skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your point is a good one. I don't think it invalidates what I said, since my still valid message would get lost if I hedged it with "except (more or less) organized crime".

But I agree that Silk Road was an economy. Just like slave trading and other human trafficking is an economy.

We do still have an illegal cryptocurrency economy. It's more tilted towards the ransomware economy than drugs, though. So it's not just pyramid schemes.

But I'm sure crypto drug kingpins and murderers like Ross Ulbricht are still out there. In fact recently I listened to a money podcast that investigated if hitmen paid in cryptocurrency on the dark web were a real thing. I can't find it now, but the answer was that most are scams, but yes actually there's a nonzero number who will kill the person.

But back to my point: Most people talking about the cryptocurrency utopia (though most have given up on that, instead shifting to "it's a store of value!"), when they (de facto) say "real cryptocurrency economy has not been tried" mean the non-traditionally-criminal economy. So I also don't think that what I said was wrong. It depends what you mean by the word "real". :-)
No we shouldn't be but I think the point here is more that "this company's sales are dropping".
Not being able to move the window is a huge miss imo.
My solution was to only allow free-software and no browsers/"content" apps on my phone after a fresh install. It somehow worked wonders.
> Does something like Whisky work in the new macOS Apple Silicon world?

From what I understand, Whisky only works with macOS Sonoma and Sequoia anyway.

Kegworks [1] works with Mavericks and Ventura, and WineBottler for Intel Macs.

[1] https://github.com/Kegworks-App/Kegworks
>Personally I've never found it a problem to just fix things that I see are broken, as a dev, without PM approval, even in very dysfunctional organizations. Sometimes it even goes noticed and people applaud you for it.

It's a lot easier when you're not shoving out a release every 2 weeks. When I worked at a company with quarterly releases, the standing order was fix any bug you see and we saw drastic improvements after just a few releases.
hah, thanks a lot! not sure about a mascot, I like to keep the game simple for the moment. beaten the gold stake on black deck myself (my favorite), still working my way on other decks!
Agreed. They stopped talking about it...

I have a feeling they are not really that competitive in this market segment, but were helped by a strong brand.

Anyone know if they actually make money on Solar at all, and have an idea what their profit margin is?

And what does the the competition look like (also for e.g. PowerWall)?
Tesla is not the only company that makes solar panels or electric cars. The other companies CEOs also aren't indiscriminately firing federal workers, breaking government code, or doing Nazi salutes. There's no obligation to give money to a company associated with any of those things to prop up the stock
... depending on how the forest in question regrows or fails to regrow. In the short-term carbon in the atmosphere has increased, maybe in 50-100 years it is neutral, in the meantime we are suffering effects of increased temperatures right now. Contrast that to, say, sugarcane, which really does regrow in a season -- but might still be a problem if you clear land to produce it. What complicates it all is that large amounts of carbon are stored in the soil and that is really "dark matter" that we barely understand.

That BECCS technology is one of those things where there are hundreds if not thousands of research papers for every working installation.
bottom line there's very actual margin for the companies to play with on tariffs.
Cool. Bringing Windows 11 to M1 would be bodacious.
"more expensive" -> "double the price"
Friend ordered the solar roof (the solar panels that look like shingles), and after waiting a year switched to their regular solar.

From my conversations it was a complete mess to get installed, with poor communication on their end. After it was installed he had 2 issues within 2 years resulting in them needing to replace hardware.

Add in that it was quite expensive, he is not a happy customer.
It’s worse than that: most of those hypothetical factory jobs will go to people “higher” on the economic chain who lost their jobs and are shifting “down”, not to “lower” workers shifting “up”. Reduced retail volume will indeed put Wal mart workers and such out of work, but they simply won’t have other jobs. Maybe meat packing and fruit picking, if Trump gets around to deporting those workers instead of college students.
that's a cool idea. I'll definitely keep that in mind! thanks for playing
congrats to the tailscale team
Off ramp is he tries to double it, is declared mentally incompetent by his handlers and is replaced by JD.
It's likely just not high-margin enough to satisfy Tesla investors. Panels have become commoditized.
It’s not easy, but there’s enough money on the line that I would expect it here rather than anywhere else, and the longer it goes on the more Republicans in Congress are going to be afraid of affirmatively voting to continue it. Right now they’re acting like bystanders but if a few people are willing to let a bill ending the proclaimed emergency out of committee, they’re forced to own the damage.
imagine that. so move fast and break things isn't the greatest motto for government? seems like people starve when government systems break.
Now the real question, can I make five hundred accounts and use them with a booter program to crash the chat clients of preteens who get on audio and start screaming? Good times, good times.
In general I value service more than (manufactured) goods. Goods are mass manufactured, with millions of exact copies made. There is no scarcity to goods.

I’d rather have a great doctor, lawyer, or accountant when I need one than a great car.

Having an average car is always just fine, having an average lawyer might not cut it.
It's actually declining tho, it can't out grow it own debt, maybe spending less in military could fix that, doubt they gonna do it
not sure the US economy will do well either. all so he can justify major tax cuts for the wealthy. seems like we're all about to get a lesson in why trickle down economics doesn't work. and how it was masked by outsourcing and deficits for the last 30-50 years.
I don’t trust LLMs for search and neither should anyone. I speak as a professional tester. They are essentially untested. It should offend us all that OpenAI puts such unreliable software out there.

Unlike Google, or Duck Duck Go, which serve up links that we can instantly judge are relevant to us, LLM spin stories that sound pretty good but may be and often are insidiously wrong. It’s too much effort to fact check them, so people don’t.
The sky didn't fall in during the first term, so why would it during the second?

I didn't vote for him but slightly less than half the voters did (according to best estimates -- one thing MAGA is right about is that our election security is a joke, with a few private voting machine companies and an army of partisan local officials having unauditable sway over a good chunk of elections). In any case, it's not productive to blame voters. The point of a democracy is to court voters. Shaming them and calling them idiots only pushes them away.
Lua is C in Lisp's clothing.

Lisp killer features were GC, good data representation, first class functions. Lua has all that and more. But its being a "thin" library over the C runtime shows through the clothes.
probably not, since I have a lot of experience building things with Unity. but dev time aside, it was really important for me to make the game as light as possible in terms of memory / battery usage. making this game with Unity would have been an overkill imo.
>LLMs aren't ever going to replace search for that use case, simply because they're never going to be as convenient.

What? On Planet Earth, this is already a thing.
To me, it is pretty much this -> https://imgur.com/a/pT5WNKj
Those half measures are never going to work, just like navel gazing about “the root causes of illegal immigration” don’t work. You need big hammers to fix big problems.
Last year I asked them for a Powerwall quote and was told that I can't get powerwall without their solar panels
Everyone I know who’s looked said they cost too much. I think they’re walking away from a commodity market because they don’t want to spend time on lower margin business lines.
Higher price than competitiors and they have a poor reputation for after sales service.

A repuatable local company will be cheaper and you can have roughly the same equipment (tesla powerwall) and have after sales support.
Still recall the classic forum exploits of including Javascript in your signature or similar, before such software started escaping input.
Trump didn't tariff Russia tho
Any idea who this Paul Gilster is? Or Tau Zero? He says he was trained as a medievalist who later turned into flight instructor and now he's obviously fascinated with astronomy and exoplanets.

I'm always wary of sites like this, but this one seems to have a long history, starting in 2004, and as far as I can tell the articles are solid (or at least, not quackery). This article in particular seems reasonable, too.
That whole solar city acquisition was a bit of a debacle with Elon buying a very suspect and deeply indebted company that his cousins had founded and controlled for a questionable amount of money… that was probably the first big warning sign that Tesla’s board was out to lunch.
If valve thinks they can make money on it. Which hasn’t happened yet. I guess we are all just waiting for The Year of the Mac Gamer Desktop
It's not a monopoly if it is hard to migrate from. SAP doesn't go out of its way to prevent you from migrating out of the HANA database. It's just that by the time you need a software like SAP, whatever you're buying becomes business critical and hard to migrate from regardless. And SAP is good enough to handle all kinds of edge case scenarios reasonably strongly. SAP doesn't even engage in monopolistic practices like what Microsoft or Apple do.

SAP and Salesforce are pretty much in the same bucket imo. The reason there is no Hubspot for SAP is that most smaller companies don't really need an ERP system.
Except you can guarantee MKBHD got the best of the best service with Elon Musk personally holding a gun to the head of whomever was in charge of the install.

They literally work with their top influencers for FSD to make it looks more impressive than it really is.

He even talks about how everyone was having problems but "for whatever reason it went perfectly"... and it still took 8 months

https://electrek.co/2024/07/09/tesla-insiders-say-elon-optim...
Nivo seems really nice. I recall that fey.com used it for their charts.
I get why oil would fall - recession, less tourism and trade. But why are tariffs making coffee cheaper? I would have thought it would get more expensive in the US, since it's almost all imported.
From this month's HN hiring, we might have received 30-40 resumes so far. Out of that, we have interviewed (or scheduled) around 20. There were no fake resumes; in fact we got very high quality resumes this time. There weren't any fakes in the previous months as well (in noticeable numbers).

I am not saying it's not happening. But we haven't seen it happen on HN.
> ...seems like a fair turnaround for...

Except the "them" who've been wasting applicants' time for decades is not the same as the "them" who are facing the flood of fake job seekers.

It's generally preferable that "justice" treats innocent parties and guilty parties quite differently.
Wayland is definitely going to save GNU/Linux smartphones. Using it on my Librem 5 right now.
You can easily download a rendered chart by using the chart's getDataURL() function. Then just create a new element in your document and set that element's href to the return from getDataURL() and bob's your uncle.
That's fantastic for you.

But yes, you can clearly see from the market that you have been much smarter, if your company was confident enough to take action to spend a lot of money to hedge against this. You'll make out like bandits if the tariffs remain, so congratulations. Truly, anyone who saw this coming and shorted stocks appropriately is now rich. That's how unexpected this was.

But Trump was promising vengeance on cultural issues and immigration. Not on prices. Again -- voters expected him to follow through on his promise to lower prices. Not to raise them massively.
Very slick UI. Had a lot of fun playing, it was very reactive. What's the stack?

Sincerely, Sugondeze on the leaderboard
SolarCity was about to go bankrupt (owned by Elon Musk’s cousins), so he found a way to justify bailing them out with Tesla money. He held the famous solar roof event, saying that all the homes behind him had solar roofs cheaper than a normal roof, which was later proven a lie. Tesla’s entire solar business was built on that foundation, and they struggled to justify it in the long term.
It’s frustratingly difficult to see what these (A2A and MCP) protocols actually look like. All I want is a simple example conversation that includes the actual LLM outputs used to trigger a call and the JSON that goes over the wire… maybe I’ll take some time and make a cheat-sheet.

I have to say, the endorsements at the end somehow made this seem worse…
This is very interesting. I feel like we are going towards a future where you will have personal agents that know a lot about us and will interact with other corporate and government agents to complete beurocratic and non beurocratic tasks. Those with more capable agents will have to pay a premium.
You seem to have confused "The whole AI thing is nonsense. [Anecdote]." with "The whole AI thing is nonsense because [anecdote]." I see a lot of "LLMs are not useful. e.g. the other day I asked it to do X and it was terrible." That is not somebody saying that that one experience definitively proves that LLMs are useless, or saying that you should believe that LLMs are useful based only on that one anecdote. It is people making their posts more interesting than just giving their opinions along with arguments for those opinions.

Obviously their views are based on the sum of all their experience with LLMs. We don't have to say so every time.
>but that doesn't mean every website should look exactly the same on every device or in every browser

That was the point. Maybe Gen Z changed its meaning now, but that was the main premise. There was even the Acid3 test and similar stuff.
Jawsm – A JavaScript to WASM Compiler
From European perspective, Russia's latest invasion was a wake-up call that the peace isn't permanent, and diplomacy and economic power may not be sufficient to keep it.

Effectiveness of drones and advanced missiles in the war was also a wake-up call that semiconductors and batteries have a strategic military importance, and the rest of the world is quite dependent on China and Taiwan for these.

I assume that all the talk about trade deficits and unfair competition from Chinese EVs is bullshit, and the US and the EU are having an "oh shit" moment realising they're unprepared for the world where wars are fought with drones and robots.
“Been there, done that” usually implies that it didn’t work or that you’re repeating old, no longer useful information.
> putting recruit A in front of the interviewer and then slotting recruit B in after the position is secured

reality is way more messy and worse. There are multiple actors involved in each part. Eg 2-3 "actors" for visual screen are ready for each call, 2-4 "audio" knowledge only experts on the call, 1 dedicated speaker, 1 person coordinating answers from audio folks to actor folks.

they are even ready for once in a while visit to offices in us, so they have actors there on the field as well ready to attend calls (probably 1 to 1 mapping after first visit)

and the work assigned is assigned to a completely different set of people, not involved in any of above. those folks and these folks dont interact.

i have worked part time as one of the "audio" person in above interviews. also involved on work side. ama.
At least with Spongebob you feel dumb and happy. Feels like the whole world is dumb and angry now.
I don’t know what the US sells to China, but in terms of the other direction: the U.S. will likely move towards Indian-made iPhones, the PRC-made iPhones will go to other markets. Clothing will increasingly come from Vietnam. Both countries are moving towards full free trade with the US.
If you are willing to put in some Project Management time yourself, you can get solar for a LOT cheaper than if you hire an outside solar company.

For the installation - most roofing companies will install the roof mounts and screw on the solar panels for $1.5k-$2k (might be different in your area, but still cheap). An electrician can be hired to make all the solar panel connections and the grid connection for a few hundred $$$.

As the Project Manager - you'll need to source the panels, file the permits, and hire the roofers and electricians. https://www.solarwholesale.com/jerry-rig-everything/ can assist (assist, not do) all of that for you for a cheap price. $10k-$15k with Solar Wholesale will get you the panels and cables you need, plus the engineering drawings, the permit paperwork, and etc. (thank you for the great Solar DIY series Jerry!)

For $20k and working as the Project Manager yourself, you can get what most solar companies will charge you $50k for. Which is ballpark inline with construction project management costs - typical residential construction project management cost 40-50% of the total project budget. A lot of those projects as complex enough to warrant those fees, unless you have a lot of experience, but in my opinion adding solar to your roof is not a complex process and does not warrant those fees.
They were pushing it hard because at the time they needled to deflect the accusations that the SolarCity purchase was fraud, nepotism, and insider dealing. Now that most people have forgotten about that, there's no need to talk about it anymore.
Had one apply to my team last week, they had on their resume they worked with a tech company from 2019 to 2022 in a very specific role which would have been managed by my brother in law. Checked with him and he called BS on it. Wanted to drag them out a few rounds and do some last minute reschedules, but HR just slammed the door, saying they get lots of these now.
Introducing Iterative Code Generation: increase the success rate of your vibe coding!

One big problem with AI code generation today is it ‘throws the baby out with the bathwater’ and doesn’t work like software engineers actually write code.

Iterative Code Generation actually increases the success rate of AI code generation/Vibe coding, and mitigates the "generate and pray" problem.

## Why current AI code generation falls short:

Most LLM coding assistants today generate complete solutions in one pass and hope they work. But programming isn't a one-shot process — it's iterative debugging and refinement.

When code inevitably fails, users face a frustrating cycle of:
1. Getting an error message
2. Manually interpreting what went wrong
3. Asking the AI for a fix
4. Repeating until it works... or giving up

## The iterative execution approach:

Instead, this new approach writes code iteratively like real software engineers:

1. Generates a complete solution first
2. Visually executes it line-by-line (like a debugger)
3. Intelligently identifies real errors vs. expected partial execution artifacts
4. Automatically feeds errors back to the AI for targeted fixes
5. Shows the reasoning behind each fix

The results? More robust, reliable code solutions with dramatically fewer iterations.

## Why this matters:

*For developers/Vibe coders:* This approach mirrors how we actually write code — incrementally with constant feedback loops.

*For AI systems:* It creates a tighter execution/feedback loop for models to learn from their mistakes in context. Go from 1 bit resolution in data to N bit, which should also improve training data and code generation models themselves with more valuable data.

This plus the idea of direct 'latent space languages' should unlock previously impossible software across the solution space that we couldn't have imagined before.
Apple aren't the only ones to do is¹, of course, but it is definitely true.

This enough digging for you?

Go on. Vote down without offering a counter again. Take my fake points from me. You know it'll make you feel big. :)

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[1] In true Apple style, people did it before, they polished the act a bit, and took it as theirs!
Yeah I don't think Tesla ever really cared about solar, they just had to talk the talk for a bit to help grease a very shady business deal (with strong echoes of the recently announced xAI/X deal).
That's an interesting point. The 2-year yield did drop noticeably on April 3rd, the day after the tariffs were announced. Do you think the Fed did that to offset the impact of tariffs?
> I don’t see that happening since the US has historically been the least protectionist of nations.

I would advise you to look the current US foreign trade policy in this instance. Compared to 104% tariffs, EU policy looks positively welcoming.
Thats fair, I have yet to upgrade to a modern Mac, I'm still on Intel, which is why I ask. Thank you for your comment :)
Extending Envoy with Handwritten Assembly
on it's face this kind of seems dumb. aren't agents supposed to be adaptable enough to handle any protocol?
Tesla solar is PV panels. I think you're thinking of the solar shingle thing which, as far as I know, never really took off. From googling around, they're still advertising it, and people have gotten quotes for it, but I imagine it's a tiny fraction of sales.
Ask HN: Where's the GitHub for Database Schemas?
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to have a standard place where people could share database designs and build up a collection of well designed, well tested database designs?

Many years ago I remember there was a UK based site where some DBA would curate lots of standard schemas but I can't find it now.
Because coffee, as awesome as it is, is a consumer discretionary, not a consumer staple. You don't need coffee in the same vein you need a house, reliable transportation, a phone, sustenance food, etc.

Producers will lower prices if they fear that consumers will stop buying completely.
Even though I 100% agree with you, the one piece of merit here is that the world is pissed shows that they recognize they lost something. They would not care if we were merely shooting ourselves.

Now if they are pissed and totally lost trust then we are totally fucked. But if they are pissed and willing to negotiate then maybe something can be salvaged out of this. It would be nice to have 20th century hong kong esque zero duty free trade between the US, EU, Mercosur, Canada, and all the other friendly nations as a result of us all learning how dumb this is. But I won't hold my breath.
Respectfully, what I’m describing is not discrimination in the hiring sense. Discrimination is unfair treatment related to immutable characteristics about a person such as race, age, gender, etc.

You could just as easily argue that people “discriminate” against candidates by making them do leetcode, when leetcode is unrelated to performance at the job. Leetcode is a performance some people look at during interviews, just like how you socially meld in an interview is a performance people look at during interviews.
> there isn't a reasonable path to them paying the money back

Indefinite rollover is completely fine! Yes there are problems if the total interest payment gets too large, and there's scope for discussion about that, but there's no hard cutoff, it just becomes more and more uncomfortable.

People saying there will be a default: deadline please. Or is this just a general assumption that mortality is inevitable for states? The UK has never defaulted, for example.
When did Observable get their hands on D3?

Last time I looked at D3 a half decade or so ago I thought it was an open source lib?