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by saturn8601 | 2025-04-03 19:12:52+00:00
>The calculus is pretty complicated. Economies of scale become a factor - is one large global factory more efficient than separate regional facilities? Also income disparities; Americans can more afford to pay a 25% premium on a good than most of the rest of the world can; so maybe you just make Americans pay more. Or, maybe you do both, have a world-wide facility and a American facility, but still charge Americans the tariff premium, and pocket the 25% as profit instead (steel producers model; also pickup trucks); this works well in conjunction with the USA's low business taxes.

25% margins are huge. Sounds like that margin is someone else's opportunity....which is exactly what the Administration hopes will happen.

There is an opportunity here: Cozy up to Trump, have him give you a ton of government money and spin up a company that will take those margins.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-04-03 19:12:53+00:00
I agree getting shipped off to a concentration camp ("detention center") without resource to justice is not on par with getting thrown out of a helicopter, but it's starting to get pretty damn close. And Trump is only getting started. If he had 7 years like the Junta did, we might wind up with our own contingent of desaparecidos.
by kubectl_h | 2025-04-03 19:13:04+00:00
Plenty of his supporters are SMB owners or people that work in trades/factories. This is not a revolution of the indigent. What these people don't realize is even if they make 200K a year and drive an 85K financed F-250, they are effectively in the same class as someone making 50K a year managing a Dollar General. These people have no class awareness and they voted in a representative of the ultra wealthy intent on pillaging our economy. Some may believe that Trump will usher in some era of economic prosperity but they are wrong.

On the other hand Trump will deliver on another, implicit promise to them, which is inflict pain and suffering on a great deal of people they dislike for whatever reason.
by StackRanker3000 | 2025-04-03 19:13:50+00:00
But what are you even asking? Would it be good for Americans if the US could produce every single thing conceivable to fully meet demand domestically? Yes, it would be. But it will not and cannot happen, so it’s not a useful thought exercise.

Would it be amazing if I was 6’7”, super athletic, played in the NBA, and I was also super smart and everyone loved me, especially the ladies? Sure. But I’ve gotta play the cards I’ve been dealt (I think there are some people who love me, at least).
by KerrAvon | 2025-04-03 19:13:54+00:00
> Their life is already meeting every economic headwind imaginable

Horseshit. The most fervent Trump supporters are upper-middle class professionals who are bored with their lives. Hence the frequent boat parades for Trump. It's why the huge, expensive trucks are the ones flying the Trump flags. And practically all of them have 401ks, which means they are at least indirectly invested in stocks.
by nipah | 2025-04-03 19:13:57+00:00
I love how it is just assumed that "we can" and "we will", a good way to confidently tell you will burn human resources until you get to the point you want.

Meanwhile, the most advanced simulations are still rough approximations with little to no realism rather than "in this specific conditions and with this specific neural arrangements I made artificially, it behaves similarly to a real nematode", a good way to make a self-fulfilled prophecy.
by csbartus | 2025-04-03 19:14:06+00:00
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by pfista | 2025-04-03 19:14:07+00:00
Do you auto-generate specific MCP tools for the repo? Curious what the queries you would use with an AI agent to get a response back.

I'm building my own hosted MCP solution (https://skeet.build) and have been deliberately choosing which tools to expose depending on the use case- since there are tool limits due to the context window for apps like Cursor.
by cauch | 2025-04-03 19:14:36+00:00
The footnote is basically saying "I can tell when it's the case or not", which is in fact exactly my problem. That is not the answer that I'm expecting from someone who has self-reflection.

For example: "understand my argument" is assuming that the argument is obviously correct. When someone presents to you an incorrect argument, 1) this person thinks the argument is correct (otherwise they will not present that argument), 2) you will not answer by saying "I've understood", you will argue. From their point of view, you are the one failing to understand. Now the question is: how many time this person was you? How many time you presented a bad argument and then blamed the interlocutor for "not understanding" when they don't accept a faulty argument?

Same with "circular reasoning or rhetorical trick": when I disagree, it is always very easy to convince myself that there is a problem in the interlocutor logic. Especially if I failed to understand or misunderstood the argument. I would even say that for all discussions that are not trivial, there are always elements that can be seen as circular or rhetorical trick.
by supplied_demand | 2025-04-03 19:14:49+00:00
==40.1% of US taxpayers on the low end of income distribution pay no income tax==

According to 2022 IRS data, average deductions for those who itemized totaled $43,686 in tax year 2022 [0]. The 2022 bottom two quintiles of income were under $44k [1]. That means in 2022 rich people AND poor people didn't pay income taxes on their first $45k of income. Is that unfair to rich people?

Worth noting, the 25 richest Americans paid an average effective tax rate of 13%, as of 2018 when IRS data was leaked [2].

==Top 1% (with the possible exception of a few billionaires) already pays through their nose.==

"While average effective tax rates barely changed in the US from 1945 to 2015, the average tax rates of high-income households fell sharply—from about 50 percent to 25 percent for the highest income 0.01 percent and from about 40 percent to about 25 percent for the top 1 percent." [3]

If the average effective rate hasn't changed, but the effective rate paid by the top 1% has fallen by ~40%, how is the difference made up? The 99% pay more.

[0] https://www.pgpf.org/article/7-key-charts-on-tax-breaks/

[1] https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDT1Y2022.B19081?q=income+qu...

[2] https://www.propublica.org/article/you-may-be-paying-a-highe...

[3] https://taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/effective-income-tax-rate...
by bruce511 | 2025-04-03 19:14:58+00:00
>> It seems that a lot of people assume it’s possible (or easy?) to make a living from open-source projects

Eh? The only people who think you can make a living from Open Source (without working for a corporate) has never bothered to try. The number who have done it is a rounding error from zero. It's quite literally the hardest way to make money in software.

>> individuals are more likely to donate, while companies often need months of convincing, and it usually doesn't work, or they expect their logo everywhere

Companies cannot donate. People make donations, not companies. The only way to get a person at a company to send you money is by sending them an invoice for pretty much anything. Since you're giving the code away for free, advertising is pretty much all what you've got left to sell.

Repeat after me - Donations are not a business model. It's a hobby model.

Hosting can work at small scale. But I can host your product for less than you can. So if you're popular I can just host your software, and siphon off a chunk of your market.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-03 19:14:59+00:00
> it is essential for the USA to invest in this space, otherwise the USA would be at a severe competitive disadvantage in just about every category.

I've been hearing this assertion since the start of the hype cycle, but I've never heard anyone actually making a supporting case for it. It's always just an assertion.

Where is the analysis and data that supports the idea?
by semiquaver | 2025-04-03 19:15:12+00:00
Of course I’m anthropomorphizing. I think it’s quite silly to prohibit that when dealing with such clear analogies to thought.

Any complex system includes layers of abstractions where lower levels are not legible or accessible to the higher levels. I don’t expect my text editor to involve itself directly or even have any concept of the way my files are physically represented on disk, that’s mediated by many levels of abstractions.

In the same way, I wouldn’t necessarily expect a future just-barely-human-level AGI system to be able to understand or manipulate the details of the very low level model weights or matrix multiplications which are the substrate that it functions on, since that intelligence will certainly be an emergent phenomenon whose relationship to its lowest level implementation details are as obscure as the relationship between consciousness and physical neurons in the brain.
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by p_greendale | 2025-04-03 19:15:51+00:00
Hm, I find that comparison a bit off. As a lover of both, Thinkpads (original IBM and Lenovo followups) AND macbooks, I would like to say that it IS possible to maintain macbooks, at least the older ones. My 2012'er MacBook Pro is holding up, parts like the sata-cable and worn out fan were replaced and the ram was upgraded. My Powerbook 530 hat replacable parts, even the G3 Pismo(?) one and an white ibook g3 is also serviceable if you're patient. Same happend for the thinkpads 360, 570, 600, X41t, X61s, T60, T61... hell. We even had chinese colleagues ordering for motherboards for us from china with changed firmware to run 201'er boards in X200 tablets. I became frustrated on thinkpads when Lenovo tried to mimick Apples lightweight AIO design and their first chicklet keyboard frustrated me. I changed all to apple then, because if both do weird things, why not using the more power efficent M1 (imho, maybe that has changed.)

Do you remember the old thinkpad bios? Where the pointer was a flying duck? Do you remember opening a thinkpad and everything was labelled with colors and had small handles to change components quickly? Do remember changing ram on a powerbook? And do you remember how hard it was to find a new scsi disc drive for them?

Recently, I got an nearly mint T420 at work as I needed something for a mobile job and I just felt my love for the black boxes again. Damn, I miss those days but I also would miss my retina (apple) or 4k screen (Lenovo) if I had to decide between either an old machine or a new one. Luckily, I can keep a few
by disambiguation | 2025-04-03 19:16:00+00:00
I'm in the process of switching to Graphene OS. So far its a very capable system with minimal tinkering to get basic functionality. I'm seeing how far i can get without the sandboxed Play Store, there's a lot of great FOSS and alt "playstores" for rapid trial and error. Reminds me a bit of the early days of smart phones when you could sample whatever apps were trending without fear of ads and micro transactions, and play around with the device to get it just right.
by cratermoon | 2025-04-03 19:16:08+00:00
The Jones Act (officially Merchant Marine Act of 1920) is not a tariff, so the argument that tariffs killed American shipbuilding doesn't ring true. What it does demonstrate is that protectionism, in the form of straight up import/export restrictions, has unintended consequences (see e.g. DeepSeek using H800s in place of export-restricted H100s) that may harm the interests it is intended to help.
by theultdev | 2025-04-03 19:16:46+00:00
You want me to detail all countries' tariff policies?

Are you insinuating that these countries have no tariffs in place, or...?

I believe it's quite clear the imbalance of many markets. Automobiles being the most distinct, but every product tariffed varies by country.

edit: rate-limited, I'm not allowed to talk anymore I guess...
by hyperjeff | 2025-04-03 19:16:58+00:00
> Inventing the automobile has clearly made humanity less fit. Should we stop driving?

Perhaps an apt analogy. One could argue that the lure of convenience of automobiles led to one of the worst decisions of the 20th century, to restructure society around automobiles, causing a self-perpetuating reliance feedback loop with many destructive side-effects (physical, environmental and cultural). We should pause a bit and not rush head-long into AI without trying to think the path forward through. It's a decision that we will all make together as a culture. There are many current troubles with AI already, even if they make no mistakes at all.
by rescripting | 2025-04-03 19:17:13+00:00
Tariffs will have an larger impact on low income people because they act as a flat tax on goods. There is a certain fixed dollar value that everyone needs to survive the month, and that value just got larger while income remained the same. When you're poor the smallest increase in cost of living pushes you in to the red.

This is why inflation was such a huge issue. I fail to see how this is any different.
by neilv | 2025-04-03 19:17:34+00:00
Do you know an exceedingly credible source for the firmware modifications?

(Last time I looked, it had the air of the XDA-style culture: "To root your phone, download this package from a `.ru` piracy site, run the `.exe` on your PC, then install and run the closed blobs on your phone, including rooting and replacing your bootloader with one, we know you will trust us." Though, in their defense, if they were organized crime, they would probably make an effort to look more legitimate, rather than gratuitously suspicious. And all the forum comments were always lapping it up, appearing to be doing reckless things, while removing much of the demand and contributors for more-credible efforts.)
by shw1n | 2025-04-03 19:17:35+00:00
> In that case who you think is the "least worst" is also a reflection of values

perceived values -- if someone has the same values and rankings as you, but was exposed to different information, then with this logic you'll never be able to find out or flip them

as I said to the other commenter, basically all comes down to "are you open to the chance you're wrong"

you could view that chance as low as 0.001%, but it shouldn't be 0
by guappa | 2025-04-03 19:18:11+00:00
Well age of empires 2 didn't work on windows 7 and vista for example. So ok now it works but it wasn't continuous.

Star trek elite force won't work (at least it didn't for me), star wars jedi outcast and jedi knight are in the same situation. Yes you find some of them on gog, which means they needed changes to work again.
by saturn8601 | 2025-04-03 19:18:13+00:00
>How precisely do you want to keep a massive edge over a billion hardworking East Asians who now have a lot of capital and know-how at their disposal?

Promote the lie down movement in the short term and let the negative birth rate take care of them in the long term. Thats the only way unless the US somehow gets a magical AGI and robots before China.
by alephnerd | 2025-04-03 19:18:23+00:00
> A lot of supporters of the trade restrictions don't care. They're working people who don't own a lot of stocks and all they've seen is their jobs sent overseas

A lot of us were also in the market before the pandemic (aka before 4 years ago), so we remain in the green.

Personally, it's a win-win.

1. Based on past tariff action, the current tariffs will not be repealed by any future administration - there is plenty of harsh feelings amongst some of us Dems who were IRA adjacent to France and Germany's lobbying against the Green New Deal and calling it "protectionism".

2. This plus DOGE has caused short term pain as reflected in the NY by-elections leading to Stefanik's nomination to the UN being pulled.

3. Those of us with some sympathy for economic nationalism but don't caucus GOP have been vindicated, but have a messaging tool now as well.

4. We can finally take the UAW and ILA national leadership behind a shed and pull a metaphorical old yeller. There's no point trying to make peace with National when much of their local leadership leans GOP. Makes it easier to concentrate on AZ, NV, and GA - states where the demographic and union makeup is completely orthogonal to the UAW and ILA's cadre. Makes it easier to help the AFL-CIO as well.

5. Sullivan and Raimondo's doctrine has been vindicated. Philippines, Brazil, Colombia, Malaysia, and India have now been made much more cost competitive than China or transshipment via Vietnam or Thailand - either you reduce transshipment from China or your competitors in apparel, textiles, and electronics are subsidized. Vietnam already has sent their Dy PM to negotiate as we speak to reduce tariffs.

Europe also has no option but to diversify away from China as well. Either you fund a state selling intermediate parts to Russia in Ukraine, or start building domestic defense and industrial capabilities like that which existed before the 2000s (which they are now doing).

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Already, some of my peers from my previous life have started testing the waters for a Dem equivalent of the Tea Party. Lot of realignment coming in the next 2 election cycles.
by SamoyedFurFluff | 2025-04-03 19:19:04+00:00
This is assuming America is even capable of producing what it needs to generate jobs or investment. There’s no point in taxing coffee from Africa; America doesn’t produce competing coffee! There’s no point in tariffing specialized electronics from China that Apple needs; US literally doesn’t have the capacity to produce these and the investment to do so will be inefficient as American labor is better put to service and knowledge sector work to produce more Apple product designs (just one example).

This is just going to make the American economy more inefficient, less able to compete internationally, and devalue American interests globally, which means America will have less clout to privilege their citizens with.
by rjbwork | 2025-04-03 19:19:09+00:00
>If you're clever you add a manual review stage in the pipeline and have the db engineers approve the generated migration script before deployment is completed automatically.

This is how I've set it up at my current employer. It works well. We modeled it after the Terraform Plan/Apply steps, and double check that the script generated by the "apply" step matches the script generated by the "plan" step, since these can occur at significant temporal distances, and fail it if not, just so that we can be sure what we've read and approved matches what gets executed.
by godelski | 2025-04-03 19:19:11+00:00
I think this is a good option. I also have no problem with experts being put in charge of people. Truthfully I think the bigger issue is that there's not more ways for growth. But at this point I'd settle for just ways to grow in the technical side without needing to move to management (being a group lead or having people under you is something I'd consider different when your main job is still doing technical work)
by yeahwhatever10 | 2025-04-03 19:19:54+00:00
There is this group-think on HN today that services are intentionally left out as part of the US trade balance. That confusion likely comes from tax and corporate structures. Ie all those profits are locked into sub-corps, so Apple-Cayman Islands or Google-Ireland (corporate tax havens) which is why they don't show up on the balance sheet as "trade" into the US (typically those sub-corps buy financial assets with those profits). Read the first chapters of Trade Wars are Class Wars for more depth.