skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a dip for sure, but not quite the drastic dip of tesla sales. Also note that the number of passenger cars sold is much lower than the number of SUV. A fairly good indication that people are buying SUVs rather than passenger cars.

If you look at the bar graph, the total drop is 89k to 86k. Which represents about a 1% decrease in total sales.
Canadian software could be tariffed, technology lawyers warn
Hello AI Agents: Goodbye UI Design, RIP Accessibility
Is this a valid take on accessibility and AI agents?
> tyranny

The term "tyrant" historically was used for rulers who were not part of the recognized dynasty: usurpers. The term shifted to "arbitrary power" because the tyrant ruled without grounds founding an authority. We can say "tyranny of the majority" as it can be valued as unfair that anything (majorities included) have power without full substantial authority.

> If the majority really wanted ... there isn't any system in place that would stop them

That is false, because there can be systems that do not attribute powers to majorities. (In fact, the rule of minorities is quite extensive in history, and not all voting systems give powers to majorities - or, as already expressed, the idea of "majority" loses a direct sense in some even simple voting systems.)
I don't use one for work but I use my iPad Pro with keyboard more than I use my personal laptop for personal use. Web browsing, social media, communications, viewing and editing photos, shopping, planning trips, taking notes, and watching videos.

It is a computer, just a little different.
Also, grep is really exciting with lots of data.
China seemed to focus on agricultural goods which it has been pushing for local industries for decades anyways. I think this was an olive branch in that it didn't really try to turn the screws?
I think about this a bit in the context of Virgil. Virgil's compiler is a whole-program optimizing compiler that does a lot of devirtualization and constant-folding. In the higher optimizations it does a bit of inlining, but I haven't found the huge 10X speedups that you get in, e.g. Java. More like 10-40% performance improvements from inlining.

I think Virgil could benefit a little from runtime information. For example, it could make better inlining and register allocation decisions, as well as code layout. I have a feeling that Virgil code would benefit a little from guarded inlining, but I don't think full-on speculation would help. In general, a lot of polymorphism can melt away if you can look at the whole program. Couple that also with Virgil's compiler doing monomorphization, which means that using parametric polymorphism costs only code space, and I think the gap is pretty small. I'd expect you could maybe get another 10-20% from these things all together--that's a lot of work to get a small amount.
Show HN: Tiny Teams in Tech Directory
For every tattoo, you must also include as part of the tat the Prop 65 text?
It's not particularly consequential when the types are only used for type checking and then thrown away. That's how Typescript and Python work.

But when the types are sound you can use them to compile better code. That's what most languages with "proper" static types (not just type hints) do.
Metformin-regulated glucose flux from the circulation to the intestinal lumen
The style matching is interesting, but there's no song structure. There's no identifiable chorus in any of the demo songs.
If it is easy to catch and correct, why cannot Copilot do it? Sounds like something that it should know.
People sometimes don't like to be working on creative stuff sitting on a workstation all the time, having hardware that allows to do it on-the-go, or easily move to other places can help to spark something.

For purely technical editing a workstation is probably unbeatable but if you need to find inspiration there's very few things less inspiring than sitting on the same desk, within the same environment, day-in and day-out.
It's not being 'softer'. It's temporarily stopping it, so they can try to negotiate a peace deal. I swear, the Bush administration of the 2000s and the liberals of today would be best friends.
I know by law a 23 year old is considered an adult, but full blown seems to be hyperbolic.
US Gives Chevron One Month to End Operations in Venezuela
There was the Motorola Atrix that had a dual mode system where you could plug the phone into a keyboard, larger battery, and big screen in a mostly laptop form factor. Never used it myself though because the keyboard module was expensive for at the time.
Give me a MB with LTE and I can finally stop buying&regretting iPads.

Maybe Apple moving into the modem space will get us there but it does feel like some sort of purposeful market segmentation
When people are nervous/scared (as they are with doctors) they start rambling about all sorts of things. I had somebody rambling about the Lion King musical versus the lion King cartoon recently, instead of telling me about their recent heart attack. The ‘art’ of medicine is redirecting the patient to provide the most important/relevant information.

In addition, doctors have finite attention span/hours of the day. Nobody wants to read paragraphs upon paragraphs of information.
> How exactly are they a threat to the free world?

First by playing 'free market' and getting bilions in incentives from taxpayer money.
And then they will be a threat by the time Tesla will lock you into a subscription model and starlink sell your data to the government the first time it will feel threatened.

Socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor.
Great for artists, mostly useless for developers
Install a custom Rom, and don't install google apps.
If you need some functionality from google play services, there's microg.
That is complete nonsense. The idea that one of the poorist countries in Europe has greater capacity for manufacturing ammunition than Russia is just silly
Yup, I think experience and new tools & techniques will have battery fires as controllable as gasoline fires relatively soon.

I'm pretty sure the racetrack issue was related to the garages. The pretty much standard rule I've seen at all racetracks I've been to is and absolute "NO FUELING IN THE GARAGE" as in if they even catch you with an open fuel can in the garage you are immediately banned from the premises. They're obviously trying to minimize the risk of one of their building burning down, especially since once a fire started in one team's bay, it would be likely to spread to adjacent bays. I expect they just consider electric fires to start in broader circumstances.

Also, I think it might be relaxing the rules some, as I just checked and at least SCCA is now working on rules for electric cars on road tracks, which presumably means some tracks are more open to it.
Interesting! Thank you for the good link
for this check www.palabra.ai
To reduce mouse hand travel I got a roller mouse pro slim about 6 months ago. Not great for fine motor tasks but exceptional for other general uses. Alleviated a lot of pain in my hands and fingers.

I use this with a small slim keychron keyboard and with a kinesis advantage 360.

The roller seems to be getting a bit sticky after 6 months of heavy use and transporting it between work and home. Nonetheless, would get another in a heartbeat.

Perhaps worth a look?
There’s no need for a PCB in a toaster.
"If you're undecided about this"

As with many things, it's a very slippery slope and it is far more nuanced and not easily "decided".

MAiD for someone in the final stages of a terminal illness is a far cry from government workers suggesting MAiD to a healthy paralympian veteran asking for a wheelchair ramp (https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/christine-gauthier-assisted...). And of course we have expanded MAID to people suffering from mental illnesses, and it's something people are pursuing now because they can't afford rent. Oh and the government is recommending that MAiD be expanded to minors.

And FWIW, we've long had MAiD - people with terminal illnesses usually got ever escalating doses of painkillers until their body gives up. It's more formalized now, but as with almost everything people with "good intentions" push it to the point where something simple becomes hugely contentious.
To fund state support you need a healthy and prosperous environment for the business to collect taxes. Foreign investment is important, the ability to borrow is essential. Unfortunately there is still ample of red tape, e.g. try building a house for yourself, try opening a business and risk litigation from the customers.
The base is now 64gb which should be plenty for any student. If not, iCloud is very affordable.
Alibaba's Open-Source OCR Research
SOTA on lots of PDF tasks with weights released
I find the phone to be too cramped and when I'm at home, I do most of my computing on an iPad.
It would be interesting if they could somehow look at the ink itself but without this being basically a lifelong study I realize that could be difficult.

Especially given the recent report of issues with some ink being used. I don't remember the specifics.

I doubt this would stop people from getting tattoos, and I know it isn't stopping myself from planning on being fully covered... but it is still interesting.
Just not true.

Average monthly wage:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/319845/taiwan-average-mo...

2000 - 42k NTD

2023 - 58k NTD

Converted to USD:

https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/bank-of-england-spot/histo...

https://www.poundsterlinglive.com/bank-of-england-spot/histo...

2000 - 1270 USD

2023 - 1870 USD
Reminds me of the situation in Canada[1], which was due mostly to a government subsidy being phased out but certainly also in part "personality driven". In general it seems like local subsidies are a huge driver of the global EV market share [2] - one hopes that the EV market will be able to stand on it's own one day and on it's own merits the technology will reach price parity with fossil fuels.

[1] https://www.thestar.com/business/tesla-sales-are-down-but-it...
[2] https://www.iea.org/reports/global-ev-outlook-2024/trends-in...
>Yet somehow the US is continuing to send tons of expensive military aid to Israel.

Yeah, why is that?
My marketing strategy for Reddit focuses on specific language learning subreddits. It's fascinating how easy it is to get demo signups from that demographic, but how difficulty it is to get people to actually pay for it.

I wonder if it might be because I've not made it very intuitive for non-technical people - I sometimes have people filling in the deletion survey with "Please add [feature]", where the feature already exists and can be turned on with two clicks.

> Where do your ideal customers really spend time and pay attention?
Hacker News! Except I can't advertise here, and I can't think of anywhere with a similar demographic where I could.

I've also put ads up for expat subreddits (r/iwantout and place-specific ones), as well as r/hackernews, and they all follow the same pattern of easy free trials and no conversions. You make a good point, though; I wonder if I could advertise on old-school forums. Thanks.

I'll ask some of the people in the Nuenki discord whether they have any ideas.

Thank you!
Taiwan vows most advanced tech will not go to US under $100B Trump deal
So, yeah: I installed this, and was impressed, just because it's an .appx package. I mean, how do you even create those?

Other than that: it did not immediately crypto-lock my laptop and/or ramp up my GPU mining Führercoins, so that was good too.

Other than that: I did not really see any metrics worth of attention, so I uninstalled the app again, which seemed to work fine as well.

Thrilling stuff, I know...
Yes, Nuclear weapons attaches to the first clause.
I think people are understandably worried that their doctors are going to start relying more on the AI for diagnoses

The outcome of this is essentially that AI generated healthcare decisions will be superficially laundered through a human doctor, rather than a human doctor simply using the AI as a tool

This may be compounded by insurance companies using the AI as their guideline for their plans and payouts, and government healthcare agencies using the AI as their guideline for acceptable treatment practices

Healthcare is already not an ideal industry from a patient perspective in many places. It is difficult to imagine AI making this situation better for patients
I usually lean on Resource Monitor when I need this kind of info, but it's clunky - so this looks useful!
> Some lazy physicians are gonna get burned by thinking they can just zone out during the interview and let this do all the work.

How many patients are going to that physician, they’re going to get burned too
I had to cancel Apple Music because, bewilderingly, sometimes I'd click a song to play and it just, wouldn't, play. Like, the most basic, simple thing I'd expect a music app to be able to handle. No error. Just nothing. This would happen two or three times a week. It feels utterly insane to say in 2025 that I chose my preferred music subscription service because I prefer a service where I give them money then they give me the ability to play music, but Apple physically cannot even manage that.
Wouldn’t even know it’s not a professional product. Great write up too
I switched to Sidebery long ago. This looks like a move in the right direction, but reading the docs say that it also loads in AI chat and other features? Like Edge? No, thank you. I'll stay on LibreWolf or some variant thereof.
I want Xcode on my iPad. Principles be damned.
Being old enough to go to war means being old enough to make life altering decisions by herself.
I keep my Logitech MX close cause the infinite scroll is just too damn good. But the MX kills my hands when using for prolonged periods.
and strangely none of the past posts have any comments https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
You can also use it as an extra display for a Mac
In life it's often more important what you don't do, then what you do do
I’ve seen that interview, but I’m surprised anyone watching it following the fall of the Berlin Wall and Glasnost would find it remotely credible. Soviet attempts to turn Americans and Western Europeans into Marxist-Leninnists who supported Communism were abject failures. The “brainwashing” went overwhelmingly in the other direction: citizens of Communist countries ended up wanting, by and large, to adopt the Western capitalist way of life.

That’s not to say that the KGB didn’t have some degree of influence on certain movements. But the overall picture that Bezmenov paints is laughably false with hindsight. The interview is from 1984, and I’m sure many in the KGB at that time really believed that their cunning plan to brainwash the West was working.
Ben, I'm really sad to hear that happened to you and your daughter. Thanks for adding your perspective.
Hue.tools, An open source toolbox for colors
"More than a decade ago, Germany began to phase out nuclear power while failing to ramp up other energy production. The result has been catastrophic for citizens and for the ruling government. In the first half of 2024, Germans paid the highest electricity prices in the European Union."

That completely ignores that Germany made itself dependent on cheap Russian gas which is not delivered anymore. It's not like nuclear was ever very cheap.
Sir, they are 100% taking data from your machine and sending it else where. There are literally forks of the browser made solely to prevent it. You are either incapable of having a discussion in good faith or actively have your fingers in your ears. You continue to post untruths throughout this comment section.
Austin already had Cruise until Cruise operations shut down in late 2023.
I can't tell whether you're trying to make an argument with this comment or what's the reason for pointing that out.
I recently watched "Karate Kid" with my 8 year old son. I was trying to explain that the reason it looked so good because it was shot on film instead of digital. And we still call making movies "Filming" even though the film is long gone.

Explaining film to a kid that only knows digital cameras was not so easy. "You edit it by cutting long strips apart and taping it back together." "You have to go into a dark room and wash the film in chemical baths." Sounds like some sort of magic ritual.

Now I am wondering if I just think the look of film is better because that is what I watched when I was a kid. Maybe todays kids will think digital looks better.
Perhaps OP is referring to the idea that products are killed by apathy, not by hate. People who take the time to complain about something still want the thing, they just want it to be better. People who have stopped caring are lost.
> The vast majority of suicide attempts end with a live person who has no long-term effects.

Wow, where did you come up with this? It's even in TFA refuting this, but even outside of that, the comment is utter horse shit. Maybe some types of attempts have no visible physical effects, but there are plenty of people with visible scars from their attempts. I would also be willing to guess that 100% have mental long-term effects from any attempt.
I usually annotate my chunks with title, summary, keywords and multiple levels of hierarchical topics. More recently I thought about annotating intent, user values and tactics, especially for debate related text and LLM chats. So I would annotate state (the summary of the content itself), values (intent and values) and policy (tactics), taking inspiration from RL.

The idea of detecting frames and using them to tease out the implicit meaning from text is quite nice. It seems there is a lot more to discover about using LLMs prior to RAG. Text is like code, you can't know what it does untill you run it, and in this case, until you annotate it. For example "10+10" won't embed close to "20". And "The fifth letter in this string" won't retrieve "f" by emmbedding similarity.
Why would you assume no Apple Intelligence. A.I. has been enabled for any device with an M-series chip. It is already on the M1 MacBook Air and the M4 iPad Pro, so why not this M3 iPad Air?

A.I. is in its infancy now, but I expect significant improvements over the next year or two.
OP, congrats on the product and effort. _NOTHING_ beats prototyping and building.

For other split-mechanical keyboards check out:

ZSA Voyager

Moergo Glove 80
spark is getting a bit long in the tooth.. interesting to see duckdb integrated with Ray for data-access partitioning across (currently) 3FS. probably a matter of time before they (or someone) supports S3. It should be noted that duckdb (standalone) actually does a pretty good job scanning s3 parquet on its own.
Doubly so if parts imported from the US are also subject to EU tariffs.

But I'm not sure how much this will affect the costs of fabs?
The whole DoGE thing is about Ideology. It has nothing to do with efficiency. It should actually be called Department of Ideology.

Its about privatization.

Americans should read up on what happened with Thames Water in the UK.
We had some training (I'm a paramedic) about our death with dignity legislation:

What to do if someone else has taken the drug cocktail (messy but if found soon enough we can usually take care of them)...

.. what if someone has taken it and "changed their mind" or "it hasn't worked".

In the former, we typically get the professionals who were involved there - is it a case of being (understandably) scared about what will happen, versus ... ?

The other is that in some people the cocktail can take an extended time to work - 24, 48 hours. Forgive the black humor, but what does that 911 call look like? "I'm not dead and I'm meant to be, I took my cocktail of death-with-dignity meds and I'm still here."
Sounds like it's time to make them bothered.

It's the same problem as here in the US: a bunch of people who have gotten fat off of not providing an equal or better future for the next generation.
>This is barbaric

Any country without universal healthcare is barbaric. Absolutely perverse that you try to pin this on "socialized healthcare" when you herald a nation with a lifespan a half decade shorter, and worse outcomes in most categories of illnesses.

I'm a huge critic of the overreach of MAiD in Canada, but the number of people who die from treatable illnesses is much higher in the US, so maybe you should retire the tired "socialized healthcare" canard.
Nuclear is being vastly outcompeted globally for new installations of power capacity by renewables. It's not even close. The only inference that can be drawn from this is that renewables beat nuclear in the market, that nuclear is the loser technology economically.

Even in China, two orders of magnitude more PV comes online each year compared to nuclear (nameplate power, adjust by a factor of maybe 4 for levelized power).

Nuclear advocates defending the fantasy you are espousing here have to resort to universal conspiracy theories to explain away this unpleasant reality. But how are supposedly omnipotent greens and public fear supposed to be hindering nuclear's rollout in China?

Nuclear may benefit from experience, but that means that as rollouts are scaled back, experience decays away and nuclear gets more expensive. Below a certain (and probably pretty large) rate of installs, nuclear just regresses. It's not clear even China can avoid this at the current install rate.
> never happened, Starlink wasn't turned off anywhere

Based on Musk’s comments, he just kneecapped them in favour of Moscow [1]. Negotiators are currently using Starlink as leverage to Molotov-Ribbentrop Ukraine’s mineral resources [2].

That said, Musk is a liar. So absent a statement from Kyiv absolving him (I honestly haven’t looked for this), the best we can say is we don’t know.

[1] https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1699917639043404146?s=46

[2] https://www.reuters.com/business/us-could-cut-ukraines-acces...
Show HN: Neofetch Meets the Oregon Trail
I kludged together some bash and thought others might enjoy it too. It's like the system info tool neofetch, but in the theme of the Oregon Trail game.

You can curl | bash the script if you trust it:

curl -Ls https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wong-justin/fetch-dysentery/refs/heads/main/fetch-dysentery | bash
Just tether to your phone
I really like the design choices they've made. Namely:

- Once you cut out the legacy nonsense out of C, you can then add a few nice modern features to your language and still end up with something that's smaller and simpler than C.

- Performance optimizations are possible. But by default, simplicity is always picked over performance. (i.e. most UB is eliminated, even if it hurts performance)

- A few basic pointer features go a long way in eliminating memory most memory safety bugs. There are non-nullable pointers, ranges with automatic bound checks, and no C strings.

- They get a lot of mileage out of their tagged union type. It allows for elegant implementations of algebraic types, polymorphism, and error handling.

- The error handling!
Compare it to a control group - I feel overwhelmed at least 5% of the time and I’m not even controlling any robots.
Unless you think consequentialism is immoral. If you believe that it is never acceptable to participate in suicide in any way, you absolutely should not want this.
> I think it's far more likely the US will "sell" Taiwan to China for some deal that benefits the US financially or politicially.

This will happen after USA extricates all the meaningful tech and re-homes the institutions and workforce required to maintain that tech to the USA mainland. Still probably a decade or two away, but likely.
Business doesn’t hate creatives, and is not specifically targeting creatives to automate them away. Any job that can be done as good for a lower price or better for the same price is going to be a target.
You are entitled to not want a dignified death for yourself. You are not entitled to take that right away from others.