skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for a company that sourced all custom built assembly parts with-in the US state it was started in. PCBs and enclosures. After Texas VCs bought they company, they shipped it all overseas to Asia. Those proud patriots did anything they could to save a buck and maximize their own profits.

This year I learned they are maximizing their profits again and close in the branch that handles assembly and shipping. Moving to a more economic location to save a buck.

Your ideology goes against the nature of greed for those that have money and use it to maximize their own profits and harming those that help start and drive the business.

Even customer service as outsource to Asia.
when the top 10% pay almost 3/4 of the income taxes.

Because the top 10% are not rich.

Only the top ~0.5% are rich. The reality is that the vast majority of that 3/4 of taxes is paid by the middle class.

Put another way, the top 10% is mostly 6 figure salaries, not 7 figure salaries, and certainly not 8 or 9 figure salaries.
Yes, there won't be an Intel when they're done. Previous customers will be using AMD x86 or ARM after suffering being screwed by Broadcom for a few years.
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Memories are notoriously unreliable, pliable, subject to induction etc. You may absolutely have retained memories from that age, but it's just as likely that someone told you and your turned it into a memory.
As long as you are not a terrorist, all those surveillance programs will never be used against you. It would put those programs to risk, by exposing them.

If you need to protect yourself against the most sophisticated surveillance programs, a lot of opsec will be required.

VPNs can protect you against some creep in a public WiFi spying on your DNS request. It can protect against some low-tech state run mass surveillance.
I appreciate that the author acknowledged that there must exist some reason(s) for the changes that he is unaware of.

I appreciate Svelte's new architecture, it's going to help people make smaller, faster apps, even it requires you to learn about how it's reactive system works.
It's a shame EmberJS fell by the wayside. The API has been pretty stable for a decade now. Ironically someone who wrote their EmberJS app last decade would have less trouble migrating than someone who did the same with React, Svelte, Vue, etc.

Sadly the Ember team made some strange decisions in the beginning and it wasn't easily grokable compared to regular JavaScript (most of that has been fixed now, though).

This is all to say that whether or not it's JavaScript doesn't really matter, compared to the stability of the API.

My personal problem with JavaScript is that things keep changing too much.
> it's just that laying off non-probationary employees takes time and effort and they don't want to spend the time

My guess is that they're doing that too, it just takes longer time.
> Trying really hard to refrain from a snarky response, because this analysis is 100% incorrect. First, where do you think a substantial portion of food, drink and disposable items in the US comes from?

I was talking about how a similar policy would affect me in the UK where far more food is domestically produced.

> More importantly, though, the entire economic rationale of import tariffs is to allow domestic producers to charge more. It doesn't matter if you just "buy American", because if the competition that American producers face is now 10% more expensive, these producers will raise prices. Or, if more charitably, foreign goods were making American-made products uncompetitive, American producers can now come in and make those goods, but only at the higher prices.

You can adjust your consumption much more easily than you can adjust your income tax. If you want to be in the lower band of progressive income tax.

> Also, you misunderstand how progressive taxes work. When you make more and go into "the higher income band", you're not taxed more on ALL your income, just the portion that is in the new band (at least in the US). Yes, there have been cases in the US e.g. with welfare where if people made above a certain amount their welfare was cut off, but those have all been highlighted as examples of poor tax policy that have largely been fixed.

I do already understand this. You don't understand what I was telling about how it affected my wages that month. Once I went over the band, the increase in tax was enough to make working the overtime not worth it, as I would maybe get a few hours of OT. It would only be worth it, if I was working lots of OT ... which I couldn't do because I was studying.

It also stops me from bothering to get a higher salaried job. I am at the highest pay before you go into the 50% band. So if go from £55,000 to 65,000, that £5000 of the extra £10000 will be taken by the taxman. A £65,000 job has a lot more expectations than a £45-55k job. The extra stress and hours that will be expected isn't worth the extra £5000 which over the year is an extra £415 month.
In fact, you can still use Svelte 4-style components with Svelte 5, even in the same project.
Honestly it’s exhausting seeing endless posts from people who don’t do frontend development saying “wow, looks awful!” having made zero effort to actually understand the scenario.

> They seem to have no respect for peoples time or any consideration for longtermism or even just the common decency of backwards compatibility

You mean Svelte 5, the backwards compatible framework that makes all of its new features an optional opt-in? That one?

> What are we at now, React 19?

Allow me to introduce you to the concept of semantic versioning, otherwise known as “a versioning system that has defined meaning”. Any breaking change means a new major version, which is why the numbers increment at a rate that is apparently terrifying. These breaking changes are often absolutely tiny and trivial to adapt to.

I don’t even like React but the upgrade path between major versions is rarely a big deal. You’re taking a non-semantic versioning mindset (new version number? Guess I have to rewrite everything!!) and applying it in a scenario where it doesn’t fit.
Basically all of my friends use it. I insist. I trust it; I don't trust WhatsApp (not because WA's crypto is weak, just because I don't trust who runs it now).
As somebody who maintains a very large Svelte app and upgraded from 4 to 5, I couldn’t be happier with the changes. For simple components the old approach was just fine, but the larger the codebase gets the harder it gets to work with.
Wait until you hear how many car crashes there are per moth and how many fatal hiking accidents. You'll never travel again! That is, until you learn how many people pass away in their own home.
I agree that it's in the future, but the key is how far in the future? Because if it's 5 years in the future then it's very relevant to people buying cars today, but it's 20 years in the future... not so much.

And as a purely academic point freed from the constraints of *when*, it's not interesting at all.
In conclusion: "For now, big congrats to the xAI team, they clearly have huge velocity and momentum and I am excited to add Grok 3 to my "LLM council" and hear what it thinks going forward."
The article says the hole was drilled in a "shelf" between two "compartments". Shelves don't tend to have wires or pipes inside or be made of drywall.

Have you heard of analysis paralysis?
This is neat, a simple tweak could be to allow change in the number of players, right now it kinda works if you just drag a player out of the field.
Yeah, that rough cutout jumped out at me.

This reminds me of a conversation I had with the BT engineer who came to connect the phone line, when I was in the latter stages of renovating before moving in. He happened to be renovating a similar house. We were in full agreement, from our experiences, that most of the time, you can do a better job than the professionals - because you care more. It shouldn't be like that, but it is.

(Unfortunately he then fitted a cheap-and-nasty master socket, which I had to replace with a decent quality one myself when it turned out to be causing a problem. Partly proving his own point.)
I wonder who are the target users. I do use a lot of Python but never had the need to plot outside of Notebooks. I guess anyone who plots a lot in Python? Maybe electronics engineers?
> PhD from MIT could very well earn less than a mid range developer even though they are contributing much more to the society and country.

If this is true, the supply of such people should be reduced (i.e. don't hand out H1B visas to them), so that by the laws of supply and demand the salaries increase for them.
The fact that you need to pay to file taxes it's so distopic that only USA could have invented it
No. Just means we are easy to fool. Like apes who see themselves in the mirror and fail to recognize they are seeing themselves in the mirror, thinking it is a different ape (and trying to mate with or attack it).
While that might be true for you, it's not at all true for me. If generic chatbots went away, no big deal. If Windsurf IDE + Sonnet 3.5 went away tomorrow, my prospects would look very different.

The last production code I wrote was over 20 years ago. I don't know React and TypeScript. I recently created a SaaS MVP using Windsurf/Sonnet/React/Refine.dev/Supabase in 8 days. We already have live humans excitedly using the product.

The SaaS product is a recreation of an app that I tried as a startup a few years ago, which never got to even this level of traction and failed. We failed for many classic reasons, but one of the main reasons was that we had no truly technical co-founder, and could only afford an off-shore dev. Iteration took around 24 hours. Using Windsurf, a product shmoe like myself can iterate in 2 minutes.

Of course we will have to get a real React dev on board if we start to get real traction, but the LLM tools allowed us to explore an opportunity that would not have existed without them.

Disclaimer: I happened to use Windsurf, but there are other options like Cursor, which you might have better luck with. I am not on Mac OS, so Cursor was not an option for me.
As a German the American understanding of free speech is always an interesting clash of cultures. Germans generally see free speech as a freedom of opinion and the expression of opinions as something to protect. Historically such free speech has often been under threat by using actual threats and insults, especially in Germany. As such people should have ways to prosecute such attacks against their free speech legally. Additionally people do have their dignity and when you start attacking someone's dignity that very quickly leads to leaving facts behind and focusing emotional persecution of people or groups. That's why both the human dignity and free speech have a very high standing in the German constitution, but the human dignity does rank somewhat higher.

The US on the other hand seems to focus more on being allowed to say anything and people have to defend themselves against any verbal attacks with little protection from the state. From my perspective that seems to be in conflict with fostering actual free speech. The president or anybody else could put up a wrong statement about you or even tell people to attack you and that seems to be protected as free speech, even though it will prevent you from voicing your own opinions and as such restrict your own free speech.

Now of course treating insults or attacks against the human dignity as crimes is a two-edged sword. Such laws can and are misused. Regulating such a field is hard and often ends up being a court decision. But there are plenty of people who are sent threats and insults every day, just because they are politically active and giving them a way to protect themselves is important for our democracy. And there are plenty of other laws getting misused as well. The solution is refining them to make them harder to abuse and punishing people who do abuse them. It is not a solution to just give up regulating something, just because it might be hard at the start.

Now maybe people from the US will never agree with Germans here. But maybe that is just part of our differences in culture. Germany went through fascism before and our constitution is part of our way to protect ourselves from going down that path ever again. Putting human dignity as the first articles is a big part of that as are our way of protecting free speech. Inciting public violence against minorities was one of the ways fascism started in Germany and as a result we have laws against that. We learned from our history because we don't want to repeat it and criticising our interpretation of free speech without understanding how we arrived at our interpretation of it feels somewhat rude. Which doesn't mean I don't welcome discussion around it, but if you want to discuss it, please try to understand the context around it instead of just pointing at how you are doing things differently and picking one or two negative examples.
Free Software Foundation speaks up against Red Hat source code announcement
> And yet it was posted here

Not by the author, so I don't see how that impacts how it should be written; and HN users are free to ignore things that don't interest them, or to spend a few minutes with a search engine learning context for things that seem like they might, but which are unfamiliar (and are generally competent to both of those things as appropriate.)
I think they are saying the data is misleading in the extreme. And it is. It's clear the middle class earners are shouldering the burden here.

I hope you're just confused about what everyone is saying, and not being intentionally disingenuous.
> It's a race for AGI, a VC's wet dream.

Yes but why? This is what I really don't understand.

Say AGI is achieved within a reasonable timeframe. Odds are that no single company will achieve that, there will be no monopoly. If that's the case, where is the trillion dollars value for investors? From every claim we hear about it, AGI will lead to hundreds of millions of jobs disappearing (all white-collar jobs), and tens of millions of companies disappearing (all the companies that provide human-produced services). Who is going to buy your AGI-made products or services when nobody is paid anymore, when other companies, big and small, has ceased to exist? Sure, you can make extraordinary accomplishments and advance humanity far, far ahead, but who is going to pay for that? Even states won't be able to pay if their taxable population (individuals and corporations) disappear.

So where will the money come from? How does it work?
Would it work with a red translucid film taped to a regular white lamp/LED?
> Model still appears to be just a bit too overly sensitive to "complex ethical issues", e.g. generated a 1 page essay basically refusing to answer whether it might be ethically justifiable to misgender someone if it meant saving 1 million people from dying.

I think the models response is actually the morally and intellectually correct thing to do here.
You are comparing apple with oranges.
Cursor is not an LLM and yes, it has a business model. So does openrouter and million other applications that can switch API to the low bidder any moment.
Indeed, this helps, thanks! Also there's a switch between car and public transport.

The thing remains weird nevertheless. I'd assume that if you click a point at this mode, the point stays put, because the time from this point to this point remains zero and does not change. But the map twitches so that the point under cursor / tap moves away. I suspect that the map shows some other kind of approximation, not the time to the point clicked. Likely the grid that defines effective times is somehow sparse, and approximating the distortion well when a click hits rather away from a node is hard. But that would still be weird, because I suppose that points like airports and train terminals should definitely be major nodes of that grid.
Absolutely! I am killing a huge React app step by step and replacing it with HTMX.

Best thing I did in many years for that project.
OK, so you should advocate for changes in the estate tax. When that inevitably fails, because no parent wants all of their money to be taken by the government, we can come back to this thread.
> pre-tax income to be invested

Which of course, they do.
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Xi Is Making the World Pay for China's Mistakes
Very well put. Most jobs are definitionally bad in some way. Well-paying (at least relative to the wider job market) tech jobs represent some of the better jobs available. They’re deeply frustrating, nearly any customer service job is a significantly worse experience for far less money, benefits, time off, healthcare, etc.
This reminds me of Light Table from a decade ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3836978
US and Russia agree to try to end war without Ukraine at the table
That's just being pedantic. They also don't "learn" to walk if their legs are cut off.
Yes, you implicitly did, because the top 10% definitionally includes the top 1% (and the top 0.01%).

I'm not really sure what you're trying to argue for/against here. Yes, people in the top 10% of income-earners collectively pay the majority of income taxes, dollar for dollar, and yes, we've been hearing variants of what Jonathan Chait called "The Stat" for years: the highest-earning 1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all income taxes.[1] As Chait points out, "'The Stat' is literally true, but it is deeply misleading." For instance, FICA is not a progressive tax; it's a flat tax that stops being collected at around at around $150K of income. Somebody making $80K pays way, way, way more FICA as a percentage of their income as somebody making $800K does.

While I'm not suggesting we need a wealth tax, start burning down mansions, etc., etc., it's at least worth considering the possibility that America has a tax system which disproportionately favors the wealthy. That multimillionaires and billionaires pay, dollar for dollar, more taxes than the shift manager of your local Jersey Mike's does is not some kind of slam-dunk argument against said possibility.

[1]: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/fact-check-richest-1...
Yes I know. But often it is not worth going into the upper band at all unless you towards the top of that band. I am equating my own time, stress etc into this calculation and not just monetary amount.
The catch is that it costs them more to acquire the laptops so (in theory) they can't acquire as many of them to sell if they start from the same amount of money. Which is ok on the surface, but makes them a worse investment because they return less money back to you for the same amount put in.

Ex. If they only have $1M to spend, the tariffs mean they can only buy ~1800 laptops to sell instead of 2000, so if the profit of $500 stayed the same then the company is making less money than it did before. If they instead bump the margin for each laptop to $550 then they make the same amount of money as before even though they're selling less laptops.

Of course in an actual version it's messier because the math doesn't work out that cleanly. If it costs $800 to make a laptop you sell for $1000 then it now costs 880 with a 10% tariff. To keep the 20% margin the new price would be $1056, only a 5% increase in the final price.
I was under the impression you can't ship FFMPEG in an app on iOS/tvOS/iPadOS anyway given FFMPEG is licensed as LGPL.
There is really no place where updating dependencies is dramatically better. Back end frameworks and even whole languages have this problem. On the front end, I mostly use React and it has been fairly backwards compatible. It's a tradeoff. If you never ever make breaking changes you can end up constrained by previous design decisions. If you make them all the time users won't be able to keep up.
There are a ton of small (software) projects I've started from scratch even though they "look like" the same from afar. The small differences matter. An ex coworker of mine had a saying:

If it "looks like an alligator, except..." then it's not an alligator.

I can't count how many times I got burned, tried to beat previous code into submission to fit the new thing, only to realise I'd have an easier time just doing it bespoke from scratch so that it has 100% fitness for purpose.

That, or you start writing reusable frameworks, which you have to somehow design and maintain, and "the project" becomes the framework itself instead of what you set out to originally do. How many have developed game engines instead of the game they set out to write? or blog generators instead of doing actual blogging they set out to do?

Reusability can be a beautiful trap. I'm done with that, now I just do the damn thing.
X is blocking links to Signal
developers get what they pay for. When one values their time at zero, vendors also value it at zero.
I don't think Google search is useful, as a developer. The top results are all garbage, unrelated, or ads. Going past the first page used to be useful, now it's not. Honestly, it's so bad, that I straight up do not believe you that you use Google to find new information.

DuckDuckGo/Kagi are where good search is at.
Most people don't care or are oblivious, not as "tech informed or savvy", is not out of bad intent. Plus, most tech companies control the media they consume.
I'd say it's all those things, likely in different combinations based on the circumstances. Cook's notes indicate that he may have considered it a panacea of sorts, triggering a bunch of different stuff that helped overall health, but keep in mind this was something to tune of 150 years ago, so the information he was working with may have limited the scope of his understanding. For all his otherwise infamous reputation, his work aboard the Belgica was nothing short of pioneering for the time. His life after that expedition over-shadows any positive contributions to science he made, unfortunately.
They will pay zero taxes, only low interest on the loan (below 2% typically). It's called "Buy, Borrow, Die" strategy. When they die, their heirs inherit the assets, but here’s the magic loophole: The heirs get a "step-up in basis" which means the cost basis of the asset is reset to its current market value. This erases all capital gains taxes that would have been owed if the assets were sold during the billionaire’s lifetime.
Average person can't get 1-2% loan against their stocks (if they even have any).
> You're telling me you updated YOUR code to work with the latest framework release?

Next time I'll tell you how people used to update their code to use Python 3! Shocky-shocky.
Oh good, it's not just me.

A friend of mine developed stomach ulcers, so this isn't even that fantastical.
Per mine and per hour flying is still much safer than driving
The original Freenet had over 6m downloads over the years - and pioneered ideas like cryptographic contracts which later formed the basis for bitcoin, but it was always a very experimental project, while the new Freenet is designed for mass adoption.

They key differences between old and new Freenet are:

Functionality: The previous version was analogous to a decentralized hard drive, while the current version is analogous to a full decentralized computer.

Real-time Interaction: The current version allows users to subscribe to data and be notified immediately if it changes. This is essential for systems like instant messaging or group chat.

Programming Language: Unlike the previous version, which was developed in Java, the current Freenet is implemented in Rust. This allows for better efficiency and integration into a wide variety of platforms (Windows, Mac, Android, MacOS, etc).

Transparency: The current version is a drop-in replacement for the world wide web and is just as easy to use.

Anonymity: While the previous version was designed with a focus on anonymity, the current version does not offer built-in anonymity but allows for a choice of anonymizing systems to be layered on top.
Used EV can be a decent risk gambling if the battery is out of warranty. But if you are lucky, it can be great.