MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by specproc | 2025-04-03 12:02:22+00:00
South Korea was torn apart by a brutal US-led war; Japan nuked, twice, by the US. For every country where US barbarism has led to stable, peaceful societies, there are countless ruined shells: see Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya for recent examples.

As far as the outcome of WWII is concerned, I'm presuming this is what you're referring to, Europe owes just as much to the Soviet union in the fight against the Nazis, they gave many more lives. Does that go on the Russian ledger?

> It's a form of confirmation bias to assert now that all the world's maladies and wars stem from American interventionism.

At no point have I claimed this. My claim is that I struggle to think of a country that has a worse human rights record than the US, which I'd lightly tweak for living memory.

Still struggling.
by 93po | 2025-04-03 12:02:51+00:00
It was never going to last if the US allowed for very low cost imports from those countries. This is literally one of the largest points of tariffs - protecting domestic manufacturing. We could have had high tariffs the whole time and offshoring would have been much less pronounced. I'm not saying that would have been a net positive, but to say it would never last is only true under certain circumstances.
by arkh | 2025-04-03 12:02:53+00:00
50 years ago, in "The Mythical Man-Month" Fred Brooks was already discussing the cost of cloud based solutions.

> Since size is such a large part of the user cost of a programming system product, the builder must set size targets, control size, and devise size-reduction techniques, just as the hardware builder sets component-count targets, controls component count, and devises count-reduction techniques. Like any cost, size itself is not bad, but unnecessary size is.

And the why of Agile, DDD and TDD:

> Plan the System for Change [...] Plan the Organization for Change
by acdha | 2025-04-03 12:03:12+00:00
Why don’t you show some data supporting a more clearly-stated theory? All countries use economic policy, but there’s usually some kind of strategy involved - for example, the EU has a tariff on American steel and aluminum because that was retaliation from Trump’s earlier tariffs. Similarly, a lot of the EU agricultural duties are both protecting local industries but also enforcing quality or safety standards (this is also the reason for the Australian beef imbalance the President mentioned: they have a strict mad cow containment plan American producers dont follow).

The American action doesn’t follow a discernible strategy other than the fantasy that we can somehow “win” every trade relationship. That’s why you see massive taxes on poor countries we buy a lot of raw materials from - Madagascar can’t afford to buy the kind of expensive goods we primarily make, but we love to buy vanilla, so that trade “deficit” is both voluntary and to our mutual benefit.
by jmyeet | 2025-04-03 12:03:26+00:00
Just in the last election cycle, we saw tribal Democratic voters try and silence those protesting the Biden administration and then immediately go "we have always been at war with Eurasia" and do the exact same thing for Kamala.

And MAGA goes beyond being tribal: by any objective measure, it's a cult.

Plus you see an awful lot of people who will criticize one side for doing one thing while supporting the other side for doing the exact same thing. Obama, for example, was the Deporter-in-Chief (~3 million deported), Biden continued the Trump policy of using Title 42 to deny asylum claims and Kamala proposed building the very same border wall that all Democrats protested when Trump proposed it in 2020.

I'm a leftist and any leftist will have seen so many liberals who love progressive aesthetics but turn into a jack-booted fascist the second you want to address any of the underlying economic issues. For example, tell people "house prices need to come down" to solve any number of issues such as homelessness and see how they react.

> The implication instead seems to be that unless you are somewhere in the middle of the spectrum you must be "tribal". That feels dismissive.

On this, I 100% agree. There are several reasons why:

1. Intellectual laziness. People think they're "above the fray" by bothsidesing everything;

2. Ignorance. This is particularly an issue for Democratic voters in the US. Both Democrats and Republicans are neoliberals. US foreign policy is bipartisan. Full-throated support for capitalism is bipartisan. But a large segment of Democrats tell themselves they're good people for wearing a pride pin while at the same time thinking homeless people should die in the stree; or

3. Deception. This is particularly the case for Republicans who will try and center their positions by appealing to "common sense" and label Democrats, who are a center-right party, as "the far Left" or "the radical Left".

So, yes, people do use "tribalism" as an epithet to silence legitimate criticisim but there is also tribalism.
by alexey-salmin | 2025-04-03 12:04:08+00:00
I think humanity as a whole (not individual tribes) is quite good at getting out of local maxima in the past 2000 years.

Stable socioeconomic systems that in isolation could've existed for millennia are constantly getting crushed by their slightly more effective neighbors. When they're not crushed from the outside, they get consumed from within. In the end the better economy wins most of the time.
by piva00 | 2025-04-03 12:04:10+00:00
> Do you know anyone in your country who doesn't have a state issued ID card?

Where I live right now it's simply impossible because it's required to have an ID, we are also 10 million people so it's pretty easy to not fall into the cracks.

Back in my native country (Brazil), yes, I do know people who did not have any form of documentation up to when they died, like my great-grandfather, or a former's colleague grandmother.

> It's simply not true that 10% of people lack a state ID, it's absolute fiction made up for political reasons.

It's not about state IDs, read the fucking thing I posted, it's about "proof of citizenship" which 10% of the population does not have ready access for it, and rules have been changed for voters needing proof of citizenship, learn to read before spouting vitriol, please.

> So Norway isn't a real democracy? Ireland? Germany? Sweden? Netherlands? Italy? India? Greece? Why aren't you on their forums calling them fake democracies?

Here in Sweden is really easy to vote, nothing even close to what the US does to its voter rolls, or states deciding to purge them right before elections to tilt the scales, etc.

You simply are talking past through me, it's clear as day that people in the USA who want to vote many times cannot vote, you live there so probably have read more articles about this happening than I ever did. That is a problem, it's a fact, and it's used for political manipulation, 10% of the population will have increased friction to exercise their right to vote, that's simply anti-democratic, plain and simple :)
by graemep | 2025-04-03 12:04:11+00:00
> One can easily imagine a counter-history in which any of the forces America fought against had run over neutral countries without opposition

There are examples of that. Tibet, North Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Warsaw pact countries.

On average the US side was MUCH better. There are examples that go the other way (e.g. Afghanistan) and that were bad enough it might have been better with the other side (many South American dictatorships)
by mandmandam | 2025-04-03 12:04:29+00:00
I think you might be too focused on advertising’s role in nudging individual purchasing decisions, while underestimating how advertising shapes cultural norms and values over time.

The diamond industry’s marketing campaign didn’t just convince people to buy a diamond - it redefined what engagement meant in the Western world. That’s a fundamental shift in social behavior.

Yes, nicotine is addictive - but 'clever' marketing redefined who could smoke, and why, for decades. This lead to billions in profits - and millions of deaths.

The tobacco industries playbook is still being used; by climate companies, by big tech, by polluters, sugary drink co's etc. These aren't areas where things are "mostly interchangeable" - I want a climate, and clean soil, and drinkable water; not a choice in who destroys every common good.

And think on this - of the ads you saw in your days working for big tech, how many of those ads were based on making someone feel insufficient in some way? How many exploited insecurity or fear? How many manufactured fake urgency? ... How many were straight up deceptive? Etc.

Tbph, I don't get how someone with a PhD in psychology doesn't just defend this industry, but actively works for it. You must know some of the damage being done, after all those years in school.
by MrMcCall | 2025-04-03 12:04:43+00:00
That's a great film, but I have to disagree, simply because of the scene with the bad guy in the back of the cow suit.

God knew what those Catholic priests had been up to.

And now that my parents are in love with that orange demagogue, I see God's humor and justice.

My parents used to be good people, but I'm not sad, it's their choice, and we each reap what we sow, for good or ill, in perfect harmony with our choices. My phone is open to them, but they don't call, because -- evidently -- it's hard for a person to dial a phone with their head up their arse. One can only help the willing.

They have taught me that how one is in the beginning is not nearly as important as how one evolves and whereto. Once I stopped pitying myself, I stopped pitying others, and instead embraced empathy, compasson, and generosity.
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-03 12:04:53+00:00
I've noticed that many .gov email addresses just relay to gmail. I assume or hope it's at least business accounts and I hope they require 2FA at least. This has mostly been state .gov addresses that I have experienced gmail bounces, errors and such but there probably needs to be an extensive audit done for all .gov email addresses to see what is being relayed or routed where and which of those emails are encrypted and have the correct government classification headers for gov-to-gov emails. That should give DOGE something to do.
by infecto | 2025-04-03 12:05:16+00:00
I entirely disagree with our current administration but your display is a bit comical. I don’t think there is much room to argue that the US has historically given the EU a huge margin of protection. I think about some of those comparisons where the US navy is great than the combined top n countries.

Now again it’s not a defense of the administration or to flex some sort of agenda but it’s hard to argue, the EU has underinvested in its military for decades.
by NikolaNovak | 2025-04-03 12:05:30+00:00
Not all, but a lot of ThinkPad fans enjoy the track point. No laptop without a track point can be considered a viable alternative for me :-/

And thus, I have everything from a 14 year old t420s to my trusty t25 anniversary edition, and then a few workhorses with 8th gen Intels (x13 yoga, x1 carbon, t580) as personal and family laptops.
by fizzbuzz-rs | 2025-04-03 12:05:42+00:00
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by Brybry | 2025-04-03 12:05:49+00:00
Is it possible the Newsweek list is wrong?

The EO and Annexes are not on the Federal Register website yet but on the Whitehouse website it has EO[1] and Annex I[2] and Annex II[3].

I do not see Russia or Ukraine mentioned in any of those so I would assume both get the base "10 percent" under section 2/3.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/regu...

[2] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Annex-...

[3] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Annex-...
by latexr | 2025-04-03 12:06:12+00:00
None of that is true. Doctors generally treat whoever comes to them, and sometimes may refuse to treat desperately sick people (see women who died in the US because doctors refuse to treat them after a miscarriage). Teachers teach whoever is in their class. You don’t need to have committed a crime to require a lawyer, even something as simple as writing a contract applies.

But even if what you claimed had made any sense, it would still have been completely irrelevant and added nothing to the conversation.
by daxelrod | 2025-04-03 12:06:33+00:00
I have a relatively high-end desktop with a nice monitor. I also have an aging laptop with a tiny screen and an anemic amount of RAM. Most of my computing ends up being done on the laptop.

With a family and a kid, it turns out I’d prefer to spend most of my time at the computer in common spaces; at the dinner table, on the couch, etc. so that I’m present and available for my family. This is far better than squirreling myself away in a room.

(Note that for work, I have a different computer, I’m talking about for life outside of work.)
by Willingham | 2025-04-03 12:06:41+00:00
This article makes many valid points, but it’s important to remember 10%~ of devs are system developers(OS, compilers, firmware, database kernels etc.) For these jobs, the code itself often IS the core product. Correctness, stability, and compatibility come first, therefore the ‘out with the old and in with the new’ mentality is much less prevalent.
by lolinder | 2025-04-03 12:07:32+00:00
> which is the kind of opportunity that doesn't usually come around twice.

On the contrary, it most definitely did come around twice (hence the 2), and those same geographic advantages are still at play, barring thermonuclear war. It wasn't pure chance that Europe combusted in WW2, Europe had been on fire off and on for hundreds of years. Its geography just lends itself to large scale conflict.

The recent period of peace is an exception, but it's not the first exception and there's good reason to suppose this one won't last forever either.
by Xylakant | 2025-04-03 12:07:57+00:00
Thing is that people are entitled to have different opinions and we can argue about those all day. But people are not entitled to different facts, and if someone pretends 2+2=5, then there's very little arguing about that. It's not that I'm too tired to argue, but if someone is so far out of the common ground, there's no basis on which it makes sense to argue because they'll just declare all of your premises void and "win".
by sevensor | 2025-04-03 12:08:10+00:00
I find the most productive political discussions are about history. Most people don’t know any history at all, so a willingness to discuss the reason we have the Third Amendment, or the lasting effects of King Leopold’s dominion in Africa, or the Peleponnesian War, makes for a good discussion, and the distance makes people less emotionally tied to their positions and more willing to accept nuance. If we find we disagree, this also gives us social cover to pretend the topic isn’t intensely relevant to the present day.
by wtcactus | 2025-04-03 12:08:24+00:00
The fact that this modern "art" needs to be subsidized by the people that actually works with their taxes, is all the argument needed to tell you that indeed this is nothing more than fake intellectualism.

I'm not missing on absolutely anything by not appreciating a banana glued to a wall. In fact, nobody really appreciates that, it's just a bunch of sycophants pretending they have some artistic knowledge the rest of us, the poor populace, lack, that go on pretending with the charade.

The rest of the world, are just willing to tell you that the emperor has no clothes.
by DeathArrow | 2025-04-03 12:09:07+00:00
Being friends with someone doesn't mean we both should agree on everything. It also doesn't mean we should try to avoid discussing whatever. If we agree on something, good. If someone is changing his opinion bases on a talk and arguments, good. If not, also good.

I am friend with someone because I like that someone and I enjoy meeting him and talking to him, doing things together.

That doesn't mean agreeing on everything. And doesn't mean being afraid of speaking.

If someone quits, being my friend because we have different opinions on X, so be it. I am not like that. I won't break a friendship because someone thinks differently.
by apt-apt-apt-apt | 2025-04-03 12:09:43+00:00
I will solve this for you so you can worry about other things like the obsolescence of humanity and killer drones/bots.

In 200 years, we will have tamed the ability to generate energy efficiently and have relatively intelligent drones. These drones in swarms can track space debris, match their horizontal speed and push them out to outer space. Space debris will not be an issue. Maybe they can also take little bubbles of greenhouse gases and drop them out into space too.
by HelloNurse | 2025-04-03 12:09:58+00:00
There might be very little alignment of political opinions within one's circle of friends, and any discussion would turn into an unpleasant discussion with the risk of ending the group of friends forever.

For most people, very few friendships form with an expectation of political agreement: activists met at a common protest or campaign, generic regulars of a popular political party or union, old style secret societies, and so on.
by bell-cot | 2025-04-03 12:10:09+00:00
I'd bet there is a very wide gray zone between the current situation, and a "planetsized wall of debris", which badly damaged SpaceX's bottom line.

And, in much of that gray zone, SpaceX could be the very profitable leader in a booming market for launching all the replacement satellites, heavier collision-"resistant" satellites, and debris-sweeping satellites.
Show HN: GitHub Action for Vercel deployments without deployment_status events
by bakkerinho | 2025-04-03 12:10:19+00:00
I built a GitHub Action that solves a common pain point in CI/CD pipelines with Vercel deployments. Instead of relying on GitHub's deployment_status events, it actively polls Vercel's API to ensure deployments are truly ready before running tests or other checks.

Key technical features: - Direct integration with Vercel's API for real-time deployment status - Configurable polling with timeout and interval settings - Support for team projects and branch aliases - Works with both preview and production deployments - No special webhook configuration needed

The main advantage is reliability: Many CI pipelines fail intermittently because they start running tests before Vercel deployments are actually ready. Traditional solutions rely on GitHub's deployment_status events, which can be unreliable or require complex setup.

This action solves that by: 1. Retrieving the latest deployment for your project/branch 2. Extracting the preview/production URL 3. Actively polling until the deployment is genuinely ready

Example use cases: - Running E2E tests against preview deployments - Multi-app testing workflows - Post-production deployment validation - Accessibility testing on live environments

GitHub repo: https://github.com/RoyBkker/github-action-vercel-preview-url...

I'd love feedback from the HN community, especially from those dealing with similar CI/CD challenges.
by galangalalgol | 2025-04-03 12:10:52+00:00
Between three and five members of the EU could become nuclear powers complete with delivery systems within a year if there was political will. A couple of them in significantly less than a year. If the EU is truly responsible for its own defense, then it gets to choose how to go about that. There is only one way to do that in the time frame in which it will become necessary.
by devwithanxiety | 2025-04-03 12:10:59+00:00
Thank you very much for taking the time to write this reply. I found it very useful and reassuring.

> If that is the case you have to learn to let it go.

Yeah I totally agree. I'm hoping councilling sessions, CBT and journalling will help to reinforce this attitude. And thank you for the jounalling prompts. I've jotted them down and will be trying them over the next few weeks.

Funny you mentioned music, I just started learning and it has been great fun. I agree about finding something to obsess about that makes you happy.

Thank you once again!
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-03 12:11:19+00:00
If I had to travel I would just FedEx things to myself at the destination. I like to travel light.

Call ahead to the hotel one is staying at and arrange for the box to show up with the instructions that if travel plans change they are to open the box. Inside will be another box with a FedEx label that returns the box to its origin. Attach a page on the inner box that explains this as well. Sometimes communication is poor at hotels among staff. Attach a coffee gift card to the note on the inside and annotate the card is for whomever is shipping the box back to its origin.
by ggm | 2025-04-03 12:12:06+00:00
Eh, this worries me less. I mean ideally yes trade signatures have value but we all know the reality here is that strong nations don't feel bound by international law.

I don't think "reputational harm" exists in international relations. I do think the terms of future bilateral negotiations may be less favourable to the US for a while but if they are too iniquitous they won't get ratified in Congress.

Maybe some significant 20+ year investment choices redirect. Some future 56th president will complain 47 laid the seed of this disadvantage. In every other respect after the noisy bit is over people do what they do.
by chilldsgn | 2025-04-03 12:12:52+00:00
Absolutely with you on the abuse of LLMs. I'm deeply concerned about loss of competence and I am so burned out from having to deal with other people's messy and overly complex code.

I think people who think about this like us need to start building resilience for the very real possibility that in a couple of years we'll be the ones dealing with these awful LLM-generated code bases, fixing bad logic and bugs.
by jjice | 2025-04-03 12:13:19+00:00
From the people in my life who talked about their preference for this administration, the economy was the core reason I heard. Specifically interest rates, but ignoring that that’s the federal reserve and the president has no impact on that.

Whatever - all that said, I can’t imagine this leads to an economic boom or anything near it by the midterms. Are the republicans going to lose midterms if the economy is shit? I’m not sure, but I can’t imagine this works out well. I’m no economist though, so what do I know.
by alkonaut | 2025-04-03 12:13:57+00:00
> "they have no idea what's coming" are I believe naive.

There could be someone who understands this. But this someone never shows their face in public, or provides any rationale for the policies beyond the nonsense like "reciprocal tariffs" or similar nonsense. I mean the literal board with tariff percentages that was held up had numbers that made NO sense, to anyone! Yet there are no critical questions?

It's beginning to feel like a conspiracy theory. That behind the obvious idiots who are the faces of the policies, are some other, less inept people who are pulling the strings. But who would this be?

> they expect the coming storm because they seek what follows.

If there are elections in 2026 and 2030 then what follows is a blue wave in the midterms and millions of disappointed voters who had their 401k's gutted, saw prices of most goods increase 10%+ in 2 years, saw little to no tax cuts, lost their jobs if they worked for the government, and lost their social security.