MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-04 07:09:44+00:00
> "Effective Income Tax Rates Have Fallen for The Top One Percent Since World War II"

That link has an agenda. Choosing the height of WWII as the baseline is cherry picking. Effective rates were higher during WWII than they were before or since, but that was eight decades ago, not for very long, and for an obvious reason.

They're also achieving even that much difference by applying speculative math to capital gains, which is meaningless because doing that in real life would result in major behavioral changes.

And it's still not clear how any of that is supposed to solve it. Suppose the founder of MegaCorp has to sell more of their shares to pay the money in tax. They sell them to BlackRock or China or whatever. Is that going to cause MegaCorp's lobbyists to stop trying to capture the government? How? You need there to be more, smaller companies, not change who owns the shares of the predatory megacorps.
by paipa | 2025-09-04 07:09:59+00:00
I agree. It's almost all prep. In fact that's exactly what I recall him saying in an interview once, that he still gets stressed by the amount of reading he has to do before each and every episode. He never winged it and rely on his knowledge alone.

And making broad connections across topics wasn't his style anyway. He's a legend but the show can totally go on without him, and it should.
by al_borland | 2025-09-04 07:10:51+00:00
I agree 100%. I am very annoyed by it. When I go to the website for the card they proudly proclaim that it uses a signature, as if it means something. It’s also sold as a travel card, and the signature makes it a pain for travel. I had a hell of a time buying a train ticket at the airport in Germany. None of the machines worked, I assume because they wanted a PIN, so I had to try and hunt down a person who would sell me a ticket.

Now that I think about, I wonder if this signature business is a result of our restaurant norms. Since the waiter takes the card, runs it, and then brings back a bill to sign. If they switch to a PIN, every restaurant would be forced to upgrade to handheld devices, or have the customer pay up front on the way out. A worthwhile change imo, but I can see lobbyists fighting to avoid it.
by steve1977 | 2025-09-04 07:11:46+00:00
I think my terminology might not be the test (non-english native speaker).

When I say initial offering, I mean whenever stock is newly (initially) issued - whether that's in IPO, after an IPO or also in a private offering. Not sure what the correct term would be.

My point was, money essentially only flows into the company at that point. E.g. company issues stock, investor A buys it.

When investor A sells to investor B, money only flows between these two investors. No money flows to the company.

Unless - as you have pointed out - company assumes the role of an investor in its own stock.

But the fact alone that a stock price is rising as such does not generate any new capital to work with for the company. And that is a point many people seem to misunderstand.

When Microsoft is worth 3.76 trillion USD, that doesn't mean that Microsoft has 3.76 trillion USD it can work with. That was the point I was trying to make.
by cranium | 2025-09-04 07:11:59+00:00
Places where I got the most out of coding agents are:

- breaking through the analysis paralysis by creating the skeleton of a feature that I then rework (UI work is a good example)

- aggressive dev tooling for productivity on early stage projects, where the CI/CD pipeline is lacking and/or tools are clumsy. (Related XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1205/)

Otherwise, I find most of my time is understanding the client requirements and making sure they don't want conflicting features – both of which are difficult to speedup with AI. Coding is actually the easy part and even if it was sped up 100x a consistent end-to-end improvement of 2x would be a big win (see Amdahl's law).
by haunter | 2025-09-04 07:13:00+00:00
Here https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ada-lovelace/id7333089...

or here https://open.spotify.com/episode/5YjqWk1rqxANmNifyUW92B

or here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0092j0x (to download the mp3 file)

BBC Sounds not available outside of the UK anymore
by risico | 2025-09-04 07:13:39+00:00
> Google Maps seem like just another ad platform, for companies to pay if they want to be shown in higher zoom levels.

I know, mostly that's my pet peeve as well and I guess I got trained to see through the noise. It is the last Google product that I am struggling to get rid off.

> I guess that's country-specific. Over here,

Where is that?

I am slowly trying to get move to OSM backed apps and hoping to put in the effort as a mapper/contributor as well.
by general1465 | 2025-09-04 07:15:19+00:00
> Facts speak otherwise

Facts has changed in last few days.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/08/pros...

AP has been barred by the government for using wrong words

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78je27x2v9o

"District Judge Trevor McFadden on Tuesday said the administration's restriction on AP journalists was "contrary to the First Amendment", which guarantees freedom of speech."

Please research your "facts" next time.
by Galanwe | 2025-09-04 07:15:31+00:00
I loved my RM1, by far the best e-ink reader/note taker I have had.

I had to switch to a Boox though, as I grew bored of having to maintain a Windows VM with a downgraded Calibre to convert my Amazon purchases to ebooks for reading on the Remarkable. I now have my Boox with the Amazon Kindle app and can natively read my books, and the writing feeling is almost as good as on the Remarkable.
by wolvesechoes | 2025-09-04 07:15:38+00:00
> Developing for desktop Linux is still a pain in the ass, and I really wish the Linux community had agreed on One Desktop Framework To Rule Them All

Not going to happen. And even if it would happen, very soon there would be a split, because some super important addition to CoC wasn't accepted, or because someone committed a wrongthink on a public platform, or because some patch of snowflake dev superstar was rejected, or whatever else.

Hell, even Microsoft cannot agree with Microsoft on One Desktop Framework To Rule Them All, so it is hard to expect that from the Linux crowd.
by Krei-se | 2025-09-04 07:16:44+00:00
Thanks a lot for again answering, i'm always open to correction and further hints. Wolfram Metamethematics sounds really cool and captures what i think about structure before data - i'll certainly have a look and try to bridge it to my category theory understanding.

I wrote an n-dim engine based on graphs -> 4D tree -> rendering you might like as it would basically support any ruleset and honestly after getting there orientation personal for me died down so maybe me talking without not much academic background is a way to find further pointers.

The choice of words for "first principles" is misleading, granted, but the discussion about what these are might be less fruitful than encouraging the author to stay at it and keep it constructive criticism.
by surfingdino | 2025-09-04 07:18:24+00:00
AI is the biggest threat to bs middle management/ba jobs in recent history. Those people panic and try to become "AI ambassadors/advocates" to survive. They are pushing the narrative so that they have answers and "metrics" of adoption to show to upper management and survive another round of layoffs. You can see how it works at YouTube, where someone decided for no good reason to "upscale" Shorts making them all look bad. This is done automatically, without asking for the creators' permission and you cannot turn it off. The results are crap, but who ever made that decision can brag about widespread adoption of AI and survive another annual review.
by throwaway314155 | 2025-09-04 07:19:07+00:00
Agency may be better understood as Michael Levin's approach where e.g. a lifeform is something that can achieve the same goal using various methods (robust).

Having said that, you can now simply move the goal posts to say that while one human cannot read that much in that amount of time - the collective of all humans certainly can - or at least they can approximate it in a similar fashion to LLM's.

Since each of us can reap the benefits of the collective then the benefits are distributed back to the individuals as needed.
by froh | 2025-09-04 07:19:16+00:00
having created a dependable a/b update for firmware (with failure detection and fallback), I can confirm this alone is a very very tricky challenge.

and I can confirm the good / great threshold.

my point is that given a high enough cost of "brick over the air", anything below great is not enough. think automotive, or any other industry where you need to send out field technicians to the bricked devices to fix the problem.

If it's affordable to ask a customer to put in say a USB stick into some specific slot and to download things themselves over the Internet, then the simplest thing that possibly works may not need the same complexity, I agree.

hehe, thank you for helping me getting this sorted in my brain. I have a strong tendency for making my problems even harder than they need to be. maybe this is exactly the point I'm at the: first figure how simple the problem is, before finding a fantastic solution for a problem that is more complex than reality requires.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-09-04 07:19:56+00:00
I'm a bit confused by the BGP hijacking note. Can someone more knowledgeable chime in? I would think that the cert is enough to snoop on your own citizens by mitm-ing the (anycast?) 1.1.1.1 traffic if this would be a gov op. Would they need to hijack BGP for traffic they control? (i.e. from their own country)
by pavlov | 2025-09-04 07:20:18+00:00
Really great design.

This is the unicorn of fancy websites because for once, it actually makes sense to override browser's standard scrolling behavior. The 30-minute timeline on the right provides an obvious context for what you're navigating with the scroll actions, and you wouldn't be able to do that with a regular scrollbar.

Usually scrolling overrides happen because the designers' mindset was that the site should be a sequence of beautiful slides. They might prototype it as a Keynote presentation that is approved by management. And then some poor web developer gets tasked with building a site that feels like the Keynote slide show that everyone loved, and the only way to do that is to turn scrolling into an annoying "next slide" action.
by neoaggelos | 2025-09-04 07:21:59+00:00
same from Greece, ping works (intermittently), curl returns 502

$ ping google.gr PING google.gr (142.251.140.67) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from sof04s06-in-f3.1e100.net (142.251.140.67): icmp_seq=1 ttl=111 time=35.1 ms 64 bytes from sof04s06-in-f3.1e100.net (142.251.140.67): icmp_seq=2 ttl=111 time=47.7 ms ^C --- google.gr ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1001ms $ curl google.gr -v * Trying 142.251.140.67:80... * Connected to google.gr (142.251.140.67) port 80 (#0) > GET / HTTP/1.1 > Host: google.gr > User-Agent: curl/7.81.0 > Accept: */* > ^C
by writebetterc | 2025-09-04 07:22:17+00:00
I'll do the opposite: The P vs NP episode is aboslutely horrid. Probably the first and last time that they had any informatics people on the show. One major issue is that the experts didn't explain what we mean by "hard". Melvyn thought, as normal people do, that 'hard problem' means you've gotta be real clever to solve it, not that it takes a lot of steps to solve (and how the number of steps increases as the problem gets larger). When they had the example of purchasing Christmas gifts as a stand-in for maximum bipartite matching, coupled with Melvyn's misconception, the train wreck was a fact.

That's my memory of the event, that was a frustrating lunch walk.
by aishwaryagune | 2025-09-04 07:22:24+00:00
Tired of "who has this SolidWorks file open?" messages killing your engineering team's productivity? I built Nova to solve this once and for all.

The problem: Multiple engineers opening the same CAD file = corrupted work, lost time, frustrated teams.

The solution: Nova automatically detects when CAD files are opened and creates smart locks with a real-time team dashboard.

What makes it different:

- Zero effort: Auto-locks files when opened, unlocks when closed

- Team visibility: Live web dashboard showing who has what open

- One command setup: nova start and you're running

- Universal: Works with SolidWorks, AutoCAD, Inventor, Fusion 360 + 13 more formats

- CADLock compatible: Drop-in replacement using same network structure

Built with Python backend + Next.js frontend. MIT licensed.

Do give it a try: git clone [https://github.com/agg111/nova] && nova start → localhost:3000

i am interested in learning feedback and feature suggestions from engineering teams currently dealing with CAD workflow headaches.

What file locking challenges are you facing?
by kaibee | 2025-09-04 07:22:35+00:00
I feel like you're kinda proving too much. By the same reasoning, humans/programmers aren't generally intelligent either, because we can only mentally simulate relatively small state spaces of programs, and when my boss tells me to go build a tool, I'm not exactly writing raw x86 assembly. I didn't _build_ the tool, I just wrote text that instructed a compiler how to build the tool. Like the whole reason we invented SAT solvers is because we're not smart in that way. But I feel like you're trying to argue that LLMs at any scale gonna be less capable than an average person?
by defrost | 2025-09-04 07:24:03+00:00
The facts are that Trump, POTUS or not, can write such a thing but still has to travel a long road to make it happen.

* https://www.npr.org/2025/08/27/nx-s1-5518151/flag-burning-ex...

* https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/08/the-supreme-court-and-fla...
by closewith | 2025-09-04 07:24:47+00:00
> Lemme try to put it another way, because I am suggesting a different way to think about the idea of work, which /also/ was not the dominant way of thinking about things when I was a student.

You don't need to restate your point. I understood and it's what's trite and insulting to new grads.

> Alternatively, you can think of yourself as a problem-solver for hire.

This isn't the alternative and hasn't been for a decade. It's absolutely mainstream thinking among students and new grads that the traditional career is dead and that they need to take alternative routes, one of the most common being to present themselves as "problem-solvers for hire", with personal brands, turning friends into networks, etc.

It's so common it's a trope, and of course the market of businesses who need problem-solvers for hire is absolutely saturated. It's a segment exploited by employers for cheap labour and terrible opportunities for progression as you're competing against so many people, many in LCOL areas.

So after their entire youth being told the same thing you're saying by podcasters, influencers, slightly older peers, etc and then arriving into a labour market which is absolutely barren, your advice is trite and it is insulting.

It's even worse than when challenged, you assume I must not get your profound advice and choose to reiterate it, instead of reflection on the possibility that the world and opportunities you enjoyed 20 years ago simply don't exist any more. Not that there aren't other opportunities.

> But, as I mentioned above, the beaten path is saturated, and you will find yourself in what is essentially a lottery system.

The irony of this comment.

> By plugging into some area you're interested in and solving people's concrete problems.

Yes, you and literally everyone else. It's almost ridiculous how out-of-touch this is.

> perhaps fine, for the trades.

As an aside, this is an absurdly arrogant comment.
by SR2Z | 2025-09-04 07:24:47+00:00
I wonder if Musk will just give up on this whole "camera only" thing and use LiDAR and RADAR the way a Waymo would, but with less redundancy and huge economies of scale.

This could actually be a decent opportunity for Tesla to branch out into manufacturing these sensors.

Of course, it's much more likely he clings to "camera only" until he dies.
by knorker | 2025-09-04 07:25:51+00:00
The physical keys are the same ones no matter if it's qwerty or dvorak, of course, so yes you can reach the keys without shifting your wrists over.

But some movement is there, and once I reached even 10 wpm or something, it was immediately noticeable that this is more comfortable because so much of what I now type is on the home row. Fingers need to stretch less, wrists wiggle less.

> In short bursts I can reach higher speeds than what I can maintain over a period of time. It's fast enough for me.

I don't do Dvorak for the speed. I did it for the comfort and getting rid of RSI. But I'm also faster.

To me it's a bit of a separate question of "does speed matter?". I'd say yes, because sometimes you're taking notes while someone is talking, and the less time you have to type while listening, and the less you are behind on noting down what was said, the easier it is to not lose the thread.

> [transcribing what someone is saying is] a very specific use-case

Some version of this happens every single meeting I'm in.

You don't necessarily need word for word, or maybe you want word for word, but you don't need every sentence, but note taking during a meeting will be much worse if you can't type fast.
by mdemare | 2025-09-04 07:25:57+00:00
Just using common sense, if we had a genius, who had tremendous reasoning ability, total recall of memories, and an unlimited lifespan and patience, and he'd read what the current LLMs have read, we'd expect quite a bit more from him than what we're getting now from LLMs.

There are teenagers that win gold medals on the math olympiad - they've trained on < 1M tokens of math texts, never mind the 70T tokens that GPT5 appears to be trained on. A difference of eight orders of magnitude.

In other words, data scarcity is not a fundamental problem, just a problem for the current paradigm.
by keeda | 2025-09-04 07:27:36+00:00
At this point we are just re-litigating all the things that came out in the trial. Yes, traffic comes with ad revenue, but it also comes with user interaction data which helps it improve its results and maintain its monopoly. Without this data, a competitor cannot offer competitive search results and hence will not be able to command the same ad revenues and hence cannot sustain the level of traffic acquisition costs that Google's monopoly profits can. Google has built an amazing self-reinforcing money-generating flywheel which is effectively a chicken-and-egg problem for everybody else.

Again, the court specifically called this out as a key pillar underpinning Google's monopoly, and this is why the proposed remedies, such as they may be, are all around sharing search and user interaction data.

I'm not sure on what empirical basis you keep asserting that Microsoft has the necessary money and data, but the court's findings, based on tons of evidence, indicate otherwise.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-09-04 07:27:43+00:00
It seems like you're implying they'd be too good to ever get caught, but... they got caught. The trouble is, making a backdoor less obvious makes it more likely that if they try it 10 times they don't get caught all 10 times, more likely it gets into production before they get caught, more likely that it stays in production for a year instead of a month, etc.
by Culonavirus | 2025-09-04 07:28:05+00:00
At the end of the day economy is king. Nothing else matters. But economy is not something you can plan and predict (shout out to my communist friends), it is a chaotic system full of emergent elements, chance-based actors and third-order effects and so it usually takes years for trends and patterns to emerge. All I'm going to say is that unless AI keeps improving exponentially (and there's definitely an argument to be made that it's not already) there is going to be a hell to pay a few years down the road.

I use Grok, Claude and Gemini every day, these "tools" are very useful to me (in the sense of how google and wikipedia changed the game) and I watch the LLM space closely, but what I'm seeing in terms of relative improvement is far removed from all the promises of the CEOs of these companies... Like, Grok 4 was supposed to be "close to AGI" but compared to Grok 3 it's just a small incremental improvement and the same goes for others...
by gorgoiler | 2025-09-04 07:29:18+00:00
I love this programme and have listened to it since its inception. My goodness though is it guilty of reinforcing two quite negative parts of British media culture to which I am quite sensitive: let’s call them boffinphobia and basicism.

Boffinphobia is where an otherwise interesting scientific topic gets downplayed by a programme or news presenter as being too difficult for them to understand, and in particular said in a dismissive jokey way.

Bragg was particularly susceptible to this! In almost every episode* that touches on cosmology he would resort to a whimsical “gosh these numbers are too big for me!” or a “wow that’s going over my head!”. There’s one notorious episode on computer science** where he’s downright rude to the guests regarding complexity. Contrast with how he can barely contain himself when showing how much he knows about Horace or Napoleon or Brahms. (I contend that the virtue signalling exhibited by claiming “maths is too hard, leave it to the boffins!” is the opposite side of the same coin to showing off how much poetry and history one has memorized.)

Basicism is where, for example, black hole discussions always talk about spaghettification and then run out of steam before the interesting stuff. Any discussion of a complex topic will touch on the first handful of spectacular introductory facts and never get any further, all on the assumption that the listener has never encountered the topic before in their lives. I know the pigeon story about cosmic microwave background already: please elaborate on the latest anisotropy findings!

In Our Time is a fantastic listen, but brace yourself for a bit of eye-rolling at — and forgive me for paraphrasing Lord Bragg’s tone a little, here — the “omg stahp, nerd stuff makes my brain hurt!” schtick.

* Bragg seems to take things more seriously when Simon Schaffer is there. Carolin Crawford is part of the dream team as well. Both are exceptional science communicators.

** Another commenter points out this is the P vs NP episode: https://www.braggoscope.com/2015/11/05/p-v-np.html
by matsemann | 2025-09-04 07:30:20+00:00
Very cool hack.

As an avid cyclist I never felt the need for this, my cycle computer has everything I need at a glance anyways. But I've seen some similar googles for skiing or swimming, which I might check out more. The skiing one is mostly vanity (like knowing my speed and other stats in the moment is not that useful), but the swimming one is nice as it's hard to track how you're doing without glancing at your watch. Anyone else have experience with these kind of devices?
by mamonoleechi | 2025-09-04 07:31:09+00:00
Similar game: Mamono Sweeper https://duckduckgo.com/?q=mamono+sweeper (mamono is monster in japanese)

it's a RPG variant of Minesweeper, where you have life points, level up and fight against monster (mines) that gives you xp once killed (you loose HP if you fight a monster higher lvl than you).

it's a flash game, that had an android release at some point (it was removed from the store for some reasons)
by Aissen | 2025-09-04 07:31:26+00:00
Just looked at my (private) dotfiles git history

- pathogen in 2011

- vundle in 2013

- vim-plug in 2017

Haven't moved since, Plug still does the job, even after I moved to neovim in 2021. Will probably move to the new built-in package manager once the dust has settled.