skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you think this response will convince anyone that you are correct? You still fail to provide an argument; you're just being unpleasant. To what end?

Is that what not having empathy in a society feels like? People just talking at each other without any particular goal in mind other than being unpleasant to each other?
We're not talking about avoiding all preventable deaths. We're talking about taking life-saving treatment away from people who were being effectively treated at a nominal cost.

Taking treatment away from them in lieu of a very good reason is tantamount to murder. "Empathy is weakness" or "going after the woke mind virus" or "Organization X is a criminal organization [non-evidenced]" or "we need more cushion for tax cuts for the wealth" do not qualify as good reasons.
Or try an evolutionary approach. Artificially enforce some dependency between an organisms' (fungi, bacteria) ability to kill a wide spectrum of targets, and their own continued survival. Let the organism spread on a large matrix in close contact with the targets and zap the areas where the targets are thriving; repeat until you have evolved strains that are effective in destroying the targets. Wonder if it's possible or even been tried.
No doubt Lutnick and Bessent are taking crazy risks with their strategy. If they are to be believed, their plan is to have a recession at the begining of the term to get long term bond price lower and refinance the debt. By their own account, they outright said to Trump things aren't going to be good until 2028. So, I guess we have to prepare for a few years of crap. Let's hope it doesn't trigger a depression that would need government bailout to save the economy.
>Total UK imports from United States amounted to £111.5 billion in the four quarters to the end of Q3 2024 (a decrease of 5.1% or £5.9 billion in current prices, compared to the four quarters to the end of Q3 2023).

Also "Total UK exports to United States amounted to £182.6 billion in the four quarters to the end of Q3 2024 (a decrease
of 0.5% or £889 million in current prices, compared to the four quarters to the end of Q3 2023);"

Which is why the current government is being particularly cautious at the moment.
I just learned of Numbers' existence, as I haven't seriously used a MacBook ever, but I'm curious, why would they block it?
If situation was not sooo out of norm, I would not even post about it. I even myself shocked Stripe would do this to anyone
Thanks. Let me know if I misunderstood, but it seems that this is redirecting my custom domain customdomain.example.com to tuns.sh

customdomain.example.com. 300 IN CNAME tuns.sh.

_sish.customdomain.example.com 300 IN TXT "SHA256:mVPw"

What I want to do is:

1- to create a custom domain ON tuns.sh (or another Pico service)

2- redirect this custom domain to another DNS (such as a Load Balancer, an API Gateway, etc.)

Something like:
{username}-{proj}.tuns.sh. 300 IN CNAME myalb-123abc.amazonaws.com.
> $6750 for an induction stove with a battery

What a crazy world we live in. Instead of finally upgrading your electrical system to something that can handle the 5kW needed for a high end induction stove, you buy a device with a battery that will probably need to be replaced in a few years and might turn out to be a huge fire risk.

How is that cheaper than running a few meters of copper cable?
I don’t feel much, honestly. Although “Office” was still one of the beautiful ones, but they decided to ditch it for 365?
The whole issue is that no one can be sure it will stop in 2 or 4 years. That's precisely the risk: will it stop? Will it not? Either way, I'm not investing some millions of dollars to setup shop in the USA if all that investment will go bust if the next election cycle removes tariffs.

Anyone saying they are sure about what is happening in the next 2-4 years in the USA is delusional.
Pat was arrogant. He didn't know how to get 3rd party fab customers. Nvidia, AMD, Apple did not trust him. He comes from the old Intel regime when it was all roses and Intel was at the top of the world. He didn't realize that Intel was at the bottom and it needed to do whatever it took to win customers.

Here's Morris Chang's opinion of Pat Gelsinger:

Chang said he found Pat Gelsinger’s attitude to TSMC “hostile”, adding he had been friends with Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore and been close to many Intel CEOs but not to Gelsinger.

Previously Chang has described Gelsinger as “discourteous” and “a bit cocky”.

Here's what Tan said recently:

Tan said the company needs to listen to prospective outside customers for its factories and let them specify the design and manufacture of their products, rather than Intel dictating the way it will be done. Tan said many large customers want custom parts — and his company will do it for them.

This is clearly a shot taken at Pat, who did not know how to win fab customers.

Lastly, Pat hired a ton of people. Intel increased employee count under his watch while revenue decreased by 50%. Tan wanted to cut way more. Pat didn't.

So while the strategy is similar, Pat's execution was severely lacking.
I think so too. They have been expanding pretty much everywhere. From Eastern Europe through South America and Africa. In the last COP climate gathering China gave a signal that they would take the leadership and also get on the "green tech" market i.e. export batteries, EVs, solar panels.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3rx2drd8x8o
> In this world people become more like pests. They offer no economic value yet demand that AGI owners (wherever publicly or privately owned) share resources with them. If people revolted any AGI owner would be far better off just deploying a bioweapon to humanely kill the protestors rather than sharing resources with them.

That will be quite a hard thing to pull off, even for some evil person with a AGI. Let's say Putin gets AGI and is actually evil and crazy enough to try wipe people out. If he just targets Russians and starts killing millions of people daily with some engineered virus or something similar, he'll have to fear a strike from the West which would be fearful they're next (and rightfully so).
If he instead tries to wipe out all of humanity at once to escape a second strike, he again will have to devise such a good plan there won't be any second strike - meaning his "AGI" will have to be way better than all other competing AGIs (how exactly?).

It would have made sense if all "owners of AGI" somehow conspired together to do this but there's not really such a thing as owners of AGI and even if there was Chinese, Russian and American owners of AGI don't trust each other at all and are also bound to their governments.
1. Have a global append-only function key-value store.

2. A key of a function is something like `keccak256(function's signature + docstring)`

3. A value is a list of the function's implementation (index being the implementation's version) and some other useful metadata such as the contributor's signature and preferred function name. (Compiler emits a warning that needs to be explicitly silenced if preferred name is not used.)

4. IDE hints and the developer confirms to auto import the function from the global KV store.

5. Import hash can be prepended with a signers name that's defined in some config file. This makes it obvious in git diffs if a function changes its author. Additionally, the compiler only accepts a short hash in import statements if used with a signer.

package.toml

[signers]
mojmir = "mojmir's pubkey"
radislava = "radislava's pubkey"

source.file

// use publisher and short hash
import "mojmir@51973ec9d4c1929b@1" as log_v1;
// or full hash
import "51973ec9d4c1929bdd5b149c064d46aee47e92a7e2bb5f7a20c7b9cfb0d13b39" as log_latest;
import "radislava@c81915ad12f36c33" as ln;

log_v1("Hello");
log_latest(ln(0));
I like it when they explain to you how hard they work and how it’s unlike how anyone else works and they are super special because of it.
I wonder how much of that was transshipping, just using Vietnam as a passthrough?
It's an ecommerce platform.
It is hard, but we keep innovating.
Yeah, there's nothing quite like that Minecraft magic. I remember just spending hours with friends trying to build a cathedral while listening to that chill music... It's such a cool game
Right? How much more can we stand all this talk about cryptocurrency and Bitcoin.
I am not part of Trump's fan base, and I am in favor of taking action to reverse decades of negative trends I've seen happening as a result of American corporations selling their souls to the highest outside bidders. It's going to be short term pain for long term gain.
> Congress stepping in to exclude Canada and Mexico and the NAFTA exemption cushions the blow significantly.

I know the senate voted this through. But it still has to pass the house doesn't it? I doubt it will even get to be voted on with Mike Johnson as speaker.
The Ministry of Digital Transformation has just launched a new website with all its achievements. You can find more details there.
NOAA Weather will delete websites using Amazon, Google cloud services Saturday
Yeah, I'm guessing that most of my valuable knowledge comes from sessions like this, where something is hard, and eventually you solve it. If I was in the same situation today, I'd probably keep throwing stuff at the LLM until it got it right, and not really learn anything.

But then on the other hand, the point was never to learn, but to create. I'm still not sure if I'd be better or worse at actually creating things if I had LLMs in the beginning or not.
I think the point is that people with the capacity to be both smart and empathetic have lost their way.

The more subtle point is that many empathetic people have bullshit jobs: they too work in service of it for simply their livelihood.
There are other societies than the American one and I recommend you look at them before you make such sweeping statements
> will convince anyone

Are you sure that would be the poster's attempt.

> you're just being

He seems to be discussing, to some of us.
The party that is NOT pushing tariffs is the one who said, between 2012 and 2016, that "they're NEVER coming back" (referring to return of factories and manufacturing jobs).

That same party DID try to bring back manufacturing between 2020 and 2024. I think they would have been more successful if it hadn't been for COVID19, for which neither party is to blame.
Yes it was a suggestion but it was off topic and came from a place of limited information. Just because they play Minecraft doesn’t mean they don’t go to parks or play outside.

And as a general rule, categorizing the way a specific person raises their kids based on an ill informed opinion about the general public is often received poorly.
Please tell me the Space Weather website is not going away

Why is the country being destroyed like this?

It will cost ten times more than it saves, it's just chaos on purpose
But youve clearly defined what the problem is. Is a tariff the solution?
Well, this is hilarious timing. The EU certainly isn't going to retract their case, so now Apple products will be divided into "the ones with consumer regulations" and "the ones without".

I hope Americans still have the faith they used to regarding Apple. Looks like we'll be trusting their judgement quite a bit going forwards.
What a joke of a license. This is not open source. Why the fuck is everyone in VC land trying to change the true definition of open source?
But what?

Your argument was that they (rich white men) are reprehensible for desiring others to be doing something like factory work, instead of "that".

You say "that" is work, and not sitting around unemployed. Citing a statistic. Ok lets proceed with that.

So which work is "that"?
Valve has put out some artistic and engineering masterpieces consistently over the years. They currently print money with steam. However, they aren’t putting out a Half-Life 3 to rake in more money. They don’t believe they have anything worthy from a storytelling or tech perspective. But they put out Half-Life Alyx, which was an incredible VR game.

Further, I wouldn’t call the Steam Deck itself a financial priority. Hardware is famously risky. Obviously, they want to continue their financial success, but they don’t seem to pursue that at all costs like other companies that run their IP into the ground to make more money. Having their financial success allows them to keep their integrity and continue pursuing artistic and engineering successes to diversify their income stream and build goodwill. Their work on Proton is a crowning achievement for their pursuit of engineering successes.
Appdna.ai – Agency-level app growth strategies without the $5K retainer
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I'd love feedback from the HN community. What aspects of app growth do you find most challenging? Any features you'd want to see in a platform like this?
Wait, is the government forcing you to work? Did I miss that somewhere? Is there a provision in the constitution that forces an American citizen to get a job and pay taxes?

That's not even pointing out that you 100% have control of who makes tax policy through this little tiny mechanism called voting.
Why I, even after owning a Beamspring, went back to a Model M (2022)
> They don't sell anything physical, only digital.

Depends on the seller. I have a self-published physical magazine I distribute through Gumroad: https://www.glidermag.com/
> Context on Code Quality (via HackerNews): The HackerNews discussion included valid critiques regarding the code quality in this specific Python project example (e.g., logger configuration, custom config parsing, potential race conditions). It’s a fair point, especially given I’m not a Python expert. For this particular green-field project, my primary goal was rapid prototyping and achieving a working solution in an unfamiliar stack, prioritizing the functional outcome over idiomatic code perfection or optimizing for long-term maintainability in this specific instance. It served as an experiment to see how far AI could bridge a knowledge gap. In brown-field projects within my areas of expertise, or projects demanding higher long-term maintainability, the human review, refinement, and testing process (using the guardrails discussed later) is necessarily much more rigorous. The critiques highlight the crucial role of experienced oversight in evaluating and refining AI-generated code to meet specific quality standards.

We all know how big companies handle software, if it works ship it. Basically once this shit starts becoming very mainstream companies will want to shift into their 5x modes (for their oh so holy investors that need to see stock go up, obviously.)

So once this sloppy prototype is seen as working they will just ship the shit sandwhich prototype. And the developers won’t know what the hell it means so when something breaks in the future, and that is when not if. They will need AI to fix it for them, cause once again they do not understand what is going on.

What I’m seeing here is you proposing replacing one of your legs with AI and letting it do all the heavy lifting, just so you can lift heavier things for the moment.

Once this bubble crumbles the technical debt will be big enough to sink companies, I won’t feel sorry for any of the AI boosties but do for their families that will go into poverty
Just one note because I don't think there is wide awareness of this: there are two kinds of electric stoves, and the induction kind is generally faster than gas.
Totally agree! The first month I had my house I had large amounts of insulation blown into my attic. I also reduced various heat sources by getting the most efficient LED lights, PC parts etc. The other big thing that helps is keeping the upstairs much warmer during the day and only keeping the downstairs where my office is frigid until the evening when I go upstairs.

My all time high electric bill so far was ~$220 for a 2500sqft house when it was 110+ outside for most of the month and I was WFH and keeping the downstairs around 70.

I was really nerding out about solar panels and home batteries for a while and desperate to justify that toy, but I would barely break even before they failed or I needed a new roof. Start with insulation, it’s CHEAP compared to high tech options.
Identifying Inequality in the Velocity of Cryptocurrency
> Someday we will have a machine simulate a cat, then the village idiot... This isn't how LLMs work.

I think you misunderstood that argument. The simulate the brain thing isn't a "start from the beginning" argument, it's an "answer a common objection" argument.

Back around 2000, when Nick Bostrom was talking about this sort of thing, computers were simply nowhere near powerful enough to come even close to being smart enough to outsmart a human, except in very constrained cases like chess; we did't even have the first clue how to create a computer program to be even remotely dangerous to us.

Bostrom's point was that, "We don't need to know the computer program; even if we just simulate something we know works -- a biological brain -- we can reach superintelligence in a few decades." The idea was never that people would actually simulate a cat. The idea is, if we don't think of anything more efficient, we'll at least be able to simulate a cat, and then an idiot, and then Einstein, and then something smarter. And since we almost certainly will think of something more efficient than "simulate a human brain", we should expect superintelligence to come much sooner.

> There is no evidence or argument for exponential growth.

Moore's law is exponential, which is where the "simulate a brain" predictions have come from.

> It is science fiction and leads people to make bad decisions based on fictional evidence.

The only "fictional evidence" you've actually specified so far is the fact that there's no biological analog; and that (it seems to me) is from a misunderstanding of a point someone else was making 20 years ago, not something these particular authors are making.

I think the case for AI caution looks like this:

A. It is possible to create a superintelligent AI

B. Progress towards a superintelligent AI will be exponential

C. It is possible that a superintelligent AI will want to do something we wouldn't want it to do; e.g., destroy the whole human race

D. Such an AI would be likely to succeed.

Your skepticism seems to rest on the fundamental belief that either A or B is false: that superintelligence is not physically possible, or at least that progress towards it will be logarithmic rather than exponential.

Well, maybe that's true and maybe it's not; but how do you know? What justifies your belief that A and/or B are false so strongly, that you're willing to risk it? And not only willing to risk it, but try to stop people who are trying to think about what we'd do if they are true?

What evidence would cause you to re-evaluate that belief, and consider exponential progress towards superintelligence possible?

And, even if you think A or B are unlikely, doesn't it make sense to just consider the possibility that they're true, and think about how we'd know and what we could do in response, to prevent C or D?
The new tariffs are the best thing to happen to DTC brands in a decade. They’ll finally be forced to build real businesses instead of flimsy, VC-subsidized marketing machines.
There may be some cost to each resistance gained, reducing the fitness of the bacteria
The “people” don’t really matter.

Anyone who needs a secure boot environment is having their own MOK and probably a private CA.
As much as I like Douglas Adams' work, I think that quote describes what, for lack of a better term, and in no way trying to be derogatory, I'd call a "normal person"'s reaction to technologies.

I mean obviously the age boundaries may change a bit but otherwise he's spot on. Also, I'd say it's not just technology as I've seen a similar attitude towards other things (e.g, how a dress code is not that common any more, or how you can walk up to a store or even go to a hospital and be greeted by someone with tattoos and green hair "is against the natural order of things").

And to stress again that I'm not being derogatory, I've got close people who have those reactions and I love them even if I disagree with them.

But for people not in that "normal" group my experience is nothing like that.
I've seen:
- People being amazed at how exciting something that existed when they were born is, to the point of building emulators and even physical replicas of it.
- People way after 35 who go deep in on very new things that drastically change the way they work (the example I'm thinking of here is the old musicians I know who've embraced modelers and DAWs, things that only got good enough to be used by professionals in, what, the last 20 years?
- In that same line though, I know young kids who use portastudios and hate DAWs. Some release cassettes too. One has to guess their target audience never wasted life untangling tape and rewinding with a ball pen ...

Still, I think your last line is most likely spot on as far as the author goes. Probably going through some mid-life crisis (lest this come across as ageist, I'm way past half my country's life expectancy).

Also, "Every pub conversation winding up talking about it."

That's just the author going to the wrong pubs! Like the Jonathan Richman song says:

"Well the first bar things were alright
But in this bar, things were Friday night."
The whole trump thing went from prospects of economic boom to "the median household is enough wealthy to tolerate the price increase" really, really quick
Sure you can: move!

Or do you mean "you can't benefit from all of the security, infrastructure, and social investments in our country and not pay taxes to it?"
The 1st issue I'd think of would be scale.. eg. identical looking plate of food in EU vs USA. The images might look identical but the USA one would be scaled up and contain much more calories.
Everything that could be in the image for scale reference would also be scaled up along with the food.
Democracy = spending tax dollars
> What was even the goal here?

Like many of us*, Trump has one tool in his chest. For Trump, that tool is extortion. Extortion has worked for him a lot, so why not apply that to all facets of his life?

I don't like the fact that I'm glibly summarizing someone like that, but I think it's pretty close to the truth.

When your one tool is a hammer (extortion), you think everyone else is a nail.

See, for example ...

- Columbia University, etc.

- Law firms that investigated him

- every single country that just got hit with tariffs.

* I think many of us have our own "one tool" that we like. Extortion, however, is a malevolent tool.
So many weird assumptions here.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

It’s rude to assume that they don’t have friends that are local. It’s also weird to assume that local friends are more valuable or meaningful that remote friends.
I don't see this stopping, maybe escalate to talks about the need for a 3rd term.