skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For folks who haven't operated an excavator, the trade-off with these mini-excavators isn't necessarily that they're underpowered. There are two other problems.

First, they are very wobbly and you're gonna be limited by that. You really need a fair amount of surface contact and a robust counterweight when you're extending the arm and moving boulders, pulling out roots, or digging into hard soil.

Second, you might look at specs and say "oh, cool, digging depth of 5 ft, I don't need more!". Except, this is attainable in one specific (and awkward) position of the excavator's boom and arm. It's less than that across most of the movement range.

Another thing to keep in mind that this is not like buying a car. An excavator or a tractor deprecates far more slowly, and many private owners keep them for 20-30 years. A diesel excavator will need DIY maintenance and simple repairs, but it should hold up for life. Battery-powered equipment will probably need new battery packs before that. Just something to keep in mind when figuring out the pros and cons. If you're in the suburbs, noise is a concern, but then, you honestly don't need your own excavator...
Too bad the EU will never experience such innovation
This is just willful ignorance. See the links others have posted.
If you need to go to the IMF for a loan of ~3% of your GDP to mitigate the risks associated with Bitcoin, well, that's a pretty good sign that adopting Bitcoin as legal tender was a pretty disastrous failure.
You've encountered a rare political thread that the moderators have allowed to stay up.

The physics are different here
60 years ago, a super shitty car company from Japan called Toyota starting importing their pieces of shit to us. They were small, weird, with a poorly translated manual. And they were shit. And Toyota kept improving, and learning from their mistakes, and got to know the US market better. And now they are one of the largest corporations on Earth.

This is why when I see a $1 stepper motor on AliExpress, or a YouTube review of some cheap Vevor tool, or a shipping container of electric miniexcavators, I realize this is China being a teenager, learning how to be an adult. And they are a lot bigger than Japan, and are going to have a bigger impact than Toyota, or Sony, or Mitsubishi.

And this is why I hate Trump. Because he is completely right about how much China is gaining on us, but he has no understanding of how or why, and is therefore doing absolutely nothing to actually help us maintain our manufacturing power.
That is pretty cool. I tend to default to AWS, luckily not too expensive for my side projects (about $15/month) - nothing accessible to the public though so my cost is relatively predictable.

That said, I do wish you could hard shutdown at a certain budget limit.. but guess that is not in AWS’s best interested.
They'll build more cargo planes.

> Does the military just live with having one fewer C-17, until they eventually have none left?

Yes, 744 B-52s were built and were down to 76 in inventory. Eventually every aircraft gets replaced with something.
Musk has zero chance of freeing up a ‘significant’ fraction of the budget. 73% of the budget goes to mandatory spending (social security, Medicare, Medicaid, interest payments, and other income assistance programs). Musk will touch zero of this. Trump and the GOP won’t let him. The Democrats too for that matter. And it’s mandatory spending is what has been exploding over the last decade, not discretionary spending

The remaining 27% is split 50/50 between defense and everything else. Musk will not be given access to the DOD. The remaining half of discretionary includes things like transportation, R&D/science funding , education, NASA/SpaceX, climate/energy, etc… essentially a lot of high value investments for our future that slashing would be like shooting ourselves in the foot.

https://www.pgpf.org/federal-budget-guide/
Which public BigTech company has increased 6x in the last few years? Maybe Nvidia?
I don't want to, but it looks like I'm going to be PIP'd for no reason. Looking to move into some sort of analyst role since dev roles have been harder to find recently in my area.
Great recent article which explores how to actually cut $2T of federal expenses (though if course a tally doing so very quickly would cause a recession):

https://prospect.org/economy/2025-01-27-we-found-the-2-trill...

Most of what's been discussed so far is culture war dog whistling which won't save any money- or just cutting entitlements and hang the consequences.
If an economy grows at 2% and the supply grows by 1% it is in permanent deflation. For a country like el salvador with much higher growth, the deflation can easily be much higher
That’s a lot of words for “it cannot be used in everyday financial transactions”.
I'm so curious what will happen as mining approaches the asymptote. When the mining rewards become more and more rare and if people aren't incentivizing the network with a lot of transactions, will transaction times just get slower and slower until it becomes a stranded asset?
> He said his country would accept only “convicted criminals” and would charge a fee that “would be relatively low for the U.S. but significant for us, making our entire prison system sustainable.”
Absolutely. Linux is a unix-like kernel written in C.

This is what Linux is at a fundamental level, and is not going to change unless this is an effort the majority of Linux developers are willing to support.

Accommodating those trying to introduce a new language was never a good idea. They should have been told to go work on their own kernel.
In my limited understanding it is a HN feature. If it wasn't that way, HN would be awash with product announcements and spam.
Please don’t share with us what Claude has to say. We can all query an LLM ourselves.
I was literally going to quote Chesterson's fence. How are people this smart and also this dumb?
TBF Monero is pretty decent for buying drugs.
> If I could convince someone to give me 1.x billion to change my behaviour

I think you need to refresh your understanding of the difference between a loan and a gift; it wasn't an incentive to change the behavior, it was a loan to deal with the problems caused by the behavior.
> Imagine a fraction of that going back to citizens!

You know that US citizens mostly donate to charities that help other US citizens?
This statement assumes all costs and losses involved in the experiment were “for nothing”. I highly doubt that’s the case.
Nah, one of two things: 1) it's a distraction from the actually important, messed up stuff he's doing, or 2) there's something in the files that makes some government agency that Trump hates (like the FBI) look bad.
> From a loss of life due to violence perspective, CHOP/CHAZ was worse.

But from a potential to overthrow the government perspective, Jan 6 was worse. The entire Senate and the Vice President were in that building. The stated goal of the mob was to stop the transfer of power ("stop the steal"). They chanted their methods, which included hanging the Vice President and Speaker of the House, 1st and 2nd in line of succession. They brought a gallows. That's why it was an insurrection and not just a protest.
> It feels like similar things happen in other govt buildings in the USA all the time

This is exactly how public perception will instantly normalize things if Trump ever gets the power to throw political enemies out of windows. "Oh this stuff happens all the time. Politicians have always been killing their enemies. Look up Seth Rich and Whitewater. Don't be so naive."

It will happen in the blink of an eye. And then it really is over.
What's Going on at the FBI?
Most older pre-war cities have a core that is hollowed out with more affluent areas nearby creating a stark contrast. Newer cities that developed with automobile sprawl have that more diffused.
Ok, so you acknowledge that there's a conflict of interest, and you still think that Elon Musk is the only human who can possibly find government inefficiency?

I have some less polite ways of saying this so I'll keep to myself, but that seems like a profoundly ignorant viewpoint. There are 330 million Americans, and the only person that could possibly find government inefficiency is a guy with extremely clear and obvious conflicts of interest? Ridiculous, I do not believe that you actually believe that.

I personally think that it is extraordinarily stupid to get someone who routinely gets government contracts to be in charge of determining what is "efficient". I personally wouldn't choose any active CEO, but even if you believe that somehow a businessman is going to be better, couldn't you choose a CEO that doesn't have federal contracts? Even if it was a conservative, even if it were someone who I absolutely despised, it would still be a better choice than Elon Musk. I genuinely cannot think of a worse choice for this project than Elon, honestly.

My distaste for Trump and Musk has nothing to do with whether I'd "like them in person". I already dislike most people and I am quite confident I would not like any politician if I met them in person. I do not make my political decisions based on "how much I would like hanging out with them".

I think Trump and Elon are profoundly stupid people, and they're kind of a match made in heaven, which I find very dangerous.

"Western Civilization persisting" shouldn't start with an dubiously-legal "department" with clear conflicts of interest. This shouldn't be controversial.
> to mitigate the risks associated with Bitcoin

Was that the goal of the loan? How did you come to this conclusion?
Or perhaps it should have been this:

https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1006805/f75d238e25728afe/
Well, the NHS might be better than what the US has, but that doesn't mean it's good.

So Britain as a whole spends roughly half (in terms of percentage of GDP) on healthcare as the US. That includes both public and private expenditure. At similar health outcomes.

Now Singapore spends roughly half of what Britain spends (in terms of percentage of GDP), and our population is no worse off for it.
I'm tired of people so convinced they're right that they're ready to shoot all the people who disagree with them.

There's a good reason we set things up so that no one individual has absolute control. We've tried that. It's not great.
Unfortunately not for now, as i don't have the device to compile it, but there's a contributor that is working for the linux support, and there's someone that said to volunteer to make it available to macalso. But we'll get there, it's our first mvp afterall.
And a lot of the things he's doing are going to make things worse for us.
Huh, I thought Peppa Pig just made up Diggerland (I have young children)
no it doesn't because here you are accessing their actions (approaching your front door in some unusual context like holding a crow bar)

in addition, having front doors idk. calling the police on people just because it's a "unusual" situation would be quite dystopian and would most likely for society as a whole lead to far more damage then it would prevent so instead of your door trying to "detect maybe soon to happen crime" it could "try to detect unusual situation which might require human actions" and then have the human (you someone or in a call center if you aren't available) do the actions (which might be just one or two button presses, nothing prevents you to take the action by directing the AI to do it for you)

and lets not forget we are speaking about before the break in (and maybe no break in at all because it's actually a Halloween costume or similar), if the system detects someone braking in we have a action
Same here with my oldest kid at that age. I've definitely seen every episode of Mighty Machines, most multiple times.
Here's the simple question - who gets fired when the deliverables aren't met?

This is the single greatest motivators for American companies in our exhausting capitalistic society.
Try to Jailbreak Claude's Constitutional Classifiers
> Inflation, not deflation, leads to the debasement of a currency. An example is how the influx of gold from the conquistadors into 16th century Spain led to inflation, due to the increased supply of this means of exchange resulting in the debasement in value of a given unit of this means of exchange.

No, that's not debasement - in fact it was the opposite, the huge supply of silver (not so much gold) meant those Spanish coins were good-quality bullion. Inflation happened, and while that can commonly be caused by debasement, that wasn't the cause in this instance.
> Yet, nobody would deny that gold cannot form a good monetary foundation

I wouldn’t say nobody (fools exist), but, sure, only a fool would deny the statement “gold cannot form a good monetary system”.

But... Isn't that the opposite of your Bitcoin claim?
Nanofluids, turbulators, and novel working fluids for heat transfer processes
>fairer way to help people than trying to do it with other people’s wealth

That "other people's wealth" you're talking about is everyone's wealth.

Billionaires stole the profits of our work from us, and they didn't do it fairly.

I feel you underestimate how much a billion dollars is.

https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/

Nobody in history has ever worked hard enough to earn a billion dollars fairly.

It's crazy to me that you'd defend these people who have corrupted and degraded the entire system - the government, the finance sector, the media - to only favor holding everyone else to ransom. Not producing but holding. Societal wealth stolen without paying tax to benefit society. People didn't choose this.

I'm not starving, sure. And I'd be absolutely fine paying significantly more tax than I am now.

But I'm not about to voluntarily donate while I am still forced to work towards retirement, and there are people controlling literally 10,000 times more assets than I am that pay zero tax.

Do you not see the inevitable outcome of that?

You and your children, and their children, will own nothing because the super-rich will outbid you and everyone else for everything.

Food, houses, cars, travel, hotels, healthcare, medicine. EVERYTHING.

You will be poor. The rich is a tiny club and you're not in it.

Everyone, even the wealthy ones here on hn will eventually succumb. You will be outbid for everything.

You will have to sell your house to afford necessities while all your work goes towards luxuries for oligarchs.

There must be some mechanism to limit wealth or that is the inevitable outcome.

Here's a little thought experiment...

It's a hot day and everyone's thirsty. You have $9. There's a bottle of water on the table that you want to buy and the price on it is $10.

I give you $1. You can almost feel your thirst satiated.

Then I give the person next to you $1,000. How do you feel now?

Well our current system is like that, but multiplied by 100.

I do not agree that society should exist solely for the benefit of a handful of super-rich freeloaders.

On the desert island, they would starve and/or be eaten. That's not my definition of a useful member of society.
I'd avoid physician assistants and nurse practitioners.

If you want a formal diagnosis, a clinical psychologist should have the authority to assess and diagnose ADHD. A psychiatrist can, too. The best way to approach getting a diagnosis (and the finer detail of what kinds of psychologists can do a formal diagnosis, what referrals you might need, etc.) is highly dependent on location. Once you have a diagnosis, you should be able to try medications if you want.

If you aren't interested in medications, you might still want to pursue some (enough for you to learn about yourself) or all of a formal diagnosis if you want. The benefits and downsides of a formal diagnosis are also highly location dependent.

Talking to a psychologist might be helpful regardless of diagnosis.

Please don't use an ADHD 'coach', they're a predatory scam
They have made the wrong calls at every step. I posted a link to an article in a sibling comment; have a read of that.
'Withholding'...well how dare they.

So how many IMF bailout loans must be dispersed, without condition of course, before this BTC economy will magically work?
Its literally stated. in those words, in the upthread excerpt that describes them receiving the loan.
The issue isn’t whether or not their names are public.

The issue is that Elon Musk is highlighting them specifically in a negative way that will lead to very predictable, very personal, very negative outcomes without any recourse.
Seems wasteful to me.
The Democrats don't truly care about democracy. The fact that they fabricated a narrative that their opposition was infiltrated by Russians, and then fabricated a ridiculous comparison to Nazis, proves that they don't respect the process. When they say "our democracy" they really mean "our bureaucracy" and that means "Democrat-controlled bureaucracy that does what we want." I've seen some leading liberal rags questioning the value of the constitution and the establishment of democracy, as well. As we speak they are openly calling for violence against Republicans on Reddit and elsewhere, which is anti-democracy. It's also common knowledge at this point that a loud minority of Democrats are actually communists.
History of Informal Logic at the University of Windsor
There is an infinite supply of computer algorithms. Gold is an element.
The default is that congress has to confirm _all officers_ in the executive branch, and it's only by delegation through law that you get other behavior. That's my understanding at least.

To my knowledge the Chief of Staff does not have the power to coerce other people to do things directly. Any "actual" coercion would have to go through someone like the President, right?

And my dumb thought is if DOGE is going around telling OMB and Treasury what to do (and seemingly is willing to call the US Marshalls on people who stand in their way) and the head of the OMB requires senate confirmation... well what are we doing here?

There's a bunch of nuance you can play at a micro level (for example, Musk messaging Trump to do a thing and Trump giving an OK), though in that case that's also newsworthy and important, because it properly associates who is responsible for what is going on!

Right now we have somebody who seems to be running rampant doing whatever he wants, and this lack of explicit association with the rest of the executive make it unclear who is actually calling the shots here. And if Trump isn't calling the shots... again, where's the confirmation?
If only the leadership lead
What DeepSeek Changes About AI Competition
Newbie questions:

How do you debug an interpreter when you aren't coding for it directly? How far does fuzzing strings of opcodes get you?

How much practical difference is there between a server side WASM engine and a browser-based one? How much work would be involved converting one to the other?
I literally use USDT daily. Use it to pay for food delivery, for a massage or a manicure, or exchange it for cash delivered to my home. Literally 90% of my spending goes through it.
The point is that the money supply needs to increase at or near the pace of the economy or we end up with a currency shortage, and bitcoin being harder to mine would prove that point faster than silver ever did.
I mean "mr free speech absolutist" has already tweeted that anyone complaining about the government would have their account suspended. Kind of on brand for a nazi.
Thank you! Not the author, but I'm also building a compiler. I've stumbled across these tests before and mostly just been irritated and confused about what to do with them.
Well, maybe that's what the victor will write in the future history books, but since today's mapmakers don't know who's going to win that's not really a helpful perspective.
There are loans and there are "loans". This isn't El Salvador issuing bonds on the market, it is politics that comes with political conditions. That means they negotiated it and that means they got something in exchange for any leverage they could find.
In 2021, the percentage of Salvadorans who were using Bitcoin was 26%. After three years of mandatory acceptance requirement, it's now 8%.

It says a lot about the popularity of Bitcoin, no?
I believe selling a copy of your repo (software, solution, boilerplate) is more profitable than sponsors paying $2 once in a few month, and thats why I built this.
None of those restrictions have to do with redaction.
Ok, so you stalked my comment history so I stalked yours.

What about the Trump administration is "intelligent"? Trump lies about everything. Pointing out other politicians lie isn't a good comeback. Trump lacks all understanding of how tariffs work, he said he was going to "repeal and replace" Obamacare on "day 1" in 2016, only to say he has "concepts of a plan" in 2024, whatever the fuck that means. He rarely has "ideas", he just bitches about stuff and handwaves away everything when pressed for any details.

"Lawful order"? I don't know that that means. I would say that writing a lot of executive orders that go directly against the constitution is literally the opposite of "lawful order", but you're free to disagree.
It's not convenient to use "Bitcoin the payment network" for everyday financial transactions, just as it's not convenient to use the "USD the payment network" (e.g. the Federal Reserve ledger) for everyday financial transactions (in fact, it's impossible).

However, “Bitcoin the currency” and “USD the currency” work perfectly for daily use if you route them through trusted intermediaries (Strike, Cash App, PayPal, etc.). These third parties abstract away the base layer and offer fast, cheap, and reversible transactions.
Location: South Africa

Remote: exclusively so, unless hiring company is in South Africa

What I deliver: I develop line of business applications for SMEs, using a stack based on either Go+PostgreSQL or Python+MySQL (client chooses), both on Linux only. Windows development costs more.

Depending on complexity, I usually complete straightforward apps in 4-6 weeks and charge ~5000USD once-off although I have done LoB apps for clients who want to pay small amounts monthly instead (SaaS syndrome).

I am able to charge so little due to my proprietary framework that allows rapid enhancements in a semi-low-code manner. My clients all get the full source to the web app with a non-redistribution license so the client is free to extend and enhance the product I deliver with no further involvement on my side.

My entire value proposition is solving business problems both quickly and cost effectively in an easily maintain able manner.

If you need a LoB app quickly and cheaply without compromising quality I can accommodate you.

See https://rundata.co.za for contact details and more information.

About me: I have been developing software professionally since the mid-90s, in finance and payments, scientific research, milspec and telecoms industries. I have been in embedded development for most of the past 25 years. I still occasionally do the odd ebpf work for specific clients but prefer to do LoB apps for SMEs due to the faster turnaround time.
Anyone who has ordered frequently from AliExpress (or Temu, Wish, ..) will tell you that line is not unnecessary.
This isn't quite true. Those files were redacted. Now they would be unredacted.
Not exactly a "product" but yes, recently added an uptime notifier service in the sea of 1000s of these services.

https://ping.tinytown.studio/

Trying to keep it simple and tiny for now, would like to know what others think
Show HN: Mock-back end an alternative to back end services
Hi all,

I've been working on some classes and tutorials recently that need to use a backend and were filmed using firebase's free tier.

That's a great option, but I didn't want to use it, so I built this instead.
It's meant to be a minimally viable backend for tutorials. I started it as a single-file flask server and made some edits over time to enhance it as needed.

Because I was sick today, I could put some time into it and split it out of its single file + add some testing. It's slipshod, but it works, and I hope it'll be useful for someone in a similar situation in the future.