skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree it's impressive and stuff, but I wouldn't consider a JS POC as a serious project. I have never done that in my whole life and would rather see results from a 10 years old application with a million lines of code of C++. That's would be realistic. What you did is refactoring a pet project and I don't know why we're wasting $billions for that.
The ability to inject your preferred biases into the system that people use for finding or generating nearly all information they consume on a day-to-day basis is extremely powerful. Eg, if all "term papers" produced by this plagiarism machine are now 20% more favourable to the machine's owner than they would otherwise be, that can have significant, compounding long-term effects.

Of course, similar things could be said about controlling information flow through: social networks, newspapers, printed books, or whatever the town crier shouts in town square. But, each advancement in information dissemination tends to be power concentrating relative to the older tech, and I don't see any reason why this most recent advance won't follow that trend.
> What did surprise me with the pandemic, which will likely be true with the tariff increases, is that once the companies did increase their selling prices after the pandemic, even though their costs then subsequently dropped, they did not drop prices, across the board.

Prices will only decrease when demand decreases. If your competitor offers a higher-value product and attracts more customers, you'll need to decide whether to increase the value of your product or lower your prices to remain competitive.

If the market can support your current prices there's no reason to lower them.
Top 10% richest people own 85% https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_of_wealth

The richest people are not paying the “income tax” your link refers to. They often have trusts and things and do daily expenses from loans and other tricks.

Bezos and Musk, for example, paid $0 income tax https://americansfortaxfairness.org/wp-content/uploads/ProPu...
i bought https://platinumtherapylights.com/products/bio-rlt?variant=1... during the pandemic, it has held up.
In the field of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics it is an important distinction as there are other very important waves. Rossby waves are not gravity waves and extremely important to the global climate (see their role in ENSO dynamics). Compressive waves (acoustic waves) are everywhere of course. There are also topographic Rossby waves, internal waves and Kelvin waves (note: kelvin waves and internal waves are gravity waves as well). Oh, and inertial waves!
Same. I'm always kind of shocked when people don't. My wife hardly remembers anything before she was 8.

We moved a couple months before I turned three and I have a bunch of memories that predate that. I remember being potty trained and lying to my parents about it so I could get a treat. I remember my dad coming home from the family farm and having injured his hand on some machinery. I remember stealing a pack of orange gum from the grocery store and chewing it all up underneath the piano in our basement. I could keep going and going.

My earliest memory was before I was two. Somewhere around 19-20 months. I know this because I had an ear infection and that's when it occurred. I'm sitting in my crib, crying due to the pain in my ear, and screaming "mom" at the door in the room. The room is mostly dark, but the door has been left open a crack to let in a little bit of light. From my vantage, looking through the slats in the crib, the door is open on the left. My mom comes in once, finally, and then leaves.

I also feel like I have an earlier one, being carried in a room which may have been my nursery, looking down on a changing table. I'm pretty sure I'm being held by my father, but I can't say for certain that this is real.
You're just being pedantic for no reason - whether the profit is 100% or 200% or 5% it doesn't change OP's point.
> If they get only a few jobs per week, then they kinda have to try to pay their bills off of those jobs.

I don't think this has been true anywhere for at least several decades. Every single tradesman I've used tells me they are overbooked/overworked and there's no shortage of jobs.

I'm sure they have their less-busy seasons, but overall I doubt any tradesman can't find 40 hours worth of work/week.
This is false. Rich people do pay income taxes. I consider anyone in the top 10% of america to be rich. Perhaps when you say rich you only mean billionaires? Which would be a hilariously narrow view. There are tens of thousands of people in the technology industry alone making 750K+ W2 income. that's rich to me.

it's sad that HN is privy to propaganda and misinformation as well. ask anyone on the street if 500K income is rich, and they will say yes.
I know, it's an highly unpopular opinion among devs. Let's revisit this comment in 5 years...
The stocks of wealthy people aren't going to see great performance either when margins and sale volume are lowered by the increases in input costs.
Most rich people have very substantial income. It's just that they also have a lot of capital gain. As an example, most CEO have the biggest salary in the company, but also get other capital comp like stocks.

There is ofc the loan loophole, but it doesn't mean that they don't get any other income, on which they are taxed on.
It is just that, if you calculate their total package, compare to an average worker they pay significantly less taxes *proportionally* because a disproportionate amount of their "income" (some of which could hardly be called income but that is another subject) are in some form that are taxed less.
Patrol – "Crowd Funded" Private Neighborhood Security
140,000k to 200,000k to break-even just on operating costs is insane. That's much longer than I would expect. Keep in mind some of these models would also lose 60% in depreciation in that time.

On the other hand, I would like a realistic cost-of-ownership for used EVs. You can pick them up cheap as chips and that would make the equation very favorable.
Startups Are Waiting Years to Go Public, If at All
They can lay off people legally - Clinton laid off hundreds of thousands of federal employees over 8 years - it's just that laying off non-probationary employees takes time and effort and they don't want to spend the time. And, unlike probationary employees, if they choose to save time when firing people by breaking the law, the non-probationary employees have legal recourse.

They can't legally do what they're doing now, they are just counting on the fact that it's very difficult for probationary employees to appeal the illegal firings. Probationary employees can be terminated for performance, but the government legally has to actually show how it concluded that the employee was underperforming. They are not doing this - they are firing people regardless of whether they had good or bad performance reviews or even if they weren't around long enough to have a performance review at all. However, probationary employees have very limited rights to appeal (they can only appeal to MSPB if they allege they were fired for partisan political reasons or for merit status) and Trump now controls MSPB anyway, so they are just counting on the employees not having a way to actually get legal redress even though the firings were illegal.

https://www.mspb.gov/appeals/infosheets/Probationary_Employe...
Condominium complexes often have trouble pushing through new investments like this, as some residents will push back against any new expense.

In my parents building the anti-EV expansion proposal was blocked in part by the people who already had chargers for themselves!
I have a Honda Civic. 50k miles in and I’ve only spent on oil changes (and related minor work), which have been less than the cost of new tires and inspections. The 30-50% range sounds reasonable in this context.
Do you think Cursor is charging too much for their VSCode fork? Many thousands of devs disagree with you…
Not going to happen. Linux as in 'The Linux Foundation' as a corporation doesn't care. Read the report to see yourself https://www.linuxfoundation.org/hubfs/Reports/lf_ar24_121524...

... and realize how sad the thing are.
The Linux kernel expenses are minuscule compared with the 'various'.
No, it would be very hard and you already showed to not be arguing in good faith so I don't want to invest the time and effort.

And let me be very clear on why, because I love having conversations about this theme: it promises to be an adversarial and frustrating exchange.
https://archive.is/FUyjs
You have a source for this claim of that plan?
I think sleep/wake is a subset of cache invalidation - if all peripherals were stateless, probably it wouldn't be an issue.
It's grimly fascinating that Biden lost so much support for inflation that was largely not under his control, so we replaced him with someone pushing policies that will raise inflation. Will we learn anything this time?
The Toddler Mindset: Decision-Making Without Constraints
I recently wrote about something I call "Toddler Mindset"—a way of approaching decisions by asking what’s possible instead of what’s allowed.

It’s a mental shift I'm forcing myself to learn after watching my daughter have zero regard for rules that we as adults invent for ourselves.

It's utility extends beyond just engineering systems and is even more applicable in how I'm trying to think about life in general.

I'm new to expressing my non-programming related thoughts on the internet so....be kind
This link is only referring to income taxed, and I am only talking about income taxed. Your wealth comments are irrelevant to my point and to the data presented.
Looks great. Can playback speed be used as rudimentary time stretching?
Funnily something odd happened in mid Covid and my diesel has lost only around 15% of its value over past 5 years. Now ten years old.
> Upper income people will be fine with a 10-25% increase in cost of things they purchase. Regular income taxes are progressive.

This is assuming you are buying goods that are outside of the country. Most consumption weekly is things like food, drink, disposable items and not things like computer hardware which is refreshed every few years normally.

> There is a reason why rich prefer tariffs over a progressive income tax.

I am not rich and would prefer Tariffs over income taxes (I am in the UK). I would rather save the that gets taken every month from the taxman and I could afford to buy myself a nicer property. I could also make the conscious decision to make sure I purchase items produced in the UK which presumably for food, drink (at least) I would wager is produced in the UK and thus would be cheaper than things produced outside of the country.

As for progressive taxes they actually make it more difficult to earn more money even at a near minimum wage. When I worked at a super store (Tesco) many years ago, If I worked a few hours overtime, I would go over income band for that month and it effectively made working that shift a waste of time. I am including my time to commute which was a 30 minute cycle and not wanting to have to stack onions. So I didn't bother working overtime as a result. Neither did many of my colleges. Granted I normally would get a check back at the end of the year from HMRC as I would have over-payed for the year, but when you are living month to month, I would always prefer the cash in my pocket as the end of the tax year is an eternity away in comparison.
I completely agree that this is a problem, but what can we do? We’re so divided that we fail to see the real people pulling the strings behind the scenes.

I recently posted about how tariffs are a sneaky way to introduce VAT—a system that ultimately hurts the middle class—and my post was heavily downvoted. Why? I assume it’s because certain media outlets push the narrative that VAT is good and tariffs are bad (I love how they say Norway has VAT so it has to be something great), while others claim the opposite.

In the end, no matter which side wins the debate, it’s the middle class that pays the price.
Their desktop chassis and keyboard mechanics are made in the US. Where are they getting the motherboards, CPUs, RAM, storage devices, microcontrollers, etc. from? Do you think System76 runs their own silicon fab?

And even for the parts they do acquire from domestic sources, tariffs will still drive their cost of goods up. Taxes on steel and aluminum will drive the price of steel and aluminum up in the domestic market, regardless of where it was shipped from.
I don't know. Humans have slept on the ground for hundreds of thousands of years and now soft mattresses are supposed to be better? Call me unconvinced.

(FWIW, to counter your personal experience with some of my own anecdotal evidence, I always sleep much better on firm mattresses.)
That is the whole point of Tariffs. To discourage purchase of foreign goods.
It's an autocorrect. I did mean comparator. Presumeably the second link you pasted ran into the same problem.

> You've allowed the AI to train you to use the wrong word through a shared delusion, haven't you.

What an awful interpretation, phrased in the most demeaning manner possible. No, I double check everything the AI suggests. That's basic competency with the things.
It's very obvious I wasn't talking about salaried rich. I was talking about "generational wealth" people.

If you earn $1m/year you have high income and a path to become wealthy quickly. But you aren't actually wealthy in my eyes unless you have the asset portfolio to match.
Like this idea, have been looking for subtle, soft but phone sounding tones for a while. Looking forward to any updates!
Except TLS-SNI sends the hostnames in plaintext during the handshake and you can't disable it in at least Firefox AFAIK.
This is just one big article on survivor bias.

I get what they are saying: There is a difference between theoretical and applied.

I think the OWASP/NIST/InfoSec has always been a bit behind because of this mentality. I think there is a progressive forward looking mindset that is often seen as "mad" or "unhinged" when it's ultimately throwing paint at a wall to see what sticks.

The driver is curiosity but then someone comes along and applies CBA and ROI, and CAC...the person who was curious has left because that wasn't the goal. Eventually something will stick that meets all of those mainstream ideas.

If you think of the body as a computer, it communicates through DNA, a much larger scale of information passing. Binary is just arbitrarily selected because it was there. Should we stop exploring binary computational systems? No but we also don't need all our eggs in one basket.
In the case of VAT, it applies equally to national and foreign companies.
Silicon Valley and it's executives ruined their own reputations. DOGE is going on a bigger scale and ruining the United States and the federal government. SV execs think they can play god and do whatever they want, that they're the chosen few. Simply firing the probationary workers in every department has to be one of the stupidest things to ever happen to this country.
but nobody needs to know what load they were used so it's "barely used" on the listings
Wrong sadly depends on perspective.

When you see someone seemingly contradicting their stated goals, ask yourself if perhaps they have different, unstated, goals.
Sorry, you missed the point - DeepSeek tried some new software ideas, they did not manage to secure the same computation capacity.
If you turn on "Focus on hover" in the settings, then it matters where you tap (on mobile).
That is not how it works. You assume that the rich people can get as much net profit if income tax is higher due to progressiveness, which is not true. Also if there is a way to get more (gross) profit, they will use it regardless of the tax.

Profit of a company is small percentage of the moving money. Like 50c of $6 chipotle meal is profit and not all of that goes to the owner. Taxing owner at 50% rate instead of 25% would only increase cost a few cents. Same with landlords, there are fixed costs and loan costs that reduce profit. 100% of paid rent is not direct profit...

Actual issue of the progressive tax is truely rich people using tax evasion tactics to avoid it by structuring their income so that it belongs to some other tax category that doesn't have progressive tax.
This educational visualization will be helpful as WiFi 7 Sensing comes to consumer routers and NPU/AI laptops, rendering home and business walls transparent to human activity like typing, breathing & more.

"Inside a $1 radar motion sensor", 100 comments, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40834349

https://www.cnx-software.com/2022/08/08/esp-wifi-csi-detects...

> Espressif claims it can also capture subtle movements caused by small movements such as breathing and chewing of people or animals in a static environment.. works with all ESP32 series microcontrollers including ESP32, ESP32-S2, and ESP32-C3, and does not require any changes to the hardware

24Ghz/60Ghz mmWave sensors for finer resolution, https://www.dfrobot.com/product-2795.html
They don't necessarily even pay that as they leverage existing assets and get loans.
It's slow to call out to external linters. But it's even slower to use LSP (which rustrover saves me from), it's really not a huge deal in practice for me.
You do realize you and your OP are currently top comments in your respective threads both criticizing Elon and even preemptively criticize your imaginary criticizers
He knows how to take money from people and then market things as if they’re his creations which then turns into him having more money because people think it’s a good investment to give him more money. It’s really quite a genius con he has going. It seems as if the sky is the limit too.

Remember when he got caught having people play games for him so he had a top ranking ? He does that with basically everything.
practically speaking, yes? Because it looks like he's done that several times now, and the US Marshalls (and the President) are backing him up.
The top 10% income bracket is a household income of 234k. For a couple both making $150k each in salary, they are top 10% and paying out probably 40% of that in taxes. Elons stock probably added $200B to his net worth in the past year. He did not pay anything on it, however is able to use it as collateral to borrow against (that way he doesn’t even have to pay capital gains). The upper middle class pays most of the tax burden. And your point about services???? Elon may not take advantage of the head start program for his kids, but he sure benefited from government subsidies for electric cars (just like CEOs benefit from favorable legislation and regulation)
And clicking on a link to GitHub takes no time at all. Is there anything wrong with that approach? Furthermore, I feel that you shouldn't blame the author for omissions if their post is shared outside of the intended audience.
You haven't mentioned the negative-positive person who puts effort into the relationship with you but you suck them dry.

In truth, it's not quite so straight forward, and in the real world people occupy different roles with different people at different times. Maybe your role with some people is always to build them up, but you need to rely on others to get through things yourself. At any given time, most relationships are pretty one way, but over time things might balance out - maybe your role is always to provide support for someone, but in turn there's someone in your life who does the same for you and overall it balances out in your life.

The cynical position is to cut out the relationships you see as draining in your life, and while you absolutely should do that if you don't have the strength to do that and maintain your own wellbeing, even if you aren't directly benefitting from a seemingly one-way relationship, often other people will see how you treat them and want to spend more time with you, even if that relationship is primarily energy flowing to you.
Sprain both knees and ankles and red light treat opposite ones (ie randomly select right ankle + left knee or the opposite pair).
They compete for talent, definitely.

Also for public mindshare. Which translates into funding. Congress likes to fund popular stuff because it helps them get re-elected. They do not like to fund unpopular stuff.
>> I've turned a few wrenches as a life-long DIY mechanic, a former aircraft mechanic, and a mechanical engineer. I use the Hazard Fraught method of tool purchases: I will buy a tool from Harbor Freight once. If it fulfills my needs great. Job done and it goes into the toolbox. If I use it so hard it gives up the ghost, then it gets chucked into the fuckit-bucket and I go buy it at higher quality.

>Now you either have a tool that might be unreliable and can cause you trouble for the next job. Or, you spent money that you didn't have to spend by buying the lower grade tool when you needed to buy something better anyway.

An important note is that this is a conscious decision. I know that I cheaped out on something, and I'm often pleasantly surprised that it didn't break. But I'm not depending on it for food, and we have backup transportation methods, so I'm not completely hosed if it gives up. For example: I once spent $20 on a Harbor Freight corded angle grinder, with the understanding that it'll probably work for the one job I really needed it for at that moment. 15 years and half a dozen smoke checks later, the damned thing still runs hard.

>> To be honest, Harbor Freight and other store brands (Husky, Kobalt, etc) have always been reliable enough. As a home-gamer, I certainly couldn't see being able to have a toolbox full of Snap-On, especially before completing my engineering degree.

> Here you have a solid point. I am thankful that I am able to afford good tools. But if someone in unable to justify, I would say either work to be able to justify it, rent, or buy the best you can afford if you need the tool right now.

If you can, that's great. Most of my wrenching life, including working on multi-million dollar automation equipment, has been well serviced by budget tools. Anything pro-grade was handed down from my father after he closed his shop. I'm to the point now where I could reasonably afford to upgrade, but the handtools still work well, and my money/time is honestly spent better right now paying a reputable shop to do what I need. Starting out in the world, I never thought I'd be able to say that, but I'm happy to be here now.

I'll have a project car again some day, and then I'll look hard at what is needed to accomplish my goals.
How quickly will Grok 4/5/6 be released? Of course you can choose to keep running older GPUs for years, but if you want bleeding edge performance then you need to upgrade, so I'm not sure how many model generations the cost can really be spread over.

Also, what isn't clear is how RL-based reasoning model training compute requirements compares to earlier models. OpenAI have announced that GPT 4.5 will be their last non-reasoning model, so it seems we're definitely at a transition point now.
I don't think real identities broke the internet... what really did it was the perfecting of the addiction formula, by multiple companies (from facebook to king). It turned it into an Opium den
My electric provider recently silently raised our rates. My same usage was ~ $20 less a month last year. Honestly, I'm trying to get out of the 'scarcity mentality' of worrying about these sort of little day to day costs. I set my thermostat at a comfy level, and I game on my power hungry pc without restricting myself. It is what it is.
> almost every piece that can be made in the US, is

I do not think anyone is arguing against that, but how is it relevant here?
Import duties aren't imposed by an orange man.
The Semantics of Testing. Also, Quads