skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the problem here was the USSR not the UBI. you need to disconnect the two. the USSR and the associated political repression came first and it's no surprise that any handouts thereafter were in service of that political system.

we are discussing UBI in a democratic system, and i feel it is rather unlikely that implementation of UBI would turn a country into something like the USSR.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UYmiQdLuxY
"They have the same problems" and "they share one specific particular problem" are vastly different claims.
Cursor – Cursed or Blessed?
They don't want anything to be done. Their intention is just to keep profiting all the way down the slide to doom.

The irony is that excellent profit could also be made in doing the opposite of nothing.
Sorta? For one, you don't always have to do full site optimization for this problem. As such, the "N" you are working over is going to be limited to the number of breaks within a section you are looking at. And you can probably divide work across the sections quite liberally on a page.

Yes, there can be edge cases where optimizing one section causes another section to be resized. My gut is that that is the exception, not the norm. More, for most of the resizes that will lead folks to do, it will largely result in a "card" being moved up/down in such a way that the contents of that card do not need to be re-optimized.

Yes, you could make this even harder by optimizing what the width of a section should be and flowing another section around it. But how many sites actually do something like that?
Macs are a bit odd because you're using system memory (so, more but slower) and Apple's APIs, but it's definitely worth a try. I'd guess >= M2 Pro + >= 24 GB RAM would do okay. Also maybe try an MLX version? (e.g. https://huggingface.co/justinmeans/DeepCoder-14B-Preview-mlx...)
Sorry. The "we heard you" and then offered a ridiculous price tier.
I can speak from first hand experience that the comment about inverters is inaccurate. You may need to replace them they are the weakest link in the balance of system.

2nd - much nicer to not have to waste a paid off asset at year 20.
Does obtaining Global Entry minimize the chance of them deciding to harass a citizen crossing the border, I wonder? It is at the cost of your biometric - but data on your devices might be worth more, and as I note elsewhere in this thread, you can image a computer and back it up fully, but not a phone without some data loss, unfortunately. [ TWRP possibly can do it right perhaps, but it requires unlocking the bootloader (which wipes the phone), and once bootloader is unlocked, it's more vulnerable to Cellebrite and company, to my understanding, ]

seeing the latest (leaked?) Cellebrite info from 2024 Summer- BFU State[Before First Unlock state] after posting on, modernimoPuxelsiPhones on the latest OS, and graphene devices see moto be the hardest to get into.

Anyway- , with computers - this was a solved problem from a technical standpoint- Yes I'm talking Truecrypt then, and today Veracrypt. The Hidden Container feature is impressive- but the Hidden OS feature allows for a truly hidden OS behind the scenes that can't be found at all. However, there's a unfortunate weakness that makes this hard to use today- it's limited to MBR , not UEFI [GPT]systems- so unless you like your computer not being able to have more than 2 Tb - and only 4 partitions (so good luck If you do a lot of stuff from dualbooting to other whatnot)
We need a Veracrypt Hidden OS equivalent for UEFI systems that's truly undetectable.(That also will work for Linux and maybemeMac not just Windows as Veracrypt currently does - you can only make the Hidden Volumes on the non Windows versions of VC)
There was one project to do it - and there were articles and a black hat presentation on 'Russian Doll Steganogrpahy" for a OS- but it didn't go anywhere from what I can tell, and everyone is now wide open .... Unless you have a MBR system. I also think I've heard UEFI is more easily secured than MBR in general and for the foreseeable future...

https://portswigger.net/daily-swig/russian-doll-steganograph...

https://i.blackhat.com/eu-18/Thu-Dec-6/eu-18-Schaub-Perfectl...
I am not sure I entirely understand the game. In typical Fermi questions, the goal is to arrive at the appropriate order of magnitude. In this game, the order of magnitude appears to be provided for you. The extrema are ~220k and ~1.8M for the question regarding passengers in the air, and these extrema are less than an order of magnitude apart. Am I misunderstanding something...?
Also cancelled Claude Pro due to a combination of unreasonable amounts of downtime and Gemini 2.5 just doing a better job for me.

I'd estimate there's probably like another 6 months to a year where I'll jump around to whatever 'cloud' LLM is currently winning on quality of the model (in terms of usefulness as a coding assistant) and just basic UI/availability and then I'll build a locally hosted system and just use that.

I certainly don't have anything like brand loyalty to any of them, so I'm down for a race to the bottom.
this has to be one of the most illogical hedges
Primary source (full-text, translated, pdf): https://files.libcom.org/files/The%20Society%20of%20the%20Sp...
There already is something similar to UBI. People don't starve, they have shelter, and they generally get taken care off when they have medical emergencies. That's true in most countries. What you get at that level is typically not great. But it is provided for by societies and governments across the world and lots of people are dependent on that.

That current system is actually more expensive than UBI. At its best it would be about as expensive. For example, some countries spend almost as much on unemployment programs as they do on the actual unemployment benefits. Which, if you think about it is mildly ridiculous. People that show up at a hospital are not going to die abandoned in the gutter (well mostly, Michael Moore documented a few negative examples for this in the US). And of course, having your life saved might bankrupt you in the US. Even if you are insured. And even there they'll likely patch you up at least. And in most other countries, everybody is insured so it's not a problem. The modern sign of poverty is being morbidly obese because of the excess of low quality nutrition people seem to be able to get their hands on via food stamps and what little benefits they can scrape together. Which then causes health issues. Which further burdens the unemployment and benefits system.

All this is stupid, inefficient, costly, and not that great if you are on the receiving end (to put it mildly). But formalizing the status quo in UBI form might make things a bit more efficient and better. It would still not be great or that attractive as a lifestyle. But then the message becomes "just get a job if you want/need more". Don't worry about starving. Worry about getting something nice for yourself and work to secure that. Most people have more ambition than just coasting on benefits. And would you employ the ones that don't?

People think of this in closed world terms (somebody has to pay for it), not realizing that most economic growth is a complex system with money being created and distributed (in complex ways) by central banks, which then causes inflation to happen, and spending to compensate for that. A lot of jobs are more about distributing money to people and getting them to spend it than getting people to do something that adds value. The most important function many people have in our economy is just spending their money. Skipping the part where these people pretend to be useful in some bullshit job isn't that big of a deal.
I'm sure China managed to catch up in some of the fields but I doubt all of them.

And if you could guarantee that they'll never catch up in the others, we'd all feel a bit better about the permanency of American superiority.

Absent that guarantee, we need to bench test those scenarios and be prepared with plans that best serve American interests should those scenarios come to fruition.
yes. many different strains and even if your body clears infection with one doesn’t protect against other strains
if you believe the conspircy theory that Satoshi was created by an intelligence agency, then having it discovered would make a some people wary of using it.
Yeah sure but then you do promote EU alternatives out of necessity.

On the long term this can really make EU more sovereign, less dependent and it's not a crazy thing.

I have never understood the argument of "yeah tariff would hurt us because we are dependent on foreign tech". Yeah that's precisely a problem at a country level. Promoting local alternative is best than winner takes all.

There's also a price in not looking tough when you're getting bullied sometimes.
> 1. People will stop working if they don't need to and won't need to in future. This is obvious to anyone who has met people.

Tons of people work jobs they don't like, instead of jobs they would prefer, because the former pays a ton better than the latter, even though they could (barely, perhaps) get by on the lower salary.

They do this because they like stuff, want prestige, and maybe want to raise a family in circumstances other than poverty.

It's not obvious to me at all that UBI at levels anyone is even half-seriously proposing would cause more than a very few people to stop working.
I don’t think this checks out. They didn’t walk any tariffs back until after the auction saw strong demand. It went opposite the way one would think setting the fall in bond prices the previous night.
Google has done stuff primarily for negotiation purposes (e.g. POWER9 chips) but TPU ain't one. It's not a backup option or presumed "inferior solution" to NVIDIA. Their entire ecosystem is TPU-first.
I don't think that's a worthwhile challenge. Either you fail and get addicted, or you succeed and... what? Spend some of your free time watching low quality micro videos and being advertised to by teenagers? I don't see the upside here.
This is how we end up with people who cant write legibly, cant smell bad maths (on the news/articles/ads), cant change tires, have no orienteering or sense of direction and memories like swiss cheese. Trust the oracle son. /s

I think all of the above do one thing brilliantly, built self confidence.

Its easy to get bullshitted if what youre able to hold in your head is effectively nothing.
It's Ubuntu time !
The US was going down the "let dominate IP/technology" angle for awhile, but we only accomplished it with imported labor (look at any SWE shop). China is obviously developing the talent to do the same, and they are rapidly automating manufacture work as they approach a demographic cliff. They are basically making all the right investments for the future while we try to go back to the 1950s. It is extremely frustrating.
Ukraine: 'We produce more howitzers than all of Europe combined'
It’s data center with much higher power density. We’re talking about 100 going to 1,000 kw/rack vs 20 kw/rack for a traditional data center. Requiring much different cooling a power delivery.
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> Look at the number of people who continue working well into retirement or the people who volunteer their time.

And those people are a fraction of people who don't continue working when they don't have to.

You can't make decisions based on the behaviour of such a small minority.
That's weird, cause they sure smeared millions of people real fast as undesirables trans/illegals/DEI/woke, but Trump gets a million chances and coup do-overs and please explain take your time sir: What is the amazing 4D strategy behind telling people to drink bleach?

Nepotism feels good all the way until it sinks your company.
America is not going to get there and stay there by being stupid.
I guess I am a weirdo, but vaccines are the closest thing we have to space magic. Generally, they are very safe and prevent some of the most devastating diseases. All for the most minor discomfort. I want everything I can get, even if I am unlikely to be exposed to the real infectious agent.
Just want to chime in that although this comment is a bit harsh, it does hold a lot of truth. As a game netcode engineer, most of my time is spent on latency hiding techniques and its consequences (for example, we use rollback netcode and lots of efforts are spent on minimizing visual/sound glitches when mispredict, rollback and reconcile). There are lots of middleware that help with this (eg. Photon, SnapNet, etc) but in general there's no silver bullet - it's highly gameplay specific. Even for the same game, the solution can vary depending on different trade-offs (i.e. budget, correctness/anticheat).

As to how to store the game state in memory, it's usually not something that needs much thinking: it's simply done the same way (or similar) as the game's client code. After all, netcode is mostly about efficient state replication and this saves CPU time when replicating it across clients - and gives more CPU time for minimizing bandwidth (like delta encoding, quantization, etc). If you want, you can utilize some techniques like ECS to optimize for CPU cache locality, but it affect gameplay code a lot and would need to get the whole team onboard.

Also, I just noticed the username "gafferongames" - Glenn's blog[1] has been a must-read for netcode engineers. It helped me a lot when I started working on netcode in the 2010s

[1] https://gafferongames.com/
Agree, UK did not have a smart and capable leaders and elites for a very long time.

The elite/ruling class need to be replaced with the more capable and smarter ones
Thanks for the suggestion.

orgmode is certainly interesting, but again, its goal is a (small) subset of what is achievable with GT :). And as you say, even that is hard for beginners.

> Lastly, it is a bold statement to say something like "we have discovered a new development methodology, and have designed this toolkit around that philosophy". Such a statement requires a ton of evidence that such a methodology is useful, and currently there simply is not enough.

I am well aware of what that statement says. I did not utter it in the first 10 years of this journey. But by now, I do believe we do have the evidence, and a good deal of it is even available publicly and freely. Of course, there is still this little issue of people actually taking the time to evaluate that evidence. If people are not going to look at the evidence, it's never going to be enough. And that's just fine because eventually, some people will look at it :).
Because there often is?
Back to coal mines.
How is Gemini 2.5 Pro v Deep Research? I've found that function on OpenAI quite impressive.
Sometimes I’m just too much in the zone working and I forget, leading to 10 mins more in the zone, but less overall focused work through the day.
> Why Companies Don't Fix Bugs

" It hardly seems worth even having a bug system if the frequency of from-scratch rewrites always outstrips the pace of bug fixing. Why not be honest and resign yourself to the fact that version 0.8 is followed by version 0.8, which is then followed by version 0.8? " jwz
Thanks! I'm tempted to try Speech to Text + Cursor/Copilot for development. It's probably the future since most people can speak faster than they can type.
=> subsidy for local competitors in the local language

I'd like to know if you know what's you're talking about. In france the local subsidies are really low and the inversely the big rebates like "Tax Credit For Research & Dev" are for everybody, US companies like EU ones.
I mean he's old enough to remember Biden's inflation, following his trillion dollar spending bills
22 euro per month is less than 1 per day. Less than one espresso.

I get the subscription fatigue, but there are splurges and there are truly valuable things.
I could not find numbers for warhammer related industries in the uk. Probably because they are to low. Warhammer has a large profit per piece sold, at least compared to fishing.

US citizens often fail to realise that earnings of an industry are almost irrelevant, it is how much said industry distributes into society that matters, both for people and the state.

Classical industries like mining and steel distribute a significant percentage of their revenue.

Digital businesses does not, neither does warhammer.

The interesting point is, that in the end the value of the money digital good as as well as plastic toys are measured in is based on physically realised wealth: Without physical businesses, the money warhammer is evaluated on would be ethereal.
Indian Americans make the most money in America, I’m sure immigrants can be capable
Not 24 hours ago he said the tariffs were non negotiable, now he says this was always the plan. There's no reason to believe a word he says.
Wiki Wars: Editors are fighting for influence over the encyclopedia's entries
Oh, from the video I got the impression it was more than that, based on it recognising app contexts and the like. I guess that's mostly just icing on the cake for the core dictation part.
I have a bridge to sell to all those who are paying these companies $100 / $200 a month. Obviously they aren't hackers, I get that, but even normies should have a better sixth sense?
Clearly shoes and textiles in general are extremely difficult to automate, but you only have to build one shoe building robot, and copy it. Why hasn’t this been done? Expecting a “too hard” answer honestly, but is it really?
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> Smalltalk is so all-in on object-oriented programming that it puts me in the wrong mental space for just banging out throwaway code for getting a question answered quickly.

otoh I can see what you mean.

otoh I can see someone start "banging out throwaway code" and testing it in less than 2 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXoxfmcDDJM
Exporting dollars is exporting something. Combine a constantly depreciating dollar with constant rates of trade and you could end up in a steady state.

However, we define trade deficits to exclude financial transactions for various reasons.
The guy who said "AI will never" is obviously wrong. So is the guy who replied that they already can. I'm not moving the goalposts to point out that this is also wrong.
Harris was the only option for the DNC unless major election laws would have been changed very late in the cycle (moving funds raised to another candidate - highly improbable). There’s a strong argument that the DNC was at fault for not preparing a suitable backup candidate in case of emergencies. There’s even an argument that such a thing was done deliberately so that voters would be stuck with Harris. Nevertheless, once Biden dropped out, she was the only practical option.

Two important notes: the RNC would have been just as screwed if the DNC had succeeded in putting a bullet in Trump’s brain. Also, Harris performed unusually badly during her presidential primary, stoking angers that she was not only unelected, but that she wouldn’t have been elected given the chance.
It's amazing to see pictures of feudal japan and think that some of the people who grew up there would be alive in the 1950s. Talk about witnessing progress.
so the uncertainty in the market drove investors to T-Bills, driving up their price and lowering their yield, effectively making servicing the national debt marginally cheaper. By 0.03%, which I imagine stacks up with trillions of dollars compounding.
>> Apple flew five cargo planes of iPhones and other products from India and China to the US in late March to avoid paying President Trump’s baseline 10% tariff that took effect on April 5

They shipped more phones than they would have because they knew the tariffs were coming. Nothing exciting like Apple smuggling in their own iPhones
"I encourage you to note assume that every Asian worker is a slave. "
The tone of this sentence, I dont know, a bit disturbing.
I mean it's never going to be perfect right away tho. Trying to mitigate outcomes is still better than being an law autist.
Being boring is profitable.

You want to do tariffs for national security reasons? Okay. I get it. Now get congress to pass a bill levying the tariff, have that bill be smart, encourage not just on-shoring, but also near-shoring (Mexico, Canada) of key manufacturing and minerals, apply the tariffs more strongly against the key geopolitical rivals (China), implemented in a graded, predictable manner. Do not piss of every ally in the world, in general pursuing this hierarchy U.S. > Mexico, Canada > European, African, and Pacific Allies > China, Russia. Finally, for key , and highly specific strategic industries, provide subsidies.
american has superiority in like number of incarcerated people per capita and infant mortality - that’s about it :)
> We also have VAT on imports.

And the US has sales tax.

VAT is paid on all products, it doesn't matter if it's domestic or imported!
I mostly use LLMs on PC, as I use LLMs mainly for coding.

Does AI Studio allow you to have projects with project files and whatnot?

How about its context window length, more or less than Claude's?

I am also interested in open-source alternatives to the web interface that claude.ai has, I know there are some but I have forgotten their names, would be cool to have a list here.
We buy and waste a lot of stuff. Fast fashion is pretty insane. Look in the closets of your friends who are constantly clothes shopping and it's a ton of shit that never gets worn and eventually "donated" (5% makes it to thrift store shelves, but most of it gets burned or sent to Africa .. and then burned).

Reversing the transmission of western consumerism is not an easy change. Few people are willing to pay an extra $50 for a more durable good that lasts. Long term thinking isn't easy for most, and many can't even afford to think that way.

But the tariffs are really a tax, a federal sales tax on the consumer. Biden tried to put in "unrealized gains tax" (which is really Federal property tax). So both presidents are trying to use executive power and double speak to get their people to support new taxes that are ultimately horrible for every American.

Trump Derangement Syndrome runs both directions.
An endpoint implementing this protocol would describe the agent and its capabilities, including examples. So I guess you could index that and create a discovery service.
As someone from totalitarian regime, I can say you clearly don't appreciate freedoms that you have.
Low effort lies and handwavy "they did it first." Give it up. It's a fucking dictatorship and you're supporting it.
I remember when presidents used to divest themselves of their private holdings. That went out the window in 2017
You could argue it's a self-regulating system as well with UBI at zero.
This is a pretty cool idea but I'm trying to think of the advantage of WASM vs other execution engines.

It seems to me one of the main use-cases for WASM is to execute lambdas, which are often short-lived (like 500ms timeout limits). Maybe this could have a place in embedded systems?
Detached Observations
You have to stop holding sometime, that time is not always in your control. Index funds behaving like meme coins are not fun.
Sure. Those are technical details.

But ask yourself: how many things have been expressed this way? For example, what about security? Business domain documentation? Performance? Architecture? Discovering APIs? etc

It's not that the idea is not useful. It's that it's incomplete. We should not get stuck on it.
This is not a contrarian opinion. This is a problem that was recognized long ago and production capacity for strategically important industries has been in the buildup both in Europe and the US.

Trump's actions will probably boost European, Canadian and Australian industries a bit more now. Investment in the US will be a hard sell for companies that care about the stability and level-headedness of governments where they operate.