skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My pet peeve is that in the boy cried wolf story in the end the wolf was real and the boy got eaten.

Imagine a real village where a boy sees a wolf and three times the villagers run out and don't see a wolf and then one day the boy cries wolf again and gets eaten — which is more likely:

1. The boy lied to the villagers about the wolf and then by a turn of fate a wolf showed up.

2. The boy actually saw a real wolf, but that wolf evaded the villagers, then the villagers let the boy get eaten and out of shame they started telling the story in a way that tells us the boy lied, even if he didn't. That boy had it coming. He always was a bit misguided — says the person who thinks death is an acceptable punishment for lying.

I find the latter way more likely and the lesson to be learned from it more profound.
Backend thought exercise: Do you think they could get back someone they wanted to get back, such as a member of the administration? Do you think they could follow a process that made it easier to get people back?
I literally have experience with both distributed system testing and nix and I couldn't even get a phone screen. Don't care really, but a little strange.
I'm kinda digging the idea.
Pair with this complementary piece by W. David Marx:

https://culture.ghost.io/cultural-stasis-produces-fewer-chee...

He writes about incentives since the 1990s that have pushed artists to shy away from making bold aesthetic choices that might seem dated a few years later.

The result is more stability and a longer shelf-life for culture, but less experimentation and fewer ways for new styles to break out.
I agree. I do not understand how this is perceived as an political issue and thus got flagged.

Climate change is perceived for some reason politically too and not get flagged so often.
Coin-sized nuclear 3V battery with 50-year lifespan enters mass production
OK. So you support the US enacting reciprocal tariffs.

edit: lots of evasion from this point below
This looks like a great way to get away from electron. Build js apps for the desktop without the overhead of electron
Are there any products that can act as a locator beacon, in perhaps a pager form factor? They listen for a signal from a powerful base station at frequencies low enough to deeply penetrate RF opaque material, and upon command, could key up and transmit at max power while using Time of Flight to triangulate (from a network of base stations)? 900mhz comes to mind, but perhaps there are alternate, more optimal frequency bands for this.

It's a local version of https://www.findmespot.com/
Same. The "runs on mobile" part I assume is Android only? How do I develop something for iOS that uses Bear? Seems like a limitation they wouldn't be able to lift but maybe I'm missing something

Update: from home page

> Built for Mobile
> Embedding a JavaScript runtime on mobile is easy with Bare Kit. Bare Kit allows you to create "worklets" or isolated Bare threads which expose an IPC with bindings for Android and iOS. With React Native, you install `react-native-bare-kit` and create a `Worklet` instance passing the JavaScript you want to run.
From their README [1]:

Bare itself only adds a few missing pieces on top to support a wider ecosystem of modules:

1. A module system supporting both CJS and ESM with bidirectional interoperability between the two.

2. A native addon system supporting both statically and dynamically linked addons.

3. Light-weight thread support with synchronous joins and shared array buffer support.

Everything else if left to userland modules to implement using these primitives, keeping the runtime itself succinct and bare.

[1]: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare#architecture
I struggle to understand why. Is it tariffs or some sort of farmer protectionism lobbying like Switzerland? Switzerland, one of the most expensive countries, has pretty decent grocery price.

Neighbour Sweden has pretty great prices for that latitude.
I think it speaks more to the sloppiness of the action more than its expansiveness.

Pardoning a corporation is silly - corporations aren't subject to jail time and the administration can't really change the regulating laws. So really you are just absolving them of a 1-time fine.

BitMEX being named on the pardon was probably more of an oversight by a pardon-happy administration than it was a calculated legal decision.
Also of potential interest is Kempe's Universailty Theroem which states you can draw any (polynomial) shape with a set of mechanical linkages. Like one that will sign your name.

https://academic.oup.com/plms/article/s1-7/1/213/1570315?log...

http://www.koutschan.de/data/link/
I agree. But unless the incentives are changed, the US will continue to deindustrialize. Many here constantly bemoan the financialization of American companies. But that’s all that’s left after gutting the industrial capacity.

Think not for one moment that Apple et al can rest on their laurels “designed in California”. China is coming for the value chain lunch.
>Just about any undergraduate textbook will discuss tariffs and why they are nearly universal regarded as poor policy.

I think its poor because people see tariffs not immediately derided and they swoop in to denigrate them. Please re-read my entire comment.
It is surprisingly profitable, given that those violins are cheap and many people forget to return it in a timely fashion.
Thanks! I totally forgot about case-sensitivity of Democrats, and sure, I meant the big D.
"nearly every problem these days is a synchronisation problem"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43434239
In Alien Enemies Case, Many with Open Asylum Claims Allegedly Removed
Citation?

It sounds like this debunked claim: https://www.factcheck.org/2025/04/trumps-misleading-claim-on...
Air there any air filtration systems that use water (maybe by bubbling air through water or a fine mist) to remove particulates? Like a canister vacuum cleaner, I'd love to be able to see the dirt/dust/particulates/gunk that is being removed from the air.
I also consider myself largely self-taught in the subjects I genuinely enjoy and work with today - despite my academic degrees. Looking back on my academic years, I realize I “vibeschooled” quite a bit (or the pre-AI equivalent of it)—mostly because I was studying things I didn’t care about, with my main motivation being just to pass. The point I was tying to make on the post is that “vibelearning” in the same way as “vibecoding” (where code is the actual output) is inherently contradictory if it doesn’t result in actual, retained knowledge. When you vibelearn the wrong way, it’s easy to confuse the appearance of learning with actual knowledge retention.
Great point about "going back and forth" under a teacher guidance. I haven't thought about this before, but I'm sure this is a great way of reinforcing learning and broadening perspectives. It's another behavioral dynamic that's hard to replicate through tech alone.
As he's an officer of a public company, isn't this kind of wildly inaccurate prediction covered by some kind of law?
Just pick up a manufacturing process and tooling and move it to another country? To sell $35USD violin shoulder rests to a niche market? I just can't think of a polite way to ask how hard you thought about this before posting.
Yes, and those new factories can employ some of the people unemployed from more valuable industries as a result of the retaliatory tariffs, but the net result of broad tariffs is to constrict both the global and domestic production possibilities curve and the aggregate value created, both globally and locally.
I believe this story is supposed to bring a more human/relatable element to the impacts of the tariffs and trade war, using a unique family-owned business that happens to make a violin widget.

Focusing on cheaper Chinese competitors and how student violinists might approach a cost/benefit analysis for the widget seems to miss the spirit of the article (at least, as I understood it).
Inspired by yesterday's post "Apps lighter than a React button"[1] to show that you can render a React/ShadCN button and strip the JS when it isn't required.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43543241
There is nothing stopping node from running on mobile and IIRC quite a few apps embed it as a part of electron or similar frameworks.

If i understand correctly bare can instead use much smaller engines like quickjs (and maybe libjs), but I'm not sure how the stdlib situation is for those.
> explain bundling an entire terminal emulator for something this simple.

- The app takes 40MB disk space, and around 80MB RAM. So quite light.

- Ghostty is fast, and is needed to render the search result list quickly. It is much lighter than a whole browser engine (Electron apps).

- I wanted a single "drag and drop" install method for all skill levels.

- The app needs its own windows and bundle ID so that the global keyboard shortcut can focus the Hot Notes window without interacting with your other terminal windows.

> Not sure that bundling their licenses in a file within Contents/Resources/ is sufficient

You can also view the MIT and other licenses in the About menu.
I think he's banking on not being out of office in 4 years.

Also I don't think he's making the labour market worse, haven't deportations been roughly at the same level as past administrations when we actually drill down into the numbers?

What he is doing differently is targeting protestors of U.S. foreign (and probably soon domestic) policy with his deportations, which is simply abhorrent, not to mention possibly illegal.

But it remains to be seen if these measures will actually harm the economy, or (by suppressing criticism) actually strengthen his administration. It's a move out of the fascist playbook, and fascist economics aren't necessarily bad for the economy (except when they're overthrown or defeated).

I highly doubt we'll see the U.S. defeated in conventional warfare any time soon, so if he manages to extend his seat as fuhrer, I think his deposal will only be possible internally.
I think white ppl (i’m one of them) should get over themselves. We’ve been the bad guys of history and we need to face it and correct course. It’s not written in our fate, it’s in settler colonial ideology and capitalism. We can adopt a new outlook in solidarity with our brothers and sisters and the world and make a fairer more decent world. Being uncomfortable is ok
> Are you against all VC investment in startups ?

No.

Nor am I against angel investing. Except that I (personally) would never do it.
I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data
Sourcegit: Windows/macOS/Linux GUI Client for Git Users
There's a lot of panic and overlap in the space; a way to coordinate these efforts would be helpful.

Internet Archive et al. made noise and promises but told volunteers to stop because they couldn't actually handle the ingest.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/1jbgycm/us_gov...

These folks made a notable effort.

https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03-25-govarchive-us-and-mi...
It's not so surprising to me. It's like how Markov chains get better at passing for human the more N-grams they memorize. larger models will continue getting marginally better at predicting the distribution (human language.) but that doesn't translate into improved intelligence.
Radiolab did an amazing episode on food freshness. They talk about plastic produce packaging, which is a bit of a modern marvel.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/forever-fresh

Tldr: those plastic bags that salads come in are WAY more interesting than you think. They're selectively permeable membranes that only allow certain gasses in/out.
Someone needs to convince Russ that it would be hilarious to have a full featured web browser in Plan 9.
That’s what excellence looks like. I think chik-fil-a has similar net margins. QSR is more typical for their industry. I think Starbucks is down around 10-12% net margins too.
The point is that all the Chinese room is is a play to absurdity. That because opening the box reveals mechanisms that we would not call understanding does not mean the system, the Chinese room does not understand. The neuron comparison is to demonstrate that very fact. The brain is a Chinese room. It doesn't have to be relegated to a neuron, feel free to open the box and show any of us what happens in there that we would call understanding.

>It does not take place in an LLM.

I don't know what else to tell you but LLMs absolutely model concepts and the physical world, separate from the words that describe them. This has been demonstrated several times.
The link says income (in terms of “real” wages) has not kept up with inflation.

It further says “In times of high inflation…real wages go down, meaning that workers see (and feel) the purchasing power of their income decline.”

Sounds like parent poster and your link are in agreement.
I get this feeling when I visit certain places with beton brute architecture, and I always wonder what kind of suffering did the architect go through to design something like that?
Sure, but that’s what I’m saying: even for the people who buy trucks basically as status symbols, it’s a crappy truck.

There’s just no use case, IMO, where it sells to anyone who isn’t fully into what Elon was or currently is, or who didn’t buy the bullshit (self-driving, etc).

The F150 was the perfect electric truck - it can do real pickup things, but it also hits all the sweet spots for people who want a truck but don’t really need one (and who are willing to spend the premium).
The most toxic and violent of empires carry ahead of them a monstrance of eternal victimhood, justifying all future crimes to come. Everytime i hear the list of past crimes committed (the versailes treaty, the nazi assault on the motherland, the rape of nanjing) i know what bestial warcrimes are to come.
Golang sync.Pool is not a silver bullet
Your linked source is a completely different issue, which is that there are other tariffs designed to artificially limit trade. These are de facto quotas on trade.
"Canadian tariffs" doesn't mean anything please specify on which goods you are referring to. (e.g. lumber, dairy etc...)

The American government is proposing across the board on every import (>=$800 or something) tariffs which has never been implemented by the Canadian government on American goods.

Canada is highly protective of certain industries which are typically small and are engaged in by a large voting population but small portion of the economy (GDP). As a percentage of total goods that American companies might actually want to export to Canada import tariffs are typically quite low.
Amazon Submits Bid for TikTok with US Sale Deadline Nearing
That is very relevant overall and I thank you for bringing it to my attention. But what I'm talking about are people who declare tariffs as an absolute bad and then go on to say enacting them is rational and good. In the beggar thy neighbor policy, the behavior is not considered an absolutely bad thing. This happens with tariffs as well, but people can be even more dogmatic about it.
Could an AI generate art like this and actually utilize perfect circles, to create whatever you ask?
The US is not proposing reciprocal tariffs, it is proposing broad tariffs premised on xenophobic fantasies placing blame for US fentanyl consumption and other US failures on foreign governments.
My employer-controlled browser won't let me access that URL. At first it was cert errors and now it's just blocked.
OK, here's the first thing popping up in court about this. There's a motion to unseal search warrants filed by a security researcher at Stanford that was just filed:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69834044/in-re-motion-t...

This doesn't mean there are search warrants, necessarily, but this case might be the next place something pops up. If anybody wants to follow the case, you can do so with this link. :

https://www.courtlistener.com/alert/docket/new/?pacer_case_i...
Thanks to the devs! I've been using sourcegit for a few months now and it is one of the best OSS cross platform GUI for Git.
Maybe you should work on your reading comprehension.
We're in a Cold War with hot proxies. The original Cold War was also like that.

Now, China, Iran and North Korea are backing Russia without engaging in direct confrontation in Ukraine; the EU, NATO, and maybe still the US are backing Ukraine. If Trump realigns with Putin against Ukraine, then the axis of authoritarian countries will have won a major battle. Trump will ofc lose many of his old-guard GOP supporters if he does that.
Scalable collaborative text editor back end with Rama in 120 LOC
I suppose I would say that you should be aware of what triggers your anxiety, for sure, for the reasons you state. But once you're aware, limit the amount of further analysis you do. I think the law of diminishing returns will kick in pretty quick. Other methods (ACT) will prove much more fruitful once you have a basic awareness. ACT is like building muscle: the more you do the more effective it gets it gets. Analysis is the opposite :-)

Perhaps I over-stated the case in my GP post. I didn't mean to imply that you should be ignorant of the reasons; but they are definitely far less important than the biological/neurological processes that are taking place. At least such is my experience, and such (I believe) the research says.

> Do you really feel it less, or do you accept it like a tinnitus?

Acceptance, over time, causes you to feel it less. Seeing it as something horrible and evil that you must get rid of will cause a vicious spiral, and end up making you more anxious.
Could be this https://chatgpt.com/canvas/shared/67ed7147fc708191be5b81ed4e...

But not that artsy as the OG.
I think you just plateaued which is normal for everyone and just ended up staying there. Most likely a combination of not eating enough and not really pushing to failure to get past it.

If you're repping things with no problem, you're at the your current "optimal" level so yeah, you won't feel like you need to recover.

Like in cardio, I could rip out a half-marathon at a 8:00m pace and feel fine the next day, but try and reach 7:30 and I would be shattered.

At 30, probably better not to try and go too ham, but you have plenty of room to get much stronger. I don't know why other people using gear influenced you. Get fit for yourself, fuck the others.
China is quite reliant on food and energy imports (two critical preconditions for everything) and their consumption rates arent great which is not good for an export based economy.

They could be a beneficiary if global trade doesnt go nuclear. And it probably wont. If it does they are in big trouble.
> Now, China, Iran and North Korea are backing Russia without engaging in direct confrontation in Ukraine;

Not true of North Korea, which is engaging in direct confrontation in Ukraine.
Why don’t the authors release a distro that actually implements their own proposal?

Say, based on (perhaps on pieces of) musl, to be more straightforward to get things going?
Maybe you've discovered that learning pays compound interest.
I still can’t tell if this is an April Fool’s joke or not.
Huh. As an avid home coffee roaster, this is interesting to learn. I find that decaf also really struggles to “crack” when roasting, and emits way less smoke. I guess that’s because there’s perhaps nothing left to really crack anymore?
My understanding is that in principle you could use this to cause onshoring, but you want to target the tariffs narrowly and you need everybody to believe that they're long term.

Trump's plan doesn't do the former and no US President could achieve the second.
How would they get US visas for all of their staff? How much will it cost to move their factory? How will this new factory in the US avoid retaliatory tariffs from the other countries they want to sell into?
I didn't downvote your comment above. But I think you might be interested to watch this one (of course, the video is made by a Canadian YouTuber, but I think he can back up his claims in the video from what I observe): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZvDhayPHxs&t=471s
For me, searching "animals made from circles", your comment put this HN thread as the #1 result while the #2 result was a syndicated article about the linked post. When I get more specific and search "animals drawn only from circles" it turns up the linked post as the first result. But my results may be more specific partly because I don't use ad blockers.
Daniel Dennet had a good few paragraphs about this in Consciousness Explained - the Turing Test is supposed to be challenging/adversarial. The example Dennett gave was telling the AI a joke and then asking it to reflect on and explain the joke and come up with some alternative punchlines (I note that contemporary LLMs would still be good at that, but when the book was written in 1991 that sortof interaction with an AI was unthinkable)
It is strange. That was how I created the original prototype (from the terminal).

But in order to get the "global keyboard shortcut brings the search window forward from any space" behavior, it needs to be its own app. Otherwise, it would interact strangely with your current terminal windows, as they all have the same bundle ID.

I also want it to be easily installable without any dependencies, and usable for all skill levels.
There was some interesting data from China where the north got free coal heating but not the south. There was a difference in life expectancy of 5.5 years. Maybe not the best free gift. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/jul/08/northern...
What does that mean though? How can you possibly reapply a failed transaction later? The database itself can't possibly know how to reconcile that (if it did, it wouldn't have been a failure in the first place). So it has to be done by the application, and that isn't always possible. There is still always the possibility of unavoidable data loss.

"Consistency" is really easy, as it turns out, if you allow yourself to simply drop any inconvenient transactions at some arbitrary point in the future.
Strategies to download data constantly changing via API
I have to download a dataset through one API (WFS provided by geoserver) that tells me the total amount of items and delivers at maximum 1000 items per request and I can sort by one field and offset the requests start index. The layer has ~1Million items. I can use at maximum 5 parallel request before API gets overloaded.

Problem is that items are being added and removed in real time, so at the end of the copy process I already have stale data copied and there are new items to be copied over.
So what would you do, or have done in this situation?
Start a never ending loop to crawl data all day long would be something evil or is it something to be fixed on provider side?

The api url is https://geoserver.car.gov.br/geoserver/sicar/wfs

Source data website: https://consultapublica.car.gov.br/publico/imoveis/index
The industry is littered with software development teams that guessed when they could deliver something and failed.

If business can only depend on "this happens first, then that," well... they're either going to get lucky or fail.

It's just not how software development works. Knowledge work isn't a line in a Toyota factory. Scrum and agile all you want.

As someone else in another thread put it, you don't throw out your work just because it was delivered late. Knowledge is valuable regardless of how long it takes to acquire it.
That’s likely more due to Trump giving Musk the heave: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/02/trump-musk...