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As a freelance back-end developer with various co-founding experience this question speaks to me. I think it's all a matter of perspective.

Looking at it from a development perspective the two can mean the same thing: we pivot and so we need to add new features.

However, in my experience the key is to look at pivoting from a non-development perspective. As mentioned in parent comments you pivot to find a product market fit. That entails finding your audience and the problem you're solving for them. Those questions do not require a product, but a human understanding. Questions like 'is it actually a problem they need solving, or a slight convenience?' and 'how are they solving their problem without my product?'.

By pivoting quickly in that space you don't get bogged down by technical issues or challenges that don't even matter, and the real solution might be a week's worth of time.
Because those agencies are funded by the federal budget. We are literally going into a deficit to send money to other countries. Do you realize how insane that is? And don't tell me this is just a small part of the federal budget. Oh its just a couple billion here and there. That's a lot of money that could go towards not being in debt. This level of fiscal irresponsibility is basically taxation without representation on the unborn.
> The US minimum wage hasn't changed in 16 years!

I don't mind this, because minimum wage is a national minimum. States (and even more fine-grained than that) need to have contextualised minimum wage, or it's just silly. That's why it hasn't changed. Minimum wage increases wages at the expense of reducing employment, for any job that isn't worth that wage. You can't increase the national US minimum wage to what would get you an apartment in California and expect jobs to exist in Appalachia.

Honestly, the national minimum wage seems almost pointless. States should handle it, as they can contextualise at least a bit better.

And it not changing isn't evidence of anything when state-level minimum wages exist.

> Which means many of these peak performers are built on the back of poverty, people who don't have the luxury of "freely agreeing" to take their labor elsewhere.

Thus I don't think it means that. And also - your false dichotomy of you're either a wealthy business owner or you're on national minimum wage is not helpful either. People are paid what they can negotiate. Companies pay what they can negotiate. Companies exist if they charge a low enough price for their level of service or product. It's a tri-party system. The existence of other companies in in-demand businesses is what drives up wages, as if you don't like your job you can move, and people do. That's why I would say where possible, things that stop new companies springing up should be removed. Thinking it's all about national minimum wage is honestly the wrong approach, in my opinion.

> You have to agree that trickle down is not trickling down.

I don't know what this means. I didn't mention anything trickling down.
I weekly monitor for news that they somehow allow using Kagi without Yandex. Still hurts after nearly 2 years of Kagi using to drop them. Without using Yandex at least I could convince myself that my money at least directly won't flow to Russia. I could revisit the idea of using Kagi again.

Thanks for pointing it out, people mostly don't speak about it anymore.
Retention is a terrible metric for a dating app. The "perfect" dating app would have a 0% retention rate since the first person you meet would be your "ideal partner".

It's tantamount to measuring a hospital's performance by it's retention rate.
Agree. People are addicted to the dopamine hit of matches and message pings. I'm a pretty good judge now of whether someone is just bored at working passing time on the apps or whether they're serious about meeting. Oh and all the time wasters get really shirty if you call them out on it, so I stopped doing that long ago
Pre commit hooks aren’t enforcable. People need to opt in to them, and the people who opt in to them are the people who will check for passwords before they commit.
None of those require buying hundreds of dollars worth of hardware
I think they're posting their daily updates on their X channel https://x.com/DOGE
Everything is expendable if you kick in the door and fire everyone, like USAID. I think they're politically smart enough to not cut off the elderly voters, but who knows.
I'm not convinced, actually. The problem is that every proposal for safe C++ that I've seen sacrifices compatibility with the broader C++ ecosystem. Yes, you could graft borrow checking onto a C++-like semantics, but what you would end up creating is an incompatible dialect of C++--essentially a new language. So the resulting ecosystem would actually be smaller than that of Rust.
OCaml allows mutation via reference cells.
I don't buy this. They badly want into the US market for their EVs.

As well as their solar panels.
> They don't even care which service that link originates from, they just press yes and that's it.

There's a reason Apple integrates shared photo albums with Invites. It's actually something useful to be linked with an invite in almost all non-corporate use cases. And I bet you this feature will remain broken for non-Apple users.
china's "broke" because it owes money to itself, specifically to its own central bank. that's not as big a problem as privately owned debt because it means there are potential political solutions if the will is there. the problem is flexible.

also, china is not suffering from deflation. re-read the articles talking about it. they're talking about "deflationary risk", as in, there isn't deflation but there are concerns of potential deflation in the future. there is actually very small (positive) inflation in china

thirdly, china does not import 80% of its food. it imports 80% of its soybeans and some other specific items, but not food as a whole. there is a national policy to rely in domestically produces food for what are seen as the staples like rice and vegetables. imports are mostly in "luxury" food items such as soybeans for livestock feed and stuff like milk, with the idea being that in some sort of extreme situation people would have to cut back on meat and such, which would be survivable
A missing piece is a discussion on how much problems you'll have if you don't store then properly.

I just have my PLA/ABS/ASA spools on the wall I simply dry then before printing.

I know that the spools can get permanently damaged by moisture... But that seems to take quite a long time as that hasn't happened yet (in my home climate at least).
Nah, cynicism is the only rational reaction now. Lots of people died from covid and our poor government response, but Trump got a majority because eggs are too expensive.
Just get them through Europe? Outsource to European contractors?

You could literally just outsource your prototyping to me (I'm in Europe, EE with embedded programming skills and good connections to local 8--day turn-around PCBA production) and I'll ship them from Europe to US (using 1 day shipping if needed).

Ok, sorry for spamming, but my point is: there are ways?
To Stop the Coup, We Must Be Clear About the Truth: Two Plus Two Equals Four
Women are selective in their very nature, while men are competitive.
>Is the man who gets less matches really more likely to want a relationship rather than sex, or is he faking that opinion because he doesn't think he has options and thinks lying will get him more matches.

I'd say more likely down the line there's not a huge difference between the popular and unpopular men regarding what they aim for but the men who get a ton of matches and gravitate towards a fixed relationship are more likely to be out of the dating market.
> I'm not a fan of Trump but I also feel he has not been so bad

He literally threatened a peaceful nation (also an ally) of invasion and annexation. How worse can it get?
How will high-intelligence AI change things in the next 5 years of science?
good quip over here https://x.com/pmarca/status/1887003073530286569
I didnt call you a liar, I am claiming that people are not always truthful to themselves. Purposeful ignorance is an easy out.

For example, you made a factually incorrect claim about blind hiring, and its considerably easier to ignore that since addressing it devastates your larger point.
The requirement is not exactly "iOS or Android", the requirement is "SIM card with valid phone number". Otherwise, you could use it on iPads and Android tablets, which you normally can't.

WhatsApp accounts are directly tied to a single phone number, both for user discovery (that way, you can simply message everybody in your contacts who has the app - just the way user expect it to work) and for spam prevention.

Creating a smartphone messaging app without this feature would be orders of magnitude more difficult, you simply can't get normie users to go around "hey, what's your WhatsApp user name?"
To be fair, the term "lawyer" is generic in the US. It can mean many different things: (1) in-house corporate counsel, (2) external corporate counsel (advise on merge/acq/deals/contract), (3) civil lawyer (sue/divorce/personal injury/intellectual property, etc.), (4) defender (public or private), (5) public prosecutor (work for attorney general office), (6) law professor, (7) judge (Can you be a judge in US without a law degree? It seems hard to imagine in 2025.). And there must be other categories that I forgot. My point: Most people will have differing views on each category. Example: Most people would view public defenders, law professors, and judges as honorable, socially beneficial jobs.
It's been a gradual shift with rising and falling tensions and various flare-ups, but if I had to pick a date I would pin it to around 2012, when Xi Jinping became the leader of China and began taking a more hardline stance.
We are rapidly approaching the point where using an embedding model to run over the whole internet will be the best way to rank search results.

At that point all the special sauce Google et al have spend decades mastering will be worth as much as expertise in analogue computers is today.
Having to do the same conversation again and again is just tiresome.
Did you actually compare suicide rates to China in general? Something tells me you didn't.
And part of the problem there is that money and profit got introduced in the healthcare system.

In other countries people become doctors because they want to heal others. Not because they want to become wealthy. In the US doctors spend half of their time haggling with the insurance companies.
Do you think inequality has risen or decreased as the size of the government increased? Regulatory capture can only exist with the existence of unchecked regulatory power. I personally work in a space that is insanely difficult to new entrants because of the thousands of regulations you need to comply to (90% are garbage btw). If tmrw, our industry had a regulation reform, the entrenched players would die overnight.
> I don't know why Git won the VCS contest

Because GitHub offered free git hosting, and heroku came along and offered free hosting that was pretty much point and go.

Combined, you all of a sudden went from needing a sysadmin and two servers (this was pre containers), and the sysadmjn skills to operate SVN and your web app, to “it’s now free and it auto deploys when I commit”.
Well at least for pigs, cross-breeding is innately superior to consanguinity....
I don't think that is what Palantir's boss was getting at here though.
Constantly warning about how your product is or will eventually be so powerful that it will become a danger to humanity or society is the successful marketing.

And for the big AI companies, like OpenAI, it has the very beneficial side-effect of establishing the narrative that lets them influence politics into regulating their potential competitors out of the market. Because they are, of course, the only reasonable and responsible builders of self-described doomsday devices.
With all these things, part of why it's so exhausting is having to deal with most of the statements being totally bullshit. They chuck around threats without restraint, but they only carry out some of them. So far.

Protesting for Gaza was squashed last time by basically everyone, and will be again.
Hmm, I'm not sure, but I'm not sure how to read that page either. That graph has a lot more variability than I'd expect though.
The solution is the same one used by every other messaging app: allow iMessage on Android. There is no technical thing stopping them. Instead they actively take measures to prevent it from working.
Your conservative friends sound as xenophobic as the Americans a century ago who derided wine as being non-American, as part of their hatred of (Catholic) southern European immigrants.

What, pray tell, is American food?

Hawaiian Poi? New Mexican green chile stew? Crock-pot Possum? Fried okra? Alligator tail? Kanuchi soup? Rocky Mountain oysters? Geoduck? It's hard to get more American than those.

While of course we all know that pizza and spaghetti aren't American.

FWIW, the fortune cookie (from California) and General Tso's chicken (New York City) are American creations, making them equally as American as hot dogs and hamburgers.

You know we have ways to encourage cultural diversity, right? Fund local arts and crafts. Place a high tax on large chain restaurants and prepared foods. Ensure affordable housing and raise minimum wage or provide UBI so people have the time to make their own tteokbokki if that's what they want.

We can look to efforts to revitalize Gaelic, or support Quebecois culture as examples. And I would love it - the US culture these days is getting so homogenized. We've lost our regional dialects, and our regional building styles, and our regional politics, and our regional allegiances in these days of mass media and mass food and mass transport.

OTOH, "diversity" is the first letter in DEI, which seems decidedly NOT what conservatives want.

I suspect that what they want instead is an American world order, where "American" is very specifically defined to include them and exclude everyone else, including other Americans.
Good - looks like Kagi will be on the menu.

Note that URL is 403, from Tor browser.

Works fine from non-Tor.

(I'm now experimenting with the Kagi hidden service.)
At the rate things are going: give it a day. Maybe two. DOGE hasn't even tried to honor it's "transparency" pledges and all the info we get are pretty much from people inside these systems... who speak out less because Musk is also firing anyone he can.
I have been enjoying indieblog recently, which will add some random blog posta to your feed every day - I find it a good way to find new ones https://indieblog.page/
Enabling trump to win, got it
Remember that that is the goal. Acknowledge the data and deal with it as another obstacle.

Also, I'm wondering if multiple universities could band together to file a TRO and/or a class-action lawsuit against the government for something like estoppel.
There are lots of ways to buy things from walmart without $25,000.

But to consider this more realistically: yes, one of the reasons I don't shop at walmart is because I don't own a car, and the closes Walmart to me is over 2 hours away on public transit, whereas the closest target is 15 minutes away, and amazon doesn't require me to leave my house.

Walmart is fine with that because me not shopping there doesn't make the store less attractive to others, but with social media it does. Me not using the iphone-only social media because it is behind a $500 or $1000 paywall makes it less useful for other people, especially when there are free alternatives around.
I can't say I've ever received an event invitation via iCalendar. Getting an .ics download for an event to put it on my calendar, sure, but that's not an invite, it's just a read-only event.
He doesn't care, he wants Ukraine to surrender so they can die quietly.
Well, until quite recently in the US polite society, the Irish were not considered white... So entering into any kind of debate with such ill defined terminology as "the West" or "White" seems extremely pointless to me. Only snake-oil salesmen would use such terms in earnest.
But their cost of life is also lower.
And yet only git has these problems. I work with artists and designers - non technical people - all day. 10 minutes with p4v is all they need to be able to check in, update, roll back bad changes, and shelve to share with others, and even these people who manage to get their computers into the most unbelievable of states can do that without breaking their workspace and needing help.
I like such moves by companies. It seems fair and stands out compared to most others who’d just take money even if the service is unused.

I’m not a Kagi subscriber though. The USD 150 and USD 216 a year prices for family duo and family are quite high for many geographies. Hopefully Kagi scales its customer base and is able to provide affordable plans.
I believe to the order of millions of translations per day, but again, I don't remember where to view this, so might not be correct. But it's definitely orders of magnitude larger than 100s of users.

(And indeed, as a sibling comment points out, the feature is suggested to users in context, which of course massively helps with discoverability, so it's no surprise to me that it's used way more often than the extension.)
A lot of naive uninformed people who had no expertise and were told by experts how they could never contribute to a problem or field have successfully built businesses funded by the very people who created this community.
Wait, you mean the minister for telecommunications had to do BGP? The guy doing Ag. Needed to operate a corn header? What does this mean for the lord privy seal who is neither a lord, nor a privy nor a seal?

The minister is expected to have competent advice. As some stage a photo opportunity will emerge. And like Margaret Thatcher they will be photographed driving a tank with helmet and googles, despite not actually being a licenced tank driver.

"The minister for sex education has never had.."
It's been happening already for a few years. Many prominent award-winning faculty are leaving US institutions and setting up brand new labs in top Chinese universities.
Seriously.

University of Michigan DEI is 1100+ employees strong (!!) at a cost of over $30M/year (the equivalent of 1,800 students’ worth of tuition), and they are launching an even bigger DEI 2.0.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2025/02/02/kabbany...

I am not a DJT fan at all, but stories like these are exactly what has people stark raving mad. I can’t really blame them.

While the stated goals are noble, the truth in many cases is that it is an excuse to exclude white males. And I expect downvotes, but you don’t have to look too far to see the truth.
> And yet we've somehow managed to avoid getting into nuclear wars.

Yes, through a massive programme of nuclear armament. In the case of AI, we should therefore...?
I think both statements are somewhat true. And we can look to COVID to see some evidence of this because when everyone was suddenly home and wanting to consume TV, Netflix had to lower the bit rate on even their premium tier to keep up with demand.

If Netflix wasn’t relying on a degree of inactivity with in their infrastructure then they wouldn’t have needed to lower the bit rates.

It makes sense, when you think about it. Over provisioning is a common practice when dealing with expensive finite resources. For example ISPs have been doing this for decades, offering households higher individual bandwidth than is available if every household within a local radius was to fully max out their throughput. VMWare also offers this to allow individual VM to consume more RAM than the total available on the host.

The key is not to over provision so much that it becomes noticeable under “normal spikes” — and I think we can all agree that COVID was anything but normal.
> is this evil, actually? a well-made autonomous system might go a long way towards improving accurate targeting and reducing civilian casualties.

I love this so much, it's so poetic

there's a famous poem by a Chinese liberal:

> If I am doomed to die in war in this life, then let me be a ghost under the precision-guided bombs of the United States. - Written on the 15th day of the Iraq War.
My experience was different, it was more than a few years ago, but when I used it professional photo won by long shot. At the time there was an algorithm that would put your best picture first depending on like/dislike ratio. Some things I thought is that firstly no one knows you took those for this specific use case, they don't even assume that. Second is that it still indicates status in a sense that you had the money to spare to do it, the thought and time to go for it and possibly a good reason out of the app of needing that professional photo for some purpose. I didn't have mirror selfies, I thought I had what I consider well balanced set of photos showing different activities, etc.
Generally they're trying to be annoying to malware reverse engineers.
Franz Kafka – the workers' friend (2018)
I wish that in 100 years Hitler becomes truly synonymous to "Satan", and instead of "satanic" or "demonic" people would say "hitleric". Because it sounds cooler and it suits the way how people throw "hitlers" at each other online.
Why does git get a free pass for shitty defaults but perforce doesn’t? Perforce long predates git, and the checkout operation (which can be done on save with any modern editor) fixes that immediately.
All the other messenger apps you can use on iOS, like whatsapp, telegram, signal, etc, have no degradation with android users present.

Why can't apple publish an iMessage app for linux, windows, and android? Telegram and signal have no trouble maintaining applications for this, and they've got far less money than apple does.

RCS and SMS have been a total mess, yes, but every other chat protocol I've used has been better than iMessage in terms of supporting cross-platform communication. It's only iMessage which fails at this fundamental part of being a communication app, that of being available on multiple platforms.

I know you're going to say "the reason is spam, you need to pay apple $700 to get a device capable of iMessage, and they can ban by device, which deters spam"... which okay, fine, make iMessage be a $15/mo subscription to use on any non-iOS devices, that'd solve the spam problem just fine while still letting android users join back into the family group message chat again.
It would be awesome if HN stopped looking at every single thing through the lens of US politics. "liberals" doesn't even mean anything in most of the world, and indeed I struggle identifying what kind of group you're talking about. The text is about historical events that have already happened - you can take whatever lesson you want out of them, you can see parallels with your own country or you don't have to. But not everything is about America.
> They will use the iMessage protocol if supported by all clients.

Which would be perfectly reasonable if they allowed clients on other platforms. It just happens that the only clients are the ones that require buying Apple hardware. If the iMessage ptotocol is so great (I don't know enough about it to say), then great - either release an app for Android, or let others do it. Until then it's not a standard, open or otherwise.
My submission regarding the break up of noaa was flagged 6month ago... didn't age well..
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40988752
There's no way the EU will allow US to force ASML to move to the US, especially given the burning of the bridges of decades of diplomacy by the incumbent president.

If the trade war continues and escalates, which form our current perspective it looks like it will, the EU will not lose one of its greatest assets in that space.

The idea of Trump that the US is powerful enough to strong arm everyone to his will is mistaken, an alienated US without its allies will suffer, as will the rest of the world..