skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very true. A couple years ago I designed a custom card game and had it manufactured in China, just a small run. It was already hard to make any profit on a small indie item like that. A bigger tarrif would have priced me out completely when the consumer looks at the price of Uno on the shelf that MB can make for $1/deck and I can't get anywhere near that.
Even AI mostly agrees with you! ChatGPT suggests:

Language, Writing, and the Scientific Method.
These people will then submit PRs with broken code they don't understand, as I have witnessed. You don't know anything about a candidate if you merely witness them repeating what the AI said.
> AMSL is European

At least we Europeans have the tools to build chips ... unfortunately we don't use those tools.

Why is that? Because no EU country has a large enough userbase? Or is because regulation to protect our "environment"? Or did someone forget to click "yes accept all cookies" GDPR banner?

> Europe is very strong in many industries,

Regulations being an up & coming one.
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Gotta love these two sentences in that article:

(when describing the model)
Let ε<0 represent the elasticity of imports with respect to import prices...

(when implementing the model)
The price elasticity of import demand, ε, was set at 4.

4 is less than 0, right? Right?!?
My only fear with Swift is Apple. The language itself seems largely fine, very interesting even, which makes me feel deeply conflicted.

While Apple has been big on pushing multi-platform Swift right now and distancing itself a bit from the Swift branding in some ways (e.g. it having its own GitHub organization) they've historically had quite an ebb and flow to this behavior. If their priorities changed, what happens to the non-Apple projects that adopted Swift? It would be better if there were multiple parties that had stake and some control in the future of Swift.

I have similar worries with Microsoft and .NET, although it's a bit different owing to the fact that Microsoft is quite a different company with different problems.

It's actually kind of bizarre that it never really felt like Google was a problem for Go, but I guess that's because unlike Apple Swift and Microsoft .NET, Go mostly targets and is almost entirely developed on platforms that Google has little control over. (Though that doesn't mean that their presence is entirely unnoticed, but even stuff like the module proxy has been more well-received than expected. It's an odd area where Google has managed to maintain some goodwill, though it could evaporate over night.)
Good article.

Mastodon and other ActivityPub apps support alt text too.

I also see a lot of people who won’t share a post by someone else if it doesn’t have alt text so it’s also just a good idea if you want more people to see your posts.
Very interesting article and process.

> "A huge part of the joy came from working in Ableton Live 12, which now feels like an extension of how I think" I feel the same way, but for Reaper

Seeing the author mentions that decomposition of the snare is the hardest, and that’s what I was trying to solve in https://github.com/chaosprint/RaveForce (just an idea).

Multimodality AI is much more powerful now. I wonder how helpful it would be for music and art education if AI could help us deconstruct some songs.

When I was teaching kids with Glicol, I often used KraftWerk’s Das Model as an example:

https://glicol.org/demo#themodel

This rough midi version is very different from the original, but the kids had a lot of fun messing around with it.
Show HN: LZ Desktop – Organize your files, links, documents
Hey HN

I’ve been working on this app since November 2023. It’s still in Beta. Basically it serves as a desktop. You keep it running at all times an it’s always fullscreen.

You can drag and drop files on it, and it will create file shortcuts. You can draw lines and arrows. You can add images and web-links, create text documents.

The idea is to organise your content spatially.
Not sure about that. Apple is famously hostile to the idea of independent upgrades and repairs (to the point they employ DRM in the inter-component communication), but the example of the Framework laptops proves you can have modular, performant and compact laptop.
Or ThinkPad devices - epitome of serviceability.
Not that I'm a huge fan of Framework but I think that can work.
You've touched on something that's central to AirDel's design philosophy. While hashtags and semantic tagging systems like the UN SDG vocabulary provide excellent standardization for categorizing problems, they primarily solve the information organization challenge rather than the resource coordination challenge.

AirDel is built on the observation that the gap isn't in labeling missions - it's in connecting the labeled missions with the actual resources needed to accomplish them. Even perfectly categorized goals often stall because:

1. The right resources aren't connected to the right needs in real-time
2. Communication happens in silos separate from resource coordination
3. Verification and trust mechanisms are missing from hashtag-based discovery

What differentiates us from LinkedIn or hashtag systems is that we've built resource matching directly into the conversation flow. When someone posts a need in AirDel, our system doesn't just categorize it - it actively identifies who in the network has the resources, expertise, or connections to help, then facilitates the actual coordination.

I'm actually very interested in the AT protocol for future interoperability! Our current focus is on perfecting the resource coordination mechanisms, but creating bridges to existing semantic standards (including the UN SDG vocabulary) is definitely on our roadmap.

Regarding your question about existing solutions - we found that while platforms like LinkedIn excel at professional networking, and hashtag systems excel at categorization, neither provides the action-oriented infrastructure needed for time-sensitive resource coordination.

Would love to discuss this further - especially your thoughts on how we might incorporate some of these semantic standards while maintaining our focus on practical resource matching.
I mean, yes, that sort of setup is less fragile than someone's clobbered-together homebrewed site, but it still requires a dev to maintain. What happens to your client's site if you or they can't maintain the dev-client relationship anymore, for any reason? They'd have to find another dev willing to take over that setup from you.

That sort of thing sounds great for an agency managing multiple sites running off the same template and framework, but for freelancers, it's still too bespoke to be easily portable between clients, hosts, and other freelancers. If someone came to me with a stack like that (and they have), I'd offer to help them migrate it to a more standard setup like Wordpress or Wix for a one-time cost, after which they would pay the vendor directly. But otherwise I wouldn't want to be responsible for maintaining it, especially for just one or two clients.

It's just way too much setup and maintenance. The AWS setup time would itself cost (in dev hours) a month or two's worth of hosting, and Hugo updates or DecapCMS changes would take even more time. Even if the costs to me were $6 a year, the dev hours required to keep a site like that going would far surpass what it would cost them to just pay $20 a month for a vendor-hosted + managed system.

It also introduces multiple points of failure, and if I were hit by a bus or something went wrong while I was on vacation, they'd have no idea if they need to talk to their web host, their CDN, AWS, DecapCMS, Github, or me... they probably don't need to talk to me at all (nothing I can do about any of those services if they have an outage), but they will have no support outside of me.

I don't have anything against self-hosted setups like that for the right audience — I have many such ones myself — but I think they're way more trouble than they're worth for clients who aren't already web-savvy.

I work for another headless CMS (not Decap) and I frequently have to try to help customers who inherited an old site from another agency who didn't properly explain what a headless system is, and they get really frustrated because they end up having to pay a few hundred dollars to a third-party dev just to add a new article category or whatever. It's the kind of thing that would take them ten minutes on Wix/Squarespace/Wordpress, but requires a dev for a stack like you're recommending, and it'd take anywhere from a few minutes (if it's a common stack, like Next/Astro + Vercel) to several hours/days (anything more than 2-3 years old, especially). That will far, far exceed the time and money it takes to host for several years on any of the standard consumer platforms.

For some of these sites, even the original developer who first made them for the first owner didn't want to take them on again — they knew how much work it would be to update them to a usable state again (but that's usually more Gatsby than Hugo).

I'd be very, very wary of recommending such a stack to anyone who is not working with an agency or is already themselves a developer.
Or ask your local print shop to make a print.
> would be very shocked if base model iPhones, lower specced Pro models, and the 16e would see a price increase beyond 15%

I’ll also be shocked if they take much margin hit there. All of the iPhone’s competitors are also getting tariffed, after all. And the tariffs don’t bridge the labour-cost difference, so it’s not like launching domestic production would make sense even if you could trust that these policies will stick.
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Do we think this is similar to the approach used by Corellium?
Its the nearest neighbor to everyone's best interest and most interpretations are preservationist.
But not anywhere near what we have in terms of military power and spending.

Also, economic decline is a much greater threat to the US than military decline. China is eager to dethrone us economically; an invasion of the US would be extremely costly and highly unlikely even if the US' military were significantly smaller.
Does rent control work for new tenants? It doesn't in NYC. It only works for long term tenants.
This has been 2 years away for 40 years. It’s never happening.
Currently, Trump’s tariffs have kinda broken the stock markets, and caused some difficult-to-measure economic damage (investments will have been delayed or cancelled, that sort of thing). If, tomorrow, Trump chokes on a well-done steak, or Congress puts him back in his box (remember, his ability to do _anything_ with tariffs is entirely within the gift of Congress), or otherwise the tariffs go away, then the markets will pretty much spring back, and the economic hit will be small enough that it’s hard to measure.

While estimates of the damage done by Brexit are of course very politically sensitive, nearly everyone agrees that some substantial damage has been done, particularly to trade and jobs (one estimate has the UK with _over 2 million_ fewer jobs today than it would otherwise have, Goldman Sachs says that the UK economy is 5% smaller than it ‘should’ be, etc etc)
Minimise entropy, maximise knowledge, kinship, time.
Listening to the break down of the tracks, they barely takes any music playing ability so I imagine they could have easily made them from scratch instead of using samples.
It creates puzzles with multiple possible solutions:

5 6 3 _

4 _ _ _

6 7 4 _

_ 4 _ _

The bottom right corner can be in the loop, or out of the loop, and both solutions are valid.
Thank you. I'm in the UK and I've never heard this before.
I missed the boat on that too. I'm your age but I know that it's possible to meet people, it just takes some real effort.

I made a new friend at a hackathon recently. Since you're here on hacker news you could try attending events such as programming meetups, hackathons, tech workshops, conventions etc. It's easier to bond when there are mutual interests.

Otherwise try joining some sports related club, e.g. a local gymnastics or football club or even just a jogging group.

It is different but there are people who want to hang out, even if in the context of doing some other activity.
The problem is in the very act of creating a false dichotomy of "vibe coder" vs "crafstman": the two extremes exist only in marketing/stupid blogger mentality.

The future programmer will have to use both until true AGI is created.

You cannot prompt yourself out of difficult scenarious without understanding the underlying mechanisms of the problem/solution.

The trivial prompting as in "it's not working for test X, fix it, it should be Y" work right now well only in more simplistic domains and cherry picked example.

This immediately becomes obvious in many gamedev scenarious where AI totaly fails and starts to produce garbage for even trivial things such as not being able to fix "Mouse Y should pitch camera up, not roll it".

I personally did found modern AI useful for some very obscure API cases for which there aren't many docs online. It didn't give me the correct solution but merely creating non-working boiler-plate was enough to give me the insight for how to fill in the blanks.
Note that these tariffs largely don’t take effect til the 9th. That’s when we start seeing what the second-order effects are.
The power source is the fire underneath the shell.
you forgot to calculate how much of cost of nuclear energy(sic) is going towards removing all CO2, NOx it is generating....

so if you are calculating efficiency of one power plant calculate this into price of another power plant too.

we can build utility PV + 12 hour battery with LCOE lower than nuclear... PV + battery price is for already deployed system. nuclear price is prediction of price of new plant...

Nuclear is dead in the water. And it is not pacific ocean water.
This is fascinating, useful, and slightly terrifying. I definitely want to try sending a screenshot or console logs on command but I'd want to be the one deciding exactly when that happens and in the context of what other prompt. I often say things like, "You can see how..." and I want to be sure that goes with only the screenshot(s) I want.

Because Cursor goes off the rails easily with even a medium sized amount of context, I'm a little leery of letting it include ongoing screenshots or console logs during a thread.
> I've seen so many posts of $.30 per kwh or even more, as high as $.36.

Iirc, my “off-peak ev rate” is $0.31 with PG&E. Chargers are at $0.35 for cheap ones, and $0.45-$0.55 is fairly typical.

Note that when I got my car in 2021, off-peak rate was $0.16 or $0.18 (which is still expensive, imho).

The power companies were put in an odd spot when every new house in CA was required to have solar. The utilities are essentially guaranteed profits, so the cost of the network is essentially being distributed over fewer customers (the non-solar ones), so prices have gone up a lot.

I will add, gas is about $2 a gallon more (or more) than most other states.
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Every time I read about fact-checking in journalism, I feel like there's a huge gap that nobody really talks about.

It's very easy to present a story that is 100% factually accurate, but that implies causal links or other claims that are not. Our brains love hasty generalizations, and media outlets rely on that to present near-100% truthful facts to their viewers, such that they jump to completely opposite generalizations. We're further primed for this with thought-terminating cliches like "trust the data" and "look at the facts". Media profits enormously from the subsequent outrage.

The more folks talk about "fact checking" without acknowledging the danger of cherry-picking and Texas sharpshooters and confounding variables, like in this article, the less I trust "fact checking" as a useful mechanism for forming opinions from their reported facts. Fact-checking is definitely a requirement, but still insufficient.

This is also exacerbated by narratives like those presented by TAL that introduce enormous complexity to the task, due to the emotional context.
Oh wow! I’ve noticed a definitely cycle to my creativity as well definitely correlated with stress. I’ve never thought about hormonal changes. I’ve recently started taking lots vitamins and keeping track of my motivation via a spreadsheet each day. No conclusions yet, but I’m curious to see what will show up
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Nix is used for app deployments?
> They took almost 4 years to do it in January of 2020 after 4 years of arguing about it with a transition period and trade talks with the EU until the end of 2020.

Oh, longer than that. Some transition arrangements are _still in practice in place_, for instance see https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-brexit-border-checks-dela... . Brexit is not done, yet; things will get worse before they get better.
In my country 19 years ago we had a social media platform that for a long time was dominating and Facebook basically didn't exist internally. But that was long ago, now they are gone and everyone is on Facebook. On the other hand, if a change happened once it can happen twice.
All the "weird" countries on the list have internet domain names .nf .tk .gi .io
The "penguin island" has the domain .hm

So the conclusion is that the intern failed geography and did not realize that those aren't countries.
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>contains a distinct factual error

It doesn't, as it's not claiming it never happened before.

The colloquial interpretation of that sentence is that it became increasingly commonplace.
There's a common mistake in equating class with job title or postcode. Being a consultant doesn't automatically make someone middle class—especially when they don't own the means of production, don't control their work, and can't build anything lasting from it. That's the real distinction. Class is about power and autonomy, not just how polished your CV looks or how many screens are on your desk.

Many skilled workers set up limited companies not to "make out like bandits" but to gain a small degree of control in a system that otherwise offers very little. IR35 took that away, not from boardrooms or multinational firms, but from individuals trying to carve out their own space. It wasn't just a policy shift—it was a signal: you're not allowed to operate outside the machine.

This has little to do with London versus the rest. It's about how the economy is increasingly structured to funnel all meaningful work through large gatekeepers, whether private or public. The destruction of small-scale service businesses - especially in the public sector - didn't just hurt livelihoods. It erased entire layers of local innovation, independence, and pride in craft.

The result is exactly what we see now: a drained workforce with no stake in the outcome, no reason to go above and beyond, and no path to build something of their own. That's not a London problem or a Basingstoke problem. That's a systemic one.
OK? So it's replacing $0.30 worth of part (plus $0.05 for silicone grease probably) instead of replacing the whole watch, right?

Different phone manufacturers are different. Apple now famously changed the design of the last iPhone so it must be opened from the front (expensive screen!) rather than from the back like with the previous model - to make it even harder for the end user to seek he'll outside of apple services.

This is just an example of the intentional hostility. Make deliberate changes that harm costumer in the long run.
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I agree. I'm also interested to see if it actually increases "made in America" goods and whether it has any unintended consequences.

One guy was talking about mini excavators he was buying from China for $8K. The equivalent American brand was over $40K. Prices of the American brands could go up due to foreign components (which won't immediately have manufacturing capacity here, and will likely be even more expensive), 10% would bring it up to $44K. Meanwhile even a 100% tariff on the $8K import would "only" put it at $16K. The people buying the $8K ones aren't going to start buying $44K versions, they'll still buy the import most likely. Meanwhile, it could be that some $40K buyers move to the $16K import, decreasing sales of the American version.

And on top of it all, retaliatory tariffs from other countries could decrease exports of the American product, reducing sales even further.
To be clear, my point is that everything will be more expensive and that a recession is objectively bad for all but maybe the richest Americans.