skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The SDGs have Goals, Targets, and Indicators.

What are the goals for domestic manufacturing?

FRED series tagged "Manufacturing" https://fred.stlouisfed.org/tags/series?t=manufacturing

"Manufacturers' New Orders: Total Manufacturing (AMTMNO)"
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/AMTMNO
Tariffs only work to protect already existing industries. The asinine way Trump has implemented tariffs, in the hopes of spurring American manufacturing, will never work as intended. To wit, the new manufacturers know all they have to do is be priced slightly below their tariffed competitors' price. This strategy maximizes their profit, which fulfills the business' obligation to their shareholders. But it also sets things up that the tariff can never be repealed without facing a lot of political backlash because of the American jobs that will be lost. The loser in all this is the consumer, who only sees prices go up, quite significantly at that, and will never come back down.

I can't state more emphatically how utterly stupid Trump's tariffs are.
Thank you for putting my sentiment into words. THIS. It's not power to the people, it's power to the oligarchs. Once you have enough power and, more importantly, wealth, you're welcomed into the fold with open arms. Just how Spotify build a library of stolen music, as long as wealth was created, there is no problem because wealth is just money taken from the people and given to the ruling class.
The Logarithmic derivative is also something that is surprisingly fundamental.

(ln(f))' = f'/f

In function theory you use it all the time. But people rarely notice, that it related to a logarithm.

Also the functions that have nice logarithmic derivative are a lot more interesting than expected. Nature is full of Gompertz functions. Once you're familiar with it, you see it everywhere.
Am I the only one who thinks “freedom to learn” is an anthropomorphising euphemism?
You've broken the site guidelines badly in this thread. We end up having to ban accounts that do that, regardless of how wrong other commenters are or you feel they are.

If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. In particular, please don't post any more personal attacks and please don't perpetuate flamewars.
I just don't feel the nostalgia vibes.

I half agree with you.

I don't feel nostalgia when i see yet another emulator. I've tried all of them.

But when i get a chance to put my hands on the real thing, it all comes flooding back.
And when I "learn" a verbatim copy of pages of that book, then write those pages out in Microsoft Word & sell those pages its legal?
hard not to interpret these steppe horse cultures as being the centaurs of mythology.

lots of pet theories but this idea that much human language originated with them implies further to me that horsemanship was the origin of western ethics of stewardship and morality. riders require a unique ontology that includes sophisticated communion with other beings, and it's literally the approbation of nature. mythic surely, but it may also have some predictive power. fun stuff
Thought you must be exaggerating but after reading further I’m shocked. I know the courts can be a tech illiterate but why are the Spanish courts this bad? Surely they see the consequences of the decision and immediately realise it’s stupid? The UK can be pretty bad with this stuff and the Premier League is huge but I have no concern of something this idiotic happening here.
There's nothing really fundamentally wrong with React that makes it a terrible idea that always results in poor performance. It's shoddy development practices that can make for a bad app that uses React. If you use React well though, it's not like React makes it particularly difficult to reach a good level of performance. I typically find that React makes it easier for me to make a well-performing app, but that's just me.
Ruby_LLM: A delightful Ruby way to work with AI
> It's a disquietingly under-informed and apathetic electorate.

The United States has elevated voter suppression to an art form. Last minute polling relocations, inadequate polling locations, unreasonable ID requirements, unreasonable registration requirements, “accidental” voter roll purges. It’s not easy to vote here. And it’s especially hard if you are in a group the incumbents don’t like.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965.

If those in power cared about our opinions it would be a national holiday and we’d vote by mail.
I got better results just dithering the rgb channels separately (so effectively an 8 colour palette, black, white, rgb, yellow, cyan, magenta). In p5js:

var img
var pixel
var threshold
var error = [0, 0, 0]
var a0

function preload() {
img = loadImage("https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_Hare%2C_1502_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/1920px-Albrecht_D%C3%BCrer_-_Hare%2C_1502_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg")
}

function setup() {
// I'm just using a low discrepancy sequence for a quasirandom
// dither and diffusing the error to the right, because it's
// trivial to implement
a0 = 1/sqrt(5)
pixelDensity(2)
createCanvas(400, 400);
image(img, 0, 0, 400, 400)
loadPixels()
pixel = 0
threshold = 0
}

function draw() {
if (pixel > 400*400*16) {
return
}
for (var i = 0; i < 2000; i++) {
threshold = (threshold + a0)%1
for(var j=0; j< 3; j++) {
var c = pixels[pixel + j]
pixels[pixel + j] = c + error[j] > threshold * 255 ? 255 : 0
error[j] += c - pixels[pixel + j]
}
pixel += 4
}
updatePixels()
}

Of course this isn't trying to pick the closest colour in the palette as you're doing - it's just trying to end up with the same intensity of rgb as the original image. It does make me wonder if you should be using the manhattan distance instead of euclidean, to get the errors to add correctly.
Sketch-Programming: A Minimalist Paradigm for Code Design
Unfortunately it didn't seem to help

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=fluidcruft#43355636
Given that the currently dominant human primates are also murderous rampagers, glorifying the killing of the men and raping of the women in order to spread their "culture", does seem to align well with evidense of this DNA diaspora.

All just additional evidense that we are still basically cave people with nuclear weapons.
This is a specific exception in Australia Copyright law. It allows reproducing works in books, newspapers and periodical publications in different form for private and domestic use.

(Copyright Act 1968 Part III div. 1, section 43C)
https://www.legislation.gov.au/C1968A00063/latest/text
I still remember the NetWare/PC guy coming to our house as a kid when I bricked one of my families early pc's. He said something like, "if you keep this up you will have my job some day."

We still didn't have the internet in our houses then, though.
Heavy hitter lawyer, PR expert. Some google terms: Masters of disaster, Spin cycle.
Some people just really like the work they do. There's nothing more to it than that.
I believe the post you are replying to is suggesting the copy is made by hand, one word at a time.
Great thread. Yes, it’s possible.
Earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43349473
> completely obsessed with the project, like it’s their main hobby/purpose

I think you figured it out.
Another simple tool that gives you superpowers is a Q-Q plot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q–Q_plot
I might've got a bad translation, but :

> the parastatal Water and Drainage Services of Monterrey

Isn't that already the state owning the water supply?
> leaving people to either go to VPNs

.. which is the prevailing situation for people dealing with state-by-state age verification at the moment.
If you have a garden 8" Dobsonian or even larger if you can handle it. If in a flat a 4" Apochromatic refractor. Mars can be so so but good views of Jupiter, Saturn and Luna can be had in the UK. Both good for double stars as well and even deep sky objects if in a low light pollution area.
There are tons of different kinds of tech companies, and I think they make more sense if you align them on the spectrum I proposed.

I assume we are talking about product design behaviors and enshitiffication.

Advertising isn't the only competing interests with users. Sometimes it's another product line or business interest. I think Windows OS would fall into this group. I think The OS intentionally designed to enfeeble users and push them into MS product lines.

What do you think defines a SV type company?
it's sorta like, why doesn't everyone just kill themselves you know?

sometimes, you just find fun in things and it's cool.
other times, it's like what other other thing you gonna do? fish or hang with people or do drugs or dance? software's a hobby really. sometimes its more fun.

but really it's all preference.
Finally, a study not done on mice. I’d be curious to see if the reverse also holds true — could I get married by weighing three times my current weight? :)
The most obvious solution to this is to do away with land ownership entirely. If the land is state owned and the value of a lease on it is auctioned to the highest paying renter, the market price of the land is precisely the same as the tax paid on it.
France's long distance hiking trail – 3034 km
As Chromecast outage drags on, fix could be days to weeks away
That depends on the poll.[1] Regardless, abolishment isn’t on the table. What’s happening is firing half the workforce and refocusing the rest on core tasks. How many employees do you need to redirect Title I funds as block grants to states?

[1] This Data for Progress poll shows that 58% of republicans support abolishing it: https://www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2024/12/2/voters-agree-....
EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History
In the US, it's because the current systems keep taxes so low already. There are few places where high property taxes are enough to cause the wealthy ire. Usually it's middle class people that complain about being taxed into unaffordability. They don't have the resources to drive tax valuations down.
Are there any open source repositories where this is an example? I keep hearing the 10x people ruin everything but I wouldn’t call that person 10x. I don’t understand how it’s objectionable that some people are more productive than others.
An average engineer with solid problem-solving skills and a good manager is like a ~3x engineer. It's way easier to hire a few of those than a 10x engineer. But you need to match them up with a good manager, and that isn't easy.
>The thing I don't understand personally with these people is why they care so much about work when the rewards are not proportionate to doing so much extra work.

The reward is there allright, it just isn't monetary.
Beta: Connect your Colab notebooks directly to Kaggle's Jupyter Servers
happens sometimes. some people deliberately smash windows and bus stops to keep their rents down. or shoot guns in the air.
The other important thing to consider is that 10x engineers are deemed so based on productivity. But productivity isn't necessarily the be all end all.

In fact, an arguably more important skill is know when not to do something and how to avoid tech debt. Building towards a north star sustainably and incrementally in such a way that pivots along the way don't require major bandaids or rewrites is how a good engineering org operates.

In the real world a lot of 10x engineers end up just launching a bunch of hacky garbage to frontload impact and leave the cleanup for everyone else. This can work for some time in organizations with phenomenal build and test infrastructure; however, it eventually becomes crippling and hinders everyone's velocity.
Perhaps I wasn't clear enough in my comment. When I said "database latency is generally miniscule compared to internet round-trip latency", I meant between the user and the website. Because they're often thousands of miles away, there are network buffers, etc.

But no, a local network hop doesn't introduce "orders of magnitude" more latency. The article itself describes how it is only 5x slower within a datacenter for the roundtrip part -- not 100x or 1,000x as you are claiming. But even that is generally significantly less than the time it takes the database to actually execute the query -- so maybe you see a 1% or 5% speedup of your query. It's just not a major factor, since queries are generally so fast anyways.

The kind of database latency that you seem to be trying to optimize for is a classic example of premature optimization. In the context of a web application, you're shaving microseconds for a page load time that is probably measured in hundreds of milliseconds for the user.

> I don't get to decide this. The business does.

You have enough power to design the entire database architecture, but you can't write and execute queries more efficiently, following best practices?
If curious to see how it works, here is a short demo

https://x.com/Powermate_app/status/1900052942863880343
It reminds me of the “Ducks” PLAYSTATION3 demo from E3 2005 a.k.a. Super Rub-a-Dub:

https://archive.org/details/ps3duckdemo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Rub_%27a%27_Dub
Way too hard for me to be enjoyable.
If I spent every last second of my life in a public library, I couldn't even view a fraction of the information that OpenAI has ingested. The comparison is irrelevant. To make the comparison somehow valid, I'd have to back up my truck to a public library, steal the entire contents, then start selling copies out of my garage
container2wasm c2w might already compile rust to WASI WASM? https://github.com/container2wasm/container2wasm
Why not vibe-code it using OpenAI
The question is in how they're productive. If they're productive because they're effectively cutting corners and leaving a wake of tech debt others have to clean up then they are productive while slowing down their team (or worse, the company) as a whole.
Shocking, I know, manual, me-chanical, actuated by an actually moving human hand exerting, if you'll excuse my bluntness, force on a material lever, if you can imagine. I know it sounds gross but it just might work to save lives, so I believe we should overcome our acquired disgust for manual operation and try this method.
> you can't solve political issues with technological solutions. Sure you can use VPN, but they always can block more. As the last resort they will have a whitelist of government-approved IPs you can connect to

You are in a thread specifically talking about blocking swaths of the internet because of football games.
You're right. Coming from my own startup to Microsoft, I worked the same way for quite a long time. Huge regret.
I mean if starting from scratch that seems like many years in most western education systems to get to probability, logarithms, exponentiation.

I would say If you knew 2+2=4, and not much else you're years away from 'understanding', if you know ln(exp(y)) = y, and P(x>0.5) = 0.5 for a uniform distribution on [0, 1) then you don't need any additional understanding.

I would bet the GP comment is somewhere inbetween the two extremes, but I think a random sampling of the population would likely result in people generally not knowing the log / exponentiation relation, or anything about the uniform distribution.
>your argument five days ago was "this is fake news" without citations

YOU make the claim, YOU bring sources. The sources did not have any citations that fraud occurred.

https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/tesla-model-y-leads-canadas...

Tesla clearly outpased the competition, Model Y selling double what the second place competition was.

https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-dominates-canada-izev-rebate...

Tesla was selling double of what the competition was in the same rebate program less than a year ago.

>My understanding is that Transport Canada is currently investigating

And they will find nothing, because there is no fraud. The only source you provide has no evidence of fraud except that Tesla was just better at selling vehicles, and they are.

Your source and the primary source provides no proof of the supposed fraud, it simply lists quotes from pissed off competitors that didn't sell as many vehicles as Tesla, and therefore were not able to collecte the rebate.

>A simple search yields https://tc.canada.ca/en/road-transportation/innovative-techn... for citations of program overview.

>- "Individuals are eligible for one incentive"

>- "Organizations and businesses are eligible for up to 10 incentives. Organizations and businesses that share common ownership, other than common ownership as a result of being a publicly traded company, are considered as one single organization eligible for a combined total of 10"

Yes, individuals and companies qualify and the instant point of sale rebate is applied to the sale price after taxes and fees. The dealerships are not entitled the rebate on a per car sold basis, only the individuals are.

>The story is that Tesla sold as many cars, at four dealers in three days, almost as many as they sold in Canada in all of Q1 2024 at a time when their Canadian sales are trending down.

Tesla does not sell cars at dealerships. All online orders in huge areas 150 kilometers wide get tagged to these show rooms even though you cannot purchase there.

>There are 1440 minutes in a day, they sold 8600 cars. Assuming a 12 hour dealer workday at 4 dealers. Articles say 2 cars a minute, I get one car per minute. It still they correctly process the incentives at point of sale or delivery? The investigating will find out.

Four dealers doing online sales for large swaths of provinces. These "dealerships" do not have sales staff nor do they actually deliver vehicles many of the times, even though they're double as the "dealership of delivery."

>The fraud also might be if anyone bought their own vehicles to sell later, or are otherwise violate the 10 rebates per organization limit and attempted to hide this.

This wouldn't be Tesla committing the fraud then.
Did you see me defending those form January 6?! Of course what they did was absolutely wrong and so was pardoning them. Why are you making it a competition?

Like I said, ANYONE causing property damage needs to face justice, regardless of political orientation or motivation. There are no heroes or patriots in such actions, only criminals. I don't want to live in a society where such actions are tolerated, and neither do you.
Hard disagree. If they don't consistently write maintainable and reliable code, they are not 10x engineer no matter how smart they are.

e.g. Linus is a classic 10x or 100x engineer and his code(Linux, Git etc) has been maintained by a completely uncoordinated team for decades.
there were a lots of citations ... :)
Sometimes it isn't even that I like to do something, I just have a very strong feeling it has to be done. The code is asking to be written, the energy has to be spent to lower the entropy. But at least nowdays I can close the damn work laptop at time and not open it until the morning, unlike some a decade or two ago.
> 10x engineers have dark backgrounds, are rarely seen doing user-interface work, and are poor mentors and interviewers

If you think a great (10x) engineer has bad social skills, isn’t a good mentor, and isn’t a strong teammate… you’ve never actually worked with one. What truly makes someone a great engineer is being technically impeccable and having next-level soft skills.
completed the day's puzzle! it's a bit hard to keep the runs in my head. what if instead of run lines, the polygons had a background, like stripes for one run, checkers for another, and half/half for ones with both? I don't think this idea is quite right, but it might spark something from someone else..
I'm colorblind, which may have something to do with how hard it was to keep track of the runs. maybe they could be kept as lines, but with some as dashes, some dots, some solid, etc?
When people say "average" they're trying to reach for a concept of 1x engineer, not 3x engineer.
Yuka but it doesn't use the archaic USDA guidelines
Firing the refs doesn't end the game
Putting tax down always seems to be more popular than putting it up. I think this is a prime tax for putting down as everybody pays it, so there's a case to be made, and rich people will pay a lot so they have the money to make that case.
I don't buy it.

In NZ we pay property rates based on a combination of land and improvement value. It's been this way for a very long time. Removing the improvement portion and focusing only on the land value portion can only be a simplification - not a complication.

Official estimates of land value are common in many jurisdictions and nothing new.
Buried the lede:

> OpenAI also reiterated its call for the government to take steps to support AI infrastructure investments and called for copyright reform, arguing that America’s fair use doctrine is critical to maintaining AI leadership. OpenAI and other AI developers have faced numerous copyright lawsuits over the data used to build their models.
I think you missed the point.

Technology has made enforcing copyright impossible, and any attempt to enforce it just hinders technological advancement, while still not solving the global enforceability of copyright.

Lets stop wasting our time on this concept, the laws around it and the whole debate. Copyright is dead.

I'm arguing lets move on.
Why would I pay to improve the land if next year someone can simply outbid me and take the land off me?
I think kind, industrious, and smart people make great teams.

I once took up a lot of space to be a super productive engineer and only ended up being isolated. The business saw that some engineers were saying things worked great and were easy, so more responsibility was thrown on me and the other engineers moved to another project that needed headcount. Me and another guy ended up building on and maintaining what used be a reasonably sized team. It got on me because I made sure to know everything so I could make it as great as I could. This sounds good, but this particular business didn't care about me at all, I was just another gear.

I've met "productive" engineers that got things done really quickly from the business perspective, then moved on to being awesome somewhere else. But, they also took shortcuts, didn't write documentation, and made things unmaintainable. When I joined the team after they were being awesome somewhere else, I had to do things like guess hostnames and find out how and where things were running..

The people I've liked working with the most have been parents. The boundaries are more clear, they value stability, and aren't heros.
The Cambridge University History of Maths society is a fantastic resource - almost all the lectures are live streamed:
https://hom.soc.srcf.net/
Motherduck has an excellent article about this: https://motherduck.com/blog/the-simple-joys-of-scaling-up/
Possibly unhelpful answer: Arguably none! This is presented as a surprising fact, but you could easily argue that this is the proper definition of an exponential distribution. If you do

x = -log(rand())/lambda

a bunch a times, that comes from something, right? Well, let's call that something an exponential distribution.

From this perspective, the thing that actually needs math is finding the density function of the exponential distribution. (For that, in theory you just need calc 101 and probability 101.)
Wait... "Most" 1x engineers? "Most" in any profession will be average. Which is completely normal and fine.

This kind of reply is just flipping the stereotype and going in another insane extreme without any evidence at all, just conflating productivity with recklessness...
If your main hobby or purpose is to make someone else rich you're a slave.
Not really. How do you quantify tech debt? How do you quantify the tradeoffs that someone made to add new functionality?

This is always going to have a critical subjective element to it.

The moment you start treating engineers like factory floor workers, that's what you get.