skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It wasn’t that long ago that Republicans staunchly opposed tariffs. Now? They’re all in.

Which Republicans are we talking? The old guard that held leadership positions for decades, making the decisions while most of the public weren't invested? Or the new guard that hijacked the Republican party after the population started getting invested after recent events?

Every "conservative" I know is in favor of protectionism, and tariffs are a strong manifestation of that. Don't conflate the get-what-you-get leadership, and the disenfranchised voterbase for having been the same people.
If that’s what they mean it’s because they have been played like a fiddle.

If I were to offer lunches for kids in an impoverished community that happens to be predominantly X race, the sensationalists will say “RACE” “DISCRIMINATION”, while the program is simply addressing one region.

Now the funny thing is that the Democratic Party has repeatedly pushed for universally free lunches to take any potential concerns over race out of the picture and the republic party keeps voting those down.
The idea that a giant regressive tax, which these are, will help the lower or middle class or do anything but kill demand and destroy jobs is madness.

It also won't help the debt because even though we might collect some money in the short term, the long term solution is we need to grow our way out and these policies are recessionary.
Nobody in western society benefits from KYC laws, they make life hard for small business and destroy financial privacy while the big players get away with a slap on the wrist. There's absolutely zero empirical evidence of KYC leading to a reduction in the rate of any kind of crime.
"And yet you partake in society. Curious.

I am very smart "
This is by far the best solution. Super simple and covers all those issues.
It is. But it's really a lousy conversation to have you two going back and forth several times, with each of you asking the other to substantiate their position, and neither of you actually doing so.
And I'd like to highlight this, since it's one of the cleanest cases of everyone in a situation knowing what's being said, and then a rationalist coming along and thinking everyone is misunderstanding it except for him.

Rationalists read poetry like "Compare thee to a summer's day? Pfft, impossible!"
"If you asked a junior developer to refactor a rust program to be more idiomatic, how long would you expect that to take? Would you expect the work to compile on the first try?"

The purpose of giving that task to a junior dev isn't to get the task done, it's to teach them -- I will almost always be at least an order order of magnitude faster than a junior for any given task. I don't expect juniors to be similarly productive to me, I expect them to learn.

The parent comment also referred to a 'competent pair programmer', not a junior dev.

My point was that for the tasks that I wanted to use the LLM, frequently there was no amount of specificity that could help the model solve it -- I tried for a long time, and generally if the task wasn't obvious to me, the model generally could not solve it. I'd end up in a game of trying to do nondeterministic/fuzzy programming in English instead of just writing some code to solve the problem.

Again I agree that there is significant value here, because there is a ton of SWE work that is technically trivial, boring, and just eats up time. It's also super helpful as a natural-language info-lookup interface.
I did not misread. He used `undervalued` which implies that there is a difference between quality of the product and its price. Slapping on 38% tax to Tunisian olive will undermine this value proposition without improving the producer or the consumers product experience. If anything the relative price (due to the repetitively high tariffs on Tunisia vs Italy) will ruin the value to price ratio that attracts GP to the Tunisian olive oil.

Moreover, his use of the word 'happily' suggests he is not aware of the negative consequences for both the Tunisian exporter, who may have to lower prices or even reduce product quality standards to compete with the now relatively similar-priced Italian olive oil, and the American consumer, who ends up paying more without any improvement in value.

Why would someone be happy with a price increase if it is not helping the producers of the good (which his comment implies he is sympathetic to) or adding any value?
> That's putting way too much pressure on it. Find someone you feel like you could spend the rest of your life with? Marry them, see what happens. If you get a divorce, so be it, it's not the end of the world

This is quite bad advice, because divorce can be devastating financially.
QuickBooks online is a completely different beast compared to QuickBooks. Then there are people who are still operating on stuff like Sage... And that's just accounting software.
Doesn't expectation of inflation increase consumer demand? If I like apples and expect that tomorrow they'll cost more, I may buy more apples today?

Disclaimer: I don't know anything about economics
Valve should acquire Framework and have them do Steam Machine 2.0.
Ah okay, so you're using PocketBook for the syncing. I'll have to check it out. The send to kindle functionality is what keeps me coming back to the Kindle app.
That's the same argument as "no worry about guns out there, people who want to commit crimes have always been able to get them". Which just isn't true. It certainly occurred, and I caught people cheating at remote interviews, but not at this scale with this level of sophistication.
I've heard this dismissal a good bit often ("that's just a nothing word that means 'bad thing I don't like' ") but that's really just not true.

It has been consistently defined through the decades, especially during the 20th century. Here's one common example you can find from the 1983 American Heritage Dictionary and it sounds pretty familiar:

"A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."
What is Tunisia buying from the United States?
> After seven years in San Diego, my wife and I have decided to uproot our family and move to the Bay Area. While there were many factors (a new job opportunity, family), a significant reason was finding a community of truth-seeking people.

Funny. The lack of truth-seeking and truth-telling is one of the chief reasons I moved away from the Bay Area.
Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland.

You don’t get world-class infrastructure, universal healthcare, and top-tier education without paying for it. High taxes are the price of a civilized society. Get over it!

Life isn’t meant to be a Squid Game.
To Dare Is to Do
>what IT department would use a function like this

Probably the kind that follows every Microsoft guideline without thinking about whether it is really in their best interest or not.

For Microsoft, wouldn't those be some of the most desirable customers to positively identify above others if possible?
Both products show a 1 cup (41g) and 160 calorie serving size to me?

OpenNutrition: https://www.opennutrition.app/search/honey-bunches-of-oats-h...

Via Manufacturer: https://www.honeybunchesofoats.com/product/honey-bunches-of-...

If you wouldn't mind DM'ing me the barcode you're looking at that would be helpful to understand what the nature of the discrepancy is.
Satoshi identified!
I think there should be a new rule that any time someone writes an article bragging about how he's† a badass independent thinker just like Paul Graham and Eliezer Yudkowsky, he must in the same article identify his major disagreements with Paul Graham and Elizer Yudkowsky. Because to me the authors of these articles seem exactly as tribal as mainstream political and religious groups, they just care about different things. Yeah, I shouldn't be able to guess your views on sex from your views on taxes, but I also shouldn't be able to guess your views on wokeness from your views on AI safety. Yet I can make both predictions with about equal accuracy.

† I have yet to see an article like this written by a woman.
or if you sticky the current header, thats 1 line of CSS
Maybe, but all of those are context-dependent and can operate at high levels of abstraction. The beholder needs to be able to recognize them to appreciate them. A Rothko or Pollock has those things, but that doesn’t make them automatically appreciated. Assuming you’re from a western culture, listen to some Thai classical music and see how obvious the beauty is to you.
At least in Germany, Firefox users are very vocal, and will tell other people all the time that they should switch to Firefox on their PC and laptop if they see them using in particular Chrome, but also Edge.

Indeed, Firefox' market share in Germany is larger than in many other countries.
I agree that the US bears significant responsibility for the ~5% civilian deaths in Iraq. These were through:

1) Direct combat fatalities (~15% of casualties)

2) Failing to stabilize Iraq post-invasion

3) Enabling conditions for prolonged conflict

However, attributing all excess deaths solely to the US oversimplifies the role of insurgent groups, regional actors, and preexisting sectarian tensions. The invasion’s destabilizing effects created a chain reaction with shared accountability.

Furthermore, calling it murder is disingenuous. Murder requires both premeditation and deliberate intent.
If the profits went back to Apple HQ directly they would serve to raise the share price and allow stock buybacks and stock based compensation for employees. Same as they do now.

You may not like a tech company succeeding at exports and having a rising share price, but that is distinct from the overall point which is that properly considered these are US exports obscured by the US tax code which incentivizes profits abroad.
Very good and insightful article, but suffers from a weakness: it implies that the problem can be solved by everyone just buying from the ones whose workers are doing the job well.

This is not the case. The evidence that the "free market" does not "regulate itself" (at least not in favor of the many) since the 2008 recession is beyond refutation: we need pro-worker governments stepping in.
>Sounds like a similar mechanism as the UK. I'm not aware if the system is exactly the same or not.

Yes, this mechanism is called fractional reserve banking. It's in use basically everywhere.
Most likely the answer in many such examples is it needs cheap human labor. US seldom lacks anything in terms of natural resources and always comes down to this.
Consumers will pull back, if not right away it will show up with 18 months, though early indications suggest they already are to brace for the price increases as most were already trying to simply get ahead of the last few years of inflation to begin with.

Businesses are already cutting back. My employer has already talked about the impact, I know other people who are saying the same thing. Lots of things going into freeze or slowing down. It will take a minute for this to get through the economy but it absolutely will.

I don’t think this is highly uncertain territory, history has clear examples of what will happen if in doubt. Generally, it’s not good for most, especially consumers or those who have any reliance on foreign material or goods, which nowadays is most businesses and consumers, and the US won’t be able to magically fill that in.

This will result in a recession
You recon they've emerged from their slumber yet? /s

But maybe their share portfolio being hurt will bring them to action...
I recommend adding more details like this to the website. Knowing it's Fly.io under the hood gives me significantly more confidence in your service.
Another, problem I have is they usually miss the small team/use case in a large organization. Vendors expect us to pay large org pricing, when there's no way we can justify it for a project if it's size. I've used Mass Transit because it has some useful features but it's not the core of our messaging or whatever so in the end the all or nothing pricing model means it will just end up getting ripped out.
AI 2027
Show HN: Yet Another Speed Dial – a better new tab page
I last post this back in 2021 when I started development -- nothing like google enforcing all extensions to migrate to manifest v3 to refactor the whole codebase for b̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶e̶f̶f̶i̶c̶i̶e̶n̶c̶y̶,̶ ̶p̶r̶i̶v̶a̶c̶y̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶s̶e̶c̶u̶r̶i̶t̶y̶ no reason!

All jokes aside, if you're looking for a fast, open source new tab page that gives you instant access to all your bookmarks in a visually organized way, please check it out!

Compared to other speed dials, YASD:

- automatically fetches thumbnails using the open graph standard

- makes use of native bookmarks under the hood so your data is not locked into the extension

- supports sorting, searching, and folders

- contains no ads, trackers, premium subscriptions. it aims to do one thing and do it well

- available for Brave, Chrome, Edge and Firefox (including Android)

What should be added next? Would love to hear your thoughts!

https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial
It gets extra confusing when considering import/export of ribs.
US big tech companies are dominant because they are monopolies not because they are technological marvels.

If we were to ban US social media, European alternatives would emerge very fast.
Disclosure: I'm building https://proxylity.com, but I'm seeking to understand here, not to promote it.

The fixed cost per region seems like a barrier to experimenters and large development teams alike. It's not much in the grand scheme, but enough to prohibit an individual from standing something up on a whim and leaving it around. Likewise, for large development teams having a stack for every developer would be costly. In each case I'm not talking about "production" workload, but the semi-idle stacks that run for long periods, are critical, need to reflect the production setup, and don't generate revenue.

Your LBs are quick to deploy, which is super important for fluid CI/CD experience but they miss the mark without being usage based.

Do others see this the same way?
Manufacturing in the US had been shooting up

>Manufacturing output in the United States is at an all-time high as of 2023 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_in_the_United_St...
FWIW, I like that you include water content, libraries like google's health connect seem to have completely separate data structures for nutrition and hydration.
It's true, because all the upper levels of ALL large media organizations have been infiltrated by big-moneyed conservatives.

CNN and NBC weren't always as bad as they are now, but their descent has been obvious and dramatic.

Some of them still employ democrats to some minimal extent, such as Jamelle Bouie at the NYT, but that's merely subterfuge, lest their bent be glaringly obvious.

If someone can name a large organization that is an exception to my first paragraph, I would be happy to learn of them.
Right. At my most generous, this is a dataset about LLM behavior when asked to infer nutritional value. It is in no way a nutrition dataset. It is perhaps useful as half of a benchmark for accuracy, compared to actual ground truth. Unlike a scientist, you're not motivated or resourced enough to create the ground truth dataset. So you took a shortcut and hid it from the landing page.

This workflow, this motivation, this business model, this marketing is an affront to truth itself.
Didn't you post this a few days ago?
> whom are you dissing? Whom is GP dissing?

Just a nit, it's "who" in this case, not "whom," because it is a subject not an object. "Whom" is more often used as "to/with/for whom."
> the primary computing device of the world right now.

Whether this is true or not depends a lot on which the bubble is that you live in.
Show HN: Unbody is open-source – The Supabase of the AI era
We're open-sourcing Unbody, a backend framework that simplifies building AI-native applications. Instead of having to manually stitch together vector databases, embedding models, and LLM wrappers, Unbody provides a unified system with sensible defaults that you can customize.

The Problem:
Building AI applications today means making dozens of infrastructure decisions:

- Which vector store to use?
- How to handle data ingestion and chunking?
- Which embedding model to choose?
- How to structure the RAG pipeline?
- How to manage context and memory?

Each of these requires research, setup, and ongoing maintenance. The resulting stack is complex and brittle.

What Unbody Provides:

- A unified backend with built-in support for data ingestion, processing, and vector storage
- Configurable components - bring your own vector store, LLM, or embedding model
- A GraphQL API for querying your knowledge base
- Multi-modal data processing out of the box
- Plugin system for extending functionality

Our aim is to lower the burden of developing intelligent software that understands, reasons, and acts.
As an analogy, we like to think of Unbody's layers like some of the fundamental components in intelligent systems:

- Perception: Data ingestion, parsing, and enhancement
- Memory: Vector storage and content relationships
- Reasoning: LLM integration and function execution
- Action: APIs, SDKs, and external integrations

Current State:

- Alpha release with core features and architecture implemented
- Built with Node.js/TypeScript
- Documentation in progress
- Unstable

Why Open Source:
We believe AI infrastructure should be transparent and customizable. By open-sourcing Unbody, we aim to:

1. Validate our ideas
2. Improve based on community feedback
3. Allow developers to inspect and modify the code
4. Build a foundation for AI-native development that everyone can contribute to

GitHub: https://github.com/unbody-io/unbody
Docs: https://unbody.io/docs
Discord: https://discord.gg/UX8WKEsVPu

We're particularly interested in feedback from developers building AI applications. What infrastructure challenges are you facing? What would make your development process easier?

Would love to hear your thoughts and experiences!
I've always setup Windows w/o connecting it to the internet first, never had to resort to any 'tricks' to bypass the account issue.
If you are parked outside in the sun, you'll need to spend some amount of energy keeping the battery at a healthy operating temperature.
Show HN: Synto - micro-learning app to help you deeply understand classic books
I really resonated with this blog article, and ended up reaching out to Ashwin on LinkedIn to connect. This is probably the most concise and clear description I've read of the problem, and I think sometimes recognizing the problem and really understanding is the first step to turning things around.

Like Ashwin, I don't believe that this is "fixable", in so much that humanity as a whole has a tendency towards tribalism that's innate to being human, and this is part of what allowed societies and civilizations to form, as much as it carries the downsides of interrupting reasoning and creating the conditions for warfare. Rather, I try to seek out people who are able to reason and have discussions.

I definitely appreciated reading this, as it felt very relatable in a way that most things do not.
The Computer is a Feeling (2023)
Our goal is actually not to hide the configs behind a bunch of partial UI elements you get full control of your proxy. All your caddy configs should work out of the box. For SSL termination we use acme and you can use the dns method (let us know if you dns provider isn't in the plugins and we'll add it)

Pretty much the only thing we add is a storage layer for your certs so you avoid the acme rate limit for multi-region deployments
Then the ToList will force it to be evaluated on the client - not sure that situation applies
I like the integration of the terminal with vim. I am making a site to learn vim motions called Vimgolf.ai and it’s interesting to see how your vim plugin works.
Wealth tax is a nice idea but non-starter in implementation.

It works in real estate (property taxes are wealth taxes) because the land can’t move.

One way to tax the super rich is to tax loans against assets. They don’t sell assets to buy a yacht, but borrow against them to avoid paying taxes and keep future gains. Tax those loans as if they sold assets.
> There has been no motion from the legislative branch ...

Surely you mean there is no motion from those in power in the legislative branch, namely the Republicans. The Democrats and Democrat-aligned independents make motions which are blocked by the Republicans.

People's inability to recognize who is responsible for bad acts leads to throw-the-bums out elections. People are disgruntled, whether based on facts or false beliefs fostered by propaganda. They throw the bums out. They hope for better things.

If we want the government to function better, we need to assign responsibility, not let Senator X and his pals, or Representative Y and her pals, screw everything thing up and then hide in the crowd. "Oh, look what the legislative branch has done! Throw them all out!"
Interesting... here's a good writeup on one way to do it: https://lecorbeausvault.wordpress.com/2022/02/07/debian-swit...
Side effects in a Select is not idiomatic either
But (as I understand it) how the Fed tracks inflation is the consumer price index, which does take things like "the price of shoes" into account.
One way around this might be a twist on Goodhart’s Law: if you come after the people at BLS who produce the CPI [0], and replace them with political appointees, then maybe you can arrive at an “improved” CPI that hews more closely to your political desires. Assuming you’re the kind of leader who privileges optics over high-fidelity data.

[0] https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/12/elon-musk-doge-labo...
So... the same balance of good and evil present in literally every technology?
There is bad, and there is worse, far worse.

And, it's a kleptocracy, more and more, for a very long time now.
Typically I’m a vim in terminal kind of person. Every few years I go galaxy brain and try to be a terminal in vim person, but it just never works out for me.

Different folks, different key strokes.
>Treasuries are considered safe during such crisis.

This isn’t a law of nature. The behavior the admin is displaying is exactly the type of thing that leads to your statement not being true anymore.
Yeah but you're missing the forest for the trees: expectations and prices.

A physical ticket of a digital game makes sense in a different way than a disc. Complaints about day one patches would subside.

The second part is the cost. Those disc drives are getting more and more expensive, and less and less used. Every game on current consoles installs from the disc on the drive and does nothing else but validate the disc afterward. Why spend so much on an old technology that isn't used efficiently? Sony and Microsoft should look to add physical keycards to their next console to validate ownership.