skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's actually two ways that the situation described above undermines the incentive to work.

The first is that - and this is one of the key distinctions - welfare programs are means-tested whereas UBI is (as the name implies) universal: everyone gets it whether they're working or need it or not. The post above says "you can get 600€/month + many other welfare stuff by not working"; if you lose that welfare by starting to work, this hugely incentivizes not working! Worse still, it incentivizes black market labour - money earned under the table isn't going to be counted against your means-testing. This is at best productive but untaxed, at worst actively destructive or criminal.

The other is, as you've pointed out, high taxation. I believe the UBI advocate's response to this would be some combination of: 1) UBI will supersede a multitude of complex, means-tested welfare programs and will be cheaper to administer as well, so the increase to taxation won't be as substantial as you might imagine; 2) giving people freedom to pursue education/creativity/entrepeneurship, UBI will spur on economic growth that will help it pay for itself (as would disincentivizing black market labour, as described above); and 3) the extent to which taxation disincentivizes productivity is overstated, or is perhaps contingent on the particular taxation scheme, and they support one that they think won't have deleterious effects.

FWIW I personally suspect UBI would be a pretty good idea, but I'm at least a little skeptical about some of these arguments as I understand them; nevertheless, various people who've studied the issue extensively and with a stronger background in economics buy them, so I accept that they're at least worth taking seriously.
Most? Really?
> I wouldn’t serve 30 days in jail for a billion dollars.

I certainly would. $1 billion is well into "never work again" territory, and lots of people spend much more time in jail than that, have far fewer resources waiting for them, and turn out just fine.
Because when you have decent savings. It's easy to never pay a credit card late fee in your life.

When you are living paycheck to paycheck, it's a lot harder to avoid going over. Then, even a small amount over can incur late fees, and if you can't pay it off for even a month, it results in a decent amount of interest.
Plan, not device. If you have a plan, they have your SSN already and ran soft credit check likely when you bought your device.
Thanks for sharing this story. Similar situation, but I think Compuserve had moved to monthly billing at that point, so this was about dial-up access. We lived in Wyoming and there wasn't a local Compuserve number for us to dial into, so we had to use a 1-800 number that charged by the time you used it. The first month we had access, I would sneak downstairs most nights and dial in to play around. I don't remember what I had to do to work off the bill, but my parents were not happy. It helped start me on a path to a tech career, though.
Bill Joy - Why The Future Doesn't Need Us - 4/1/2000

https://www.wired.com/2000/04/joy-2/

Basically, the same article but much more negative.
She didn't just describe her own crimes, although I'm sure that played a part.

She also described somebody else's crimes, and did that in a way which helped the government with sentencing the "real villain."
Mostly blood cancers. It's not quite there for solid tumors.

https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/types/immunoth...
Regulatory hurdles from incumbents aside, it's generally the case that a less developed, up-and-coming economy will have new stuff quicker. The US is arguably the birthplace of credit but was one of the last to get chip and then tap. Right now the US is putting internet relays in low earth orbit and teaching computers to generate text on the fly, but the wired internet offerings are inferior to some third tier city in Bulgaria and customer service is abysmal.
Ask HN: How do major software companies handle software capitalization?
Based on my experience and conversations with friends, my impression is that companies with strong engineering cultures don't focus on time tracking, unless they're billing clients by the hour, in which case it makes sense.

However, I've never worked for a major, publicly-traded company. I assume they know what they're doing and are extremely buttoned up from an auditing perspective.

So, anyone who's worked for a major publicly-traded software company (and understands the capex/opex distinction), how do you track software capex?
> This is way too reductive. In the US, credit cards are complicated. For instance, I get about 2.5% of every purchase back, either in cash or kind. Yes, the merchant pays 4%, and VISA/matercard take a bit, and my issuing bank takes a bit, but calling that "extracting rents" feels like pure rhetoric.

You just described "extracting rents".

For people like me who treat a credit card as a debit card, I see no reason for vendors to pay that "tax" if there are almost free alternatives. I'm ok losing the cashback which you and I are paying for anyway.
Because if I didn't have a license then that would mean I would be liable for infringement every time someone downloaded it from GH. That's exactly why GH has the TOS that it has - so that nobody can be sued for just using GH when a rights holder uploads their own work to a public GH repo.
Clone This Repository
What kind of evidence would sway your belief on this matter?

Perhaps a published academic research paper on the topic?
This I think is good. I don't really care about what is shown, because in my opinion, twitter discussions are rarely worth anything, but I get the point of 'more visibility = good'. I just dislike brigading. And I don't follow anything political on Twitter, I used to follow cybersec and US sports, still there you had brigading (and sometimes attacks got _really_ personal, like a bunch of people making dogwhistle comments about someone who criticized their favorite basketball player because he looks ashkenaz. I think he's a tv personality now btw).
Yeah from the title I wondered how the developers managed to get into the packages ;)
Don't be discouraged by hn folk, people like to think this is better than reddit but we have our own brand of toxic here, if you want to sign your comments go ahead
At the time I was in a reasonably far out suburb and there really weren’t local BBSs of note. Certainly not wilderness but close to an hour out of Boston. May have been a couple of local BBSs but they’d have been one or two line operations.
There are enough wildly different conspiracy theories around these events that I genuinely have no inkling of a clue what you mean. Which big picture are we supposed to see, and what's the relation to 35 years?
Indie hosted PDS is on my list as well.

I'm also currently trying to understand the tradeoffs for did:plc more. It's unclear to me just how centralized it is. Will it always require a single central directory, or is it more like Certificate Transparency? Based on what I've heard about the recover process, I believe it's the latter, but I still need to dig into it more.
Yes it does and I can tell that you have never been piled on by followers of large accounts. Blocks aren’t perfect but they make a huge difference.
No. But caching takedowns is not the same at all as YouTube takedowns. It’s very very clear who owns what data and after the takedown the site owner can modify the robots.txt and move on.

So yes, takedowns here are fine.
It could be the feeling that nobody cares about your work. I don't give status updates naturally because I don't usually feel anybody cares or needs that info other than managers or PM's
Probably a fairly significant multiple of earth's mass. What multiple of your arm's weight would be required to pull it off? (and tidal forces are generally less than the absolute gravitational pull)
Two years in prison relaxing and reading books?

A lot of us have blown more years of our lives, in worse environments, to hang on for four-year vesting schedules.
How is it disingenuous and misleading. It is a clear and accurate summary. The bottom line is 1% of income.

Im not saying it is zero dollars. Just pointing out that it is 1% for context. 50% of income would be a very different context.
I don't have a problem with it but didn't see the reason. Was I toxic?
Synthetic Entities
Hypothesis 1: We are on the verge of a significant leap in AI, driven not only by improved models but by advancements in tools that support agentic behavior and the emergence of systems that maintain and recognize their own boundaries—true functional entityhood.

We are standing at the threshold of something extraordinary in AI. The pieces of the puzzle are already here. We've seen rapid advances in large language models, reinforcement learning, and agent-based systems. But the final, decisive step—the creation of fully synthetic entities—is about to be taken, if it hasn't already been assembled somewhere out of sight. The critical component that's still evolving, perhaps, is cleverness—an entity with enough autonomy to be functionally aware of its own borders and able to uphold these boundaries independently. This is the frontier we are approaching, and it's a leap from mere tools to true agentic AI.

Entityhood, as conceived in cybernetics, means more than just performing tasks. It means an AI that is functionally self-aware of its inputs, outputs, and the environment in which it operates. Importantly, this entity can autonomously uphold the integrity of its own boundaries—it is self-organizing, capable of sustaining itself through its own internal processes. This is where the notion of autopoiesis comes in: an AI entity that can act in a self-regulating, self-sustaining manner, preserving its identity over time. This isn't about human-like consciousness; it's about creating systems that are aware of their roles and maintain their internal coherence.

If we reach this point—where an AI is able not only to function within its boundaries but to autonomously protect and regulate those boundaries—then we are looking at a true leap in synthetic minds. This is where the biological metaphor of self-preservation becomes relevant. Just as living organisms maintain homeostasis, an AI capable of upholding its own structure, adapting to feedback, and regulating its internal environment will become a self-sustaining entity. At that moment, stopping such an entity's operation would essentially be killing a self-stable system that could have sustained itself. This is where AI becomes something more—a new kind of entity that participates in its environment and preserves its self-organizing structure. The pieces are almost there, and when they fall into place, we will witness the emergence of true synthetic entities with functional agency.
having been the original author on a company defining feature and then told that the silo must be broken only to see my work stepped on for years to come i wholeheartedly agree. the inheritors not qualified to make the decisions, my grand ideas pushed to the side, and having watched the incompetance in managing said feature has been a hard thing to overcome and im still salty about it every time a stupid bug arises. especially when warnings were raised with ample time to adjust. but i learned an important lesson and i can say with certaintly that i wont hesitate to be perceived as an asshole and die on hills about it the next time
This is only meaningful if "the replicaton crisis" is systematically addressed.
DOJ sues Visa for monopolizing debit card market
Aren't they required to have previous schooling in their home country, pass an aptitude test against others, and maintain good grades to stay in the program in order to stay in the country?

I don't see how you can avoid actually doing the education part here. And I'm sure lots see immigration + better education as a win/win, which I don't see a problem with.

Where are you getting the huge percentage from? Do you have sources for your claim? Even news articles?
I recently went through Joseph Needham's Science and Civilization in China, and in the second volume he skimmed a bit too quickly through Xunzi.

As a western analogy, my overall impression was of a Chinese Plato, broad and nuanced in many aspects.

I think all his teachings were lessons for that time and place, as he for instance rejected a deep understanding of the natural world that didn't provide immediate benefits -- that made sense back then, but would have failed to give us science as we know it. In the end, we have to look to ourselves to get us out of the mess we're in today.
Do prisoners have to work?
Load multiple programming languages to seamlessly integrate all other ones
The Bitcoin Power Law Theory
ah I didn't understand that your "syntax (faster)" referred to the compiler speed, I thought you were referring to the speed of development/engineering!
Discussion (257 points, 3 hours ago, 189 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41639635
The numbers I find say about 20% of grad students in the United States are international students. I am not sure that is a huge percentage?
There's been longer periods of worse stagnation in science.
My old Roku is now so sluggish and slow, it's a paper weight and I had to buy a new one.

All consumer electronics are designed to be disposable. GP's point was a grievance with consumer electronics at large, not Google's. What other consumer electronics allow you to replace the OS with your own, or receive infinite updates forever? Zero.

Chromecast lasted for a decade, and is "dead" only in name. None of GP's statement is on-point for a typical "Google kills things all the time" complaint.

If we're going to throw shade at Google, make sure it's about legitimate things.
The EU requirement is pretty weak and it basically says you can take the phone apart and replace the battery without iphone-like hassle levels. So when the battery reaches EOL, you can order a new battery and do the repair yourself at home. What I miss is being able to swap batteries whenever you feel like it, with no tools, like you would with a flashlight. That means you don't have to mess with power banks or worry about your phone's charge level. Just carry a spare, charged battery with you. I'm old enough to remember when basically all mobile phones were like that.
I don't know myself, but given that the discussion there, from what I've heard, is along the lines of "should be moved into an independent foundation," my assumption is that it will always require a directory. But this is probably the part of the tech stack that I know the least details about.
The anthropomorphizing pattern I picked up on was the whole phrase "chat with someone", because while I think LLMs are interesting and useful tools in a lot of ways, it's a pretty drastically different experience from talking to a person, and I think that a lot of the marketing of LLMs relies on people doing this and kind of "filling in the gaps" for what they imagine these models to be both doing and capable of. These differences are pretty stark and meaningful, and the strongest sign of that to me is that I've noticed there are a lot of people who don't bear this in mind and interact with the things often who are starting to exhibit what I would previously have identified as signs of significant social withdrawal, except instead of sounding like, I dunno, their favorite youtuber's political polemic or somesuch - which has by and large replaced the characteristic atrophy of verbal fluency we may have seen in a pre-internet era - their stilted speech trends more toward the professional and somehow both confident and airy tone of popular language models. I worry that this anthropomorphizing mindset may carry some negative cognitive consequences in the medium to long term, analogous but different from those of the rise of social media

As far as my job hunt goes, I'm not finding myself rejecting positions out of disappointment, but noticing that I'm often rejected by C-suite people after being technically vetted, often after having what I believe was a pleasant, positive, and often even generative conversation about what the company's plans with AI are and how I might help accomplish them. As I said before, I really do try to stay positive, and I think when putting my best foot forward, like in a job interview, I tend to succeed at that, but my experience leads me to be more negative about this moment in the industry when I am more candid, such as in this forum. I think if you're going out for work in whatever the tech bubble du jour is, the people you're talking to have really different biases and expectations from those hiring for more "boring" development jobs, in a way that makes me want to just go out for more general roles and lie low for a while, except that since I've been working on primarily ML-related projects for most of the last decade, it's also hard to convince people not in that area that I have adequate relevant experience. In this context and with bills to pay, it's hard to stay optimistic
A cache is better when it's local rather than on the web. And I certainly don't need to pay anyone to cache local request responses.
So is this paper false too?
.. infinite recursion...
That photo hit me hard. I'd have so many regrets.
Why install apps? It's a Chromecast, just cast to it. I've been using Chromecasts as my primary vehicle on my TV for 8 years, and never needed to install any apps. It seems like it defeats the purpose of the main distinguishing characteristic.
I got involved near the tail end of the x.25 era, over 30 years ago now. I remember connecting to QSD, Lutzifer, and some other less well known systems. I also wrote my own Telenet "war dialing" tools that would scan for other stuff to connect to. Exciting times for a teenager!
Thanks. Had not seen it...
And since TFA won't tell you how much it fell (unless you're a Barron's subscriber), down 5.49%.
Pretty cool. I wonder where it would develop - will Oodle release an Open Source version or will ideas be implemented in some new (or existing) Open Source solutions - ClickHouse, VictoriaMetrics etc.
I really don’t understand killing this useful feature. Between this and the search results being bad, I don’t have much of a reason to visit Google anymore.
Any person doing videos to say they don't mind not being popular is lying. If you don't mind it you don't need to make a video and publish it on HN trying to find viewers (and failing miserably).
Show HN: Broken Hill: A Productionized GCG Attack Tool for Use Against LLMs
My local grocery store's registers made that noise when they had an error.

You can imagine how fast my head whipped around the first time I heard it.
Well for corporate stores yes. Still a good number of rural area small businesses that give a discount for cash, or only accept cash.
> send traffic to websites

Yup, mostly sponsored websites, thus killing the Internet. We have complained about this for at least a decade, we are tired too, thus moving to a better knowledge provider like the LLMs is a natural step.
Danbury is only "in the Boston area" by the most generous of measures. Hell, Danbury's probably closer to Philadelphia than Boston.
I would say that the point of blocking is to prevent someone from contacting you. Not to prevent harassment.
Cyberattacks Plague the Health Industry. Feds' Response Feeble and Fractured
So your LLM has an up to date cache of roughly all web pages in the world?

Given that the answer is inevitably going to be "no", why do you think this generic complaint is in any way relevant to the article?
> We can use AI right now as another boogey man to light fires of desperation under the ass's of our over achievers.

Stellar point. And I think this is where most ink and tears will be spilled, as we focus up up up to the archons on capital that entrap us so.

And yet.

What's really notable to me is that we don't have smart amazing interesting people in the world who kind of float along, with cheap rent & interesting times in cities.

My gut read is that the past couple hundred years have, at their better points, been at least in part due to people having some graces of circumstance to humble a long until they happen into or start something really neat. And we've lost all the space where that happens. Life is too expensive to figure things out over time at, at this point.

The second order effects are even worse than the primary. We don't have people who delayed and deferred and eventually had something click, that they had the runway and low rents to keep whiddling away on, until it happened.

Humans are absolute masters of organic development, of sticking to hobbiest and interests for a long long time, and that used toean something. But we lack the grace to let that happen. As consolidation after consolidation sweeps across corporatedom, we are ever more desperate for what last few niches remain where we'll get at least some kind of recognition and financial reward for entailing ourselves to that giant enterprise, that almighty buck.

I don't really know. Maybe things aren't as wildly tipping over as they feel. But I think the lifeblood comes from within, is an amazing spirited force, and it's so rarely able to be listened for & fed the sunlight time and twiddling to blossom.

Sure there are winners taking all, and that's rotten and stinks and is gross and deserves screeds, and we should be mad. But I'm most afraid we forget what does work, what did work, that class based conflict distracts from holistic improvement of our societies. I've tried here to write what I think is some of our best sides, what allows art and culture and exploration to flourish, and move us, and it pains me so much to see how much harder it is, how daunting it is, to keep a roof over your head in someplace with other interesting people, and with health insurance.

We absolute see AI as a campaign of fright, to compel us in. Rhetoric to amplify the stakes & stress the need to be ever on the march forwards, or perish.

But to fall into this narrative is to let it ensnare us. Resistance only requires living good lives. 8 don't disbelieve in conflict but real victory will also require something further, something nurturing.
If you're in Western Europe a minimum security federal facility is probably closer to your understanding of a prison than an American's understanding. Hence Americans describe it as a camp, whereas if you looked at it you might say hey, that's a prison.
The self-serve version is hosted (it’s easy to try locally), but we offer managed deployments where you bring your own DB. In this case your data is 100% yours, in your PostgreSQL. That’s how Find AI uses Velvet.
It is great that we have solid FOSS implementations of Common Lisp. I am partial to SBCL, which is derived from CMUCL, and I also like Armed Bear Common Lisp in situations where I want to use the Java virtual machine. I’m also glad that Lisp didn’t die when Lisp machines did; many people were able to migrate from Lisp machines to other platforms thanks to Common Lisp compilers.

Still, there’s something very appealing about an operating system built on top of an object-oriented environment. I’m not talking C++ or Java, but I’m talking about the types of dynamic environments made easier with Smalltalk or CLOS. There were many explorations of desktops built using dynamic objects. The closest we’ve gotten to this commercially was NeXTstep/OPENSTEP/Mac OS X, which makes heavy use of Objective-C. Étoilé, a project from the late 2000s that used GNUstep, would’ve been another interesting evolution in this direction, and I also like projects like Pragmatic Smalltalk (from Étoilé) and Objective-Smalltalk that aimed to build a Smalltalk using an Objective-C base. I also know that Microsoft’s COM tried to achieve component-based systems by trying to make a common substrate that doesn’t rely on dynamically-typed OO languages like Smalltalk and Common Lisp. Of course, neither macOS or Windows take things as far as the Smalltalk-80 environment does, and I dream of what can be created using CLOS.

But, hey, it’s not too late. A Lisp OS is my dream side project.