skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's what you get if you let people which don't know what they are doing make decision about things they don't really understand without being open for consulting because they know better using only oversimplified statistics which often don't tell even half the story.

Or at lest it looks a lot like this, honestly from its patterns it looks a lot like the decision making done at a previous employee where someone who was expert in one field got a lot of decision power and decided they now know better in every field and dear anyone says otherwise.
Some think AI helped with the formula

https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/114271484597938775
The biggest set of data points comes from the most obvious and widespread UBI - the state pension. Available to a certain section of the population

That's how all UBIs thus far appear to work. You need a fixed exchange rate area where some people don't get the UBI so that the physical output that actually funds it can be extracted from the people who don't receive it. That separation can be physical area, or age.

We can see from the state pension that the majority of people in receipt of it don't work. Instead they live off the output of others.

If UBI was a realistic possibility then the age at which people receive the state pension would be heading down towards 18 (since a UBI is just a state pension where the qualification age is the age of majority). The data tells us that the qualification age for retirement pensions is heading upwards, due to a lack of productivity gains to support it.

We also see complaints about its existence, which demonstrate that the capital inheritance maintained by the older generation and handed over to the young is not seen as sufficient to justify the state pension payment given to the old. Capital hasn't been maintained well enough and doesn't give enough to younger people. To the extent that younger people are agitating to have the state pension reduced or removed.

Switch 'old' and 'young' for 'in area' and 'out of area' and you see why UBI 'experiments' always end or are ended. Those who end up working to create the material output that actually funds the transfer get fed up getting nothing material in return and have the transfer stopped.

Somebody has to do the work to grow the carrots. If you aren't doing anything meaningful in return, (which means what the carrot grower wants you to do, not what you want to do) why won't they stop growing carrots when they have enough for themselves, and have Fridays off?
I’m currently coding a Flutter app on a 15-year-old Dell desktop, running Linux. The experience is great. I’m running latest versions of VS Code, Flutter, you name it. It’s nice and snappy and a joy to use. I’ve upgraded RAM, SSDs, GPU over the years to keep it somewhat up to date. Eventually I’m going to have to cave in and buy a Mac so that I can publish my app for iOS. I’ve been loathe to do it though and I’ve been putting it off. This article is a great explanation of why I’ve been so loathe. It articulates reasons that were semi-subconscious for me.
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And also, the programmers that got "promoted" to management are people that are here for the money/power and asked to be promoted, not because they care about coding.
And absolutely not because their peers wanted for them to be promoted because they saw a good manager in them while they were working together.

So they'll definitely make it worse for everyone than a guy that doesn't know anything about tech but wanted a career in management because they care about managing.
Or, you simply don’t train anything. Not all technology needs to exist.
It gets love alright, the same as in other ecosystems, using tools without paying the authors.

Not everyone is employed at big corp, with enough time to keep FOSS tooling as side gig.

Maybe if everyone gave back as they expect to be paid themselves, this wouldn't be a common thing.

Turns out shareware and demos was a better business model than FOSS giving everything away, unless one is building a portfolio for being hired.
Definitely the worst human rights abuser in history followed by the British, French, Germans, etc.
Rust 1.86.0
This trend is certainly one aspect of the explanation for the decline in the number of long-term relationships.
You mean "God Bless The America Freedom Numerals Sponsored By Brawndo"?
> Without having deeply researched the piece, I wonder if 639 years was chosen with any relation to Tesla's 3–6–9 idea.

From http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/2728595.stm

> They settled on 639 years because the Halberstadt organ was 639 years old in the year 2000.
I can see the value in this, but .. originals, and the gear to read them, do not last forever. Plus for many formats the act of reading puts wear on the physical artifacts. So if you want to actually use the information, you have to format shift it to digital in the first place. And then you're back to the same question as the rest of us, how to maintain the bits.
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Probably because the tariff table was put together by an ignorant acolyte. They are not serious people.
Less known than 4'33" being "silent" (which it's not) is that John Cage was an anarchist.

"Both Fuller and Marshall McLuhan knew, furthermore, that work is now obsolete. We have invented machines to do it for us. Now that we have no need to do anything what shall we do? Looking at Fuller's Geodesic World Map we see that the earth is a single island. Oahu. We must give all the people all they need to live in any way they wish. Our present laws protect the rich from the poor. If there are to be laws we need ones that begin with the acceptance of poverty as a way of life. We must make the earth safe for poverty without dependence on government."

https://monoskop.org/images/9/9c/Cage_John_Anarchy_New_York_... (PDF)

A shorter read here:

https://www.themarginalian.org/2015/09/15/john-cage-silence-...
China has been trying to build up domestic markets for the past several years. With the US imposing high tariffs on Chinese goods it stands to reason that they’re not in a position to import from Vietnam, etc. because there will be domestic overproduction.
I don't see how it's even possible to negotiate .

VAT countries apply VAT on all domestic transactions (and that includes imports).
VAT countries do not apply VAT on exports because they _rightly_ assume that the importing country will apply VAT or whatever sale tax equivalent is in place in their territory.

This is not a distortion. There's really no other way to make it work.
The massive tax cuts Trump is trying to extend or introduce are much larger than the spending cuts proposed so far.

edit: Also the USA is nowhere near a default, unless congress chooses to not raise the ridiculous debt ceiling policy.
Except VAT and Sales Tax is typically applied regardless of where the item / service originated from.

It also doesn't apply potentially several layers down.

That's not to mention things like reverse charge for B2B etc.

In other words, not similar at all!
Haha, the most recently uploaded/indexed "episodes" of a "podcast" on this site are individual songs from what looks like a podcast feed of a radio show. Just kind of funny

Very cool project
> He and Gackle have discussed diversifying their team, and adding a third moderator who is non-white, non-male, and, Bell joked, “non-balding.” Gackle clarified: “We've talked to each other about that. But we wouldn't make it a requirement.”

Without any negativity on Tom, whom I'm sure is excellent, I suspect you failed on this one @dang.
For supply-chain security, you need basically two things; 1) audit all the source code 2) build the source code (almost) without using any binaries.

The CREV folks are working on distributed code review, and the Bootstrappable Builds folks are working on building an entire Linux distro without any existing binaries, starting from an MBR worth of commented machine code.

https://github.com/crev-dev/
https://bootstrappable.org/
https://lwn.net/Articles/983340/
I'd classify this as theoretical skills vs tool skills.

Even your engineering principles are probably superior to ancient Greeks, since you can simulate bridges before laying the first stone. "It worked the last time" is still a viable strategy, but the models we have today means we can often say "it will work the first time we try."

My point being that theory (and thus what is considered foundational) has progressed as well.
The laws are specifically designed to target US firms without affecting EU ones and enforcement of fines and the size of them is highly selective -- the most attractive targets with the highest willingness to pay without getting to the point where they would pull out of the market.

If you do not see the moral hazard in this, I don't know what else I can tell you. If the EU had a seriously competitive tech industry, many of these laws would have never been created, as the EU is not some moral believer in privacy (they fight against encryption domestically), they are just run-of-the-mill protectionists like all governments.
Really notable that all the youtube feeds work and load fast, whereas all the other feeds are 50/50 if they work or not, and if they do load they're slow, laggy and bad quality.

Props to the youtube engineering team I guess!
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The UK already had a populist takeover - Brexit.
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Major question is then, what currency should be reserve?

Euro? - Nowhere near as stable as the dollar, and some quite shaky fundamentals and history?
Yen?
Pound?
Swiss Franc?

I suspect Yuan will be unpalatable.
Show HN: Aider-script – create and run reusable LLM prompt templates
Even though most of the UIs I work on nowadays are Web based, I miss the native apps with Internet protocols, and most of my side projects are native apps, nothing to do with Web.
Ask HN: Your company puts its secrets into Google Docs, MS365. Why not AI?
Companies put all of their most secret material into cloud services every day, into Outlook, Gmail, Google docs, Microsoft 365, any number of Amazon systems, cloud based accounting systems, workflow systems, development systems and source code systems.

Why do they trust these yet freak out about putting information into AI systems like ChatGPT and Claude?
If you think a war is coming, why would you antagonize your closest allies?
This is easy. We're sitting here texting on an American platform and both willing to say that the imprisonment rate in America is abysmal, that in its history America has supported awful dictatorships and racist regimes.

You can't do that in China or Cuba or Russia. You can't even mention it or you would be black holed and your family would be taken away in the night.

I'm in America and I have no fear of telling the authorities what I think.

As awful as some of the things America has done in the past 249 years are, you really can't compare them to the actions of non-democracies and authoritarian regimes. To do so is an insult to the people who struggle every day as prisoners under those regimes. You can hate America with all your heart, but you can't reasonably compare its foreign policy to that of Napoleon or Hitler or Stalin. You can't say that America ever attempted a Great Leap Forward leading to the starvation of 40 million people, or the Holodomor, or the Holocaust, or the Rwandan genocide or even the current genocide against Uighurs by China. Even the British empire looks incredibly cruel by modern American standards.

Is it still a big world power dominating other smaller countries? Definitely.

America has acted as if it were a global empire in its own self interest. But it's probably been the lesser of most evils, certainly throughout the 20th Century. What it is or may be now, it's harder to say, and we'll find out. But comparatively speaking, only a person who hadn't been to the countries you listed would make the claim that it was worse to have America running the world.

Someone's going to run the world, you know.
Hard to imagine that woman could get 3 jobs without an ID.
Well the U.S. gets screwed too, the admin just doesn’t realize it.
> you're single-handedly pulling an important project

Never do it on employment contract in Europe. Even if you really are and then quit your job, from next Monday everything will operate as if you never had worked there.

> you're never going to make the same as people who push numbers, papers and money.

That's why the top EU companies are loathed ERP company, perfumes and purses company, and obesity drug for Americans company.
>either you don't pay it when you purchase and are invoiced by a business

As a business you pay VAT when you purchase. And you collect VAT when you sell.
Then you pay to the government the difference between collected VAT and paid VAT.
That's what the "Value Added" part means.
Doesn't NixOS hog on your hardware?
For this the Russian buyer would have to previously sell something to the Philippines and accept pesos. Why would they accept those pesos if they are not generally accepted elsewhere?
If absolute gender equality is what we're after, I think the premise is flawed form the start.

Men have less rights by nature/biology because they are expendable (women are the reproductory bottleneck of the species) and they are the only gender with the physique optimized for physical fighting and hard labor, hence the famous line "women and children first".

We can say it's unfair and imbalanced but that's not gonna change biology and the status quo when push comes to shove and an enemy invades or a natural disaster hits and human meat is needed for the grinder, hence why there's no sympathy towards men and why much less societal help available to men in need (men have 10x the suicide and homelessness rates than women).

Men and women can never be equal in absolute terms outside an utopia of peace and prosperity, because evolutionary biology and gender dysmorphia has engineered our bodies to be good at completely different tasks meant to complement each other in order to ensure the survival and procreation of the tribe/species.
Is this comment AI-generated?
The line must go up.
It certainly could. Depends a lot on the specifics of how the UBI is implemented, and how UBI affects salary levels. If everything remained the same and everyone just got x more income each year, then yes, inflation is very likely. On the other hand, something more like no questions asked/no demands made social security, where the only requirement is being unemployed, could improve conditions for people who are unable to work while paying for itself in eliminating heaps of red tape, and also freeing up a lots of manpower towards helping people sort out their lives instead of pouring over disability pension applications, without paying out a bunch of money to people who don't need it because they earn plenty from work already.

One could also pay out ubi universally, but have a one time down-adjustment of salaries the first year.
> however you can't do multicast over the internet

Some parts of the internet do actually support multicast. The BBC did IPTV via multicast to subscribers in the UK for a while.
They seem to use this monetization "system"/philosophy: https://value4value.info

..which is yet again something I find both interesting and kind of funny (that they have "standardized" the philosophy of "pay what you want")
I agree. Good hackers don't care about politics, it's all so tedious. Leave such mundane concerns to the muggles.

Let's talk about compilers! Have you used any interesting compilers lately?
How does such a large famous forum get by with 1 computer and 2 mods. Theres no spam here. No fighting. How odd for the internet in 2025 XD
Large-scale pre-training is not specific to chatbots. There are undeniably a huge range of beneficial uses for machine learning: language translation, video transcription, material/product defect detection, weather forecasting/early warning systems, OCR, spam filtering, protein folding, tumor segmentation, drug discovery and interaction prediction, etc.

"simply don’t train anything" does not seem ethically (many models have the potential to or already are improving lives), politically (staying in the lead is currently seen as an important issue), or legally (as noted in this brief, "the ultimate test of fair use is whether the copyright law’s goal of ‘promoting the Progress of Science and useful Arts’ ‘would be better served by allowing the use than by preventing it.’") viable to me.
It is a self inflicted damage. Do not blame anybody else that Trump and the people that chose him. Good luck Americans.
Agreed, cognition and philosophy are technologies, tools. They shape what we can extract from them.

Thus the problem is not political but philosophical, how would we decide what to do when we cant decide what is worth more.
We are stuck in a local maximum, with Reality as the fitness function :p
These models are getting better and better. Mirrors will be solved too, guess just need more data. Water reflections for landscape images are already fine.
I guess. I was thinking more of dictatorship rather than populists getting voted in. We may well get Farage voted in some time.
A labor pool would add bureaucratic costs and also UBI is a bonus for many, not their sole source of income.
The umbrella could already be gone. There are big question marks over how much the in-practice umbrella looks like the Ukraine war where the US State Department provokes something then Japan gets flattened in the crossfire. How much should they be paying for that?

People are coming out of the 90s mindset where the US was substantially more important than its competitors. It was easily worth paying for US protection then because it was obvious the US could back it up with muscle. Now the calculation is a lot less clear.
I, for one, welcome our new overlord Tom.
European VAT makes it difficult for American companies to compete in Europe. US has no VAT, making it easier for European companies to compete in America...

Combined with the fact that the US is the de-facto largest benefactor of NATO, Ukraine, UN, etc... then the US is getting shafted by the EU and Trump is correct in seeking ways to mitigate that.

Applying this economical pressure on the EU is a valid strategy, IMHO.
Rats and cockroaches are great survivors; neither are particularly smart.
This is why I don't talk politics with anybody I respect. It would quickly make me a misanthrope.
Vietnam: Exports 136.6, Imports 13.1 Deficit = 123.5

Taking Vietnam as an example, keep in mind that the trade deficit calculation only uses physical goods.

Vietnam exports low value physical goods to the US. The US sells high value non-physical services such as Microsoft office, ChatGPT, Netflix, Facebook ads, iOS Appstore fees, iCloud subscriptions, etc to Vietnam. Other services include engineering consultants, US tax auditors, US consulting companies, etc. None of these are factored into the formula.

So a country like Vietnam gets royally screwed by this formula. They are actually buying way more from the US than just the physical goods.

If you're Vietnam, it's very hard to "just take it" as suggested by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The formula is flawed in the first place.

If we truly want fair, the formula should be based on total profit of the goods and services sold. Services have much higher margins than physical goods typically.
BRICS has been proposing a sort of basket mechanism. Bitcoin is not yet thickly enough capitalized. The historical standard was gold for 3000 years, and that's what backed the dollar until that was "temporarily suspended" in 01971. That's the default.
I was honestly excited to learn about veterinarians using home-baked software to solve problems in their day-to-day working lives. I'm left a little disappointed that I have so far wasted energy posting twice in this catfish of a thread.
"because inflating our currency to pay for them could result in functionally not being able to import goods required to run our economy."

You can't inflate your currency to payoff a debt that's due in in a different currency. As soon as you inflate your currency, the exchange rate changes.
Bizarre, tax/tariff evasion or "Mistake" does seem like the most likely explanation - yet US$1.4m is too little to bother evading tax on really. I mean that could be a refit on a boat or something -- $1.4Mn is literally nothing.
If I buy something from amazon.co.jp or Apple and it arrives from Japan or China with DHL/UPS, I don't do anything at all in Poland. It's all transparent, I just get the package for the price on the website.
L-Trac is still in production, made by P.I. Engineering, "The No Slogan Company"
Yeah but for smartphones you have two choices, both American.

Don't tell me it matters who makes the hardware, it's the OS that sets the experience.
>make the rear wheels roll in the slipstream of the front wheels.

thanks. That is in general what i meant by saying "4 wheels which are only 2 vertical columns resisting the upcoming air", i missed the shorter axle as being the most aerodynamic, and your description is just much better and more right detail level correct.
Most people are afraid of words, not a great start for discussion :p

And then there are forbidden words, words that make you lose your job, or your freedom...
> MEGAs illegal CEO abduction from their home soil in the 2010s for a particularly egregious example

I’m assuming you’re referring to Kim Dotcom since I can’t find any other reference to what you are describing. Kim was not abducted; he was arrested in by New Zealand police in 2012, and has since been fighting in court to avoid extradition to the United States. There was nothing illegal about this; it all went through the court system.
> There is really one ultimate question here: "Is this the best use of our tax dollars?".

The government has far more ways of financing things than taxes. I’m not sure why we refer to money this way—it’s fundamentally disingenuous. A federal budget is not the same thing as a household budget in any way.
Lindy effect, as the author said, is for non-perishable items. ThinkPad as a brand could be included in this categoty, but an individual ThinkPad is not.

Good article, though.
"The king is walking around naked; surely he's got a great reason for that. And his advisors wouldn't let him do it if there wasn't a deeper purpose!"