skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's estimated via a model

So is every physical constant. The gravitational constant is a metric. We then measure it by way of models.

GDP isn’t a model per se. GDPNow is.
>Two participants changed their views about toasters in general because how toasters work was not as complicated as they first thought

We really do need to acknowledge that spending time taking things apart is a critical life skill. If you don't do it, you're forever a slave to buying new things.
I agree they're different but I think you have the sense reversed: In the case you complained about the private information is still just being shared within government agencies and is still protected by felony penalties for further wrongful disclosure. So for example, if a DOGE employee gives you that tax info they're committing a felony and if you further publish it you're also committing a felony (though perhaps if you're using it to advance the administration's agenda you won't be prosecuted-- but at least you could be).

Obviously any expansion of access is a risk. But the risk of creating a database in the first place is I think qualitatively different and worse.

In the case of the beneficial ownership data, it's a new massive collection of information which right out the gate is permitted to be shared outside of the federal government-- both with state entities and businesses. And wrongful use is not a felony, further redistribution is not a felony-- so I think we should be pretty dubious about what limitations exist when they don't have teeth.

I hope that explains my perspective better and why I thought the contrast was relevant.

(As far as the history check-- I think I only bothered looking because your account name was 'throwaway', and I think it's useful to know if I'm responding to an earnest participant vs a troll. My apologies for the dismissive presentation of my position: I do think it's useful to contrast the policies on these two issues).
Opera's AI Browser Operator
You should treat robots like you treat horses or lawnmowers. They're all surprisingly deadly.
I mulled over this for a while, thought deeply about it from a lot of angles. I think the only useful heuristic for thorny issues like this is to do our best to balance compassion for self and others, and encourage others to do the same.

I can see it from a "yes" perspective and from a "no" perspective, and I can find reasons to regret saying either. Agency, autonomy and compassion are critical features of the scenarios that have the least regrets.

At the bottom of that article it indicated they've successfully recreated the antibody in a lab, I hope that saves a lot of families from suffering.
Ah, thanks! Interesting. How does it know which is Real and which is poems?
I mean my response was sarcasm, idk about theirs ^
> definition and tax status of corporations, LLCs, etc already lie with the Treasury department

For tax purposes, yes. For almost everything else, no. State law controls.
The immutable thing is actually being sold as a strength, i.e. "you write your nice clean immutable code, and if you've tagged it as a value type or flattenable, the compiler will figure out it doesn't need a new allocation and will update the existing value inline." I think they see it as in keeping with the Java culture of "you get very good performance for straightforward code" but I definitely agree there's a hazard of introducing an unnecessary impedance mismatch.
There is an FAA accepted test of paint film hardness that requires special calibrated pencils, available ONLY from Mitsubishi pencil company, in packages of 17 for $224. Each pencil comes with an individual certificate of calibration shows that it meet's it's specified hardness level. The test is ASTM D 3363, "Standard Test Method for Film Hardness by Pencil Test"

https://www.gardco.com/Products/Hardness-Testers/Scratch-Har...
>But then any sort of management information, eg "find out how many active customers we have" or "which customer has the most activity" becomes a query over all the DBs

Create a separate DWH storage where all necessary data from all databases is pulled and processed/aggregated in the background (via change data capture) and saved in a format that is more suitable for analytical queries. The downside is that it requires additional preparation and some upfront design.

>Similarly, admin tools for customer support etc easily become very hard to build.

Our CRM understands the concept of organizations/tenants, so when a customer files a ticket, we know their organization, and from there, for a tech support person, accessing "coolcompany.mysaas.com" is no different from accessing "mysaas.com". In my opinion, it makes tech support easier, because you have far less data/fewer logs to analyze/sift through (only a specific organization's DB) when investigating a problem.
> During WW2, the US fielded ... 111 aircraft carriers. Just a whole different order of magnitude.

And would have absolutely no way to reach that scale again. Or the equivalent in drone production, which is why it’s absolutely preposterous to take a hostile attitude towards our closest neighbors and trade and potentially put our geographical advantages at risk.
The thing is with something like this, if you're clever with the design you could make a device that packs flat, but isn't entirely flat.

So imagine you make the depth of the toaster greater than the height (easy with those feet). You put a quarter inch radius on the top plate, make the front and back plate a half an inch shorter so they nest inside the top plate in the box. And in fact if you put locking tabs on the two plates to keep the front from oil canning, those would also fit in if you flip the plates the right way 'round in the box.

You can tell from the bolts in the picture that there are already right angle bends in the sheet metal. So they're already using the third dimension just not with as much flair.
This is the problem with modern politics. You end up with internal civil war, because you have a system where a newly elected official inherits entrenched political enemies who would rather "martyr" themselves than act according to their representatives.
Show HN: I made an app to like or dislike famous quotes
If you're cynical about global markets, you can always take profits and build a self-sufficient homestead somewhere remote, or buy a cauldron and fill it with gold doubloons and bury it at the end of a rainbow like a leprechaun. Doomerism caused me to miss out on the biggest bull run in history, so I no longer give this advice. Rural property is a hedge, not an investment.
We are developing advanced physics simulations, including one aimed at enhancing geothermal power efficiency at https://simuport.com. Our online simulators are currently template-based, primarily serving as a showcase of our models' capabilities. We have ambitious plans to expand, adding many more simulators and advanced features.
The rot started with the Business Plot, it's just that WW2 beat fascism back for a generation and they couldn't functionally regroup until Nixon's time.
Guarantee you the super wealthy want deflation here.

Buffett etc is sitting on hoards of cash and want to swoop in and save the day again by taking over banks and oil companies.
Countries? My friend right now add there all former US allies, including whole Europe and both your neighbors. Maybe gaining some new like guy from Argentina, Saudis with their murderous chieftain, and of course lets not forget biggest country on Earth by landmass.

US is a bully, and extremely unreliable one. We're in a no-trust era now. You will find some sympathizers of him everywhere of course, they mainly align with russian war supporters, at least in Europe. No surprises.

All this could reverse eventually but I just don't see it happening. 4 years is painfully long period and things will change forever, and I suspect not in ways 'architects' wish for. God I desperately hope we have at least some leaders with balls in Europe now that can steer adaptation to new situation quickly. We have massive potential at least matching current US one, but incorrect ideology for these times. And I suspect in 4 years situation won't change dramatically, if at all.

Remember those times that were, and how they were, how world was. I slightly feels like when 60s hippie era died and one Hunter S. Thompson quote comes to mind.
When I previously donated blood at the DRK, not only did I always get a Bockwurst&Brötchen along with a selection of beverages (water, cola, coffee, tea, etc.) but also a little gift bag containing a variety of little food and drink items, like a banana, an apple, little bottles/packets of fruit juice, (fruit/chocolate/etc.) joghurt cups, all in all maybe ~5-7€ worth.
But this is assuming that "bad" companies outnumber the "good" by a significant margin, which has been untrue in my experience.

It's entirely possible the landscape isn't different because the "good" companies are inherently uncompetitive with the "bad", but this is not something to be solved by just writing every company off as "bad" and then blaming the resulting system on that.

You have to start by understanding why, to paraphrase you, "the landscape is not different". I think writing off all companies as "the same" avoids answering that question entirely, which really cripples any logic you build on top of that premise, to the point where it leads to contradictory or invalid conclusions.

I disagree that the "bad" companies represent "an overwhelmingly negative majority", because I do not see the necessary proof to support such a statement. It appears to be a generalization driven by motivated reasoning.
If it's just a piece of paper, what are you bitching about? Pull up your bootstraps and fill it out and quit your whining.
I saw a Tesla with an Audi badge on it the other week. I didn't realize that it was a trend, or why someone would do that. Do they really think they're fooling anyone?
Trump is obsessed with stock market as the only measure of "how economy is doing". This might help to convince him to cancel tariffs.

Obviously he and his people have no idea how global value chains work.
My theory always was that this is television that was meant as a signal for kids to go to sleep.
one literally can raise the same points about a running text-editor and a keyboard with 'Silent Mode/Do Not Disturb' activated, except the timeless argument as we don't have even 200 years of electronic computers... have you ever tried to be productive by sharing letters in a mailling list when brainstorming ideas? /s

and don't come up with research comparing the 2 with biases like participants not even knowing how to touch-type or that variable not even being mentioned
Looking at my code that works on this stuff - the above is just wrong. I was looking at my failed experimental branch not the actual code that does this. The above is a fun way to introduce all sorts of UB.

Apologies for my pre-coffee brainfarts.
Funny, my first thought in seeing this headline was The Toaster Project by Thomas Thwaites: http://www.thetoasterproject.org/ (~2010) - more of a reflection about globalism and what is possible to create from scratch. https://www.ted.com/talks/thomas_thwaites_how_i_built_a_toas...
For what it's worth I believe Luigi is a murderer, but by far not a terrorist.
Yep. It boggles my mind that we still do aircraft flyovers at big football games. Those should be drones doing coordinated light shows--even in heavy winds, rain, and unfavorable conditions. Just to show that we've mastered it, and that we can do it easily even when there are no stakes.

My genuine hope is that secretly we actually are really good with drones and just strategically have decided not to broadcast it, but I don't think that's the way forward. It needs to be known that we've absolutely mastered them.

You know, kind of like the Chinese have done with their drone shows at the Olympics and similar events.
Banking's critical functions are vanishing into the cloud
A nice project—I hadn’t seen it before. I’m working on a similar concept but as an open-source project [1].

We see it as an alternative to K8s/Slurm and would be interested in hearing thoughts from other ML engineers.

[1] https://github.com/dstackai/dstack
i mean in reality . any that worked?
I'm curious, is it the power reduction claim by Apple that is impressive, and where exactly does it come from?

Because as I understand it, transmitting a signal is the main power drain. If you transmit with less power it would mean a lesser range and lower signal quality. So Apple can't just have their phone transmit a signal with less power...
The article doesn’t provide any alternatives?

I think there are indeed many challenges when evaluating Compound AI Systems (http://bair.berkeley.edu/blog/2024/02/18/compound-ai-systems...)

But evals in complex systems are the best we have at the moment. It’s a “best-practice” just like all the forms of testing in the “test pyramid” (https://martinfowler.com/articles/practical-test-pyramid.htm...)

Nothing is a silver bullet. Just hard won, ideally automated, integrated quality and verification checks, built deep into the system and SDLC.
Can't you simply use a stateful protocol and not report any state? Doesn't statefulness subsume statelessness? I am beginning to wrap my head around this space, so excuse the naive questions.
I disagree. We'd have Trump regardless. Prices are an excuse, these voters are voting their identity, their tribalism, and their bitterness.

Look no further than every interview with a regretful Trump voter: "I didn't think I'd lose my job." "I didn't they they would deport my family member." This is no different than "The only moral abortion is my abortion." Unless they are personally impacted by the policy, they vote their harmful belief system.

> “He’s not hurting the people he needs to be”: a Trump voter says the quiet part out loud

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/1/8/18173678/tr...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/11/there-are-a-...
Obvious in theory, but have you ever met one of those leaders?
I remember telling an interviewer that I could provide links to decades' worth of repos, with full, high-Quality source code for multiple shipping apps, and very detailed checkin history. I could also reference Web sites, with many years' worth of extremely well-written blog entries and tutorial series.

I was told they weren't going to look at it, because I "probably faked it."

It was at that point, that I realized that no one wanted me, and I gave up looking. I guess that I could have said that if I had been able to fake that stuff, they should hire me right away, because I'm a leet wizard, but I'm sure they said that, to evoke exactly the reaction they got, and I was better off, not working there.

I won't go, where I'm not wanted.
Playing devils advocate for a sec. Would your employer not simply counter that they pay for the work produced not for the time required to produce it? Essentially saying that you are giving yourself a pay cut.
How new tariffs threaten iconic US Chevy Silverado pick-up truck
I guess that the nature of their writing system has either driven both their artistic expressiveness and excellence of their writing accessories, or vice versa, but, regardless, their craftsmanship is outstanding and admirable.

I, too, was a Uniball micro man until I switched to pencils and have been a Pentel Twist-Erase III man for a long time, indeed, with 2B lead instead of America's #2 standard. So smooth, and such a great eraser!

[I also must make my usual recommendation for NHKOnline's videos, where they have many, many shows about traditional Japanese crafts. Our family's favorite is now called "Design Stories", where it used to be "Design Talks Plus". They interview famous Japanese designers of all kinds, including a couple of Manga and many graphic design folks, as well as some stationery shops and Washi paper producers, plus architects and potters. I've only seen a few less than excellent episodes, but they're all good in the least.]
Banking crises are largely accounting problems and can - mostly - be fixed from accounting.

There will be winners and losers, and many people won't like the result, but it's not going to end in a Great Depression.

Tariffs - on the other hand - can break your actual, real, non-financial economy - which cannot be fixed by accounting.
My parents are using an electric hand mixer that is 45+ years old. It's still fine.

Products of the past did last longer because they weren't as cost-optimised yet.
It seems similar to the story of the vastly over-build Volvo red block engines.

Yet, we don't live in a (global) society that cares about living consciously, to build things that last. If something lasts, we don't consume. And that's our true purpose. To consume the things that are produced.

Do we need 20+ brands of peanut butter? Why do brands even exist? Why can't we just but 'peanut butter'?

The word and our society is actually so strange, if you really think about this. By the way, did I mentioned yet, I really miss David Graeber?
We both know that US wanted to do it, because that’s how you become the global soft-power and have influence on every other nation. Also, it’s not the fault of Europe that Americans don’t want free education, pension, 4-6 week summer vacations and etc.

You’re trying to find a reason why quality of life is worse in the states, compared to Europe and some Asian countries. However, you’re not willing to blame yourselves, and will keep finding an excuse.

Most of people who say the same thing at the same time call Europeans “poor, no growth, no ambition” citizens. And that’s ok. But you can’t have it both ways, you know. Go enjoy your richness or growing stock market.
> Plus it was never about immigration,

It was partly about immigration. According to these surveys 43% of people that voted leave think immigration should be reduced.

https://public.tableau.com/views/Publicopinion2023/FIGURE9?:...

> it was always - I think - a classic case of misinformation and greed from many places. Sadly many people fell for it.

Why do many people assume that if someone thinks differently about a particular political issue they must have fooled somehow? Considering there is data that partially contradicts your belief that it wasn't about immigration, maybe your assessment about their level of understanding of the issues involved is also incorrect.
I think, this named deferred demand - people known before about new tariffs and buy really need things before new policy taken effect, so now will be some time without new buys.

It will normalize in few years, may be for some markets in few months, and for some will need decades, from EU practice.
I think the GP might have been referring to voters, I frequently hear from them how Republican economics are better because, allegedly, there is less spending ("allegedly" is doing a lot of work there - we all know how the national deficit trends between the two parties). Businesses across the country initially reacted very well to him coming to power, though that honeymoon is abruptly coming to an end.
Whoa, and who's gonna replace the loss in the primes' revenue, hmmm? They pay top dollar lobbyists to prevent such a radical notion.
The first time I watched Iron Man, I was blown away—not just by the suit or the action, but by Jarvis and how Tony Stark interacted with it. Sure, it was Sci-Fi, but the technology to make it real is here now.

Laskade is a Notion alternative with a voice-first AI interface that lets you automate tasks using just your voice.

Think of it as Siri, but supercharged with LLMs for your docs.

Check out the demo below:
https://youtu.be/ZIteIk_oh70?si=NcRoy451zX-HNpIy
DuckDB is an in-memory columnar OLAP database. It is going to be much faster at analytics queries than disk-based OLTP database. It is optimized for fast queries but can't write or handle large data.
>But look, Ukraine are producing two-and-a-half drones a day now.

That seems way off. See the recent euromaidanpress headline:

>Defense News: Ukraine plans 15-km unmanned “kill zone” along Russian front as drone production hits 4,000+ daily https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/03/02/defense-news-ukraine-...

Which is kind of interesting strategically. I was thinking Ukraine can't really afford to keep losing large numbers of soldiers and will probably try switching to drones to hold the Russians back. It's probably a technology that favours defenders over attackers as the defenders can work from hidden bunkers but the attackers have to move above ground.
Unintended surplus collateral loss.
https://archive.ph/YmNED
Does it make any difference in practice who wins?

Or is it the same money pulling the strings of whoever takes the seat?

The illusion of choice is a very effective method for controlling people.
To me, a guy in a banana suit appears more confident than a gut in a business suit.
> People import goods before tariffs because the price is lower, and that money going to trade isn’t going to GDP

It does, in inventories. But 34 have 77% reporting on inventories and 85% on imports [1]. To the extent this model is saying something, it’s to watch inventories build and deplete.

[1] https://www.ismworld.org/supply-management-news-and-reports/...
Hopefully this starts a discussion/trend towards failure-tolerant robotics. Much as we have seen on commercial aircraft, relying on such things as a single sensor (or not being able to tolerate the failure of a single sensor) could spell trouble and even tragedy.

Having been involved in failure tolerant design for mechanical, electronic and software systems, I think I can say that this is an aspect of engineering that is well understood by those working in industries that require it.

Generalizing --perhaps unfairly-- I imagine that most engineers working on this class of robot have had little, if any, exposure to failure tolerant designs. They cost more, require more attention and analysis of designs and lots of testing. However, as robots of many forms interact with humans, this type of resiliency will become critically important.

A practical home or warehouse robot that can lift and manipulate useful weights (say, 20 or 30 Kg) will have enough power to seriously hurt someone. If a single sensor failure, disconnection or error can launch it into uncontrolled behavior, the outcome could be terrible.
All models are wrong, but some are useful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_models_are_wrong
Looking at that graph, though, while exports collapse is certainly the biggest factor, it's not the only one. That is, looking at the March 3rd entry, "Residential Investment" is now negative, and if I'm reading it correctly (I hate it when colors on a graph are too similar) consumer spending is now zero when it was recently quite positive.
This is excellent work. I like everything about this project - user assembly and repair (repair is much easier not only if the item is designed to be repaired, but if the user assembles it in the first place); flat pack for efficient shipping/storage; the overall focus on reuse and waste reduction. Perhaps, with more projects like this for a wider range of items, it'll be possible to pull manufacturers to a more right-to-repair, cradle-to-grave kind of world.
It's been, what, 10 years of Trump now. If you're not taking what he says seriously, you have failed to learn anything.
I like the part where your comment about it not having evidence is right next to the comments about the evidence is yet-to-be-published.