skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't even think the market manipulation argument stands. That gives them too much credit.

Trump's hand was forced and he had to retreat. Like the market kept having little bursts before this, based simply on the core reality that this is a trade war that the US cannot stomach without extraordinary financial damage, so everyone just kept waiting for the out. It is far more exposed and doesn't have the "cards", as Trump says, that they think they have.

The guy really, really wants his tariffs, so who knows where we even are now. He will not, under any circumstance, back down. We saw that with Canada -- various pauses, then steel and aluminum tariffs, then car tariffs, then a 25% across the board tariff for non USMCA compliant goods. First he even targeted USMCA. Based upon a lie. He desperately wants these tariffs, and as the very special person he is, he has learned absolutely nothing from today and will be back at the trough when he thinks he gets another go.

The most amazing thing are the Trump faithful who hold this as a win. This is quite possibly the most disastrous outcome of all -- the uncertainty. It is going to be economic calamity for the US.

But maybe Trump can announce that Uganda has removed a tariff or something.
Yup, Chinese Tier 1 cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen) are probably 20 years ahead of their Western counterparts (in terms of crime, or lack thereof, public transportation, convenience, cleanliness, etc).
Future might tell. But while it's tempting, I wouldn't bet against democracy and freedom just yet.
Entity Framework is in a completely different class from pretty much every ORM out there, with only a handful of exceptions. Even ActiveRecord in Rails is a toy compared to it.

Even back when it was launched EF was miles ahead of most mature ORMs of today, and I believe your 95% number. But other than EF plus a handful of other mature ORMs, the 95% number looks more like 50%.

I would even argue that new-ish ORMs are virtually useless for anything that's not CRUD, and that the CRUD part can be 100% replaced seamlessly by something like PostgREST/Supabase or Hasura without losing much.

I don't disagree with the feeling in general, but I feel like we are making mistakes by having as much faith in modern ORMs and even libraries in general. Veeeeeeery few things even come close to being 1% as good as Entity Framework, ASP.NET, Rails, Postgres or SQLite.
That is great for those who can afford $200+ shoes, not so much for those who're already struggling to make ends meet. Sure, in principle, they will save more long term. But it'll take time for those savings to realize, and they need shoes now (to wear them to work, for one).
I did it with my X220 last year, it was almost painless because there are several tutorials that I could reference.

There were two downsides, Windows 11 cannot sleep, or rather it sleeps but cannot wake up anymore, and you cannot adjust permanently the default drive (I believe you can if you reflash).

For people using Linux it works perfectly, and accessing the chip is quite easy, you don’t need a full disassemble.
LLMs can’t really evaluate things. They’re far too suggestible and can always be broken with the right prompt no matter how many layers you apply.
There are many people supporting MAGA here (who have their own goals) but seeing true believer, with naive takes, is not that common.
Social security wasn't taken away and probably never will be. How's it doing? What's it's 30yr outlook? You don't need to just trust that the program will exist, but that it will be useful on a timeline long enough that you can eschew investing in skills that make money. How many greeks do you think would trust their government to do that? What about the brits?

But of course policy minutia that can make or break programs are unimportant compared to cheap internet comments.
Are they just going to like keep trickling out that all the tariffs are still in place?
Month?

Day at best, hour at worst.
Then why did he just lift them on everyone except China?
They're Putting A1 in the Classrooms
I felt like it started making sense after a month or so, but even though I got up to ~1500 characters at the end of the year, reading was never easy.
Hitler for one always bragged about eradicating all unemployment in a stroke by ordering the autobahn projects.

The core of the problem today is this: With modern tools, a modern worker gets 100 times more work done than a worker without modern tools. And you need to hire people who can use those modern tools and are trustable. Now, for most jobs you can train anybody to do it, but you cannot train people to be trustable and not destroy or steal your modern tools.

The massive infrastructure projects and massive industrial projects of the past could swallow all the workers you could throw at them. And it didn't matter much at all if a worker was any combination of a drunk, a brawler, somebody who didn't speak the language, involved with organized crime at his spare time. As long as he did his job. But today, the very specialized and efficient tools are too sensitive and you want to be careful who gets near them and operates them.

Putting the unemployed to do big infrastructure projects or similar is still better than them doing nothing – but mostly for their own development and spirits, rather than the actual work being done.
I really hope you are joking thinking China isn’t negotiating everything with everyone other than USA right now, starting with the very today publicly EU…
The things that break in C if /proc/self or the terminfo DB are missing will break in Go and Zig too.

What I think you might mean is something like: "in modern statically linked applications written with languages like Go and Zig, it is much less likely for the them to call on OS services that require these sorts of resources".
Does someone know how companies handle these short-term changes of tariffs? Like, when your shipment from oversees eventually arrives, a 50% tariff is due that makes your entire accounting unprofitable, e.g. a contract with another party to sell it to might already been signed. Do the companies usually ensure against these kind of things?
I'm on my phone, trying this. It's a question about how many people are in the air right now.

- when I tap on a factor, I can edit the slider, but it doesn't do anything.

- when I tap another factor, the previous editor stays in place.

- how do I choose my factor?

- where do I actually do the multiplication?

- where do I check my answer?

- why do the factors have "grab icons" (the six dots)? Why would I drag one?

https://imgur.com/a/QSRBbYR

Etc.
Adam Schiff Calls for Insider Trading Investigation into Trump over Tariff Pause
Can we also protect insurers from this anxiety? Seems only fair, if there’s no risk then why is it being priced into homeowners insurance?
Took one look at Coreboot/Libreboot a while back, and decided I'll go the "classic" BIOS-modding route (which I have a lot more experience with) instead.

I DO NOT WANT TO ONLY HAVE MBR BOOTING

Incidentally, I'd consider MBR boot an advantage compared to UEFI. As Linus says, it's "this other Intel brain-damage".
Either the vaccine has notable safety issues or it should be at least fine to get the vaccine at an older age.

The reason many people don't trust the CDC's advice is they don't really tell you why or why not.

If you're over 26 you're pretty likely to already be exposed to HPV but not necessarily every strain which would be protected by the vaccine (as it says in the article).

So this pushes the question: why shouldn't I get it even if there's only a small chance it will be beneficial at my age? Is there really a risk they're not telling me about or are they giving bullshit answers? There isn't a third direction.
Yeah I tried to look up the number of different Lego partszbut it gets hard to define what a Lego part is. And are we counting different colours, different designs printed on them, etc. Somewhere between 5k and 60k.
That's fine, but "Brexit voters were generally irrational or misinformed" does not change the fact that this particular case features Brexiters who voted cynically for an outcome that they were assured would happen by the very people who were seeking to prevent Brexit, who were then justifiably upset when those predictions didn't come to pass. It's not a good example of the irrationality of Brexit. Maybe of the futility of attempted revenge.
The purpose of government is to generate opportunity for the masses so they can become self sustainable.

A better quote for you: "Ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country" (JFK).
He tried to, but his advisors stopped him. Bob Woodward reported that Gary Cohn snatched papers off his desk on multiple different occasions to stop him from starting trade wars at the beginning of his first term.
Medical ethics focus on the benefit to a specific individual - your patient.

This defuses the "Should I kill one to save ten?" moral dilemma - the individual is your patient, even if the other ten are also your patients, you must not harm the one. But for vaccines it also means that the wider societal implications are not ethically relevant

So, medics won't recommend that you give patient A an intervention which is of no benefit to A but is really helpful for everybody else. For example, that you vaccinate teenage boys in the expectation that this way they won't infect teenage girls (with whom statistically many of them will have sex) with an STI that harms those girls.

As a result, the guidance cared about proven benefits to you even though taken neutrally you might have been enthusiastic about a vaccine that might or might not protect you but is definitely a good idea for the wider population. The initial studies understandably focused on the numerically larger problem: If we vaccine young female patients does that prevent relevant HPV infections, and then, as a proxy we might assume they also won't get cancer. Such studies can't tell you whether it prevents men getting cancer because that wasn't measured.

So the recommendation to vaccinate boys was delayed because first somebody has to study what might seem obvious - does the vaccine also prevent HPV related cancers in males? It is, after all, possible that some subtle mechanism means the vaccine isn't effective for this purpose, and it would not be ethical to give schools full of boys a vaccine that they personally do not benefit from having - even if societally maybe that's a good choice.

Beyond the female/ male differential, for adults and older, it's basically a stats game. Most adults have sex. Having sex means you're likely to contract HPV, more sex, more exposure. Is it worth getting vaccinated when there's a 50% chance it's useless? How about 95%? 99.5%? Do you always wait for the crossing lights? Did you ever drink beer or eat bacon ?
For real, what would an election look like if one party was proposing building 5 million housing units, overriding local zoning when it's in the way, making preferential deals for bulk construction materials, training a workforce, and some mechanism to not erode existing equity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Congratulations! We’ve re-invented Kerberos after 30 years.
>> Social security wasn't taken away and probably never will be.

In the US, the "trick" is usually just to extend the age at which you get social security. Life expectancy is not universally equal, they vary widely based on gender, race, economics. For some subsets of our population Social security has essentially be eliminated for half the cohort because it starts past the average life expectancy.

(to be clear, I think this is atrocious)
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The last three paragraphs are like, "Forget the headline and the rest of the article, this tech actually sucks and we plan to stop using it." Confusing.
Well we don't have enough people working today to sustain society, so it seems to be in the wrong direction.
Friend is working on a SaaS startup solo as a non-technical founder. Been building using Replit and Cursor with Claude 3.5 and 3.7 and launched with live customers.

I preface because he's been using AI basically every day to build his SaaS.

His comments today:

> also gemini 2.5 is beating claude
Thank you for asking and forwarding the answer. I appreciate your comments.

Speculation as well: Looking at the trailer for Bitcraft, it looks like they have articulated characters and cloth physics. This raises more questions for me.
They have laws like GDPR where they try to assert jurisdiction outside of their borders. Not sure if fines collected through that have been a significant cost of doing business but my point is they definitely can take money from you in situations where you aren't breaking laws that you are nominally under the jurisdiction of.
The CDC is just a government organization. Don’t put too much stock in appeals to authority.
The problem is that comparable-quality open models will still require lots of hardware to run at reasonable speeds, so even then it's not cheap.
This wouldn't be informative as to the effects of fluoride, because the results would be confounded to hell and back. Just to give the most obvious example, the states that go for this are going to be the ones where the legislature is more skeptical of government interventions to improve public health, and that's going to affect outcomes in a lot of ways that have nothing to do with fluoride.
The fact that a hardware wiring issue can be fixed with a software update is cool. Also reminds me just how much software in pretty much all hardware design has to fix bad hardware.
Direct To Consumer. Selling directly to their customers on Nike.com disintermediating Foot Locker or another distributor/retailer network.
True, and now I believe China has kept their industrial might while also pursuing higher technology. So they have the mine and the steel plant and the car factory. I recall Musk commenting that through human history, it’s more normal for China to be the most advanced nation on the planet, not the USA. Still, brutal place to live and work. Ultimately you have to offer people a chance at happiness, or else internal failures tend to sabotage all external signs of success.
> do I also need to compile activities to WASM

Yes, currently all activities must conform to the WASI 0.2 standard. This is the simplest for deployment, as you only need the obelisk executable, toml config file. The webhooks, workflows and activities pulled from a OCI registry on startup.

To support native code I plan to add external activities as well, with an interface similar to what Netflix Conductor uses for its workers.

> Finally, do you see the component's interface as the right layer for capturing IO?

An activity must encapsulate something much higher level than a single IO operation. So something like "Configure BGP on a router", "Start a VM" etc. It needs to be able to handle retries and thus be idempotent.

Regarding performance, a workflow execution can call 500-700 child executions serially, or around 1400 child executions concurrently per second.
I've also lived in London for 8 years, so I'm not just talking out of my ass here. I made the difficult decision to leave and abandon everything I've built there because I could no longer sustain paying Switzerland-level prices for Eastern European level of quality.

> has London

Yes, the place where in prime city centre locations, you see trash bags dumped on the street because there's literally no space for dumpsters, since they'd rather use that space to (quite literally) seek rent. I swear if there was a way to make people pay rent for oxygen, UK would be the first one to implement it.

> the highest wages in Europe

Where half of it will go to taxes (for nothing in return - again, other EU countries' public services are much better value) and the other half on rent and cost of living (the quality of properties is awful, so you really need to go high-end to get something that's merely considered average in many EU countries).
Before announcing it he suggested to buy stocks, ie insider trading.
The US stock market is exceptional, but that doesn't mean other markets don't grow. The global expected returns are around 4% annually.
That doesn’t make sense to me.

Money is not an end. It’s a (one) tool to get there. To the ends you want. To some sort of change in the world you want to achieve.

On that front this is incoherent. I vote incompetence.
Mind revealing the product/site or are they going to do an upcoming hn launch..?
Thank you for mentioning AutoEQ, I didn't know about it and it looks like a great resource :)

I wonder why laptops don't come with an internal speaker DSP profile loaded onto the EEPROM. This seems like one of those things that you really just want to do in firmware.

IEMs and headphones come EQed out of the factory AFAIK, but apparently quite poorly. I ran the autoEQ profile on my Moondrop Aria beater IEMs and it both cut through the muddiness and opened up the soundstage quite dramatically.
> The ART-5 is a mastication simulator that mimics human chewing motions, adapts to food texture changes, and provides immediate, reproducible computerized feedback. FRIL release studies in the chewing simulator used PEB buffer that includes protease inhibitors and not human saliva.

It seems to just be a single line of each type of tooth.. but it does look dog like in profile.

https://www.cell.com/cms/10.1016/j.ymthe.2024.12.008/asset/b...
Did you watch the debate between them last year?
I sometimes fail to understand how a fellow human being can utter this sort of thing and not immediately feel nauseous. Because that’s how I feel just from reading it.

(Especially since many of these fine folks claim to be devout Christians. I guess in their Bible, the Good Samaritan calls ICE Prime to throw the traveler in the back of their on-demand deportation van.)
Feedback: I landed on the home page. It did it's job, tweaking my curiosity enough to seduce me into click the "try it for free" button (no mean feat). Then it asked me to register. That was too much effort, too much potential spam, so you lost me.
Does that make today Incarceration Day or Subjugation Day?
no, I was just the tiniest bit salty for being called out on extremely back of the envelope calculations that turned out damned close.
That's true and unfortunate. In the past many more banks were local and there was greater appetite for investments in small and medium businesses, without the expectation that the business had to make the Fortune 1000 or it wasn't worth doing.
TSMC has not committed to a US plant that applies their most advanced technology. Currently, they are going to produce chips with larger slower features, some generations behind their state of the art -- that's commercially very useful, and a good idea, but in no way replaces the state of the art chips that they produce in Taiwan. Alas.
My experience is that if one collects books they want as many stores as possible as close together as possible.

NYC in the 1990’s used to have a few neighborhoods full of bookstores. My favorite was just around 16th street in between 6th and Broadway.
> And she says she has the “documents” to back up her accusations.

Then show those documents? It's hard to take these allegations seriously when the mysterious proof is only alluded to, not submitted as part of the testimony.
> only selling sci-fi

Ah, memories of the late “A Change of Hobbit” in LA. A dedicated sci-fi/fantasy bookshop.

I distinctly recall getting a towel signed by Douglas Adams during one of his signings, I may have met Ellison there once.

Been a long time.
And today he's signed an executive order to investigate Miles Taylor and Chris Krebs because he doesn't like what they've said about him as president. This is authoritarian playbook stuff.
if all these shenanigans kill the whole driving point of bonds anyway (the full faith and credit of US Govt) - will it ever be as easy for the treasury to issue bonds again?
Missed opportunity to make the title Bye Bye Bye 3 way handshake :)
Well, Charles launched almost 20 years ago, so I'd say there's a good chance that it did exist.
To be fair, there is a massive percentage of non-productive jobs that are mostly security guards for goods and locations, and many inefficient roles related to ticket clipping, inefficient distribution and marketing that all stimulate the economy without being productive.
Yes, the problem is you have more money chasing that same quantity of goods and thus you get inflation.

IMO a better way to achieve the UBI goal is to instead focus on universal basic goods. We're already nearly there with staple foods. For example bulk rice is now so cheap it's basically free. We could do the same with housing via prefab high density similar to Japan (mostly not done because it is illegal in the US). Internet and water is also near zero cost.

You would achieve the goals of UBI good-by-good without the inflation.
ok - but.. here in California, look at houses that are 100 years old, then look at the new ones.. sure you can list the improvements in the new ones, on a piece of paper.. the craftsmanship, originality and other intangibles are obviously gone in the modern versions.. not a little bit gone, a lot gone. Let the reader use this example as a warmup to this new tech question.
Yeah, be careful about going to Thailand: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqx48egpgq1o
Can you share the name & author of the book?

I'll plug Wilfred Thesiger's Arabian Sands as an extraordinary deep dive into a world that's entirely disappeared in our lifetimes:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/825419.Arabian_Sands
Can LLMs manifest goals into reality?
What happens if you ask an LLM to “think” about your goals and dreams 24/7?

I built ManifestGPT, an app that (maybe) helps manifest your goals by “thinking” about your intentions non-stop. It re-prompts itself every few seconds with your goals and dreams

Example: https://manifestgpt.com/manifest.html?id=8dcad5956de0

The idea came from noticing how visualization or meditation can influence human action and perception. Some say it’s psychology, others say it’s magic, I lean both :) One day, talking to a friend, the idea came up: what if AI could do this for you? Like Manifesting as a Service :)

If you create an account, manifestations run in the background even after you close the tab. It might do nothing, or it might work :) If you are curious here’s more about the thinking behind it: https://manifestgpt.com/about.html

Would love to hear your thoughts. If you try it, let me know what happens

I tried it to get into X25 with another idea. Didn’t work. There must be a bug in the code :)
Kindness to Kin (2021)
this seems like an awfully convoluted and self defeating way to drive down bond yields....
We've been conned: The truth about Big LLM
I've been enjoying just trying to one-shot little pages that I think are useful with v0.dev. It does a pretty good job and I like that I can just one-button deploy to my Vercel account (which "just works"). Here's one I did today:

https://v0-github-repo-stream.vercel.app/
I can see how you don't need a proxy any more, but I don't see how you can bypass TLS without fake root certs, even with eBPF.
also, the always thorough Molly White
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-81/
At the risk of stating the obvious, most states already have a sales tax.