skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean we could start taxing the ultra-rich, who have a greater share of the pool of dollars than they have at any point during history. Pick a number, ooh maybe 200% of the median income, something well below the point where you stop being human and become a giant bag of money pretending to be human, anything above that gets taken away by the state and redistributed to everyone. Rip up all the laws that create ways for people to hide money from taxes. The giant bags of money pretending to be people will scream, and try to make this stop; their money can buy a lot of politicians, and perhaps it will only happen if it’s that or the guillotine.

We could also acknowledge that money is a fiction; money is continually created by the banks under the authority of the government, and money can just be destroyed when it’s taxed instead of thinking it has to “balance the federal budget”. “A dollar” is not tied to any physical store of value but we still love to pretend it is. It’s just a fraction of the overall economic worth of the entire US, and entirely too many of those fractions are in the hands of huge bags of money pretending to be people.

Or we could just ditch “money” entirely. Add things like “lodging” and “food” to the Bill of Rights. There’s probably a lot of problems with this! And a lot of them probably rhyme with the problem that some people just really want to become big bags of money pretending to be people!
I found this theory from Josh Marshall to be pretty compelling: WTAF is Going On? In Search of the Plan Behind Trump’s Global Economic Crisis https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/wtaf-is-going-on-in-sea...
did you have the regular battery or the larger one? Maybe it was something about the larger battery flagging some kind of screening process they have.

I was surprised too, I've brought far weirder and dodgy looking stuff through security
"Produce nothing and import everything" is a straw man. The goal was to produce different things, hopefully more valuable ones. That hope has been shown to be a bit specious. But regardless, being able to obtain real goods by giving other countries arbitrarily-devaluable IOUs is still a no-brainer win, period.

If your goal is to make the country manufacturing independent, then plunging us into a depression while cutting off existing supply lines is abjectly stupid! When it comes to building domestic industry from the ground up, tariffs are the equivalent of "sending thoughts and prayers". And they're even more specious knowing how volatile this administration is, and that the economic pain will mandate some course correction long before the foundations of any new factories are even poured. Never mind the cost of filling those new factories with equipment has now skyrocketed! (Or are we supposed to think that the tariff announcement has magically made the invisible hands of the market start rubbing three flattish surfaces together?)

The actual way to have carried out the purported policy goal was to spend some of the massive surplus the US gets by USD being the world reserve currency ("the deficit") on deliberate targeted import substitution - direct subsidies for US based manufacturing activities. It's top-down centralized action but that's essentially unavoidable due to that massive centralized wealth collection from having the world reserve currency. That would (/would have) also prevent that collected wealth from simply being given to the financial industry in support of their overgrown products.

Breaking up massively consolidated megacorpos into manageable entities that have to actually compete with each other would have gone a long way as well.

The only first-principles ways I can earnestly explain Trump's actions is that either he's either confusing symptoms for causes, is mentally compromised (dementia and/or social media addiction), or is working for Russia/China. Likely some mix of all three.

Hopefully the Democrats can get over their general ineptitude, spin this as a 30% National Sales Tax paying for Handouts to Most Favored Billionaires, get some Republicans to defect from the maggot party line, and fucking impeach+convict already. That's really the only course of action that can leave our country with a hope of remaining intact.
The targeted reduction in US influence across the globe, does seem intentional. This is not specific to Trump.

What is gained by reducing a US influence/footprint? The resources used to maintain that footprint. Why? To focus them, which increases impact and minimizes vulnerabilities.

Having a Navy that patrols the worldwide seas is less useful when you want to devalue imports. Having a Navy that patrols the worldwide seas is vulnerable to drones and other techniques that effectively counter the protection smaller groups of ships can provide. This also reduces the expectation that the US might get involved in a conflict, if less US assets are visiting every corner of the seas.

Now you need less small ships to be made and can aggregate these assets in potentially hotspot conflict areas. An opponent can't disrupt shipping if the US has prematurely done it to themselves (and the world).

Removing the US from NATO reduces the chance of a long range exchange that the US will have to participate in, to the detriment of its own resources (missiles, air power, ships, manpower, etc).

This all leads to indicators of a large scale conflict being planned, decades out.

I suspect Trump is hamfistedly enacting policies based on some grand long term plan that he is directed to participate in. As usual, he's making a mess, to get as much done as possible. Why? To take credit ofc.

Edit: This is a thought experiment, not some sort of factual accounting. If you have a better idea other than "duhr Trump is dumb", share it.
TikTok isn’t doing anything different than anyone else. Except stealing ad revenue.
everyone else who uses cuda isn't going to learn rust either
>Getting a German VISA is much easier than getting an American VISA

Based on Münchau's Kaput, this doesn't seem to be the case. Sounds like they are pretty comparable, especially if you're not a refugee.
You know, the more AI can do the more I understand the Luddites.
The university uses it for salaries, financial aid and other operations.
Unfortunately, the paper does nothing that I can see to address the criticisms of UBI in general, such as the pivotal 1930-1950 works of Mises on Socialism.

In such an environment, those with the majority marketshare will simply cooperate and adjust their prices upwards through artificial constraint of supply, inevitably creating imbalances which result in chaotic shortfall that will need to damped, and these people do so with a plausible fallback, "we live in chaotic times". The people will need to be bailed out for the shortfall.

Cooperation prevents economic calculation, leading to the chaotic whipsaws described by Mises as the Socialist Calculation Problem.

The only way to dampen the whipsaw is through money printing, and there is a hard upward limit to money printing after which the currency collapses.

That point is what is generally considered stage 3 of a ponzi scheme, after diminishing returns, where outflows exceed inflows. With regards to debt-based money printing (non-reserve/basel3 [based in objective value]), that transforms when GDP < debt growth.

The limit is silently enforced by legitimate market participant producers who exit the market once profit can no longer be made (as the stable store of value is debased and as a monetary property is lost). Since most companies use financial engineering, the time when this is noticed will be long after the critical period since that type of engineering decouples decision-making from short term constraints.

This can lead to catastrophic failure, as the dynamics cascade in similar ways to an avalanche, or a dam break where the trigger is not noticed, and the consequences of mass and motion following a conservation of energy cannot be stopped.

While we are talking about the dynamics of human action, which are not nearly as well defined as physics, the dynamics are no less powerful.
Show HN: MCP server for your browser
Hi HN,

I made an MCP server that allows automating your local browser.

It's great for having apps like Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf automatically test code end-to-end after generating it or for automating repetitive tasks like filing out forms.

It's inspired by the Playwright MCP, but it uses your existing Chrome instance rather than spinning up a new browser. This means that you can have AI automate tasks on a tab you're already working on rather than having to log in on a new browser and recreate the context.

I'd love to get your feedback!
Infants remember more than you think, new study reveals
You just reminded me of one of my favorite Tony Joe White songs, so thanks!

Tony Joe White - Even Trolls Love Rock and Roll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fJMNJTEhuw
I just want to see benchmarks. is this new one faster than CuPy or not
> You are protected against the pathogen, because you're generating the same targeted antibodies as other vaccine platforms stimulate.

So why do they say for the COVID vaccines that you are still able to get it? And people also do?
There is no trade deficit in that sense and can never be; no one is sending free shit. However, this is “goods” trade imbalance. There are lots of other types of cash flows happening in an economy. For example, if your country has a high % of remittances, it’ll have a chronic trade balance. (which is essentially the exercise of these remittances at foreign markets)
Note that the big battery in a BEV is a great averaging mechanism. As long as your average drive is less than the amount you get from an overnight charge, you're likely fine. If you're adding 40 miles of range a night to a 300 mile battery, you have to have 4 consecutive days of 100 mile usage before you have to hit an external charger. Mix a few days of 20 mile usage between those 100 mile days and external charger usage is exceedingly rare.
Consumer confidence isn’t actually a metric of the economy. At best it’s a correlate to an actual indicator, which can be something you can link if available.

Simplest way to make my point is to look at the confidence during covid vs January of this year.
Computer, enhance 15 to 23.
No, this is a completely unsolvable problem with just a camera.

You cannot differentiate a high calorie meal from a low calorie meal on sight alone.

The waste is selling a lie, enabled by AI bullshit artists and the public's seeming inability to understand that the US has no legal (or market most of the time) requirements to be truthful, upfront, or honest in marketing.

Like people just take this shit at face value and I don't understand how you can live in the US for more than a few years and not recognize that marketing is just lies, like not even smart or clever lies.
The best answer is a reference from All the President's Men: "The truth is these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand."
>This all leads to indicators of a large scale conflict being planned, decades out.

by whom and for whom though?
"In her later years"....well, yeah! I will structure my finances that way too. I get money stolen from me yearly by force for "SS TAX", and i surely plan to get every cent back out of it that i can. I will not get even 10% back, but that is better than 0
You mentioned there are multiple occasions: You got a quote on that? I did a quick Google search, but the most recent events are hogging up the results and I didn't hear anything literal about him saying what you claim he was saying. If you're referring to the most recent question asked by a reporter, what you're saying is false -- there was nothing literal or explicit about it.

The specific text in the 22nd Amendment states:
"No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once"

Key word is "ELECTED," (the loophole) but this is up for debate as the intent of the amendment. Deeper dive here: https://www.factcheck.org/2025/04/legal-scholars-dispute-con...
I renamed my codebase's primary branch to main because someone complained.

versus

I was abducted by ICE agents and shipped to a supermax prison in El Salvador without due process.
What a stupid argument. They already run dictatorships. They will already be killed or imprisoned if they lose power. Putin for example has invaded Ukraine, and can never lose power or he will be murdered by one of many. Stalin and Mao never lost power despite their insane policies and ruthlessness.
JD Vance outlined the administration's view on globalization here: https://youtu.be/U1bd-D1PIZg?si=8oECgV3qYYEbdXy3

In summary he claims that there are two issues:

1) People had thought that globalization would mean that high-income countries would remain at the top of the value chain and design products and low-income companies would produce the simple things and manufacture. But, he claims, there are network effects to manufacturing. Those countries low on the value chain, once they learn how how to build things, are better equipped to rise in the value chain and replace companies completely.

2) He claims that companies became addicted to cheap labor from overseas, and it's stifling productivity gains. He brings in the analogy of how higher minimum wage tends to motivate fast food restaurants to develop better kiosk technology.
> It's how they are used, not the taken part - they are taken according to law, thus consent

They're also used according to law. That's why there's sometimes talk of a "government shutdown" in the US: it happens when Congress is close to their deadline to write/pass the budget law.
"Better sites" is probably the wrong phrase, you're right that most forums are worse.

I do think most interesting conversation has moved from forums to group chats and podcasts for this reason though. Scott Alexander's blog also had good comments (though on a narrower subset of topics).
The people that have that line of thinking have no idea how things are actually made.

We might no burn every drop of oil. But we’re going to use it until it’s gone.

“Oh maybe we won’t need the most dense and easily convertible source of hydrocarbons on our planet!”
Sure, but consider the motivation for publishing it after Bezos has basically destroyed editorial control over the paper
That's the idea. I would use disposable things and if they are intrigued by something then they detain the disposable thing and not me.
This is correct, it's called empiric treatment. If a patient comes in with altered mental status and neck rigidity, you don't have time to take a lumbar puncture and culture bacteria. I don't know anything about phage treatment, but from what the other commenter said, it seems like then you'd have to do some sort of PCR test as well. You simply don't have time for any of that -- your only choice is to blast them with vancomycin + ceftriaxone.
AI is creating a frictionless surveillance state
> You cannot put LLMs into law and insurance

Cass Sunstein would very strongly disagree.
In case someone is looking for some performance examples & testimonials, even on RTX 3090 vs a 64-core AMD Epy/Threadripper, even a couple of years ago, CuPy was a blast. I have a couple of recorded sessions with roughly identical slides/numbers:

- San Francisco Python meetup in 2023: https://youtu.be/L9ELuU3GeNc?si=TOp8lARr7rP4cYaw
- Yerevan PyData meetup in 2022: https://youtu.be/OxAKSVuW2Yk?si=5s_G0hm7FvFHXx0u

Of the more remarkable results:

- 1000x sorting speedup switching from NumPy to CuPy.
- 50x performance improvements switching from Pandas to CuDF on the New York Taxi Rides queries.
- 20x GEMM speedup switching from NumPy to CuPy.

CuGraph is also definitely worth checking out. At that time, Intel wasn't in as bad of a position as they are now and was trying to push Modin, but the difference in performance and quality of implementation was mind-boggling.
The department of education is not a service provider.

It is a conduit through which funding flows and is a standards and enforcement body.

They (or at least, they used to) insure that "state's rights" advocates don't implement curricula that teach children that the world is 6,000 years old and flat. They are in the process of being dismantled.

One's local school district is responsible for a vast majority of one's critical thinking skills and it has been this way in the United States since at least the early 1800s when people realized that only wealthy parents had the time, energy, and money to hire private tutors to impart critical thinking skills on their children.

I imagine that in other countries, especially western countries, the story is the same.

We can look back far into history to see that people have used state-run or sanctioned institutions to teach critical thinking skills since well before the Platonic Academy, from which much of our modern system is derived, based on evidence of organized vocational education ranging from Siberia to Ancient Egypt to city states that dotted the land prior to the Old Babylonian Empire.

The main difference between those ancient systems and today is that, for now, all children get the chance to have a formal, standardized education, instead of just the children of the wealthy, well-connected, or lucky.
Games:

> "On platforms like Steam, indie games constitute the vast majority of new titles. For instance, in 2021, approximately 98% of the 11,700 games released on Steam were from indie developers. This trend has continued, with indie games accounting for 99% of releases on gaming platforms between 2018 and 2023."

Written content:

> "Every year, traditional publishers release around half a million to a million new books in the U.S., but that number is dwarfed by the scale of independent writing online: WordPress users alone publish over 70 million blog posts per month, Amazon sees over 1.7 million self-published books annually, and platforms like Medium, Substack, and countless personal websites generate millions more articles and essays. While the average quality of traditional publishing remains high due to strict editorial standards, consumer behavior has shifted dramatically—people now spend far more time reading informal, self-published content online, from niche newsletters to Reddit posts, often favoring relevance, speed, and authenticity over polish. This shift has made the internet the dominant source of written content by volume and a major player in shaping public discourse."

Video content:

> "Today, the overwhelming majority of video content is produced not by Hollywood or television studios, but by individuals on the internet. YouTube alone sees over 500 hours of video uploaded every minute—more than 260 million hours per year—vastly outpacing the combined annual output of all major film studios and TV networks, which together produce only a fraction of that volume. Despite questions about quality, consumer habits have shifted dramatically: people now watch over 1 billion hours of YouTube content per day, and platforms like TikTok, Instagram, and Twitch are growing rapidly, especially among younger audiences. While Hollywood still commands attention with high-budget blockbusters and prestige series, user-generated content dominates the daily media diet in both time spent and engagement."
I mean, maybe he deserved to get into more universities, but he did get into solid universities, even if they’re not at the very top. The application pool is very competitive at top universities, and I’m not sure business success should be an automatic in.
This crisis is fully caused by Trump and his minions, ruining a great economy. Which the article does get into.
The specs for it are indeed hard to read. But the implementation isn't that bad. Things like the sticky bit and the guard bit are actually pretty simple.

However, crafting an algorithm that uses IEEE arithmetic and avoids the limitations of IEEE is hard.
Import latest where signed by a trusted authority.
USA, land of the free, where bribery is legally required now?
I know some people are pushing back on Thinking, Fast and Slow’s assertions but whether everyone’s brains work that way or not, there’s at least a visible minority of people whose brains do, and I’m among them.

We do many things based entirely on intuition, and then afterward gin up a reason for having done them that doesn’t make us sound insane, or like five year olds. It’s part explanation/excuse and part description, but presented as description.

And if you’ve read anything on anger management, there’s a split second where the angry individual is experiencing some other emotion, like vulnerability or betrayal, before they sublimate it into anger. The problem is in how fast and to what degree they perform the substitution, and often even they miss the event, which takes away their own agency in the response. Recovery involves clawing back that agency.
Why not use torch.compile()?
Top Secret deserves more love than it gets too.

Absolutely. To this day I am still in the market for fake dog poop. Obscure reference from the movie
> This one was obvious from the beginning.

And yet the markets didn’t price that in.
it's getting harder each day to discount that theory.

It's also harder to tell if this is more or less harmful than the other terrifying theories such as:

-the whole elon/curtis yarvin thing

-just burning the building down so you can loot it on the way out (aka plain old greed)

-"hey guys trump is a russian asset"
Stratechery does an OUTSTANDING job covering Intel, TSMC, and chips.

https://stratechery.com/?s=intel

They were talking about this in 2013

https://stratechery.com/2013/the-intel-opportunity/
You seem to have a strong claim you'd like to make on this point. It might be true, but it's a claim offered without much evidence.

I guess one thing I'd be curious about is: were non-synthetic non-animal alternatives substituted for whale oil in large quantities before synthetics took over? If so, that would be one data point in favor of the idea that regulation (and possibly the decline of the species) was the driving factor, rather than the superiority of synthetics.
Study: Heavy fuel oil with scrubbers is best option for bulk maritime shipping
Are there Chef Habitat users in the wild?
I'm assuming the downvoters are the ones who get offended at the sight of an Asian Viking, so let me ask you this:

In a work of fiction -- which you're automatically asking for when you ask an AI to generate an image -- in a work of fiction, would you be offended if you saw a white Ninja? A white Samurai? A white Middle-Eastern Jew born in Roman times? Would there have been internet outrage over pictures of white Samurai? We all know the answer: no, of course not. So why is an Asian Viking offensive when a white Samurai is not? Why are we supposed to get angry about an Asian Viking, but a white Jesus is just A-OK? What could the difference possibly be? Anyone?
He's using arguments in favour of raising minimum wage?
I didn't say they were good, I said they were different lol
I visited Amsterdam a few years ago and the hotel had this cool wallpaper that had history of Amsterdam. I read about corporations and trade and banking and was surprised at how huge, rich, and long lived they are.

I think the smart move isn’t in being the hegemon. It’s having a hegemon that protects your interests and allows you to thrive. That way you don’t pay for a massive military and whatnot.

Maybe this is the US backing out of its commitment to have military bases all over the world in exchange for wealth. If Europe steps up and becomes hegemon then the US can cruise by with 1% gdp for military and maybe set up universal healthcare. Although they’d likely end up as yachts for billionaires or something.

Anyway, I think in 100 years, I’d rather be Netherlands than the US. More peace, more money.
They give you stuff and you give them pieces of paper. If they misbehave, you can embargo them and now they are in trouble because they depend on you to turn said pieces of paper into something of value.