skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe you are misunderstanding the core trade issue by focusing too narrowly on VAT as a tax rather than the overall tax structure difference between the US and VAT-based economies.

US companies must factor in corporate tax and foreign VAT when selling to VAT countries.

A example is a German car manufacturer exporting to the US gets a full VAT refund and only has to price based on cost + profit.

For VAT countries, the export price is lower because it does not need to factor in corporate taxes like the US companies do.

Finally, to your last point. Trump is not completely wrong just people are oversimplifying. His use of calling a hidden tariff is not technically correct but it is a trade barrier. Trump’s current use of tariffs is not the best fix but he is still right on the trade imbalance.
VAT is not a tariff, but its effect on trade functions like one when compared to the Us tax system.
Some of the neighborhoods that burned consist of very steep hills, single family houses on stilts, narrow winding roads, retaining walls, and almost no clearance for anything. I can’t imagine a controlled burn being done safely.
For me in the US, it shows just "Gulf of America", though I don't know which name was showing 3-4 days ago.
2023, but has been updated and iterated on over time, so should be reasonably current.

It is... still an awful lot of work, though. I'm glad it can be done, though I've certainly not been motivated enough to try. I just keep a different machine around for anything gaming-ish, and don't worry about it.

That said, if you have skipped out on trying Qubes because you think you lack sufficient hardware, my Qubes daily driver (and primary computer for personal use) is a 2015-era Lenovo X250, with a 2C/4T I7-5600U, 16GB RAM, and a SATA SSD. It's limited in some ways, I can feel when I'm trying to do too much on it, but it is quite useful, and has been for some while. The memory balancing between AppVMs works nicely, and you can safely reduce memory allocation for a lot of VMs. A lot of my running Debian12 VMs are between 1GB and 2GB practical allocation, and work just fine.
Lol, yeah that pretty much sums up my experience with modern apps.
Let's just say it won't take the jobs of pilots.

But for web developers? Most certainly Yes. They will be the first and especially for those who love redoing their web app with hundreds of web frameworks, releasing web app clones, javascript and debating about the sea of libraries to use that compete against themselves.

It is best trained on the entire javascript and typescript ecosystem and those specializing in web development which is the low hanging fruit, will be easily replaced.
It completely wrong as it applies to local goods too.
It’s hard to know how this will affect jobs but the argument that current day capabilities will be relevant in the near future doesn’t make much sense to me.

I think it would be unexpected if within 2 years we don’t have AI systems that have excellent taste and judgement.
I use jellyfin and love it. It's quality is actually pretty stunning for FOSS.
Writing boilerplate is not what I spend time on. Boilerplate generation is easily automated you don’t need AI for that.
Why do you assume that this is about outsourcing? So far, every international company I've worked for in the last decade has insourced dev, but moved it out of the USA, then laid off the American devs. That is not about outsourcing at all, it is about responding to cost discrepancies in the global market.
curry and bol bol are two good candidates. in today’s nba you can’t tell difference between them on the court except for several feet of height difference. but practically same player as they shoot about the same shots
Jan 2025 50% drop compared to January 2024 in Europe is not nothing.

Double digit decline in California.
In my US state, vendors & service providers are quite open about "if you pay cash, I will not charge you the Gross Receipts Tax" (GRT is New Mexico's weird attempt at something vaguely like a cross between VAT and a sales tax).
> If scenarios with different mixes of CC/DAC and WWS were performed, it would not be possible to conclude whether one is an opportunity cost. Instead, using a mixture requires assuming that both CC/DAC and WWS should be used before determining whether one has any benefit relative to the other.

Seems stupid - they are both being used, so even the business-as-usual scenario is a mixture. If indeed the 100% WWS + 0% CC/DAC scenario is better than than the 95% WWS + 5% CC/DAC scenario, then it is logical to conclude that CC/DAC is useless, but according to the tables and figures, they didn't even look at whether a 50/50 WWS + CC/DAC split would be better or worse. Yet their conclusion is still "policies promoting CC and SDACC should be abandoned". They have these really complex models but at the end of the day it is garbage in, garbage out.
>On your other questions, I think you are missing the bigger picture. The part you are missing is that EU exporters get a tax refund.

I'm not missing it, you are missing it. Yes EU companies get a tax refund and US companies don't, because there is nothing to refund when nothing was paid.

>But, the US primarily taxes businesses via corporate income tax (~21% federally, plus state taxes)

Believe it or not, but corporate income taxes in Europe also exist. I can see the argument that tax burden for companies in US is higher because government collects more in income tax and less in VAT tax. I'm not sure that is actually true and strongly suspect it's not, as EU is anything but a low-tax jurisdiction. If anything, that's a good argument for US to introduce VAT tax.
Herodotus, in ancient Greece, had already said: "After all, no one is stupid enough to prefer war to peace; in peace sons bury their fathers and in war fathers bury their sons."
Alternatively: if AI makes a good developer 2x more productive (which I do think is possible based on my own experience), developers are now 2x more valuable to employers. The cost of building software drops in half, which means employers that previously wouldn't have developed their own software (too expensive) are now in the market for custom solutions. Demand for developers goes up.

If you believe that making developers 10% more productive results in a need for ~10% less developers, why didn't open source software over the past ~20 years harm our profession?

Working with open source packages from npm and PyPI has given me WAY more than a 10% boost - so much stuff I don't have to write from scratch now!
Senior engineers sometimes jump to conclusions too, especially if they are tired or overworked or stressed out.

No doubt, less frequently than junior engineers do, but I don't think from the mere fact that someone has "jumped to conclusions" on an occasion, you can draw any firm conclusions as to their seniority.

ProPublica has published a list of alleged DOGE staff [0] and one of their software engineers is 37, and he previously worked as a CTO. Another DOGE staffer is 36, and she previously worked as head of engineering at a startup, and before that did software development for Goldman Sachs. So it sounds like they do have some "senior engineers"

[0] https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/
AI is problematic because it creates code that is good enough but would have been better if you wrote yourself. Leading to many papercuts.

The real question is will AI create a shortage of developers to fix the mess!
Losing a property seems like a small price to pay for the work that it saved you. Yes, you need to do code review and that takes time, but from my experience the weights are totally in favor of using AI. Also, nice to remember, we are still at the early stages of AI, looking forward even 3 years from now doesn't look good for devs.
I’ve been using this for years, it’s almost perfect but there are a few little issues here in there. My TV automatically updated the jellfin client which no longer could connect to my server that was frustrating. Another update stopped supporting many of the plug-ins I enjoyed using. I have issues with thumbnails not loading and not knowing how buffering works. I find it difficult to troubleshoot issues. 99% of the time it is perfect and I love it.
The problem is in the US, not in the EU. The US is in effect applying an "export" tax.
South Bay Systems: https://lu.ma/southbaysystems

SF Systems: https://www.sfsystems.xyz/
It doesn't need to completely replace software devs. Rather, AI will make a $25k/year software dev as good as a $250k/year software dev, and the 25k one won't even need to speak English. The real question is: will AI enable the now jobless 250k software dev do something that's so valuable that the US companies will need his services at this price?
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Videos are typically already summarized substitutes for complex topics--topics for which you might need to read text or literature to get the full context of. Now we want to min-max and summarize the video themselves. Then what? If that video summary is too long, we throw it into another LLM to summarize the summary of the summary? To what extent does this end?

There's more to learning than just information density. There's visuals, presentations, explanations. And if you want more proof, then a video played a 2x speed is twice the information density, yet we all know that many videos would be extremely hard to retain anything from at that speed.
Maybe trauma blocked memories?
They're obnoxiously obsequious, though. They remind me of a customer service worker dialed up to 11. I'd rather be talked to straight, without all the "You're absolutely right!" and "Oh, I'm sorry!" nonsense.
Never got AI interviews, but ATS deciding which candidate go through is the real problem
I think radiation unreliability is orthogonal to fixed upper bounds. Radiation is as likely to flip a bit in the check of the upper bound as anywhere else. Having that upper bound hardcoded won't protect against that at all, as far as I can see.
Jellyfin's strategy for streaming blu-ray disc folders is to use ffmpeg to concatenate (and usually transcode) them to disc, then stream the result.

It doesn't work very well - frequently, the concatenation process is sitting there running long after the client has disconnected. And the devs seem to break it entirely every second release or so, just failing to recognize the BDMV as a playable movie at all.
I’ve been using caddy, very easy to set up reverse proxies, and it generates a local root CA you can install on your machines at home so you get SSL for free. Nothing you couldn’t also rig with nginx, I just enjoyed the simplicity

I’ve got pihole running so that’s my home dns server, I have custom domains with a home-only TLD (I think “.internal” is cleared for use now?). So something like https://plex.homecloud.internal can load up plex, I can only assume jellyfin could do the same.

I’ve actually been using ZeroTier instead of tailscale for external access and I’ve been very happy with it, but I know lots of people love tailscale and I’m sure it’s great too
Show HN: Tech Brief – AI enhanced news reading
I built this because I wanted it, and I now use it every day.

It's a simple news site that gathers and summarises tech content and discussions, across multiple sources, providing tight, easily digestable summaries along with some simple tooling to support reading workflows.

1) Hourly updated homepage with the latest tech news across the web.

2) A simple < 3 min "News of the Hour", every hour, audio clip.

3) Summaries of HackerNews and Product Hunt, incl. comments and sentiment (more to come).

3) GitHub login with AI summaries of any releases made to your starred repos.

4) Read/Unread article status.

5) Simple swipe interface and keyboard support.

6) Simple Bookmark/Readling List, and Favourite tags (logged in)

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It will be back later, when you’ve left behind more than you can anticipate ahead. Just give it time.
TY jellyfin maintainers. Been a happy user for years
DNS still needs to specify ports though?
Humans are far and away the most cruel species that has ever walked the face of the earth. No other species has the capacity to invent torture, using our analytical abilities to keep the victim alive indefinitely while inflicting the most vicious agonies possible (e.g. torturing the child in front of the parent).
Could apply to any application involving functional safety requirements
Nope. The difference is that a tariff only applies to imports, whereas a VAT applies to all sales in the country regardless of whether they are imports or domestic.

The former puts imports at a competitive disadvantage. The latter does not.
Elon owns the largest block of spacex stock and a dramatic majority in voting. He would have to want out for it to happen I think. I do not expect banks would somehow force him out, they knew who they made a deal with.
fun fact, the same guy (G Holzman) also made the Spin model checker
AI needs the web to thrive & survive ...its leech of the worlds' knowledge & where it gained the majority of its knowledge from and will continue to do so.

The next big platform winner I think will be an AI phone... one that embraces the web over app stores. Its web browser will be where all the games and everything is built even if we no longer open our web browsers up as we do now.
When building applications with Plotly Dash, it's not that easy to adhere to Modular Web Design. One common challenge is managing component IDs. Typically, developers define an ID in one place and reference it in another, leading to scattered logic that can be difficult to maintain. Inspired by Dash’s All-in-One Components, I set out to create a more modular approach. This led to the development of dash-basecomponent, a Python package that simplifies component structuring while promoting modular web design.
No one thinks that the best drug launch method is do it untested.

Isn’t that curve you show trending down?
solar efficiency was crap too, for decades. should we have abandoned that in the 1990's for the same reason?
I didn't mention a theory of everything, nor did I say "the model is false". I laid out what a vector quantity is and what "-" applied to one in 1D expands to.
Why would US car manufacturers try to get their shit together with even less competition?
A lot of the time?

What kind of code are you writing, if I may ask; and how long have you been doing it?

I sometimes ask whatever AI open ended questions on subjects I know very little about, and sometimes I find some kind of starting point for less random research using better tools.

Beyond that, and whatever fancy autocomplete my IDE forces down my throat, nope.

If if was gone tomorrow I would barely notice.
> It's perfect for replacing web developers.

In fact, web developers are the first for AI to completely replace them as it is best trained on the javascript and typescript ecosystem(s) and that was all done by themselves due to it's high popularity and the lowest of all barriers in this industry.

It will take time for the other sectors, but web developers are the first to be completely displaced.
Surely having the maze being in the shape of a heart instead of a boring square would have produced better responses...
Yeah, this read like he really wanted this to be a general set of guidelines instead of a C-specific set, and since they didn't explicitly say that they are C-specific, he's playing stupid "gotcha" games for whatever reason.
Some people are opportunists... you'd see Cody out there sweeping the street for some paladium
That backlog almost certainly is just stuff you care about and not related to revenue

Or someone would have been added to headcount to work on it
>have the same situation, but with flood insurance

It's not flood insurance (that's federal), it's hurricane insurance, which is technically wind. I feel that Florida is a bit ahead of California due to the larger insurance price increases. That being said, we're not out of the woods yet, but the reforms from a few years ago seem to be making some progress.
As far as I'm aware Plex media server still has the option to whitelist subnets for auth bypass. I don't know if there is an option to do purely local authentication, but I don't believe it's accurate that the company is holding the keys to your library.
This has the hallmarks of curious George
Toddler-level first-order thinking, coupled with some sort of pathological rage.
Or will it be the end of society as we know it, since everyone will keep pretending it works until everything collapses.
I spend a good portion of my time in community service, mostly in areas where drug abuse is rampant. During this time, I've talked with a fair number of addicts, and I'd say over 90% of them stem from either being introduced to drugs by a friend (peer pressure) or following after the drug addiction of an existing family member. Generally, within a year or two, they were on the streets resorting to crime to fuel their addiction.

Now, my experience is not representative as a whole, but it's generally what fuels my thoughts on this subject. If this is the story I hear quite frequently, why would I want these drugs to be introduced legally into people's lives? That's why I've always had issues understanding people pushing for legalization.

I understand how it can come across as puritanical ("I know what's best for you"). However, when all data suggests that engaging in drug use almost universally results in poverty, why would we as a society want to unleash such a thing upon people? It's for the betterment of humanity that life-ruining drugs are illegal.

At least those are my thoughts.
Ask HN: Why isn't anyone else bothered by the fact that life is only on Earth?
I am aware of the aestivation hypothesis (counter to Fermi’s Paradox), and I am also aware of the Rare Earth Hypothesis. What I am trying to understand is why more effort isn’t expended to determine the state of other life in the universe? Consider that the building blocks of life are biological molecules, which have been found in asteroids [1]. What bothers me is that we know that older Earth-like planets exist in habitable zones, or once had conditions which were habitable. But where are the microfossils, like we find on Earth [2], let along anything more complex, like unicellular organisms, or multicellular organisms? Even if you hypothesize some intelligent life form devastated the entire planet and its ecosystem, where is its fossil record? Ruins and garbage record? Or space garbage?

I am bothered by how improbable it is that even simple life forms have not been discovered anywhere else in the universe. The most reasonable explanation after you exclude something artificially forcing life to exist on Earth, or preventing it from existing anywhere else, is that we just need to explore the universe more, and grab samples from other planets in habitable zones. I really hope that more efforts are expended towards finding simple life forms on other Earth-like planets as the fact that life seems to be found just here in a place as big and wide as our entire system (the Universe) is really hard to believe, and keeps me up at night because it’s just so weird. From what I can tell, we need deep space autonomous exploration asap.

[1] https://scitechdaily.com/nasa-uncovers-lifes-building-blocks-in-asteroid-bennus-pristine-sample/

[2] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk3208
I’ve got 90tb of Linux isos consisting of tens of thousands of files on 168tb of spinning rust. I’m running reasonably powerful hardware though (5600x + 128gb ram), suspect GP is bottlenecked by hardware
Also:

Tire-related chemical responsible for salmon deaths in urban streams (2020) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41450563 - September 2024 (37 comments)
Echoing many of the other replies here - my experience has been very different (much better).

The web UI is fine and snappy and using Infuse on Apple TV is simply delightful.

The server uses file watchers to update the media library very quickly and is light on resources.

I don't need a recommendation engine because... it's my media library, presumably I added things to it that I want to watch.

And most importantly, it's open source and not likely to get enshittified in the near future like Plex.
In the margin, branches are more likely close to the hot path, so they are more likely to 'pollute' the instruction cache. Whilst exceptions have less of this.

Though profile guided optimization will probably catch this. And it might be that even without, compilers still optimize around this.
I talked to a McDonnell Aircraft structural engineer in the 80s. He said something like Old Man McDonnel told us to design for a 0.85 factor of safety on the F101. If anything broke during testing, we'd redesign it.

I'm not sure if that was how it really worked out.
Tried it and it is worse that OpenAI deep search (one query only, will need to try it more I guess...)
It is certainly looking grim. The current leadership is more interested in fostering an environment they seem "acceptable" than contributing technically to the project.
I love Jellyfin too, but there are a bunch of rough edges I run into often, like:

Chromecast support is flaky. Most of the time when I cast from my Android phone, the app immediately "forgets" that there's something playing back on the Chromecast (even though it's still connected to it), so I can't control playback at all. It's also hit or miss if the Chromecast will successfully play the media if Jellyfin decides it needs to transcode it.

So I got a little NUC-like box (Intel N100), and installed Jellyfin on it (it was previously running on an old 2012 Mac Mini running Linux). I connected it directly to the TV and installed jellyfin-media-player on it, set to auto-login and start X on boot, with a minimal session that just runs JMP only in fullscreen mode. I use JMP on my laptop, or the Android app, to control it. JMP will randomly lose its connection to the Jellyfin server (even though it's running on the same machine), and won't try to reconnect, so nearly every time I go to use it, I have to ssh in and restart JMP so it reconnects.

On top of that, I get occasional audio dropouts when watching 4k content, and sometimes see 4k video stuttering (yes, hardware decoding is enabled for playback, and I've verified in the logs that it's being used). At those times, the box is around 40% idle, and intel_gpu_top shows that the decode and render bits have what I think should be more than enough headroom to avoid that sort of thing. I understand JMP uses libmpv for playback, so out of curiosity I tried playing video using mpv directly, and somehow JMP's player uses about 50% more CPU than mpv standalone does, and I don't hear any dropouts or see any stuttering on the same media. I get that a video player that's embedded in an application might have some overhead, but 50% is a bit much.

I get that Jellyfin is maintained by volunteers (I also maintain open source in my spare time, so I know how tough it can be to be responsive to user requests), but these issues are quite frustrating. I don't want to use something closed like Plex or Emby (which may or may not be better), so it's still the right trade off for me. And what it can do is truly amazing. I love that I can play things while I'm on the go, VPN'ing to my home network, and Jellyfin will transcode down to a crappy-enough bitrate to fit within the confines of my garbage Comcast upload speed.