skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Even if China was 100% a friend, you wouldn't want one country with this much outsized control over manufacturing

It's not up to the US to decide this. China is the largest car market. It is also the largest car producing country. It is the largest manufacturing country. It also has the largest number of consumers in any country, and this market is still growing. It has the largest number of engineers. The numbers play in China's favor.
All the registration stuff around parks and conservation areas is a product of COVID, when these places were overflowing and needed reservation systems all the sudden.

Many organizations simply refuse to give up the "convenience" of having people booked in like that. Also the numbers have continued to be hard for these places to manage.
It’s just horribly slow though, using sonnet can often take 5 min to apply
> Canada is still under the British Monarch

This fact probably counts -against- the argument that they deserve to be in the EU...
Again, I really don't feel qualified to weigh in on most of these matters, though I will say that I generally do prefer direct citations if you'd like me to take the epistemic credibility of a claim more seriously than any other thing someone on the internet said (in other words, saying "go look it up" provides no more additional credibility than simply making the statement, and is thus kind of pointless, and in fact you take a not insignificant epistemic credibility hit for my purposes by suggesting that asking an LLM for factual information should be taken as a reliable source)

That said, it's interesting to see how the supply shocks of a global pandemic can shift these kinds of relationships. It doesn't surprise me that Mexico, being a huge source of food for the US, is the largest exporter to it. What I do wonder is how much exports pertain to manufacturing relationships. Like in the case of Mexico -> US, I think we wouldn't count e.g. stuff we buy for the produce section to be manufactured goods, but that would still count toward import/export numbers. Does this apply to other things too? Do things like IP count?
I don't follow. If chance or evolution doesn't imply the other, what's left?
Also raw milk. Total nutjob.
These are three different models:

1) Free lifetime updates
2) No subscription, but limited updates
3) Subscription model

The parent was suggesting no. 2 (what you would find acceptable as well).
Viktor Lofgren's blog is probably worth a read — he is developing the rather delightful marginalia search engine.

https://www.marginalia.nu/log/
My personal theory is that the rapture actually already happened but we didn’t notice because only QA was without sin.
Like poor journalism, that's a speculative narrative. Things could work that way, and like all human endeavors journalism has many flaws, but I don't see evidence that it characterizes journalism as a whole.

I think there is wide disrespect for two reasons: Most of all, it suits powerful people to spread disrespect of news media, because it challenges and often undermines their power. Every time journalists report something undesireable to someone powerful - which is the core job of journalism - the powerful person attacks the journalist rather than address the issue. Some powerful people want to reduce or eliminate journalism more broadly.

Without journalism, what will challenge the powerful? How will you know what they are doing? It's time to stop finding problems, and start thinking of consequences. What replaces serious journalism?
Without Pimosa
"Always searching on Google for free tools"

Ok, I'm fine with it
Let's not even talk about Taiwan, which will be the first target, and its plants will all produce chips for Chinese products.
I think it's less capability and more the cost of goods. You can't compete with items that are half the cost to produce in east asia.

Manufacturing was always going to move to where it costs less.

It's bad for a productive american economy but it's a prisoner's dilemma so you can't blame businesses or consumers.

The government is the only party that had the power to do anything. it's 100% an economics problem.
> having a debate about climate change with one scientist from each side of the debate is insane

I haven't seen such a debate in serious journalism in a long time. I think that's a non-existant problem, but could you point to examples?
Don't forget about all the people waiting for their L-1.

(I've been in that boat myself, and every single person I worked with in the office in Canada is in US today.)
I love Filmora Perpetual license: https://filmora.wondershare.com/sales-promotion.html
> Russia let them go without a fight. That's hardly what you'd expect from an evil empire, is it?

The USSR's collapse was rather peaceful not by their own choice. The USSR was in such a deep shit by the final days that officers were forcing conscripts into street prostitution to earn money for food. Secret services and armed forces became completely demoralized. Officers and soldiers sat in their bases, ignored orders in total apathy, and were busy drinking or selling off anything they could, even copper wiring from the walls of their barracks was sold for scrap. You could buy a truckload of binoculars directly from the gates of a military base for less than $100. Radars, missiles, fighter jets too - anything for the almighty dollar. Survival until the next day was the only concern; little else mattered.
That's a bizarre claim on your part. It was called an assassination attempt everywhere I looked; it was everywhere in the news.
Those plants will 100% be destroyed/disabled in the event of an invasion.
Producing real things is not just a matter of money. You need know-how and supply chains. These things left the US at least 10 years ago. It can get them back, but the costs will be staggering, and it would need to compete against China and other Asian countries.
Interesting that Rails World won; I always thought Rails adoption was much more popular Stateside. Looking at the Rails core team, it's very obviously not proportionally represented by Europeans, so it's interesting that the primary conference going forward is going to have more European hosting.
> "both sides"ing issues sort of reflexively

That's an odd claim in this context: The journalist in the OP resigned because they were criticizing one side and the people protecting Trump stopped them.
Look, I don't know if you have some agenda, but otherwise I can't explain why you keep making statements that alternate between being outright false, ignoring context, moving goalposts, and drawing "parallels" that are not parallel in any sense.

> the highest level of the German government

Cool, that's the first time "the highest level" comes up. You started with "The Nazi regime". Do you think "The Nazi regime" is Hitler and his direct reports? How many is that? About 20 people?

> there's plenty for the Holodomor too

Then you list 1 single piece of "evidence" (one list of items that would implicate regime provided ALL of them are true). And it is not really an evidence, because clause "b) they knew that their policies would make things worse" is your own personal guess. I can't see how you could logically arrive that Stalin foresaw that that policy will make things worse. What evidence do you have for that claim? I kinda suspect that your evidence for it looks likes this:

(a && b && c && d) => Holodomor was intentional.
Holodomor was intentional.

Therefore

b must be true

Which is problematic on two accounts: the 2nd statement is the one being debated on the first place (e.g. circular evidence), and 2 - you can't reverse implication in the first statement.
> Australia is basically the stupidest country on the planet

Too right.

> It's like the degenerate alcoholic who's willing to prostitute their mother for a bar tab.

Ahh, so you are Australian then.

> even if they are from their biggest regional rivals.

How is China a regional rival? Australia has koalas, China has Pandas.

> While Norway and the UAE enjoy the fruits of their resources through strong welfare systems enabled by a resource-driven economy

Australia also has welfare, high living standards, high life expectancy, good health, etc.

> Australia sold itself so hard its own citizens have to buy from foreign corpos.

Ahhh, so Norway and UAE have their own home built computers, TV's, and EV's, etc then?

You have some points, but you're trying to edge lord a bit hard there mate.
Still a good answer from OP.
> but it’s massively overkill for literally every company that’s not at google’s scale.

Before I worked at Google I was at a small telecom company that was running into limits of what some of the Dataflow/Apache Beam product could do, so we had to rewrite it (and commit it back to Beam).

There are companies that have massive scaling issues even if they're not planet scale cloud providers or something.

You can replicate a lot of Google tech now by....just using the OSS they release and/or jumping on a modern cloud provider (GCP or AWS). It's not 2012. You can use a good database and not have to reinvent it.
Yes that’s a valid question and the reason is because I havent’t yet got to convert all of them to SMT.
Those plants depend on a lot of imports for spare parts and raw materials, even if China took them over tomorrow somehow intact with with the people to operate them, they would be out of commission in a month or so.
The NY Times is gaining subscribers.

The Washington Post has sadly lost credibility with many who care about serious journalism. There are others though.
They meant searching for free tools but finding crap/malware
Mexico is now a hub for Chinese manufacturers. Just look at how they're developing the relationship: the materials are all from China and the market is the US. Vietnam is even more like that.
It absolutely did. It was even part of the Init Wars (prayers, sorrows)
How will you know what is happening in the world? Who will generate that information? Will you read social media - owned by, and much more easily controlled by, billionaires?
It's very normal for a package to remain in its "nursery" for a while. There are various ways to install packages directly from GitHub and other forges.

Publishing to MELPA although is a fairly simple process, it does require certain steps and of course the vetting and approval. Often it takes long time. Sometimes (for various reasons) authors may decide not publish at all.
> which is what is implied by the phrase migrant especially in the context of US politics and what American observers of this thread would think of as "migrant"

This isn't really the case, and especially not so in the Trump era.

If anything I'd say it's the reverse - i.e. voters and even more so politicians specifically talk about "illegal immigration" with an emphasis on "illegal", but once you start digging into it, it becomes clear that they really have a problem with immigration in general.
Do you have another market for them where they can sell 1 billion tons of iron ore a year ?
RAM is just one example. Every simpler service has its limitations, and if everyone (including new hires) knows the simpler service well -- it's perfect. E.g. in my experience everyone knew App Engine at some point and it worked well for us. Now it's a zoo of devops pieces, so I tolerate Kubernetes only because everyone kinda knows it.

And the Kubernetes was just one example of my "you're not google" point. There is many more technologies that are definitely overkill, but is a good common denominator, even when it's 1000x more complex than needed for the task at hand.

PS: Btw, I dunno why people downvoted your comment. It's fits the HN "Guidelines" at the bottom, so upvoted.
But now you have seen the tool name and you might say you are not going to buy from them because they were annoying - you know the name and there is some chance when you will be looking for a tool like that you will at least check them out. Instead of not even having them on radar.
Yes, this is a valid option if we see high demand for it.
These issues pop up everywhere, not just with JS. You can (and people do) write horrendously complex and laggy software (e.g. using "frameworks") in any language. Lots of excellent pieces of software are written in pure JS.
Oh, file descriptors, yeah. Not files themselves, that would be weird.
By release I’m referring to the whole 10.6.x series I have no illusion that 10.6.0 was some perfect bug free dvd. And by everything we’ve lost, I mean how the overall macOS experience degraded from the high snow leopard overall represented:

- grid Expose (Mission Control returning to the jumble in Lion… whyyyyy)

- persistent grid of virtual desktops

- one button access to widgets

- Fun, visually distinct and obviously interactive icons/buttons

- window title bars and proxy icons

- bundled apps like Pages and iPhoto before they were simplified/rewritten/dumbed down

- System Preferences (RIP) before they buried display settings and network things

- green traffic light maximizes window instead of annoying full screen thing
The Story of the Failed, Comic-Inspired Dilbert Burrito (2023)
reallyh fun game, made it past the second boss then died. Was a bit confused about pickups and how they worked, there was so much happening on screen haha
Seems to be literary criticism by someone who is barely literate.
Very cool project and nice work! While I'm not very experienced with graphics rendering, I use a lot of computational geometry for work. I also implemented the Diamond-Square algorithm in matlab to generate randomized landscape terrains for a grad school project. Combining my generator with this rendering algorithm would be pretty fun to create and explore digital landscapes!
Mirrorless cameras nowadays can push as much as 8k60 (twice the amount of data over 4k120), every frame at full quality. All that with better optics/sensors and less "perceptual testing", thus less of an overprocessed look.
> You'd think they'd do the easy thing and just add the extra 5% and eat Apple's lunch - but somehow they don't.

Because the market failure is the size of the companies in the market. If you're big enough to sink the resources to make a competitive phone from scratch then you're expecting to capture a large chunk of the market, in which case you'll behave like a large incumbent with the incentive to sell disposable phones.

To avoid this you need to bust up the vertical integration that makes it hard for small companies to make a competitive phone so that it's possible for a small company to make a device which is overall competitive while they're still hungry enough for market share to give customers what they want.
I've read that the Atlantic is building up a Washington newsroom and is hiring Washington Post journalists who resign. As they used to be a monthly magazine, that would be a big change, but I suppose it's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity when leading journalism in the capital suddenly abdicates and starts shedding talent.
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Isn't that just journalists not supporting your personal narrative? That isn't the measure of truth (and neither is mine).
For those who don't know it yet, "bypass paywall" extensions are an alternative for a smooth browsing experience. I just can't bother with archive links.

see. (https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean)
I'm not against using tech's natural advantages with scale - that's one of the beauties of software. My concern is with the disproportionate resources being poured into hyper-growth ventures, where the vast majority fail after burning through enormous amounts of capital.

If even a fraction of that talent and investment was redirected toward building sustainable businesses that create real value, rather than just competing for finite resources like user attention or market domination, I believe the tech industry, the tech workers, and society would benefit more in the long run.
This article does a great job summarizing the rapid advancements in reasoning and AI agents. Models like OpenAI's o1/o3 and DeepSeek's r1 demonstrate how inference-time compute and structured Chain of Thought (CoT) are pushing LLM capabilities in STEM and coding tasks. The speculation about pivot words and backtracking behavior learned through reinforcement learning is particularly intriguing—it could be transformative for reasoning in domains with external verification.

The discussion on agents and moving beyond chat interfaces toward workflows like Cursor resonated with me. A shift in Human-AI interaction paradigms feels essential to unlock the full potential of autonomous agents. However, as the author notes, error rates and cost remain significant hurdles.

I've been experimenting with multi-agent systems in Python for the last year and find measuring performance and success one of the hardest parts. While today's LLM agents are still primitive, they already show immense potential. Even without advances in base models, creative agent design patterns could unlock more functionality, and with better reasoning and larger context windows, the possibilities expand even further.
The browser as a runtime is the epitome of worse-is-better.
Honestly the first time I’ve heard ‘amateur/enthusiast’ and ‘aerial bombardment’ in the same sentence.
> they would have immediately followed that with the rate of occurrence of drink spiking

I would be surprised if that data existed. How could that be measured?
The biggest tradeoff being that customers don't have to buy a new phone as soon.
Some Unions in the US also have a lot of association with the mob, and can sometimes overdo things to everyone’s detriment. It’s a more co-operative, less ‘goose with the golden egg’ type situation in Germany.
Real hackers Memento Mori
> The Washington Post is definitely not a "both sides" kind of paper.

That's a surprising perspective. The controversy over Bezos changes at the Post is that he's changing it from a paper that aggressively reported on and criticed Trump to an extreme form of 'both-sides regardless of the facts'.

And that change has greatly damaged credibility with many in the public and within journalism.
I remember reading "Automate boring stuffs with Python" it helped me a lot while I was in my early college years.

I glanced through the initial chapter of this book, and it is so well written even for any newbie to understand.

Personally I have had pretty hard time understanding recursion and all the intricacies of it, and still sometimes can't wrap my head around it.

Would love to read this book, I have filled the fotm for a review to read the free ebook, hopefully i receive a copy!
> A good litmus test is whether they refer to what happened at the Trump hotel in Vegas as a “Cybertruck Explosion”.

It's a litmus test for submitting to Musk's power.
Haha :D
Yeah, I know. A danish speaking linguist friend of mine told the exact same thing the other day with very similar reasoning as yours. This name stuck with me for a long time as an idea if I ever want to start a _fake_ nordic brand - and I think for _that_ it’s perfect :D
> I just write plain text notes ... and I put them in an appropriate folder

So I guess that means you hardly reuse any of those notes at all? I just can't really imagine the process of having to fish for some creative ideas from those buckets.
Our physiology can still interact with other chiral molecules though right?

Just for example, both the stereoisomers, dextro/levo amphetamine, in my limited understanding of pharmacological interactions, cause a reaction.

One being a powerful stimulant/psychotropic that can cause psychosis, the other benign enough to be sold over the counter as a nasal decongestant with stimulating effects, but orders of magnitude weaker.
You're asking the wrong question. Maybe we should be asking whether the ad industry deserves to survive if they have to (or choose to) resort to stalking and surveillance that would have made Stasi jealous.

It may not be possible to do anything about ads being misleading - marketing is just another word for lying and deception, after all.[ß]

For everything else you listed, I put together a tolerable set of behaviours a ~decade ago: https://bostik.iki.fi/aivoituksia/random/no-stalking.html ; and if that makes online advertising a lot more expensive, well... have you considered that maybe the obnoxious, intrusive, scummy and/or malicious ads are everywhere because advertising is too cheap?

ß: fine, maybe some miniscule fraction (< 0.01%) are factual. I consider numbers of that magnitude rounding errors.
Outside of workers, of which service workers are one type.
Security updates is not a new model; most cars come with a warranty (which is not the same thing either but the point is you do get some form of support for free for a period of time).
Funny timing on this post, I just finished implementing this a couple days ago for a little effect in a game. I followed the math in this comment that is now only viewable from the archive http://web.archive.org/web/20190614093605/https://forum.libc...

I notice you use 4 triangles per segment but I believe it's always possible to use only 2 if you only have miter and bevel caps.
> the migration rate to all rich Western countries is limited only by their respective laws and regulations governing immigration.

If those laws and regulations were that powerful, the US and Europe wouldn't have so many illegal migration problems.

> People generally want to move where the life is better when they can.

I wouldn't say 'generally'. The vast majority of people want to stay where they are.
Make your own software, and find yourself not wanting.
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Very comprehensive list of how China has lost export power to US over the years. Remember that US has the largest consumer market in the world, more than double the second place, EU. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_consumer_marke...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenroberts/2024/06/25/us-import...

- Chinese imports into the United States are down 19.78% from April of 2018 — when Trump first started imposing tariffs — to today, or $31.88 billion.

- Cell phones: Big winner is India. China has gone from a market share of 63.59% in 2018 to a still strong 42.14%. That’s a decline of 33.73%.

- Computers: Big winners are Taiwan, Vietnam. China has gone from a market share from 53.45% in the first four months of 2018 to 28.11%, a decline of 47.40%.

- Furniture: Big winner is Vietnam. China, meanwhile, accounted for 23.55% this year, down from 48.54% in 2018, a decline of 51.49% compared to a gain of 88.67% for Vietnam.

- TVs and monitors: Big winner is Vietnam. Mexico overtook China as the import leader in this category just before the pandemic and has remained on top. It gained market share from China, which fell from 53.68% in 2018, when it was No. 1, to 33.64%, a 37.32% decline.

- Digital storage devices: Big winners are Korea, Vietnam. China accounted for 39.50% of those imports in 2018, more than double that of any other nation. In 2024, its percentage is 4.23% and it ranks No. 9.

- Digital cameras: Yep, Vietnam again. China, meanwhile, has seen its share go from a majority, at 50.09%, to 17.57%, a decline of 64.92%.
Mainly indirect measures; reports at womens centres for example- not all spiking events are reported by any means .. but a rise in reports likely follows a rise in spiking (or the effectiveness of a recent campaign to report such things).

Consistent sampling of the dregs tray at various bars would be an indicator, as would sewerage sampling (as used to track other drug use).

Conceivably spiking rates might also be reflected in certain types of bathroom grafitti or social media posts.
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