skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the unemployment numbers, even digging into U4 vs U6, don't account for, is how hard people have to scramble to find those jobs. it's not that they aren't out there, people do still need to pay bills after all, it's that gone are the days when you'd just show up to the union hall and know you'd just be assigned some work. That feeling of solidarity, that you can just rely on the fact that you're needed and necessary and can get a dollar to feed yourself today, whenever you need a dollar. That doesn't show up on unemployment numbers.

Arguably driving for Uber/whatever does that today, but you can't seriously believe that you can build an entire economy off of everyone delivering people and food to the rich.
14d chess of course.
Elegoo goes large with their new Jupiter 2 Resin 3D printer.
CalDigit Introduces TS5 and TS5 Plus Thunderbolt 5 Docks [video]
> "Wealth concentration" is not a policy related to markets, production, and trade. It's a policy related to taxation.

I agree with most of what you say, but the pre-tax results of income are not some single natural outcome, but the results of policies about business, economy, education, healthcare, international relations, trade, immigration, monetary policy (of course), regulation, government budget, etc. - pretty much everything.

Those things can be adjusted to result in less or more wealth concentration.

They also depend heavily on capital gains tax in particular.
Kalshi CEO: 'State law doesn't really apply' to us
We don't need to hypothesize about our bodies not getting the natural opportunities to manufacture it. We know we don't. Plenty of people live in places where the sunlight is insufficient for significant portions of the year to generate any vitamin D. Many others live in places where they may nominally be getting enough ultraviolet to make enough vitamin D, but have too much melanin in their skin for the ultraviolet conditions where they live.

This isn't all about "oooh sooo much indoors too much screen time stop sitting so much lol lol lol". You can go outside all day in the middle of winter at the 45 degree latitude, where a lot of people live, and you will generate zero vitamin D, no matter what you do, because it isn't the visible spectrum you need. You need something that isn't in the winter sunlight at all. AIUI, it's technically not the same part of the UV spectrum that causes sun burns, but you're at least on the right track if you think of it as if you can't burn (modulo melanin), you can't generate vitamin D at all.
These "here's the actual reason they're doing this!" things rarely hold up under any amount of scrutiny.

Then again, they're tempting because the things they're doing are also really bad ways to accomplish Trump's stated goals.
Look up the price of a single small unpainted figure. You'll be shocked.
A quick scan didn’t find two rules I try to keep in mind:

- know what you don’t know.

- don’t be an asshole.

If you’re known, and known as somebody you want on the team life will be easier. Sorry if I’m repeating others, but life tends to be a team sport and you should play well.
> focused on upping my cash reserves and bracing myself for a recession.

And exactly there is a recipe for recession. A self fulfilling prophecy.

Not that you are to blame but the reason why politicians usually avoid projecting uncertainty.
> There is no effect on money supply if this is funded through taxes

Of course there is. Suppose we tax Elon several billion dollars. Now, instead of sitting in his money vault, it flows into the economy where it increases demand pressure.
It turns a sentence into a suggestion rather than a command.
Governments try stuff like that pretty regularly (you can only buy certain things with food stamps, etc), but it's typically expensive to administer and inherently prone to abuse. Buy groceries with food stamps, sell groceries, buy drugs. On top of that, it's just inherently difficult to structure this in a way that's fair and useful to every person. If I inherited or built myself a nice rural home, I don't want a government-issue apartment - either instead or in addition to what I have. Do I get nothing? That's unfair. Do I get the stuff I don't want?

"Lump sum in cash" is the most flexible and equitable system. But then - and that's a major problem with UBI - you end up with people who spend it irresponsibly and then need help to survive. So you end up with UBI in addition to all the existing social safety nets.
The joke is that Warhammer sets are expensive.
money that you need soon shouldn’t be in the broader market.

for retirement savings, balance should shift to bonds or similar as you near retirement.

same principle applies to saving for other large events, like a down payment on a house. decrease risk as even nears.

no need to manage this yourself; every roboadvisor will do this for you rather cheaply
I Invented a Popular Kitchen Gadget. Tariffs Will Kill My Business.
Previous submission:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13039981
Paying someone who provides no return on investment is simply a bad investment. Of course extra money doesn't hurt the person getting paid. It hurts the government. They are now giving someone value (payng them) in exchange for no immediate value in return. This kind of expenditure at any business or organization would be recognized as one of poor judgement. Value can't be generated out of thin air. People must pay for what they use, either by money or sweat. Lack of recognition of these basic facts isn't good. UBI is not viable.
Nobody was offering that option though.
As long as lower economic strata gain an increased portion of the money supply, they ought to be able to purchase more than they did before, even after inflation. At a high level inflation is a function of the money supply not the money supply of the lower strata.
gift link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/opinion/frywall-tariffs.h...
I'm deeply displeased with their treatment of legal residents here, but denaturalizing a citizen is about a million times more severe than deporting a legal resident alien. The executive has pretty much unlimited authority to decide which non-citizens are allowed to enter or stay within the country, and has for a long time, whereas that's not the case with denaturalization.
I prefer a system of rule of law that covers the spirit of the law rather than the letter.

I do not like the idea that law can become a game of finding loopholes that go against the spirit of it, it's whack-a-mole that costs the State a lot to keep patching. I much rather have the system most of the EU has where subjectivity can play into decisions since some loopholes can be clever enough to work around terminology, jargon, and non-specificities to skirt around what's written while being opposed to the intent of the rule.

Companies can still contest, and bring forth cases to be reviewed to check if those solutions comply with the law, their lack of cooperation is a choice to drive a wedge between the citizenry and the regulations by non-complying and crying foul to the public to gather sympathy. That's an active choice, the companies could work with regulatory bodies to cooperate, and find a solution (I work at a company who did that for DSA) but most would much rather give a bad rap to regulations to turn the public against it.
I’m not sure the target date funds are worth the management fees but I know people who use them because they are theoretically fire and forget. If you’re more active you can and should absolutely slowly move out of equities into more bonds and money market. (And can have managed IRAs based on age and risk profile as well.)
Im sure there are counter examples, of course.

I’m trying to address the narrative I’ve seen a bunch lately that billionaires in this administration already have enough, so we can trust that they wont be financially motivated.
Warhammer is expensive
I watched the video, and it didn't feel compelling honestly, backend frameworks like symfony have ways to compose client and server side code for years.

There are many ways to mix and match client(js) and server (php) in a composable way without react. Components can be created on the server side as well (mixing html+js+php). Only thing lacking is DX and type checking.
This is why Target Date Retirement funds exist.

Just plow your 401(k) into Fidelity Freedom Fund 2055 (or whenever your retirement year is - they have many options) and forget about it.

https://www.fidelity.com/mutual-funds/fidelity-fund-portfoli...

They are mostly equities and riskier investments early on, then auto-adjust to lower risk dividend stocks and treasuries when you are closer to the target fund date to support pulling out money every month to live on.
It can be done on the scale of a city or region within a country. The idea it would have an inflationary effect is somewhat misguided. There are only so many goods available in the economy, and redistributing money can't decrease that. Your real wealth, that is the quantity of goods and services you have access to, will go up if you are below the mean, and down if you are above it, under a scheme of redistribution. The inflationary effect is actually a desired result, as it will increase the economic incentive to produce goods appealing to people on the lower end of the income scale. In the long term, you should expect a real terms decrease in the price of essential goods and an increase in the price of luxury goods as the spending power of the rich falls in comparison to the middle and lower classes. You can see the precise opposite of this at play currently. Rising inequality, the exact opposite of redistribution, has driven massive increases in the production of luxury goods and simultaneous inflation and decreases in the production of essential goods.

TL;DR A free market serves the consumers with money, and redistributing money re-balances the market towards serving a certain group of people. I believe a downwards redistribution would be favourable to the present upwards one.
It's priced in a similar way to Lego.
It's not the best and the brightest who are lying flat, but those who lost the rat race.

All things considered, most Chinese would prefer to stay in China, and if you're rich there you've got it made.
Many alleged benefits of basic income can be explained by flaws in the study design. No I will not quit my 40h if the 1200€ are paid out for three years only.

But i will use the money to hire cleaning ladies or baby sitters -> more spare time than control group.
They literally have no idea what they doing from one moment to the next. Obviously they are making up facts and strategies on the fly maybe minutes before press conferences. Just look all the math errors, irrational formulas and tariffing penguins. The malevolent incompetence is staggering.
I believe at this point it's a simple game of leverage. Look how much damage I can inflict. Now let's negotiate.
> Who in their right mind wants that?

Anyone that is repulsed by a system that requires an underclass of desperate people for it to work.

> UBI just means signing your soul away to the state

As opposed to sign your soul away to corporations instead?
My big questions that do not seem to be answered in the paper:

1. Did any participants drop out? Were there exactly 107 treated participants at both the start and end of the trial? Previous UBI experiments I've seen have huge biases where dropped out participants are excluded, but dropping out is affected by treatment.

2. The ~1700 participants were selected from the 20,000 applicants via a procedure that accounted for their opinion about UBI, "the sample was supposed to contain an equal number of proponents and opponents of a universal basic income". Why was this done? Can we see how these survey responses correlate with outcome? Maybe the participants are much more/less supportive of UBI than the German population.

3. The participation criteria required that participants "had a personal, monthly income between EUR 1,100 and 2,600" and "were not unemployed for more than one year". This seems like it would introduce a lot of bias, participants are all members of the 94% of Germans I would expect to have their labor participation least affected by UBI.

Seems quite a bit better overall than the studies in the Bay Area over the last few years
I should probably specify that the restaurant is in a low population area where everybody pretty much knows everyone else. And the botted applications came from people that lived nowhere near there, and were from a demographic that was all but absent from the area.

Nobody is moving across the nation to a town in the middle of nowhere to make $10/hr.
SRS makes it possible to build funky piece elevators: https://x.com/sukiyaki_060910/status/1876957439976726658

Also, Yakinery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ1UuE7kV_o
In my defence I mentioned it was "Too late for those working on projects involving foreign manufacturers which have now been cancelled due to tariff uncertainty" which I think covers these auto workers?

Still I'm sure I unintentionally missed many examples of people who've been negatively affected by this saga. I didn't mean anything by that, it's just ignorance or lack of thought on my part.
We need to get serious about wealth taxes. The amount of money locked up in assets and land is staggering and has been under taxed for far too long.
ok, then look at the depression era US federal arts project
Purely about helping Russia and North Korea.

They must be laughing so hard how easily it is to manipulate Trump to do their bidding.
AI accents are incredibly good these days, especially eleven labs. ChatGPT is not a leader in this. I spent about $20 on this before just because I like the sound of its voice.
Truly private companies I respect their choice, but this just feels off that companies "stay private" yet you can wheel and deal in shares or similar with them, and they raise capital, etc.

This is what the stock market is for.. yet it now feels like that's just what you do to cash out and dump the business on the rest of the market.
Georgists want building apartment buildings to be profitable based on the value of the building, not the land.

The idea would be that holding land becomes less profitable, but buying land for development becomes cheaper.
Idiots, all. This feels like the sort of mistake I'd make. As in, me, myself, without a team of people planning and reviewing who could comfortably doublecheck when they thought I was getting something a little wrong in my orders. Which suggests to me that this is being done by one or two guys who do not have such a team. Which is insane.
I think this misses the point. The president and his closes aides are fascists. They aren't economics professors and diplomats trying to play some game, they're people who look towards the future and see that this world is going to end for a number of reasons. Productive capacity in China, climate change, the decline of patriarchal white supremacy, the facade of a 'rules based order', international payments and finance systems, &c.

Defending a world that is inevitably on the way out is for suckers and weaklings. And boy howdy do they despise the weak. How do you clean out the weak from finance and start preparing a command based war economy?

Volatility, the violence of markets. Move fast and break things. Then there's chaos under the heavens and the situation is excellent, or however the maoist saying goes.

At least to me this looks like trying to get advantages in an expected world war. Sensitive businesses need to die and release labour that can be transfered to a war industrial economy, and the plainly weak people need to die so the people that cares for them no longer have to and can labour with something else like pregnancy or trauma medicine.

Elon Musk is surprisingly not fully on board with this, either he doesn't understand the team he joined or he's started having second thoughts when his stocks crashed. I'm guessing the former, and that he to some extent joined the fash to look cool and manly, and liked it when he got to be on the world stage throwing about their taboo, highly recognisable signals. But now he doesn't find it exciting and refreshing to watch the world burn, he likely doesn't have his own vision for it.

None of the others are into deep sophisticated reasoning. It's not how they think. Mainly they lust, and the thinking they do is to dress up their lust in a way that doesn't turn public speeches and statements into moments of intimacy and vulnerability, because that would be effeminate and look weak.

The war they expect is north versus south, and not east against west. When the climate refugees come and the equator is unlivable, the far north will be the attacked home of the supreme humans, the masters of the future.
Heck, even Trump himself got a job at McDonald's!
Exactly no one invests 100% of their retirement savings in SPVs.
It's not a fixed tax where there is the same rate everywhere: when you check the tariff table, you can see that there is a different rate for each item (e.g. 9.4% for Cotton Jeans) and then it says in Chapter 99 that you pay "9.4% + xxx%" where xxx is the special rate for the country.

So it's xx% that goes on top of a rate defined by the type of the item.
I just installed Gentoo from WSL2 this way, on my secondary NVME on my Framework 16. Went without a hitch besides some minor things you need to be aware of:

-the lack of access to efi subsystem from wsl means you need to pass some extra flags to help grub/etc along, and you may need to set it as the boot partition in the bios manually

-you'll have to mount the drive to wsl with `wsl --mount <DiskPath> --bare`, after finding the right DiskPath with `Get-CimInstance -query "SELECT * from Win32_DiskDrive"`, and you might have to offline the disk first in Windows disk manager
Show HN: Beyond Vibe Coding:The sustainable approach to AI-assisted development
Looks like an open source version of put.io? Very cool! You might list hosters and jurisdictions where it’s friendly to host the remote torrent component and they’ll ignore IP claims and other copyright holder love letters.
He definitely does, and has since at least the '80s.

That and his self-image as The Best Negotiator (while his actual "negotiating tactics" are really just mob-boss intimidation and bullying) are a huge part of what's going on here.
you're not listening. okay, so let's say I've built an Eventbrite clone. how do I get people to use it? I'm not a salesperson, I don't have the businesses connections or acumen to make that happen. writing a bit of code is a tiny part of running a successful business.
Foundation model of neural activity predicts response to new stimulus types
The T-Bill auction today went off without issue and that was before this announcement.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/treasury-bond-auction-today...
Creator here. This article came from a pattern I observed across dozens of AI-augmented development teams: initial velocity skyrockets with tools like Cursor AI and GitHub Copilot, but productivity crashes months later when teams need to modify that same codebase.

The root issue is consistent: AI accelerates code generation while simultaneously eliminating the contextual knowledge that traditionally accompanies development. The decision-making that normally happens during programming gets compressed into ephemeral chat sessions that disappear instantly.

Our solution is based on MDC (Machine-Digestible Context) rules - a framework for systematically capturing context during AI generation without slowing down the development process. The key insight was that we needed to make documentation part of the workflow rather than a separate task.

Teams implementing this approach report 40% faster onboarding for new developers and a 67% reduction in context-related questions.

I'd love feedback from those who've experienced similar context issues with AI-assisted coding or thoughts on the sustainability of vibe coding approaches in professional environments.
It was lettuce, an iceberg lettuce, the fastest wilting lettuce money can buy.
Everything and everybody is politically biased. It means nothing to say that. Everyone is a liar, but it means nothing about honesty to point that out.

What is meaningful is the degree to which they are, and what else they are. I don't think we need a pedantic debate about Fox News.
Yeah. Although there is some percentage of people who don’t or just don’t want the mental overhead relative to dealing with stuff they actually care about.
> 24 hours of no TCP/IP every week

But streaming, games, and all the other distracting stuff is mostly UDP! /s
It would make land cheaper and improve the profitability of doing the conversion. Paying people to sit on land is hilariously inefficient. Welfare for the rich.
Incompetence is way more dangerous than people realize.

These tariffs are China's Four Pests campaign. Mao, a very trump like figure, decided to protect Chinese crops by destroying sparrows that were picking at them. Killing sparrows killed a predator of insects which did more damage to crops. This coupled with reality denying policies and ignoring experts led to one of the most devastating famines the world has ever experienced.

Hand waiving away this policy that denies reality and hurts America as a rational plan that went wrong is absolutely dangerous. Killing sparrows was "rational" in the same way these tariffs are. Authoritarians believe in power over reason. They do not like submitting to the authority of those who have studied problems because it is an attack on their own supremacy, so they fail to predict second order effects, which were likely obvious.

The damage this administration is doing to trust will be felt for generations. An agreement with America will have no value. No world leader will care what we say, they will only look at what we do. They will see power we have not as potentially being used for their own defense, but as a potential attack on their own sovereignty and they will wish to see us weakened so that they can spend less resources trying to determine our intentions.
It is a sound analysis but I think there are other non-legal factors at play.

If the president tries to do X, then the lawyers block X, then in political game theory the president "wins" in the eyes of the electorate because the president can argue "my plan was perfect, the execution failed due to the opposition, so I am not accountable to what has now happened".

The left might want to see a disaster play out to capitalize in the mid-term elections, laying the accountability directly on the president. The right might not have freedom of action because they fear a well-funded challenger for their seat.

In am interested in other people's opinions and ideas in this area. I agree it is too little discussed and analyzed. Please share your insights!
> just having a DAL with explicitly written (or generated) methods instead.

That's a bit orthogonal. Even if you use an ORM library, you'd be remiss to not put it behind a DAL. But from your DAL if you emit/accept objects of your own transformation: Congratulations, you've just invented an ORM. You can emit/accept relations, which is quite justifiable, but even then you are bound to have to map it to objects at some point. e.g. interfacing with third-parties that require objects. There is really no escaping ORM in any reasonably complex real-world application.
exactly and I think it's shocking that everyone is just repeating lies without putting them in context.
This is still a shit argument.

Most people have nothing in the current system.
There's no actual commitment here. He could reverse again tonight. He signaled ongoing dissatisfaction with countries that had retaliated, so may well take further action there during the 90 days, which 90 days are, again, meaningless in that they don't bind him at all, and even if they did, he's done a bunch of things he's "not allowed to" and so far has gotten away with tons of it.
Just tried it and it crashed