skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The thing economists generally say to do, is to take the revenue from Pigovian taxes and use it to somehow offset either the original negative externality (e.g. using tobacco taxes to fund public health measures) or anticipated damage caused by the tax itself (e.g. using carbon taxes to fund public transit). In either case, in theory: if nobody pays the tax, then you no longer need the revenue.

Not to imply that economists are uniform on this or necessarily correct, but there has been work done here.
That's okay so long as criminals can still use public lotteries for that so that the government gets its cut.
I reach for HTMX when (a) its a project where I have the power to make that decision and (b) I need to render state that lives on the server.

My main issue with SPAs, and client rendering in general, has always been the attempt to client render state that is persisted elsewhere.

There are certain pieces of state that really do live on the client, and for that client rendering is great. A vast majority of cases involve state that is persisted somewhere on the server though, and in those cases its needlessly complex to ship both the state and an entire rendering engine to the browser.
well, automation itself has a tariffs problem - all the components for automation are mostly foreign made, mostly in China, and even to start - the R&D in automation requires large unimpeded churn of parts and components with quick turnaround, and the tariffs would tremendously impede it and increase cost of it which in R&D means increased risk of failure and a much decreased R&D result for a given budget and timeframe.
Sounds like an extension of the second law of thermodynamics.
I remember that my old HP nc8430 from 2006 cost only 20 Euro some 10 years later. I could have bought a couple of them for spares if I planned to keep it running. The problem was that the GPU run out of software support circa 2012 and I had to pin the Linux kernel to a 3.1x version. An open source driver apparently made it into the kernel many years later but I never checked if it actually works. I bought a new laptop in 2014 which is a kind of Frankenstein on its own nowadays. I replaced the screen (a defective hinge under warranty), the RAM (maxed it out at 32 GB), the HDD with a 2 TB SSD, the DVD burner with another SSD, the keyboard many times as it wears out and maybe that's it.
The big question for Rivian is if they can break into the global market or if they will remain an essential North America only brand. Say what you want about Tesla, but they were really the first US car in forever that really broke through internationally.
Can we have a law for a universal kill switch for these machines?
Yes, it's _that_ Yanis Varoufakis.
I think it is 'fittest with respect with the current / incoming environment', in contrast with 'strongest' / 'fastest' / some other absolute measurement, at the expense of the rest.
Are you familiar with this Old Internet Artifact https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIn1_9YvGds
“isn’t that an argument for iterative policy, not inaction?”

EVERYTHING is an argument for iterative policy. Problem is the political system is presently incapable of it.

We have to upgrade democracy first. We can tackle any challenge once politicians have proper incentives.
Even if it's free, doesn't it have to put the ticket cookie in some database?
We have a saying in Brazil that absolutely no part of our government works, except for our IRS. Pix is such a huge win for them. Brazil has a huge informal/illegal economy that employs more people than those who are lawfully employed (40M vs 39M). We have an effective tax plus legal compliance rate of around 60%, that really stifles down anyone attempting to open a legit business in an already harsh environment. Pix has not yet been used to crack down on the informal sector, but with sufficient motivation and some data analysis, it absolutely can be.
>If Reunion and Norfolk Island are to be considered separately from their mainlands, where are the tariffs for Easter Island (Chile)?

Easter Island's mailing address says Chile. Norfolk Island mailing address does not include Australia, nor does Reunion include French.

>They asked an LLM, which calculated this in the most naive way possible one-shot.

Whats the connection between LLMs and domain name endings or whatever again? Like why does using them necessitate the use of LLMs?

Let's think through it from the ground up... How would you expect them to come up with a list of countries? Are they supposed to just get a group of people together and compile a list of countries they can think of by memory? Clearly they will refer to some standardized list.
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Generation and storage definitely should go hand in hand, but I think the Pakistani authorities' desire is simply to have something better than the alternative of not having it. At least Pakistan has plenty of hydropower installations that could potentially be adapted to act as energy storage.
>>What happens when they are robbed and now your address and how to make a key for your lock are in the hands of some criminals in your area?

I'd hope that Microsoft's key storage is harder to break into than a random local lock company. And there is no need for theoreticals - all my locks are key coded and the manufacturer can make more keys for them if I ask them. They also have my address since they know where they shipped the locks. And yet, I'm not worried about this - I suspect a wannabe robber will just break my windows with a brick not infiltrate the manufacturer's production facility to make a clone of my key.
Did Tariffs Make American Manufacturing Great? New Evidence from the Gilded Age
> “I have no idea how he ended up as an art director when he can’t visualise what he wants in his head unless can see some end results”, Bradley says. Rather than beginning with sketches and ideas, then iterating on those to produce a more finalised image or vision, Bradley says his boss will just keep prompting an AI for images until he finds one he likes, and then the art team will have to backwards engineer the whole thing to make it work.

Sounds like an "idea guy" rather than an art director or designer. I would do this exact same thing, but on royalty-free image websites, trying to get the right background or explanatory graphic for my finance powerpoints. Unsurprisingly, Microsoft now has AI "generating" such images for you, but it's much slower than what I could do flipping through those image sites.
BUT it's doing a stunningly better job replicating previous scenes than it did before. I asked it just now for a selfie of two biker buddies on a Nevada highway, but one is a quokka and one is a hyrax. It did it. Then I asked for the same photo with late afternoon lighting, and it did a pretty amazing job of preserving the context where just a few months ago it would have had no idea what it had done before.

Also, sweet jesus, after more than a year of hilarious frustration, it now knows that a flying squirrel is a real animal and not just a tree squirrel with butterfly wings.
With the advent of language models I really despair of new technologies catching on. LLMs are deceptive in their intelligence, as far as I can tell - they can seem expert in one domain and then fail absurdly on some new take on similar ideas that don't appear in the training data. Consequently, one loses a lot of productivity when switching to a fringe technology, even if its better.

Startup types used to say that its not enough to be better than the current solution - you have to be 100 times better to justify the switching cost, and with LLMs it seems like that is like 1000x. It sucks.
there was a tool like this for tracking c-suiters and the trades of theirs that relate to their own companies, anyone got a link?
Abstract:

> We study the relationship between tariffs and labor productivity in US manufacturing between 1870 and 1909. Using highly dis-aggregated tariff data, state-industry data for the manufacturing sector, and an instrumental variable strategy, results show that tariffs reduced labor productivity. Tariffs also generally reduced the average size of establishments within an industry but raised output prices, value-added, gross output, employment, and the number of establishments. We also find evidence of heterogeneity in the association between tariffs and value added, gross output, employment, and establishments across groups of industries. We conclude that tariffs may have reduced labor productivity in manufacturing by weakening import competition and by inducing entry of smaller, less productive domestic firms. Our research also reveals that lobbying by powerful and productive industries may have been at play. The era’s high tariffs are unlikely to have helped the US become a globally competitive manufacturer.
I use searxng
>> why would it be bad for federal workers to be surveilled? is there an expectation of privacy while you're working?

> they’re creating a conflict between perceived political disloyalty and professional ethics

I think that gets to the heart of the matter: what is the purpose of the surveillance? In this case, it appears to be to root out people who have wrongthink about the leaders, e.g.

> Musk’s team is rolling out AI to monitor workers, including looking for language in communications considered hostile to Trump or Musk

Hostility to Trump or Musk is what you want, if they're pushing to do something illegal or unethical.
Which search engines are you in that you didn't opt into?
I believe the difference is that in your example file.go needs to live in the repo (or created by a previous step:) whereas reading from stdin allows writing the logic in the .yaml itself, and thus is subject to uses: or other reuse tricks
> Almost every time I hear this argument, I realize that people are not actually complaining about AI, but about how modern capitalism is going to use AI.

This was pretty consistently my and many others viewpoint since 2023. We were assured many times over that this time it would be different. I found this unconvincing.
Novasaur: Run 8080 CP/M with a few dozen TTL logic chips
Maybe if Musk changed course and returned to solar power and saving the planet rather than alt right politics things would improve? Not sure if that's happening though.
Lab grown diamonds start with a diamond seed which comes from the earth (you can use a synthetic seed later on).
I wonder if repair culture will expand in the US if prices on consumer elections rise with tariffs.
Is there any support for SVG or Bézier curves in that?
It is still not the same as credit cards, credit card fraud protection doesn't require any sort of legal process.

Also these kind of limits can also be put on credit (and debit) cards.
Can't we just ban 3rd party cookies first? Pretty please?
It's 24 TOPS per CPU, so 192 TOPS for a full mainframe. And you can add Spyre accelerator which have 32 AI unit per card (so 32x24 TOPS) and up to 48 cards per mainframe (so 48x32x24 = 36 864 TOPS). But yeah, you could buy a lot of H100 for the price of a mainframe with such a configuration.
I thought Hyundai owns Boston Dynamics?
There are several 3rd party utilities (free and paid) that allow status bar icons to be hidden
You can Command-Drag some of them off the menubar. It doesn't work in every case, but it might help. Plus there are tools like Ice and Bartender that help you hide most or all of them.
Oh yeah, that is weird... something not adding up there.

Someone else mentioned a lot of Tunisian olive oil gets repackaged as Italian. I wonder if it could be double counting stuff like that (Italy + final destination). But yeah something is not right there.
Yes, but none of that is anomalous. The primary novelty of the timescape model is just a more careful application of boring old General Relativity to cosmological models, which are highly idealized in order to make them tractable. It is still very misleading to characterize effects like frame dragging or time dilation as unresolved mysteries. They are very straightforward, experimentally confirmed, elements of classical General Relativity.
In the pursuit of ultimate long term functional web pages, how does that affect maintainability, e.g. changing requirements? In my mind, the less characters used the less effort it takes to change it, but this might be obsolete thinking wrt AI assisted (or fully written) sites.
Small scale being the key word.

Industrial farming is ruining our water supply. We just had another algae bloom here and all the wild life died.
Show HN: I made a node-based color palette design tool
Too real. I once got turned down by the Apple Store for a retail position because I wore a collared shirt to the interview (after being told in advance not to wear anything formal). Interviewer let me know I came off as too formally dressed to get their vibe. The discrimination/bias was real.
> The ad revenue is in the billions and is steadily increasing each year. I would bet that the costs are more than covered.

You're changing the context of the discussion here. snailmailman had said:

> Youtube so badly wants me to pay for premium. But the ads they show me are almost entirely scams and questionably legal content [...] On desktop uBlock still works in Firefox at least. But I’ve basically given up YouTube on iOS.

Saying they're unwilling to tolerate ads in YouTube. When asked why not just pay for YouTube premium, you came and said why you don't pay for YouTube premium. When pressed, you say "because YouTube's ad model will make them the money they need to host the videos."

Since you haven't said whether you block ads, there's two ways of interpreting this:

1. You don't block ads, you're ok watching YouTube ads, and you pay the creators directly through patreon. Great! But that makes your reply -- to why snailmailman doesn't pay for YT premium -- a little off-topic, because we were discussing ad-blocking.

2. OR, you're not ok watching YouTube ads, you block them, and then pay creators on patreon directly, meaning you don't care about covering the costs of hosting videos, because you don't believe YouTube should be showing you ads, and you don't want to pay them for the service. In which case we're back to "who should cover the costs." Maybe your answer is "other suckers, but not me", which is quite hypocritical.
It would be an understatement to call this a skewed perspective. In most of the anecdotes they seem to try really hard to trivialize the productive benefits of AI, which is difficult to take seriously. The case that LLMs create flawed outputs or are limited in what they can do is not controversial at all, but by and large, reports by experienced developers is that it has improved their productivity, and it's now part of their workflow. Whether businesses and hire-ups try to use it in absurd ways is neither here nor there. That, and culture issues, were a problem before AI.

Obviously some workers have a strong incentive to oppose adoption, because it may jeopardize their careers. Even if the capabilities are over-stated it can be a self-fulfilling prophecy as higher-ups choices may go. Union shops will try to stall it, but it's here to stay. You're in a globally competitive market.
The appeal is to replace workers by using a generic platform, that when mass produced, costs less and don't require retooling. One human commodity for a mechanical one.
im a big fan of https://matthewpalmer.net/vanilla/
There are apps that help you hide unused menu bar apps - this one works well: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hidden-bar/id1452453066?mt=12
To make a meaningful contribution to neuroscience, fMRI must break out of silo
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43614828
It can copy/simulate anything with a stream of pixels that change in response to labels equivalent to button presses.

Put an iPhone on the dashboard of a car and simultaneously record steering wheel, pedal, and gear positions, and you've got a photorealistic driving simulator of wherever you were driving that car.

Strap it to a bodycam and pair with annotated recordings the wearer's motion as if it were control inputs, and you have a photrealistic first-person simulation of whatever they were doing, be that paintball, skating, US Army urban combat training, or birdwatching.

Feed it sports TV annotated with player motion, golf, tenis, cricket, soccer, etc.
“ And solar was the fastest-growing electricity source for the 20th year in a row.

It now provides 7% of the world's electricity”
Bitcoin, the hardest money ever discovered. 1.6 T dollar asset.
Commodity, limited supply, from 0 to 100k, now at 80k, sure to go to 150k and over! Cannot be censored, cannot be forged, backed by mathematics. Satoshi Nakomoto, the anonymous creator, DISAPPEARed, just like God in the Second Testament.

Wait till the rest of the world learns about it. It will take time, but Bitcoin will prove it in the next months.
I keep a few bills in my wallet, but I hardly ever carry it around.

Everybody accepts cards and Pix. Even beggars on the street use pix.

If I revert back to using public transport I will probably have a use for cash, but that's the only situation I can think of where it would make sense.
You're right, which is why factories are already automated that way.

Where humans still reign supreme is in two areas: assembly and work in human-centered environments.

So, it's a lot easier to have a human welder do welding inside a Hyundai-built ship because the interior of the ship is designed for humans to walk around.

Likewise, it's easier for humans to work with machines on assembly, because humans are flexible and assembly lines typically need to be rapidly reconfigured for different production runs.

A purpose-built facility excels at maximizing throughput for mass produced parts (paperclips), but doesn't work well for lower-volume integration tasks (cars, ships, etc.).
Normal industrial machines have to operate in special cages - both so humans can keep out, and to restrain the incredibly powerful machines in case they malfunction.

Can humans work alongside such humanoids safely? I mean, even with no spectacular failures, imagine the humanoid carrying heavy items and dropping them on a real human.
How long ago?

The local models were mostly unusably weak until about six months ago when they suddenly got useful: Qwen Coder 2.5, Llama 3.3 70B, Mistral Small 3 and Gemma 3 have all really impressed me on a 64GB Mac and I expect Mistral Small 3 would work in 32GB.

Meanwhile this years's Gemini Pro 2.5, Claude 3.7 Sonnet and the most recent GPT-4o API models (or o3-mini high for coding) are significantly better than what we were using last year.
Some languages like c++ don't have popular package managers, so adding even one dependency can be very difficult. Learning an unpopular package manager and asking your team to rely on it introduces the burden of teaching everyone how to use it, if the manager even allows it

In this hostile environment, many wheels are reinvented

C programmers actually consider this a point of pride
Browsers are getting built-in LLMs for doing things like summarization now, such as https://developer.chrome.com/docs/ai/summarizer-api - so even if you could license your creations in such a way, it wouldn't prevent a browser extension or someone using the JavaScript console doing it locally without detection. To me, the idea feels arguably similar to asking to opt out of one's words being able to go into a screen reader, a text to speech model, or certain types of displays.
For overnight shifts, it's been a thing for a long while --- the term to look for is "lights out manufacturing"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lights_out_(manufacturing)
Sure. But the previous post seemed to suggest that tricks were needed because goeval doesn't support reading from files.
> I realize that people are not actually complaining about AI, but about how modern capitalism is going to use AI.

Something very similar can be said about the issue of guns in America. We live in a profoundly sick society where the airwaves fill our ears with fear, envy and hatred. The easy availability of guns might not have been a problem if it didn't intersect with a zero-sum economy.

Couple that with the unavailability of community and social supports and you have a a recipe for disaster.
Did you write this plugin by hand or did you use AI?
Average is fine.
Given the time commitment and network of basic biological, anatomical, and health knowledge required, that doesn't strike me as an insane price, assuming an artist who is able to create the requested art.
Surely he could have expressed himself better than that. Insulting some other country's universities seems a very odd thing to do when trying to make a point about your own universities. This is especially odd as the choice of country to insult has several universities that are well inside the top 10% worldwide and rank higher than Wesleyan.

We should expect better rhetoric from the rector of a liberal arts university.

Unfortunately I can't read the actual article to see what the rest of his argument was like. I wish that HN would automatically provide links to bypass paywalls.
I think the main point of this article is that none of this is happening in a centralized, coordinated fashion. This is mainly folks slapping solar on any building with a roof, with the government helping out a bit on the regulatory side.

It does eventually need to be coordinated to avoid grid issues, but given the massive increase in battery manufacturing (and cost decreases) battery deployment is likely to happen at a lightning pace over the next 3-4 years.
So there's this thing called a gag order.
Guardi.space – forecasting satellite collision risks for smallsat operators
I’ve been working on Guardi.space, a lightweight web tool for monitoring satellite collision risks — mainly focused on CubeSats and small constellations.

What it does:
- Uses public TLEs and SGP4 to predict potential conjunctions
- Forecasts 14 days ahead, updated every 6h
- Computes closest approach, relative velocity, and assigns risk levels
- Includes a simple dashboard UI for browsing upcoming events

Tech:
- Backend: Python (FastAPI), PostgreSQL
- Frontend: React
- Risk estimation includes basic covariance analysis (Chan/Alfano-based)

It’s open to use, no sign up or CC required — would appreciate any feedback on usability, data clarity, or edge cases I might have missed.