MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toyg | 2025-12-01 20:49:21+00:00
No, it's designed to maximize what they can raise without pissing off too many voters. Even as it is, it's going to raise barely half a billion pounds, which is relatively insignificant in a budget worth hundreds of billions; but it's something, and something they (think they) can sell to their core electorate as a bit of token redistribution, when in reality it's just a cash-raising exercise.

If they'd targeted the really rich harder, it would have looked more consistent but would have probably raised even less (because, when a tax starts being significant, the really rich have the means to find ways to avoid it). As it is, it looks insignificant enough that the really wealthy will just pay it and move on.
by shuckles | 2025-12-01 20:50:03+00:00
Central to the challenge of UBI and housing costs is the law of rent. UBI could work if all its redistribution was not immediately captured by landowners. There are ways to make that possible.

Rent controlled apartments being held by tenants no longer using them as primary residences is pretty common. A famous case of this was Cleve Jones in San Francisco who tried to make it a huge political deal when his landlord raised his rent to market because he was 1. living in Guerneville full time and 2. subletting the apartment. The media environment is one where it's ok for a master tenant to be a de facto landlord and make money on real estate, as long as it's not the landowner themselves!
by falcor84 | 2025-12-01 20:50:03+00:00
Funny that you mentioned Flask, which literally started as an April Fool's joke [0], but that hasn't stopped it from becoming the 10th [1] or 11th [2] most popular web framework, with over double the number of devs compared to Rails, so "seriousness" likely has nothing to do with making people want to use it.

[0] https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2010/4/3/april-1st-post-mortem/

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1124699/worldwide-develo...

[2] https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#most-popular...
by iliketrains | 2025-12-01 20:50:07+00:00
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by ako | 2025-12-01 20:50:26+00:00
I think of LLMs like brains or CPUs. They're the core that does the processing, but needs to be embedded in a bigger system to be useful. Even if LLMs plateau, there will be a lot of development and improvement in the systems that use these LLM. We will be seeing a lot of innovation going forward, especially in systems that will be able to monetize these LLMs.
by more_corn | 2025-12-01 20:50:28+00:00
Elon is 100% planning to put significant ai compute in space. He is probably planning to do it in a decentralized way.

He has the launch platform (spacex), he has the existing power and data infrastructure (starlink), he has the demand side. (Xai)

Will he succeed? That is different question. Is it possible to add enough power generation and thermal radiative capacity to starlink nodes to bother? Don’t know, but an analysis that fails to answer those two specific engineering questions is useless.
by JohnFen | 2025-12-01 20:50:33+00:00
> Moving verification to the app store level could mitigate some of the concerns

It would eliminate them for me, personally, as I don't use app stores so would presumably not have to be "verified". But it's awful for everyone else.

If it became required in order to use the web or other internet services, I don't know what I'd do. I consider the schemes I've seen to be too intrusive and dangerous to subject myself to.
by harmmonica | 2025-12-01 20:50:55+00:00
If you're taking what I said as FOMO I didn't intend it that way. The opposite in fact unless your sentiment is that anyone who wants to buy and live in property in the US is solely doing so because of FOMO. If you're saying that then that's a tautology and so how can I argue with it?

But if that's not what you meant then there are few things we as people can do for "stability and dependability" that better accomplish those goals than owning property that you actually want to live in. Most importantly it puts a permanent roof over your head, which we all need in some way, shape or form to survive (no exaggeration there I don't think). And it makes the cost of that necessity predictable, especially in California where property taxes are almost perfectly-predictable. It pretty much de-risks the largest expense most people will have in their lifetimes. That's not to say that you don't lose something in the proposition, but calling that FOMO seems inaccurate.
by tomwojcik | 2025-12-01 20:51:09+00:00
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by Nucaranlaeg | 2025-12-01 20:51:21+00:00
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by gradus_ad | 2025-12-01 20:51:27+00:00
How will the Google/Anthropic/OpenAI's of the world make money on AI if open models are competitive with their models? What hurt open source in the past was its inability to keep up with the quality and feature depth of closed source competitors, but models seem to be reaching a performance plateau; the top open weight models are generally indistinguishable from the top private models.

Infrastructure owners with access to the cheapest energy will be the long run winners in AI.
by dhussoe | 2025-12-01 20:51:55+00:00
I like that JSON parsing libraries (Serde etc.) allow you to validate nullability constraints at parse-time. Protobuf's deliberate lack of support for required fields means that either you kick that down to every callsite, or you need to build another parsing layer on top of the generated protobuf code.

Now, there is a serde_protobuf (I haven't used it) that I assume allows you to enforce nullability constraints but one of the article's points is that you can use the generated code directly and:

> No manual validation. No JSON parsing. No risk of type errors.

But this is not true—nullability errors are type errors. Manual validation is still required (except you should parse, not validate) to make sure that all of the fields your app expects are there in the response. And "manual" validation (again, parse don't validate) is not necessary with any good JSON parsing library, the library handles it.
by eaglesightdotai | 2025-12-01 20:52:01+00:00
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by VikingCoder | 2025-12-01 20:52:07+00:00
So now let's get ShaderGlass [1] and this to have a baby, so we can have cool-retro-term [2] in the browser.

[1] https://github.com/mausimus/ShaderGlass

[2] https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
by hvb2 | 2025-12-01 20:52:07+00:00
> Most of these journalists, who are so sure that we're in an AI bubble and it's going to collapse, do not have an economic background nor tech background. I don't understand how they are so confident.

Barring the unlikely scenario that you're privy to the financials of all the big vendors, you are just as guilty as they might be. You've just on the other side.

You don't have to be anti tech in order to question valuations or investments the likes of which are going into AI
by rguldener | 2025-12-01 20:52:23+00:00
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by EgoIncarnate | 2025-12-01 20:52:53+00:00
Vs WSL1:

GPU access. Actual graphics use is so so, but essential for doing CUDA/AI stuff

Faster file system access on the Linux side (for Linux compiles etc). Ironically, accessing Windows filesystem is slower than WSL1.

Better Linux compatibility.

Vs a Linux VM:

GPU access!

Easier testing for localhost stuff, Linux ports get autoforwarded to Windows (if your test http server is running in WSL2 at port 8080, you can browse to http://localhost:8080 in your Windows browser)

Easy Windows filesystem interaction. Windows local drives show up in /mnt automatically.

Mix Windows commands with Linux commands. I use this for example to pipe strings.exe, which is UTF-16 aware, with Linux text utils.

I think WSL2 tends to be better at sharing memory (releasing unused memory) with the rest of the system than a dedicated VM.

You can mimic some of this stuff to a degree with a VM, but the built in convenience facetor can't be overlooked, and if you are doing CUDA stuff there isn't a good alternative that I am aware of. You could do PCI passthrough using datacenter class GPUs and Windows Server, but $$$.
by pragma_x | 2025-12-01 20:53:28+00:00
It's been a while, so I went to Wikipedia for a refresher. These things really are amazing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage_tube#Storage

Unlike a television CRT, the storage tube will "remember" everywhere the electron beam struck the screen as long as the voltage is below the erase threshold.

What's wild is that this information can be read back out of the device. So, it's not just a display but also memory. It's a destructive reading process (not unlike core memory) where detection is also erasure, but it really is RAM... of a sort.
by jrochkind1 | 2025-12-01 20:53:35+00:00
From the article OP is responding to:

> Critically, Ruby’s performance profile consistently ranks near the bottom (read: slowest) among major languages.

Without a cite, perhaps because it's not really true. Ruby's performance is similar to python's. Granted, neither one is going to win any competitions, although I'm not sure what the field of "major languages" is.
by codinhood | 2025-12-01 20:53:37+00:00
It's kinda wild to take something people really like and just keep re-writing it while keeping the same name.

They were around when Angular 1 -> Angular 2 right? No one liked that. Angular 2 is good but calling it Angular 2 when it was so different put a bad taste in everyone's mouth.

Google did that because they wanted the Angular userbase, but that alienated a bunch devs and many decided to switch to React (me included) instead.

Seems the remix/react router team is trying to do the same. They built something popular, and they want to use that to launch their new ideas.

They want to have their cake and eat it too, a built in userbase and explore new ideas. I get it, but why not use another name so people don't get confused or frustrated?

It's just exhausting
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-12-01 20:53:57+00:00
See.. here is a problem. You say 'actual' ethics as if those were somehow universal and not ridiculously varied across the board. And I get it, you use the term, because a lot of readers will take it face value AND simply use their own value system to translate them into what agrees with them internally. I know, because I do the same thing when I try to not show exactly what I think to people at work. I just say sufficiently generic stuff to make people on both sides agree with a generic statement.

With that said, mister ants in the pants, what does actual mean to you in this particular instance?
by zdragnar | 2025-12-01 20:54:03+00:00
The payment is set up such that the interest is amortized over the life of the loan, so your earliest payments are almost all going to interest and the latest payments are mostly the principle.

This looks like a standard 30 year loan. If 100% of the 1700 went to principle and the was no interest then yeah, your 17 years works out, but then the bank makes no money.
by bkrausz | 2025-12-01 20:54:07+00:00
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by PoignardAzur | 2025-12-01 20:54:08+00:00
Yeah, I don't see the huge improbability here.

Given that we know that:

- Fleming lived next door to an unsecure mycology lab.

- The temperature during the time period was low enough that if Fleming had left a contaminated culture unattended and non-incubated, he would have had a very high chance of getting the results he became famous for...

Well, given that the probability of discovering penicillin in those conditions is pretty high (say, if he forgot/neglected to incubate one out twenty batches, a 5% chance), and the prior probability of discovering penicillin any other way is extremely low (otherwise other scientists would have found it), bayesian calculus says the stroke of luck hypothesis is probably correct.
by theglenn88_ | 2025-12-01 20:54:16+00:00
> And that’s where you’d be wrong - lots of us belief that speech should not be a cause for arrest except in the most extreme circumstances. Hurting someone’s feelings is not that

what is an extreme circumstance?

At least in the UK, hate speech is a crime and is punishable by law, whether people agree or disagree is irrelevant, I do believe that if it's illegal on the street it should be illegal online, obviously in the relevant jurisdiction.
by balderdash | 2025-12-01 20:54:24+00:00
I'm not advocating for gutting renter's rights, but anecdotally having lived in 6 states, and adjusting for general costs of living it was easier to rent, and rents were cheaper in states that were less renter friendly than states that were very renter friendly. As a renter in the central time zone, first months rent, a month's rent security deposit and a credit check and i was handed the keys vs. renting in NYC you'd think i was buying the home with level of financial scrutiny.

I suppose this is just a long winded way of saying that there appears to be a ton of friction and cost by renter friendly polices that are ultimately passed on to renters rather than owners.

As an aside I'd also say that renter friendly policies were also highly correlated with higher regulations around zoning/building so this may account for a meaningful portion of the above.
by hamdingers | 2025-12-01 20:54:29+00:00
No, I used to play multiplayer games for fun, which was the norm until that option was removed and replaced with derisive "casual" and "competitive" modes.

99% of people who played CS1.x/tf/Q3A/bf1942/cod/etc booted up the game, found a server in the browser with low ping to play on, and if they liked it they favorited it. They came back the next day, and the next, and started to recognized other players. That is the server browser experience.

If you were in the tiny minority of players trying to be "competitive" back then, you're right I don't know what it looked like for you. Sounds like it sucked, honestly, and maybe competitive matchmaking solved some of those problems, but in the bargain we lost a lot of what made those games fun for "casuals" as you smugly call us.
by __rito__ | 2025-12-01 20:54:31+00:00
I don't trust anyone blindly. The point of my comment was not to support the decision, but to show where it might be coming from.

What's inherent in the comment is- there are simply too many people to educate, "made aware", etc. So, this might be a knee-jerk reaction to fight cyber fraud. Not Big Brother sensorship.

I can say these because I know too much about the ground reality. An example from top of my head- SBI e-Rupee app doesn't launch in your phone if you have Discord installed. Yeah. Just because some scammers communicated through Discord.

Of course, I cannot guarantee that something sinister is not being planned or that this app won't be utilized for something bad.

There is also a small chance of some bureaucrat in management position taking this decision, so he can write in his report- "Made Sanchar Saathi app download soar up to X millions in 3 months through diligent effort..." just like highly placed PMs/SVPs in large tech companies eyeing a promotion.
by Implicated | 2025-12-01 20:54:31+00:00
I think you're missing his point entirely. The problem with these retail purifiers is that you either get quiet or effective. You don't get both.

Sure, you can't hear it from 10ft away - but how much air is it moving at that setting?

I have various configurations of these PC fan setups and the Arctic P14 Pro that you can get 5 for $32 on amazon are honestly wildly effective and designed for applications with some static pressure (radiators and such).

So we're back to; effective or quiet, you're only going to get both with the PC fans, for now.
by robbiegreen | 2025-12-01 20:54:34+00:00
I used to play this flash game in high school called Wacko Jacko's Voodoo curse and spent years wondering how it correctly guessed the number in your head. That game came back to me a bit ago and I looked in to it more. I wanted to make a modern day version of it and also recently got back into watching football so they seemed like a good fit for a fun side project.

That led to creating "Curse The League". I built it with R3F and learned a lot optimizing draw calls throughout the build. In the hallway scene I have 84 portrait frames, each with a spot for a team logo and a number. At the peak with those, the character model and hallway model I was up to 500+ draw calls. I've never worked with a texture atlas before, so I built the portrait frames into the hallway model and remapped the uvs for the logo + number slots onto a texture atlas and ended up with around 10 draw calls for the whole thing.

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by ecshafer | 2025-12-01 20:54:39+00:00
I don't think that anyone, much less someone working in tech or engineering in 2025, could still hold beliefs about Chinese not being capable scientists or engineers. I could maybe give (the naive) pass to someone in 1990 thinking China will never build more than junk. But in 2025 their product capacity, scientific advancement, and just the amount of us who have worked with extremely talented Chinese colleagues should dispel those notions. I think you are jumping to racism a bit fast here.

Germany was right in some ways and wrong in others for the soviet unions strength. USSR failed to conquer Finland because of the military purges. German intelligence vastly under-estimated the amount of tanks and general preparedness of the Soviet army (Hitler was shocked the soviets had 40k tanks already). Lend Lease act really sent an astronomical amount of goods to the USSR which allowed them to fully commit to the war and really focus on increasing their weapon production, the numbers on the amount of tractors, food, trains, ammunition, etc. that the US sent to the USSR is staggering.
by jancsika | 2025-12-01 20:54:41+00:00
I think you're misrepresenting "Dunning Kruger." It only predicts that the subset of your respondents already known to be low ability in the domain of health care economics will end up inflating their assessment of their own ability in the same domain. (Perhaps also inverted for high ability respondents.)

You're claiming to predict that-- for particular branch of response types-- all respondents will be low ability. There are a lot of ways I would characterize that claim, but none of them would be "Dunning Kruger."

In fact, my gut tells me that some significant number of flame wars I've read over the years were due to this confused heuristic.
by scuff3d | 2025-12-01 20:54:44+00:00
I usually work in a VM hosted by my company. But the performance is really starting to irritate me. Been considering switching to WSL2, but last time I checked all they supported was Debian based distros, and we do all our work on RHEL8. I don't think it would matter much but it's still annoying working on an entirely different setup from the rest of the team.

How is the graphical app support these days?
by bluGill | 2025-12-01 20:54:44+00:00
Not in most cases. Apple, AMD, and most other chip makers lack a fab. The design what the fabs can make, but they don't have much input into the fabs. Someone makes a fab, and you make something it can made.

Of course things are never that neat. I have no doubt the large players have input into the fabs - we have no idea what. However the two teams are still different companies, when the fab and chip design are the same company there is the possibility of more cooperation (or less - we don't know. In the best case for both there is more when it is all internal, but we don't know if this is the best case)