skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can very easily come up with reasonable plans to euthanise sub categories of the population to "save" lives if you only care about the total numbers of people surviving...
Am I, in fact, going to be hit with a $100 tariff on a $2 item ($2+$100=$102) or a $2.40 tariff ($2*1.2=$4.40) ?

I am looking for language like "Whichever is greater" in the announcement and I'm not seeing it. Do importers choose which to go with? Do customs? It looks like before, shipments below $800 were exempt of all tariffs under the "De Minimis exemption", and that exemption is going away, but I'm still not clear on how the rest of this works.
Even getting workers to the factory is a concerted effort of trains and public transport, Americans would quickly clog the highways with millions of single occupant large vehicles without first investing in more efficient ways to move people
The other day I saw the results of a poll [1] where 80% of Americans thought the *country* would be better off if more Americans worked in factories. However, only 20% of Americans thought that *they* would be better off if more Americans worked in factories. It was surprisingly bipartisan.

In other words, people like the idea of this, but no one actually wants this.

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/845917ed-41a5-449f-946f-70263adba...
It was registered in Delaware but it was an LLC.

I'm not a lawyer so I don't know if an LLC would have to comply in the same way.

I do know that there was an operating agreement and we had a very strange meeting at one point where the CEO and the financial guy told us that we had the right to see the operating agreement. Someone who left shortly after must have hired a lawyer and demanded that.

I did see it the operating agreement but not the cap table. When I left the company I did not even know what a cap table was so didn't even know that it was a thing that existed. I only found that reddit post a year later. I'm post that link so that people don't make the same mistakes I did. There were a lot of other questions I should have asked before joining both startups.
That still depends on systemd, the most privileged deamon in many distros

But it is fun to see the marketing 360
I think you seriously lack imagination... You've read too much Tyler Cowen and imagine AGI only adding .5% to GDP per year lol. Instead of what it actually is which is the beginning of the Singularity.
Because in the absence of that physical connection you begin to accumulate a social and economic debt that will eventually come due, because sooner or later that 80% working in the service economy will come for the remaining 15-20%. Domestic manufacturing made possible by some degree of anti-dumping/tariffs
would at least create a more balanced distribution of this wealth.

Globalist trade promoters are just short-term wishful / magical thinkers. It's magical thinking that you can create this social and economic imbalance via outsourcing it to the other side of the globe, without consequences over the long run. It's wishful thinking that there are enough upper middle class jobs / lifestyle for everyone that took Calculus.
The world is an interdependent eco- system these days. The idea that a country can isolate itself an reproduce expertise that has flourished elsewhere is a bit silly and tilting at windmills.

Globalization is a fact of the world today and the best path to better lives for everyone is through mutual cooperation and policies that lift all boats.

Trump's goals and attempts to change this are foolhardy.
The point of a protest march is that it takes place in infrastructure that people need to use for other stuff & that it's hard to ignore. It's not just the expression of a political opinion, it's a form of activism—a way to push for change by making it uncomfortable for things to remain as they are. It's meant to be annoying.
Question: if the jobs were off shored, but the resulting profits were shared more equally, would Americans still complain?
Or maybe there are better applicants than your highly qualified asian applicants. But sure, an Asian canadian came over here, helped kill AA, and nothing's changed. Well done Asian community. You fucked over a tiny fucking minority for nothing.
There is no compelling evidence that MRI contrast agent causes cancer. Gadolinium (the stuff that’s in the contrast agent) can deposit in the body, e.g. in the brain, but if this even has any consequences is still unclear. Nonetheless there is some nice research going on how to drastically reduce the amount of contrast agent needs to be administered through image postprocessing.
Show HN: Skylight – Run computer-use agents on Windows VMs
Hey all! We're Skylight, a team founded by Maria (DeepMind Scholar in AI) and Adam (PhD researcher focused on LLMs).

We’re building Windows virtual machines that can be operated by computer-use agents (CUAs). You can spin up persistent Windows instances in seconds and operate them with CUAs. We’ve created a built-in agent, or you can plug in your own with the API + SDK.

Skylight works best to automate apps and legacy software that don’t have APIs, such as Microsoft Office and ERP systems.

We built this because deploying CUAs in production is way harder than it should be, and we packed in all the things we needed ourselves:

- Persistence – pause and resume VMs without losing progress
- Interactive Live Streaming – watch agents work in real time and take control if needed
- Multiple Instances – run multiple VMs at once and coordinate across them
- File Downloads – pull files from VMs to your local machine
- Knowledge Base – agents retain context of past actions
- Human-in-the-Loop – guardrails for important and irreversible actions

If you need to run agents that use desktop software (not just browsers), come check us out (for free).
>under diagnosis

Telling the Amish they're depressed sounds like a wonderful business oppportunity! Think of all the follow up products and services!
Some very old kids, yeah. With a almost baby-like understanding of the world.
Scott Alexander’s article on altruistic kidney donation weighed the initial CT scan as a heavy negative, like an incremental 1 in 650 risk of death. Shocking to me at the time, but the number seemed to check out, at least as a first order estimate.
That's not how most basic science works. It's easy with hindsight to identified research that didn't work or seemed dumb at the outset, but some small percentage of exploratory projects turn out to be major advances. Studying algae ion channels was not intended to be applied research but ended up with the discovery of green fluorescent protein, which won a nobel prize and opened the door to immunohistochemistry, optogenetics, and other crucially important biomedical advances. There are countless examples like this. It's trivially easy to find failed research too... but that's the process. It's only expensive if you ignore all of the innovation that comes downstream of the initial grant process.
I'm not sure yet. Just wanted to make it free/affordable to begin with and test out this model. Certainly the market may prefer a simple paid subscription (free up to X users, then $x/user after that). I understand the perception of 'tracking' and am trying to make it clear how it works w/ the PP up and easy to understand.
> Native English speakers don't know how to use commas, so they throw them anywhere they want to have a pause.

Like with any language, there are wildly varying levels of literacy. Many native English speakers know how to use commas, and many others don't. I think that shades from using them grammatically (most literate), to using them ungrammatically as a generic pause, to not using punctuation at all.
This argument runs squarely into the problems of whether credentials or outcomes are what's important, and whether the LLM is considered a tool or the one actually responsible doing the work.
Just to refresh for anyone reading along:

> The contract between the two countries is only for 1 year

Ty's red herrings about court filings and so on are just that: red herrings. All sources lead back to exactly one piece of information, which is an AP article about a memo from El Salvador about an agreement. That AP article claims the memo says the following:

"El Salvador confirms it will house these individuals for one (1) year, pending the United States’ decision on their long term disposition"

That's it. It does not say "only" for one year. There is no information about the renewal terms. There is no information about what happens after one year. No one has produced the full set of terms of this agreement, and no one has produced evidence (as is required under US law) that an actual signed contract even exists (as is required under US law).

Readers can assess that how they wish.
Doesn't look very expensive to me. An LLM capable of this level of summarization can run in ~12GB of GPU-connected RAM, and only needs that while it's running a prompt.

The cheapest small LLMs (GPT-4.1 Nano, Google Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B) cost less than 1/100th of a cent per prompt because they are cheap to run.
And when a Democrat is back in power in 2029, and China invades in 2030, what will she do? Protect Taiwan and destroy the US economy as we endure the equivalent of an infinite tariff; or appear weak by saying “that’s a shame”, even if China is doing a Great Leap Forward on the population?
I'm saying I searched and I couldn't find it but what I did find was many news websites that reported it but said they couldn't confirm these rumors themselves and said they were just that, rumors. I found threads about it on other anonymous textboards where people would have no compunction to post the links and yet they didn't. The news sites don't just say “We obviously won't post the links.” but “We couldn't confirm these rumors.”.

Edit: I finally found one news website willing to actually confirm it though. The Daily Dot claims to have accessed the leaked information and verified it for itself.
I've seen this brought up with board games that are now primarily made in China, because injection molding is cheaper there especially for small quantities. The US could make the board game minis, but everyone who is capable of it in the US is producing high value high quality aerospace, industrial, medical parts. It's a waste of their time to produce small runs of toy parts.
I had to stop reading at the Michael Jordan baseball part. Everything after that wasn't believable anymore. He wasn't that bad at baseball[1].

1. https://vendettasportsmedia.com/michael-jordan-wasnt-that-ba...
>HP bought palm for 1.2 billion dollars and then did nothing with it. Why is doing something anti competitive but doing nothing not?

Not sure anyone thinks thats true at all.
Can you expand on this? I remember canv.as, it was a weird but interesting project but it seemed doomed from the outset.
I think a lot of Supreme Court cases will come out of this administration, I just don’t think the sovereignty of independent federal agencies is going to be one of them.

I guess we will wait and see.
For strategic, economic, national defense and public health reasons, I completely agree with you.

Too bad a large portion of our electorate is brainwashed by propaganda and/or completely out to lunch.
Yes, that is, to within a rounding error, Acela.
1/2 as common. https://astrobites.org/2022/04/16/template-post-9/#:~:text=T...
I think it's worse than that as the DOGE staffers are presumably picked according to Musk's preferences and he's not going to be looking for generous, well adjusted do-gooders, but selfish, arrogant, greedy racists. Presumably, they're also going to be targetted by other countries intelligence services with a mind to getting hold of the same data.
We don't. We need only take a look at Detroit, holdout of American manufacturing. They have been automating and robotizing everything they can. ["... However, the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis notes that motor vehicle manufacturing employment declined 17% from 1994 to 2018, while motor vehicle productivity increased by about 13% over the same period..."] If manufacturing does come back to the US, it won't create very many jobs. Mostly just the people to maintain and fix the machinery.

Given the improvements in cameras and computer vision and AI and robotics, there is no reason to think this won't accelerate. A long long time ago, labor was cheap and resources were expensive. Today, the opposite is true. Keynes predicted in the 50s that we would be working 15 hour work weeks. The reason he was "wrong" was that he underestimated our insatiable human greed. We all want more. Average house size in the 50s was < 1200 sq ft. Today it is 2400+. Each kid must have their own room that is 12x12!! (I grew up with 4 boys in a 10x10, lol). Each kid must get a new $200 bat each year for little league, etc. We want a higher standard of living for ourselves and our kids. This is understandable but we forget our role in the never ending chase.
One of the most astonishing things about working in Application Security was seeing how many SQL injection vulns there were in new code. Often doing things the right way was easier than doing it the wrong way, and yet some would fight against their data framework to create the injection vulnerability. Doubt they were trying to intentionally cause security vulnerabilities but rather were either using old tutorials and copy/paste code or were long term coders who had been doing it this way for decades.
I think of environmental conflicts that disappears in the US thanks to manufacturing moving to China.

In the 1990s there were numerous manufacturing plants in the US (two on the South Hill of Ithaca alone) that were found to be contaminated with solvents like

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichloroethylene

People thought it was great stuff, you wouldn't believe how hard it is to get cutting grease off things after you turn them on a lathe and vapor de-greasing makes it go away just like that.

China has some of the most advanced agriculture on the planet including a "vertical farm" that can sell straw mushrooms for about $2 a pack where they are super-proud that humans only touch them with a forklift. (Contrast that to the labor-intensive mushroom farms of Pennsylvania where somebody cuts each one with a knife.)

We are pretty omnivorous (I think mealworms start with "meal") and my obsession with anime and Japan has turned into serious sinophilia but my wife and I are hesitant to eat "Chinese Food" grown in China because of widespread environment contamination, I mean they've been building up heavy metal stocks ever since Emperor Qin Shi Huang poisoned himself with mercury.
I've been thinking lately that we don't properly account for things like security. I've also been thinking lately that a lot of people have terrible ethics and are more than happy to engage in nepotism and or fraud. Don't know what to do about it personally, I just try to keep my needs small and be happy with what I've got while trying to prepare my own children to have some level of a good life.
Robot-controlled wedding cake with edible battery
Ask HN: What is the best font and styling combo for readability on the web?
As I read HN I often come across personal blogs / websites that look great and are visually easy to read, but I change my mind on what is "best" all the time.

Admittedly this is a matter of opinion and the web is not short of opinions, but I'm wondering what users here have found are the most pleasant to read font and styling combinations?
Please don't take this the wrong way, it's just the editor in me.

There's a typo at the end of the Error Handling section:

When you need to explicitly handle an error, you omit the question mark operator and use thw Result value directly.
Using the outcome of the last head-to-head matchup as a predictor can be misleading without proper context. The time elapsed since that game matters significantly—it could be from just a few games ago or over 20 games back. In that time, both teams may have undergone considerable changes in form, strategy, injuries, rotations, or momentum.

My model accounts for each team's evolution by incorporating trends from recent performances against all opponents, not just head-to-head matchups. This includes rolling averages and exponentially weighted metrics over the last 25 games, which help capture current form, streaks, and regressions.

As a result, the most recent head-to-head result only holds substantial predictive weight if it occurred recently and aligns with both teams’ current trajectories. Otherwise, it's treated as just one small piece of a much larger picture.
They did chest too because I also had some higher up pain on my side. That also resolved with the bowel flush.
I'm not so sure.

The tariffs most certainly will dissipate but we can't discount the chance that they may be replaced with actual written in law voted on by congress and signed by the president taxes that have similar but much more durable effects.

Manufacturing and heavy industry really hates off-shoring. They only do it because the sum total of other policy makes it the only viable option. I can see them taking a decent haircut in pursuit of some longer term goal.
oh that can be done in 3 easy steps.

1. win a world war that destroys the economy of every other country in the world for a decade.

2. destroy about the past 50 years of technology and all knowledge of how manufacture it.

3. Kill 90% of people over retirement age to lower demand for housing, healthcare costs, and retirement benefits.

In the modern world with modern technology there's a lot less productive work out there for people without specialized education. We could do a better job of training more people for trades jobs (e.g. plumbers, electricians etc), and removing college requirements from some professions (e.g. med school and law school could probably be college level education rather than post college) but anyone saying that we're going back is just lying.
sure, but it will take longer than 4 or 8 years and everyone in power wants their own thing, not continuity. it cannot happen without a long term plan and long term plans cannot happen if have, maybe, a year to do things and the rest is election time.
Harvard's Strength and How Far We've Fallen So Quickly
Ok. Those jobs don't exist. Now what?
And exactly how were they "screw[ing] over poor, hard-working Asian students
Still, this kind of outsourcing of manufacturing (or even more food production) puts the US in an incredibly uncomfortable position, especially that China is its main geopolitical enemy.

What if a war erupts? Suddenly the US cannot produce a lot of essential stuff - I think Covid was a good example of that happening.

Of course the question is can this be done and what will be the price if so.
US unemployment rate floats along at about 4%, and is kept from going any lower to prevent inflation.

There are localized problems - and it's all very similar to the post-Thatcher UK - but you cannot be serious in imagining that employment would magically return to the exact spots it left. In fact that's one of the sub-problems OP talks about: so you want a US Shenzen. Where are you going to put it?

(UK equivalent: we're discussing keeping Scunthorpe blast furnaces open, so that we can have a "secure" supply of "domestic" steel .. made entirely from imported ingredients. Because the mines the plant was built to refine are empty)
GLM-4-32B-0414: New MIT-licensed SOTA LLM from Zhipu AI
Demo available at https://chat.z.ai/

In my experiments, its non-reasoning variant is the strongest non-reasoning LLM in its size class, and outperforms much larger LLMs like Llama 4 Maverick in programming and mechanical engineering problems.
> The obsession with AI (and other vapourware) in our industry ... fuelling the hard-right — who coincidentally are very much using AI.

Is it useless or not? If it's vapourware, why would you care if the other side uses it? If the far right is using it successfully, then by definition it is not vapourware, right?
What if I need massive amounts of boilerplate code that is cheap? there are still so many use cases where relatively simple CRUD apps would save massive amounts of time. In my industry, there are still massive organizations using pen and paper doing DVIR logs (just one example)
"Nobel invented dynamite. I don't see any difference between him and the guy using it to blow up children."
One guy driving a route between 100 places is probably more efficient than 100 people all driving to and from a place.
> Work to do what?

Bring back manufacturing, and make the US economy work better for workers.

> Why do you think this has anything to do with tariffs or manufacturing?

Because usually the best-paying jobs were in factories, especially if you didn't have a college degree. A lot of towns in the Rust Belt were economically dependent on a local factory -- think cars or steelmaking. Often, part of the reason these factories were so high paying is because the jobs were unionized.

Companies moved overseas to save money on that expensive labor.

Now, companies have all the negotiation leverage. "If you unionize / demand higher pay, we'll move operations overseas" is a real and credible threat, as countless companies have already done it.

Tariffs are supposed to make operating overseas more expensive. Undo the economic justification for moving the jobs overseas and they will come back.

This takes away the companies' negotiation leverage. The "If you unionize / demand higher pay, we'll move operations overseas" threat isn't credible if everyone knows overseas manufacturing is super expensive due to tariffs.

I grew up in the Rust Belt and I'm old enough to properly remember when some of those factories were still operating. I saw with my own eyes what used to be a respectable blue-collar community decay into an economic wasteland. The drugs are getting bad. A lot of people have lost hope. Young ambitious folks see no reason to stay here.

The problem and its underlying factors are so obvious to me that I'm constantly amazed to see well-informed, intelligent people who don't seem to understand it.
He was a mediocre AA player... compared to his basketball skill, he did absolutely suck at baseball.
I've been thinking about your comment for the past day and I just don't see how this would be an equivalent question to ask. Maybe you can elaborate?
> China generates over twice as much electricity per person today as the United States. Why?
>> This appears to be completely wrong? All the stats I can find say that the US has about 4x the per capita electricity generation of China.

I believe the comparison is absolute production, not per person.
Anything else would be odd. Considering China has 4x the capita of US it would mean that in absolute terms China is producing 8x the energy of the US. In reality it seems to be roughly 2x (although both sources are a bit outdated):

US 2023: 4.18 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity from utility-scale generators. Additionally, small-scale solar photovoltaic systems contributed around 73.62 billion kWh 1.

China 2021: 8.53 trillion kilowatt-hours (kWh) of electricity

--

But the staggering difference is how much of the electricity is attributed to the Industrial sector:

China: 70% (~6 trillion kWh)

US: 26% (~1 trillion kWh)

So overall China allocates 6x the electricity to production compared to US...
How trustworthy really are humans?
For better or worse the man is exposing the mindboggling scale of deindustrialization that was hidden underneath America's transition to a "knowledge economy". Decades of failed economic policy has led America to this point.
1. Jobs.

2. Profits.

3. Refined products can be exported to countries that don't have refinement capabilities. Not just the US and China. This gives Canada better trade leverage.

4. Security. A big one that's emerged in the last few weeks.

I don't see either Poilievre or Carney talking about this which is disappointing but not unexpected.