skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is highly unlikely my iPhone or Macbook will be checked for newness when on my person, or the iPads in my kids' hands. I'll just time these purchases around trips to Mexico or Europe.

Anything more powerful I will rent or colocate outside of the US in a rack somewhere, moving bits instead of atoms. In short, unless you spend a lot on tech, or tech that isn't portable, workarounds in some cases are available. Certainly, if you’re trapped in the US (or you need goods that are impossible to import on your person), you’re hosed and will be exposed to the tariff costs.

I am allergic to kowtowing to stupidity.
> would this method of enforcing traffic laws really be much worse than having people with guns chasing people down at high speeds?

Yes. People don't scale the way computers do.
An interesting observation is that the tariffs are half of what the other country is charging. Does that mean this was a common strategy across the board? Or was strategic importance of goods considered?
We get a ton of inbound and typically only follow up when there’s a clear match to move forward. That said, I just joined the team and we’re working to improve that! Appreciate you applying and being interested in Fathom!
Absolutely. I was in charge of that at a previous job, and telling Jamf to nuke the device did the job the next time it was turned on.
My Dream Productivity Device Just Got Better [video]
Hmm, sounds about right. I still feel like being around people when they express such radical beliefs reflects poorly on me and hurts me in some unexplainable way.

When challenging such beliefs I find some are hyperbole or a side effect of group-think. Rarely are they genuine, but when they are it's the most worrying. And that's usually when I stop engaging that line of thought.
I wrote so much that I posted as a comment instead... evidently posts have 4000 character limits. :D
Dealing with GitHub Jealously (2021)
Give them a NFT.
Some of the workers won't understand that EU companies also have to pay the same VAT in the EU, so they think it's correct reasoning.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43557524
From an alternate universe:

I apologize for my erratic behavior which has tarnished our brand and created unnecessary turmoil within our organization. Regrettably, we will need to implement a 16% reduction in headcount to address the financial challenges we now face. I have decided to step aside and hand over control to my deputy, who I believe will provide the steady leadership needed to rebuild trust and restore our company's vision.
Judgement is needed but don't we have machines able to make (imperfect) judgements? I can chat with your favorite LLM their opinion on how to respect the spirit of the 3 laws on various situations. Not sure why it cannot work.
And that's why no one can offer this sustainably for $2/month. There is a cost of policing for illegal stuff as well as outright terrible stuff that requires fair bit of effort.
Deploy code to real neurons
I'm cautiously optimistic. It's certainly the most realistic business plan their leadership has put forward in a long time.

And a Mozilla/Thunderbird based email service is well timed. Microsoft's upgrade (read: downgrade) of the newest version of Outlook, making it a glorified web app, has pissed of a lot of users who aren't the sort to browse hacker spaces but do have to use serious email and calendaring every day for their work.

Even if those folks don't see Thunderbird as an alternative to what Outlook/Exchange was, it'll absolutely be an alternative to what Microsoft is turning Outlook into... [1][2][3]

And there's something devilishly funny about the fact that, because DDG uses Bing on the backend, when I search for articles to cite... Everything that comes up trashing the new Outlook is from MSN.

[1]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-new-outlook-fo...

[2]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/windows-11-takes-small-...

[3]: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/even-microsoft-s-a...
Is that what you proposed or what you actually did? I want a story!
VAT is not paid by companies. It is paid by consumers and collected by companies. The US have the sales tax, which is similar.

It absolutely does not make sense to count VAT as a "tariff". I am sure they know it.
Thanks, will definitely check it out
I've been developing a more elaborate variation on the "chat with a pdf" idea for my own use as a researcher. It's mostly designed for a historian's workflow but it works pretty well for science and engineering papers too. Currently Flash 2.0 is the default but you can select other models to use to analyze pdfs and other text through various "lenses" ranging from a simple summary to text highlighting to extracting organized data as a .csv file:

https://source-lens.vercel.app

(Note: this is not at all a production ready app, it's just something I've been making for myself, though I'm also now sharing it with my students to see how they use it. If anyone reads this and is interested in collaborating, let me know).
I had to disable uBlock Origin for that to show up.
Watts Should Replace MAh as Essential Spec for Mobile Devices
Another day, another drop. The new Model Playground is live on our server-less inference service.

We upgraded our model playground UI for developers to test and iterate on models with zero setup. Toggle live updates to see real-time API behavior. Adjust input parameters with full visibility.

> Copy-ready requests in Python, TypeScript, cURL, and Gradio
> Works across text, vision, image, and audio models
> Built on top of the u/vercel AI SDK

Built for devs who want control and transparency.
Telegram certainly has an excellent UI/UX. On the Element side, its quality bar has very much been the target for Element X - and (in my biased opinion) we are getting very close, if not exceeding it in some places. For instance, we just landed The Event Cache in Element X and matrix-rust-sdk (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-rust-sdk/issues/3280 - closed 2 days ago after a year of solid work), which provides seamless offline support and local encrypted-at-rest caching of the messages it's seen, which in turn then makes the native SwiftUI and jetpack-compose UIs go brrrrrr.
It’s not like mom and pop stores are equipped to source things locally any better than Walmart. They would also be relying on the same imports from abroad, but would not have the bargaining power that Walmart has.
Modern Merge+Diff library in TypeScript for deeply nested objects
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A large heavy car going from 0-60 in 4 seconds through a mass of innocent people on Bourbon St is different than words online.
Don't worry, acoording to Trump this will generate billions and billions of dollars and America will be rich as it never has been before. /s
https://engineering.stanford.edu/news/black-drivers-are-less...

> The largest-ever study of alleged racial profiling during traffic stops has found that blacks, who are pulled over more frequently than whites by day, are much less likely to be stopped after sunset, when “a veil of darkness” masks their race.

Very clever methodology on this one: they used Daylight Savings to rule out other variables.

> Next, they took advantage of the fact that, in the months before and after daylight saving time each year, the sky gets a little darker or lighter, day by day. Because they had such a massive database, the researchers were able to find 113,000 traffic stops, from all of the locations in their database, that occurred on those days, before or after clocks sprang forward or fell back, when the sky was growing darker or lighter at around 7 p.m. local time.

> This dataset provided a statistically valid sample with two important variables — the race of the driver being stopped, and the darkness of the sky at around 7 p.m. The analysis left no doubt that the darker it got, the less likely it became that a black driver would be stopped. The reverse was true when the sky was lighter.
Art with restrictions can be more interesting than without.
He's saying that you can substitute any activity that combines danger, skill, and willpower for the mountain. It's literally not about the mountain, it's about how far you push yourself to reach a goal.
I'd want to try AI for coding, but I want to use a software license compatible with all it's training data and weights software licenses and attribute copyright to all the training data's authors, because I don't believe the copywashing from AI companies. No explanation was given for the post's removal.

Go ahead and downvote me, AI company lawyers.
Signal does not come preinstalled on devices for them. He lied about that.
Isn't all that art faded out, though? I wouldn't be surprised if Baroque period art was originally painted with riotous color first and then faded over time to where it now looks merely like an "opinionated use of color".

In a similar vein, all those old grey marble statues the Greeks and Romans made used to be bathed in riotous color before the paint flaked off.
Well, they can start with their code then?

Microsoft Azure AI foundry is clunky, sluggish, breaking changes, and the list goes on.

PromptFlow (which should be their open source AI application framework) last update was more than 3 months ago.
well, i hoped i implied "without major injury". or so i've heard. I don't particularly like the flavor so i have avoided drinking gasoline thus far.
Is that the term for a uniform, unbiased, automated enforcement of law?

Do we prefer that speeding should only be punished when the wrong kind of people do it? Perhaps encourage everyone to make a habit of breaking the law, so that we can use it against them when they say something we don't like?
Turns out, in Firefox mobile, the email submission block isn't present.

I had to open Chrome Mobile to see it.

I hope this, err, 'oversight' isn't indicative of the quality of using Mozilla products.
Make thunderbird supports a local database with 100k emails with proper search ! Make us pay for that optimization if needed. Email is a big tool of communication for all businesses, Pros who make money daily through emails need to handle tons of emails, we’re ready to pay for that
Founder-led recruiting is scaling your taste
I actually do. There is literally zero reason to not do so ... even ignoring security.
For your example, probably. Different people will have different compulsive behaviors. I painted my kitchen cabinets shortly after moving in... I didn't do the best job of it, and I do notice the blemishes, inconsistencies and bleed through as well as a few spots that chipped over the last 6 years or so. Not enough that I stress over it, or even really think about it in general, but recognize.

I don't think I'd ever want something all that monochrome for myself. To me, subdued isn't about monochrome so much as limiting the noise. I don't even mind a sharp contrast, such as a colorful photo/painting. It's what I can only describe as visual noise that gets me. Especially with patterns that aren't really something you'd see in nature.
It was reported that they're getting rid of that as well.
So... after the Mozilla/Firefox EULA and TOS fiasco... there's no way in Hell that I'd touch this.
I think most Americans actually do realize what’s happening—the real issue is that there’s a significant enough minority who don’t, and that’s precisely enough to get someone like Trump elected.
A lot of this stuff is just designers imitating each other. You see this a lot in web design where every website uses similar colors, fonts, visual language etc. I've worked with a few good designers that do actual original design where the point is to be different in a tasteful way. Standing out from the grey masses. If you get a lot of people copying each other, it all averages out to the same bland/boring stuff.

A lot of Hollywood productions these days are sequels, re-runs, and endless variations of successful movies. Down to copying stylistic elements, color grading, etc.

I love Tim Burton and Wes Anderson as directors. Both use vibrant, saturated colors and have a very recognizable style. Tim Burton uses lush, saturated colors to portray suburbs (many of his movies feature lush green lawns white picket fences, etc.).

And Wes Anderson has his famous style of exactly centered subjects,using a lot of surrealist visuals, and elaborate sets and models. I loved the little Roald Dahl thing he did on Netflix two years ago or so (The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar) where all of this was on display. If you haven't seen that, worth a watch.
Show HN: WordPress Gets Plugin Orchestration – At Last
Hi HN,

I’ve been a WordPress hobbyist for years, and like many of you, I’ve used the usual performance tricks: caching, CDNs, image compression, lazy loading, etc. All of that helps—but I always felt something was missing.

Eventually I realized it: WordPress loads all active plugins on every page, whether the page actually needs them or not. I checked some of my own sites and found 20+ plugins running on pages that didn’t use them at all. That felt… absurd.

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This isn’t a cure-all for performance, and we’re not trying to replace caching—just fill in a gap that, for some reason, no one else seemed to address directly. We’re still improving the detection engine and edge-case handling, and I’d love your feedback, bug reports, or ideas for making it better.

Try it here: https://www.pluginsupercharger.com/

Happy to answer questions and dig into the internals if people are curious.

Cheers,
Vigile
Pushing Vietnam into Chinas arms I see. Oh America.
Millions Managed with a Google Sheet
Google Sheets is my primary tool for managing a large index fund portfolio spanning multiple accounts at several institutions.
There’s a 0% chance other countries were charging tariffs across the board on US goods at the rates claimed.

The EU simply doesn’t charge 40% rates on the bulk of US goods. Let alone the random countries that all somehow have 10% tariff rates in the US.
Welcome! Just do your best.
>the tariffs are half of what the other country is charging

And that figure is questionable. Read "including currency manipulation and trade barriers". This is the same presidency that believes the "EU was made to screw USA over", and accused them, Japan and practically every other major economy of manipulating their own currency to harm US. It's improbable that rate has any basis in reality, but surely a detailed breakdown of how they came to that number will be published.. not.
Maybe that applying VAT to imports is done asymmetrically? If, for example, I'm a US citizen importing a european widget, will federal and state sales tax be applied on import?

If they're not, then this might be why they're considered thus.
This is how a lot of people around the world live their lives. Dubai wisely provides this as a service to surrounding countries, to their great enrichment.
It's even wild to consider that countries like Ecuador are taking advantage of the US. An absolutely absurd idea.
For that to be true, how fast must they have been going through the yellow?
It matters because on your own domain you control the MX records (Mail eXchange) servers.

So, if Mozilla Thundermail were to disappear, you can switch servers on the MX record to another email provider with little downtime if done correctly.

You also become the sovereign of your email. Should your Google account get banned (a news like these hit HN once a month), you are left to start over changing email address in every service you use.

Not to mention dead accesses to SSO, because the Google account would be inaccesible by then.
How do you track positions and orderbooks across DeFi, CEXs, and macro sources?
My current setup is getting out of hand—I’m checking Twitter for sentiment, Deribit for options flow, Hyperliquid for perp moves, Binance for spot, YouTube for macro stuff like FOMC updates, and even stock prices of companies holding BTC. It’s a mess to keep up.

How are you all monitoring your positions and orderbooks across DeFi, CEXs, and other sources?
Any tools or workflows that actually help consolidate this info in one place?

what’s working for others.
These tariffs are a disaster, but this is is quite a neoliberal take. So if we aren't the oxen, who is? Vietnam? And that's morally acceptable?
I hate how journals each time buy right wing double speak.
build something popular
then build a second thing that's as popular that's paid

it's pretty hard but that's what we did
If you're at CIA, messaging a colleague at all is absolutely work use.

Sorry but it's clear that in addition to — again — skirting the substance of the conversation, your barometer for just how security-conscious these types of organizations are is completely out of whack.
We have plenty of workers that want that kind of work, we're just deporting a good chunk of them.
The book has you meta-analyze every aspect of your conversation. You're basically treating everyone with kid gloves all the time. Never tell someone they're wrong, go out of your way to praise people, treat everyone like the noble protagonist in their own story.

All of this is fine and dandy, and incredibly practical in practice, but it presupposes that you're talking to someone whose thinking processes are in opposition to any analytical thinking or self-critique.

I'm not saying the book isn't useful, my point is that the type of people for whom the book is effective are not the type of people I want to be close friends with.

To put it another way, my friend's parents are classic NIMBYs. If I want to hold their hand, and walk them to a place where they can see that their actions are harming the next generation, then, yes, Dale Carnegie's prescriptions are very effective. My point is I don't actually want to be close friends with anyone who needs their hand held just to see things from a different person's perspective.

I try to be kind, I try to be honest, I try to be upfront about who I am and what I stand for. I have made lots of close friends just by being willing to be patient with people who have different views from my own, without actually having to pretend I don't have any views at all. My friends are mature enough to understand that we are both smart people, and if I say something that puts them off, then we ought to be able to discuss it and learn from each other.
I don't think this will be required for other servers any time soon, if ever. Clients are going to have to support logging in the oldschool way indefinitely, especially since most Matrix servers are basically unmaintained.
I wonder if the US govt would be willing to go as far as seizing the US operations, which are headquartered in LA.

I take your point that the PRC is threatening ByteDance, but what is to stop them from being menaced over here as well?
Can't speak for op, but for me it's a question of control. If this service ends up closing or otherwise loses me as a customer, I have to update every single contact and account before I can stop using it. That's not practical. If I bring my own domain, I can switch providers much more easily.

Some people might be ok with losing contact with the long tail after an email provider migration, but I'm not one of those people.
The numbers are not accurate.
AgentTrace – Open-Source Tracing and Evaluation for AI Agents by TensorStax
We just open-sourced AgentTrace, a lightweight tracing and evaluation framework for AI agents and LLM workflows. Originally built as an internal tool at TensorStax, it helps you trace function calls, monitor OpenAI API usage, tag sessions, and evaluate model outputs with custom scoring logic.

It runs locally by default (SQLite), comes with a built-in web dashboard, and is easy to plug into async + tool-using workflows.

If you’re building agents or working with LLMs in production, we’d love feedback and contributions.

GitHub: https://github.com/tensorstax/agenttrace
Or - he's critical of SV and large tech companies?
The entire problem is that both tribes think your comment applies to them.

We do not agree on what reality is
One person’s “groupthink and hyper-conformity” is a statistician’s normal distribution.
A lot of people seem to think this is an anomaly, but they thought that about the first Trump term.

Fundamentally Trump is a symptom. When he goes, all the voters that voted for him will still be there, and they’ll still have all the reasons they voted for him.
It makes her ineligible for that election
I wonder why the downvotes. I assume people believe this comment is overly sarcastic... but is it? The absurdity of what the administration is doing automatically makes this comment a legitimate one, and not a troll.
Other guy said it right. These work and are fine but you lose the legacy stuff. If you know your limits and where the eventual system will end up it's great and probably better.

If you are building a expandable long term system and you want all the goodies baked in choose airflow.

Pretty much the same as any architecture choice. Ugly/hard often means control and features, pretty/easy means less of both.

On the surface the differences are not very noticable other than the learning curve of getting started.
> the real story, which is the federal government’s seemingly indiscriminate bombing of Yemeni residences in an attempt to execute a mildly infamous terrorist

also the story about how a natsec reporter just happens to be so intimately in contact with these officials that they accidentally add him to the group chat in the first place. There is no adversarial relationship between journalists and the state department, there never was, no matter who is in the white house. They just parrot whatever the US or allied nations are saying when it comes to foreign policy (that is the illegal invasion and murder of innocent civilians in foreign sovereign nations).

The fact that they used signal and leaked some messages to a propagandist is a distant third, but everyone only cares about that, makes me sick. This is why the US is hated around the world, and nobody gives a shit about Trump outside the western bubble.
Using Firefox mobile too, it's visible. Could be one of your extensions
From dBase III to skid row
Hmm there might be a third rail that I don’t want to touch here. Pardon the phrasing.