MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cess11 | 2025-06-17 12:40:54+00:00
Such things are already in use in Palestine, integrating it into the broader US military will take some work.

One main function is to enable sloppier targeting while easing the PTSD load on soldiers, i.e. allowing for more criminal and genocidal operations without immediate mutiny or desertions.

In a sense you can make the computer more convincing to the operator and have it tag more people as supposedly threatening, e.g. to up the amount of supposed threats in a gathering from one actually militant person to several based on aggregation of sentiment analysis, network analysis and so on.

You might understand that you're looking at a wedding, but the computer says several people there are 'red' because of social media posts, who they had lunch with a while ago and so on, raising the threshold for when so called collateral starts to hurt your operators badly enough to be a problem.

And then you have the dream of autonomous swarms of machines doing murder, which I'm sure the current US regime is salivating over and likely hope that these corporations will be able to help bring about eventually. Imagine going from a cop street murder that gets bad press and court proceedings and so on, to instead having to handle a set of Jira tickets due to a supposed bug.
by basisword | 2025-06-17 12:41:02+00:00
In my experience people tend to just move between services. A month on Netflix, then a month with Disney etc. The convenience of having those apps built-in to TV's and easily installed on phones shouldn't be overlooked. If you want easy access to your pirated content from all your devices (including TV's, phones, tablets) you have to have a bit more tech experience and be willing to deal with a bit more inconvenience. For most just rotating services subscribed to is much easier.
by magospietato | 2025-06-17 12:41:36+00:00
At least one in my opinion. None of these studies are designed to be capable of tracking "success" across a society.

There's this wide belief that the plebescite will emergently produce great cultural works if they're freed from labour.

We already have effective UBI for the non-working classes in many countries. I can assure you that the recipients produce little of worth.
by tdrgabi | 2025-06-17 12:41:37+00:00
I'm sorry if this has been answered many times in the past. I didn't find the answer anywhere else.

If everyone gets 1000$ extra, why wouldn't rent increase by close to 1000$. If you're not willing to pay it, someone will. I don't understand how giving all of us X amount of dollars would help. The number of goods are the same, they would become more expensive through inflation.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-17 12:41:49+00:00
If value is such a nebulous term then that should make your job easier not harder because it lets you make comparisons to the "dysfunctional bigco" end of things.

The people you are arguing with think government is inefficient. They will be more than satisfied with an honest accounting that results in a conclusion that the government spends 5/10/20% more per result than private sector. Just having an actual number one can be confident in would be a huge step forward. But outside the most narrowly scoped of comparisons you people rebuff any such request for all but the most narrowly scoped accounting of expenditures with a bunch of hand waving which just makes it look like the problem is even worse.
by imtringued | 2025-06-17 12:42:09+00:00
Considering that Chrome doesn't support getAutoplayPolicy() even though it's been 7 years since browsers decided to break autoplay for everyone, I'm pretty sure Google doesn't have any good intentions here.

If you have a website that relies on autoplay, because it is basically just one giant video element, then there is no way to detect that autoplay is blocked and fall back to a stopped video. You're forced to essentially not use autoplay at all. When autoplay is blocked you don't get an error, the autoplay events are simply disabled. You can't prove the absence of the event even with an invisible silent sound being played in the background. That's what getAutoplayPolicy() is for and guess who didn't implement it.
by Simulacra | 2025-06-17 12:42:38+00:00
UBI will never work without stringent price controls. If a car dealer knows you are getting an extra $1000 a month, they are going to raise the price by $1000. That's just how economics works. Without the government brutally controlling the price of things, a UBI will only result in net zero. Emotionally, it feels good, but economically it's unfeasible beyond small groups.
by myasnikoviv | 2025-06-17 12:43:45+00:00
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by Sheeny96 | 2025-06-17 12:43:52+00:00
It definitely is cultural, but I've never viewed it from the perspective of getting straight to business being rude. A bit like in the UK, "weather chat" is a very standard point of conversation at the start of a meeting with people you aren't too familiar with, as a reflexive ice breaker.

For me personally, whilst I understand all the reasoning and logic behind it, it does ultimately come across as fake and unnecessary - everyone knows it's fake and unnecessary, but we ritualistically do it anyway, because the alternative is too jarring "we're here for work, lets do the work, and we're done"
by immibis | 2025-06-17 12:44:28+00:00
Usenet is fascinating. It's said that communication system is doomed to reinvent half of Usenet the same way every programming language reinvents half of Common Lisp. Hacker News is a itself a worse form of Usenet. And yet almost nobody uses the original.

(Go sign up to eternal-september.org if you're interested)
by squircle | 2025-06-17 12:45:47+00:00
May be? Stand in a shady park and then walk next door to the asphalt parking lot. Is there anything inherently wrong with strong thermal updrafts? Perhaps not but, prove it. Or, prove in a bio regional sense this sort of top down, market driven planning isn't offloading entropy on others. How can we go on pretending that we are not all intimately connected and all related in one way or another? You would not want your children to suffer but it is okay for others?
by throwaway12345t | 2025-06-17 12:46:15+00:00
I don’t understand this one at all. Say you need to update a somewhat unique implementation of a component across 5 files. In pseudocode, it might take you 30 seconds to type out whatever needs to be done. It would take maybe 3-4 minutes to do it.

I set that up to run then do something different. I come back in a couple minutes, scan the diffs which match expectations and move on to the next task.

That’s not everything but those menial tasks where you know what needs to be done and what the final shape should look like are great for AI. Pass it off while you work on more interesting problems.
by potato3732842 | 2025-06-17 12:47:18+00:00
Now add up all the other 2/20/200mil nickels and dimes across the DOD and what do you get?

The budget isn't all aircraft carriers and stealth bombers.

Maybe this is a good buy, maybe it's a bad buy. I don't know and I have no way of ever knowing. Just because the budget is big and the money is other peoples does not mean decision makers can be wishy washy about a hundred or two mil here and there. Everyone needs to care all the time. People like you and who share your "it's all pennies in the grand scheme" thought process at scale is the problem and why we're even having this discussion.
by squeegee_scream | 2025-06-17 12:48:12+00:00
I don’t think _everyone_ gets an extra $1,000, just those at the bottom. I’m pretty sure there are different ways of implementing UBI, and some of them only provide a certain amount to the lower income folks. So if you are making plenty of money, whatever plenty means in your location and context, you would not receive any additional income.
by xpe | 2025-06-17 12:48:13+00:00
> In recent times I had to learn Rust, Go, TypeScript, WASM, Java and C# for various projects, and I wouldn't delegate this learning effort to an AI, even if it saved me time.

Either/or fallacy. There exist a varied set of ways to engage with the technology. You can read reference material and ask for summarization. You can use language models to challenge your own understanding.

Are people really this clueless? (Yes, I know the answer, but this is a rhetorical device.)

Think, people. Human intelligence is competing against artificial intelligence, and we need to step it up. Probably a good time to stop talking like we’re in Brad Pitt’s latest movie, Logical Fallacy Club. If we want to prove our value in a competitive world, we need to think and write well.

I sometimes feel like bashing flawed writing is mean, but maybe the feedback will get through. Better to set a quality bar. We should aim to be our best.
by immibis | 2025-06-17 12:49:12+00:00
And if it has a 12-volt input, there's a good chance that can work directly from a panel between about 9 and 15, possibly even up to 20 volts. Don't quote me on that - this isn't sound engineering advice, just an idea of something that might work. If it's a 5-volt input then it probably needs a pretty accurate 5 volts. Same for NUCs and so on (again don't quote me).

You can even use a (right-sized) lead-acid battery without a charge controller, as they're pretty resilient, unlike lithium-based batteries. This will both store power for night and stabilize the voltage. The lifetime would be a bit shorter. You can literally just parallel your solar panel, battery, and whatever you want to power, and it has a pretty good chance of working.
by KaiserPro | 2025-06-17 12:49:20+00:00
> why wouldn't rent increase by close to 1000$.

prices are dependent on demand/supply rather than how much money people have.

It might increase rental prices, but the people that are reliant on UBI tend to be on some sort of rent control mechanism.

The biggest hurdle though is that people getting jealous of "money for nothing" despite interest being literally that.
by immibis | 2025-06-17 12:49:50+00:00
Organizations never prepare for a crisis until there is a crisis. It just doesn't happen. The cost of preparing for a crisis is always higher than the probability-weighted cost of the crisis itself, even if the potential impact is bankruptcy, because the probability is always so low. The only organizations that prepare for crises are those whose sole purpose is to prepare for crises.

Regulators can also impose certain preparedness obligations on organizations, like power grid black start capability (the government or system operator pays generators a monthly fee to have more expensive equipment that's capable of black-starting).
by hansvm | 2025-06-17 12:51:02+00:00
It's something like $3 straight out of my pocket, and it's going to be a flop. That trillion dollar military budget has a lot of semi-unavoidable costs (pensions, salaries, etc), but it has a lot of bullshit like this too.

Your argument feels something like the heap paradox [0], "the budget is big, so this thing doesn't matter." The budget is made of things this size though, and all it takes to fix it is to start taking grains of sand out of the pile instead of stacking the pile higher.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorites_paradox
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-06-17 12:51:12+00:00
This may be something that AI can be helpful with. We'll see.

For myself, I tend to keep inline documentation to a minimum, maybe only adding a note, as to why a certain line might be there (as opposed to what it does).

I do make sure to always provide entrypoint and property descriptions, headerdoc-style.

Here's my own take on the topic: https://littlegreenviper.com/leaving-a-legacy/
by codersfocus | 2025-06-17 12:51:26+00:00
UBI is the wrong approach.

Once CBDCs become a thing, citizens should have the ability to have direct credit relationships with the central bank.

We can then transition from a cash based monetary system to an accrual based one (similar to how businesses do their accounting.)

Public benefits, then, rather than being given out like it is currently (e.g. you get $200 for food stamps) will instead be based on allowing you to draw credit.

So, the eGovCreditCard would for example always allow any citizen to draw $200 per month for food expenses.

Potentially, if we want to do more generous policies a la "UBI," we could add e.g. $1000 always being allowed per month for rent.

Health care similarly, instead of if the archaic and very inefficient system we have now where those on the dole often go to emergency rooms, money is funneled through "insurance", etc... would allow you to draw money for regular doctor care. Maybe at a set maxiumim limit per citizen, e.g. $1M.
by nucleardog | 2025-06-17 12:51:41+00:00
Your offering really only seems comparable in the sense that it doesn't cost money and is based in Canada.

I don't think it's bad to bring up alternatives, but if you're going to promote the company you're CEO of I think you could at least offer a little more by way of justification or explanation than just "try this instead". _Why_ should someone trust your company over a non-profit with a member-elected board and a strong commitment to transparency?
by MOARDONGZPLZ | 2025-06-17 12:51:46+00:00
I don’t think you’re necessarily wrong, but you’re really hand waving a lot with “that’s just how economics works,” which universally seems to be a statement said by non-economists. The economy is incredibly, ridiculously complex.

That being said, I note that there is a proliferation around military bases of auto dealers who happen to accept down payments of the exact signing bonuses of new recruits.
by mingus88 | 2025-06-17 12:51:55+00:00
It was social media without capitalism. Honestly, a utopia.

We logged in daily because there was always new content to discover. A new fileshare with obscure content or a zine with cool ascii art. It’s a shame that everything is fed to us now. That sense of discovery is largely gone.

It’s interesting to me how that got flipped upside down. People log on daily to consume viral content or meme templates that is in everyone’s feed. Early BBS culture was all about finding the niche where you fit in.
by dguest | 2025-06-17 12:52:06+00:00
The issue is being framed very differently from IE and MS though. You have, to paraphrase:

> Internet.org [1] is providing free internet to millions of people who didn't have it 5 years ago.

vs

> Free WhatsApp is harming market efficiency.

I'm guessing a lot of people are reluctant to spend a lot of effort on the later point.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org
by imiric | 2025-06-17 12:52:42+00:00
If this concerns you and you must use WhatsApp, I highly suggest installing it on a separate device only used for WhatsApp, that doesn't have any contacts besides the ones in WhatsApp, which should only have a name and phone number, and registering it with a burner SIM, or from a virtual service.

An additional layer of security would be installing it in a Work profile in Android (maybe the new profiles feature works for this, I'm not sure), and only activating that profile when you need to use it.

With the recent news about the Facebook and Instagram tracking via WebRTC[1], we can only assume that they're doing it with WhatsApp as well.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44169115
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-06-17 12:53:28+00:00
There’s more than two groups. Some people are just being friendly, behavior which is hard to exhibit when you primarily (or only) interact with someone over chat. Yes, some people are just being nervous around potentially breaching etiquette in an ironic way that happens to be a different breach of etiquette (for some, at least) but I just respond with “hi” strictly because I am interested in getting on with the conversation.

It would be rude to simply link this site (not blaming you) in response to a “hello” coming from a remote co-worker, or even a co-worker across the office who just didn’t want to walk over. They are just being friendly!

I am one who would prefer to just get on with the conversation but I also realize that’s not how everyone is and that’s okay; I should play nice with others if I want others to play nice with me and a simple “hey” in response is such an easy way to play nice.
by haswell | 2025-06-17 12:54:05+00:00
> The truth is fully reasonable

Doesn’t this effectively hand wave away the hard problem of consciousness?

i.e. even a purely reason-based understanding of truth must acknowledge that the only thing we can be certain actually exists is the mind. With no true understanding of how the mind functions, and giant gaps in our understanding of existence, the idea that universal truth can even be comprehended — much less mapped wholly onto humans capacity for reason - is just a belief. An article of faith.

It seems to me that a purely reason-based worldview must by definition acknowledge that a statement like “the truth is fully reasonable” is untenable at worst and at best just a prediction.
by thefz | 2025-06-17 12:54:20+00:00
I learned C# first then async/await then the TPL then MVVM by banging my head against the problems I had to solve. I still retain the knowledge to this day because I had to think long and hard and test a lot, prototype and verify.

Having a chatbot telling me what to write would have not sorted the same effect.

It's like having someone tell you the solutions to your homework.
by keiferski | 2025-06-17 12:54:21+00:00
The key point is that people feel better because they have more financial security…which is better achieved by providing the resources I mentioned.

It has nothing to do with laziness, as the (unnecessarily hostile article argues) but is simply because the world is getting more complex, and an inflationary-prone method like UBI is inferior to actually investing in societal institutions.

Many UBI proponents never seem to ever discuss public goods, but think that the ideal solution is to just make everything rest on the individual. I don’t think that will work, and to me it obviously didn’t work during COVID, which was a real world application of UBI.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-06-17 12:54:34+00:00
And some people, like me, are... what do you call TCP but without initial handshake? Like:

----

Other person: Hi, what time was that thing?

Me: Hey, 14:00.

...

...

Me: Hey, 14:00!

...

...

Me: walks in their face Hey you, the thing you asked, it's at 14:00.

Other person: Yes yes, I heard you first time!

Me: boils internally, muttering to themselves so why the fsck didn't you say so?

----

Please don't hang on "Hello", but for $deity's sake, confirm reception of messages, especially in analog communication.
by RiverCrochet | 2025-06-17 12:54:37+00:00
- If more money is available for rents (increase demand), more people will build apartments to get that money (increase supply). This will introduce competition and keep rents reasonable. This won't work where housing supply is artificially limited.

- I might live with a relative instead of paying $1000 extra, and can now afford the car to get to and from my job instead of living with them without a job or deepending on them for a ride.

- I might put that into a mortgage payment instead of rent. UBI if done correctly is always there so it's something a bank could count on as a reliable asset.

- "The number of goods are the same, they would become more expensive through inflation" - If there is more money to buy goods, people will find a way to produce more goods, if allowed. If people aren't producing more goods then your problem is there - transportation to markets could be an issue.
by sokoloff | 2025-06-17 12:55:47+00:00
Car dealers are free to change their offers just as consumers are free to change their demand curves. Government price controls are rarely a good answer.

UBI would have an inflationary effect, but it wouldn't be that every merchant would suddenly demand all of the UBI surplus because there are scores to hundreds of businesses that a given person buys from each month and they can't all get the full UBI increment, for at least two reasons: 1. They are jointly going to consume the UBI amount, not individually and 2. Many people would be paying higher taxes (in order to pay net UBI to people paying taxes&transfers which are zero or net-negative once UBI is included) and many of those people would see a net decrease in spendable money versus today.
by Apreche | 2025-06-17 12:55:59+00:00
We have evil political leadership. It works in its own personal interest and does not care about what is best for the citizens and for humanity. What does it matter if you conduct a study and discover the truth of what is the best policy? All that does is tell the evil leaders to avoid that policy.

Even if we agree on facts, we don’t agree on basic morality. No amount of well conducted studies can overcome that gap.
by yakkomajuri | 2025-06-17 12:56:08+00:00
I guess this was expected, but it makes me feel really powerless in the sense that I can't really move away from WhatsApp.

I have a couple of friends that I message via Signal and even convinced my dad to use it a while back, but here in Brazil WhatsApp is _everything_, and I doubt most people care about this at all. In my case, I'd love to just go over to Signal fully but then I couldn't talk to family, friends, and probably couldn't even book a haircut or pay my taxes (my accountant messages me on WhatsApp).

It's one of those where unless just about everyone were to go over to Signal, most people won't, because keeping track of messages in two apps is quite hard.

That leaves me stuck in this ecosystem, which is quite sad.
by anton-c | 2025-06-17 12:56:16+00:00
I agree with the premise of your argument but just have to point out we seem to have been given 'unalived' and a few other new terms thanks to youtubes aggressive demonetization. They haven't been amazing on censorship but still probably better than those others.

Now whether someone who is putting out an opinion should care about getting paid is another thing, but it kills your video traffic usually too.