MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adastra22 | 2025-12-04 22:00:20+00:00
Also - importantly - it is not an income tax revenue funded payment. It is a distribution of proceeds from a productive business.

Think of it this way: the entire world pays Alaska residents for the use of their oil, as a sort of tax that is worked into every energy intensive step of industry or petroleum-derived material.

Alaska's oil is only ~1% of world oil production, but its population is approximately 0.01% of world population, so Alaska residents get approximately 100x what the global per capita oil dividend would be. Oil industry is approximately 2.5% of global GDP. Stack all these multipliers together and we could expect a global per-capita total-GDP dividend of between $525 - $1325 per person per year. Exceeding this (as we did with PPP "loans" during COVID) would have compounding economic effects that lead to hyperinflation.

This is napkin math with spherical cow assumptions. Other factors would further limit UBI dividends to be less than this. But it shows that with existing national dividend systems as model, we can't even get within an order of magnitude of the low end of what UBI proponents are advocating.
by CyberDildonics | 2025-12-04 22:00:33+00:00
You are conflating two things that have nothing to do with each other. Computers have had mice since the 80s.

Still motion-to-photon latency is really lower on my DDR3 PCs, would be cool to know why.

No it isn't, your computer is doing tons of stuff and the cursor on windows is a hardware feature of the graphics card.

Should I even ask why you think memory bandwidth is the cause of mouse latency?
by rsynnott | 2025-12-04 22:00:36+00:00
Like most UK rail, it’s anywhere between somewhat expensive and _outrageously_ expensive, depending on exactly when you buy the ticket and how. Looks like it cost me 9.50 last time I was there, which is not _horrific_ for an airport (airport transport generally being a bit of a ripoff), but the barely-faster Gatwick Express would have been far more.

(The UK rail system is a uniquely user-hostile one, in that it seems designed to fool you into paying more than you have to.)
by LeifCarrotson | 2025-12-04 22:00:48+00:00
Yes, that "attractor state" you describe is what I meant by "if the changes were made I doubt they could last or be enforced given the massive incentives to revert to our broken system". The older I get and the more I learn, the less I'm willing to ascribe faults in our society to individual evils or believe in the existence of intentionally concealed conspiracies rather than just seeing systemic flaws and natural conspiracies.
by hylaride | 2025-12-04 22:01:07+00:00
> I think this is a distraction that is usually rolled out to derail conversations about living wages. Not saying that you're doing that here, but it's often the case when the "teenager flipping burgers" argument is brought up.

If you're focusing on minimum wage, they tent to be highly coupled, though some jurisdictions have lower minimum wages for minors to deal with this.

> Typically in conversations about living wages, people are talking about financially independent adults trying to make their way through life without starving while working 40 hours per week. I don't think anyone is seriously promoting a living wage for the benefit of financially dependent minors.

Few minimum wage jobs even offer the option to work full time. Many retail environments have notoriously unpredictable shifts that are almost impossible for workers to plan around. I've heard varying reasons for this (companies like having more employees working fewer hours for flexibility down to avoiding people on the full time payroll means they legally don't have to offer benefits). The result is that minimum wage earners often have to juggle multiple jobs, childcare, and the negative effects of commuting to all of them.

This also ignores many other factors around poverty, such as housing costs and other inflation.

> That's for sure! I know it's not getting solved on the hacker news comment section, at least.

For sure! 99% of people on HN haven't had to experience living long term off of it. I did for awhile in college, where outside of tuition I had to pay my own way in a large city (I fully acknowledge that this is anecdotal and NOT the same as poverty living). I only had to feed myself, not think about saving for the future, and I was sharing a house with other geeky roommates where we had some of the best times of our lives. I don't think we could have pulled that off in today's economic environment...
by benatkin | 2025-12-04 22:01:11+00:00
The person who coined the term vibe coding is now doing a soylent-like [1] experiment where he only will read content that has been regurgitated by an AI [2], so yes I think it's a fair characterization of "vibe coding".

1: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/10/soylent-creator-hack...

2: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1990577951671509438
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-12-04 22:01:37+00:00
That's an interesting example. We get a new technology, and cost goes down, and volume goes up, and it takes a couple generations for society to adjust.

I think of it as the lower cost makes reaching people easier, which is like the gain going up. And in order for society to be able to function, people need to learn to turn their own, individual gain down - otherwise they get overwhelmed by the new volume of information, or by manipulation from those using the new medium.
by TMWNN | 2025-12-04 22:01:39+00:00
As mfro said, Alpha. DEC never manufactured MIPS processors; it bought them from (amazingly enough) MIPS Inc, and used them from 1989 in DECstation RISC boxes.

DEC launched its own RISC architecture, Alpha, in 1992. I'm pretty sure DECstation was discontinued by 1995. DEC never did deliver OSF/1, its next-generation Unix, to DECstation despite promising to do so.
by serf | 2025-12-04 22:01:41+00:00
>I think by vibe coding he means taking these things at face value instead of rigorously looking if they are up to the standard.

Yeah, exactly -- which is why it's a stupid phrase for what happened here.

Not every negligence is somehow equatable to an AI pitfall, it's just on parents' mind so it's the only metaphor that gets applied.

A poorly fit hammer in a world of nails.

I say this as an engineer/proprietor with years of additive manufacturing experience, it's insulting. A poorly chosen and wrongly used process conveys nothing about the underlying fundamentals of the process itself -- it conveys everything about the engineer and the business processes that birthed the problem.

Similarly if I came across a poorly vibe-coded project I wouldn't blame Anthropic/oAI directly -- I would blame the programmer who decided to release such garbage made with such powerful tools..

tl;dr : it's not vibe-coding itself that makes vibe-coding a poor fit to rocket science and brain surgery -- it's the braindead engineer that pushes the code to the THERAC-25 without reading.
by VerifiedReports | 2025-12-04 22:01:55+00:00
Great job! Seems to work well.

I created an account, but when I clicked on the confirmation link in the resulting E-mail, it took me to a log-in page that said, "Sign in to api.onlyrecipe.com:443.

I wasn't surprised when I used my sign-up info and got nothing but a Kong error for my troubles. So... looks like sign-up is not yet working.
by jorl17 | 2025-12-04 22:02:33+00:00
- Strict team separation (frontend versus backend)

- Moving all state-managament out of the backend and onto the frontend, in a supposedly easier to manage system

- Page refreshes are indeed jarring to users and more prone to leading to sudden context losses

- Desktop applications did not behave like web apps: they are "SPA"s in their own sense, without jarring refreshes or code that gets "yanked" out of execution. Since the OS has been increasingly abstracted under the browser, and the average computer user has moved more and more towards web apps[1], it stands to reason that the behavior of web apps should become more like that of desktop apps (i.e. "SPA"s)[2]

(Not saying I agree with these, merely pointing them out)

[1] These things are not entirely independent. It can be argued that the same powers that be (big corps) that pushed SPAs onto users are also pushing the "browser as OS" concept.

[2] I know you can get desktop-like behavior from non-SPAs, but it is definitely not as easy to do it or at least to _learn it_ now.

My actual opinion: I think it's a little bit of everything, with a big part of it coming from the fact that the web was the easiest way to build something that you could share with people effortlessly. Sharing desktop apps wasn't particularly easy (different targets, java was never truly run everywhere, etc.), but to share a webapp app you just put it online very quickly and have someone else point their browser to a URL -- often all they'll do is click a link! And in general it is definitely easier to build an SPA (from the frontender's perspective) than something else.

This creates a chain:

If I can create and share easily

-> I am motivated to do things easily

-> I learn the specific technology that is easiest

-> the market is flooded with people who know this technology better than everything else

-> the market must now hire from this pool to get the cheapest workers (or those who cost less to acquire due to quicker hiring processes)

-> new devs know that they need to learn this technology to get hired

-> the cycle continues

So, TL;DR: Much lower barrier to entry + quick feedback loops

P.S (and on topic): I am an extremely satisfied django developer, and very very very rarely touch frontend. Django is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G.
by watwut | 2025-12-04 22:02:51+00:00
Compared to what Trump does, what his voters cheers on, what the whole his party defends, those students are still basically saints. It is profoundly hypocritical to look at who gets to win and lead, to look at what does not bother his voters at all and then complain abet ... check notes ... someone getting single room on some exaggerated claim.

And frankly, with HN praising Uber, Tesla and the rest of SV constantly breaking laws and rules companies, again, those students are practically saints.

OP worried about this:

> Once a critical mass of people start to feel that way (if they don't already) it'll have a devastating effect on society.

Trump winning second time, the people who lead government and GOP, the critical mass thing already happened. There was no moral already among significant share of population. Trying to pearl clutch over students is almost funny in that context.
by intelec1 | 2025-12-04 22:02:55+00:00
Vincent Chan, an employee at the expensive Bright Horizons nursery, has admitted to systematic sexual abuse of children and creating around 25,000 indecent images. The case reveals serious failures in staff vetting even in the premium segment of the childcare market. The scandal will likely lead to a wave of inspections and stricter background check requirements and child protection systems.
by raggi | 2025-12-04 22:03:08+00:00
Periodic reminder that just because Go having an easy to use SSH package made these easy to write, connecting to SSH servers and doing TOFU all the time with the keys is far far less safe than webpki, and this service could be relatively easily mitm'd in key scenarios like people being tricked at conferences. It's not as terrifying as the coffee shop taking payments over SSH, but still, this isn't doing E2EE, it's terminating TLS upstream.

There's no SSHFP record (not that openssh uses it by default, and you'd need DNSSEC to make it actually useful), and no public keys documented anywhere to help people avoid MITM/TOFU events.

I get the UX, but it saddens me to see more SSH products that don't understand the SSH security model.
by collinmanderson | 2025-12-04 22:03:55+00:00
> I want to build a chip fab in Canada. Here's the plan:

> We need to raise ~$350 million to purchase a world-class extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine from ASML. Then, we get the machine installed and can start producing chips for cell phones, laptops, TVs, etc. If you want to join the party, check out the HN thread.

Based on this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46151810
by jjcm | 2025-12-04 22:04:03+00:00
I've long held a belief that if countries want to mandate compliance, they should be required to provide the mechanism for compliance.

Want to deem whether content is allowed or not? Fine, provide an API that allows content to be scanned and return a bool.

Want to age-gate content? Fine, provide an identity service.

While both of these will reduce privacy, they'll achieve one of two objectives: Either those making these policies will realize the law they wrote is impossible to achieve, or it will at least provide an even playing field for startups vs incumbents if they succeed.
by vkou | 2025-12-04 22:04:32+00:00
Look, if you want the people to dig trenches with spoons, you can expect them to do it. But if all you're giving them is spoons, you're going to need to give them a lot of slack on the expected digging schedules.

Being forced to use a shit tool because <some other department somewhere in the company wants your feedback>, while your deadlines haven't been adjusted for all this wasted time is not acceptable behaviour. It's the kind of authoritarian horseshit that's that's so often pushed by unproductive parasites onto people who do actual work.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-12-04 22:04:54+00:00
Well yea. If you truly look at US history, you'll see the current situation in 2025 is ultimately a huge counter reaction to the idea of colored people and women being able to work alongside Caucasians, and some of the latter just couldn't stand that. "when you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression"

So. Tear down the unions and regulations, let the rich consolidate wealth, and everything else in between for 50 years. They are still moserable, but hey. They feel better than Enrique over there who just wanted his kids to love a better life.
by anon84873628 | 2025-12-04 22:05:08+00:00
If you believe in Malthusian traps then at best we've just kicked the can down the road and set ourselves up for an even greater collapse. When it's not just that humans are starving, but the topsoil is gone, the pollinators are dead, the oceans have warmed and the ice caps melted, etc etc.

The "green revolution" (a misnomer with our current use of the word) sure was effective; the point is that it was also unsustainable.

Of course the land has a finite carrying capacity. And I'm not anti-ag-tech either. In fact I believe higher precision and intelligence is the answer. We need to create highly diverse and cohesive ecosystems tailored to the local environment, which requires lots of observation and iteration.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-12-04 22:05:16+00:00
I'm in a upper-middle neighbourhood and my kids go to public school. Not having a individual learning plan is the exception (I think that makes me double-exceptional). Classrooms DO NOT get more education assistant resources and combine this will the move to integrate kids who ehsitorically wouldn't consider attending regular school means teachers spend all their time managing the classroom and the parents.

>> the older one doesn't talk in school, period.

If the kid is completely non-verbal there's no way they should be in a class with regular kids. This is extremely unfair to the class.
by KetoManx64 | 2025-12-04 22:05:34+00:00
It's not any different. You can buy a whole prebuilt PC like you can a car or a fridge and most people do. You can also go out a buy car parts and fridge parts to replace things that break in either of those.

I can go out and buy a new steroe, new muffler, new seats, etc. for my car and replace them, just like parts in a desktop.
by piperswe | 2025-12-04 22:05:50+00:00
In my experience, Adderall does lose effectiveness but Vyvanse is much hardier. I’ve been receiving treatment for ADHD for about 4 years. My current Vyvanse dose is marginally higher than my original Adderall dose, but I’m considering reducing it down to below my original Adderall dose.

Cognitive behavioral therapy does excel at treating ADHD! But 5 years of therapy is what, 16 times more expensive than 5 years of medication? Maybe more? Not to mention the time commitment.
by itopaloglu83 | 2025-12-04 22:05:54+00:00
What I said stands, let’s check their books and manufacturing schedule to see if they’re artificially constraining the supply.

The fact that they’re busy doesn’t hide the fact that they’re known to collude before, and they might even ship parts to phony resellers to keep the price high.

What’s next? A commodity memory chip is going to cost more than a cpu or gpu die?
by echelon | 2025-12-04 22:06:04+00:00
> Many people seem confused about why Zig should exist if Rust does already. It’s not just that Zig is trying to be simpler. I think this difference is the more important one. Zig wants you to excise even more object-oriented thinking from your code.

I feel like Zig is for the C / C++ developers that really dislike Rust.

There have been other efforts like Carbon, but this is the first that really modernizes the language and scratches new itches.

> I’m not the first person to pick on this particular Github comment, but it perfectly illustrates the conceptual density of Rust: [crazy example elided]

That is totally unfair. 99% of your time with Rust won't be anything like that.

> This makes Rust hard, because you can’t just do the thing! You have to find out Rust’s name for the thing—find the trait or whatever you need—then implement it as Rust expects you to.

What?

Rust is not hard. Rust has a standard library that looks an awful lot like Python or Ruby, with similarly named methods.

If you're trying to shoehorn some novel type of yours into a particular trait interface so you can pass trait objects around, sure. Maybe you are going to have to memorize a lot more. But I'd ask why you write code like that unless you're writing a library.

This desire of wanting to write OO-style code makes me think that people who want OO-style code are the ones having a lot of struggle or frustration with Rust's ergonomics.

Rust gives you everything OO you'd want, but it's definitely more favorable if you're using it in a functional manner.

> makes consuming libraries easy in Rust and explains why Rust projects have almost as many dependencies as projects in the JavaScript ecosystem.

This is one of Rust's superpowers !
by CamperBob2 | 2025-12-04 22:06:20+00:00
I've never, in my life, had a compiler generate instructions that do something completely different from what my code specifies.

Nobody is saying it should. Determinism is not a requirement for this. There are an infinite number of ways to write a program that behaves according to a given spec. This is equally true whether you are writing the source code, an LLM is writing the source code, or a compiler is generating the object code.

All that matters is that the program's requirements are met without undesired side effects. Again, this condition does not require deterministic behavior on the author's part or the compiler's.

To the extent it does require determinism, the program was poorly- or incompletely-specified.

That you would suggest we will reach a level where an English language prompt will give us deterministic output is just evidence you've drank the kool-aid.

No, it's evidence that you're arguing with a point that wasn't made at all, or that was made by somebody else.
by reify | 2025-12-04 22:06:22+00:00
I did my apprenticeship at Jaguar/Daimler in the early 70's here in the UK.

OHV = Over head valve. this engine has a single camshaft within the engine with push rods opening the inlet and exhaust valves via a rocker shaft.

OHC = Over head camshaft. A single camshaft sits in the head and drives the inlet and exhaust valves via a rocker shaft.

SOHC = Single overhead camshaft. the camshaft sits in the head, and directly drives the inlet and exhaust valves, with no rocker shaft.

DOHC = Double overhead camshaft. Two camshafts with th head, one driving directly the exhaust valves and one directly driving the inlet valves.

fun animations here:

https://www.enginediy.com/en-de/blogs/enginediy-blog-news-fo...
by AbstractH24 | 2025-12-04 22:06:25+00:00
But money is a way to motivate the people who created AI to create better AI. Because if it doesn't perform as expected, either people won't use it or they'll turn to a competitor next time they need to do something. And these companies need recurring revenue.

If we're saying the way to ensure competency is to instill fear of not getting money tomorrow as a consequence of failure, then AI companies and humans are on equal footing.
by alyxya | 2025-12-04 22:06:29+00:00
The chart confused me because I expected to see performance numbers of CUDA-L2 compared to the others, but instead it shows a chart showing the speedup percentage of CUDA-L2 over the others. In some sense, the bar chart effectively inverts the performance of torch.matmul and cuBLAS with how much percentage it shows. 0% on the bar chart would only mean equal performance.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-12-04 22:06:38+00:00
My memory is that around '98 people were falling over themselves to figure out how to wire up "components" made of applets. I think that stopped being a thing when people figured out SpyGlass/IE didn't use the same techniques to wire applets as Netscape. So props to you Microsoft, you made my life irritating for multiple decades (don't get me started about 1990 when I was a beta tester for Microsoft C 5.0.)

I remember using Netscape Enterprise Server suite, but didn't realize it had a JS engine in it. I do remember Rhino from a little later (though the wikipedia says it emerged in the late 90s.) And I have relatively horrible memories of the Netscape guys integrating the Visigenic ORB in both the enterprise server and Navigator. I wonder if Rhino was what they stuffed into NES/iPlanet/Sun ONE.
by plorg | 2025-12-04 22:07:02+00:00
The report further states that the part included in the original design (part of the kit) was made of a carbon fiber composite where the epoxy had a listed glass transition temperature of 84⁰C. If there is an element to be critical of along these lines it's that the part as originally designed is supposed to include an aluminum tube at one end that may stiffen the part - the report makes no conclusions whether it truly would have, but notes that the actual glass transition temperature was found to be much lower than listed, and lower than that of the epoxy used in the original design.