MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by simpaticoder | 2025-08-01 00:22:32+00:00
If capital returns 5% and the economy grows at 1%, where does the extra wealth come from? Spoiler: it's a transfer from the poorest to the wealthiest. Asset classes include stocks, bonds, real-estate, art, and metals. So if artists make more art, will this make art ownership more accessible to the average person? Or will it be a small transient soon erased by the monumental financial forces pulling all assets into the ownership and control of a tiny few? That art that your grandparents bought for $500 is now work $100k; you have student debt and high rent, so of course you sell it. The house your parents bought for $18k is worth $1M and they need end-of-life care, and you're own kids are expensive, so of course you sell it. The movement is irrestable.
by mulmen | 2025-08-01 00:22:39+00:00
Journalism is about presenting a topic, not about presenting a person. I don’t care about Elon Musk as a person. I don’t care about his opinions on lawn care or cooking eggs. But in a story about self driving car technology I want to hear his input and the input of Ford and GM and Waymo and Uber and suppliers and academics and regulators and users. Compiling all those sources and presenting a narrative on the topic of self driving cars is journalism.

Giving one person an uncritical platform for three hours isn’t journalism. For that to resemble journalism you would have to squint so hard your eyes would be shut.
by diogenescynic | 2025-08-01 00:22:59+00:00
It's funny how for so long people fought the basic law of supply and demand and tried to force 'affordable housing' to be built exclusively, while the prices of homes skyrocketed. I think leaders knew better, but they just didn't care because they were making money on their property. It also seems like a form of generational theft from boomers to millennials. Housing supply was always being added until boomers got theirs, then they made it overly restrictive to choke supply and drive up prices.
by owl_vision | 2025-08-01 00:23:06+00:00
> Carbon exists so that it's possible to migrate a large C++ code base, like Chrome, from C++ to something saner, incrementally.

_Incrementally_: a C++ project can be incrementally made more sane also using constructs to avoid and constructs to use once the problem domain is confined. In my past, I had successfully implemented this quest for 3 different fairly large C++ projects. This is not a strong selling point for carbon.
by wwweston | 2025-08-01 00:24:47+00:00
no more turgid than the much of the boner for building boosterism, just more notes, which may not be a bad thing if some of the scope of consideration could stand to be inflated.

before I check vital city, should I anticipate that they go beyond articulating “here’s a series of public institutions that took a long time to do things“ and perhaps even into “here’s our theory of the incentives and other motivations that underlie the sociology of this behavior”? or mostly the former?
by burnt-resistor | 2025-08-01 00:25:45+00:00
One anti-pattern at most MAANGs is too many senior people refuse to listen to ideas of others because their egos are too large. (Not unexpected when someone lives in a tiny corner of the company and is paid $500k-$1.5M TC.) They believe only their ideas are "better" and everyone else should only listen to them. There are 2 ways to approach this: either lead them to an idea and let them take credit, or work somewhere else because particularly stubborn "old dogs" don't want to learn "new tricks."
by syntaxing | 2025-08-01 00:26:37+00:00
I used to do a wireless mesh with U6 (wifi 6) and I 100% agree with you. But with WiFi 7, everything changes. WiFi 7 wireless mesh is actually faster than hardwiring (mainly because my second AP is connected to a 1G flex mini). A WiFi 7 mesh can actually exceed 1G (using Wifiman, I get about 1.5G). Meshing with a WiFi 7 AP works great for me too since all my devices are only WiFi 6 compatible (for now). Highly recommend replacing your APs with a U7-<whatever you want>
by Animats | 2025-08-01 00:26:38+00:00
Reporters used to start at something like the City News Bureau.[1] For a century, the City News Bureau covered local news for Chicago and sent it in to the local newspapers. Lasted until 2005. Young reporters started there, covering every police station, every major crime, every major fire, every major trial, and getting the facts right, or else. The bureau`s unsentimental motto: ”If your mother says she loves you, check it out.”

We need that again. As I point out occasionally, read news, and ask yourself which stories started out as a press release. For the City News Bureau, nothing started as a press release. They had people pounding the streets of Chicago for a century. Today, the pundit to reporter ratio is far too high.

There's a great book about the Bureau, called "Hello, Sweetheart, Get Me Rewrite". (by Dornfield, not the one by Sears, which is something else entirely.)[1]

[1] https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/06/20/if-city-news-burea...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Hello-Sweetheart-Get-Me-Rewrite/dp/08...
by nathan_compton | 2025-08-01 00:27:02+00:00
This article is good, but the phrase "antitrust left" really turned me off. I am probably some kind of a leftist (I want higher taxes on rich people and a society much more welfare oriented with a substantial degree of labor and resource allocation performed democratically instead of by markets) but I don't know a single leftist who actually cares about this housing shit except to think that houses should be cheaper by any means necessary. Like the idea that there is an active contingent of leftists trying to construct some kind of defense of the current housing system or critique of reforms (in general) aimed at making it easier to build houses strikes me as truly bizarre.

There may be some environmentalists who have housing as a pet peeve or something, and there are lots of yuppies who want to defend their housing prices who might be liberal but I don't associate this position with leftism in any way.
by syntaxing | 2025-08-01 00:29:22+00:00
Whoa this is pretty cool. I’m pretty into homelab stuff but self hosting your own gateway/firewall/router can get pretty tiring. I tried OPNSense and it worked great for a while. I tried self hosting unifiOS (I actually don’t get what’s different from the docker one from back then compared to this one) but it gets annoying. Was easier just to buy a cloud ultra for $130.
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-01 00:29:38+00:00
No, I’m really not. You can do an accelerated RN program in 12 months - though 18 months is more common.

Many colleges offer RN to BSN courses. Some of them can be 12 months (and some less reputable places offer nine months).

Add in a one year graduate nursing degree with some electives and in some states you are now eligible to practice as an ARNP or CRNP.

I’ve personally met several NPs who are 24 years old and are practicing.

The issue is that at that point you are ignorant or often cocky about your knowledge.

Versus premed 4 year degree, med student practice in years 2 and 3 and continued hand holding through residency…? There’s just a little difference.
by colonCapitalDee | 2025-08-01 00:30:39+00:00
With Claude Code I've had great success with maintaining a references folder of useful docs, cloned repos, downloaded html, etc. Claude Code is able to use its filesystem traversal tools to explore the library, it works very well. It's amazing to be able to say something like "Figure out how to construct $OBSCURE_TYPE. This is a research task; use the library" and it nails it.
by CGMthrowaway | 2025-08-01 00:30:49+00:00
TLDR: the long-awaited country-specific tariffs are now in effect. Roughly-

5–10%: Brazil, Falkland Islands, United Kingdom

10–15%: Afghanistan, Angola, Bolivia, Botswana, Cameroon, Chad, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ecuador, Equatorial Guinea, Fiji, Ghana, Guyana, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, New Zealand, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uganda, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Zambia, Zimbabwe

15–20%: Nicaragua, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Thailand. EU: 15% minimum.

20–25%: Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Vietnam

25–30%: Brunei, India, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Tunisia

30–35%: Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Libya, South Africa

35–40%: Iraq, Serbia

40–45%: Laos, Myanmar (Burma)

45%+: Syria

Blanket 10% duty continues to apply to goods from trading partners not listed. Transshipped goods = additional 40% duty if detected.
by tptacek | 2025-08-01 00:31:25+00:00
I live in a very wealthy, extraordinarily progressive muni (almost certainly in the top 5 nationally), and my primary political project is zoning reform, and I assure you that left-NIMBYism is a thing, and that the "we should make blue state governments perform better and increase supply of things people want" thesis of "Abundance" (Thompson and Klein's book) is a bête noire among those leftists.

The argument isn't that the left broadly construed opposes housing legalization! Just that there's a prominent faction of them that do. Right-NIMBYs are a much bigger problem across the US.

Thompson recently recorded a podcast episode with Zephyr Teachout, taking the "we shouldn't do anything before we address antitrust" side of the argument; you can listen to it if you think "the antitrust left" isn't a real thing. Understand: the issue isn't antitrust; it's a totalizing worldview based purely on antitrust. Antitrust is probably super important! But where I live, zoning reform is much more important.

Keep in mind: Klein and Thompson's political project is a plan to organize the Democrats. They're not talking to the Republicans. Not in the sense they're talking to Democrats, at least. I don't think they could make that much clearer than they have.
by spullara | 2025-08-01 00:31:29+00:00
i have seen a lot of speculation about my "false" comment on this story. i think the story is bullshit and AI 100% it raises the ceiling and doesn't help incompetent people that much. you see it over and over where incompetent people use AI and submit legal docs with hallucinations or have egregious security holes in their vibe coded projects. but i have seen highly skilled folks get month long projects done in a day with higher quality, more tests and more features than they would in the past. explaining all that didn't seem necessary since the whole thing is just not true.
by graycat | 2025-08-01 00:31:58+00:00
One, maybe not the only one, hands off, automatic, 100% "all-natural", do nothing solution to the "housing crisis": Hope the birth rate, i.e., on average the number of babies born per woman, stays significantly under 2.0 or even 2.1, maybe 2.2.

So, the population will shrink but with some maintenance (roof, painting of exterior siding, kitchen/bath, HVAC, windows/doors) mostly the housing supply won't.

The Internet may reduce the time and money commuting to work and/or the need to be in high density, expensive housing areas for a job.
by godelski | 2025-08-01 00:32:08+00:00
> California doesn't have a special minimum wage for tipped professions?

NO STATE has a "special minimum wage for tipped professionals". MOST STATES allow tips to be *credited* towards wage, but NO STATE allows an employee to be paid less than minimum wage. There's a "special minimum wage THAT EMPLOYERS MUST CONTRIBUTE TOWARDS a tipped professional'S WAGE", but that's a very different thing than "the minimal amount of pay an employee may receive."

The difference is where the money comes from: directly from employer vs directly from customer. But in all cases *the sum of these sources* must equal the minimum wage.

If the employee is not taking home at least minimum wage, then the employer is guilty of wage theft.

If the employer does not make at least $x towards an employee's wage, the employer is guilty of wage theft.

So instead, read the CA's (and AK, MN, MT, NV, OR, WA) rule as "tips may not be credited towards an employee's salary".

[0] https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped
by phkahler | 2025-08-01 00:32:19+00:00
The moment I lose access to my computer or data due to this nonsense is the day I have a Stallman moment and refuse to play. I'll use a Chinese risc-v machine with 5 year old performance or whatever. This stuff has lived in the far background of my mind for years with thoughts like "fedora somehow handles this so I don't need to worry." But if it hits I'm done. Won't support such hardware ever.
by Alive-in-2025 | 2025-08-01 00:32:48+00:00
Excellent comment. I agree that not many leftists support the current housing system. Probably only some existing home owners are excited about how it works today - they may want home prices to stay high. I'm lucky to be a home owner but I also see that the current system is incredibly destructive, having not enough homes and very high home purchase prices is really hard on people. We should not have to spend so much of our income pursing a home.
by cycomanic | 2025-08-01 00:33:06+00:00
The irony being that lots of the complainers then went to Google Chrome to "show it to those corporate Mozilla people".

I am constantly amazed at the amount of virol directed at Mozilla, especially from people who openly admit to use chrome as their primary browser. I can respect people like Stallman who stick to their principles to a fault (and I would argue indiscriminately), but I really don't get how people can criticise Mozilla for integrating Pocket and use that as a justification to start using Chrome. That seems like a huge cognitive dissonance.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-01 00:33:16+00:00
> Communicating with legislators isn't what's considered lobbying

It basically is.

You may be thinking of who is considered a lobbyist or lobbying firm, which is (roughly, different laws on the matter have different specific definitions) someone (or some firm) who (or which) is paid to lobby on behalf of one or more other persons or entities.

> How would it be ineffective?

Because even if you are able to police it effectively, then the people that have money will instead lobby personally rather than hiring lobbyists, while hiring staff to do all the legislative drafting and organizational support work for their personal lobbying (but not actually doing the lobbying itself) as well as continuing to use the unlimited campaign financing channels opened by Buckley v. Valeo and Citizens United to get people who they don't need to lobby once in office to convince them to vote in line with their interests elected.
by SubiculumCode | 2025-08-01 00:33:20+00:00
I've never gotten one to make what I am thinking of: A Galton board. At the top, several inches apart are two holes from which balls drop. One drops blue balls, the other red balls. They form a merged distribution below in columns, demonstrating dual overlapping normal distributions

Imagine one of these: https://imgur.com/a/DiAOTzJ but with two spouts at the top dropping different colored balls

Its attempts: https://imgur.com/undefined https://imgur.com/a/uecXDzI
by jerlam | 2025-08-01 00:33:59+00:00
No, what you said is mostly correct; but I'm mostly talking about not having home prices go down, which is different but related.

There are different kinds of homeowners. There are those who are flipping houses and directly betting that the values go up, which is the crowd that you're describing. But at least in my area of the world, the majority of the anti-housing crowd is just old and is more anti-change than anything else. Even if the value of their home skyrockets even more, they won't sell and move. Their complaints are more about noise, traffic, and "quality of life" than home values.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-08-01 00:34:54+00:00
Humans are amazingly adaptable, even managing to eke out survival under the worst circumstances. You think slaves didn't make jokes about the boss as part of helping them get through the day/week/month?

The craziness is in finding ways to vary the experience within what tolerances you have, with whoever you have with you.

Workplace colleagues can make or break a "this is a good place to work" assessment.
by libraryofbabel | 2025-08-01 00:34:58+00:00
I think this is a really insightful point. Even if we are in a bubble now, in the sense that current LLM technology (impressive though it is) does not quite live up to the huge valuations of AI companies, there is a plausible future in which we get enough technological progress in the next few years that the bubble never really pops and we are able to morph into a new AI-driven economy without a crash. There are probably good historical examples of this happening with other technologies, although it’s hard to identify them because in retrospect it looks like the optimists invested rationally, even though their bets maybe weren’t all that justified at the time.

I personally think a crash is more likely than not, but I think we should not assume that history will follow a particular pattern like the dot com bust. There are a variety of ways this can go and anyone who tells you they know how it’s all going to shake out is either guessing or trying to sell you something.

It is for sure an interesting time to be in the industry. We’ll be able to tell the next generation a lot of stories.
by lesuorac | 2025-08-01 00:35:36+00:00
> so 402/653 is spent on the core activities you favour

I don't think that's correct. IIUC, Software Dev was 260M for Mozilla + Mozilla Corporation + Mozilla Foundation + MZLA Technologies Corp. + Mozilla Ventures + Mozilla.ai. With large increase of 40M from 2023 to 2022 so I'd bet a good chunk of that is going to Mozilla.ai knowing how the rest of the corporate world is acting right now.

Like the Chrome Mobile team is 40 people [1]. I can't image that web + support is going to more than 4x that so you get to ~160 people which at 300k a head is 48 million. I don't see how out of the 6 organizations that 93% (700/750) of the employees are working on FireFox and not a different thing.

48 million just in salaries against the $494 million that Google gave Mozilla in 2023 just seems like it should be extremely possible to save at least half of it. Sure, we've gone beyond the initial ~$150M but for all (?) of Mozilla's life the payments from Google have covered software development [3] and for Safari the payments were in the billions so if Mozilla focused on making a better browser with higher market share their payments would go up as well.

[1]: https://mdwdotla.medium.com/some-thoughts-on-running-success...

[2]: https://assets.mozilla.net/annualreport/2024/mozilla-fdn-202...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Finances
by dastbe | 2025-08-01 00:36:02+00:00
> In non-recourse states, you'd expect to see defaults as people leave the keys in the mail to reduce their housing costs by moving next door at the reduced price or rent. More broadly, people don't like seeing their wealth go down.

At the trade-off of never being able to get a mortgage again, unless that's the bailout these homeowners get. Almost everyone will either sit tight or rent/sell at a loss. That being said, you will lose out on the public and private support of everyone who bought a house since roughly 2020. It doesn't matter if you've got a 3% rate if you're not getting your down payment out of the house.

The plan that makes the most sense to me is to keep housing prices constant/barely increasing while letting 3% inflation and gradual lowering of interest rates do its thing. Eventually the houses won't seem that expensive and those who locked in at high rates and high prices have an offramp through refinancing.
by tomhow | 2025-08-01 00:36:21+00:00
I have a soft spot for anyone with a background in Turbo Pascal from the 90s (my father built our family business on Turbo Pascal then Delphi through the 80s and 90s, so I grew up with it around the house).

I just wish you'd dial back the combative tone of your comments on HN. You've been engaging in a lot of political/ideological battle recently, and it would be good if you could remind yourself of the guidelines and make an effort to use HN in the intended spirit.

We're trying for curious conversation here. Different perspectives about economics are very welcome. Slurs and swipes are not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by Schnitz | 2025-08-01 00:36:23+00:00
It’s a valid point of view. That said, for most homeowners it is as simple as: My house is multiples More expensive than my next expensive asset. Loosing all the equity in my home will affect my lifestyle and financial future negatively, a lot. I will therefore continue to vote against whatever brings home values down.

There really isn’t an easy and elegant way out where you neither pay off the haves nor pitch the have nots majority against the haves.
by AngryData | 2025-08-01 00:36:28+00:00
I mean if you trying to run that fuel in a performance application where you are pushing the fuel to its absolute limit, it might be bad, but most diesel engines can be run on nearly any burnable oil, you just get less power out and a bit dirtier burn.

They give similar specs ideals about gasoline fuel going bad in 3-6 months, and yet 95% of gasoline engines will still run 2 year old fuel fine because they aren't pushing compression ratios to the absolute possible limit, and half of the performance engines that do push limits these days have adaptable computer controlled compression and sensors which will figure out how much it can push the fuel.

If I put 5 year old diesel fuel into any regular diesel motor or generator or vehicle and it didn't start up, I would be extremely surprised, and be most worried that the fuel either wasn't diesel fuel to start with or had a wide open hole in the container that a bunch of rain water drained down into.

That said, if I had some kind of tuned up diesel motor that I was trying to push 800+ HP out of, I probably wouldn't use year old diesel fuel just in case. High performance motors like that are already straddling the line between working great and catastrophic failure and using old potentially bad fuel only adds to it.
by pron | 2025-08-01 00:36:43+00:00
Eliminating undefined behaviour is a means to an end (reduces problematic bugs, but not all undefined behaviour is equally responsible to such bugs), and it's not a binary thing (virtually all programs need to interact with software written in languages that don't eliminate undefined behaviour, so clearly there's tolerance to the possibility of undefined behaviour).

Don't get me wrong - less undefined behaviour is better, but drawing a binary line between some and none makes for a convenient talking point, but isn't necessarily the sweet spot for the complicated and context-dependent series of tradeoffs that is software correctness.
by mingus88 | 2025-08-01 00:37:15+00:00
Atherton is actually notorious though for this kind of thing.

Before ALPR was ubiquitous, in the 2000s, the Atherton Police Blotter in the local paper was a hoot. Half of the entries were residents calling about suspicious people that were hired landscapers or kids walking home from school.

Not at all surprised that they went overboard on Flock and opened the footage up for every agency under the sun.
by godelski | 2025-08-01 00:38:00+00:00
This is easier to understand when you actually understand what the tipping law is. That tips may act as a credit towards an employee's wage (up to a max that's < 100%). How is the credit calculated? Besides video, the only hard proof is by whatever you write on that receipt.

So like you, I carry cash for tipping. I leave the tip section blank and write the provided total in the "total" line. Then I leave cash. Employee gets to decide if they declare or not (or in other words, if my tip may be credited towards their wage).