skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, looks like Golem went similar route - using WASM Component Model and wasmtime.

There is always this chicken and egg problem on a new platform, but I am hoping that LLMs can solve it partially - the activities are just HTTP clients with no complex logic.

Regarding the restrictions required for determinism, they only apply to workflows, not activities. Workflows should be describing just the business logic. All the complexities of retries, failure recovery, replay after server crash etc. are handled by the runtime. The WASM sandbox makes it impossible to introduce non-determinism - it would cause a compile error so no need for runtime checks.
So we are targeting the whole US industry not just Tesla now? FFS world grow up! just because the current US admin has spat out its dummy does not mean the world has to do the same, most US businesses have no say in any of this. Where is good leadership when you need it?
There is not a binary choice between America or a totalitarian regime.

As an American, I recognize there are systems that can make us less free and I want to call them out in hopes that we will eventually address these issues so we have a more free society.

Various countries have laws to prevent at least some subset of the issues I’ve raised.
I basically do this using self-hosted LibreChat. Can even use MCP with it.
> We need to anticipate a future where China is equal to America on a per capita basis, but four times bigger.

Is it even possible in terms of resources? there are limits to growth and it may not be feasible for 1.5 billions people to consume and pollute as much as an average American.

Also are the US willing to lose their supremacy peacefully?
> Aren't brick-and-mortar bookshops, generally speaking, as viable as Apatosaurus today?

Not really. Plenty of people still read, and they still read hard copies of books. I don't think you will get argument that business isn't as good as it used to be, but that's a long way away from not being viable at all.

> Also — secondhand books are generally outdated, undesirable, and/or damaged — do collectors still find diamonds in the rough?

You haven't spent much time around secondhand book stores, I'm guessing? Yes, there are absolutely diamonds out there. And even outside of that, there are lots of perfectly good used books. Books don't go bad over time, so unless they're damaged (which isn't most of them) they are still perfectly saleable.
Leaving the euro! Authoritarian currency is as good as their word.
I was using LobeChat religiously until LibreChat added MCP support. Game changer.
What is the benefit of all this extra complexity?
What's a better system that allows patching loopholes of the letter without requiring extensive bureaucracy and potential gridlock in legislature?

There's no mind reading, most of EU's fines only happen after a pattern of non-compliance, complain as much as you want about EU's bureaucracy but it's quite cooperative if you want to figure out a solution. I prefer this system than one where the written laws are worth nothing since well paid corporate lawyers can figure a way out, or hell, they might even be paid to write the laws themselves as it happens in the US.
A solo developer trying to find a way to offer something for free and eat shouldn't be mutuals exclusive.

Selling out is relative to having one's living costs somehow subsidized.

Not everyone has the same financial safety nets, and likely most have to create a safety net for themselves.

Maintaining a clear line between the free size and paid should be easier here compared to other tools should the developer decide to go that way.
right, just like all the other crazy things that Trump said he would do, and people dismissed as outside the realm of possibility.

like 100% tariffs on china.
why? has any immigration law been changed?
I've read, that now GW have more than 50% of revenue from licensing IP, not selling books & plastic.
Indeed! But more than that it's accurate.
> Unsure why you're getting downvoted, perhaps because you used the fear-inducing d-word. While I'm not at the point of calling him that, I do think we're certainly living with the illusion of a democracy at the moment.

I think you have it a little wrong. We aren't living "with the illusion of a democracy at the moment," as Trump and the Republicans were all elected democratically (because the Democrats couldn't be bothered to take the threats they were screaming about seriously, and actually change their tactics and strategy).

What you describe seems to be more the "illusion of the rule of law."
How Many New iPhones Can Fit on a Freight Plane?
I've actually used this to unbrick my laptop before. Very useful
These models are all stupid af. Ask one to make a simple react native page and it will keep getting it wrong. Even O3 mini high is better than 3.7
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> I think I can safely say which one will still be around in 6 months

LangChain is still around but that doesn't mean much. MCP isn't much better.
This is so incredibly naive I have a hard time believing you're serious. I guess you're right, it wouldn't be immigrants committing crimes. It'd just be regular, everyday Americans, who also commit a shit ton of crimes & violence.
That sounds like it could be the play. Quick, let’s apply to YC with it.
Could a mouse be used as a pulse oximeter if you change the firmware on the tracking chip?
No, these are documents with no super consistent standards. There are requirements regarding the content of the 13F filing, but not so much about formatting. And they are PDFs, which makes them difficult to parse using traditional scripts.
Yeah sorry very silly mistake thanks for pointing it out. It makes a big difference indeed.
There Are No New Ideas in AI... Only New Datasets
If by "exporting something else" you include dollars then fine, but I don't believe that was what the GP was saying.
I wish the discussion included the margins the fashion industry makes. In the labor sector, 10%-20% margin is respectable. But in the fashion and consumer goods sector at least 30% margins are expected. 80% margins are normal
for “luxury” goods, which I’m sure is the bracket Nike falls into. I wish margins were included in the thread. It’s only true that everything increases in cost if you also have to keep the same margins.
Powell's here in Portland seems to be doing pretty well with 68,000 square feet (6,300 square metres) sales floor space and millions of customers a year.

https://powells.com
Ask HN: Building AI notetaker for immigrant founders. What am I missing?
Hi,
I’m building Caret(caret.so), an AI meeting notetaker for immigrant founders. We help immigrant founders/startups to close more sales deals in the US. (Of course, you can just use it — confidently say it is way better than Granola, Otter, and so on)

Our product went viral in South Korea, we relocated to US and finding more customers. But I’m thinking about things like ‘Where are they?’, ‘What they really need?’ or ‘How can reach out more proactively?’, it makes me slow down. Could you give me some advice?

---

The selling point we're pushing right now:
1/ Real-time transcription and timeline summary: If you're an immigrant, you'll know this: since English isn't your first language, you sometimes miss a few words and lose focus wondering what you missed. Caret provides real-time transcription of conversations and displays an easy-to-follow timeline summary. It’s also the only product in the industry offering real-time speaker diarization, clearly showing who said what.

2/ Support for multiple channels (online/offline): Doing business globally means using various communication channels like WeChat, Zalo, or Meta Workplace. However, traditional meeting bots can't transcribe conversations from channels they don't support. Caret captures all system audio, allowing seamless transcription across multiple online channels as well as offline conversations.

3/ Reduce your meeting prep time (Coming soon!): Preparing for meetings is incredibly time-consuming. Even with extensive question lists, you might miss important points because you're too focused on pitching your product. Caret will soon release features to significantly cut your meeting preparation time by retrieving past conversation histories and performing prospecting tasks automatically. During meetings, Caret will notify you to do critical follow-ups, such as scheduling future meetings or sending contracts, ensuring you never miss important actions.
Okay I think I understand, thanks for explaining.

So basically the money a business uses to produce the next tranche of goods (so to speak) normally comes not from income from sales of the last tranche, but rather from external funding sources such as loans or capital injection from investors?

Is that really so common as to be universal and affect investor behavior like you suggest? Like for certain types of business, and especially for early stage businesses, I do expect this to be the case. But does it apply to the market broadly? Scary if so, since it seems like a destabilizing force.
The money naturally flows from those who don't own assets, to those who do. So, to keep the economy flowing healthily, the cycle needs to be completed by taxing those who own a lot of assets.
i sense this author was putting out slop even before ai.
I suggest reading this before getting too excited about shiny new manufacturing plants that will require years to stand up.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/money/business/2023/03/23/wha...
That's a consequence of its attack style, it doesn't just strike the prey and then retreat, it actively subdues it and doesn't let go.

So there's an evolutionary pressure to make venom as fast acting as possible so that the prey has fewer chances to injure the snake before dying.

Black mamba in Africa is in a similar situation. It's an arboreal snake, so its toxic venom helps it to hold on to the prey.
Isn't iceberg lettuce so common in part because it's one of the most stable lettuces? Still absolutely hilarious that Truss was outlasted by a head of lettuce, but I want to make sure that we're being accurate.
Keiko Fukuda, a judo trainer (10th degree black belt) in SF who died in 2013 aged 99 (she taught in her dojo in Noe Valley even into the last year of her life) was the student of the judo founder Kano Jigoro who opened his first judo school in 1882.
Of all the things which are never going to happen, I put universal basic income at the top of the list. Faster than light travel seems vastly more likely than universal basic income.

I don’t believe we can pay for it, nor do I believe that it’s remotely politically feasible.

Studies like this are perfectly nice but I can’t imagine they are actually designed to confidently predict the general equilibrium effects of rolling out UBI on an entire society. (The studies may not be designed with that in mind but it’s crucial.)
I don't really see the hyperbolic language about it. I've definitely worked some process-heavy corporate jobs where I could be perfectly satisfactorily productive as far as my management was concerned while only doing actual work like 20-30% of the time. Maybe I'm super smart or maybe they're just terrible at generating and assigning tasks, I don't know. Not my problem either way.

Especially in the WFH era where it's much easier to get away with it clean, I don't see anything all that wrong with working 2 or 3 such jobs at the same time. If all of them are happy, or at least not too terribly upset, with your performance, what's the harm. There's definitely been times in my life where I could see myself doing that just for the sake of being bored.
That's not the simplest possible explanation. The simplest explanation is that he did this because he believes in it. Trump has been saying the exact same thing about tariffs since the 1980s—there's video of him talking to Larry King about it in 1987, using exactly the same phrasing and logic that he uses today.

Donald Trump fundamentally believes that everything in life is a zero-sum game, and moreover that everyone is as crooked as him: either you're screwing someone else or you're getting screwed. That's why he's so obsessed with trade deficits specifically, because to him, that negative sign screams "you're getting ripped off."

There are other benefits. By imposing the tariffs like this and wielding them through executive power, he can extort countries and corporations to give him what he wants in exchanging for releasing the hostages, so to speak. And I'm sure people in his orbit _also_ used this as a get-rich-quick scheme, because these people are all grifters. But that is all secondary to the fact that he has believed this for forty years and finally got a chance to do it.
> That's right. Community wide Universal Basic Income would cause price rises for shelf goods, negating the intended beneficial effect.

If that were true, supermarkets in wealthy areas would be much more expensive than in poor areas, but they aren't.

No one likes overpaying for groceries, and a modest government income isn't going to change that.
> have been taught

As I said, and not to be flip, but "propaganda mouthpieces." The odd part about "social media" is that it actually instills a sense of reward in people when they uncritically repeat what they've been told like a Manchurian candidate. While at the same time being an outlet for their frustrations with the outcome of these same policies and ideals.

> live in the freest and generally most superlative country

Since the 1950s the government has been opening and reading peoples mail. We had the Church Committee and the House Select Committee on Assassinations. In this era people did not make the same mistake. This notion of the "freest" country honestly started after 2001. "They hate us because of our freedom," was a useful excuse to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.

> We were pretty "soft" (dislike the term) on the land borders and on immigration.

That depends on your perspective. The cold war certainly had an impact on some citizens of the world more than others. The 2001 trade center attack just moved the goalposts. Here we are moving them again.

> but it's how I feel about things right now.

That's the most valuable thing you could possibly do. Thank you.
You are constructing a fantasy.
Manufacturing machines are hard to invent, and harder to keep running right, and even harder to network together into an effective factory. You need skilled operators, technicians, and engineers to design and run a factory.

You also need to put down a big whack of capital upfront and will see a return years down the line, hopefully.

With low enough wages, it could easily be financially better to rent a big building in the third world and staff it with actual people.
> but inference is in the long run gonna get the lion share of the work.

I'm not sure - might not the equilibrium state be that we are constantly fine-tuning models with the latest data (e.g. social media firehose)?
I am normally all in favor of metonymy, it's perfectly fine and well understood style.

In the case of Trump-as-Mad-King tariffs, it sure would be nice if the world didn't conflate America, the historical land of twisting other nation's arms to reduce tariffs, with Trump and his fake-emergency tariffs.

I can understand if you do, and if America has permanently lost a lot of good will by electing this buffoon for you, I can hardly argue with you.

But still. In my mind, these are Trump's tariffs, not America's.

And specifically the idea that Trump's tariffs are reciprocal, that is even more "Trump is just a liar" than something any honest American would argue.
This makes a lot of sense. But to be honest it feels more like a story about the pathology of hierarchical organisations than anything about AI.

I mostly work solo. I use AI when it's either a) interesting or b); useful. Our experiences are very different and it's no wonder our emotional responses are also very different.
And it's also mentioned in the third paragraph:

> They were originally shot in black and white, then hand-coloured by artists — a technique common at the time.
I wonder if these chips might contribute towards advancements for the Coral TPU chips?
Clash of the Foundries: Gate All Around and Backside Power at 2nm
No, sorry, no real idea. I'm sure Unisys would be happy to help but they'll likely charge you an arm and a leg.
Who cares? From the standpoint of someone selling you something, their product will be sold for 20% more (and they don't get 1 cent out of it).
Not to rehash this for the 1000th time, but I really don't understand this point of view. Why assume that everything before the Biden drop-out was unchangeable and ordained by God?

It is very clear that, long before the primary, Biden was not fit to run again, probably not even fit to stay in office. A functioning party would have gotten their senile standard-bearer to at least not run again, ideally even step down and let his VP take office and build a relationship with voters. Either way, they could have run a real primary and therefore chosen somebody that Democratic voters might actually have been excited about voting for in the general election. This may even have been Harris, but a version of Harris with a much better shot at winning because she'd spent an additional year or so campaigning.

Why is this an impossible set of events? If it isn't, why not lay the blame for this colossally bad fuckup at the feet of the Democratic leadership?
> secondhand books are generally outdated, undesirable, and/or damaged

Fiction books don't really become "outdated" to the point of being useless. That's only an argument for encyclopedias/technical manuals/etc.

> the shelves of library sales, churches, and ordinary thrift stores are overflowing.

I'm sure the same could be said about furniture, but I'd expect more luck finding interesting/quality second-hand furniture at a used furniture store than I would from a general dumping ground of miscellaneous used items.

For that matter, since you're asking about all brick-and-mortar book shops, I'd also expect better new furniture from a brick-and-mortar furniture shop than from a thrift shop. And while books may not require seeing them in person as much to know what they are, the act of discovering them for fun based on what happens to be there is (possibly) easier to understand than discovering a particular piece of furniture.
Elsewhere in this thread, someone saying this already exists in Alaska.
If the goal was to decouple from China then tarrifs would only be on China and we would encourage trade to move from China to other countries. The administrations actions have the opposite effect. It says the US is untrustworthy even to it's allies and maybe siding with China is not so bad. Note I don't like or trust the Chinese government and don't think other governments should try to get closer to them but Trump's actions make such moves much more likely
I think the nuance here is that the income in Universal Basic Income is a stand-in for "everyone's basic needs should be met". But income doesn't guarantee that, because prices go up and down for a variety of reasons.

What people actually want is Universal Basic Buying Power. I should be able to get a roof over my head, get food and an education. It sucks that it's this complicated but in terms of government policy sometimes UBI is cash handouts, other times it should be supply-side investments, and as the original commenter laid out, none of these research experiments are running that experiment.
"very stable genius," indeed
Swapping an enterprise’s cloud provider is at least a 6 month endeavor and that would be with all hands on deck, I estimate two years at least and that’s still with significant tail wind. While things are crazy, best bet is to hold tight and sign the checks and prepare.
Dystopian as hell. Crossing into "thought crime" territory. We all have the potential for great evil, where do you draw the line at pre-prosecuting people because they might commit some crime or another in the nebulous future?
also availability.

i recall the most effective way to distribute the covid vaccine would have been concentric circles from a central point. Obviously that was never going to happen.
Or Liz Truss, the shortest serving Prime Minister in British history less than 3 years ago...
Unless they are friends or family regulations will never allow. But you are right there is an abundance of old lonely people who would do this for nothing and it would benefit everyone.
In my opinion? Of course it’s gambling. Where I would define gambling as wagering money on a predefined event for a predefined payout and little to no payout for the event not occurring. In regards to where they got into it with the CFTC (essentially being able to bet on elections) they pitched it as essentially the same as other forecast markets that are legal wherein you’d make the wager as a hedge against other financial hardships. Bet on the thing you don’t want to happen and either you’re happy it didn’t or you get paid if it does. Though in that way insurance is a bit like gambling.

This boils down, as far as I can tell, is the CFTC has preliminarily been told that its authority to exclude these kinds of contracts only apply to “gaming” and not “gambling” (where gaming involves being a participant in a game of stakes). So Kalshi is trying to say that essentially supersedes state laws. I doubt that will hold water in the long run, but you never know until a court rules.
They’re lovely, thank you!
I think the last 6 years have shown how shakey electronics supply chains are. One factory in the US isn't going to come close to avoiding chaos.
I don't want to just downvote and move on without an explanation. You're basically offering some of the arguments this article brings up and then dismisses, with evidence, so it seems like you didn't read the article and are offering your personal opinion as an argument.
> 1. tax on imports, 2. tax on whatever goods/services people in that
> country pay/buy, you could keep just the 2 and have free trade with
> other countries with zero tax.

That is completely ridiculous. Why would there a VAT on, say, domestically produced pasta on the grocery shelf, while the Italian import pasta right next to it has none?
Consider this my feedback as well. The slider range feels way too narrow.
US debt was mostly being bought because "safe". The US being seen as politically and economically stable and the center of the world. Right now that argument is much harder to make.

And meanwhile there is always a lot of US debt that needs to be rolled over (i.e. re-issued to a willing buyer.)

Except for the data point of today's 10-Year Treasury Auction which had a normal, usual result.
You would think, but Word has some serious efficiency problems that I can't explain. For one, it is an order of magnitude slower at simply performing word counts than tools like wc or awk. Besides that, the problem does not parallelize well, due to the long-range dependency of line breaks.

Zooming in a bit, Word also does not kern fonts as well as LaTeX, so it might be missing some logic there that would trickle down into more beautiful word spacing and text flow.
With Gemini 2.5 the bill is zero for now.
I agree, Elm also does UI=f(s) really nicely. But it's not something you can do in JavaScript while also keeping everything JavaScript.
Every picture from Venus' surface, ever (2021)
I'm pretty sure it's exactly what they were saying.

You cannot import something without exporting something else. That something else, in almost 100% of the situations, is dollars.