skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose that really depends on how hard they’re trying to prevent you from doing that…

* They could measure the forward voltage of the LED when driven by a known current. Bonus points for measuring at multiple currents. Remember that the forward voltage depends on color.

* They could measure the reverse leakage current at a known voltage, and compare that to the illumination from the camera’s exposure feedback. Remember that every LED is also a photodiode.

* They could vary the LED driver current to heat it up, then measure that both of the above measurements are compatible with the higher temperature. Remember that most semiconductor properties have a strong temperature dependence.

So it would be pretty easy to detect most simple mods if they really wanted to.
Much of this I assume is due to labor costs. We're already seeing some basic techs start to return back to higher-tech, higher-labor-cost countries (like the US Gulf Coast) because of automation improvements. So now things that have historically been low-hanging fruit for countries trying to industrialize (and therefore able to provide the labor cheaply) are being taken away from them, because now one systems engineer can oversee, say, an entire textiles or smelting or wiring facility. It's only a matter of time until this bleeds further up the ladder, in my opinion, and electronics isn't too far up the ladder from wiring.
this doesn't really make any sense. forget billionaries - look at the bottom 50% compared to the cut off to be in the top 10%. The person in the top 10% making a mere 180K pays an order of magnitude more taxes.

of course, this is how a progressive tax system works inevitably. thus, my point and question is, how are rich people not already paying their fair share? by all data available with respect to [income taxes], they already pay a ton, no?
Except HN explicitly discourages this: You can intentionally submit either a text post or a link, but not both. For links, you could theoretically edit the title, but there too, the guidelines state that you should just use the original title from the article if possible.
I doubt this was a ploy to poach those people. SpaceX surely could have hired them anyway. And who's to say they won't go work for some other company. However if this hurts NASA, it gives SpaceX an advantage.
Science.org: Trump Tracker
If it's cringe to hear "Priority One message from Starfleet" emanating from my pocket, then I don't want to be cool.
Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today"
Has Elon Musk Become Too Big to Tame?
We live in a world of freely floating currencies. In such an environment, tariffs are like trying to nail a jelly to the wall.

Tariffs reduce imports and thus lead to a higher exchange rate for the currency. Nevertheless, tariffs lead to higher prices in the supply chain. Expensive currency and high procurement costs endanger the export industry in the medium term.

The introduction of tariffs is the poor man's monetary policy. Nations that understand this find sharp weapons against it.
Municipal politics often resembles a Reality TV wheel-squeaking contest. He worked to get on the show, played, and won a modest prize.

Was it worth all his time & hassle? I'll guess "no", but I don't follow Spanish politics.

Meanwhile, a wide variety of Spanish lotteries offer you chances to win vastly larger prizes, at taxpayer expense, with a quick & easy ticket purchase. Have you bought one?

(/s?)
>Grok3's release is pretty important

How? After an enormous investment the latest version of some software is a bit better than the previous versions of some software from it's competitors and will likely be worse than the future versions from it's competitors. There's nothing novel about this.
https://archive.ph/iHdb0
This whole fear of being "soft on" whichever perceived enemy is probably the cultural element driving us deeper into isolationism.

We get into fights with a family member and don't want to look soft so we punch them back and then avoid them. We create more and more distance and relationships fall apart and then we get more lonely.

So as it hurts personal relationships, it hurts political-economic relationships. We want to punish China with tariffs, and it's like punching our enemy in the face and hurting our own hand. And then they punch us back and hurt us and their own hand. Self- and other-defeating attempts at solutions.

I'd say the weaker approach is to punch and/or run. The stronger approach takes the punches and still tries to work with the other person, recognizing how we help each other.
So the idea is to create "original ideal environments" for these little critters, to reduce their need to migrate to the skin and back?
Chat right now is search in 99. Highly functional
> there's no way the top 10% receive 3/4 of the services

How do you measure that?

The state protecting me and my assets is of value to me. However the state protecting Musk and Musks assets is rather more important to him.

Who do you think should be paying more? The poor?
People like to argue that they don't trust deepseek, because it's in China
I don't trust openai either, because it's in america and that is heavily surveilled by the nsa.

So I trust them equally little and I try to not give any of them information that they could use against me.
That's the retail. You never ever buy Snap-On retail. Note: I didn't say buy used.

Also, electric tools from Snap-On are pretty meh. Dewalt, Makita and mayyybbee Milwaukee all the way.
It seems you are suggesting they would do it every time they post though
We all still had defined identities back then, the nicks, even if we didn't use real names. And those are enough for targeting.
That article on rapid Rust prototyping matches my experience with using Rust as the backend for a web and iOS app. I used clone() and Vec and String and other shortcuts from that article as much as possible since I was building a backend application versus an operating system. It enabled a lot more velocity and made it fun to add features. And it was still blazing fast.

If anyone is considering using Rust and is nervous about lifetimes and bare metal, check out that article and try its guidance. I learned these things on my own the hard way and would have loved to read this article 18 months ago. It's really quite good.
Software and algorithmic improvements diffuse faster than hardware, even with attempts to keep them secret. Maybe a company doubles the efficiency, but in 3 months, it's leaked and everyone is using it. And then the compute edge becomes that much more durable.
Doesn't billing my the hour go against all of the contractor compensation advice given here on HN?
Privatizing the water companies would be an even better comparison: literally a shit-show. Privatization only works if there's competition.
Bill might not understand that: this might be the goal, those are not American lives after all. Also, Cutting diplomatic grease might be a good strategy to squeeze some nations. Instead of threatening to cut funding, cut it and get concessions for bringing it back.

Either way, not being American, and I agree USAID should not exist. It's a clutch for every country, keeping incompetent leaders/dictators in power.
It seems like the intended application is live debugging. Lisp and Smalltalk have a rather nice history here. C, C++ boost and Rust tend more to be lands of contrasts.

Chris Kohlhepp has a great write up of embedding ECL in C++. The trick is to know about the C++ configure flag for building ECL. [0 with terminal screenshots, 1 on web archive without terminal screenshots]

Haskell people seem to like Lua. Just look at pandoc.

[0] https://isocpp.org/blog/2014/09/embedding-lisp

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20200307212433/https://chriskohl...
If they wanted to make Communism happen in the US they wouldn't act differently.

Widening the already enormous inequality gap that exists in the US, at a time when Luigi Mangione became a popular hero, isn't going to end well.
Humans suffered colds without antibiotics for hundreds of thousands of years. Just because we can endure certain circumstances does not make them optimal. Our ancestors certainly didn't avoid softer sleeping spots because of some benefit the firmness of the ground provided.
Ya I knew Svelte took a wrong turn when it went from

var foo = "something"

foo = "something else" -> ui updates

to:

$state('hello')

Runes and other nonsense immediately made me turn off Svelte.

Even Vue sort of moved away and started looking like React.

I think there is an opportunity now for another new framework which goes back to simplicity which Vue and Svelte tried to do.

Mithril really was as close to perfection as one can get.
> It is a negotiation tactic with those two countries.

It is an incoherent and amateur negotiation tactic. If the US can't secure the southern border on its own, what makes anyone think that Mexico is going to be able to do a better job at that? Naturally, we are ignoring for the moment that the majority of illegal immigration does not happen at the border in the first place. As for fairness, maybe Trump should have addressed that when he timidly rubber-stamped NAFTA 2 during his first term. And you're not going to beat "Chinese tax evasion" in this way without charging these taxes on every country on Earth.

These import taxes are performative posturing. Please stop trying to paint them as part of some brilliantly motivated campaign.
If you've been in SV long enough, you've seen multiple hype cycles. AI is the latest one. It doesn't mean AI is a con, there's just a tendency to exaggerate and make hyperbolic claims to sell.

AI is primarily used to write text and code. Actually integrating it into workflows across markets will take time.

A great article that is neither overly pessimistic or optimistic is Benedict Evan's The AI Summer [1]. He argues that there's a lot of excitement with big corporates but their actual adoption is low so far.

"an LLM by itself is not a product - it’s a technology that can enable a tool or a feature, and it needs to be unbundled or rebundled into new framings, UX and tools to be become useful. That takes even more time"

[1] https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2024/7/9/the-ai-summ...
Ah yes. What would the ever-benevolent American corporations do if we stopped shielding them from competition?

We already know what they'll do from when the same thing happened to Japanese cars in the 60s... American companies will change nothing and then jack the prices up to just below tariff increases.
> The threshold to enter top 10% is only 180K

"*Only*" That is a lot of money for most people. How the other half live!

> The threshold to enter top 10% is only 180K

Yes. I was doing it when I was earning less than that as a contractor in the UK. I can tell you how it generally works in the UK:

* You set up a LTD company.

* You pay yourself a minimum salary where you pay the bare minimum tax this is approximately £13000 the last time I checked. I think you can pay any other "directors" this as well, you basically make your significant other one.

* Anything related to work becomes an expense e.g. parking tickets, mileage on your vehicle, laptop, computer software etc. So you don't pay this, the company does and thus you get a tax relief.

* You pay yourself dividends from your LTD company. You pay yourself the bare minimum and leave as much as possible in the company. These were taxed at a far lower rate that the equivalent money if you worked perm.

* You pay your pension via the company (this is tax free upto £60,000 IIRC).

In the US how it is exactly done will be of course different as the taxes are structured differently but I know for a fact that people are doing similar in the US.
I've been using Deel for contractors for 2 or so years now. Very good experience overall. Always responsive customer service.

Only issue (and probably not unique to Deel) was that I couldn't hire a contractor in Venezuela through their platform.
"EcomPredict" seems to be a project related to predicting e-commerce customer behavior using machine learning or data analysis techniques. Based on previous chats, it could involve analyzing customer data to predict future buying patterns, preferences, or behaviors. The goal might be to enhance marketing strategies, improve product recommendations, or optimize customer engagement for an e-commerce platform.
My understanding is that in the limit, it does the same thing, but with more of a flattened tree representation.
This is a huge, huge part of it. Tariffs on high-tech electronic devices and tariffs on steel are different beasts.

We're rightfully appalled at companies that literally grind up employees - but we happily buy from companies in countries where that's just Tuesday.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2025/osh...
Tariffs were the central political issue from Reconstruction (1870s) until WW1 (1910s). It was the main source of income for the federal government prior to the propagation of the income tax during WW1.

We actually learned a lot about tariffs during that time and the conclusion is not unambiguously bad as many would have you believe.

The argument for tariffs is that the United States became extremely self sufficient and eventually produced the cheapest products in the world. Also, the jobs that come with this.

The argument against is that "products for the American consumer would be even cheaper with free trade".

The counterfactual of slightly more expensive products in the short run is worth being self sufficient and having better jobs. Especially since history shows products can actually be very cheap for countries with high tariffs and a strong manufacturing base.

This was a view shared by pretty much every great American politician by the way. Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Monroe, Clay, Lincoln, T Roosevelt. The politicians that argued against it were pretty forgettable.

Also, the first Trump tariffs were by and large maintained by Biden, precisely because the long term effects are beneficial.
I don't think I was informed by sensational headlines. I was well into talking to people I knew about how DS's performance relative to compute was a game changer much before the stock crash.

It's not binary where you either have compute or not. You definitely do need GPUs, but there's already masses of compute, I believe it doubles every ten months or so just from Nvidia's chips. Many factors make it a very irrational decision

1) Companies were spending hundreds of billions collectively on AI capex. Meta alone was 75 billion projected this year. This is an extraordinary bet, given that the most revenue any AI company makes is a few billion by OpenAI.

2) When DS came out, it was a huge validation of the moatless idea. These SOTA companies have no moat, at best they are spending tens of billions to maintain a few months edge.

3) DS was also a huge validation of the compute saturation idea - that SOTA models were always massively efficient. At best it was traded for iteration speed.

4) Many other more technical arguments - Jevons paradox, data exhaustion (synthetic data can only be generated for a fixed set of things), apparent diminishing returns (performance relative to compute, the denominator has been exponential but the numerator logarithmic)

So on one hand you have these SOTA models which are becoming free. On the other hand you have this terrible business model. I strongly suspect that AI will go the way of Meta's Metaverse - a staggering cash burn with no realistic path to profitability.

It's one thing to invest in a new technology with tangible benefits to your product. It's another to spend vastly, vastly more into vague promises of AGI. To put it into perspective, Meta will spend on AI capex in a few months of 2025 as much as Apple spent on NAND in total. What advantage is there to be had with SOTA models? You do 20% better on some AIME/IQ/competitive coding benchmark, which still translates atrociously to real world issues.

But Nvidia will be very successful because these companies frankly have lost a lot of the plot and are FOMOing like mad. I still have memories of the 2013 AI gold rush where every tech company was grabbing anything with AI in them, which is how Google got DeepMind. They are being enormously rewarded by it by the stock market with Meta's price 6x since it's lows.
any country that doesn't incentivize investment will quickly languish. what the usa should do is allow pre-tax income to be invested, so poor people can also take advantage.
That's probably exclusively because pro cameras still use SD cards
As you move up the ladder, more of your income is increasingly derivative of society as facilitated by the state and its spending. For example, businesses are dependent on sufficiently educated employees to run them and need a sufficiently affluent population to buy their products. Usually products are delivered via roads, the Internet, or other public infrastructure. Most businesses use electricity from a public grid even if they have a private company that they pay their bill to. Because of this, rich people may receive more than 3/4 of the benefit of the services provided by taxes.
Not every country is subject to the tariffs.

If apple assembles their MacBooks in Vietnam, they get a 10% discount relative to Acer laptops assembled in china
My concern is when you've implemented it and rely on it and then the company providing the service pulls a "Google" and deprecates the project. I haven't seen that mentioned in any of the comments.
> Yeah no shit, by circular definition of "doesn't pay income tax."

Ah so then you did get my meaning the first time. Which means pointing out that some people who may or may not have assets also pay high taxes on their salaried income was unnecessary.

> That's obviously not the same word as "rich."

High income isn't rich. "Rich" is someone who has a lot of assets and wealth. That's literally the dictionary definition of the word.
Golang and C# would be fine picks, too.
I don't think it does invalidate the argument. As a cohort, wealthy people spend a much lower percentage of their total wealth than middle or lower class people do. Any spending-based tax (sales tax, tariffs) will be much better for wealthy people than the equivalent income or wealth based tax.
Depends on your ROI. If the tool saves you much more, $20/mo could be very reasonable. This IDE is rather narrowly focused on easily doing numerical code and visualizations. If you were doing it every day and were cringing every time at the thought of using your current setup, the product would be for you.

https://xkcd.com/1205/ provides an idea of the cost of the time spent by improving a tool, or, equivalently, saved by paying for it. If you're paid even $50 an hour, a $20 / mo tool that saves you 30 minutes a month, cumulative, is already worth paying for. And this thing can save hours and hours a month for a particular kind of work.
I can tell you that you cannot do this if you derive your living from a W2 income. as a contractor it's obviously different, but your experience is not really indicative of anything.
Frontend work sounds like hell. You're telling me you updated YOUR code to work with the latest framework release? What was even new in that release? They seem to have no respect for peoples time or any consideration for longtermism or even just the common decency of backwards compatibility. What are we at now, React 19? Is it just a reason to keep people employed?
> currently on PyCharm. ... Cons: Subscription business model. ... Any one of the con's would be a deal breaker for me.

I'm curious to understand this better (as a fan of JetBrains): do you currently use PyCharm Community or does the JetBrains model not count as a subscription for you?
The last time I bought an ICE car 15 years ago, I browsed online, found some cars I was interested in, emailed their sales team and said 'I'm choosing between x,y, and z, give me your best out the door offer and you'll get my business'. A couple dealerships tried to pull the 'come in and let's talk' but a few just gave me a price. We went back and forth for a day or so and I eventually got them to a price I was happy with.

I then replied 'Ok, I'm coming this friday with a cashier's check, if the price isn't exactly what we agreed when I get there, I'm walking out the door'.

Best car buying experience I've ever had. You just gotta set boundaries and enforce them.
Show HN: Kili is AI agent that automates admin tasks over email
Hey everyone,

We're excited to launch Kili: an AI agent that helps businesses automate admin tasks like invoicing, managing suppliers, paying bills and filing expenses.

Given current AI capabilities, we believe email is an under explored interface. It allows us to complete work async and not have to learn a new interface.

Our general philosophy with Kili is to enable every action over email, and only take the user to the web app when absolutely needed. Kili can do all of the below over email today:
- Create draft invoices
- Add / approve new suppliers
- Process bills from suppliers
- File expenses

We'll be adding many more actions over the coming weeks.

You can try Kili here: https://heykili.com. We would love your feedback on the approach and the product.
> top tier people

Who? How? This is not what I've seen where I work. There's a bunch of hubbub and generalized excitement, and lots of talk about what could be done, or what might be done, but not very much actual doing. I must just be a clueless "mid".
How does this solve L1-A abuse? There are no limits and no salary restrictions on L1 visa applicants.
Specifically long term investment, which is why you only get the benefit of lower taxes after a year.
> We're already seeing some basic techs start to return back to higher-tech, higher-labor-cost countries

Is there a place where I can look up what's being brought up back to North America? Last time I tried searching for it, all I found was:

1) TSMC et al. building big factories over here (which, I think, is a bit different because of subsidies, and realpolitik)
2) People complaining in pro-manufacturing Twitter posts how nobody wants to automate the existing factories
Definitely, glad you like it!
At current efficiency? Not nearly as fast as DeepSeek 4 ;)
> Fox handed over the documents, paid, and received a slip for pickup of her [sic] passport after January 28

> she [sic] was ultimately able to collect her [sic] new ID documents — albeit with the male identity marker — on February 3.

So less than a week of delay during a transitionary period? That is after messing up the application with wrong information.
if i throw out the "franchise" qualifier then Nolan's a great example of visual novelty in big budget blockbusters. i enjoyed TENET more than anyone ive met
There are plenty of that type of person here on HN, we're not all engineers.
And mind you, they are simultaneously going to gut the IRS so they can file a mountain of paperwork, that at the end, says that magically they only owe $400, and we won't have enough IRS personnel to really challenge it.
I'm trying to refrain from "evil" language, but I'm honestly interested in how anyone can defend some of these policies from a moral perspective. E.g. the purported House plan aims to make huge corporate tax cuts by essentially eliminating Medicaid. I would honestly like to hear someone who thinks that's good (and moral) policy and their rationale.
What are teleconnections? Connecting climate via global information highways
Rossby waves are fascinating waves in the earth's climate system that are not due to gravity like surface water waves but rather the rotation of the earth. They play a very important role in weather and climate.