MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Flamingoat | 2025-10-15 15:38:57+00:00
> It requires tax increases, and the average earner's UBI will typically balance out the tax increase, meaning they don't directly profit.

A good portion of my salary is already taken by Tax and the government wastes it. I've seen the waste first hand when contracting for both Local, Nation Government. I was so disgusted by this, I have made every effort to avoid working with them.

I've also seen this waste happen in large charities and ossified corporations. The former also disgusting me as I know they would simply piss away a few thousand on complete BS, that took a whole village to collect and for it not to go towards the stated purpose of the charity. As a result I don't donate to any charities that aren't local.

Every-time someone suggests a tax increase, I know for a fact they haven't seen the waste happen first hand.

> UBI isn't about giving everyone free money. It's about giving everyone a safety net, so that they can take bigger economic risks and aren't pushed into crime or bullshit work.

Giving everyone a safety net will require giving people money that is taken from others. To the people that benefit it is seen as "free" and will become "expected" and won't be treated as a safety net.

Being a responsible adult is about reducing the amount of risk you are taking, not increasing it.

So what you will be doing it teaching people to essentially gamble and people did similar during COVID. Some people took their cheques and put it into crypto, meme stocks or whatever. Some won big, most didn't.

I've met people in my local area that have lost huge amounts of money on risky investments, everything from property developments, to bitcoin. Creating an incentive for risk taking without the consequences is actually reckless, a massive moral hazard and will simply create perverse incentives.

> The upper half of society will only see the indirect benefits, like having greater employment/investment choices due to more entrepreneurialism.

You will be taxing those people more and they will have less to invest. The reason why many people invest is because they have disposable income that they can afford to risk.

By taxing people more (which you admit would have to happen), they will have less disposable income and will be inclined to invest less as a result.
by bee_rider | 2025-10-15 15:38:59+00:00
I think it is bad writing on the part of the author. Or maybe good writing for getting us engaged with the blog post, bad for making an argument though.

They include a line that they don’t believe in the possibility of AGI:

> I don’t really believe in the threat of AGI (Artificial General Intelligence—human-level intelligence) partly because I don’t believe in the possibility of AGI and I’m highly skeptical that the current technology underpinning LLMs will provide a route to it.

This is a basically absurd position to hold, I mean humans physically exist so our brains must be possible to build within the existing laws of physics. It is obviously far beyond our capabilities to replicate a human brain (except via the traditional approach), but unless brains hold irreproducible magic spirits (well we must at least admit the possibility) they should be possible to build artificially. Fortunately they immediately throw that all away anyway.

Next, they get to the:

> and I’m highly skeptical that the current technology underpinning LLMs will provide a route to it.

Which is, of course, at least a plausible thing to believe. I mean there are a bunch of philosophical questions about what “intelligence” even means so there’s plenty of room to quibble here. Then we have,

> But I also think there’s something we should actually be afraid of long before AGI, if it ever comes. […]

> Now, if you equip humans with a hammer, or sword, or rifle, or AI then you’ve just made the scariest monster in the woods (that’s you) even more terrifying. […]

> We don’t need to worry about AI itself, we need to be concerned about what “humans + AI” will do.

Which is like, yeah, this is a massively worrying problem that doesn’t involve any sci-fi bullshit, and I think it is what most(?) anybody who’s thought about this seriously at all (or even stupid people who haven’t, like myself). Artificial Sub-intelligences, things that are just smart enough to make trouble and too dumb or too “aligned” to their owner (instead of society in general) to push back are a big currently happening problem.
by layer8 | 2025-10-15 15:39:14+00:00
At the same time, the resolution still isn’t quite enough for virtual Mac screen to not look worse than the real one. The Vision Pro has around 34 PPD. “Retina” resolution for VR is generally considered to require at least 60 PPD. That would mean four times the amount of pixels at the Vision Pro’s panel size. Add to that that the Vision Pro’s FOV is relatively small, you’d want even more pixels than that.
by throw_this_one | 2025-10-15 15:39:16+00:00
Buggy. Random slowness in the UI going well below 120hz. Massive battery drain for no reason. UI elements just looking out of place, big print, random places.

The UI itself is supposed to be intense to render to some degree. That's crazy because most of the time it looks like an Android skin from 2012.

And on top of this all -- absolutely nobody asked for this. No one asked for some silly new UI that is transparent or whateveer.
by drcongo | 2025-10-15 15:39:22+00:00
I don't do vocals, so hardware is a TD-3, a Roland T-8, TB-03, Arturia MiniFuse 4 as the audio interface, Arturia MiniLab keyboard / controller and various Intech controllers (highly recommended). I believe the MiniFuse would do your vocal inputs pretty well.

Even with all that though, I do 99% of it directly in Logic on the iPad, sometimes 100%.
by unshavedyak | 2025-10-15 15:39:32+00:00
Seconded. I have a mostly CLI setup and in my experience Nix favors that on Mac, but nonetheless it makes my Nix and Linux setups a breeze. Everything is in sync, love it.

Though if you don't like Nixlang it will of course be a chore to learn/etc. It was for me.
by Chance-Device | 2025-10-15 15:39:44+00:00
To be honest, the core of Penrose’s idea is pretty stupid. That we can understand mathematics despite incompleteness theorem being a thing, therefore our brains use quantum effects allowing us to understand it. Instead of just saying, you know, we use a heuristic instead and just guess that it’s true. I’m pretty sure a classical system can do that.
by spogbiper | 2025-10-15 15:40:29+00:00
you have to release major titles for windows and console, because there are tons of customers using them.

so a mac port, even if simple, is additional cost. there you have the classic chicken and egg problem. the cost doesn't seem to be justified by the number of potential sales, so major studios ignore the platform. and as long as they do, gamers ignore the platform

i've seen it suggested that Apple could solve this standoff by funding the ports, maybe they have done this a few times. but Apple doesn't seem to care much about it
by Moldoteck | 2025-10-15 15:40:30+00:00
German nuclear did provide for about 4-5ct similar to the swiss one https://www.kkg.ch/de/uns/geschaefts-nachhaltigkeitsberichte...

Or alternatively merit order data https://www.ffe.de/en/publications/merit-order-shifts-and-th...

And this includes everything. No subsidies were given per bundestag. In fact if subsidies were so high as some claim, govt would have just needed to cancel them instead of banning. The only ones that are trying to picture a different reality are some orgs like FOS/Greenpeace.

Wind in southern Germany is unprofitable because of solar(solar is almost always universally cheaper vs wind) and transmission cost, as well as nimby from all parties incl greens. You get much less output vs north while solar is cheaper and eats your share. This is why despite higher incentives not much is built. Currently the bid ceiling is in 7ct/kwh range. But final price is determined by other factors too, like how often you pay this guarantee or curtailment. EEG is projected to rise despite most expensive contracts being over, because it's paid more frequently.

Offshore is in a worse situation since it's even more expensive to deploy there- recent tender got 0 bids, just like in DK and UK in the past. That's also why UK rised compensation in AR6/AR7

New nuclear for Germany is pointless to discuss. Nobody except maybe afd wants it. The CDU promised to do a research about restarting some older units during elections - guess what- nothing got done.

Germany is currently paying about 18bn/y for transmission, 18bn/y for eeg and 2-3bn/y on curtailment and 18bn/y on distribution. All except maybe distribution network are depending on renewables expansion - the more you deploy - the more you pay, at the tradeoff that merit order will be cheaper when wind blows and sun shines. If they don't, like today https://app.electricitymaps.com/map/zone/DE/live/fifteen_min... merit order gets super expensive - partly because fossils are expensive, partly because firm power is asking more to compensate periods when wind/solar are strong, partly due to co2 tax. And per bnetza/Fraunhofer ISE gas needs expansion to have sufficient firming
by ACCount37 | 2025-10-15 15:40:45+00:00
Survivorship bias. You don't tend to meet people who played Beat Saber 2 times and put the headset on the shelf forever.

The metrics are brutal, for Quest 3 and for every other headset. Meta worked hard to bring the costs down and improve the UX, and it still isn't enough. They wanted "the next smartphone" and fell so short it's not even funny.
by blooalien | 2025-10-15 15:41:09+00:00
Ansible (system management automation) runs over SSH. So do a lot of other useful tools, like git, rsync, most everything from the "CharmBracelet" folks [1], and also anything you can port tunnel, so yeah. SSH is still useful to some of us out here. Personally, I do all my commandline stuff locally and manage remote stuff via SSH through various tools and scripting, so I get mostly the best of both worlds there. :)

[1] https://github.com/charmbracelet/
by BeetleB | 2025-10-15 15:41:15+00:00
> What's the alternative that is reasonable?

Not reading news that doesn't have a significant impact on your life is entirely reasonable.

The guy who got arrested in the other state for hacking into the DOD? It's totally reasonable not to bother knowing about it.

> I think that Republicans push mistrust of the media to eliminate any sources of information besides their own representatives

Ha! I was a news junkie in the Bush/Obama era. Getting busy in life finally cured me of that scourge, but I learned a lot of lessons. Long before Trump came on the scene I was an advocate of "There's no middle ground with the news - either go all in (time consuming) or mostly all out" - and while I didn't shout "Fake news!", it was my sentiment - you really can't trust much, and learning what you can trust will take years of aggressively analyzing the news and how it works - time most people don't have.

It was disconcerting that the person who got people to distrust the news was Trump.

Anyway, in case people think I'm advocating never trusting news: It ain't so. As I think I said elsewhere - one can find quality articles and quality journalists. You just can't do it as a casual hobby.
by rootusrootus | 2025-10-15 15:41:30+00:00
> It seems like we're racing towards a world of fakery where nothing can be believed

Spend a couple minutes on social media and it is clear we are already there. The fakes are getting better, and even real videos are routinely called out as fake.

The best that I can hope for is that we all gain a healthy dose of skepticism and appreciate that everything we see could be fake. I don't love the idea of having to distrust everything I see, but at this point it seems like the least bad option.

But I worry that what we will experience will actually be somewhat worse. A sufficiently large number of people, even knowing about AI fakery, will still uncritically believe what they read and see.

Maybe I am being too cynical this morning. But it is hard to look at the state of our society today and not feel a little bleak.
by at-fates-hands | 2025-10-15 15:42:11+00:00
>> In less that a day business mandated us to remove the filter.

Did something similar at a small company I was working at. The VP of marketing sat me down and told me to do the same thing.

After the meeting, I was told by another dev that the VP was tying a monetary value to specific clicks and if I was filtering out the bots, it would make his data look bad and reduce the amount of potential revenue for the company he was touting.

I think you can see how the bots were actually helping him promote how awesome a job he was doing with our web properties to the owners.
by defraudbah | 2025-10-15 15:42:29+00:00
it says "up to 14 hours more than intel based mpro", which means intel was designed to last 10 hours which matches what was advertised https://web.archive.org/web/20201109092341/https://www.apple...

we went from 10 hours to 24 hours in 5 years - impressive

i wonder why they advertise gaming on the laptop, anyone plays anything Meaningful on macbooks?
by queenkjuul | 2025-10-15 15:42:39+00:00
I don't give a fuck what your religion is. Spit in my face, i no longer have to be nice to you. Call me names, i no longer have to be nice to you. Threaten my friends, family, or neighbors, i no longer need to be nice to you.

The fact you don't see a difference between your personal religious beliefs and physically threatening people says an awful lot about you
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-10-15 15:43:05+00:00
I live in the terminal. I've been using the terminal since before guis were an appreciable option.

People who lionize the terminal are silly, it's objectively bad and the fact we use it at all is just the inertia of TTY.

Trying to put GUIs in terminal, all this stuff, it's a hack, a sign of failure to make progress.

In an alternate universe Emacs wouldn't be culturally anti-human and we'd have a data first gui instead of app siloing. Some Emacs custom setups are the fucking future, context switching, everything is so perfect, but because the interop is so bad you can't use it in your day job.

But most OSS OS devs have spent all their time focused on the system part and not the operating part.

Human factors and human interfaces are still mostly ignored, and that's just from a sole user perspective, most developers of UI don't treat the networked/relational aspect as a first class UX issue for an OS.

And that's partly a failure of imagination, a failure of loving people as much as tech and also because distributed collaboration is fucking hard and most people just rewalk existing paths.

Maybe LORO is the only truly interesting open source project right now, but Ai can't write those algorithms so even their implementation is under explored.
by Aurornis | 2025-10-15 15:43:26+00:00
Create an account and let it age.

Seasoned accounts are a positive heuristic in many domains, not just LinkedIn. For example, I some times use web.archive.org to check a company's domain to see how far back they've been on the web. Even here on HN, young accounts (green text) are more likely to be griefing, trolling, or spreading misinformation at a higher rate than someone who has been here for years.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-15 15:43:35+00:00
Preventing misuse does not necessarily mean everyone should do it, so I fail to accept your logic.

Anyways I didn't want to discuss that, my claim was that you either think of something as victimless or you think it is a crime. Your data point seams to only fit this claim. To disprove it you would need to find something you consider victimless, but still think it should be a crime.
by simonw | 2025-10-15 15:44:01+00:00
It's easy to find counter-examples to that idea that people who like working with coding agents don't enjoy programming. I'm one of those people - I'm enjoying myself so much getting agents to build stuff for me, and I've enjoyed the craft of programming for 25+ years. I'm doing what I did before, just faster and with less time spent on the frustrating, repetitive bits.
by wtallis | 2025-10-15 15:44:33+00:00
You're barking up the wrong tree. Nobody's manufacturing power-of-ten sized DRAM chips for NVIDIA; the amount of memory physically present has to be 128GiB. If `free` isn't reporting that much usable capacity, you need to dig into the kernel logs to see how much is being reserved by the firmware and kernel and drivers. (If there was more memory missing, it could plausibly be due to in-band ECC, but that doesn't seem to be an option for DGX Spark.)
by dandellion | 2025-10-15 15:44:35+00:00
Well, as a foreign English speaker I have to thank you for calling me over-educated in grammar above and beyond fluency in a language that is not my own. But aside from that I can tell you that those sentences are either written by AI, and in the minuscule possibility that they weren't, the author must have been intentionally writing to sound like AI for the sake of being post-ironic. The second I saw the first sentence I knew it was AI and came straight to the comments to look for the thread of someone complaining so I could pile on.

PS: For what it's worth, I still think the article was moderately interesting, even if lazily and poorly written by delegating the task to an AI.
by andy99 | 2025-10-15 15:44:40+00:00
> humans physically exist so our brains must be possible to build within the existing laws of physics

This is an unscientific position to take. We have no idea how our brains work, or how life, consciousness, and intelligence work. It could very well be that’s because our model of the world doesn’t account for these things and they are not in fact possible based on what we know. In fact I think this is likely.

So it really could be that AI is not possible, for example on a Turing machine or our approximation of them. This is at least as likely as it being possible. At some point we’ll hopefully refine our theories to have a better understanding, for now we have no idea and I think it’s useful to acknowledge this.
Show HN: Go Micro – A Go microservices framework
by asim | 2025-10-15 15:44:44+00:00
After many years working on Micro it's now merged into Go Micro. Over the years there has been a lot of confusion around multiple repos in the micro org and what the difference was between go-micro and micro (not the editor). Both had a lot of stars and I had to spend a lot of time explaining the difference. So now the micro repo is gone. Go Micro is a standalone framework for Go microservices development and micro, a command line tool to access or query those services is now in the cmd folder. Open source is hard. It's now been 10+ years working on the same thing. Technology moves on, people move on, yet still people find things and we all still have emotional connection to stuff we built. Hard to let it die.
by 1718627440 | 2025-10-15 15:44:45+00:00
That's how it works in some jurisdictions and I think that is a good approach.

From https://se-legal.de/criminal-defense-lawyer/drug-offences-an... :

> Is the Consumption of Drugs in Germany Illegal?

> Although the acquisition, cultivation and possession, import and export (smuggling), and trade, as well as other forms of distribution of narcotics, are punishable under the Narcotics Act, this does not apply to mere consumption. The consumption of a drug meets the freedom of action and is therefore protected by the German constitution. Colloquially, this is also called “the right to get high”. Any prohibition or ban would be against the constitution and, therefore, is not enforceable. But since the offence of possession is already met by solely holding something in your hands, one of the above-mentioned actions is always going to be equally met when consuming a drug.

It doesn't obviously change anything in practice.
by nticompass | 2025-10-15 15:45:10+00:00
I've gotten my fair share of fake job interview emails. I don't think any have ever tried to get me to download/run some code. Mostly, I think they are just trying to phish for information or get me to join their Slack.

I remember replying to a "recruiter" that I thought was legit. I told him my salary requirements and my skill set and even gave him a copy of my resume. I think that was the "scam" though. I gave a pretty highball salary and was told that there was totally a job that would fit. I think he just wanted my info and sharing my resume (with my email & phone) was probably want he wanted. I'm not sure if that lead to more spam calls/emails, but it certainly didn't lead to a job.

The worst is I get emails from people asking to use my Upwork account. They ask because their account "got blocked" and they need to use mine or they are in a "different country" and thus can't get jobs (or get paid less). Usually they say that they'll do the work, but they need to use my PC and Upwork account, and I'll get a cut.

Obviously, those are fake. There's no way I'm letting someone use my account or remote into my PC for any reason.
by Moldoteck | 2025-10-15 15:45:17+00:00
France doesn't have high subsidies for nuclear. EDF financial reports are public, please don't spread misinformation. In fact they have an additional tax for it called arenh.

You could consider nationalization a subsidy(albeit it wasn't) but that was a one off 9bn payment. Germany spent double of that last year alone on EEG ren subsidies and still had highest household prices in EU.

German wind gets about 70€/MWh.

New french nuclear CFDs aren't clear. Fla3 doesn't have cfd and has a prod cost of 90-120€/MWh. But that's a failed project which got delayd and had supply chain issues. If EPR2 will have the same problems - yes, it'll cost similarly. Otherwise it'll be cheaper, like eg building a unit in 10y instead of 20
by jrk | 2025-10-15 15:45:26+00:00
If you go just a few posts back in Peter's own blog he has a video of himself doing exactly this:

https://steipete.me/posts/2025/live-coding-session-building-...

He has posted others over the past few months, but they don't seem to be on his blog currently.

As @simonw mentions in a peer comment, Armin Ronacher also has several great streams (and he's less caffeinated and frenetic than Peter :)
by sunnyb23 | 2025-10-15 15:45:27+00:00
Currently working on a project that essentially manages comments on social media channels similar to the current products out there (Sprinklr, Buffer etc) but with a additional layer.

I use AI coupled with Semantic Caching (cost control), NLP and content moderations that would speed up community management for users. It has a manual mode, semi agentic mode and fully agentic. It not only generates responses it contextualises it and understands from your comments who the key contributors are and how you're being perceived.

It can help you identify your promoters (potential customers) and also guide you content that works. It's essentially an evolution from the current community management tools and AI tools which currently focus on content generation. It speeds up community management massively with the advanced filtiration and ML in the backend.

What do you guys think?
by Noaidi | 2025-10-15 15:45:29+00:00
I live in a van full time. I have a 200w solar panel and a 1500w output solar battery that powers everything I use, mostly for cooking, sometimes heat. I also poop in the woods a lot. :) I do not use the internet much really. Driving is my biggest carbon footprint but I really do not put much more mileage than the average suburban person. Anyway, I try my best. I am permanently disabled so that makes a lot of it easier. Being poor dramatically lowers ones carbon footprint.