skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth noting that most of what is said about the federal budget in layman circles (and some Congressional circles) is basically lies. Well, no, that's uncharitable. "Grossly mischaracterizes the mechanisms and consequences of the operation of a fiat currency that is used by the world as the IMF denomination for sovereign loans" is more accurate.

The only thing that stops the federal government from printing money is its own laws. In that sense, when Congress argues about "the budget," what they're really arguing about is "We'd like to do this via honoring the current laws instead of changing them." In practice, we change them constantly; every vote to increase the debt ceiling is a vote to print more money with no (immediate (1)) consequence. In that sense, the pockets are "infinitely deep" in that they're only constrained by Congress via rules that Congress made up and can change. And firing individual bureaucrats, or even closing entire departments, is rarely worth the cost savings because bureaucrat labor is just so, so much cheaper than most things the government is spending on (like the military budget, which in the modern era is basically "A big storehouse of extremely expensive fireworks that are brutally powerful one-shot policy-changers;" maintaining that storehouse is pouring money into an arbitrarily deep hole because there's always room for one more missile in the old arsenal of freedom).

(1) This, of course, grossly oversimplifies. There are definitely consequences for putting more liquid currency into the ecosystem than taxes take out (2). The relative value of dollars in-circulation falls; it can be thought of as a "stealth tax on hoarding assets." This is, it is worth noting, a tax the government can choose to levy to encourage not hoarding assets because moving money tends to make everything better for everyone much of the time, with some extremely notable exceptions.

(2) That's, incidentally, a much better way to think of how the system actually works than "we tax people to pay for government services." Imagine the government took all the federal tax money, put it in a big pile on the Washington Mall, set it on fire, and then told the Mint to print, 1-for-1, one dollar for every dollar destroyed. Beyond the ridiculous carbon cost, this would have no impact on the US economy because, functionally, that's how the loop works: the government taxes to make money go away and prints money to make money exist. And, most importantly, the outputs and inputs are in different places to satisfy federal economic policy; broadly speaking, we take money from people who have a lot of it (to discourage resource hoarding a bit, which slows down the economy) and give it to people who have use for it and not enough of it to act on their intent (because the economy tends to be healthier when there are more, and more diverse, participants in it). The US, in particular, has special leverage to do this in the global marketplace because of its ties to the IMF, but that's a much bigger can of worms than one HN post.
Long context support in LLM 0.24 using fragments and template plugins
I'll continue playing devils advocate here.

> To improve rust belt manufacturing, you would target competitors of industries in that area, not the whole global economy.

If you accept as a premise that the goal is to prevent offshoring our manufacturing base THEN you may also want to develop new industry and not just protect industries in that area. Moreover the goal is presumably not restricted to just that area it is an example of a specific region which was hard hit.

> We imposed a 32% tariff on Taiwan. Simultaneously, we are making it more expensive to manufacture here in the states. We have 1/4 China's pop - why would we try to compete on raw output by ourselves, instead of strengthening ties w/ the world?

I don't immediately see how each of these statements relate to each other. I'll just reply to "We have 1/4 China's pop - why would we try to compete on raw output by ourselves" by stating that we may want to compete with China on manufacturing output because of national security implications.

> For many countries, there is nothing to negotiate since we already have free trade agreements with them. We may import a lot of goods, but we export a lot of services, like many developed nations do.

The Tariff calculations have a differential rate for each country so it appears to have taken into account to some degree that we need more negotiation with certain relationships. I won't state that this was necessarily done well...

> With regard to raising revenue, think of the tradeoffs. If demand is elastic (given our trade deficit, it has to be!), this will be a tax on many, many American businesses and consumers. Its just moving the taxes from income tax to a consumption tax. That's a worse deal for poorer/middle-class Americans.

A consumption tax is a worse deal for poorer/middle-class Americans. I agree with you. It may be the case that this functions as a consumption tax on foreign labor which could increase the negotiating power of poorer/middle-class Americans.

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I really do not mean to defend the specific actions of the sudden global Tariffs. I am attempting to explain how I believe some on the right may see things in case people find this interesting. The furthest I will go is to state that I think the fears about a new great depression may be somewhat overblown.
3000psi gas is the easy way. You just need a couple valves instead of a bunch of insulated stuff that has to not freeze up at -200C.
iPhones are very expensive.

If you own an iPhone, you're already wealthier than a large chunk of the planet.
Algolia search at the bottom of the page is pretty good. Use a site: search via Kagi/Google if you want to keyword search comments though
(2) of the (3) home runs were hit with the "torpedo" bats.
>I merely suggest these things, not because I have the math to understand how it would affect GR or QED, or even what experiments would be needed to verify them, but merely to plant the seeds of how things work to stimulate those who can do those things to think about what their ramifications might be.

You think physicists don't smoke weed and dream up random ideas? Or formally study eastern religions?

The fact that they are trained physicist is why they don't conceive of the universe (and dark energy specifically) the way you do, and probably never will.

>And, really, y'all are out of ideas as to what or where dark matter or energy are anyway, so there is nothing for anyone to lose.

This is an example of your condescension. There are so many assumptions implicit in your statements that it's offensive to the audience. Its like the difference between a person raving in the street that everyone is free to ignore. Versus that same person deliberately entering a physics conference shouting the same things, then claiming they're only there to help.
Excel's datetime handling is notoriously quirky. This post does a great job illustrating some of the common pitfalls and explaining the underlying representation. Key takeaway: be very careful when doing datetime math in Excel! Understanding the 1900 leap year bug is essential for avoiding errors.
I know what the article says, but the author seems to misunderstand how the system works.

The systems has regulators that step the air pressure down from thousands of PSI in the tank to a much smaller, regulated number at the nozzle that gets sprayed into the intake.

From the source company that sells the system:

> The very low temperature medium pressure air stream is then throttle one more time in the Electronic Pressure Regulator before being discharged into the engine air intake tract. The throttling effect that occurs here is small compared to that which occurs at the Mechanical Pressure regulator but, similar in nature.

The tuner can adjust the pressure that is being discharged into the intake tract, but that's not equivalent to the pressure in the manifold.

The system works by having the air expand rapidly in the intake, causing a rapid cooling effect.

The company describes it better on their own site: https://casupercharging.com/tech/#system-overview

EDIT: There is some mention of an "isolation valve" but not within the "Theory of Operation" section of the company's own description: https://casupercharging.com/tech/#system-overview

So there might be some scenario where the system shuts off the intake valve, too, but it's weirdly unclear from their own system description.
> It felt like the recession mostly affected the housing market and older career folks, but for us new grads things were mostly normal.

Yeah, they weren't. You were in a STEM bubble, which back in 2008 probably was the only bubble that could still get jobs "the old way", without going through application hell.

Also, the job market was way worse in 09-10 than it was in 2008, especially first half of 2008.
NYC Tenants May Apply to Install Battery Charging Cabinets on Sidewalks
We also evaluated D1 and have been utterly disappointed by the performance. It was unacceptable for us (as for any serious production app).

I was actually very impressed how slow and bad it is.
For clarity, I was talking about true central vac systems, which have substantially more capacity than the little bins some of those robot vacuums come with and thus need emptying far less frequently.

Didn't know about the plumbed water lines, that's interesting. Do most hook into drainage as well so the unit can flush itself periodically? (I found one that seems to but don't know if this is common https://us.narwal.com/pages/automatically-water-exchange-sys...)
> For most B2B SaaS businesses, you shouldn’t need more than $1M in capital to get to PMF

I'm not sure that's true today. Author is a one-time founder that had some success. He exudes selection bias. Note: i'm not poo-pooing him that "oh he's only founded one company". Don't read into it that much. I'm just expressing that he has the standard hubris that any one-time successful founder would have. After that single success he's already enlightening us with his wisdom.

Of course there are such businesses, but "most" of those aren't startups. I don't think PMF is a term that even applies to such SMBs. PMF implies scale and repeatability of the sales process -- becoming a unicorn is baseline now.
I like this. It would be interesting to use it for when I need to use authenticated browser sessions.
I planned to implement this system in a project car years ago, but never got to it. Do have a parts list, and the overall cost is quite reasonable. My goal focuses on in-vehicle recharging rather than tank-swapping approach.

https://gist.github.com/s0kil/9bd6815ea2ab4e65a786c6382a5bfa...
It raises the question. "Begging the question" has a very different meaning, though maybe it is a lost cause to preserve its meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
I use this:

I don't want to drastically change my current code, nor do I like being told to create several new files and numerous functions/classes to solve this problem. I want you to think clearly and be focused on the task and don't get wild! I want the most straightforward approach which is elegant, intuitive, and rock solid.
by the way, you can indeed access your personal context with Playwright. just `launchPersistentContext()` and set the userDataDir to that of your existing Chrome install:

https://playwright.dev/docs/api/class-browsertype#browser-ty...
Searched for this. Passenger Pigeons are the #1 species I want resurrected.
https://archive.ph/EtVQa
Awesome. Curious about where you got the public domain sounds.
> Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (near future post-apocalyptic sci-fi).

If you haven't read it, Parable of the Talents, the sequel, is also worth a read.
Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply Chain Security
Yeah fwiw I think the ones that managed to get and stay in the industry are doing ok now. I had in mind someone I knew who graduated in 2008 with a CS degree from a state school and needed work immediately, took a helpdesk job, then took the promotions into mid-management, now is a starbucks district manager making like 95k. Never did get to realize that dream of coding professionally.

I believe he finally gave up studying & interviewing for junior dev jobs in 2016. At that point why take a "stale" graduate when you can just get an actual 22 year old from the same school, seems to have been everyone's reasoning.

I saw a similar thing a bunch when teaching at a code school ca 2018 too. It was a great move if you had savings or support for 6-18 months of job search. The ones that got in are still doing ok. But a lot didn't, they had to keep working at what they did before "temporarily" while interviewing and most of them are still doing exactly that.

So idk, I'm not sure how you would even get numbers on this. How many people would have excelled in this work if they had graduated at a different time, or with more support, but they didn't and they simply aren't here.
There's literally TS/SCI for several departments, including the DOL, to get post-priced strike prices and costs for options before market open. And no, the prices you see before market open and saying, "Yeah! I can see that too!" is not the same. That's PRE-priced in.
>Currency exchange simply doesn’t work the way you describe

currency exchange can work many different ways, but it can't violate thermodynamics or fundamental laws of physics. It also cannot violate the axioms of math, which is what I described.

If a Mexican wants dollars, they need to buy them from somebody who has them. Even if there are billions of dollars in Mexico, if Mexico is exclusively importing from the US forever (which are the conditions of the question above) those billions of dollars will be transferred to the US and Mexico will run out of that supply of dollars and will have to find some new way to get them from the US.
when you search for "recession" Algolia search even matches recursion. Its not good enough for searching
I generally judge a camera by how accurately it can capture sunset, relative to what i actually see. on a samsung galaxy note 20, i can mess with the white balance a bit to get it "pretty close", but tends to clamp color values so the colors are more uniform than they are in real life. I've seen orange dreamsicle, strawberry sherbet, lavender, at the same time, at different intensities in the same section of sky. No phone camera seems to be able to capture that. http://projectftm.com/#noo2qor_GgyU1ofgr0B4jA captured last month. it wasn't so "pastel", it was much more rich. The lightening at the "horizon" is also common with phone cameras, and has been since the iphone 4 and Nexus series of phones. It looks awful and i don't get why people put up with it.
To answer the question look for "lifepo4" and "heated" [1] but it sounds like that's too big for your use case. In your case just use a regular and smaller deep cycle battery in a very waterproof enclosure. Bury the enclosure at least 6 feet under ground to keep it from falling below 50F / 9.9C without heating pads. At least 4 feet deep with 2 feet of gravel under the enclosure to keep water from pooling around the enclosure. Fill the bottom of the enclosure with desiccant pouches to absorb condensation. Use rodent-resistant cabling in conduits and a lot of sealant where the conduit is fastened to the enclosure. The enclosure should then be inside a rodent-proof vault. This could be pressure treated redwood or synthetic material rated for burial. Lay a foil marker in the hole above the vault and keep it centered as you bury the vault so that you can find it again.

Being under ground will prevent both over-heating and freezing assuming your circuit is per spec designed to run cool. This can also reduce tampering. If you are not concerned about serviceability of the circuit board then you can put it in a small enclosure and fill it with epoxy so that the entire thing is water proof. There are epoxies designed to conduct heat but not electricity.

This assumes of course that your setup is meant to be stationary.

[1] - https://www.amazon.com/s?field-keywords=lifepo4+heated
As a race buddy of mine often says, one can teach a complete college semester on the math of drag racing. From the engineering of the vehicles to the tuning to the weather calculations. And then there is what we call "bracket racing". Staggered starts based on your own prediction of elapsed time that you cannot run faster than or you will "break out" and the other vehicle wins. A favorite t-shirt in the pits says, "Not everyone can do math at 150MPH".
Oh good idea.

Imagine it controlling plugins remotely, have an LLM do mastering and sound shaping with existing tools. The complex overly-graphical UIs of VSTs might be a barrier to performance there, but you could hook into those labeled midi mapping interfaces to control the knobs and levels.
I’m not quite sure where the line is between Level 1 and Level 2 ADAS. Wikipedia says this:

> ADAS that are considered level 1 are: adaptive cruise control, emergency brake assist, automatic emergency brake assist, lane-keeping, and lane centering. ADAS that are considered level 2 are: highway assist, autonomous obstacle avoidance, and autonomous parking.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_driver-assistance_s...

I think that Level 2 requires something more than adaptive cruise control and lane-keep assist, but that several automakers have a system available that qualifies.

My intuition is that there are more non-Tesla cars sold with Level 2 ADAS, but Tesla drivers probably use the ADAS more often.

So I don’t have high confidence what tesla.mult should be. I wish that we had that data.
This is great work - one of the rules for code written with Basis was not to use the system clock. I somewhat got around the network determinism by shimming out all network calls, and rather than going single threaded, writing a scheduler (https://basisrobotics.tech/2024/09/02/determinism/). My goal wasn’t to get ci->dev machine determinism, at least immediately, because callback ordering determinism was so important. Love seeing other work done in this space.
IRS' DirectFile hasn't matured yet to the point of accepting health insurance and retirement data; it could only process basic W-2's. At least they made a good effort in it, will try again next year.
> Yes, but: They can't decisively say whether Unitree intended to create a surveillance backdoor or if it was simply a case of "sloppy architecture, sloppy programming," Makris told Axios.

Are there scenarios where a malicious supplier would want to put a non-plausibly-deniable backdoor in their own product? Assuming that:

- It's not something like a home router sold to ISP's, where "needed for Tech Support" is fairly credible.

- They want to stay in business. (Vs., say, ceasing operations after the pagers they sold all explode.)
Presumably those expenses will be a lot higher than a regular zoo, at least in the short/mid term.

I'd assume that translates to relatively costly ticket prices, right?
Impressive work on AltaBasic! The bytecode compiler and VM approach is clever. Using Lua for the runtime and Python for the compiler is a pragmatic choice. I'd be curious to see benchmarks vs. alternatives like tinybasic. Well documented code and a solid start to an open-source retro BASIC.
It's not an ideal. There is an optimal level of technical debt to maximize shareholder value. Eliminating all technical debt makes no more sense than eliminating all financial debt. Used effectively, debt is a powerful lever. The trick lies in finding the optimal level based on incomplete information, and many corporate managers aren't very good at this.
macports and fink managed in another directory for 8+ years before

Anything using normal Unix build tools like autotools allow easy change of install directory.
> If Salk had this mentality, then Polio may stand up there with cancer and AIDS as one of the big 3 killers.

If Salk had this mentality, the patent still would have expired after 17 years and he could have used the money to try to cure cancer or AIDS.

> we might have also tried to monetize the COVID vaccine and grind the US into an early depression with that kind of thinking.

Three different companies developed a COVID vaccine and it's not the kind of market where you can make more money by charging a million dollars each to a hundred people than by charging $100 each to the insurance companies of a billion people.

> Fund the science and make use of taxpayer money to advance society instead of giving billionaires tax cuts.

"Giving billionaires tax cuts" is not the only alternative use for the money and isn't even necessarily a worse one.

If someone is a billionaire because of regulatory capture and monopolistic practices then we shouldn't be giving them anything, we should be breaking up their companies and eliminating the laws they bought to concentrate the market.

If they're a billionaire because they built an honest company that employs thousands of people and makes useful products for reasonable prices, that's the thing that gives the government anything to tax in order to provide roads and schools and provides people with jobs and goods and services. We want more of that. Taking more of the money away should only be done if the government's use for it is high value. Which, by definition, things with a poor cost/benefit ratio aren't.
>How do you even define advertising?

You nailed it man. My first response even to the headline let alone the article was to reflect on the first line spoken by my professor in my first marketing class: "Marketing is about educating the consumer." Advertising is just one way we attempt to do that, and taken to an extreme, I have no idea how you could ever make it stop. The article is clearly focused on one part of advertising, but even then, someone will always build a better mousetrap.
Engineering Rhodosporidium toruloides for production of punicic acid
In my experience, a big reason why people reach to excel is the simple visualization you can get once the data is in there, more or less validly. This would make either Matlab, or Jupyter Notebooks the bigger competitor.

Except another reason to use Excel is the fairly low amount of programming knowledge you need. You can solve a lot of business requirements with a few point + click sums and averages, knowing how to fix parts of an equation while dragging and maybe some VLOOKUP as a stretch goal.

That is something excel does very well for many low-technical people.

Personally, I've found importing CSV and JSON files into postgres and working with views to export data tailor-made for excel visualizations to be a terrifying sweet spot of unholy and nasty power.
Maybe I’m not understanding properly, but iPhones absolutely can do NFC payments when the phone is dead. Your nominated “express” card will work for transit payments, and I believe car and house keys continue to work too.
I think Pat enforced his dismissive optimism on the entire company which made a tough job even tougher. A number of Intel executives, new and old, have taken indirect shots at Pat when he got pushed out even before Tan came on board.

I still see a lot of people worship Gelsinger just because he was supposedly the engineer CEO messiah that Intel needed. But he had a flawed strategy made worse by naive, arrogant execution.
Agreed, engineering our environment is hardly the worst thing. But it comes with some real risks that we shouldn't take lightly.
Good advice. Save for future you, possessions are temporary.
Pentax/Ricoh really is a hidden gem. I love my "dinosaur" K1 Mark II and my GR IIIx goes EVERYWHERE I go.
Aren't there stock electric cars now that do quarter mile under 10 seconds?

When battery weight gets cut in half next decade and capacity doubles, the only reason why they will race ICE engines is for the noise
Llama 4 Computer Use Agent
Elon and Trump, working together to destroy America and prop up Russia at all costs
Just a small suggestion, please take it constructively! I had to click on the app store link and check the screenshots and description to understand what this was. Some info on the landing page would have been better!