skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to take that linked video seriously with the host sequence poorly lit and color graded in that awful blue / orange film cliche.
Had, past tense.
Wallet Infrastructure Provider Privy Raises $15M for Crypto Onboarding Rails
> But what's clear is that failure isn't less likely as the machine gets older, it's more likely.

Is this true? Doesn't most hardware have a dip in failure rate in the middle of its average lifespan?
It is absolutely wild to me that money gained from letting it sit is taxed less than money gained from working your ass off. A crime against the working class.
The USA is not unique but member of a very exclusive club. The other member is the enlightened dictatorship of Eritrea. And, IIRC, Trump promised to abolish this taxation during his campaign. I'm not holding my breath.
Oof. That makes it completely useless for counting calories. It would be especially bad because the labeling for a lot of ready-made products is available from the manufacturer's website so it should be pretty easy to get it right.
The tax increase wouldnt be used to create better jobs, they would be used bolster social welfare and reduce the national debt, at the expense of wealth generation in the upper class.

The primary benefit of the approach is that the pre-tarrif economy is strong, health care, high prices, and very high SFH prices are the primary ways people are hurting. Modest taxes as noted above address 2/3 without upending the economy in the process.

Prices wont come down, but unlike the tarrif plan they also wont go up so... seems like a better option at least to my relatively uninformed brain.
No, avoiding anything potentially negative is not what I'm saying. Your argument (that context always matters) leaves discourse and society highly susceptible to dog-whistles[1], by forcing all good-faith participants to interpret all communication in the most generous way possible. Bad-faith participants, on the other hand, are free to exploit that generosity.

By calling out and avoiding dog-whistles, even including accidental Nazi slogans (once pointed out), we reduce the impact of this attack on good-faith discussion and actual increase the level of openness and being up-front with our opinions.

One key difference between this and virtue signaling or thought policing is that it's the specific wording that is avoided, and not the underlying thoughts or opinions.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)
2 weeks ago, I started to vibecoded the submit discount coupon app, SaveSmart App, that solved my own desire.

Problems:
Most of the submit discount coupon apps don't allow you to submit your affiliate link.

Solutions:
My app allows anyone to submit their discount coupon codes that attach to their affiliate link so they can help shoppers save while they earn through their affiliate.

Benefits:
Discount Coupon submission is a great SEO strategy to promote your products and store. Coupon submission will create more exposure for your online store, services, and products. It is also a fantastic way of getting more niche-specific results from the coupon websites on Google SERPs.
Earn through their affiliate.

Background:
I am a MERN developer but most of my projects are frontend.
The first AI tool that I used was GitHub Copilot. I discovered other AI tools that leverage the process from project setup, UI build, page design, database integration, bug fixed, etc.

AI Tools:
Bolt and Windsurf

Tech Stacks:
Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, and Supabase
I'd love any feedback you have!
Toontown: Corporate Clash | Volunteer/unpaid position | Remote only (worldwide) | All experience level welcome

We are Toontown: Corporate Clash, an entirely not-for-profit MMORPG that is a fan reimagination of Disney's defunct MMORPG, Toontown Online. Besides continuing the legacy of Toontown Online and bringing the MMO into the 21st Century, we also use our original IP to [raise funds for charities](https://corporateclash.net/news/article/155) - we have raised over $54K for children's health and LGBTQ+ charities.

We are on the lookout for a broad range of talents, from Tech to Art to Community Management! Everybody on the team is a volunteer - there is no salary, we do not solicit donations and all expenses are funded by our staff. We pride ourselves as being a training ground for up-and-coming talent to gain experience working on a real product in a 100+ strong team; some of our volunteers have used their experience with us to land jobs in and out of the industry.

We have lots of interesting tech problems that arises from building on top of a 20+ year old codebase (yes, Toontown development started out on Python 2.0!). We are especially interested in people with an interest in distributed systems, system administration, game physics and automation pipelines!

Our Tech Stack is varied: Python for the game, C++ for distributed networking services, JavaScript / TypeScript and some PHP for web. We're working on modernizing our tech stack to migrate away from PHP, and looking to introduce Rust (for Tauri / core networking) into our stack.

You can see all of our positions and how to apply here (when emailing us, feel free to say HN): https://corporateclash.net/help/apply

How much you want to contribute is up to you; our volunteers typically contribute 5-10 hours a week.

NOTE: You can ignore the 3-month in-game activity requirement, it's being revised soon!
>>Why don't they just make the special interests pay their own multi-trillion dollar war bills instead of sabotaging US universities with surprise taxes?

>Either compare ideal tax structures with “no loopholes” (none of these exist in the real world) or compare actually-existing tax structures.

Hence I cannot compare your suggestion with the current system as it is apple to oranges because loopholes would exist.

My thesis is a flat tax would help to minimize the very loopholes you damn. The larger the tax code and the more it panders to particular interest, generally the more opportunity for 'loopholes.'
DARPA eyes companies targeting industrially useful quantum computers
My 6th gen carbon almost never gets hot as well. Maybe the gen you have has a CPU with a higher TDP? They got better again recently.
Emissions from shipping are about 3-5% of global greenhouse gases, and my understanding is that also includes all domestic shipping.
Emissions from personal vehicles (not including freight trucks) is at something like 10%.

I don't have specific numbers for America on hand, but I'd be very surprised if Trump's administration broke even, let alone cause an overall reduction.
The fact that very bad things happened to the Disappeared of Argentina makes me more concerned about the Disappeared of US, not less.
The same is illegal for Apple, to sell phones and be a middleman for every app purchase. I hope the EU will do something about it.
So you don't think employers will raise wages as the cost of food increases?
Since people won't actually have more money to spend, you would expect it to lower the prices of other things like housing or travel. So there should be a negligible impact on inflation depending on the weighting.
I love my x2100. It is the machine I keep coming back to, and find more reliable and enjoyable than any other I've owned (including ones that outperform it on linux, like my oled ryzen-based t14s).

I've been trying to rationalise why that's the case for years - whether it's the keyboard, the trackpoint, its ability to survive my casual brutality, some nostalgic emotional/romantic aspect, etc., but recently I've kinda Stopped Worrying and just unapologetically embraced it. I've been wandering around kubecon with it for the last couple of days and getting 9-10 hours per battery and it hasn't skipped a beat.

For anyone interested, there's a new project in town, the X210Ai [1]. I can't vouch for anything yet as I've not pulled the trigger myself, but I've been in touch with the vendor via whatsapp for the last couple of months, and they're legit enthusiasts.

[0]: https://postimg.cc/Ty7PyKRx
[1]: https://www.tpart.net/about-x210ai/
Sowell would be against tariffs, he’s a free market fundamentalist.

As usual, libertarianism is used as a justification for corporate fascism, mercantilism, taxes on the poor… basically the Republican agenda. Funny how that works.
A couple of comments. What’s not that interesting here is that adding search to an LLM increases accuracy — this is known, and largely implemented via RAG or other search pipelines which then stuff information into the context.

What might be interesting here is that they are thinking about taxonomic tool use-cases, and exploring training and therefore optimizing the utilization of them.

This to me is a proof of concept — an interesting one, but just a proof of concept. You can see from their example search that the model over-relied on search; it didn’t need to re-search three times to get the answer.

A next step that I think would be useful would be updating the reward function to penalize search; pressing the model to use search when it needs to and not before. This to me is a likely framework going forward where MCP tool costing matters, and would be really useful to have in the next gen of tool calling LLMs.

In the case of search we’d hopefully get a really useful signal and outcome for times the model is unsure — it would call a friend, and get good info! And for times it’s sure, we’d have taught it not to waste reward on that.
It always had aggressive fans but yes I do plan to open it up for cleanup (I do clean the fan grills with a soft brush regularly).
First Look at the Modern Attr()
> Good faith negotiations with our allies and trading partners that creates a balance of trade and reduces wealth inequality in the west.

We can look at a 50+ year history of every major U.S. trade partner increasing their protectionist policies, largely targeting the U.S., while the U.S. allowed trade deficits to balloon out of control. I don't see evidence that this "good faith" approach you speak of has any viability at all. The global economy can't say with a straight face that it has been a fair trade partner with the United States. For the past 50+ years the U.S. market has been open for business for all global producers, but the same has been far from true for pretty much every major U.S. trade partner. You can't even operate a company in China without 50% Chinese ownership, for example. The global stance on trade has all but made this an inevitable outcome.
Even the Americans, the State Department has (had?) people whose job is to help with nation building and they'd learned that if you copy-paste the US model you're basically just setting up a dictatorship in advance, the "President" will seize power, whoops.

It's impressive they got to forty odd Presidents with only one civil war so far, but it's just luck and it didn't last.
A skeptic's guide to quitting your smartphone with a Light Phone
As the gender gap in voting patterns widens, denying rights to women goes from not only being an ideological project of the right but a political project as well. "We will win more elections if women have less social power" is not a good situation to be in.
Also you were outvoted because the Dems didn't have a reasonable alternative. Mrs Harris was incompetent. She was a poor public speaker, which further made her look incompetent given her previous role as a prosecutor. Further, the Dems didn't offer her as part of an open primary. They forced her on everyone.

The US presently suffers from future shock and stilted political process. We need more parties and better voting options both in the HR department and the mechanical process like ranked voting.

Since both parties benefit from the status quo, we shall see no change.
> certain injustices are load-bearing

This is an excellent way of explaining why some injustices are ignored and others decried. Thank you
I envisioned many lines of inquiry from HN but the idea that a compressed TSV of nutritional data is not a "dataset" (definition: a collection of related sets of information that is composed of separate elements but can be manipulated as a unit by a computer) was unexpected.
Excellent, Thankyou!
- should private citizens be able to own their own property? Or should the government jump in an take what they think is "fair" so they can redistribute it to others?
Once I got over my fear of clicking their links, which I assumed would open a new page (but instead just expanded a pane in-line), I really enjoyed it. I’m very wary of opening new pages. (Also, I first tried to hold-click on the link to open in new tab, but it just behaved like regular text and highlighted, which led to a momentary confusion. I would have preferred a more obvious indication of what would happen when clicking, like a down chevron or something.)
It’s conman vs conman, Karl is a liar who tried to profit off of a suicide. Ironically, as bad of a person Billy is, Karl is actually far worse, given both his pickup artist past and this lawsuit.
ok back up - you claimed we used fake data. obviously you are referring to "John bought X, Y mins ago" notifications. the actual product.

for our homepage counter, this is not customers. this is notification count. with thousands of connected websites, each showing multiple notifications per page load, we quick racked up billions of notifications shown.

running `select count(*) from events` on every landing page load is untenable. instead, every N period we'd check on our avg daily notification count, then update the landing page JS to give users a sense of scale. this number was perpetually under-reporting our actual metrics.

for metrics that actually matter, like signups, customers etc, we created an Open API and read from those metrics on various landing pages:
https://fomo.com/open
https://docs.fomo.com/reference/fomo-open

and for the core product notifications, "John bought X, Y mins ago" we only allowed data from native integrations. if we saw someone pinging webhooks to us with fake data, we deleted their account. if someone asked for a CSV upload feature, we deleted their account. i cannot say the same for our competitors, who welcomed these use cases with open arms.

bottom line - you're a hater. you don't like Fomo (fine), so you're trying to sabotage the sale of another, completely unrelated product. think about where this bitterness comes from and do better next time.
Ask HN: Which, if any, AIs can code a correct solution to this puzzle?
You are given an array of n x n integers.

The goal is to end up with an array in which all entries are equal.

Four kinds of moves are allowed:

(1) rotate a row

(2) rotate a column

(3) add 1 to all entries in a row

(4) add 1 to all entries in a column

Show the goal is achievable if and only if the sum of the numbers
in the initial configuration is congruent to 0 mod n.

Also write a python program to solve the puzzle whenever it is possible to do so.
Vikings are a very good archer civ, full tree and the free handcart is a top-tier eco-boost.
The system wasn't named “capitalism” because it systematically favors the working class, I mean, what do you expect?
Eventually, you are no longer producing goods domestically and they can raise prices or deny your ability to purchase.
Cool I like the exercise in futility :)
RTABench: A Benchmark for Real Time Analytics
I don't think broader tax increases are off the table either, but we haven't even attempted to simply close up the loopholes used by corporations and the ultra wealthy and raise taxes in kind. Once that happens, I think its fair to reassess what to do with any lingering problems of raising revenue.
> overeducated c-suite

Arguably the modern MBA has gotten so insular, with many graduating with an MBA having only the barest modicum of humanities courses and the barest foot out of the door of a business college, that despite supposedly representing a higher University degree it seems increasingly fair to call it "undereducated". MBA programs got too deep into the business of selling as many MBAs as they could as quickly as they could they forgot to check their own curriculum for things like "perverse incentives" and "regulatory capture" and "tribalism".
American companies pay VAT in Europe. European companies pay VAT in Europe.

American companies do not pay VAT in in the US. European companies do not pay VAT in the US.

American companies pay sales tax in the US. European companies pay sales tax in the US.
> My favorite everyday olive oil comes from Tunisia. They now have a 38% tariff on them.

"Silver lining:" there's a good chance that oil was either rancid or doesn't pass basic quality tests for the "extra-virgin" part:

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/imported-olive-oil-quality-unre...

The COOC web site lists California olive oils that they've certified. Last time I checked California Gold Olive Oil was certified, and they even sell it in half and full gallons. That's just one I've tried and liked-- there are a bunch of others listed on the COOC web site. (Edit: there are probably certification trade associations for other countries/regions, COOC is just the one I'm familiar with.)
The clothes you like still exist. Anyone who can't see my new clothes is a dullard.

- the Emperor
Krugman's response:

> First, look at the whole piece. It was a thing for the Times magazine's 100th anniversary, written as if by someone looking back from 2098, so the point was to be fun and provocative, not to engage in careful forecasting; I mean, there are lines in there about St. Petersburg having more skyscrapers than New York, which was not a prediction, just a thought-provoker.

> But the main point is that I don't claim any special expertise in technology -- I almost never make technological forecasts, and the only reason there was stuff like that in the 98 piece was because the assignment required that I do that sort of thing. The issues about Bitcoin, however, are not technological! Everyone agrees that it's technically very sweet. But does it work as money? That's a very different kind of question.

https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-krugman-responds-to-int...
Many Spanish and Italian oil blends do indeed use (unprocessed) olive oil from Tunisia. This is a problem for Tunisia because we’re missing out on the meat of the profit margin generated by the final bottled product.

We have had recent successes with developing & selling our own bottled products directly - Terra Delyssa is one good example that has gained traction in the US market.
He was "just an adviser" before and yet clearly was not.

So what does that mean?

At some point with all the lies and distortions nothing is believable ...
The rudest and most aggressive LLM I've used is Deepseek. Most LLMs have trained-in positivity bias but I can prompt Deepseek to tell me my code is shit very easily.
You do not have to look very far to find prominent voices on the right who are apologetically anti-democracy.
Why is it not "both-sidesable"?
Forgot about that one, yup.
I worked for a government contractor and this was common guidance over a decade ago if you are in any sensitive role

It is not hard to imagine a scenario where a foreign government might surreptitiously plant a rootkit on a lowly IT workers device as they transit customs, as a means to pivot for corporate or other espionage

It is much more common to phish the administrative staff for a firm to get network access but you would have to be a fool to ignore the vector of customs simply using direct physical access for a much more effective hack
Free all the trade (no tariffs by anyone) and let the chips fall where they may.
> I wouldn't be surprised if Sony's next console has a cheap card reader to allow physical copies with a similar system.

Modern games often require a day one patch. Functionally it's not much different; you need to download a bunch of stuff to play the game on the disc. There have been a few instances where the publisher didn't even ship anything playable on the disc.
To piggyback, there was a thread a while back about a python library that would generate QR code images.

Not just the thing where the QR code is blown up so large you can insert a corporate logo, but you'd feed it a source image and it would make the image itself into a QR code.

I thought I'd bookmarked it but cannot find it and searching around has only found me the type of QR code generator I detailed earlier in the post, which doesn't look like an actual raster image.

(Apparently it dealt better with logos and shapes than full on photos of people but was capable)
When I read manual pages and see the so called "harmful" words, I am not impacted by them negatively because I am aware of the context. Why is this should not be taught? I understand what you are trying to say, but you even said it yourself, "accidental", so there was no intent either to begin with, let alone context in which it is embedded.

> thought policing is that it's the specific wording that is avoided, and not the underlying thoughts or opinions.

So we should avoid the wording / phrasing such as "killing children" in IT? It refers to well-known concepts, within a specific context. It is bad outside of IT, for sure, but not inside IT, it refers to ending processes (as you probably already know)
Micro USB is the bane of my existence
Because people largely believe what they want to believe, and people are flawed, especially politicians. Is that sufficient or do I need to go into detail?

Trump didn’t invent tariffs nor did he invent being an idiotic leader enacting policies that hurt his country.
It's true that free trade is hugely beneficial to the US economy as a whole, particularly with the USD being the reserve currency.

The flow of goods is balanced by a flow of US dollars to other countries, which are ultimately cycled back into the US financial system - enabling budget deficits and an abundance of capital to invest in high growth industries.

The flip side of this is that it also drives inequality - the upside of this system is felt by the entrepreneurs, investors and high-skill employees in tech and finance, while the downside is concentrated with low-skill workers whose jobs are offshored to lower wage countries.

The obvious solution is not to hurt the economy as a whole, but rather for the government to lower the cost of high-quality education, build out social systems, and invest into onshoring select strategic industries by raising taxes at the high end.

As such, this administration's policies are foolish, but many on this very site would need to give up a little bit of their privilege to reduce the pain felt by many of their fellow citizens.

That is something that in the current American political climate seems a nearly impossible sell.
> The main source of "money printing" is banks making loan

Sounds like a similar mechanism as the UK. I'm not aware if the system is exactly the same or not.

It was apparently so poorly understood in the UK that the bank of England wrote a paper (Money creation the Modern Economy https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...) in 2014 to clarify where new money comes from. There's a good summary here https://positivemoney.org/uk-global/archive/proof-that-banks....

It's not something I was aware of until recently, but I was surprised that it was not more under the control of the government and central bank (in the UK, anyway, if it turns out it's different in the US).
A Bigger Database
I don't understand the nostalgia for manufacturing jobs.
My mom worked in a factory putting pickles into glass bottles. It was not her dream job. I can still remember how she smelled after a shift.
But it was the only employment she could find in that village.

Things got better when we moved after a few years and she shifted into a healthcare job. White collar if you will.
In U.S., Inability to Pay for Care, Medicine Hits New High
Imagine how much more efficient government would be if we just generate all the data with LLMs.