MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mathfailure | 2025-04-05 01:59:33+00:00
Where did you take this from? Trump is not from working class. Working class might've been his 'platform' for the election, but he's already elected now, he basically has no incentive now to fight for the rights/interests of his voters, he has his own wallet that needs to finally get filled. Unless you think he really aims for a 3rd term.
by W6zVktFA | 2025-04-05 01:59:47+00:00
Coolify unfortunately didn't click with me, and I had a bad experience with a Redis database, so I stopped using it.

I would recommend Elestio (eles[dot]io) as an alternative which isn't open source, or self-hostable, but met my primary goal of drastically reducing cloud costs. And you can bring your own cloud/server, though I'm choosing to also rent from Hetzner through Elestio.

I'm running two redis databases on machines with 3 cpus, 4gb ram, and 80gb storage for about $80 total (the machines are billed hourly, but you get the max monthly bill up front).
by pizzly | 2025-04-05 02:00:24+00:00
My comment may be naive but digital services do not have tariffs. Given the unpredictable manner of Trumps tariffs wouldn't this encourage more startups and companies to focus on exporting digital services instead of focusing on physical goods? If so there could be minimal increase in goods produced in US and instead US consumers just absorb the price rise of goods with the consequences that arise from that.
by jampa | 2025-04-05 02:00:27+00:00
As someone who sold all my stock in January and invested into bonds, I think we are far from it, but the bottom it will depend if the tariffs are lifted in the next days. The worst case scenario would be tariffs being kept and the FED eventually losing independence.

I think it is safe to say that we probably will go back to pre COVID levels, since the trust in the stock market is eroded, but this time with high interest rates.
by coderenegade | 2025-04-05 02:01:17+00:00
Comparative Advantage is trivially wrong in the real world. If a potential enemy is better at making bullets than you are, you're probably still going to make bullets rather than trading for them, because if you ever come into conflict, you don't want your supply of ammunition choked. This has real world analogues in Chinese-manufactured electrical components that go into military hardware.

From a strategic perspective, the US probably needs to onshore chip manufacturing before China's chip industry reaches parity with Taiwan's. If they don't, China could effectively blockade the island and remain unaffected, while all of its competitors are. The US would lose the initiative, and have to make a reactive decision on whether or not it wants to be in a shooting war, which is a bad place to be.

Econ 101 was nice in theory when the US had no rivals. But it does now, and a country that relies on its military and technological edge as part of its economic strategy (i.e. reserve currency status, exerting soft power through global institutions that are backed up by a credible threat of violence) can't be in a position where it gets outbuilt by its competitors.
by OJFord | 2025-04-05 02:01:33+00:00
> If you think it's a lesser crisis, you could just say that.

I do, but the principal reason I didn't say that is that I had no idea it's what the commenter I replied to was referring to.

'Brexit' feels mostly completely irrelevant / not a topic of concern or debate since at least the beginning of the pandemic five years ago. The vote was almost a decade ago. 'If bdelmas thinks it's like Brexit, they could just say that', to paraphrase your own comment.
by mindslight | 2025-04-05 02:01:34+00:00
Two thirds of the Senate, only half of the House. Focusing on reversing just the tariffs is a waste of effort. The traditional ownership-class backers of the Republican party need to wake up to the reality that this bankruptcy enthusiast will only bring further destruction and ruin, start leaning on some congresscritters to buck the maggot party line, and depose this America-hating fuck. That's about the only hope of the United States being able to rebuild credibility.
by nimos | 2025-04-05 02:02:01+00:00
What caused people to stop using the free service that is MySpace? What caused people stop using the free service that is Digg? Being free isn't particularly novel. Facebook isn't providing this service out of some sense of altruism. It is incredibly profitable.

What about the tariffs would cause people to stop using it? Because they - along with many other of the administrations postulations and policies - are incredibly unpopular and a complete 180 of US foreign trade policy. Because tech is a money printing machine for the US and tech oligarchs who have largely bent the knee to Trump.
by brightlancer | 2025-04-05 02:02:08+00:00
"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer" is a value statement; in the US, some folks agree with it, some do not.

Under your argument, folks who disagreed about that value statement shouldn't bother discussing criminal justice policy; I think that's erroneous and part-and-parcel of Don't Bother With Those People.

Yes, _some_ policy conversations might be futile if folks have completely opposed values, but I don't think we should apply that generally.

We MUST work with people who hold different values than us, without trying to change their values so that they become part of Us.
by subjectsigma | 2025-04-05 02:02:33+00:00
This feels… silly to me. Sorry, I think the idea of the project is in the right place, and the features look compelling enough that I would like to download the beta. But if you think about it for even a second, the logical conclusion of the arguments presented would be the removal of the terminal almost entirely, and at that point is it even a terminal?

Take git for example. When I was learning git I did it entirely through the command line. The first time I used a real GUI git client was the last day I ever willingly did day to day git operations in a terminal. (Outside of scripting CI/CD pipelines or something.) Isn’t this just an admission that no matter how good your terminal is, git is better accessed through a GUI?

Or look at the environ command, where the demo proudly shows editing environment variables as a table, something that Windows has supported in a real GUI since, like, Windows 7?

I think the author has a long way to go before they declare terminals dead. Here’s some ideas I would be really excited to see:

* A terminal-aware split pane file manager. One pane is a directory tree, the other is a terminal. Clicking up and down the folder automatically changes the working directory of the terminal. Double clicking an executable or script runs it in that terminal, showing the output. Actions such as moving, copying, etc are saved to history and copy-pasteable. Terminal output can be saved to a file with a toolbar button or right-click menu. Code running in the terminal can be edited using normal CUA shortcuts and you can click to select or position the cursor.

* A terminal history browser that lets you interact with previous commands and re-run them, perhaps like a Jupyter notebook. You can permanently save and re-use snippets in normal .sh format to use scripts.

* A true bash/zsh debugger that lets you step one by one through commands, set breakpoints and watches, see the state of the environment and variables, etc., all in a GUI that emulates debuggers from other paradigms.

* A git GUI that lets you record “macros” that are just bash scripts. Imagine cloning a repo, checking out a tag, creating a new branch, and applying a patch or something. Then, you could click “Save” and have that be a repeatable script that runs anywhere.
by temp0826 | 2025-04-05 02:03:39+00:00
I recently moved someone's setup to Wix and was so pleasantly surprised. The old setup (put together by someone else years ago) was a security nightmare bleeding all kinds of warnings about outdated PHP and such, and was too fragile to update safely without grokking it way more deeply than anyone (me, helping these non-techy friends for free) for. I dumped all of the assets from the old site and basically remade it using wix over a few days in my spare time. Pretty easy, boatloads of features if you wish to dig into them (alas, the most complex thing we needed was a contact form), and I no longer have to worry about a bot/script kiddy using a 10 year old PHP exploit and taking it down (the biggest selling point to me). Additionally the admin app for it is pretty impressive. Lots of integrations, seo, analytic type stuff available.

It's gotta be a game changer for non-tech folks. You could really easily run a small business out of the features available.
by themaninthedark | 2025-04-05 02:05:01+00:00
Wrong.

Yesterday the House January 6 Committee unanimously voted to recommend that former President Donald Trump be criminally prosecuted, for charges including conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstructing an act of Congress, and, the most serious, insurrection. A congressional criminal referral of a former president is unprecedented, and if Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Department of Justice decide to prosecute Trump, they will have to address a formidable defense: that Trump’s speech on January 6, 2021, no matter how irresponsible or how full of lies about a “stolen” 2020 election, was, after all, a political speech and thus protected by the First Amendment.

Prominent legal scholars—and one lower-court judge—have rejected that argument, countering that Trump’s speech, in which he urged his supporters to march to the Capitol and “fight like hell,” was sufficiently inflammatory to permit criminal prosecution.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/12/january-6-...

When Congress' January 6 select committee asked the Justice Department to prosecute Trump in connection to the Capitol riot

>https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-january-6-criminal-ind...

Here is some other ink that has been spilled on the topic as well:

>Trump impeached for 'inciting' US Capitol riot https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55656385

>Trump ‘lit that fire’ of Capitol insurrection, Jan 6 Committee report says https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-lit-that-fire-of...

>Trump incites mob in violent end to presidency | CNN Politics https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/06/politics/donald-trump-capitol...

So I will ask again, Do you condemn all those who called for Trumps prosecution for his Jan 6th speech?

I still call the charges and prosecution of Mahmoud Khalil as a first amendment violation, why will you not join me?

Or, do you believe that Trump incited the Jan. 6th riots? If so then the same fact pattern holds for Mahmoud Khalil.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/04/30/p...
by NewJazz | 2025-04-05 02:05:46+00:00
I don't think this is quite true. Because these tariffs have been levied under the guise of a national emergency, they technically need to be confirmed by the legislature within X number of days. The House is playing tricks to not hold a vote, and I'm not sure if they need cloture in the senate, but I don't think they need 2/3 to slap the tariffs down.
by ants_everywhere | 2025-04-05 02:05:54+00:00
> while taking most of the surplus value

Just FYI, "surplus value" refers a concept Marx made up that is considered in mainstream economics to be an error in reasoning.

Even making sense of it requires buying into the labor theory of value that Marx took from Adams and Ricardo, but which is not taken seriously anymore.

That doesn't detract from the substance of the point you're making. But it's a little like reading someone say their house is hot because of all the phlogiston. It detracts from the force of the argument.
by mikesabat | 2025-04-05 02:06:09+00:00
I think it's a little overstated to call tcr a cartel. Yes, it's a process, but it's gotten a lot better over the last 18 months.

People have been complaining about spam text for a long time. There aren't too many folks out there clamouring for anyone to be able to send them an SMS via email gateway.

For the past decade I've been shocked that email to sms was still allowed. sure, there are some legitimate organizations that have been using this route to avoid cost. But the whole idea is that if it's not worth 1 penny to send this message, then sms probably isn't the right channel.
by pstuart | 2025-04-05 02:06:42+00:00
Understood on his personal motives. But his enablers want in on the action too -- that's the whole point of their fealty.

I've had years to deal with this guy's antics and I'm still agog at how well he's created a literal cult. The only thing respectable about him is his acumen for playing the media and the peanut gallery.
by robocat | 2025-04-05 02:06:47+00:00
Yeah, sorry, I was being snarky. I think I was reacting because your original question just seemed naive ....

How do you expect you could affect taxation rules by discussing what other nations do, or fairness?

Especially assuming you are dealing with front-line staff.

Should you want to change taxation laws then you have to be able to argue for your need against other needs (parents with criminal children, parents with psych problem children, parents with sick children, parents with drug abusing children yadda yadda yadda).

I can only think of two options:

1: there is an art to getting the most out of government service workers. They can help you learn available rules and sometimes they can choose to bend rules in your favour. I don't have the skill but you can tell when someone has it: they get helped more than the average person. I'm not sure how one might learn that art. I'm not sure how you could find people that already have the art, who might help you. A few people are good at hacking around government rules and systems - but they are rare (and I'm very unsure how learnable the skill of working around rule systems is).

2: just deal with it yourselves. Whenever I see a parent dealing with the excessive costs, they rarely get much external help (mostly just parental help).

I know multiple parents with autistic (or similarly outlier children) from 3yr old to 45yr old. In New Zealand parents get some help in some areas but unfairly it seems the parents have to shoulder the majority of the costs and time.

The above doesn't seem helpful - and clearly I'm no expert - but I figure you've asked and I'll share my ignorant opinion.

Good luck. The windows sound frightening.
by losvedir | 2025-04-05 02:07:08+00:00
Are you pretty young? The narrative when it was happening was pretty catastrophic. I remember reading about people not being able to get prescriptions, for example, because no one knew how imports worked.

I don't know how things panned out, but the discussions in the early days around Brexit were absolutely on par or even worse than what we're seeing in these two days of discussions around tariffs.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-04-05 02:07:23+00:00
They’re still in court. The judge today set a deadline of April 7 for the specific guy “accidentally” deported to return to the US, and seems like there may even be people held in contempt of court (can’t tell how much that’s wishful thinking on my part).

https://apnews.com/article/trump-deportations-el-salvador-ju...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...

Doesn’t fix everyone else who is there, but ugh.
by adverbly | 2025-04-05 02:07:30+00:00
> everyone agrees that it's good for a country to export lots of stuff

Not if you want to avoid escalation of a trade war.

If you know that the US is pissed off because you're hoarding dollars because its the reserve currency and its causing the USD to rise too high, leading to their decline in manufacturing competitiveness, then you can solve their problem for them by adding an export tariff. It will make them more competitive. But that way, you get the revenues from the tariff rather than the US. Adding your own import tariffs makes the trade balance worse. Its like the person you're negotiating with is complaining about a knife and you decide to twist it rather than remove it. A 50/50 split of export and import tariffs would mean that both countries can take a cut, the USD can maintain reserve status, and US manufacturing can stay competitive despite a stronger dollar. The fact that noone is doing this means that either they haven't considered it or they aren't happy with this outcome(probably the latter, but you never know...)
by mathfailure | 2025-04-05 02:07:37+00:00
National stock market is owned by people, but the national debt is owned (and has to be payed) by the government. Basically, the government is just milking the reach now to lower gov's national debt. Poorer people rather win from this (even if no manufacturers come to U.S. to avoid tariff barriers, which some manufacturers will and which will be another small benefit for the poorer (more jobs)).
by sebmellen | 2025-04-05 02:08:08+00:00
Your level of paranoia and aggression will vary depending on how hawkish you are. If you’re more hawkish you’ll be more aggressive and make your move as early as possible, and you’ll also tolerate a lot more pain to achieve your goal. Bessent seems pretty determined.

I do think it’s clear that our industrial capacities have eroded. Look at our infrastructure compared to China. We lag on every metric: transportation initiatives, building projects, solar production, new energy plants, and so on. Manufacturing is just 1/10th of the “full stack”.

I’m not making any political commentary as to whether tariffs are the right move or not, I’m only explaining the line of reasoning.
by colechristensen | 2025-04-05 02:08:45+00:00
The covid response of printing trillions of dollars and other currencies around the world meant that there was way more money and it had to end up somewhere.

There's just way more money to invest than there are productive companies to invest in. So you get crazy P/E ratios in the best bets available.

The "fix" is to inflate that money away (or maybe to tax it and pay down deficits?) but it's not an easy monetary policy or a familiar one.
by Vegenoid | 2025-04-05 02:08:56+00:00
Only if he tries to get a 3rd term by a fair election. The more realistic way to it happening is by hijacking the electoral process. There are a number of ways to do this, such as by claiming there was fraud and thereby having the justification to modify how "electors" [0] should cast their vote. This is exactly what was tried in the 2020 election.

Really, it's just an "if enough people in power and in general go along with it, then it works" kind of thing. The current trend in the GOP is to whip and/or expel those who do not fully support Trump. What happens if half of the elected politicians, most of their constituents, and most of the appointed government officials, decide that Trump is staying in office? No one knows. The power of words on paper only goes as far as people let it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Electoral_Colleg...
by blatantly | 2025-04-05 02:09:00+00:00
We are not at the stage where AI can replace graduates. No where near. I worked with an intern recently and it was a pleasure. The quality was excellent. An AI couldn't do what they did. In particular it cannot be accountable or really learn anything. Beyond adding more instructions but that is not tacit knowledge. That is like giving a run book to an idiot who doesn't have experience and may or may not understand it.

Stop talking about coding and talk about what humans do.

Otherwise chatgpt could replace any politician because it can recognize and say words. Wording is dead what now!
by gtech1 | 2025-04-05 02:09:03+00:00
You seem like a level headed dood and we seem to agree that their current strategy is incomprehensible apparently to both supporters and non-supporters alike.

You mentioned he delivered/will deliver on roughly 60% of the things you were looking for.

Do you draw the line somewhere and say, even if I get 60% of things I want, the other 40% could be/are a real dealbreaker ?

It's a very common thing for politicians to deliver on some things that are inconsequential while pursuing their own private agenda for other things.

In my home country there's a saying about politicians: He stole, but he also delivered. The social contract is that as long as the politician does 10% common good, (usually highly visible, populist, short term stuff) he can pursue his own interests be they short term, or long term, even if they are detrimental to the society as a whole - as long as he delivered some short term results.
by roenxi | 2025-04-05 02:09:46+00:00
Sure, but I'm going to put it to you that on encountering poor people the proper response isn't for your asshole to pucker and then to start reliving old traumas. That seems like a pretty wild response.

It is a reasonable response to high-crime areas, and it is unusual for the wealthiest parts of a city to be high-crime areas. But an area being less affluent doesn't make an area high-crime.
by WillAdams | 2025-04-05 02:10:29+00:00
From that page:

- Android 8.6.10 https://androwish.org/download/index.html

- Activestate seems to require account creation: https://www.activestate.com/pricing/

- Windows, nightly build of 9.0.2 from 15 February: https://gitlab.com/teclabat/tcltk/-/packages/34837768

- Windows 8.6.7 https://www.irontcl.com/index.html

This looks like the link I was looking for: Windows 9.0.1: https://www.tcl3d.org/bawt/download.html#tclpure which links to: https://www.tcl3d.org/bawt/download/Tcl-BI/SetupTcl-BI-9.0.1...
by huevosabio | 2025-04-05 02:10:34+00:00
I find it hard to sympathize, given how much work there is in this country.

People cross the southern border illegally without knowing the local language and with close to no skills and still get jobs, build families and give a chance to prosper to their offspring.

I'm not saying there's no hardship anywhere in the US, but rather that the US has so much richness as a whole that these towns you talk about should be going out of their way to find job elsewhere in the US.

Its how urbanization works and has been the trend for a long time. There's no reason why every geographic location has to have a booming economy.

Though every human should have the ability and right to move where the economic boom is happening.
by 0hijinks | 2025-04-05 02:10:39+00:00
The point about entry into massive, maybe untractable datasets makes sense to me. I get the usefulness of GenAI there for sure. Another commenter suggested:

>> Its more like, here are some possible answers where there were none before.

That's a good point. AI doesn't need to be an authority, but another way of generating leads, maybe when it would be time-intensive to do so yourself.

If it's not prohibitive to do the digging with a human, do that. Because if adequately trained and rested, the human will perform more reliably.
by cycomanic | 2025-04-05 02:11:05+00:00
I was bringing this up with a guy yesterday who was genuinely supporting the policies and somebody chimed in that they were not worried at all, because everyone wants to trade with the big boy in town. Trust is not important if they are afraid of you (I'm paraphrasing). Quite a different perspective, but it is consistent with an observation I made about a lot of US comments, people are quite happy for their country/government to engage in tactics (e.g. bullying, industrial espionage even against partners...) that they are enraged if others (E.g. China) do it. Europeans seem to be much more susceptible to an "if you don't want it to be done to you don't do it to others" argument.
by jdeow | 2025-04-05 02:11:42+00:00
You are just assuming Attention craving/seeking Trump types don't exist in every country in the world.

If Trump and the rest of his podcasting/influencer buffoon class, can rise to power in the US riding on what is valued by Attention Economics, then the same can repeat in every country in the world.

The root cause is not changing cause the Algos have created a game that favor those who love Attention and will do whatever it takes to get it and keep it.