skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it doesn’t seem like there’s anyone left to enforce anything anymore so they can do whatever the hell they want

It's as though they believe they're going to be in power forever and thus never be held accountable for their actions. I wonder why they'd think that?
Congress could end this in 24 hours with a one paragraph/page bill

and regardless who is in power next decade the dems should anyway

It's like some blackhat is trying to find every loophole in government and exploiting it, like a fuzzer test
Lot of whiplash with these tariff policies. I'm wondering if maybe it'd be a better idea to give* Congress this power instead.
Feels critical right now to sandbox mcps in containers while the security side of things catches up.
My takeaway from what I've read and heard in the last few weeks is that his only actual motivation is to 'win'. He bragged yesterday that other countries are kissing his ass to negotiate deals on the tariffs. I think that was all he wanted, I think he now thinks that this whole tariff thing was a success and he's going to move on to the next crazy idea.

The rest of us suffer for it, except for the sad portion of the republican party who's only motivation is to own the libs and who now are congratulating themselves on how thoroughly the libs have been owned.
Because of the TPUs, or due to other factors?

What even is an AI data center? are the GPU/TPU boxes in a different building than the others?
Pulling stunts like this just makes the USA even less investable.

Markets operating at the whims of a capricious King (is there even a functioning government right now?)
Wait, I thought true random numbers were hard to generate?
The amount of insanely overblown hyperbole in HN comments is extraordinary...
From the conclusion:

> Results show that clogging the air filter has no significant effect on the fuel economy of the newer vehicles (all fuel injected with closed-loop control and one equipped with MDS). The engine control systems were able to maintain the desired AFR regardless of intake restrictions, and therefore fuel consumption was not increased. The carbureted engine did show a decrease in fuel economy with increasing restriction. However, the level of restriction required to cause a substantial (10–15%) decrease in fuel economy (such as that cited in the literature3,4) was so severe that the vehicle was almost undrivable. Acceleration performance on all vehicles was improved with a clean air filter.

...

> Closed-loop control in modern fuel injected vehicle applications is sophisticated enough to keep a
clogged air filter from affecting the vehicle fuel economy. However for older, open-loop, carbureted
vehicles, a clogged air filter can affect the fuel economy. For the vehicle tested, the fuel economy with a new air filter improved as much as 14% over that with a severely clogged filter (in which the filter was so clogged that drivability was impacted). Under a more typical state of clog, the improvement with a new filter ranged from 2 to 6%.
IMO the USA is not becoming one of those countries and people are just fearmongering. But legally they can do it so it's better to take precautions anyway.
Remember that "debunked" rumor tweet on Monday that created a market rollercoaster ride? The one that predicted exactly this?

What the hell is even going on
SPY 530 calls for today went from literally 2 cents to $2, $3, maybe $4 if someone timed it right.
They didn’t “fight” copy and pasting from Google - they called it what it is, plagiarism, and they expel hundreds of students for it.

Universities aren’t here to hold your hand and give you a piece of paper. They’re here to build skills. If you cheat, you don’t build the skills, so the piece of paper is now worthless.

The only reason degrees mean anything is because the institutions behind them work very hard to make sure the people earning them know what they’re doing.

If you can’t research a write an essay and you have to “copy/paste” from google, the reality is you’re probably a shit writer and a shit researcher. So if we just give those people degrees anyway, then suddenly so-called professionals are going to flounder. And that’s not good for them, or for me, or for society as a whole.

That’s the key here that people are missing. Yeah cheating is fun and yeah it’s the future. But if you hire a programmer, and they can’t program, that’s bad!

And before I hear something about “leveling up” skills. Nuh-uh, it doesn’t work that way. Skills are built on each other. Shortcuts don’t build skills, they do the opposite.

Using chat GPT to pass your Java class isn’t going to help you become a master C++ day trading programmer. Quite the opposite! How can you expect to become that when you don’t know what the fuck a data type is?

We use calculators, sure. We use Google, sure. But we teach addition first. Using the most overpowered tool for block number 1 in the 500 foot tall jenga tower is setting yourself up for failure.
Show HN: Eventkit- a better way to work with data streams in JavaScript
Hey HN! I've spent the last few weeks working on eventkit, an open source library designed for working with data streams in TS/JS.

I had a need to track all the work associated with handling application events. If you're familiar at all with reactive systems or what that entails, having this sort of functionality is super important.

If you're familiar with observables or RxJS, this library is very similar but with better side effect management and using async generators. (I found an old HN comment that's somewhat related [1])

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36911516

I'd love to hear your feedback!
I had a pair of knockoffs that were passable for limited purposes but certainly didn't pass muster as my primary shoe. I thought that the style just wasn't my thing. Then I got a pair of real Crocs and they very quickly became my go to for most purposes.

I don't know enough about shoes to explain why, but the difference in comfort level was huge.
Of course not, he told them to trust/act on his tweets. That way they are acting on public info
lol, sounds like a reddit bot commenting with max snark ;)
It seems unlikely that the next 90 days will remain calm and stable.
(2^ that was sarcasm)
Analogies only go so far. Going to the store, buying gasoline and rags and a lighter and then committing arson and burning my house down is maybe a little bit different from sitting down for a few hours with my laptop connected to my phone.
I use the free model and API, when I look at the pricing page I see (for the extant $20 Pro plan)

- More usage
- Access to Projects to organize chats and documents
- Ability to use more Claude models
- Extended thinking for complex work

What does "more usage" mean? It doesn't say anywhere what the free tier usage limits are. What are "more" models? It also doesn't make clear what models are available with each tier (except for "extended thinking" which is a separate bullet point)

The only thing I can reason is that they want to keep this vague so that they don't have to update their marketing copy each time they update their offerings, but that's absurd.
I would bet very little truly feels shitty for high comp CEOs. It probably feels a little shitty for the people actually doing the interviews.
people today cannot imagine what it would have been like to have each generation do, experience and believe exactly the same thing. for thousands of years. even just a few hundred years ago, new ideas were basically a waste of time because everything had already been tried. history would swallow you up.
IMO what is becoming painfully obvious is that the checks and balances don't work, and need a serious overhauling. It should be impossible for a single person, or even a whole party, to blatantly break the law, or risk national security with reckless decisions, and face no consequences.
There is also a bond market collapse for those people not invested in stocks precisely because they're close to retirement.

I think that was the real reasons that tariff effects were postponed, the increase in interests in the bond markets would have been too fatal too quickly.
On an old MBP I have a similar setup with these two tools:

- https://ju-x.com/hostingau.html

- https://existential.audio/blackhole/

Default output for applications is set to BlackHole's virtual sound device which the "Ext-In / Track D" channel can pick up in Hosting AU as an input. An "AUDynamicsProcessor" and "AUGraphicEQ" stage later (both built-in macOS units) it is sent back to the real output device.
Imagine being able to trade, knowing what he was about to say.

On margin.

Both the ups, and the downs (short trades).

Imagine being able to make it an open secret that if someone pays you and publicly kisses your ass a little, you'll send some of those advance hints their way.

Imagine how much money you could make in a matter of weeks.
Do you have any evidence that he did?
Yeah no, I don't think that. But:

1) Back then, racists were elected everywhere else too. America didn't much stand out just because of that.

2) Back then, America a) wasn't led by a moroniac[§], and b) didn't intentionally alienate itself from the rest of the world.

And I'm afraid it's really goodbye this time. I mean, 2016-20 was weird enough, but then we thought normalcy had returned... But then you -- or they? -- went and re-elected him. There's just no way of knowing where America will go; looks like a total basket-case.

Seems quite a lot of Americans agree with me on that, BTW. Didn't they ever know America either?

___

[§]: Maniacal moron, or moronic maniac? Can't make up my mind.
But the consumer is still the one who can either afford the shoe or not. He doesn't care who is collecting the tax or where in the pipeline it is assessed.
The Prisoner's Dilemma is a very easy game for everyone to win at if everyone cooperates. Unfortunately, everyone doesn't want to cooperate.

It's a good idea to recognize and internalize this, as it's quite inherent to human nature, and won't be going away during any of our lifetimes.
Apparently he's been bragging today that world leaders are "kissing his ass", which seems to be just as likely to be his motivation as anything else.

He's also planning a $100M military parade in DC, apparently on his birthday (although he denies that point).

He's a wannabe dictator - seems same motivation for Greenland, Panana, Canada (51st state), maybe also strikes on Houthi.
While not disagreeing with you, I don't think we've done a great job of maintaining fisheries.
Brown Girl in The Ring, in other words.
Anecdotally, most of the people I know who support his policies do so in hopes that their financial choices will work out. They are educated and financially well off individuals. Do they check all the boxes (international dev, economics, science, etc)? No, but they can be considered educated over the general US pop.

Not a great comparison obviously, but education was great in the Weimar republic as well, with a diverse and thriving press and near 100% literacy. The United States can't match those numbers.

It seems its always about something else besides educational level.
Being an illiterate moron isn't fringe. It's quite commonplace. Educated and intelligent is fringe.
> trying to sell them to a foreign country for the greatest possible profit

First, to clear things up, I don't at all mean doing it to maximize profit. Notice that we expect a great degree of selflessness here - they should not be maximizing profit during the pandemic. We require it - we put them in jail otherwise.

It's all hands on deck.

> It would be a tough sell

There are definitely challenges here; I agree about that.

I think what sells to most people is to appeal to fairness. Democracy's foundation is fairness - rights to all, all get a vote. Fairness actually sells very well everywhere, despite the modern authoritarian's false critique. Law of the jungle is highly undesireable to most people; they like having civilization and rights.

But not universally; some will fight it. You need leaders and neighbors standing up for what's right. Also, enlightened self-interest can be convincing - help those in need, and you'll get help when you are in need.

You also need a way to determine what is fair; good leaders build consensus and navigate the politics - that is their job definition. Probably you put supplies where they do the most good. Start with hospitals and nursing homes, where contagion and vulnerable patients combine for the greatest risk. Then other vulnerable people (e.g., elderly or ill in private homes), then the first healthy recipients being front line workers like firefighters.

I think most healthy people would happily give up their medical supplies for those who need them more. There are always some malcontents, but we can't hold up society and progress for them.

> convince the person who is actually making these supplies to put the needs to an arbitrary person above the needs of their immediate community

Manufacturers provide them outside their employees, and health care professionals help strangers all the time. If we asked someone in downtown SF to provide them to someone across the Bay, would that be too far? To LA? NY? Rural Georgia? What about from Seattle to Vancouver? Belgium to the Netherlands? To Germany? To Turkey? To Japan?

My probably obvious point is, ''community' and 'us' are amorphous, changing concepts. Of course people in LA and Toronto and anywhere deserve the medical supplies as much as people next door.
I believe it's some bizarre ploy so his supporters will say, "You should listen to Trump!"
Hopefully EU will still go ahead with the tariffs. We should not be dancing at the tune of the mad king.
Despite the media tantrum the market only dropped back to early 2024 levels at the most.
https://x.com/Ike_Saul/status/1910028885460148427
Tried Book of the New Sun. Apparently Terminus Est (a sword) is Severian’s companion, and it completely fails to mention Dorcas.

Oh well.
For generous definitions of "funny", maybe.
The President can only legally set tarrifs in an "emergency". Planning tarrifs 90 days out is really stretching the definition--I'm not holding my breath, but maybe the courts will uphold the constitution on this one?
How though? Obviously there will be tariff evasion but doing so at scale is impossible.
They have done it before. The difference is you can withdraw your cash if you see it coming. The government's end game is to get rid of physical cash with Pix and soon Drex.

Without physical cash, your finances are one hundred percent controlled by the government. Sure, it's convenient, but you pay for that convenience with your freedom.
Only Republican Presidents get that kind of carte blanche.

They would already be impeaching if it was a Democrat.
Not sure if it still holds, but it was 5x at launch: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-pro

FAQ agrees: https://support.anthropic.com/en/articles/8324991-about-clau...
Strongly recommend using Apache Tika[1] for this. It's industry standard for ubiquitous document text extraction.

You can take the text output from Tika, chunk it with something like Chonkie[2], and embed it for your search index.

-[1]https://tika.apache.org/

-[2]https://chonkie.ai/
Small discussion (12 points, 2 days ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43612361
(2009)

They tested with 4 different cars. Only the '72 Pontiac was severely affected.
I feel like it's a great bellwether that react has jump shipped as a viable way to build applications if the mindshare of maintainers/core devs/influencers are pushing in this direction.
Exactly. The damage has been done; the fact that economic policy could dramatically change day-by-day makes investing and planning very difficult. In addition, the tariffs on China are insane.

One of my biggest concerns is the value of the dollar. If foreigners are discouraged from doing business with America either due to tariffs or due to other matters, how does this affect the dollar, which is a fiat currency? The US dollar is currently the world's reserve currency, which is the result of the United States' emerging victorious from WWII while Britain, holder of the world's previous reserve currency (the pound), had to contend with rebuilding as well as dealing with the loss of its empire. Fiat currencies, by definition, are not backed by assets, but are instead backed by "faith"; not in the religious sense, but in the faith that people have in the government issuing the currency. How will the world keep the faith if the custodian of the dollar acts so recklessly?

For many years I've been concerned about deficit spending and easy-money policies from central banks. However, for the past few months I've become very concerned about Trump's policies that alienate our allies and partners. What Trump and the rest of MAGA simply do not understand is that the United States is part of an interconnected world. American strength is more than just weaponry; it's also in our economy and our reputation.

Unfortunately Trump and his cabinet have done extraordinary damage to our nation in less than three months. He's like an angry man with a baseball bat smashing up irreplaceable artifacts in a museum, and sadly there is no police to stop him, because he is the chief of police. He is by far the worst president America has ever had to endure, and if this continues our nation will end up at war, either with itself or with other nations.
They're at $9 on my delayed screen. Obviously I don't have the optimal insider derivatives strategy at the tip of my fingers!
If only someone had written a book on this exact topic, back in the 80s.
> It brought a large number of countries to the negotiating table

Did it? They said it did, but I wouldn’t trust a word they say.

What concessions has he actually got from the rest of the world? Was it worth it? It seems to me the two biggest trading ‘partners’ (China and EU) were escalating, not conceding.
I think Germany is a bit of a special case due to what happened after the war, I think a more objective comparison might be say France.
https://bsky.app/profile/unusualwhales.bsky.social/post/3lmf...

"Alright, I think people knew of the tariff pause and traded it beforehand ... "
I suppose Google wants us to pretend that "agents" can't be "resources." MCP is already well established (Anthropic, OpenAI, Cursor, etc), so Google plastering their announcement with A2A endorsements just reeks of insecurity.

I figure this A2A idea will wind up in the infamous Google graveyard within 8 months.
I think GP meant, "Who in power cares"
It now feels quaint that, not long ago, people used to speculate what Gödel's loophole was:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gödel%27s_Loophole

We're witnessing that there doesn't need to be any single clever actively exploited loophole. A two-party presidential system can become a dictatorship if one party holds just enough power across all branches of government to not resist what their leader wants.
> I'm shocked at just how bad a lot of folks are at holding interviews, and just how misplaced their confidence in their ability seems to be.

They've all drunk the leetcode / cs question koolaid, instead of just talking about projects, and how they would solve some things, and checking their personality (this is like 70% of the weight for me for new team members) if nobody likes you because of your attitude / personality, you'll bring down the team with your personality.
Right or wrong, that's not an appeal to an authority.
Not possible with diet alone.
Legally no, but normatively, yes. It was previously expected that the president wouldn't deliberately ruin the American economy for his own ego. That can no longer be expected.
The Chinese stock market...is not a fun place. It hasn't done very well in the last 5 years (unlike the US stock market) and is still way too subject to insider trading to be very accessible to most people. You can go with an emerging markets fund, but I would only do that as a hedge.
Vastly different business model than Dollar General. DG customers, by definition, have to take what they can get. If you don't like what NAPA has, you can go online or to another store.
sweet this looks great. hadnt heard of chonkie but tika was on my list. thanks!
In the sense that people "take seriously" a drunkard waving a gun around.
Because US is not a democracy anymore. Checks and balances are gone.
Without taking sides, what if we think this wasn't a stunt but a genuine experiment?
That's still not charitable.
>He's turned the US stock market into the same model as China's - the entire up/down rests on the leaders words.

Not only stock market. The whole "Project 2025" point is to turn everything from the "rule-based" approach to "unitary-executive's-really-a-King's-whim" approach.

Just today - the export control or lack of it on specific Nvidia chips isn't really result of security needs of US, instead it is just a result of Jensen getting a dinner at Mar-a-Lago. Just like in Russia.
Our Privacy Act Lawsuit Against DOGE and OPM: Why a Judge Let It Move Forward
Yeah, pretty sure the markets will "re-adjust" from their good-news swoon when they realize nothing has really changed.
Recommend dminder app for an illuminated way to count D intake from both sun and supps.
EU has already had tariffs on US goods for a long time.
Came here to suggest this. pivot_root has the advantage that it can remount the existing root. It's essentially meant for going from an initramfs using linuxrc to boot to a full-on init in the other root filesystem. If things are horribly broken you could use a shell or some other process as init.
A lot of fun to be had with black hole + guitar rig.
It's not a prisoners dilemna because you also lose by defecting while everyone else is cooperating.

The thing to recognize and internalize is that the world is a lot more win-win than our psychology has been evolved to recognize. Nationalism, realpolitik, xenophobia - all of these are ideologies that make you poorer and worse off, not giving you some secret insight into the truth of human nature.
Insider trading, pure and simple. You can bet his son-in-law and all his buddies made hundreds of millions here. America is a 3rd world country, nothing else.
That was part of the entire purported purpose of this lunacy. They went on TV and everything about having people operating robots screwing in iphone screws and stuff.

Whether anyone bought into it is another matter, but opening factories is part of what they said they wanted.
I seem to remember the previous Trump term being a bit nuts too.
System Rescue is what i use these days, but to be honest i can’t recall using it in the last couple of year. Virtualization and containers have taken over.

https://www.system-rescue.org/
Be the node you want to see in the network
> 4. Pretty much have to own a car in most places.

Hey, electric scooters are not the worst ever (although I got hit by a truck while riding one and decided to get a car just because I don't like getting hit by trucks)
The only way to know is to wait 3 months and see.
After a Psilocybin trip I found that anxiety was driving a vast majority of my desire for screen time. Post trip for the next few days my mind was perfectly calm - no thoughts were forcefully intruding, constantly causing distraction and frustration leading to seeking screen time.

During that time I could go to work, consume tasks, complete them without stress or distraction and feel a sense of accomplishment and fulfillment. Same when I went home and did chores around the house. That is a feeling that has been elusive most of my life. The big thing that stood out to me those few days: little to no desire for screen time.

If you think you have anxiety then do yourself a favor and seek professional help. Otherwise these life hacks are useless as they are ignoring the root cause of your desire for screen time.
> They will start a riot and then when you don't give in, they'll be gone

If you haven't already done so, read up on TARGET2[0], things could get somewhat spicy if a Eurozone country were to leave the EU.

[0] https://data.ecb.europa.eu/publications/ecbeurosystem-policy...