skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For taxes to work in raising money, they have to be paid. So, if the goal is to make revenue from the taxes, then raising costs is expected?

If the goal is to incentivize alternatives, then the tax has to be such that it raises the price above the gap there now. So, even if you do drive people to an alternative source, the new price will be higher than the old. (Unless the thought is that people were choosing to not buy the cheaper source to begin with?)

I suppose you can argue that some suppliers have such a margin that the tax could be an effort to get them to cut into that? I have not seen evidence that that is the case?
simplicity and ease of use is a pretty compelling feature to a lot of people, if not you
I used to be a Wikipedia donor, until there was an article that made the rounds a few years ago that argued that Wikipedia-the-website is essentially funded in perpetuity, and that the "Jimmy Wales needs your help or kittens will die" scarebanners are actually raising money for the Wikimedia foundation to spend on its own political ends.
The struggle with dark humor in the private sector is real . . . along with swallowing back F-bombs.
>Then immediately stop reading. The details don't matter at this point.

That's truly an absurd suggestion. I hope you're just attempting to make some kind of point, but not suggesting people actually ignore "the details"
Your conclusion is not supported by data, you basically made the periods thing up to confirm your own preference.
Is this because many of the soft skills you mention were in flux/being 'disrupted' 15 years ago and since then they've become the accepted norm? I enjoyed that content too but feel like it was a time where startups were changing the face of how companies operated and now most businesses follow those models and they're not yet ripe for change again.
Congress moves on crypto 'stablecoin' rules, but Tether may be left out
We need a lot more Gerald Sussmans.
While more informative on its own, it's still kind of useless with the wide variance of power usage across models.

Laptops use Wh but you still need to do the same research as you would have if it was in mAh (ignoring the 100Wh max for planes that you'd have to calculate yourself)
I'd love it - email could use serious tools and refinement - but so many questions: Is it local or hosted? What is the story with privacy? Do you use an existing application (like a Thunderbird fork) or something you created?

Can you / will you integrate other messaging such as SMS, even WhatsApp, etc.? RSS?
So do you have actual own data to counter this?
Yes, but I would think there could be multiple services and storage.
https://archive.ph/zduMh
It’s WOAOA basically
Dilution is a real problem. If they want you to act like a Founder, you should have protected equity like one.
If you're starting over, use Bitwarden Authenticator:

https://bitwarden.com/products/authenticator/

Supports import & export, which is something Authy -- what I used to recommend instead of Google Authenticator -- does NOT support.
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It's fine that you as a user of these systems don't care, but nevertheless this is useful terminology for people looking to design such systems.
Jesus Christ. Maybe I will give in and switch to Chrome.
The special and verifiable math is that Microsoft put a lot of money into AI and needs to find a way, any way, to get some revenue out of it come hell or high water.

If they can trick devs into using it through bandwagon marketing, that's a good start.
Trump announces sweeping new tariffs to promote US manufacturing
I've noticed the seek bar is available in MOST but not ALL shorts. I always thought it might be an option by the video owner.
Can you link some of these better discussions on better sites?

Dissenting views are regularly highly visible, often as replies to consensus views. Even better - well-argued counter-narrative/counter-conventional wisdom views regularly appear as top or highly ranked comments. That's because the people making those arguments do what sensible people do when making an unpopular argument - they put in the work to make their case more persuasive. They don't sit around complaining that the other kids don't listen to them, they care about their issue enough to try to work with human nature rather than hoping some magical technology will change human nature for them.
A black friend of mine gets stopped constantly. He is highly educated (well beyond a bachelors degree) in a stem field. He dresses professionally. He drives cautiously and does not speed. He once joked he does not feel as bad getting stopped at night because it is less likely racial profiling.
If you don't, that's fine. But is it really necessary or desirable for -ffast-math to silently break isinf() and isnan()? I don't think it's inconceivable that some people might need those.

I mean, I can write my own implementations, but it seems kind of silly that I should need to in the first place.
https://www.scribd.com/document/843124910/NSA-full

It’s not even approved for unclassified information that’s used in an official capacity.
It does feel very natural on Reddit (where mods can enable a flag/green user name when it's a mod response).
> It's absolutely awesome at clobbering together a meal from ingredients I tell it I have.

You should be able to do this yourself easily, though.
I'd love to be clearer about my common-sense, scientifically-backed viewpoints, but if I did so it might result in hostile action being taken against me. So I choose not to.

Not because I'm insincere about my views, or because I believe they are harmful - but because the activists pushing the ideological views I oppose have been demonstrably violent and destructive.
No, if it increases the rate of rear end collisions, it means that drivers are unsafely following too close to react to the driver in front of them, behind the drivers that are planning to unsafely and illegally run the red light and then changing their mind late in reaction to the camera.
From 'What it Costs to Run Wikipedia'

Wikipedia spends $US 3m on hosting in 2024. They spend $US 107m on salaries.

So their hosting costs might have gone to, say, $US 5m at the outside.

That is they are maybe 1/20th of their salary cost.

AI's extra scraping might be a problem for some folks. But for wikipedia to talk about the percentage increase is disingenuous.

Source :

https://www.saastr.com/what-is-costs-to-run-wikipedia-3m-in-...
Just added bar lines and search by pattern.
Welcome welcome! It's crazy to think of how relatively long-lasting HN's influence on startups and tech has already been.
I should have read this 12h ago! This afternoon, I tried to create my first simple agent using LangChain. My aim was to repeatedly run a specific python analysis function and perform a binary search to find the optimal result, then compile the results into a markdown report and export it as a PDF.

However, I now realize that most of these steps don't require AI at all, let alone agents. I wrote the full algorithm (including the binary search!) in natural language for the LLM. And although it sometimes worked, the model often misunderstood and produced random errors out of the blue.

I now realize that this is not what agents are for. This problem didn't require any agentic behavior. It was just a fixed workflow, with one single AI step (generating a markdown report text).

Oh well, nothing wrong with learning the hard way.
Thanks. I could spend hours watching distant cultures. Their colours, environment, technical equipment... I saw some people in Somalia using DJI microphones, those that in the West are mainly used by YouTubers.

I also see TVs that are normally subject to fees. I'm aware the FAQs say it's only public streams, but I fear this won't last long.
That's kind of the point of the Unix text stream philosophy? TB stores as text, and then you can use the best text search tool you have.

Do you use mbox or maildir, out of curiosity?
As a counterpoint, there also still isn't any precise definition of what "life" is, but it's nevertheless an extremely useful concept.
The Democrats also tried to fool the American public like “Weekend with Bernie’s” and prop Biden up for way too long and couldn’t have a proper primary. Harris couldn’t distance herself from Biden.
Liberica, which is already popularized in Malaysia, is another type of coffee that’s resistant to heat and droughts.

I’m introducing some plants to a rural community in Panama that had its Robusta crops ruined by the harsh summers we’ve experienced over the past couple of years.
> I wonder why there are so many, just people reinventing stuff that no one really needs? Or were you being rhetorical?

What do people really need? Who defines and polices that?

> just reloading full state from the server is just easy to explain to the users and easy to implement

Is the green light on? If not, press the "power" button. Never underestimate the difficulty of explaining the simple to the uninterested.

The audience in this case is geeks like us, so it's probably ok to have wonky process until someone forks the project and fixes those problems.
> tariff on our closest allies

I saw that your president said:

> “We imported $3b of Australian beef last year alone… they won’t take any of our beef because they don’t want it to affect their farmers.”

Just FYI, the reason we don't import much beef is because we have about as many cows as we do people here :)
It just requires that the driver behind them was unsafely and illegally failing to maintain a safe following distance (and/or failing to pay attention to the car in front of them.)
Whenever I watch videos of robot dogs climbing all terrains (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS1n99yruVU), I'm convinced that half of these robotics companies are defense funded, whether in the US or China.
The reason?

>> a rise they attribute to AI crawlers. AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege
Pretty sure he's following the rules and besides what business do you have imposing on this thread when you have nothing to contribute in terms of the conversation?

To say biggest "private equities" in the world own large portions of each other is absolutely correct. It's nitpicking to resort to technicalities of what arm of Blackrock owns what arm of Vanguard, not at all the point and it only distracts from the main point about conflicts of interest when it comes to the control of publicly traded media, NBC, CNN, newscorp (almost all media that matters) and thus suppression of free speech.

You're wrong.
"its own political ends" being Wikipedia shaped things, that seems like a fairly good thing to donate to.
I quickly looked at the MSCs and seems “MAS” and associated MSCs enable OIDC/OAUTH authentication flows (basically integration with your favorite identity provider such as Google or Apple).

I was hoping for matrix homeserver to act as an identity provider as well to give us an alternative to big tech for “identity”.

I suppose I could just setup Ory or other open source IdP, but would have been nice to have an all in one package.
Love the website design. Very neat to just drop in on a country, see what’s on. Was watching two guys in Afghanistan acting goofy in a commercial. Just fascinating.
I think I can help your team out. Do you support relocation?
I've been pretty happy with its search and have never had issues finding emails. The UI isn't great and theres a lot of cruft to filter through but it does work...
so sorry. I don't get that, I think my browser blocks referrer
Hey! Opino lo mismo!

(I agree!)
One of those projects that has me wondering what I was doing instead of building this. The end result is great, and the technical details seem like they'd be interesting. TIL about Internet Protocol TV: https://github.com/iptv-org/iptv
Sorry you felt that way. We've optimized the scrolling behavior and reduced the delay - it should feel much smoother and faster now.
Ask the Developer Vol. 16, Nintendo Switch 2
All right, here's an example. X makes a post on one side of a position. Y makes a thought-provoking reply on the other side. X replies with "So what's your point?" X either fails at reading comprehension, or X is trying to make it look like Y didn't have a point, because X doesn't have a good reply to Y's point, and X wants everybody else to not notice that Y actually had a good point.

I hate seeing that. It's a bad-faith argument. It's the sign of someone who's just there to argue, not to have a curious conversation. That is, it's a sign of someone who isn't within the spirit of the site guidelines.

No, I don't think this is just my personal bias against that style of posting. It's fake and juvenile, and it has no place on HN.

Another way you can tell: When they're replying to 20 comments with the same 2 or 3 talking points. That's someone who's there to do battle, not to have a conversation. They aren't really replying to the 20 comments, either - they're just spraying the same canned responses all over the place. That's not a conversation; that's a tape recorder in transmit-only mode.
Not the parent, but thanks for answering those questions, I had the same ones. I'm a Vet who's been doing SE for over 20 years as well, count me in!
> That's kind of the point of the Unix text stream philosophy? TB stores as text, and then you can use the best text search tool you have.

To some extent, yes. Though emails are structured text and a bare string search is far from an optimal search strategy.

> Do you use mbox or maildir, out of curiosity?

Whatever the Thunderbird default is.
Good, another way to fight the loss of ownership and right-to-repair.
The correct definition is "who cares".
I'd have liked to see the CIA Director cite something to corroborate HIS claim.

The Biden Administration strongly denies his claim.

>Former Biden officials, though, said that Signal was never permitted on their government phones.

“We were not allowed to have any messaging apps on our work phones,” said one former top national security official on the condition of anonymity. “And under no circumstances were unclassified messaging apps allowed to be used for transmission of classified material. This is misdirection at its worst.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-war-plans-signal-biden_...
You have remarkable authority on this. Can you tell us more about it?
Use Betterbird. They upgrade Thunderbird and fix bugs.
FTFA:

> it centers on citizen experience rather than administrative convenience

There is not paper, real or implied, involved in that goal.
Chapter 2: https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/News/2025/April/Ask-the-Devel...

Chapter 3: https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/News/2025/April/Ask-the-Devel...

Chapter 4: https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/News/2025/April/Ask-the-Devel...
And a minimal CSS framework.
How lazy are these people scraping Wikipedia that they can do a bit of research to see there’s an entire dump provided by Wikipedia directly?

https://dumps.wikimedia.org/
Well it's positive for various countries that benefit from an end to US dominance over the world. :p

So for the US itself? The theory would be that the tariffs will increase US manufacturing sector. But the cold hard truth is that it isn't the 1830s anymore and last time tariffs were tried happened to line up exactly with the Great Depression.

Even an competent administration would have great difficulty making tariffs to restore manufacturing work in the US, if that is even at all possible. It fails because other countries just put the same tariffs back on the US.

So with the Trump's administration some kinda of serious economy meltdown is almost certainly the result.
I honestly don't know. On the one hand you're right, we were in a time when startups were doing things like experimenting with holocracy. On the other hand, companies and cooperatives are still today experimenting with more efficient, equitable ways to get things done. I feel quite disappointed that so much of the anger over inequality in this community gets aimed at US or international politics rather than discussing things like corporate or cooperative structures which is both more grounded and more easy for many of us as practitioners to action.

To me it feels more emotional catharsis than intellectual discussion; getting mad at politics is getting mad at something you can't control and so is more of a way to air out your emotions. Getting mad at corporate structure or envisioning a cooperative is something we can control and requires more rigor to engage with.
Yeah I'm pretty skeptical of that visualisation anyway. It sure looks like there's more grey scale, but that's because they've grouped it all at the top. If you actually look at the pixels in the below "white" a lot of them are very dark and unsaturated too.

I don't think it's really a meaningful visualization. They're trying to show something 2D in 1 dimension.
I don't understand the argument here. If your company had hosting costs increase this much and said "hey sien, we're going to cover the costs by cutting your salary" I don't think you'd be thrilled. Non-profits have staff and they have to pay them.
Understood. And I understand people pragmatically practicing for that ritual, given that it's been forced on the field by techbros and brogrammers.

I'll just do what I can to promote better hiring practices going forward.
> Excluding graphical APIs, the basic stuff (file IO, networking, etc.) isn't all that hard to add to a language (it of course depends).

You could implement a modern graphical API on top of virtio-gpu, which would give you low-level access to accelerated graphics.

> The real trouble is things that have no equivalent in Plan 9, such as mmap and shm.

Some uses of mmap and shm actually seem to have a near-equivalent already in plan9's segattach. Other uses would require some implementation of distributed shared memory (i.e. implementing the usual CPU concurrency model over the network) to be made feasible while keeping to the usual networked-OS focus of plan9.
That guy who was gaming a bug in the lottery in New England, near as I can figure was making about $20-30 an hour for his troubles. I suspect he may have made more off of selling the movie rights than off of the lottery.

He made more than he would have working retail for sure, but maybe he could have done better with another job if he weren't fixated on sticking it to the Man.

This battery thing feels a bit like the same sort of sentiment.

That said, any task you can do while talking to a friend or binge watching a TV show cannot be accurately accounted for in cost by just how much the clock moved.
> It's not. There's even a term coined for it, "intangible sludge".

It is. The article you link even begins:

> So many TV shows and movies now

That's what I'm taking about. Those "so many" belong mostly to a certain type of drama.

You're not seeing it in comedies. You're not seeing it in reality shows. There are also plenty of dramas that don't have it, possibly a majority but I'm not sure.

It's not everywhere, contrary to what you say. It may, however, seem "everywhere" if you're only watching that type of drama.
An AI Agent, if autonomous, is a while loop that calls LLMs with some input and reacts to those scenarios by calling LLMs again with the processed output from the previous calls.
I'm sorry, but could you provide link, where stated, VATs applied to import?

- As I know, usually VAT deducted from exported goods, but I really don't know how VAT work with import - usually on import used tariffs.
I’m personally cool with Wikimedia doing whatever they want with their notations since it’s public and everything, but the donation banners definitely lead you to believe that it goes directly towards hosting if you don’t dive in.
I signed up for this awhile back when it was free, it's been hosting bibbidibobbidi.boo ever since. It's very neat.
The site guidelines dictate what is appropriate to discuss. The site guidelines say that most politics is off-topic. Partly because political conversations turn into... into the kinds of discussions that the political threads here have been turning into.
> Yes (Edit: not sure now, I'm hearing some say they include the 2017 tariff regime of flat 10% - smh shows how this was just a political ploy that answers for such a critical question are mixed)

https://xcancel.com/EamonJavers/status/1907540655871521264#m
But even if this works. How is the best outcome achieved for the USA? Take phones for example. Today, Apple design phones in the USA and has them manufactured outside the USA by low wage workers. If the phone costs $1000. That price is the sum of production costs and profits (and other things, but those are negligible for this discussion).

If the production cost portion increases, because of tariffs, then Apple either has to take less profit (shareholders unhappy) or increase the cost of the phone (shareholders happy).

If the tariffs are increased enough, Apple could be forced to move production to the USA. But this only happens if the workers in the USA are willing to work the same wages as external production. If USA workers cost more than external production, then again, Apple loses profit or raises prices.

Am I missing something? Unless USA workers are willing to work for wages as external production (give or take the tariff amount), then this simply doesn't work.
Yep but Wikipedia exists to freely disseminate information to humans. Should they pay for the bandwidth for AI agents?
No, the democrat's problem is they weren’t willing to just flat out lie. They told the public the truth, basic facts like no, the president doesn’t have the power to unilaterally lower your grocery prices. And whether due to desperation, or lack of education, or otherwise, the voting public chose the proven pathological liar who said he would be the one to lower the price of eggs. Right up until the week after the election when he had to explain why the prices weren’t going down.

There are countless interviews with voters quoting the laughable and provably impossible promises/lies Trump spouted during the last campaign as their reason for voting for him.

If what you’re advocating is that the democrats need to embrace denying reality and lying to the public if they want to win, I can’t disagree with you. But I also think historians won’t have a tough time pointing to the end of the American experiment.
> It's the adult version of a kid going "I'm not hitting my brother I'm just swinging my arms and walking forward".

I always say that adults are kids who don't have the supervision anymore.

When a kid says "2 + 2 = 5" you can say "well you always fail your math exams, you obviously can't be trusted with that". When an adult says it... it becomes a "belief" and we "respectfully agree to disagree".
Thanks for being a crucial part of this crucial part of my life, Tom.
No, the link exists, every second you saturate it or not, and if not it's just lost bytes.
> Its a sentence that seems meaningful, but actually is not.

It's perfectly meaningful. When everything is colourful you can't use colour to stand out. It's very simple. Obvious even.
That’s what really depresses me. What’s the point in fighting this stuff when half the voters think it’s ok? It’s one thing to take down an unpopular leader causing trouble, quite another to take down tens of millions of people.
And there's a non-zero possibility he burns his house down and doesn't have anyone to sue over it.

At least if he bought a commercial battery and it experiences a lithium fire, he might expect to file a claim against the manufacturer, or his insurance company might on his behalf.