skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The salient part:

> The time to halt this trading of assets
for consumables is now, and I have a plan
to suggest for getting it done. My remedy
may sound gimmicky, and in truth it is a tariff called by another
name. But this is a tariff that retains most free-market virtues,
neither protecting specific industries nor punishing specific countries nor encouraging trade wars. This plan would increase our
exports and might well lead to increased overall world trade. And
it would balance our books without there being a significant decline in the value of the dollar, which I believe is otherwise almost certain to occur.

> We would achieve this balance by issuing what
I will call Import Certificates (ICs) to all U.S.
exporters in an amount equal to the dollar
value of their exports. Each exporter would,
in turn, sell the ICs to parties—either exporters abroad or importers here—wanting to get goods into the
U.S. To import $1 million of goods, for example, an importer
would need ICs that were the byproduct of $1 million of exports. The inevitable result: trade balance.
This.

People arguing over base rates of motorcycle accidents as if Tesla didn't get fooled by a loony tunes wall. If Waymo had killed 5 motorcyclists in SF we would know. But they operate there without an incident for years.

Meanwhile, Tesla just after releasing autopilot to the world a man is decapitated because the system is deficient. Then it happened again in 2016 under eerily similar circumstance. Then we observe Teslas hitting broad objects like fire trucks and busses.

The correct response to that is not to say "Well what's the base rate for decapitations and hitting broad objects?"

No, you find out the reason for this thing happening. And the reason is known: a deficient sensor suit that it prone to missing objects clearly in its field of view.

So with the motorcycle situation, we already know what the problem is. This isn't a matter of a Tesla just interfacing with the statistical reality of getting rear-ended by a car. Because we know Teslas have a deficient sensor suit.
You don’t think seeing ads around the city reduces the awareness for these things? If do, you’re arguing all advertising is useless…
They switch off their brains?
Alexandria.
Yup, it's a product development process known as "Muntzing": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muntzing

While it was absolutely vital to getting the costs of the original Tesla Roadster and SpaceX launches way down… it can only work when you are able to accept "no, stop" as an answer.

Rockets explode when you get them wrong, you can't miss it.

Cars crashing more than other models? That's statistics, which can be massaged.

Government work? There's always someone complaining no matter what you do, very easy to convince yourself that all criticism is unimportant, no matter how bad it gets. (And it gets much worse than the worst we've actually seen from DOGE and Trump — I don't actually think they'll get to be as bad as the Irish Potato Famine, but that is an example of leaders refusing to accept what was going on).
> Tariffs may work towards an isolationist goal of producing and consuming our own goods.

At this point I'm not even sure that is true. I think instead we'll just see the
"cost of doing business" passed along to us consumers.
That’s the thing, they’re already merging multiple data streams (cameras) and dealing with visual anomalies. Pretty nonsense they can’t figure out different sensors when other companies are doing it just fine.
This is presumably needed at the integration point, i.e. you already have some C/C++ code being integrated into Rust. So "write it in a different language" is not helpful advice, since all of the code in question is already written.

(However, the technique here is itself not sound, per the other threads.)
I’ve spotted a few more subtle issues that would be unlikely to slip through code review, but can easily see a resurgence from vibe-coding and from a shift in early-stage hiring priorities towards career founding/‘product’ engineers.

It’s an easy tell for LLM-driven code because, to a seasoned engineer, it’ll always look like a strange solution to something, like handling auth or setting cookies or calling a database, that has been a done deal for a long time.
A Japanese entrepreneur built Ethiopia's fastest-growing EV maker
As a motorcyclist, lane filtering also comes with some dangers. It's up to each motorcyclist to decide if it's worth it. I lane split in heavy traffic in CA but I'm also very wary about being the first vehicle into an intersection after a light changes. I see far more people running red lights around me than I do people rear ending stopped traffic at a light. I'm glad we have the option.
We don't define advertising, we describe the sorts of things we would like to see go away, enumerate some of the easiest (like billboards), and amend in the future as newer manifestations become clear.

This isn't some piece of rigidly-defined software instruction that also is somehow write-once execute-forever amend-never.
My hand-me-down XS Max needs to last at least another 3-4 years. My goal is 10 years, and I think I can make it. The phone still works great, and the battery is at 88%. I am not buying anything for the next few years and hunkering down hard. I refuse to participate in this administration's economy.
I tinkered much like OP, and went on to do a professional trade course in PC building and maintenance when I was like fifteen. I also built websites. However, I didn't follow through and studied business management in college. It was only in my late 20's when I learned proper programming and developed a love for computer science with Harvard's CS50. I went on to do a masters in software engineering at Harvard Extension, and now I'm doing the OMSCS at Georgia Tech. Unlike OP it took me a while to connect with my love for computers. It's been a very haphazard journey!
He died last year, so it is gone I guess.
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It’s just anti-intellectualism and fear across the board. And that’s been the GOP MO for a long time now.

Convince people that the colleges are full of crazy liberals and you should go into the trades instead.

Now that you’re in the trades, don’t join a union. Unions are bad (unless it’s the police union).

Don’t look now but the Mexicans are coming for your job. The trans/gay people are coming for your children. Nevermind that the GOP is openly corrupt and has a pervert in the White House.

Think back to the aftermath of 9/11 and the Bush Admin’s constant fear campaign that successfully pushed the US into two wars.
The Elon magic is getting people to bikeshed bullshit like this and ignore the bigger issues.

You don’t gouge out your ears because you hear something walking around at night that doesn’t appear to be accurate. As a human, your executive function makes judgements based on context and what you know. Your eyesight is degraded in the dark, so your brain pays more attention to unexpected sound.

The argument for lidar, sonar or radar isn’t that cameras are “bad”, it’s that they perform very well in circumstances where visual input may not. As an engineer, you have an ethical obligation to consider the use case of the product.

It’s not at all like the 737max issue - many companies have been able to successfully implement these features I have a almost decade old Honda that uses camera and radar sensors to manage adaptive cruise and lane keeping features flawlessly.

In the case of Tesla and their dear leader, they tend to make dogmatic engineering decisions based on personal priorities. They then spackle in legal and astroturf marketing bullshit to dodge accountability. The folly of relying on cameras or putting your headlights inside of a narrow cavity in the car body (cybertruck) is pretty obvious if you live in a place that has winter weather and road salt.
I remember this being his reasoning for it, that the lidar should be unnecessary if they could get multi-camera depth perception to work like it does in humans.
We absolutely do, and in fact doing so is the primary job of many of the higher courts in the US.
Enumerating all the narrow edge cases has proven surprisingly difficult.
Trump will make China great again
> Turns out this is not true.

No, what you quoted in your comment you are replying to is accurate. What you are saying in this comment isn’t.

> Confirmed that os/2 2.0 was a skinning and compatibility layer for NT it came out for OS/2,

This is confused. OS/2 was not a “skinning and compatibility layer for NT” it was a completely separate operating system.

I think at one point NT was going to be OS/2 2.0, and then it was going to be OS/2 3.0 - but the OS/2 2.0 which eventually ended up shipping had nothing to do with NT, it was IBM’s independent work, in which Microsoft was uninvolved (except maybe in its early stages).
I don't think many Democrats have been arguing for blanket tariffs for some time. It kind of seemed like there was a bipartisan consensus for the use of some combination of tariffs and stimulus to ensure there was domestic manufacturing capability for critical industries... at least until trump. Nobody in their right mind has been calling for a return to domestic t-shirt manufacturing, but there are national security and competitiveness reasons to think about semiconductors. And that's what the chips act did, and at 64-33 that's about as bipartisan as things get these days.
I thought you were making a point but then your last sentence kind of shuttered everything that preceded.
Liquid Powder Display
Yeah but you see this goalpost moving all the time when talking Tesla. Every time someone says something is wrong, people will say "But what about the latest version" or "this will be fixed in the next version". Meanwhile, you can still find video on YouTube of cars on the latest version veering into oncoming traffic.
Peter Navarro Invented an Expert for His Books, Based on Himself (2019)
The important part is that this doesn’t seek to force a zero trade deficit on a per-country basis. Imagine insisting Cambodia has to buy as much US goods (taking into account the type of goods the US exports) as US companies import from Cambodian factories.
> They generally can't detect stationary objects, have problems with reflections, most of them are VERY low resolution, and so on.

Radar can absolutely detect a stationary object.

The problem is not, "moving or not moving", it's "is the energy reflected back to the detector," as alluded to by your second qualification.

So something that scatters or absorbs the transmitted energy is hard to measure with radar because the energy doesn't get back to the detector completing the measurement. This is the guiding principle behind stealth.

And, as you mentioned, things with this property naturally occur. For example, trees with low hanging branches and bushes with sparse leaves can be difficult to get an accurate (say within 1 meter) distance measurement from.
I haven’t run into anything where Python either couldn’t be used or shouldn’t be used, except for the browser of course.

I think software engineers with any significant amount of experience recognize you can build an application that does X in just about any language. To me, the largest difference, the greatest factor in which language to choose, is the existing packages. Simple example- there are several packages in Python for extracting text from PDFs (using tesseract or not). C# has maybe one tesseract wrapper? I recall working with PDFs in .NET being a nightmare. I think we had to buy a license to some software because there wasn’t a free offering. Python has several.

This is VERY important because we as software engineers, even if we wanted to reinvent the wheel sometimes, have very limited time. It takes an obscene number of man hours to develop a SalesForce or a Facebook or even something smaller like a Linux distro.
> Combine the two, and the regulations will be written such that it excludes Tesla and includes Waymo.

The solution seems easier, if only the regulators would pick up upon it.

Under the current human driven auto regime, it is the human that is operating the machine who is liable for any and all accidents.

For a self-driving car, that human driver is now a "passenger". The "operator" of the machine is the software written (or licensed) by the car maker. So the regulation that assures self-driving is up-to-snuff is:

When operating in "self driving" mode, 100% of all liability for any and all accidents rests on the auto manufacturer.

The reason the makers don't seem to care much about the safety of their self driving systems is that they are not the owners of the risk and liability their systems present. Make them own 100% of the risk and liability for "self driving" and all of a sudden they will very much want the self-driving systems to be 100% safe.
Thanks for the links. I don't think there is as much daylight between Bernie's targeted tariffs and Trump's blanket then negotiate exceptions tariffs though. I guess we will see. Or Congress could decide it wants to do its job again and stops delegating its authority to the Executive.
The text you have in your “quote” is a lot more snarky and rude than the original message. Did they edit their comment or something? Otherwise—why not quote an actual quote?
According to the original producers of The Apprentice, he's not a drinker but has had an addiction to both Sudafed and Cocaine going back probably 40 years now, which has made him completely incontinent.
Ok, what other ADAS is driving over 2 billion miles a year?

As for "best technology available," the galaxy brains in this thread are tossing out numbers assuming that sensor fusion never fails and that correlated failure modes can be neglected, which is wild. I never thought Elon was a genius -- he's a business guy willing to make big bets on interesting tech, nothing more nothing less -- but if the confidently incorrect engineering claims on display in this thread are any indication, maybe you guys should be calling him a genius after all, because this ain't it.
Consider how long it takes your camera to autofocus, and how sometimes it gets it wrong. Then consider how fast your car moves. In the time it takes your camera to autofocus, how far do you think a car can travel, and what happens to all the blurry things in its path that it can't see?
> You work in enterprise software sales and you think people buy change? That is bizarre and shocking.

I worked (past tense,) and, yes, they buy change, regardless of how strange you find that to be.

I cannot count the number of times I listened to a customer complain about a lack of feature velocity (real or perceived) in one meeting, then complain about outages caused by new features in the next.

> Car door handles were perfect and have become significantly worse.

Yeah. It’s almost like the car makers know something about what drives buying behavior amongst their customer base.
Is this real
I still get just as much phantom breaking. I’ve narrowed it down to the car using map speed limit data and losing track of where it is. It’s very consistent on 5 south in LA. The same spot every day.
They're lying. This is up there with "I was hacked" when getting caught replying to porn accounts.
My view with cancelling USAID is that the world is a better place because of such. Could it have been made even better if somehow we were able to selectively pick and choose 'worthy' programs and work to transition them out? Maybe, but perfect is not the enemy of good. And the reason I say maybe is because I have high doubts such a transitioning could have been done effectively in anything like a remotely viable timeframe. What genuine impact is felt with USAID's demise will be able to filled by the countless other aid organizations working in places like Africa.

And while perfect is not the enemy of good, bad certainly is. And altruism without consideration of the consequences can easily become harmful. A recurring example is with food. A country will suffer some force majeure and be flooded with ongoing international donations of food. This sends the price of most basic foodstuffs plummeting, local farmers lose their livelihood, and suddenly the country becomes completely dependent upon foreign powers for food. This also happens when countries are encouraged by global organizations to lower food tariffs. This is one of the many ways that altruism can be weaponized - intentionally hurting by "helping."

As for the politics stuff, I do not agree that refusing to advance a Supreme Court Candidate is worse than enabling legal indefinite detention of citizens without trial or representation. And, with all due respect, I'm fairly certain you don't think so either. I can't comment on the past two months because I'm generally quite supportive of it, though I did not vote for Trump either time.

In general though I think the notion of an 'advanced economy' is farcical: You take all of the most critical parts of your economy, ship them off elsewhere, and largely replace them with superflous luxury goods and services. I see this as both exploitative and unsustainable, and it creates behemoth multinational corporations that, in many ways, end up having even more power than governments. I'd like to imagine we learned a lesson or two from the East India Company. But perhaps it's like 1984, we did learn lessons - just the wrong ones.
HN might be served from the US, but it's operated entirely by subjects of the king.
Nice article but is this whole thing just AI generated?

Profile picture definitely seems to be StableDiffusion'd
and the account was created today, with no previous articles.

Plus I couldn't find any other references to Elena Cross.
This is not entirely correct - Kobo also expects a bunch of special <span>s inserted for things like highlighting and page numbers to work.

It kills me that Kobo is so close to having plain epubs rendered with Webkit but for some reason they just won't take the leap!
another option that would have been interesting to see here is serving PostGIS GeoJSON export -> tippecanoe encode. Tippecanoe is super fast, parallelizes well and built solely for generating vector tile data (with lots of configurable options that PostGIS lacks)
Do you need approval to prove LLM is useful in improving your productivity? No? You try it yourself and make that conclusion.

Comparing fsd to whatever Mercedes is doing is like chatgpt v Markov chains
Buffett's suggestion, while elegant, would require that Congress passes legislation on this, which there's zero percent chance that it would, in its present state.
AI security engineers will be built soon. One of a few areas that should be more automatable as the AI software engineers get a bit better
That’s a misreading of the phrase “proportion of YES votes”. If 30% of judges vote YES, then only 30% – not 100% – of the prediction’s market cap is awarded to those who bet YES. The remaining 70% of the market cap is awarded to those who bet NO.

The market correctly rewards those who bet NO in such a case. Therefore, bettors have no reason to bet YES if they really think NO.
Inefficiency basically. Burn more fuel for the amount of work output, because of heavier parts, simpler designs, less magic.

I prefer such things so I am not damning them for this, it just is the unfortunate reality. It's a trade-off.

A simple example is adding a turbo increases both power and efficiency, at the cost of more parts, shorter mtbf, and less robustness. Ie aside from just more parts to wear out sooner, the system is less rugged even when new and perfect, more easily incapacitated by a spec of dust, in a machine that doesn't live in a chip fab clean room.
Value and price aren't the same thing. Inflation is a change in price, not necessarily a change in value of the things being purchased. This is why when you examine how much something has changed in price you should compare real versus nominal changes.

If you bought your home for $100k in 2000 and sold it today for about $185k, you would be selling it for the same real amount despite the nominal change in price. Its value has not changed in real terms. If you sold the home for $300k, that would exceed the increase from inflation alone and indicate an increase in value (either improvements you've made, the local area has become more desirable, or reflecting scarcity of homes in general).

Or look at your own salary. If your salary is just keeping up with inflation, your employer does not see any increase in value from you over the years. If your salary is dropping relative to inflation, you are, arguably, losing value. If your salary increases faster than inflation, you're increasing in value. (Of course there can also be a lag, the 8% inflation in 2022 may result in depressed salaries for 1-2 years before they catch up. Watch the trend over a longer period of time.)
> I don't think there is as much daylight between Bernie's targeted tariffs and Trump's blanket then negotiate exceptions tariffs though.

The fact that you thought Bernie and AOC were quietly supportive of his tarrifs perhaps indicates the value of this opinion.

Tarrif rates have been steadily dropping to near-zero, since the 1930s, under both political parties. We're now returning to a rate not reached in over a century. https://www.statista.com/chart/34236/average-effective-tarif...
I'd suggest KOReader, on various devices, as the best renderer and interface.
Reading comments about a puzzle game coming from a "product manager ex. game designer with a number of puzzle/word game in operation" is one of the main reasons why I come to HN.
They even published Scientific Linux, a CentOS like RHEL fork.
Microsoft's Quake 2 AI experiment sparks negative reactions
Paper with some simulations and a tweaked version of Buffett's idea: https://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_538.pdf
You might not like Elon but that doesn’t make him wrong.
I'm confused, are you asking we close our eyes and only operate on internal bias? Where does the world matter if no single metric is relevant? Regardless of number metrics, what do you think matters? I think a family that can no longer afford a laptop for their child's education matters. I think 10,000 or 100,000 such families matter a lot. How do we tell that story? What options have we but the numbers?
He declares different "emergencies". Tarifs on Canada and Mexico used a fentanyl emergency. Now he has declared the trade deficit an emergency.

"Today, President Donald J. Trump declared that foreign trade and economic practices have created a national emergency"

https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/04/fact-sheet-pr...
In True Communism (tm) there would be no need for advertising! Because anything people could want they would already have!!!!
>But the configuration is a whole new project in lua.

That part doesn't worry me. I am concerned about neovim not doing well in a copilot centric future though.
France seems to have the most, out of the European countries I have spent time in. But it's not like the US
If you pooled the funds with 10 other people who want the book, it would be $90 each. Or imagine pooling it with 100 people.
Plutonium is scarce, but demand for it is even more scarce. Hence why most of the plutonium that exists is untapped. It’s not even a functioning market because of this, it requires governments to prop up its production.

Plutonium is one of the most niche things ever. All humans and businesses desire human attention, whereas virtually nobody desires plutonium.

The amount of people who can do anything with it amounts to likely 0.000001% of the population.

This is not a good rebuttal.
Is this comparable to Hilary Clinton’s email issue out of interest? (not American so only have a passing familiarity with much of this)
The Win32 API's object model is (mostly) compatible with Rust's. Handles play well with OBRM. Does the winsafe crate provide the interfaces you need? https://docs.rs/winsafe/