MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by daft_pink | 2025-07-18 01:31:42+00:00
Because the author's definition of Blacklisted jurisdictions is not clear in the article or the research paper without buying the footnoted book:

The current EU blacklist includes 11 jurisdictions: American Samoa, Anguilla, Fiji, Guam, Palau, Panama, the Russian Federation, Samoa, Trinidad & Tobago, US Virgin Islands, and Vanuatu. (Source: EU List of Non-Cooperative Nations for Tax Purposes - European Commission)

If anyone has a better definition or has read the underlying book, please let me know, but I found the research hard to follow without this being well defined as the OECD apparently no longer maintains a blacklist.

Also, I wondered why more famous countries are not on the list and it says that these large commissions often identify small weak islands, because large players like the US, Britain, Switzerland, Luxembourg, China have enough political power to not be placed on the list.
by o11c | 2025-07-18 01:31:53+00:00
Hm, I am assuming that paid compilers were largely gone before the whole "must have this dongle attached to computer" industry? Because for software that uses those, "I paid for it" absolutely does not guarantee "I can still run it". The only reason it's not more of a problem is the planned obsolescence that means forced to upgrade sooner or later (but, unlike purely subscription-based services, you have some control over how frequently you pay).
by rglullis | 2025-07-18 01:34:36+00:00
We are definitely talking about different things.

I'm talking about systemic issues in the modern web. Surveillance Capitalism. The control of mass communication platforms in the hands of a few corporations. The "attention economy" which makes creators more interested in collecting eyeballs than being rewarded by the quality of their work. Cultural homogenization driven by "the algorithm".

This is a lot bigger than "annoyances", and we are not going to solve any of this by acting like it all can be ignored and that all we need is to seek refuge in some ascetic application.
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-18 01:35:13+00:00
Human interventions.

High speed connectivity and off vehicle processing for some tasks.

Density of locations to "idle" at.

There are a lot of things that make all these services work that means they can NOT scale.

These are all solvable but we have a compute problem that needs to be addressed before we get there, and I haven't seen any clues that there is anything in the pipeline to help out.
by gnabgib | 2025-07-18 01:35:35+00:00
The trail compared oat β-glucan–enriched bread against whole-grain wheat bread, and found it's just as good as whole wheat bread. Both breads lower diabetes risk markers compared to white bread (the favourite bread, this headline is very misleading).

[Effectiveness of regular oat β-glucan–enriched bread compared with whole-grain wheat bread on long-term glycemic control in adults at risk of type 2 diabetes: a randomized controlled trial](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000291652...)
by codingdave | 2025-07-18 01:36:09+00:00
wat. no. Higher education teaches you critical thought and how to engage deeply in analysis, dialogue and discussion. If your coworkers with degrees are not doing so, it means they are simply there to do the work and get a paycheck. Odds are, it is a signal that they are more engaged with the rest of their life than they are with their day jobs... so while you see their lack of caring as a lack of competence, odds are you can instead take it at face value -- they just don't care. Now, that is still be a legit complaint against them, but it is not a flaw created by having an education.
by Jedd | 2025-07-18 01:36:46+00:00
> Quite the opposite. I basically retired at 40. A few of my coworkers did the same.

You do get that's anecdotal, right?

And that a basic income will mean you don't die from starvation, but won't give you the kind of comfortable lifestyle that you and a few of your ex-coworkers presumably scored from some happenstance in your employment arc, right?

And that there's lots of research about how 'most people' do not in fact stop working, at least within the confines of the trials done, right?
by tombl | 2025-07-18 01:37:11+00:00
It's funny, I would actually argue the opposite point. When Deno and Bun first came out, they promised a hard break from the Node ecosystem, like how Deno leaned heavily into browser compatibility, and Bun into framework features like Bun.App.

At some point they both decided that Node compatibility was more important than their unique features, but in the time since their release Node got type stripping, require(esm), sqlite, single executable apps, a permission system, a test runner, and basically ever other Deno/Bun feature they could port over.

So at this point why use runtimes that imitate Node when you could just use Node? You'll get most of the modern niceties, but also get 100% compatibility with the existing ecosystem.
by paulmooreparks | 2025-07-18 01:38:31+00:00
Exactly this. I still "get into the weeds" without AI if I really need to dig into learning something new or if I want to explore some totally new idea (LLMs don't really do "totally new"). If I'm debugging a CRUD app, though... eh, it's sunny outside and I only have a couple more hours of daylight, so, AI it is.
by nikisweeting | 2025-07-18 01:38:39+00:00
Hundreds of billions of dollars have changed hands through shitty drag-and-drop UIs, wordpress ecommerce plugins, and dreamweaver sites, lets not forget the code is there to serve a business purpose at the end of the day. Code quality is an implementation detail that may matter less over time as rewrites get easier. I love me some beatiful hand-written clean code, but clean code is not the true goal.
by jshier | 2025-07-18 01:38:48+00:00
I gamed AR in the early '90s when it was much simpler. I was in elementary school, and they counted a book as a certain number of pages read (as certified by a parent), the multiple of which increased as you grade number increased. So in third grade every 30 pages counted as a book. So I read my family's complete collection of Dr. Seuss books, as well as my own, like the Boxcar Children. By the end of the program I'd read "93" books.
by dmix | 2025-07-18 01:39:55+00:00
US Supreme court has ruled there is due process for illegal immigrants and reaffirmed it in various case law since immigration law became a thing over a century ago. The US was founded on natural rights principals which apply to every person in the country, not just citizens. The right to due process is not something congress can touch via new immigration laws even if they wanted (absent maybe a constitutional amendment).
by ReaperCub | 2025-07-18 01:39:57+00:00
> this doesn't sound like a ubi problem to me.

I didn't say it was a UBI problem. I was specifically replying about the effect that it had on people at the time.

> For one, during Covid, most people were encouraged, if not required by law, to limit their interactions, and some were literally not allowed to leave the house. For years.

Yes I know. I was one of those people. I ended up just ignoring the laws BTW and doing what I wanted when I worked out that they couldn't effectively enforce them.

> Secondly, just because UBI gives people leave to sit around at home, doesn't mean that binging Netflix or alcohol is somehow the fault of "not working."

I never said it was. I was specifically talking about what happened during COVID.

> I know many people who's life consists of working extremely hard, then going home and binging Netflix or alcohol or mairjuana until they pass out. Is that somehow better?

Yes, it is.

1) While working you are productive (or at least perceived to be). So at least in theory, you are benefit on society.

2) When you have a substance abuse problem like I did. Your life revolves around it. If you don't have to go to work, I would typically start drinking after lunchtime. Work gave me a break from drinking. As I alluded to in my previous reply in this thread, I am glad gave up drinking at the start of 2019, as I would have had 9 months to drink all day.
by hx8 | 2025-07-18 01:40:14+00:00
I also find that validating data can be much faster than calculating data. It's like when you're in algebra class and you're told to "solve for X". Once you find the value for X you plug it into the equation to see if it fits, and it's 10x faster than solving for X originally.

Regardless of if AI generates the spreadsheet or if I generate the spreadsheet, I'm still going to do the same validation steps before I share it with anyone. I might have a 2% error rate on a first draft.
by throaway955 | 2025-07-18 01:41:32+00:00
Sounds like you have a substance abuse problem and you're afraid that others will make the same mistake you did.

Saying that people's lives are better because they benefit society through their labour, while suffering from untreated addiction (a truly horrible thing), is quite fatalistic, to me. The substance abuse is a totally different issue from "not working." There are a million things to do other than go to the office.
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-18 01:41:36+00:00
> or if it has, it's too recent to be visible yet

It's very visible.

Silicon Valley, and VC money has a proven formula. Bet on founders and their ideas, deliver them and get rich. Everyone knows the game, we all get it.

Thats how things were going till recently. Then FB came in and threw money at people and they all jumped ship. Google did the same. These are two companies famous for throwing money at things (Oculus, metaverse, G+, quantum computing) and right and proper face planting with them.

Do you really think that any of these people believe deep down that they are going to have some big breath through? Or do you think they all see the writing on the wall and are taking the payday where they can get it?
by singron | 2025-07-18 01:42:49+00:00
I tried using aider with godot. CC would probably be better. Aider with 4o/o3-mini wasn't very good at gdscript, and it was terrible at editing tres/tscn files (which are usually modified through the editor). If you had a very code-centric game, it could turn out OK, but if you have resources/assets that you normally edit with special programs, it is going to struggle.
by watersb | 2025-07-18 01:43:18+00:00
Yesterday was the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, the first nuclear bomb explosion.

When I moved to Socorro, New Mexico in the final years of the 20th century, I found trinitite in my front yard. I think.

I was starting some computer work on an upgrade project for the Karl Jansky Very Large Array radio telescope. I did not expect to be standing only 35 miles from Trinity, but from Socorro to the "back door" to the White Sands test range, there's the Rio Grande and the dusty crossroads village of San Antonio NM, a wonderful family farm, and the Owl Bar.
by lofaszvanitt | 2025-07-18 01:43:23+00:00
If you only smell it after you've sprayed it on yourself, but later on your nose doesn't send you pings that it's present, then that's a perfect perfume, since your nose can get used to it.

If you are always reminded by your nose that the smell is present, then... it's subpar. But YMMV. I hate perfumes that are so strong that you literally leave a trail behind you and you can smell it all the time on yourself... and others will carry it on themselves if they spend 15 minutes with you in a room :D.

When you spray these on yourself you become a pollen bearer. It's like your perfume has a social life of its own - it sticks with everyone who gets too close to you.

That's why perfume reviews are total nonsense. You go, get 15 samples and try them on yourself one by one (right after a shower, just sprinkle it on your chest).
by Manuel_D | 2025-07-18 01:43:27+00:00
Time-boxed UBI experiments don't represent how people would behave if they had the benefits for life. That's not throwing rational analysis out the window. If anything, trying to extrapolate the results of a UBI pilot that didn't last 3 years is playing fast and loose with rationality.

Disabled people receive benefits because their ability to work is impeded by their disability and thus those programs don't have the same potential to disincentive work among the disabled population.

Retirement benefits do diminish older people's labor participation rates. That's the intended purpose of retirement programs. Society agrees that at a certain age people should ideally be able to relax and not work if they don't want to. Why do people protest when countries raise their retirement age? Because people don't want to have to work in their 70s or late 60s. Some do (my dad kept consulting for the fun of it), but they're probably in the minority.
by zer00eyz | 2025-07-18 01:43:40+00:00
> We are seeing diminishing returns on scaling already. LLMs released this year have been marginal improvements over their predecessors. Graphs on benchmarks[1] are hitting an asymptote.

This isnt just a software problem. IF you go look at the hardware side you see that same flat line (IPC is flat generation over generation). There are also power and heat problems that are going to require some rather exotic and creative solutions if companies are looking to hardware for gains.
by socalgal2 | 2025-07-18 01:44:13+00:00
I signed up for 23andme to specifically make my DNA available. I believe that more DNA = more cures

Note: I'm not saying you should not delete your DNA. Do what you want over course. I'm just saying for me, I signed up, fully expected my DNA to be used to conduct research. That fact that I could get interesting graphs and some health info was just a bonus for me
by 63 | 2025-07-18 01:45:28+00:00
"Why should I put in effort to learn when the world already has thousands of writers better than me?"

This problem isn't new. People don't create art based on supply and demand. I don't think there's a future where people stop making things just because computers can do it too. It may be impossible to make a living off of art, but we will keep making it. Ask artists today and many will tell you it never felt like a choice to begin with.
by ImaCake | 2025-07-18 01:45:28+00:00
> clean code is not the true goal

Its not, but it does matter. LLMs, being next word guessers, perform differently with different inputs. Its not hard to imagine a feedback loop of bad code generating worse code and good code generating more good code.

My ability to get good responses from LLMs has been tied to me writing better code, docstrings, and using autoformatters.
by 9x39 | 2025-07-18 01:45:36+00:00
It's all rotting if you're simply consuming and not part of goods & services production. The cash creation resulted in more money chasing less goods & services, and inflation lagged behind but steadily resulted.

Being alive and content is orthogonal to what's rightly predicted - GDP falling off a cliff, with standards of living plummeting and inflation exploding as everyone does more consumption to talk about at dinner parties while even less than ever is being produced.
by joegibbs | 2025-07-18 01:45:48+00:00
That's because the kinds of people who make those huge amounts of money usually have that ambition and lack of satisfaction. But what about the parts of society that aren't go-getting yuppie strivers? There is a vast majority of people who never consider grinding leetcode to get a job at Jane Street so that they can later pivot to B2B SAAS for timeseries data.
by anonzzzies | 2025-07-18 01:46:14+00:00
Most my friends and myself could retire after the 90s Internet boom: we all sold. Most before 30. No one did as its boring. Travelling gets boring: everything I see rich people typically do I still find boring now in my 50s and I could've done all of that for the past 25+ years. I am quite sure I will never stop working and this seems the same for my friend group. I am not saying life satisfaction comes from work necessarily, but at least the people I call friends have a drive to produce things and feel validation and satisfaction from that: in the west that validation is usually money and recognition from peers and large groups of strangers.

But yeah, I guess many people dont want to work because their options for work suck. It is not that many of those their contribution is not basically 0 or negative now as it is and with robots/ai coming in the coming 50 years, I rather have them living a human life with social housing, free playstations and basic income instead of slaving away at something useless just because of some weird idea that any work is better than no work to spend their short life on.
by iamleppert | 2025-07-18 01:46:29+00:00
I had hemophilia gene therapy. It worked for a period of time but the results were not permanent. The problem with many of the gene therapies is that they do not change the nuclear DNA, they just insert copies of working genes into the cell. If a cell dies, it’s gone. The results aren’t carried through to new cells during division.

The other problem is with viral vector based gene therapy is you can’t have it again. You develop antibodies which prevent it from working again, and it could cause a dangerous immune response.

Then there’s the cost. My single treatment cost $3 million as part of a clinical trial, and lasted about 3 years. Normally, it costs about $1 million a year for my normal factor product, which I had to go back on. So I guess it was a wash and it was nice to be free of the medication for a few years. But it’s definitely not perfect and has its own limitations.
by gus_massa | 2025-07-18 01:46:36+00:00
From https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

Until you can share the code or an online version that everyone can try, it's not a "Show HN". You can write a blog post with more details and submit it, but not as a "Show HN".
by veidr | 2025-07-18 01:47:11+00:00
This is exactly right, and the constructor parameter incompatibility is a big deal. The other two aren't nothing, either, even if enums are generally not the prevailing best practice in most cases.

This is an interesting development, but it's not really "running TypeScript code" its "almost running TypeScript code".

With alternative runtimes like Deno and Bun able to run real TypeScript code (and type check it, lint it, test it, etc) using a slightly watered-down, not-fully-compatible dialect of TypeScript, just so that it can run on Node without a build step, really isn't a very compelling argument.

It'd be different if TypeScript announced "TypeScript will remove these features to work around Node's limitation — compatibility is more important", but they haven't.

(And I wouldn't personally love it if they did. Deno and Bun are ahead of Node on several different axes, and other runtimes are coming, too — if Node can catch up, then great, but if it can't, then it should rightly be left behind.)

There's still no real alternative to Node for many large frontend apps in production, but for a lot of other TypeScript use cases — build tooling, backend APIs, CLI apps, edge functions — modern TypeScript in the Deno/Bun style (ESM, full filename imports, run/typecheck/lint/test with no user-configured build step) has significant benefits.

Both Deno and Bun have extensive — and necessary — backward compatibility shims to enable interoperability with what I've started calling "legacy Node JS/TS". You can use the Node APIs (but should explicitly import those things with "node:" in your import specifier. You can use NPM packages (even CommonJS ones, although Deno prohibits CommonJS in new code, a stricter line than Bun draws).

I don't think using Deno and Bun is a huge bet on those specific (VC-backed) runtimes, either, because there is a shared vision of what "modern TypeScript" looks like, it works with both of those tools, and I think there will be multiple runtimes that support that vision for as long as TypeScript is relevant, even if both Deno and Bun were to go sideways.

Whether Node itself will become one of those modern runtimes is an interesting question. This is a step in that direction, it looks like, but it's still an open question.
by mistyvales | 2025-07-18 01:47:53+00:00
Finally switched full time to Fedora KDE back in 2018 and only use Windows in QEMU KVM's. Of course my work laptop is Apple.

I am no power user by any means, but everything I do is supported: minor web dev, Davinci, Blender, Steam, even Battle.net running on Bottles (Diablo II: Resurrected has never crash once and runs at an excellent frame rate), basic browsing, etc. I get random issues here and there, but I also did on Windows and still do on Mac OS.

No regerts.
by alexozer | 2025-07-18 01:49:17+00:00
So am I identifying the bottlenecks that motivate this design correctly?

1. Go FFI is slow

2. Per-proto generated code specialization is slow, because of icache pressure

I know there's more to the optimization story here, but I guess these are the primary motivations for the VM over just better code generation or implementing a parser in non-Go?
by ivape | 2025-07-18 01:49:26+00:00
Everyone that successfully avoided social media for the last decade escaped with their mental health. Everyone that carefully moderates their ai intake (e.g don’t depend on Claude Code) will also escape with their skills over the next decade, others will become AI fiends, just the like social media fiends. Just knowing tech like the internet and ai can fuck your whole brain up is enough to be ahead of the curve. If you didn’t learn the lesson from the uptake of video games, cellphones, tv, streaming (the list is endless), then you’re not paying attention.

The destruction of spelling didn’t feel like doomsday to us. In fact, I think most people treated the utter annihilation of that skill as a joke. “No one knows how to spell anymore” - haha, funny, isn’t technology cute? Not really. We’ve gone up an order of magnitude, and not paying attention to how programming is on the chopping block is going to screw a lot of people out of that skill.
by theGnuMe | 2025-07-18 01:49:34+00:00
>An unusual part of OpenAI is that everything, and I mean everything, runs on Slack. There is no email. I maybe received ~10 emails in my entire time there. If you aren't organized, you will find this incredibly distracting. If you curate your channels and notifications, you can make it pretty workable.

This is super interesting. I work in a group where everything is on slack and some pieces are/were super hard. So much so that I want an AI assistant that can manage my slack feed etc... I feel like an AI bot/slack integration is a thing that needs to be done well.
by verteu | 2025-07-18 01:50:23+00:00
> If you put together all of the money we spend for all of that, I wouldn't be surprised if 90%, or even 100% of the cost of a UBI could be covered.

Administrative overhead is nowhere near as high as you estimate.

SNAP covers ~12% of the population with 5% overhead costs.

Medicaid covers ~20% of the population with 5-10% overhead.

Social security covers ~20% of the population with <1% overhead.

The extra spending to make benefits universal is an order of magnitude higher than any savings from eliminating bureaucracy.
by cholantesh | 2025-07-18 01:50:24+00:00
>Musk has been pushing the idea of starting a new political party to better represent the people and is for less regulation and smaller government.

This is self-contradictory gibberish. Deregulation and small government for him means further weakening labour laws to the point where the interests of the majority of Americans, ie, wage workers, have no ability to advocate for their needs and no recourse when he encroaches on them.

>Trump [...] seems to be consistently anti-war.

This was already a surreal claim to make when he was sending troops and PMCs into Iraq and Syria, deploying SEALs on abortive raids in Yemen, where Saudi troops were using arms his administration provided them, oh and, I dunno, ordering the assassination of the highest military official of a sovereign nation. It becomes solipsistic in the month after he oversaw the US' direct intervention in Israel's war with Iran.