MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Detrytus | 2026-03-14 17:41:26+00:00
Yes, it does cause huge inflation, but that's not even the biggest problem with it. That would be: people do not really like to share fruits of their labor with strangers, so UBI would significantly undermine the motivation to do anything other than bare minimum.

UBI is not possible until robots and AI take over most jobs (but then we risk that one day the AI decides to just get rid of "those useless humans")
by bradley13 | 2026-03-14 17:41:45+00:00
Really, it's more about the police not doing their job. Face recognition pointed her out, the police saw she had a rap sheet, and therefore they didn't check further.

She apparently could not afford a lawyer, who would have pointed out that she was provably at home (transactions, etc.) at the time the crime was committed in another state.

Really it's not specifically AIs fault, though it made the error easier.
by ambicapter | 2026-03-14 17:41:48+00:00
The only way? What about built out infrastructure? What about universal health care? What about enforcing laws? What about enforcing truth in advertising? What about punishing various types of crooks in the various markets and transactions, financial and otherwise, that ordinary people take part in?

The only way? Like a silver bullet? Like that thing that the common idiom says doesn't exist?
by washadjeffmad | 2026-03-14 17:42:00+00:00
I was in PT, but the real results came after getting a HM Embody without a headrest. It was uncomfortable for the first six months while my entire body adjusted, but my posture is pretty excellent now, I no longer have sciatica, and my neck muscles are once again capable of supporting the weight of my head without getting stiff or tired.

I'm not a big or heavy guy, and I've historically been athletic, but after a back injury and sitting in bad (yet comfortable) chairs for hours a day over a decade, I didn't notice how deleterious my routine was to my general well being. The problem for me was muscle weakness that led to overcompensation - a few muscles were doing most of the work, and the auxiliary supporting and skeletal muscles weren't able to do their jobs.

Couple that with some regular light full body exercise, and give yourself time. Don't think of posture or neck pain as a targeted problem. Everything that connects is related, especially if you hunch or your abdominals are engaging more than your back.
by CamperBob2 | 2026-03-14 17:42:13+00:00
Qwen 3.5 was plagued by some premature quant releases and unclear/incomplete guidelines for the sampling parameters. Especially if you are having looping problems, make sure you are using the very latest model files, executables, and recommended params.

If all the stars are aligned, Qwen 3.5 will not exhibit outright looping, although it will still burn more thinking tokens than some other models. There are ways to tone down the overthinking or disable it entirely, though, and the models are still quite capable when configured that way.
by ambicapter | 2026-03-14 17:43:25+00:00
"Solve the problem" probably not, but trigger inflation, probably not, since the amount is so low, it will have very little impact on the behavior of the richest, but it would have a massive impact on the behavior of the poorest, and their purchase habits generally don't impact inflation as much.

UBI is just a band-aid on not taxing the rich, though.
by locusofself | 2026-03-14 17:43:30+00:00
It really is a terrible piece of software. I usually find that when I do weird things with my mouse, like assign workspaces switching to extra buttons or whatever, I end up un-doing it.

I've switched all my mice to a ~$25, super ergonomically shaped, corded mouse[1], and I prefer to to my logitech mice.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FPAVUHC?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_...
by mindslight | 2026-03-14 17:43:31+00:00
It's likely. Actual troops will be a more attractive target than commercial ships for Iran to send drones at. Dead Americans don't cause the markets to drop. And ultimately, "line goes up" is the only moral that politically matters to this regime.

(Also I'd be highly surprised if they haven't run the numbers and calculated scores for which specific units contain the most non-citizens, new citizens, and other untermensch)
by raw_anon_1111 | 2026-03-14 17:44:30+00:00
Upskilling won’t matter. Any technology you upskill to thousands of others will have the same skill and every open req will have hundred of applicants in the same day.

The answer as cliche as it sounds network and figure out something that sets you aside from the unwashed masses.

Say you did upskill, why would a company hire yoh based on a side project over someone with real world putting things in production experience?
by ambicapter | 2026-03-14 17:45:22+00:00
> It's absolutely insane that Claude Code can spit out a week's worth of business automation tasks in half a day. And do it at relatively high quality in low-defect rate languages like Rust.

> Europe won't be able to catch that.

You think Europe won't be able to use Claude Code? If Claude Code is the one reaping the majority of the benefits of "spit[ing] out a week's worth of business automation tasks", then it's not worth much to the business. If Claude Code isn't the one reaping the majority of those benefits, then...Europe can use Claude Code too and reap the benefits for their business as well.
by 1123581321 | 2026-03-14 17:45:32+00:00
The test didn't confuse the drugs. He tested positive for fentanyl and cocaine. They accused him of trafficking drugs in addition to that because of the IBS pill bottle.

It's an unfortunate story because it sounds like he was having relapse trouble, and the cops were predisposed to do the worst to him that they could (mis)justify, when he needed to cool off and then get back to the professionals helping him with recovery.
by jeremychone | 2026-03-14 17:45:33+00:00
So, I have a pro@coder/.cache/code-map/context-code-map.json.

I also have a `.tmpl-code-map.jsonl` in the same folder so all of my tasks can add to it, and then it gets merged into context-code-map.json.

I keep mtime, but I also compute a blake3 hash, so if mtime does not match, but it is just a "git restore," I do not redo the code map for that file. So it is very incremental.

Then the trick is, when sending the code map to AI, I serialize it in a nice, simple markdown format.

- path/to/file.rs
- summary: ...
- when to use: ...
- public types: .., .., ..
- public functions: .., .., ..

- ...

So the AI does not have to interpret JSON, just clean, structured markdown.

Funny, I worked on this addition to my tool for a week, planning everything, but even today, I am surprised by how well it works.

I have zero sed/grep in my workflow. Just this.

My prompt is pro@coder/coder-prompt.md, the first part is YAML for the globs, and the second part is my prompt.

There is a TUI, but all input and output are files, and the TUI is just there to run it and see the status.
by saidnooneever | 2026-03-14 17:45:37+00:00
the catting issue might be more an implementation of bzip program problem than algorithm (it could expect an array of compressed files). that would only be impossible if the program cannot reason about the length of data from file header, which again is technically not something about compression algo but rather file format its carried through.

that being said, speed is important for compression so for systems like webservers etc its an easy sell ofc. very strong point (and smarter implementation in programs) for gzip
by Rebelgecko | 2026-03-14 17:45:48+00:00
If the policies are public, there's a lot more transparency. eg my city of millions of people has a subreddit. The head mod bans people for criticizing a certain dog breed. This "policy" is pretty opaque, but if the AI enforced subreddit rules say "thou shalt not mention the dog's breed when commenting on articles about someone being mauled to death", more people would be familiar with the rule (and perhaps there would be more organized discussion).

I was on a subreddit for a while that voted on rules and had a rotating dictator to facilitate them. It worked decently well, although it never got to the point where the sub was brigaded. This was also pre-LLM so moderation was still a big time sink and the sub eventually fizzled out
by ikidd | 2026-03-14 17:45:49+00:00
CIBC cost me $5 and a bunch of time trying to reverse a mistake that left me stranded in the middle of nowhere when I was pretty young. In the intervening 30 year I've made it my mission whenever their name comes up to make sure nobody uses them for anything, even free kids accounts.

I've cost them tens of thousands of dollars because they couldn't do the decent thing and apologize.
by alephnerd | 2026-03-14 17:46:02+00:00
> The chip machines Taiwan uses come from Europe, for example

The US, not Europe.

ASML's EUV and High NA EUV production is all done in California via US DoE joint ventures (specifically Cymer LLC [0]). Additionally, their metrology IP is Taiwanese [1] as part of ASML's acquisition of HMI back in 2016 with Taiwanese approval.

ASML is the capital partner because in the early 2000s, the US government wanted to prevent a duopoly forming between Nikon and Canon for photolithography as part of an antitrust battle.

And the next generation of lithography tooling coming into Taiwan is from Japan due to MUFG, Mitsui, Mizuho, and SoftBank becoming the primary capital partners for Taiwan's electronics industry [2]. This is also why TSMC is expanding in Japan.

[0] - https://www.cymer.com/

[1] - https://www.asml.com/en/company/about-asml/hmi

[2] - https://asia.nikkei.com/business/tech/semiconductors/japan-l...
by chhxdjsj | 2026-03-14 17:46:37+00:00
The vision for the future elon gives us (exploring the stars, human augmentation, advanced AI likely leading to elimination of suffering) is a heaven-like vision in a western world where most people don’t believe in anything much, and many of our leaders and intellectuals are misanthropes who think having kids is selfish.

I don’t care what tesla’s quarterly sales are, I’m supporting elon’s vision.
by mark_l_watson | 2026-03-14 17:46:43+00:00
The phrase "when US data becomes unreliable" is misleading in one sense: for many years political manipulation of economic data has screwed things up.

Calculation of unemployment and real debt has seldom matched the norms of most other western countries. Add military (often black budgets) spending without much oversight or accurate accounting.

The wealthiest people in the USA are now in the mode of grabbing what they can while the 'grabbing is still good.' Without this immoral looting, our government could do a better job of protecting US citizens as our empire collapses.
by bryanlarsen | 2026-03-14 17:46:45+00:00
Not necessarily. It's straightforward to make it revenue neutral.

You make it revenue neutral for the average tacpayer. If you want UBI to be $1000/month, you increase the average tax by $1000. The average taxpayer still benefit because even though they don't get more money, they have a safety net.

People making less than average get more UBI than the tax increase, and those making more pay more.

Most people get more money because the median income us a lot lower than the average.
by wakawaka28 | 2026-03-14 17:46:50+00:00
>So a person receiving a message bears responsibility for their own emotional reaction to its content. If someone tells you your code is wrong, your emotional response to that is your problem to manage, not theirs to preemptively defuse.

Our emotions are ultimately our own problem, but you are sorely mistaken if you think the emotions of others can't cause you major problems. There is some merit to keeping social chatter to a minimum in important communication channels, and not being personal. But if you're just gonna try to steam roll everyone else with your opinion, and insult them and their work directly under the pretense of being "objective" then you are going to have a hard time. It usually doesn't even work if you are in a management position, because subordinates will tend to undermine such a manager (if they even stay).
by randerson | 2026-03-14 17:46:59+00:00
I'm UBI-curious, but surely inflation would be inevitable if everyone suddenly had $x more disposable income per year? Landlords and grocery stores and everyone else would raise prices because they know people can afford it. Obviously if you're living in poverty, anything is better than nothing, but would the average middle class person be better off? As far as I can tell no country has ever tested true UBI (unconditional and for all residents) so its all theoretical.

Musk's idea of a Universal High Income (where money is no longer necessary because robots and AI give us anything we want) sounds great too until you consider scarce resources like land. Who decides who gets to buy the best properties on Earth if money is no longer a factor? What if you want, say, a human hair stylist or therapist: who would do such a job if they don't have to? We would lose the human touch in our lives, and that sounds awful.
by Kirby64 | 2026-03-14 17:47:13+00:00
But that has nothing to do with the technology per-se. You could recreate this by just having CDs that don’t use all their space for music and having more of them, if the goal is dynamism. It’s a restriction, not a benefit. You could do the same exact thing with an iPod with playlists that are shorter, and not auto playing after the playlist ends.
by saghm | 2026-03-14 17:47:14+00:00
Early on the article mentions that xz have zstd have gotten more popular than bzip, and my admitted naive understanding is that they're considered to have better tradeoffs in teems of collision compression time and overall space saved by compression. The performance section heavily discusses encoding performance of gzip and bzip, but unless I'm missing something, the only references to xz or zstd in that section are briefly handwaving about the decoding times probably being similar.

My impression is that this article has a lot of technical insight into how bzip compares to gzip, but it fails actually account for the real cause of the diminished popularity of bzip in favor of the non-gzip alternatives that it admits are the more popular choices in recent years.
by twodave | 2026-03-14 17:47:24+00:00
Is this a serious question? In my view a live assistant differs from an agentic model in that it is a conversational interface, interconnected with live data feeds and able to exert some control over the physical environment. Can agents do some of those things? Sure. But this isn’t the primary intended application for agentic tech, which focuses on running longer tasks unattended. And yes, Jarvis could make use of background tasks himself, and I think that’s a major part of his value. But it doesn’t have to be Jarvis actually performing those tasks, just directing them. Let the agents do the agentic things, and let the more conversational models interface with the humans.
by icegreentea2 | 2026-03-14 17:48:28+00:00
I believe it's exactly that thinking that CSIS was trying to check when they chose to translate and publish this specific article. They are trying to get analysts and policy makers to think through, and make an active decision on if they believe that China will treat military/militarized mega constellations as destabilizing in a nuclear/strategic sense.

It's fair to decide that that is not major factor, but it should be an informed decision. It requires looking at the nuclear risk issues that the piece raises, and finding reasons to dismiss them.
by KellyCriterion | 2026-03-14 17:48:42+00:00
This is one thing I like about the console market:

Game publishers always need some time to investigate new platforms at the beginning of their lifetime, so games from later stage of a platforms life are often better, because the dev teams could figure out through time how to get the maximum out of the given hardware platform.

Also the 4 - 5 cycle with a defined platform makes it super convenient to develop in those ecosystems.
by autoexec | 2026-03-14 17:48:52+00:00
> if states can pass restrictive laws on AI in absence of a correspondingly negative motivating event...

If you mean besides the extensive harm to air quality, the large land fingerprint of data centers, the massive strain on water resources and treatment facilities, the insane electricity demands resulting in skyrocketing prices pushed onto everyone else, the deafening noise pollution, and what they've done to the price of RAM, then sure. And that's just the data centers!

The usage of AI itself has resulted in actual deaths. AI has wrongfully denied people healthcare coverage they were entitled to preventing or delaying needed surgeries and treatments. There's a growing list of suicides (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deaths_linked_to_chatbots). The use of AI in parole systems has kept people locked behind bars when they shouldn't have been due to biases.
by pessimizer | 2026-03-14 17:48:57+00:00
> Why are cops not treated the same way? OP is right, AI is totally irrelevant in this story.

It's absolutely absurd. The argument that AI is the problem is literally the people arguing against AI shedding responsibility to the machines. The people arguing that AI is the problem are essentially (philosophically) the same people who will say it was the AIs fault.

The thing that it most reminds me of is people trying to stop the deaths and injuries that come as a result of "swatting" by being really angry at people who "swat" and proposing the harshest punishment for it that they can come up with (or outdoes anyone else in the thread.)

The problem with swatting is that police were showing up to the houses of harmless people based on anonymous phone tips and murdering them. You guarantee swatting will work indefinitely when you indemnify the cops.

You don't need AI for injustice in the US justice system. There is literally no part of the US justice system that makes sense at all, and even in the best case scenario when the guilty are caught, tried, and punished, it is tremendously wasteful, cruel, and ass-backwards. Juries are basically the AI of the US justice system, allowing the prosecutorial and enforcement apparatus to be infinitely cruel, illogical, self-serving and incompetent. 12xFull AGI. AI couldn't do any worse.

> I feel like I'm going crazy with this narrative.

You're not alone.
by Galaxeblaffer | 2026-03-14 17:49:30+00:00
Not everything, only stuff that are suddenly in higher demand that can't increase supply. If you take food as an example i don't imagine demand would increase? And if it did we could probably just produce more? And also it's not like everyone will have unlimited money, so you'll still have to prioritize and luckily we don't all have the same priorities. I'm pretty sure the idea is to fund this by taxing production and not by printing money, so inflation shouldn't be a problem.
by bluefirebrand | 2026-03-14 17:49:32+00:00
Sure, your navigation app needs to know where you are in order to function

Does the company that owns your navigation app have to remember every route you've ever taken forever? Does it need to do meta analysis on your location data to figure out where you likely work and life and where your friend are? Does it need to sell that data to law enforcement and businesses so they can track your movements and pattern match your behaviors?

Seems to me there's a huge gulf between "location app knows where you are" and "we have used that to collect every scrap of information about your movements everywhere you go and weaponized that information against you"
by rasz | 2026-03-14 17:49:39+00:00
Especially in light of that early war elon confession about disabling terminals mid Ukraine op.

Another not great data point is https://militarnyi.com/en/news/ukraine-starlink-data-traffic...

"Starlink satellite traffic in Ukraine fell by about 75% after SpaceX shut down its terminals in the occupied territories of the country."

By now it came to light russians for example had starlinks on every assaulting tank in addition to long range drones.
by roncesvalles | 2026-03-14 17:50:26+00:00
Exactly, reading TFA and its prequel, can't shake the feeling that the author doesn't really understand concurrency.

The main purpose of synchronization is creating happens-before (memory/cache coherence) relationships between lines of code that aren't in the same program order. Go channels are just syntactic sugar for creating these happens-before relationships. Problems such as deadlocks and races (at least in the way that TFA calls them out) are irreducible complexity if you're executing two sequences of logical instructions in parallel. If you're passing data in whatever way, there is no isolation between those two sequences. All you can enforce is degrees of discipline.

It's typical AI slop. I'd recommend for the author (or anyone else) to watch Jenkov's course[1] first if they have an honest interest in the topic.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLL8woMHwr36EDxjUoCzbo...
by tannhaeuser | 2026-03-14 17:50:44+00:00
SGML has at least SP/OpenSP, sgmljs, and nsgml as full-featured, stand-alone parsers. There are also parsers integrated into older versions of products such as MarkLogic, ArborText, and other pre-XML authoring suites, renderers, and CMSs. Then there are language runtime libs such as SWI Prolog's with a fairly complete basic SGML parser.

ISO 8879 (SGML) doesn't define an API or a set of required language features; it just describes SGML from an authoring perspective and leaves the rest to an application linked to a parser. It even uses that term for the original form of stylesheets ("link types", reusing other SGML concepts such as attributes to define rendering properties).

SGML doesn't even require a parser implementation to be able to parse an SGML declaration which is a complex formal document describing features, character sets, etc. used by an SGML document, the idea being that the declaration could be read by a human operator to check and arrange for integration into a foreign document pipeline. Even SCRIPT/VS (part of IBM's DCF and the origin of GML) could thus technically be considered SGML.

There are also a number of historical/academic parsers, and SGML-based HTML parsers used in old web browsers.
by int32_64 | 2026-03-14 17:51:22+00:00
"The change may cause policymakers to misjudge the economy’s health, investors to lose confidence in the reliability of the data, and the public to disengage from participating in official measures altogether."

Many neoliberal Western countries with good data have completely fumbled their economies post-GFC and post-Covid, just look at Canada's disastrous GDP per capita growth.
by mrob | 2026-03-14 17:51:58+00:00
I'm convinced that at least 90% of "analog sound" can be simulated by taking the ideal block diagram and replacing every link with a parametric EQ->waveshaper->parametric EQ chain. Configuring those added components correctly is left as an exercise for the reader.

Jim Lill's video on guitar amp tone is an interesting demonstration. Hear how close he gets to the original with an even simpler combination of EQ and distortion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcBEOcPtlYk
by hyperhello | 2026-03-14 17:53:03+00:00
In Oregon the courts just ruled that since defendants weren’t provided a public defender in a certain amount of time, their cases were voided. There was an outcry, of course. But the ruling was sound: the pain had to be pushed to the part of the system that was failing. An honest system does not allow things like this; the accused either needs to either have a competent advocate, or the case is void.
by KellyCriterion | 2026-03-14 17:53:23+00:00
...and their geo location is much more in favor for their defense than the deserts of Iraq.
If Trump thinks he can send troups there, this will fail: Iran has much more soldiers, 10.000 USD ultracheap drones etc.

This will rater end as "Vietnam 2.0" with this move: Lot of military equipment locked-in for years in a conflict you cant win.