skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is only the case if there aren't replacements available from other countries.

I feel like China is going to be the biggest winner of this tariff war.

Just as an example (from Canada), we had long had a 50% tariff on Chinese EVs which helped U.S. EV manufacturers stay competitive. Now I think we're going to relax that (which IIUC was only implemented to appease our relationship with the U.S. in the first place) and cheaper Chinese EVs should start appearing on the market.

Good for Canadians, good for China. Not as good for the U.S.
Seems to be back up. Incident page: https://www.stackstatus.net/incidents/e380b9bc-9ed2-4672-80e...
Yeah don't. Like many metals, finely dispersed iron can self-combust on air.
I'd suggest an air-tight packaging filled with CO2, or, if your food is susceptible to acid, N2, if at all feasible.
Industry uses additives similar to hydroquinone, mixed directly into, e.g., plastics. Plenty of them are food-safe, but I wouldn't know where to buy them if you aren't a business.
Colors aren’t cool. You know what’s cool? Clean perfect lines, rich texture and materials. Imagine a cube of polished concrete stone, with a wood plank sanded and stained to a warm perfection, basking in the glow of a square window at a perfect 45 degree angle. Beautiful, it can move you to tears.

This worship of color is how you end up with Gen Z who paint over beautiful bare wood furniture and cabinets. Enraging.
The article talks about violin shoulder rests manufactured in Canada. Maybe I’m not understanding the details but I think that this particular product is a bad example to showcase the damage of tariffs:

(1) This sounds like a product that can’t be easily interchanged with competitors’ offerings since Chinese competitors offer “crude imitations”, at least for now

(2) From a Google search I see that the price of this product is in the range $25-250. It’s hard to see violins students who plunk down hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars for their instrument try to save tens of $s for a subpar shoulder rest. Unless perhaps it breaks weekly or something.
A lot of ultrasonic cleaners have a heating element.
Extend this thinking out globally, where some of the products need factories (or entire supply chains) that take a decade (or more) to establish, and you might realize that there are some issues (at least short-term) with the "simply build it here" mentality.
Show HN: Arrakis – Open-source, self-hostable sandboxing service for AI Agents
Hi HN!

My name is Abhishek. I've spent my career working on Operating Systems and Infrastructure at places like Replit, Google, and Microsoft.

Today, I'm excited to launch Arrakis: an open-source and self-hostable sandboxing service designed to let AI Agents execute code and operate a GUI securely.

GitHub: https://github.com/abshkbh/arrakis

Watch Claude build a live Google Docs clone using Arrakis via MCP – with no re-prompting or interruption.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZ5cAnhAdPQ

Key Features

- Self-hostable: Run it on your own infra or Linux server.

- Secure by Design: Uses MicroVMs for strong isolation between sandbox instances.

- Snapshotting & Backtracking: First-class support allows AI agents to snapshot a running sandbox (including GUI state!) and revert if something goes wrong.

- Ready to Integrate: Comes with a Python SDK (https://pypi.org/project/py-arrakis/) and an MCP server (https://github.com/abshkbh/arrakis-mcp-server) out of the box.

- Customizable: Docker-based tooling makes it easy to tailor sandboxes to your needs.

Sandboxes = Smarter Agents

As the demo shows, AI agents become incredibly capable when given access to a full Linux VM environment. They can debug problems independently and produce working results with minimal human intervention.

I'm the solo founder and developer behind Arrakis. I'd love to hear your thoughts, answer any questions, or discuss how you might use this in your projects!

Get in touch

- Email: abshkbh AT gmail DOT com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abshkbh/

Looking forward to your feedback!
There's some information on: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2017/01/illustrating-animal...

"While sketching, I kept track of the number of circles I was using, counting one for every curve."
After sketching an animal, it should be easier to adjust the image by inserting/removing/moving circles.
I made this related submission[0] recently but it was flagged.

This stuff is very important to talk about so I hope that this submission by rbanffy isn't also flagged.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43543075
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Wild. Because that is one of the first, most heavily color graded films I can recall. Theoden's coming out from under the spell of Saruman is the most hit-you-ver-the-head use of color-grading that I can think of. (And, perhaps in a fantasy film it's fine.)
From a realpolitik perspective, the US would like this war to go on forever. Under Biden, the war was grinding up enemy Russian troops and not-really-an-ally Ukrainian troops, weakening both strategically while costing us no troops and 0.2% of GDP. Plus we were able to expand NATO and give Russia an ongoing PR nightmare.

Obviously they can't say any of that out loud, but the underlying strategy is sound.
For more than 10 years I used Skype on a tablet as my ‘mobile’ phone which worked great for many purposes although some services would not send texts to a VoIP number.

When I heard Skype was ending I decided to get an iPhone from a real carrier (my impression is that MVNO service sucks, I used to have Tracfones that didn’t work reliably either in Upstate or NYC.). At the AT&T store the salesperson had never transferred a phone number over from Skype but looked up in a manual about how to do it. She said it was the easiest number porting she’d ever done.

So if you want to port your Skype number, just do it!
Maybe but it's basically made of splinters. Not something you want in a thing you have to touch!
Trump Tells Inner Circle That Musk Will Leave Soon
Mobile? afaik node.js doesn't run on mobile. If that's the case the 'copy' doesn't do a good job of highlighting the big value prop.
Sure, they can build it here—but protectionism doesn’t deliver long-term success.

In the short term, it drives up prices and makes consumers poorer.
In the long run, tariffs shield companies from global competition and limit their ability to scale. Without that pressure or opportunity, businesses grow weaker—not stronger.

That weakens U.S. industry, not strengthens it.
You’re not supposed to take that use of that expression literally, but if someone gets hurt for any reason, the lawyers will.
I heard plasma tvs did exactly that for beard trimmers or whatever.
> The underlying theory in all of these cases is that while color is sensory, unstable, and chaotic, form is rational, stable, and pure.

And pure reason is inhuman.

Color represents emotions, form represents reason. Since emotions is a big part of human nature, the loss of color means the western society has been sliding into a depression, and the west is depressed because it's falling under the influence of the origin of this colorless stereometric brutalism.
Its not a fallacy but game theory playing out - known as beggar thy neighbour policies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beggar_thy_neighbour
A lot of that will takes years to get going. Trump will nearly be out of office before manufacturing can ramp up.

Add on that trump is quite literally tariffing the materials needed to expand US industry/manufacturing.

The US also has a major labor shortage that trump is only making worse. How are ya gonna build a violin face when you can't hire anyone to do it?

Like usual, conservatives/Republicans grossly oversimplify how the world works in order to get sound bites and convince fools that 1+1=3.
Compression Testing to Measure the Energy Return and Cushioning of Running Shoes
> Or the factory can build their parts here in one of our 50 great states.

Then the ⅔ they sell outside the USA would be subject to the retaliatory tariffs likely to come in response to Trump's tariffs. They'd also lose at least some of their existing 10 employees who wouldn't want to move, so they'd need to train more — quality would suffer.

It's more likely they'll find ways to avoid the USA — the European nylon supplier mentioned in the article might reduce their minimum order size, or maybe they could find another business to split the minimum order. The Canadian packaging producer is probably trying to find a Canadian paper supplier.
The admin. I prefer the non Django stuff for everything. Pedantic alembic sqlalchemy and so on.

But if you run something large, getting an admin panel literally for free is difficult to beat. You literally don’t need any admin functionality in your application. Django does it all for virtually free.
470€ vs 570€ for OLED 512GB. With 80€ (digital, 90€ physical) base price for a game, you'd probably go break even in like 2-3 games, especially when buying games on sales (Nintendo don't do that) and older titles (Nintendo don't discount these either)

P.S. $450 vs $550 for US
Caffeine mgs for various brewed extracts can be lower than a cup of coffee. Even decaf still contains <.002mg, remain static over the designated beverage half-life. For third-wave, light roast blooms, containing more acid, the caffeine content is punctuated.
Well, visually exhausting is something that imho happens only if you find unpleasant the colors you're seeing. The wonderful island of Burano is something I would never get tired of, yet it's so colorful.

I think that the visual exhaustion comes from the fact that the thing we see everyday are made to catch our attention and not to decorate. So ads, shits and giggles that don't really add to our experience but that catch - and drain - our attention

Then again I'd probably be fine with a super duper wallpaper like this so perhaps we won't agree on some things such as having few colorful elements https://www.photowall.com/ee/memphis-piazza-panorama-wallpap...
Seems like a retelling of the fourth turning, don't see the book mentioned here:

https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-Here-Seasons-History-e...

These ways of finding patterns, are always interesting, but also usually flawed by like all of the things left out.

"This juncture (civil war) is the best one to drive home the point about why political passions run so high at these historic moments: They mark fundamental system changes, and the stakes are extremely high, particularly for those on the side of the system that has to die."

We're there political passions in the 1945's? Seems like there we're greater political passions and divisions in the 1960's an 1970's, halfway through his theory.

There seems to be this idea that what, maybe AI is the next technological explosion 80 years after the end of ww2, but I'd argue we just got out of a technological explosion of the computer age/the internet.

My flawed cycles theory is: I'd cut all these theories in half. I sort of theorize maybe a 40 year cycle. bottom-up civil rights action, (20's,60's). Top-down backlash and economic instability (30's70's) economic deregulation and push (40's? , 80's) and then optimisim (50's/90's).

In this model, I think we're headed into the 70's (backlash and economic instability)
It's especially ironic because Apple did, at one time, push vividly coloured transparent-plastic designs.
I think we're gonna find that there are different ways to quantify "humanness" other than IQ. Someone with an IQ of 95 might seem "more real" than an LLM with a computed IQ of 145.
Oh nice, I once built a very simple version of something like this to be able to run a whole lot of existing JS code on mobile.
Building Zodiacoin.xyz – Where Astrology Meets Crypto Vibes (No Coins... Yet)

Hey r/SideProject!

I’ve been brewing something cosmic in my spare time, and I’m finally ready to share the first spark of it:
Zodiacoin.xyz – a project at the intersection of astrology, personality, and crypto culture.
Is this more of a performance anxiety issue, e.g. more in the moment or anticipating a situation than a generally constant feeling? If so, propranolol might be useful on off-label on as as-needed basis as a way to diminish the physical symptoms enough to get you "over the hump" in any particular episode.
What is the difference between "English Speaking People" and "the Chinese Room" ?
The problem with Searle's arguments is that all the Chinese room is is an appeal to absurdity, a sleight of hand. I'm supposed to think, "Oh. This is so absurd, of course the room doesn't understand" but it is an appeal that falls apart about once you realize that the same logic could be applied to any computational process, including human cognition. The distinction Searle draws between a person who genuinely understands English and a system that mechanically manipulates symbols is, in essence, arbitrary. They are both systems that have demonstrated understanding.
Before these new tariffs, Canadian tariffs on US goods were more than double US tariffs on Canadian goods, as a percentage. If we want to eliminate tariffs, the proper outcome would be for Canada to lower its preexisting tariffs. I don't think anyone in the Canadian government has proposed that solution.
Deconstructing Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports:

https://reverbmachine.com/blog/deconstructing-brian-eno-musi...

It's a must-read! It has analysis of all Eno's tape loops and an interactive note randomizer. Mentioned in the article's related content but it's worth an extra shout.

Fun to play around with for anyone who likes the album or ambient music in general.
> I wish the inflationary trend in linguistic overstatement did the same.

Nowadays literally everything I read is the most egregious overstatement I've ever seen.
Sourcebot, the open source Sourcegraph alternative, releases v3
Yes and, part of it is advertising visually tormenting us. They throw uber catchy colorful banners of stuff we're often not interested in the slightest, doing everything to get our attention. Also, websites featuring advertisement are encouraged to have more muted tones so they stand out. That gets tiresome and we tend to want rest for private spaces.

But overall I agree. If everything is uber-colorful, that can become just overwhelming. Also we are a lot more stimulated throughout the day with screen and movies and games. In the olden days you didn't have a smartphone with a colorful screen, so putting lots of colour in your house or your church made more sense.

I'd want less advertisement, and more thoughtful color choices throughout cities and digital spaces.
Running MCP-Based Agents (Clients and Servers) on AWS
Hello investors! I have an opportunity here and would like to build a factory in the USA. The market is tiny, the product is bespoke, and the MSRP is also tiny. We'd be looking at employing around 10 people (as per the fine article). Also the economic conditions may disappear tonight, tomorrow or next few years. Any time, really. Oh, not interested in investing? Quelle surprise..
War is bad. It is correct to respond to aggression initiating war with defensive war.

Trade wars are like regular wars, in that respect.
> It’s hard to see violins students who plunk down hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars for their instrument try to save tens of $s for a subpar shoulder rest.

Grade school violin students almost never purchase an instrument; they rent, at surprisingly low annual cost.
'async' is not a keyword in F#, it's a builder instance no different to the ones that you can create. It's just built in to the standard library.

The return statement is only required if you want to return something form the computation expression. In your example you use async { let! x = f(); return x}, which can be reduced to async { return! f()}, which can be reduced to f().

The rest is your opinion that I don't agree with.
Probably always open, but very high bar for non referral candidates, so post, but not serious about hiring quickly?
Pure silica? It's really just SiO2. It might kind of fragment/ burst if it has a lot of water absorbed and you heat it too fast. Then everything in the vicinity would get sprinkled with fine dust which you shouldn't inhale in large quantities, as it might cause silicosis.
NaNoWriMo announces it will shut down after funding and YWP problems
It seems that Bare is also built on top of V8 and libuv, much like Node.js.

Bare is built on top of https://github.com/holepunchto/libjs, which provides low-level bindings to V8 in an engine independent manner, and https://github.com/libuv/libuv, which provides an asynchronous I/O event loop. (from their README)

Moreover, you actually need Node.js and npm to install and run it. You need another JavaScript runtime as a prerequisite to install this JavaScript runtime…

npm i -g bare (also from their README)

I don't get it – is it worth it to choose Bare over a more established and welly-maintained solution?
Ditto.

Maybe we should be more blissful, not sure what leads to bliss....
Google Gemini is shaking up its AI leadership ranks
Yet people are still dismissive about MCP. It's simple and just a wrapper for APIs, but it works wonders
I do think that there’s an aspect of small government that connects those 70M to their government in a way that large scale federalization may fail to do. Not sure how to achieve benefits of scale without this problem…
The Return of Recycle
It's no mystery. The US regime changed to one sympathetic to Russia (at the very least), so the ever-supplicating political establishment has started realigning. Remember this is the same paper that helped drum up support for the Iraq War. Even "leftist" corpo media is still just blue-flavored state media.

As far as the truth, the problem is the lack of two functioning political parties. Two parties representing different approaches to the US's interests would have meant that the opposition poking holes in the official narratives would point to a competing US-benefiting alternative. Imagine instead of this feckless trickle of weapons effectively keeping the Ukrainians on a leash, the US could have taken the lesson from the Moskva and let Ukraine run with it. That is the debate we should have had.
> How are ya gonna build a violin face when you can't hire anyone to do it?

We're going to use children.

The US labor force is shrinking for at least the next 20 years. We're losing 500-900k workers a year until at least 2034, and longer if people have fewer children because of, well... And it's not projected to increase until 2045.

All the squealing you hear from business owners? Labor today is likely about as inexpensive as it's going to be for the next 20 years.
React/ShadCN button with no JavaScript send to client
What’s good for China is not good for Canada in the long run. There are many reasons you can think of.

A small and often overlooked one is that a Chinese hegemony would decrease the língua franca status of English.
Not sure anything is captured. Need control for diet and measurements of existing creatine levels. It takes a few weeks to get creatine higher after supplementation. This is a small sample sized study that strikes me as dubious. Particularly compared to others that have done muscle biopsies. The pre-warm up routine is itself sus, that impacts lifting potentially more than creatine. Creatine also has a role in recovery, good luck measuring that..
In war, there are no winners, only widows.
NaNoWriMo, the Nonprofit Organization, Is Shutting Down
> Kind of like the nausea-inducing, shaky "hand held camera" thing that was so predominate some decades ago. Good riddance to that.

Shudders. A lot of shows were utterly unwatchable for me.

(Now they're just unwatchable because of the mumbling/whispering and the colour palettes tweaked to the extent nothing has any contrast left.)
Ah yes that is definitely a nice addition to the C# language, albeit still with a couple of shortcomings compared to F#:

1. It doesn’t support code blocks, so if you need multiple lines or statements you have to define a function elsewhere.
2. To get exhaustiveness checking on int-backed enums you have to fiddle with compiler preprocessor directives.

And for #2 any data associated with each enum variant is left implied by C# and has to be inferred from a reading of the surrounding imperative code, whereas in F# the union data structure makes the relationship explicit, and verifiable by the compiler.
This is, in fact, part of the support for Dark Matter, both with galaxies (the amount of lensing requires the galaxy to include a lot of Dark Matter) and between galaxies, where other lensing effects occur that can only be explained by filaments of Dark Matter between galaxies and galaxy clusters.

This is a great podcast, with episode 6 concentrating specifically on Dark Matter and the evidence for it: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crash-course-pods-the-...
Just about any undergraduate textbook will discuss tariffs and why they are nearly universal regarded as poor policy. See Samuelson for instance. The online discourse is poor because the vast majority of people, even those who are educated, have never cracked open a 1st year Econ textbook.
I think an interesting angle to this discussion is the fact that before the "temporary" income taxes (in 1913), tariffs were the primary source of tax revenue in the United States. There are lots of modern economists in favor of consumption taxes over income taxes. And in a climate where people are up in arms about billionaires skirting income taxes, you'd think it might be a popular idea to tax all the money they spend.
Intepretability is nice, I guess, but what if the underlying latent model for a real-world system is not human-understandable. if a system provides interpretability by default, does it fail to build a model for a system that can't be interpreted? Personally I think the answer is, it still builds a model, but produces an interpretation that can't be understood by people.
It's weird, because some areas with the highest density also have the highest rents (e.g. New York City).