invested in the consumer and instead are paid by the consumer).

There is more to the story than the price per mile. And that's not even opening the can of worms that is the quality and comfort of the flight for the consumer...
by somat | 2025-06-25 01:00:02+00:00
X11 has had this since day one. However the trade offs to actually employing it are... unfortunate. It leans real hard on the application to actually cross screen boundaries and very few applications were willing to put the work in. so xrandr was invented. which does more of what people want with multiple screens by treating them as parts of one large virtual screen but you loose the per screen dpi.

http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/
by Sytten | 2025-06-25 01:00:05+00:00
IDK, I have built a plugin system myself. It is very hard to have a plugin system that is both powerful, versatile and sandboxed. Like with with anything you can pick 2. Most of the plugins I use in vscode like prettier, rust analyzer, etc all need file access and process spawn. So if you sandbox it they would all need max access anyway which kind of defeats the purpose.
by westurner | 2025-06-25 01:00:56+00:00
ScholarlyArticle: "Quantum spin Hall effect in magnetic graphene" (2025) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-60377-1

NewsArticle: "Quantum spin currents in graphene without external magnetic fields pave way for ultra-thin spintronics" https://phys.org/news/2025-06-quantum-currents-graphene-exte...
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-06-25 01:01:01+00:00
For the hundredth time, it is not double taxation.

Money is taxed (generally) whenever it moves between parties. You paid tax on your income; you give (some of) it to someone else for goods or services - they pay taxes on it again. That's not double taxation, that's how tax works.

Money flows to the corporation. They pay some to employees, who pay tax on their income. They (might) pay some to shareholders, who (might) pay tax on dividends or capital gains. What is left (very simply speaking), the corporation pays tax on as its income.
by gruez | 2025-06-25 01:01:21+00:00
>That's negative taxes in the end, the cost of the business operating, it's a cost that offsets revenues. Good luck getting that audited and declared taxable.

How is that negative taxes? At best it's tax free, but calling it negative tax (because it's lower than the alternative?) is double-counting. Moreover AFAIK this sort of tax evasion mostly happens at the small business level (eg. a plumber buying a pickup truck and then using it to go to the grocery store and pick up his kids from soccer practice), but it doesn't really happen at the corporate level because 1) such spending will almost be in contravention of corporate governance policies and be flagged by auditors and 2) you need so many people in on the conspiracy that it's impossible to keep a lid on it. Plenty of companies get flak for their subsidiaries in tax havens, but I'm not aware of any serious allegations of corporate tax evasion by the way of fringe benefits.
by lesuorac | 2025-06-25 01:02:50+00:00
I don't think the studies account for a 0% tax rate and $0 government subsidy. If you're running a large deficit then adding in a tax rate is like having a fire that you're pouring lighter fluid on. Of course when you take away the lighter fluid the fire gets smaller. However, how are you getting that lighter fluid in the first place?

It also doesn't mean that 0% is the correct tax rate. This gives pretty strong evidence that during boom (bull) years you should increase the corporate tax rate to prevent the formation of bubbles and then during bane (bear) years you should decrease it to stimulate growth.

I think the easy way to think about this is that individuals tend not to spend all of their income especially at the higher income brackets. While companies are not as severe in that effect. So if you increase taxes on a business in order for the government to pay back debt to an individual who then saves the money instead of consumes it, you're going to decrease overall consumption.
by justsomehnguy | 2025-06-25 01:03:44+00:00
My guess would be there are some people at MS who, somehow, still can do something fun. Because they are not assigned on the another project on how to make OOBE even more miserable.

/rant Today I spent 3 (three) hours trying to setup a new MSI AIO with Windows Pro. Because even though it's would be joined to the local ADDS and managed from there - I need to join some Internet connected network, setup a 3 stupid recovery questions which would make NIST blush and wait another 30 minutes for a forced update download which I cannot skip. Oh, something went wrong - let's repeat the process 3 times.
by csa | 2025-06-25 01:04:24+00:00
> For me, at least the PB and the J sound like „basically pure sugar“.

As a side note, there is good peanut butter that is just roasted peanuts and salt. It’s pretty damn healthy — much more balanced and healthier than most breads or jellies.

Here is one that is very common in the US:

https://www.costco.com/kirkland-signature-organic-peanut-but...
by PaulHoule | 2025-06-25 01:04:51+00:00
It's an urban legend at the very least that you can improve the power of your punch by grasping a coin roll. I'm not so sure it's good for your hands but unlike a knife or brass knuckles you have some deniability. (Reminds me of the time that the store manager of a supermarket wrongly thought I was shoplifting and he followed me out with his clipboard which I'm sure he planned to whack me with and say it was an accident if I gave him any trouble.)
by Enginerrrd | 2025-06-25 01:04:53+00:00
It seems strange to me that someone would want to punish a corporation for maintaining a larger reserve with which to handle economic downturns and the like, allowing them to continue to pay and employ those same employees instead of just letting them go.

"Hording cash" sounds like NOT spending on expenses and offsetting profits, and therefore likely involves that corporation being taxed. In addition it sounds a lot more sustainable than wall streets typical obsession with short term gains Uber alles.
by dengxiaopeng | 2025-06-25 01:04:55+00:00
Yes, they 100% do bring out unique archival records for you to review. It's one of the neat things about going to the facility!

Sometimes if there's a more extensive process to retrieve the record (i.e. your archivist has to talk to a different government entity or agency to get the information) you might get some facsimiles, but often the information is only captured in the physical document that you're looking at. Moreover, to reiterate my point from above, part of the reason that College Park is making this decision (probably) is because it takes time and coordination to get these documents, and they want to ensure that--with limited staff and resources--they're still able to fulfill their mission of providing access to information.

Most of the records that exist under NARA's purview are not backed up at all. There's a major initiative to digitize existing holdings, but that's challenging/fraught with staffing issues. It's basically an under- or un-funded mandate.

If you're interested, there's been a fair amount of theft throughout the history of the agency, and they actually maintain a page on it: https://www.archives.gov/research/recover/notable-thefts.htm...
by tim-- | 2025-06-25 01:06:28+00:00
It's for people that want to use the Windows Terminal to edit files. The old `edit` command has been unsupported on Windows since 2006, so there was no Microsoft-provided editor that could be used in the command line since then.

It's impressive to see how fast this editor is. https://github.com/microsoft/edit/pull/408

> By writing SIMD routines specific to newline seeking, we can bump that up [to 125GB/s]
by cedws | 2025-06-25 01:06:40+00:00
It’s crazy how food manufacturers continue to get a free pass for killing people. They should be treated like the tobacco industry if they’re going to advertise and sell junk that ruins peoples’ bodies. I live in Japan at the moment and you see almost no overweight people here. Sorry to say, but the times I do see overweight people they’re usually American tourists.

It’s true that in Japan people walk a lot more, but I think good nutrition and eating habits from a young age are a key factor in why people don’t get fat here. Also, if you want “fast food”, ramen or teishoku is faster than McDonalds.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-06-25 01:06:49+00:00
Pareto optimality would be ideal, but across an entire economy, that's almost impossible to measure.

In reality, there is no objective definition of "a fair share", there is only the intent expressed in the tax code (and people of course argue over what the intent "really is"). If people and/or corps. are paying taxes following that intent, then for all practical purposes, they are paying their "fair share".
by shagie | 2025-06-25 01:08:04+00:00
> > Says who?

> Artists.

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAG-AFTRA

Do you have a link that has their stance on how AI is harming culture? The best I could find is https://www.sagaftra.org/contracts-industry-resources/member...

I can't find anything in there or its linked articles about culture. I do find quite a bit about synthetic performers and digital replicas and making sure that people who do voice acting don't have their performance used to generate material that is done at a discounted rate and doesn't reimburse the performer.

https://www.sagaftra.org/ongoing-fight-ai-protections-makes-...

> Protective A.I. guardrails for actors who work in video games remain a point of contention in the Interactive Media Agreement negotiations which have been ongoing from October 2022 until last month’s strike. Other A.I.-related panels Crabtree-Ireland participated in included a U.S. Department of Justice and Stanford University co-hosted event about promoting competition in A.I., as well as a Vanderbilt University summit on music law and generative A.I. SAG-AFTRA Executive Vice President Linda Powell discussed the interactive negotiations and A.I.’s many implications for creatives during her keynote speech at an Art in the Age of A.I. symposium put on by Villa Albertine at the French Embassy.

> She said A.I. represents “a turning point in our culture,” adding, “I think it’s important that we be participants in it and not passengers in it ... We need to make our voices known to the handful of people who are building and profiting off of this brave new world.”

This doesn't indicate that its good or bad, but rather that they want to make sure that people are in control of it and people are compensated for the works that are created from their performance.
by nomel | 2025-06-25 01:08:40+00:00
> `foolib >= 3` will very often continue to work with foolib 4.0,

Absolute nonsense. It's industry standard that major version are widely accepted as/reserved for breaking changes. This is why you never see >= in any sane requirements list, you see `foolib == 3.*`. For anything you want to work for a reasonable amount of time, you see == 3.4.*, because deprecations often still happen within major versions, breaking all code that used those functions.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-06-25 01:09:13+00:00
The purpose of IRAs is clear from the name - Individual Retirement Account. It was intended to allow individuals to save more effectively for their own retirement, and the justification for it centered around providing incentives for people who might not otherwise save enough.

At least, that was the publicly delivered account.

For a billionare who can already retire in comfort few will ever know to be using any kind of IRA for any purpose is outside of the publicly given justification for their existence.
by zamadatix | 2025-06-25 01:09:34+00:00
The title is a bit confusing depending how you read it. Edit isn't "for" Linux any more than PowerShell was made for Linux to displace bash, zsh, fish, and so on. Both are just also available with binaries "for" Linux.

The previous HN posts which linked to the blog post explaining the tool's background and reason for existing on Windows cover it all a lot better than a random title pointing to the repo.
by meta_ai_x | 2025-06-25 01:10:07+00:00
Having to pay for your bags and meals are actually good for consumers and overall environment.

If passengers are forced to pack lightly because they have to pay extra fees is actually a win-win-win for everyone. Plus it is less discriminatory because my airfare is not subsidizing someone else abuse of the system.

Same goes with food. I want the option to not pay for the shitty airline food.
by rogerrogerr | 2025-06-25 01:10:14+00:00
This isn’t how it works - for one, you’d be required to be paid a fair wage as an employee. Your employee “benefits” would be taxable income to you personally.

Then, your corporation would quickly be scrutinized on both its income (corporations don’t get W-2’s, you probably can’t just move your existing income to a corp) and its expenses (“reasonable and necessary” is very broadly interpreted, but is unlikely to support what you’re doing).
by gruez | 2025-06-25 01:10:17+00:00
>And yet they sure seem to cater a lot of lunches and dinners,

Those are taxed at 50% rate, specifically for this reason

https://www.irs.gov/publications/p15b#en_US_2025_publink1000...

>pick up the costs for large corporate events

define "costs"?

>pay for suites at event venues, and fly executives around the world in private jets.

If it's for legitimate corporate purposes, I don't see the issue, because as a contractor you can do the same deduction. And while I'm sure there's some non-zero amount of improper expensing going on, the amount relative to income taxes paid by the employee makes this a non-issue in practicality. The IRS has better things to worry about than grilling a company on whether some executive's 1 week stay at a $500/night hotel (tax value: $3500) was a proper expense or not, when the executive makes $500k+ TC.
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-06-25 01:10:56+00:00
You don't have to be large and well funded. You do have to have your own SEP-IRA, rather than a regular IRA, and almost any self-employed person could do that. I am self-employed, my business is essentially a sole proprietorship, and I get the higher limits because of the type of IRA.

So the question is really: why do some people only get to save $7k a year in an IRA and others get to save much, much more?
by bscphil | 2025-06-25 01:11:36+00:00
Rather annoyingly, the compositor support table on this page seems to be showing only the latest version of each compositor (plus or minus a month or two, e.g. it's behind on KWin). I assume support for the protocol predates these versions for the most part? Do you know when the first versions of KDE and Gnome to support the protocol were released? Asking because some folks in this thread have claimed that a large majority of shipped Wayland systems don't support it, and it would be interesting to know if that's not the case (e.g. if Debian stable had support in Qt and GTK applications).
by westurner | 2025-06-25 01:12:18+00:00
> Abstract: [...] These spin-polarized gapless edge states can form within the bulk gap of graphene, attainable by inducing staggered potentials, spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and/or magnetic exchange interactions [17,18,19]. Depending on the respective magnitude of the spin-orbit vs. exchange interactions, these edge states can be chiral or helical [20], allowing for topologically protected spin transport that is expected to be robust against disorder [18].

Are they anyons?

> Remarkably, we experimentally realize the presence of helical states at zero external magnetic field, indicating the emergence of the QSH effect despite the breaking of time-reversal symmetry by the induced magnetism [20,37]. The unprecedented zero-magnetic-field detection of the QSH state in this graphene-based magnetic heterostructure, coexisting with the AH effect, makes this system intriguing for the development of quantum spintronic circuitries.
by gruez | 2025-06-25 01:12:20+00:00
>For a billionare who can already retire in comfort few will ever know to be using any kind of IRA for any purpose is outside of the publicly given justification for their existence.

So if you're sufficiently rich (by some arbitrary amount), you're now a "tax evader" and "not paying your fair share"? Can we say the same about other deductions, like the standard deduction? I doubt you'll be able to find a politician that answer "yes" to "do you think bill gates' first $14.6k in income should be tax-free?", does that mean that's "tax evasion" too?
by kcplate | 2025-06-25 01:12:30+00:00
Sure, but you have no firsthand knowledge of that information.

You are told the B2 can carry a certain payload weight.

You are told the B2 has a certain operational ceiling.

You are told the bombs are a certain weight.

You are told the bombs are made from a certain material.

You are told the bombs contain a certain type of explosive.

Everything you know about this device and its capabilities came from an organization that has every motivation to publish specs that are just enough to raise the eyebrows of the people this device is supposed to scare hell out of, but they have less than zero motivation to publish specs that speak to maximum capabilities.

So while your calculations might be accurate for the component values you gave it, your component values of your calculation are not accurate, because all you know is what you were told.
by colechristensen | 2025-06-25 01:13:53+00:00
I've never had to report or been taxed on corporate benefits like free lunches, retreats, or any kind of company event. People very freely classify things as business expenses and not as benefits. Want a tax free corporate sponsored vacation? Make a 2 minute monetized youtube video about the beach you went to! Oh no, you only made 50¢ from youtube? I guess there's a $8,000 loss I can use to offset any tricky to avoid taxed income. Oh, and I need a top of the line MacBook and camera equipment to make those videos so the corp pays for those too.
by oaththrowaway | 2025-06-25 01:14:19+00:00
Quite the take. We do one of the units in our apartment building as an AirBnB. It makes a bit more per month than just renting would.

It is cleaned and inspected very thoroughly between guests. We wouldn't do it if we couldn't offer great service.

Certainly would never want to show up at check-in/check-out though, and it'd probably freak me out if someone did that at one we stayed at. It's not a hotel and it doesn't need to be treated as one.
by klabb3 | 2025-06-25 01:14:52+00:00
It’s quite different from how I think about time, as a programmer. I treat human time and timezones as approximate. Fortunately I’ve been spared from working on calendar/scheduling for humans, which sounds awful for all the reasons mentioned.

Instead I mostly use time for durations and for happens-before relationships. I still use Unix flavor timestamps, but if I can I ensure monotonicity (in case of backward jumps) and never trust timestamps from untrusted sources (usually: another node on the network). It often makes more sense to record the time a message was received than trusting the sender.

That said, I am fortunate to not have to deal with complicated happens-before relationships in distributed computing. I recall reading the Spanner paper for the first time and being amazed how they handled time windows.
by shaldengeki | 2025-06-25 01:15:15+00:00
Yes, that's correct. The authors themselves are being extremely careful (and, I'd argue, misleading) in their wording. The right way to interpret those words is "this is literally a model that supports our predictions".

Here is the primary author of the timelines forecast:

> In our website frontpage, I think we were pretty careful not to overclaim. We say that the forecast is our "best guess", "informed by trend extrapolations, wargames, ..." Then in the "How did we write it?" box we basically just say it was written iteratively and informed by wargames and feedback. [...] I don't think we said anywhere that it was backed up by straightforward, strongly empirically validated extrapolations.

> In our initial tweet, Daniel said it was a "deeply researched" scenario forecast. This still seems accurate to me, we spent quite a lot of time on it (both the scenario and supplements) and I still think our supplementary research is mostly state of the art, though I can see how people could take it too strongly.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PAYfmG2aRbdb74mEp/a-deep-cri...

Here is one staff member at Lightcone, the folks credited with the design work on the website:

> I think the actual epistemic process that happened here is something like:

> * The AI 2027 authors had some high-level arguments that AI might be a very big deal soon

> * They wrote down a bunch of concrete scenarios that seemed like they would follow from those arguments and checked if they sounded coherent and plausible and consistent with lots of other things they thought about the world

> * As part of that checking, one thing they checked was whether these scenarios would be some kind of huge break from existing trends, which I do think is a hard thing to do, but is an important thing to pay attention to

> The right way to interpret the "timeline forecast" sections is not as "here is a simple extrapolation methodology that generated our whole worldview" but instead as a "here is some methodology that sanity-checked that our worldview is not in obvious contradiction to reasonable assumptions about economic growth"

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PAYfmG2aRbdb74mEp/a-deep-cri...
by _mlbt | 2025-06-25 01:15:21+00:00
Got an example of relevant information not duplicated on a LinkedIn profile and a job application?

Ultimately, the best chance of success when searching for jobs is to network with people and make personal connections. If you’re relying on your resume to get hired you’re probably going to have a bad time.

Also, as someone who has made hiring decisions in the past I am not a fan of resumes. The lack of any standard for format or even what information is contained on a resume makes them a royal pain to sift through.
by cycomanic | 2025-06-25 01:15:26+00:00
I disagree, I don't want a relative metric. You're saying scale factor neatly encapsulates viewing distance, eyesight, preference, but compared to what? Scale is meaningless if I don't have a reference point. If I have two different size monitors you have now created a metric where a scale of 2x means something completely different. So to get things look the same I either have to manually calculate DPI or I have to manually try and error until it looks right. Same thing if I change monitors, I now have to try until I get the desired scale, while if I had DPI I would not have to change a thing.

> It is easier to have human say how big/small they want things to be than have gazillion flags for individual attributes and then some complicated heuristics to deduce the scale.

I don't understand why I need gazillion flags, I just set desired DPI (instead of scale). But an absolute metric is almost always better than a relative metric, especially if the relative point is device dependent.