skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A fanny pack is actually where my reserve insulin is at all times. And the pack is attached to me most of the time. There's also some sugar in there too.

People with T1 either have insulin pumps attached, or long-lasting insulin injected. They are not going to keel over from lack of insulin on most days, even if their pack is gone. Except if the pump stopped working hours ago, or they forgot to inject. Then they may be close to collapse already. And being away from sugar can become life-threatening quickly for people who shoot insulin. So overall they have a pretty good reason to always carry their stuff, even in an emergency. And yes, better always attached than in some bag than can get lost easily.
BabyTime: A Video Calling App for Babies
You’re focused on entirely the wrong problem with California. The cost of electricity purchased from a private utility here is entirely out of control. That 68 cents is mostly going to a company like PG&E.
Certainly you jest.
Years away from launching = 14 months for the fly around, and about 24 for the moon landing.

The gateway’s odd orbit makes complete sense. It lets you move cargo to and from the moon’s gravity well without paying to move the rocket fuel and propellant out of the gravity well. This should be obvious to anyone that understood introductory physics and calculus. Have those been lumped in with “controversial theories” like global warming now?

Also, let’s look at how realistic the alternative plan is:

Trump and Elon plan to have a person on mars by the end of this administration. The transit time is 2 years, so they need to launch in the next 21 months.
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i think it's astroturfing
That one I know (ah the days digg died...) but it seems that there are some others? That can be calculated on a windows calculator?
Never seen HN turned against someone so vehemently, it's as if a group of bots was set lose to criticize a certain individual.
It’s an extremely regressive tax policy too. Not only is it a flat rate for everyone regardless of income, the wealthy spend less as a percent of income than the poor, so less of the income is taxed this way in the first place.
> Millennial home ownership rates are actually quite high and growing, not far from previous generations.

Incorrect. Millennial home ownership rates are 10-15% lower than previous generations. They are growing in absolute terms simply because millennials are reaching middle age and getting more accumulated wealth - but there has been and remains a gap. The gap widens for Gen Z.

https://youngamericans.berkeley.edu/2024/01/breaking-down-th...
AL already got smacked with the NIH cuts. 15% indirect cost is ridiculously low and will basically shut down all research at big universities.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/12/trump-universities-...
> it is all the more important to discuss

You're right. Sorry for not giving you the benefit of the doubt dude.
Guess I'm kinda tired of being among the "negative idiots and
luddites" warning about technofascist takeovers and the destruction of
markets, choice and agency this last 10 years... Also this just isn't
the forum for it, much as I love HN for other qualities. I do podcast
(cybershow.uk) and you might find something a bit more lighthearted
and in agreement with you there at times. respects
There would have to be a lot of pain to lead to domestically produced consumer electronics. And I'm not sure that end state is even desirable.
Here is what my screen shows on the Guardian website, 40 minutes after accessing eBay/posting the comment above:

https://imgur.com/a/b9Tzuwd
If someone can afford a brand new mid-range car, they are probably doing well enough to buy a home or live at a place with charging options.
The article says kilometers, not miles. That’s about 86,000-125,000 miles.

I don’t think that sounds insane. Every car I buy new I intend to keep for at least 100,000 miles. Otherwise, buying new is something of a waste of money in itself.

And like you said, used changes the equation quite a bit.
> Your rent could be $1000 instead of $2000 if your landlord's income wasn't taxed so much. Your Chipotle meal could be $6 instead of $12 if the franchise owner and their commercial property landlord weren't taxed so much, let alone the workers.

Trickle-down economics aka Reaganomics. Companies don’t change based on cost, they charge based on what the market will accept. If the market has people willing to pay $12 for a burrito and their costs lower, they’re going to charge $12 for burritos and keep the profits. Fast food restaurants will often have discount meal wars, but notice that it’s only promotional pricing that’s changed — promotions end when they’re not useful anymore and regular menu prices largely move in one direction. If costs and availability are unpredictable, like they were with fresh produce during the pandemic, they’d probably just stop selling the product rather than having to repeatedly raise and lower the cost, which is why McDonald’s got rid of salads.

The rental market in the US is increasingly dominated by larger corporate players that leave units to sit empty rather than lower their prices because lowering a price on one unit lowers the market value overall, which makes other nearby units less valuable. Rent maximizing platforms are even doing this among independent landlords and they’ve been criticized by the FTC for doing so.

Reaganomics is just a plausible ruse to get non-rich people to support policies that largely benefit the rich and large corporations.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics
Yeah I always think being a baby or toddler must be endlessly frustrating. Imagine having absolutely no words to communicate your need and no idea how to do anything. I've said this before to parents of babies when I was a curious teenager and they thought I'm being silly but I'm sure it actually is stressful. At the end of the day we all go through it and nobody remembers it though, so it's not worth worrying about, it's just interesting to think about.
> Ruining H1B prospects for many deserving candidates

H1B shouldn't exist, there is no shortage of domestic talent for what amounts to standard office work. The sort of things I've seen done by H1B is nothing short of appallingly bad which makes this whole debate all the more infuriating.

Visas do exist for truly exceptional talent.
Not instinctive, new-age prose doesn't help. Would need a stronger reason to take the time to explore this.
Why would rich people prefer tariffs? Only very specific rich people who know how a trade war is going to unfold want tariffs.
If it's not doing something actually related to/integrated with the car why does it need to be an app there instead of just living on your phone like all our existing digital assistants?
Ok cool, I didn't remember that was the actual definition.
You're telling me that domestic chip fabs didn't just pop out of the ground?
It’s funny to see how people jump on comments like this. Say something which goes against their religion-like beliefs and they have to proove that they are still right and the commenter wrong.
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Of course in the long run this depreciation trend might change. Plus it’s good for you if you buy an used EV. But still applies and should be said.
What's happening definitely makes me nervous, but "at best a WW3-event and at worst an extinction-event" seems a bit much. Mainly because there are a _lot_ of unknowns. Better try to get comfortable with just riding this out.
Reddit today feels like it's absolutely overrun by bots. So much of the comment content is so superficial and cookie-cutter I find it hard to believe it's all produced by human beings. A lot of it reads like the output of small cheap LLMs of the sort that would be used for spam bots.

Of course we know X, Facebook, and probably most other social media is also overrun by bots. I don't think you can assume that humans are on the other end anymore.
Noticed this also. It doesn’t feel organic.
"a little wget magic is all that is necessary"
> xAI also announced a few days ago they are starting an internal video game studio.

Ha ha. I'm sure their play to claim airdrop idle game will be groundbreaking.
The top 10% also have somewhere around 70% of the wealth, so the tax burden isn't quite as disproportionate as it seems. Feel free to compare income numbers if you're able to find them.

That said, why should we expect a direct relationship between increased tax burden and services received? You're not paying for services like a vendor, you're paying "society" in a sense.
> so they need to launch in the next 21 months.

So right after FSD and Tesla robo-taxis?
Is that what's happening?

Edit: I didn't see the bit about probation. I think that's probably because you have to start with people on probation if you're making people redundant, right?
Or increasing taxes on the domestic industries that use steel and aluminum, in order to prop up the orders of magnitude smaller domestic steel and aluminum industries. The likely result will be a net loss of jobs and a net negative to GDP.
> Your rent could be $1000 instead of $2000 if your landlord's income wasn't taxed so much. Your Chipotle meal could be $6 instead of $12 if the franchise owner and their commercial property landlord weren't taxed so much, let alone the workers.

That's assuming those things are sold at cost rather than a significantly higher market value.
I don't see what elon's stock has to do with anything. rich people's net worth fluctuates a lot. furthermore I am talking only about income tax.

do you disagree with my point, when talking only about income tax?
xAI is not trying to make an immediate profit -- ironically, just like DeepSeek. They will undoubtedly use more efficient training processes in future runs and they will scale that across their massive GPU cluster. Just because they didn't cancel the training of Grok 3 and start over absolutely does not mean they will not incorporate all the work from R1 and more in the next run.

What you're seeing right now is pure flex and a signal for the future and competition. A much maligned AI team that hasn't even been around for very long at all just matched or topped the competition without making use of the latest training techniques yet. The message this is intended to send is that xAI is a serious player in the space.
Rates vary depending on time, location, demand etc. I regularly charge my car all over the Bay Area on the Tesla network and it’s between $0.45 to $0.55 per kWH. I have an electric home residential electricity plan and the cheapest I get electricity at home varies between $0.34 and $0.39 during off peak hours. During peak hours it’s actually the same for meto charge at a supercharger as it is at home.
One of the goal of hk is to be used with mise (https://mise.jdx.dev/dev-tools/)

mise supports an experimental bootstrapping feature: it can download itself and install the tools required for the project.

See https://mise.jdx.dev/cli/generate/bootstrap.html and https://mise.jdx.dev/continuous-integration.html#bootstrappi...
Yep, when I go to my annual hoa meeting for my condo complex, it's all very old people that have absolutely no interest in paying a penny more. I even offered to pay the entire cost to have a charger put in for my parking spot but it was shot down over concerns of having to drop wiring out to it.
With the added detriment of also being incorrect.
Reminds me of those "made in Italy" Chinese bikes assembled and painted in Italy.
> there's no way the top 10% receive 3/4 of the services

Why not?

A highway between Illinois and Ohio doesn't help me. It does help say the CEO of Walmart.

When you're invested into large parts of the USA, anything the government does helps your bottom line. When you're not then majority of the services the US does doesn't help you.
Wait til people are really hurting and have nothing left to lose.
This is from a Libertarian think tank.

Do you think there's a reason they limited their breakdown to top 1% instead of listing the contributions from the top 0.1%? I sure do.
Personally loved the article. And as usual, shared it with a friend and he got actually a bit defensive. Dismissing cynically. Unsurprisingly, is kind of the same attitude here.

I found super interesting the parallels of cookie cutter contra-culture and the results of a heavily vetted AI slop. How most original/interesting thought has a great insight but is easily dismissed...

> parallel interrogation of a creative process leads to boring outcomes; serial investigation gives you creative outcomes.
Tariffs protect domestic companies against competition from more innovative foreign companies. Because they remove incentives for domestic companies to improve their products or reduce their prices, tariffs gradually reduce the competitiveness of domestic firms; the longer and higher the tariffs, the more likely domestic industries are to turn into rent extractors, only able to sell their products because foreign competition has been handicapped.

If a country wants to have globally competitive, innovative companies, that is not compatible with tariffs.
That's all fair, it just means that it's a bit too early for you to use Zig then.

The project can't come out already at v1 out of thin air, so it's a matter of being patient and waiting for the people working on it to make enough progress.

In the end it seems that all the writing around Zig has correctly communicated to you the state of things :^)
Lots of agencies that were looking into one of Musk's many companies were the first targets of DOGE.
And in addition to that, there is a good chance for you to need a rotary hammer at some point. A regular drill in percussion mode can drill in stone or concrete in theory, but it will be 10 times the effort, if you can make it at all.

Rotary hammers are not interchangeable with regular "high power" drills because the bits are mounted differently, though you can make do with a chuck adapter.
Tesla charges 45 cents and they are not subsidizing charging.
Yeah I'm always shocked that there's a general assumption that people don't remember things before the age of 5. I remember some things from 2 years old and everything is pretty clear from 3 onwards. I do assume this is a sign of advanced development.
Not GP but I'd argue that whatever we mean by consciousness must at least have physical impact. Something that doesn't couldn't decide our actions in the physical world like laughing at a joke or painting a picture, and critically couldn't even be what we're referring to when we talk about consciousness as we are now.

From there I think "we don't know how" is in part down to needing advances in neuroscience, and in part down to "consciousness" being a hazy term with disagreement over definition. But for frameworks that accept the above (physicalism, interactionist dualism, ...) I do think it's in theory testable whether something is conscious for any given pinned-down definition (e.g, "are the neurons constituting internal train of thought firing"), and I would be inclined to say the frameworks that don't accept the above are indeed the more "bullshit" ones.
Optimisation efforts don’t negate investment in capacity but multiply output.
Article doesn't seem to mention tire cost or resale value at all?

There was a much more detailed analysis (including insurance, etc.) of ICE vs. BEV on HN previously.
That is a great paper. I came up with my own definition of real numbers [1] and using the simplified cut property of that paper was a pleasant pathway to establishing completeness.

[1]: https://github.com/jostylr/Reals-as-Oracles/blob/main/articl...
I mean, the honest truth is something closer to:

We have no clue how all this is going to play out, what value is captureable and what parts of a lead are likely to stay protected. This race is essentially the collective belief in a generationally big prize and no idea how it unlocks.

The problem with that for a comment section is it reduces ALL comments to gossip and guessing, which makes people feel stupid.
Musk and Trump are like a new team owner in professional sports who decides to save money by firing their entire minor league system, except with way more pettiness and spite.

But hey, Musk gets to keep eliminating everyone who might exercise oversight on his companies or business activities, so it's all good right?
Replacing earned income tax with marginal land value tax would be the ideal. There is no reason to tax working.
One of the most ridiculous comments I've ever seen on HN, and that's saying something.
Show HN: Flashlight – A portable tool to shine a light on your data
Hello, I am Cliff and I built Flashlight, a versatile data platform.

Flashlight is meant to ingest arbitrary text-based data and allow filtering, transformation and visualization. Think logs, JSON/XML files, JSON REST responses and more.

This is the Public Alpha, I invite everyone to try it out and tell me what you think.

I expect to hear a lot about the lack of documentation. There is currently documentation, but it is not as comprehensive as I think is needed, so I am looking for pain-points and other issues that really NEED to be in the documentation. After that, I will be writing some tutorials to show off a lot of the features that might hide in plain sight.

You can reach me by commenting here or by opening an Issue in the Github Repo.
All that requires additional active effort to fight having access to any data. The more complex your infra the harder it becomes to not having to do paperwork. Include a reverse proxy, and a CDN to the above and the chance of you not having access to any "personal data" is really really close to 0 unless you spend significant engineering resources triple checking everything. Even then, if you wanna be safe you better have the paperwork ready in case you forgot something.
In the example above, I hope that you would not have stopped at checking the apache configuration as I am sure you are fully aware that there are multiple log levels at the OS level that need to be tweaked as well.

This is of course despite the fact that you clearly have 0 ill intent and that none of these "personal data" can really be used for anything bad.

The mention HTML/CSS is just to make it clear that no additional data collection can happen through javascript tags (Google analytics, or any other alternative), or useful third parties. It makes total sense that if you dare use a bug tracking software, you should definitely pay hundreds of euros per month to hire a proper DPO who will handle all the paperwork or risk being exposed as the mental lunatic that the EU commission believes you are.
again, I am only talking about income taxes, which can be appraised and assessed easily. taxing wealth introduces complications beyond the scope of discussion.
You don't know my mother-in-law!!!
You can structure your income to be more tax efficient if you aren't a full time employee. Most people in the top 10% of wealth will be structuring their income in such a way to avoid as much tax as possible.
Yep. That's how I ended up with a $79 Harbor Freight drill press that's seen more than 30 years of regular use.
Some are, but some are utter crap.

I have a 2018 with the emoji keyboard where said keyboard obviously failed, and then the display cable (i think, because it wasn't worth repairing) failed too.

That generation was mostly defective by design. The keyboard is too dust sensitive and uncleanable, while the display cable is simply too short.

I still have two apple laptops made before the 2018 and one made after that are working perfectly.
'Gestalt,' like 'pajamas,' is also now an English-language word. (Though, admittedly, I think people use it with some level of awareness that it is borrowed from German. So it's different from 'pajamas' in that respect.)

I would have thought that the explanation for the phenomenon you highlight is obvious: there is a strong current of Japanophilia in U.S. culture generally, and especially among the tech-minded. So, while people borrow words from languages around the globe, Japanese is especially well represented. I'm surprised people seem reluctant to acknowledge this.

Edit: German is another interesting example. Though perhaps among different people and different reasons, English speakers (at least Americans) do also seem to have a special fondness for German words. Gestalt, zeitgeist, schadenfreude, ersatz, etc. For me, these are evocative of the golden age of German-language science and philosophy running roughly from Kant through Jung. For product names, though, German words may tend to be a bit too long and challenging to pronounce for an Anglophone audience. Perhaps this highlights another reason for the popularity of Japanese for this purpose: in addition to providing a pool of 'cool' sounding words without preexisting connotations for English speakers, Japanese seems to have an abundance of short words that an English speaker may find easily pronounceable. (Not to say that the words are necessarily pronounces correctly from the perspective of a Japanese speaker.)
>>I wonder what it is about the liberally minded that causes a marked preference for death and decay.

It's the exact opposite - as a Pole, any kind of appeasement of Russia will cause more death and decay in the long term. The whole "oh we just need to stop fighting now to prevent more death" is stupid if Russia's intentions haven't changed. But that's just not my rambling - even Russia's generals and advisors think that conflict with NATO is "inevitable" in the next 10 years. European countries towards the EU's eastern borders also say that it's extremely likely that Russia will enter a direct conflict with NATO in 3-5 years.

If that's your point of view(and it certainly is mine) - why wouldn't you keep fighting? Why wouldn't you arm Ukraine to the absolute teeth and kick Russia out with such decisive force that that it would cripple them for a long long time financially? Negotiating a shitty "peace" deal right now sure, will stop some deaths now, but will allow Russia to re-arm, recharge, built some more alliances and in few years come up with another bullshit reason to attack Ukraine again - and maybe this time they push into Poland too, because why not. And who knows if NATO will be around to save us if needed, maybe Eternal President Trump will say we haven't spent enough GDP to deserve being saved, or that he spoke with Putin and it's all good and we should just stop resisting. After all just few days ago he was asked if Russia should keep the land they took and said that well they lost a of men fighting for that land(!!!!!!!).

It's terrifying. It's not a "liberal" mind - it's a mind of anyone whose country has been invaded by Russians in the past and can see where this is going.