MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anovikov | 2025-12-16 05:43:41+00:00
Why doesn't anyone pay attention to the elephant in the room: median age? It has increased by 10 years in those 50 years. And, money is now overwhelmingly concentrated in the older cohorts just simply because there were no significant "reset" events for a long time such as massive wealth expropriations, wars, destruction - last time government robbed people of their property on a massive scale, was in 1865. It means that people who consume things, are now risk averse and unlikely to break with their habits.

See how different is the trajectory of electric cars in the US, EU, and China. In the US, average new car buyer is 50, in EU, 53, in China, it is 36. Plus, in China old people are dirt poor - peak income age is 35, in EU too, crushing taxes prevent wealth accumulation so old people are poorer than young who work more and are nimble enough to avoid taxes.

This cannot be fixed, because it requires either a Lebensborn-style forced reproduction program, or mass confiscations/redistributions, or both. We better accept situation the way it is.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-12-16 05:44:53+00:00
> You'd need to put immense trust into the "filtering" process

I think their audience for that page is people who want to implement those filters. It's not like you can log into nostr and start browsing any more than you can log into https and start browsing.

I don't appreciate the content either but a protocol that doesn't create high value targets for corruption (e.g. certificate authorities) is useful independent of the regrettable vibes that its fan club has. You're not going to catch their cooties if your public key is database-adjacent to someone else's.
by anjel | 2025-12-16 05:45:00+00:00
The Ottoman Empire kind of acknowledged the futility of trying to suppress corruption, opting instead to codify it and set thresholds for excessive abuse. Progressive for its day, it only partially succeeded since enforcement was no less prone to corrupt influence. As the romans famously said, “Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?” Literally: “Who will guard the guards themselves?”
by anonymousiam | 2025-12-16 05:45:04+00:00
This is an interesting analysis, and I like the sliders that let you instantly show the impacts of system trades.

The one glaring hole that I see is the challenge of moving the data to/from the datacenter while it's on orbit. Bandwidth to/from space isn't free. FCC/ITU licenses are required, transmitters/receiviers/modems/DSP/antennas all add to SWAP (size, weight, and power). Ground-stations are needed to move the data up/down, but those have recently become a commodity too. Still, they're not free. (see: https://aws.amazon.com/ground-station)

There is also the added latency between earth-based users and space-based datacenters, which may be a deal breaker for some applications.

Another issue I don't see covered are the significant differences between space-based hardware and terrestrial hardware. The space stuff needs to be radiation tolerant, and that usually makes it a lot slower and a lot more expensive than the terrestrial stuff, all other things being equal.

In the end, space-based datacenters are highly impractical even if you assume that Starship can put anything into orbit very cheaply.
by cal_dent | 2025-12-16 05:45:10+00:00
Technology giveth and technology taketh away, and not always in equal measure. A new technology sometimes creates more than it destroys. Sometimes, it destroys more than it creates. But it is never one-sided....

Should the losers grow skeptical, the winners dazzle them with the wondrous feats of computers, many of which have only marginal relevance to the quality of the losers' lives but which are nonetheless impressive. Eventually, the losers succumb, in part because they believe that the specialized knowledge of the masters of a computer technology is a form of wisdom. The masters, of course, come to believe this as well. The result is that certain questions do not arise, such as, to whom will the computer give greater power and freedom, and whose power and freedom will be reduced?...

The tie between information and action has been severed. Information comes indiscriminately, directed at no one in particular, disconnected from usefulness; we are glutted with information, drowning in information, have no control over it, don't know what to do with it

Always relevant. Time is a flat circle...
by quietbritishjim | 2025-12-16 05:45:28+00:00
> Big disadvantages of matlab:

I will add to that:

* it does not support true 1d arrays; you have to artificially choose them to be row or column vectors.

Ironically, the snippet in the article shows that MATLAB has forced them into this awkward mindset; as soon as they get a 1d vector they feel the need to artificially make it into a 2d column. (BTW (Y @ X)[:,np.newaxis] would be more idiomatic for that than Y @ X.reshape(3, 1) but I acknowledge it's not exactly compact.)

They cleverly chose column concatenation as the last operation, hardly the most common matrix operation, to make it seem like it's very natural to want to choose row or column vectors. In my experience, writing matrix maths in numpy is much easier thanks to not having to make this arbitrary distinction. "It's this 1D array a row or a column?" is just over less thing to worry about in numpy. And I learned MATLAB first, do I don't think I'm saying that just because it's what I'm used to.
by YetAnotherNick | 2025-12-16 05:46:19+00:00
Even according to you article, fair market value at the time of transfer is subject to same tax. Can you phrase what exactly you are trying to say?

I included options because that's how ultra wealthy get their wealth from and it has market value of 0 so company could give lot of them.

Also anyone can get majority of your earning in stocks, not just ultra rich. Companies want to pay in stocks, and it's a win win for both, if there is a loophole.
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-12-16 05:47:20+00:00
I'm tentatively excited for the new Snapdragon X2 Elite. Or I would be if any of us could ever afford RAM prices ever again.

The high end model has a 192-bit memory bus, a 3 channel design. 12+6 cores but very big/big more than less big/little. 53MB L3 cache is quite healthy. 80TOps NPU (int8). 9533 MT/s 192-bit memory for 228GB/s which is nipping right at Strix Halo & Nvidia Spark's heels. 12x PCIe 5.0, 4x PCIe 4.0, and "3x USB-C" 40Gb/s (hopefully not some shared bandwidth cop out). And some kind of pretty big GPU. The specs here are quite promising.

And Qualcomm has started taking Linux drivers somewhat more seriously. Linux & mesa drivers are arriving now for previous Snapdragon X Elite & looking pretty promising. That said, this whole Device Tree world is hell, and never going to be good, and Qualcomm direly needs to get religion there & get some ServerReady type ACPI + UEFI compatibility standardized in the products, and stop OEMs from shipping these awful embedded-style non-PC things.

I'm excited to see ARM finally actually show up with something competitive. Alas though, those RAM prices. What a sad buzzkill, and man this is going to take forever to work out.
by dentemple | 2025-12-16 05:47:25+00:00
The Monroe Doctrine was about preventing colonial powers from enacting NEW efforts to reach into the Americas, not about getting rid of previous control.

"The occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects FOR FUTURE COLONIZATION by any European powers." (emphasis mine)

https://usinfo.org/PUBS/LivingDoc_e/monroe.htm
by D-Machine | 2025-12-16 05:47:44+00:00
Have to agree, working with fMRI and MRI data. Matlab is nearly impossible to debug or even find basic workarounds for problems in this domain, in comparison to Python, because of how closed and niche Matlab is, and the lack of community and trustworthy documentation, or ability to write sensible code with performant for loops.

In my experience, those arguing for the value of Matlab are mostly 50+ years old, or are in an extremely niche industry using something like e.g. Simulink or other highly-industry-specific tooling, in which case it seems the considerations are irrelevant to something like 99.5% of the modern population.

Matlab will clearly be dead and irrelevant otherwise, in a short amount of time and in almost all domains.

EDIT: And few things indicate an out-of-touch / cookie-cutter or almost-certainly p-hacked neuroscience paper like the use of MATLAB. It is a smell for incompetent legacy research in this domain.
by cryptonector | 2025-12-16 05:47:52+00:00
All the concerns about umbrel being all proprietary are really about continuity and interoperability. We want a personal cloud where we can maintain continuity, and it needs to be, well, in some cloud that isn't your home, but also it needs to be replicated to your home (because again, continuity). Continuity in the face of:

- switching providers

- providers going bankrupt or being acquired by others who don't care

- account lockouts!

- switching device OSes

Open source means continuity and interoperability. Proprietary means the opposite.
by delifue | 2025-12-16 05:48:07+00:00
I put some article content to Pangram. Pangram says it's AI

https://www.pangram.com/history/282d7e59-ab4b-417c-9862-10d6...

The author's writing style is really similar to AI. AI already somehow passed Turing test. The AI detectors are not that trustworthy (but still useful).
by zzo38computer | 2025-12-16 05:48:11+00:00
> Ah, yes, XDG "portals". The reason file selection and screencasting is broken on every new Linux/Wayland installation I do, forcing me to try to understand the insane matrix of supported, half-supported, broken, and unsupported features by the dozen+ different implementations, and come up with the magic configuration incantation that makes it work on my system. Brilliant stuff. But it's secure!

Is there some way to avoid such a mess (and other problems with XDG portals and other XDG stuff) by substituting a .so file, somehow? I don't really know enough about how it works to know whether or not such a thing would work. (Maybe it might work for some programs, depending on which libraries they use for this purpose.)
by kens | 2025-12-16 05:49:13+00:00
> "So far, bless him, he has not resorted to 'gaol' for 'jail.'"

Some parts of Canada inexplicably used "gaol" for "jail" until fairly recently. For example, the "Headingley Gaol" near Winnipeg. The jail has been renamed to Headingley Correctional Center, but the road to it is still Gaol Road, preserving the linguistic curiosity.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headingley_Correctional_Instit... [2] https://www.google.com/maps/place/Gaol+Rd,+Headingley,+MB,+C...
by FireBeyond | 2025-12-16 05:49:59+00:00
I live near JBLM in Washington. I am routinely overflown by helicopters and planes (C-17s) often with their transponders off (I have an ADS-B receiver running on a VM). These are training flights that are not going anywhere outside of the Puget Sound region. For added fun, I'm also pretty close to several Sea-Tac approaches.
by Dylan16807 | 2025-12-16 05:50:01+00:00
1) Let me make a hypothetical. If you take tech from 2 companies and give it to 50 companies, that is both pro-market and something you will get sued for and lose.

2) You seem to be refusing to acknowledge that some actions have mixed consequences. Having many of those subsidies helped the market. Restricting them hurt the market compared to not restricting them. You can't look at just the restrictions to make the judgement, you have to look at the whole picture. Without the restrictions, they wouldn't have enacted the same subsidies.

3) If we're looking at just the internal market, then those policies made many more companies prosper and compete. I don't see how you can possibly say that they hurt the internal Chinese market! The EV market internal to China is far stronger than it would have been if the Chinese government sat there and did nothing.
by karlitooo | 2025-12-16 05:51:15+00:00
The author of the blog produced one of the first online courses in AT and is active on twitter. When that launched, he was the first person I saw talking about it a lot online.

Meditation/mindfulness was growing in popularity in the 2010s and this stuff is just further along the tech tree. It was already well known with actors but the cross-over with meditation-like practices is pretty obvious if you look into both.

The (post) Rationalists you mention are mostly exploring technologies/methods around the connection between mind/body/emotion. There's no single figure pushing it along.
by DoctorOetker | 2025-12-16 05:51:29+00:00
You still misread the article: they observe the nearly constant 2% growth across the long timespan, regardless of the relative increases in researchers, regardless of all the policy changes, regardless of ...

The article is NOT about some recent change. Please cite the article if you believe it is trying to solve a puzzle concerning a recent change.

The whole point is that this 2% seems to be robust, regardless of investing or getting more ideas, invalidating the idea that the growth is a simple result of the production of ideas (say making blueprints for a new kind of factory, which can then be copied without having to make more blueprints).
by kijin | 2025-12-16 05:51:35+00:00
It's hard to use them consistently because there isn't a single universally accepted definition.

Most people would consider the Netherlands a "country", but now we have a country within that country. Israel is a state, Japan is a state, but there are 50 states in the United States. "[People's] Republic of XYZ" generally refers to a sovereign state, but Russia has republics inside. You can't just call something what the locals call it and expect that your readers will get the picture. Even worse, people are often deeply divided as to what a given territory should be called.

So I will generally forgive journalists for picking a neutral-sounding, ambiguous expression in cases like this. What matters here is that the Dutch control this airspace, regardless of Curaçao's status within their kingdom.
by D-Machine | 2025-12-16 05:51:43+00:00
Defending Matlab code in 2025 is like defending Emacs: it's not that you don't have logically good points, in many cases, it is just that you are so completely out of touch with modern advances, communities, and requirements that it isn't even clear that you are speaking to anything more than what amounts to a rounding error.

EDIT: Specifically, it is extremely hard for me to think that anyone should be convinced to learn Matlab in 2025 - this seems to be a statistically useless and obviously soon-dying skill. Any logical arguments about what Matlab offers NOW seem to entirely ignore - what seems to me - this obvious practical reality.
by AlbertoGP | 2025-12-16 05:53:08+00:00
The URL is wrong, the right one is https://rodgercuddington.substack.com/p/the-return-to-full-f...

> UK retailers are reporting a striking reversal in dairy consumption patterns. Waitrose searches for full-fat milk increased 417%, full-fat yogurt 233%, and block butter 280% in a single month, while skimmed milk and low-fat yogurt are being left on shelves. This shift represents more than a dietary preference change – it signals a fundamental breakdown in public trust regarding nutrition guidance and reveals profound frustration with decades of conflicting advice.

> This analysis examines the scientific evidence, economic factors, processing implications, and psychological dimensions driving this trend, with particular attention to how changing advice may have eroded consumer confidence in nutritional expertise itself.
by drnick1 | 2025-12-16 05:53:57+00:00
The C++ devs at your firm must be absolutely terrible if a newcomer using a scripting language can write faster software, or you are not telling the whole story. All of NumPy, Julia, MATLAB, R, and similar domain-specific, user-friendly libraries and platforms use BLAS and LAPACK for numerical calculations under the hood with some overhead depending on the implementation, so a reasonably optimized native implementation should always be faster. By the looks of it the C++ code wasn't compiled with -O3 if it can be trivially beaten by Julia.
by dalyons | 2025-12-16 05:54:57+00:00
> America has neither the interest nor the capital to chase EVs or force them down American consumer throats.

Ok so dont, but take the tariffs off batteries, and allow foreign EVs to compete fairly. We'll get affordable EVs, and then we'll see what the american consumer actually wants. No? Oh, i guess its about something other than consumer choice after all.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-12-16 05:56:09+00:00
I've never heard anything about a change to British spelling. Sounds like nonsense.

Carney is the most popular politician Canada has had in decades. The opposition party is starting to fall apart (two members defected, which means Carney's party is one seat away from a majority).

Whole thing sounds like an attempt to manufacture an 'Obama beige suit' moment.
by nothrabannosir | 2025-12-16 05:57:39+00:00
>> Don't be rude.

> What, there's an issue because I'm not being underhanded about it like [that] guy?

Wow you’ve put something into words here I never consciously realized is an unwritten rule. Sounds silly but yea you’re 100% right; that seems to be exactly the game we play.

For better or for worse.
by figassis | 2025-12-16 05:58:11+00:00
Focus on short sentences and simplicity is an American trait. It is a bit different with UK English. As a native Portugese speaker, I spent my time before the US doing exactly the same as the author, I could write well structured prose by the time I was in 5th grade. I grew up with a dictionary. My mother would come back from work and ask me for the list of "difficult words". The expectation was that I spent time reading and would have found some new words, looked them up and now needed to sync with her to see if I got the correct meanings in the context where I found them.

Then I moved to the US and noticed that even the books were sort of written in a way that required no extra effort. The English I learned while playing RPGs (with no speech at the time) was enough to read most books from the library and a dictionary was only needed occasionally. And everyone basically just knew the same set of words, youth and adults alike. I also noticed that US English has a distinct tendency of making up new words that are simpler and more intuitive than the original expressions. It turns things into verbs. This is why people Google, Tweet and Vibe.

Then I went to an Engineering College, and it teaches us to distill everything into it's simpler fundamental components. I like it, and I now want people to be as direct as possible.

As a non native english speaker, I've always had to speak and write better than native speakers, and always had to tolerate the "You speak/write really well, where are you from?". Today they no longer ask, AI is their answer and they judge accordingly.
by ssl-3 | 2025-12-16 05:58:57+00:00
When I was a kid, a normal-sized American adult could open up a bed-width toolbox, look down inside of it, and easily remove a few bags of groceries before re-closing the lid -- all while standing flat-footed on the ground beside their normal-sized American truck.

Things are not that way anymore; trucks got bigger.

The top of the bed rail of an F150 Lightning is around chin height for a lot of folks: https://imgur.com/ZBOBqJc
by wkat4242 | 2025-12-16 05:59:51+00:00
For low-volume stuff you can always get a non-expiring 4G/5G bundle eSIM and tunnel through that. Because 4G/5G roaming always tunnels traffic through the home country, and then emerges from CGNAT so it can't be identified as foreign traffic.

But those data packages are expensive and not available with each wanted origin country. Also you need hardware on your side. But it is an option, just saying.
by arjie | 2025-12-16 06:00:58+00:00
I have always had trouble acquiring the actual devices at a competitive price. It is cheaper to get an M-series Mac Mini than a Snapdragon X Elite box and the former smokes the latter. The one advantage of the non-Macs is usually that their Linux support is good, but the Ideacentres or whatever that ship the S X E don't have very much support. Despite being fairly eager to try out this device, I could not bring myself to spend the money on what would remain in the closet after I failed to boot a Linux, any Linux.
by kmeisthax | 2025-12-16 06:01:08+00:00
Classic Mac OS has a certain charm to it.

As a programmer, I can point out all the many, many flaws with its technical architecture. Or how Apple's managerial incompetence let Microsoft leapfrog them technologically. Or even how Microsoft eventually figured out how to give Windows its own visual identity[0].

But at the end of the day, people were buying Macs despite the company making them. Apple had built an OS that made everything else look like a copycat, by worrying about the little details that few else cared about. It's the only reason Apple survived where literally every other non-Wintel PC company died. Atari STs and Amigas might have been fondly remembered, but their fanbases all jumped ship for PC the moment DooM came out, and the companies in question all got sold off for peanuts.

[0] My personal opinion regarding Windows visual design:

- Windows 1.x-3.x (and also OS/2 1.x): Really clunky and piss-poor attempt at cloning the Mac. It has the "programmer art" feel all over it. 3.x is slightly better in that they actually figured out how to pick a good default color scheme, but it still doesn't even have a proper desktop, instead using the root window as minimized window storage.

- Windows 9x/NT/2000: Not only does Windows finally get a real desktop, but it also gets a unique visual design, and a good one. Hell, they actually leapfrogged Apple on this one; as Mac OS 8 would take a few more years to ship its Platinum appearance.

- Windows XP: Cheap. Toylike. Microsoft saw OSX's Aqua and realized they needed something for Whistler, but they didn't seem to know what, and this is what we got. Media Center Edition would ship a slightly less toylike Windows visual theme.

- Windows Vista / 7: The absolute pinnacle of Microsoft's visual design chops. Aero is the thing that Liquid Glass wishes it could be. The glass effects were a perfect way to show off the power of GPU compositing, and Microsoft managed to do it without sacrificing readability or usability.

- Windows 8/10/11: Flatslop.