skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an editorialized title ("The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly") and subtly different than what the article actually states. I don't think Steam Deck was made particularly software-freedom friendly. I do think that it managed to not be software-freedom unfriendly, and that's because unlike other vendors Valve did not care to make it so. It's a subtle, yet non-negligible difference that leads to different outcomes.
Right wingers love inventing new ways to say the same tired bs. Tbf I stopped reading somewhere between “wither the struggling landlord” and “demonstrating consistency in your worldview makes you a sheep” but did I really need to see any more?
Show HN: rtrvr.ai one shotted doing taxes using Gemini 2.5 Pro
rtrvr.ai recently launched AI PDF Form Filling capability for our Chrome Extension, where you can leverage the context of multiple open tabs to fill a PDF form. To demo this capability, we had our agent fill an IRS 1040 form using IRS tax guidelines and a synthetic W2 as context!
Some interesting thoughts, would be curious to see it in action
Not any that are in other important ways comparable. Kuwait has it I think.
I agree there is merit to this reasoning around trust and promises between nations, but I don’t believe it applies in this case, which was a wink and a nudge around using “legal” immigration and visa policy to suppress wages and disempower domestic workers, to the benefit of imported labor and capital.

Bad faith agreements warrant no continuity or protection, but people should still always be treated humanely when the rules change.
It's my belief (and I'm far from the only person who thinks this) that many AI optimists are motivated by an essentially religious belief that you could call Singularitarianism. So "wishful thinking" would be one answer. This document would then be the rough equivalent of a Christian fundamentalist outlining, on the basis of tangentially related news stories, how the Second Coming will come to pass in the next few years.
Taxes should be raised on the rich. Elon Musk alone is worth $330 billion. There is plenty of money to pay for what we need. The question is whether we can muster the political will to do it.
Julian (the author) is a genius. v4 has been in the making for some time, but, boy, is it worth the wait! I have used v3 (I am using it on my landing page and even built a small game engine with it), but this version is on a whole new level. Congrats to the author! Keep up the good work!
Because ewe still haven't figured out fusion but its been promised for decades. Why would everything thats been promised by people with highly vested interests pan out any different?

One is inherently a more challenging physics problem.
> Prices rising due to tariffs isn't "inflation" in any traditional sense.

Yes, consumer prices rising is inflation in the traditional sense (since, unqualified, “inflation” refers to increases in consumer prices.)

> It's not driven by consumer demand,

Inflation is not restricted to demand-pull inflation, which is why the term “demand-pull inflation” has a reason to exist.

Tariff-driven price increases are a form of cost-push inflation.

> and therefore the logic for raising rates (i.e. slowing economic growth by reducing money in the market) doesn't apply.

The existence of cost-push inflation doesn't change the short-term marginal effects of monetary policy on prices, so of you care just about near-term price levels, the same monetary interventions make sense as for demand-pull inflation.

OTOH, beyond short-term price effects things are very different: demand-pull inflation frequently is a symptom of strong economic growth and cooling the economy can still be consistent with acceptable growth.

Cost-push inflation tends to be an effect of forces outside of monetary policy which tend to slow the economy, so throwing tight money policy on top of it accelerates the slowdown. This is particularly bad if you are already in a recession with cost-push inflation (stagflation).

The good thing, such as it is, about cost-push inflation where the cost driver is a clear policy like tariffs, is that while monetary policy has no good option to fix it, there is a very clear policy solution—stop the policy that is driving the problem.

The problem is when there is irrational attachment to that policy in the current government.
Being Human in the Age of Intelligent Machines
giving their weight and aerodynamic coefficient - both around half my Prius - it sounds about right.
Trump's new tariff math looks a lot like ChatGPT's
as a major anthropic investor, this is great, and something I wish we owned natively from day 0
Ask HN: Best books written on “How to think”?
I feel like talking about how to think is going to be a bigger topic of discussion going forward now that we have AI, and dependence on software is really going to the next level — so since I've always gotten such amazing recommendations on HN, I had to ask this here
In what way can you repair and old Thinkpad that you can't repair a framework?
Customs could still search it if they want. It might be less hassel but more risky if it's out of your hands.
It's 60-80% as good as Stack Overflow copy-pasting programmers, sure, but those programmers were already providing questionable value.

It's nowhere near as good as someone actually building and maintaining systems. It's barely able to vomit out an MVP and it's almost never capable of making a meaningful change to that MVP.

If your experiences have been different that's fine, but in my day job I am spending more and more time just fixing crappy LLM code produced and merged by STAFF engineers. I really don't see that changing any time soon.
I've done solo trips in a 16' 4" Pinetree Ojibway 32" beam canoe in Lake Superior and a number of river systems. Didn't sleep in the boat and didn't take cans. Pasta, sauce and soup in packets. Didn't have to worry about fresh water supply.
No one remembers the lowsrc img attribute.
Regardless of the philosophy of it (which is certainly interesting), many pieces uncontroversially start with a rest. If the first bar doesn’t start on a note, then the piece starts on a rest.

You could argue that the first bar is actually shorter than all the following ones and only starts on the first note, but… no one thinks like that that I ever heard of
SUPER cool aesthetic. I would totally use it if it was a product.
I predict AGI will be solved 5 years after full self driving which itself is 1 year out (same as it has been for the past 10 years).
For Epic, I am using Heroic Games Launcher, I believe it is much better than the official Epic app.
> Frontend is a mess because all you people are a mess.

As a backend guy who considers himself extremely fortunate that nearly all of his users/customers are technical, this got an audible chuckle out of me.
What I'm saying is that if total exports to the US is a function of the difference between the US and Belgium population size, then why wouldn't imports be a function as well? Belgium has less people buy things to import, but also less people to sell things to export. It's not clear to me what the mechanism is that these two functions should be so different.
That's incredible how much it broadly aligns with what has happened. Especially because it was before ChatGPT.
This is basically what everyone said would happen with Yang's proposed UBI in 2020.
The hurricane happened in 2024

"Hurricane Beryl was the earliest Atlantic basin Category-5 hurricane on record"

https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/wmo-hurricane-committee-re...
They seem to have made a good person. I hope they recover from their present situation.
"Imagine you want to buy a toy at a store which costs $50. You pay for the toy and walk away with it. The President looks at that transaction and says ‘wait, you paid the store $50 and the store paid you nothing, therefore the store is stealing from you. To “fix” this, I’m going to tax the store $25. From now on that same toy costs $75."

Incorrect. Imagine you want to buy a toy from the store in country X and because of where you live (the US), the store now charges you $75 instead of the $50 it normally costs for that item. This has been going on for decades.

A new president comes in and decides that if you are from country X and want to buy a toy from the US, you now have to pay the same inflated costs added to the item.

Country X now decides to charge the US $50 for that item and the US does the same. We both win.

Nobody seems to have critical thinking skills here. These tariffs will not be like this forever. In all likelihood, they will be gone within a month or two as these counties hammer out some better trade agreements.
While I don't disagree with you I also don't think Valve is particularly bad in this area. Valve's games are not made for younger kids and Steam's parental controls are excellent.

Mobile games, especially Roblox, are a lot worse because they target much younger children with less parental control.
Still in the Safari extensions it looks like but then hasn't been updated in 5 years...
Oops, there I go, trying to be too smart for my own good.
Did you go down to Plaza de Mayo to speak to some of las Madres and ask how they feel about it, or where is your idea coming from?
You're asking it to think and it can't.

It's spicy auto complete. Ask it to create a program that can create a violin plot from a CVS file. Because this has been "done before", it will do a decent job.
This is one of the core tenets in the mythology of social conservatism. This notion that somehow thigns cam somehow stay the same... forever. This is usually expressed with wording around values, tradition and customs.
Hey folks. I was exploring different WhatsApp MCPs, but they all required to host it locally. I scaled it to cloud, and now it works.

→ it can text your wife
→ reply to your mom
→ book Airbnbs
→ send investor updates

You can trigger WhatsApp via API, or inside Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT etc.
→ Full WhatsApp API is exposed: send, receive, get contacts, chats, etc.
→ VeyraX helps AI with tool calling

WhatsApp MCP is also available inside VeyraX Flows.

→ Connect Whatsapp to Notion, Gmail, Jira, Slack — whatever you want
→ Flows have public API
→ Create your own + share it with friends

Since it is free, I found it useful to share it into our mcp community. Can you please support?

I implement it on Go Server with whatsmeow and websockets connection, and proxied it via python Fast API to make it available in the VeyraX marketplace
Calyx Institute: A Case Study in Grassroots Innovation
It's not that shocking. It makes a really good short hand question to find out where someone is politically. You could spend ten hours discussing what the perfect immigration system looks like or you could ask who they voted for and get a baseline to go off of. The question only removes nuance if you stop right after.
I wrote a Go-based search engine that indexes full words and prefixes for the foods and their alternate names because I was dissatisfied with how slow OpenSearch was given the very specific needs I had. I have Cloudflare in front to act as a cache.
Spoke to a friend who is a big Trump supporter just yesterday - his view is that we shouldn't react to short term impact, these policies and tariffs should be viewed and judged in the long term. These tariffs will remake american manufacturing. I dont know if thats the current faux news talking point.
Says the person who posted a tweet from JD Vance?
> In this world, asking "who did you vote for" isn't a matter of tribalism, but it is a (good) proxy for asking someone "what are your values".

Only if you ascertain the (inverse of the) mapping of values -> vote correctly, and it's definitively not what the parties or the tribes themselves profess.

For myself [0], I sympathize with many of the issues Trump ran on while finding most of the Democratic platform cloying and hollow. But I value effective policy, being accountable to intellectual criticism, and a generally open society far far more. (And at this point in my life, a healthy dose of straight up actual conservatism, too!)

[0] and while it might seem needlessly inflammatory to include this here, I think it's unavoidable that people are going to be trying to read partisan implications from abstract comments regardless.
Nvidia confirms the Nintendo Switch 2 has DLSS and real-time ray tracing
The audio demo makes me think of Bandcamp which will pause music that you're playing if another Bandcamp tab starts playing a song separately. Must be a similar mechanism under the hood
What is a fork of systemd? launchd? My understanding was that systemd was inspired by launchd.
639 years? Big deal, The Long Now foundation built a clock to last 10,000 years. I hate John Cage since I got his massive world-wide hit 4′33″ stuck in my head.
Or just wait for Tunisia to gradually replace tariffed goods with EU and Chinese equivalents. Problem also solved?
Probably not a crypto millionaire/billionaire.
There's some mis-information here:

Yep on battery - I rarely use mine while traveling (and rarely travel) and set max charge to 60% so it should last a good long time, but it can be replaced when I need too. I replaced 2 in my black Macbook and once in my iPhone 3G (but I got 8 years out of the phone). When my work MB Pro had a battery bulge, the whole machine was replaced and presumably recycled since it was not repairable.

Internal, yep, but nvme > SATA any day.

They are usb-c yes, but the ports are adjustable (can mix usb-c, usb-a, display-port, hdmi, network, storage, etc) so it's not as restrictive as you seem to be implying.

On video, I am not sure if you think it's some kind of DisplayLink thing but it's alt-dp over usb, directly connected to the GPU.

My 13" has a headphone jack (and passable speakers) and a built in Mic (and both the camera and mic have switches to disable them).

2.5GB Ethernet is available as an expansion module.

I find the keyboard and touch pad okay! I don't really need a touchscreen.

On ports:
I don't use the finger print reader (but it has one).
I don't need SD card slot all that often (but is available).
I don't have any FW devices (and 400Mbs vs 5-10Gbps).
Don't need a modem or an IR Port

I don't use a dock (I do at work for my MB Pro - but it's mostly a permanent desktop configuration so I don't mind that it's connected via usb-c). The one I got IS compatible with my Framework 13 though.

I had a t61 for work and I loved it... in 2009 . I should have bought it from the company when I left but bought a black Macbook instead
Hawaii is the only U.S. state where you can grow coffee and their coffee costs a fortune. You need tropical weather and high altitude. Florida won't cut it. Besides, we already have fruit rotting in the fields in Florida because there's no one to pick it.

Want to put tariffs on Chinese electric cars or batteries? Ok, fine. But tariffs on all imports? It's the most brain dead policy in my lifetime. I can't think of any products that are produced 100% domestically without any foreign inputs. These tariffs will drive up the price of just about everything.
(2023)

Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34657478
This is hilariously over-optimistic on the timescales. Like on this timeline we'll have a Mars colony in 10 years, immortality drugs in 15 and Half Life 3 in 20.
I've done scientific work in science. I've been paid for it, but by a public university, so not "commercial" in the strictest sense of the word.

Do you mean to suggest that "commercial work" in science takes shortcuts and ignores the essentials of the scientific method? Do you mean to suggest that commercial science or at least commercial chemistry writing science-like papers are all misrepresenting their results systematically? Do you think the standards for good scientific conduct do not apply to chemists or commercially working scientists? Because any of that would mean that "commercial work" in science is just fraud dressed up as science.

And yes of course an experienced experimenter will get better, easier, more consistent results, everyone knows that. The issue is not about that at all. The issue is about suppressing results and data that you don't like. Those maybe result from initial inexperience or bad luck, normal variations in measurements or whatever. You present all your data, with statistics, with an explanation, and if that explanation is "well, the initial 20 values are excluded from the reported average because of me being heavy-handed with the frobnicator" then that is fine. People can check your values, your reasoning and convince themselves that your reporting is right and your experiment works to the extend you reported. If you just say "the yield is 89%" without mentioning that all the other yields were worse, without mentioning any kind of variance, range, exclusions, you are lying. Those 89% were your single best yield, since they were best you were never able to reproduce that, so it might as well have been leftover product from improperly cleaning your glassware...

Are you really trying to convince me that all chemists are crooked like that? Or all commercial work in science is crooked?
Panama Canal Railway Company purchased by Denmark's Maersk
Just don't bring anything important or sensitive. Buy a cheap phone to swap SIMs. Buy a cheap laptop on Facebook or Ebay if you really need one. What kind of sensitive personal data do you really need to travel with? I would guess most people could transmit encrypted data via web services unless you're a journalist coming out of a censored country or something.
My employees sit behind me to keep me honest.
Increased taxes (on the wealthy) could also be used, not just to pay down debts, but to start new programs like expanding domestic production, back loans for small businesses and house construction. Heck even just 'new new deal' style jobs that build infrastructure.

Though I am partial to using new revenue to increase competition (new startups) in weakly competitive markets. That's the most effective way of increasing supply, and choice, and letting a market function.
My guess would be Zork and the other Infocom games which at the time were huge because they could be played on the very limited PC's of the 80's and were top 10 selling games. Myst is basically a graphical "text style" adventure that was huge in the 90's and drove lots of CD-ROM sales and was a top seller for like a decade.
Cool tool but it shouldn't matter whether the client is a browser or not. I feel sad that we need such a tool in the real world
That's not quite what happened, was it?

First off, capital flight is not a good argument against high wealth taxes, it's an argument for more controls to prevent people from doing this, so they are forced to reinvest in business.

The wealth tax was in for a meager 2 years, and the richest in the country started calling it "anti-business" even though they were transparently refusing to reinvest that money in their company. Anti-business is shorthand for "We can't hire the 1 high-earner executive we want to play golf with instead of the 100 lower level employees that would actually help the economy."

Instead, they kept THEIR salaries and ate that tax cost, and told their employees they would suffer during these times. It was a coordinated effort to discredit something that was meant to create more jobs. Much like when Saudi Arabia artificially restricted oil until after the 2020 election. And the administration had no controls on this.

So yes, high taxes on the rich by themselves are worthless, but that doesn't mean those policies coupled with tighter controls aren't essential for wealth inequality.

Of course, conservative news is going to talk about this in the context of debt, and claim because the amount raised did not match the debt (moronic) that it was clearly a bad idea to tax the rich, when the real takeaway is there needs to be more controls and a bigger spotlight on how these scumbags jerk the system around. At the end of the day, they are trying to keep their yachts and their massive, unnecessary mortgages, and will fight tooth and nail to do so, and anyone falling for news stories about "oh it didn't work in 2 years, my boss said I was going to take a salary cut" is helping that agenda and nothing else.
They tend to use their projected future gains to raise influence and clout today.
To what benefit though? People in the US currently provide advanced services such as software sold to people everyplace, and people in developing nations are manufacturing cheap goods, sold to people everyplace.

After tariffs, people in the US are (maybe) manufacturing cheap goods, sold mostly only here, and developing nations continue to manufacture cheap goods for the rest of the world, and fewer people are providing advanced services such as software.

Overall, the world just becomes poorer and has fewer useful services provided. Yes, the US becomes less dependent on the rest of the world, but the rest of the world also becomes less dependent on the US. Material wellbeing of everyone is worse off.

But that's assuming all went to plan. In practice, it's hard to see how they would even achieve bringing manufacturing here through tariffs. Crashing the stock market is a sure-fire way to ensure the next administration (3.5 years away) will revoke them. You could install a dictatorship, but that makes it even less likely for companies to invest in the US. In practice, this will likely just make Americans poorer, but not bring any meaningful amount of manufacturing jobs back. Pretty much the epitome of "cutting off your nose to spite your face."
I consider this type of thinking to be a form of tribalism because you're essentially saying there are two tribes. Each tribe has specific values.

A person's values are not a dichotomy (i.e. republican or democrat). You simply cannot put people into two buckets that define their overarching moral compass.

A person can be transphobic but support abortion so they have always voted Democrat...or hate everything about Republican values except they got burned by Obamacare so they vote Republican. There is virtually an infinite level of nuance that can be a deciding factor in why someone votes for someone.
I don't know about the 16, but my 13 definitely does have one.
People frequently have a gap between their values and their politics, and talking about both can reveal the cognitive dissonance.

If they engage with politics as tribalism, and you talk to them about a policy their tribe implemented that conflicts with their values, this is useful.