skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Russia would just nationalize the assets. What would US do about it, if they are not willing to do anything so far?

I do not know what keeps governments from doing this, tbh.

But up until now Russia has done so exclusively in a retaliatory manner.

Or them paying their debts to the clearing houses, despite US citizens having been forbidden from accepting their money.

Same with the EU not outright taking over Russia's currency reserves, but taxing them at 100%.

There's something that prevents governments from screwing around on this, even if I do not quite understand what it is.

And the US gov is probably quite high up on the list of entities not to mess with.

> And in any case Russia could just make an offer to share the minerals themselves, which they already did.

Sure, but it's not about the minerals at all. The relation between minerals and this deal is about the same like the relation of a pineapple tree to pizza.

> Historically Russia has repeatedly demonstrated willingness to harm their economy in return for gaining more territory.

Or for no reason whatsoever. But it's not really fair to compare the Communists or the Tsarist Empire to modern Russia.

> The most important thing to Ukraine is - how can we make sure that Russia doesn't invade us again. Everything else is worthless for Ukraine, for the West, and for Democracy.

Ukraine needs to work on this with Russia.

Russia has made clear that they want security guarantees themselves, so a universal solution might be viable. The problem being, that Russia doesn't feel threatened by Ukraine, but those backing it.
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>but why a vinyl instead of a cd? or a mp3 on an iphone/sdcard/hard drive

There's no bit corruption with vinyl like with digital storage formats or disk rot like with cds.
The new way to sell the lower and middle classes on persistent inequality and a caste system is the culture war. You scare them about culture war bogey men: trans people, immigrants, gays, etc. The deal is "let us rule over you and tax you and charge you rent, and we will marginalize people whose existence disturbs you."

A closely related variation is the appeal the current oligarch class is making to men all over the world: let us rule over you and tax you and we will keep women in their place and set things up so you have most of the power in relationships. Men get to rule over women, and in exchange the oligarchs get to rule over men and take most of their productivity in rent and taxes. You're poor, but your wife can't leave.
Just as defence spending is measured as % of GDP for fairness, aid should be too. America's absolute dollar contributions look impressive until you consider its massive economy. And when you look at it as % of GDP, America's contribution was not impressive pre-Trump. And now even less.
Yeah but that doesn’t rule him out in the struggle for succession. Because the VP can’t be primaried in 2026, he’s at the disadvantage that he won’t know if Musk will fund him; he’ll have to fundraise as the conventional pick.
So, what is your point for owning vinyls?
an aside:
> A friend of mine spent years developing a product no one wanted because he convinced himself he was seeing something the market didn’t

there was a product like this that flopped completely back in the 50s: cake mix; turns out, the secret to making it work was simply removing the dried eggs and milk from the mix and making the user add them - now, Great Success

for all you know, he _is_ onto something, and just ahead of his time; however, there's also a rational discussion that people should have with themselves when the thing they're trying to do isn't working right now - pivot to something that is, and put that idea on the back burner
18F has been laid off
https://bsky.app/profile/rmac.bsky.social/post/3ljcgsken3c2x :

"""18F, a digital services unit inside the General Services Administration, has been completely laid off, according to an email I’ve seen. The email says that 18F was deemed “non-critical” and the decision was made with the “explicit” direction of the administration and GSA leadership."""

18f creates shared and open source government resources for technology efficiency, quality, and streamlining such as login.gov, cloud.gov, design packages, and free IRS tax filing

Previously, Elon Musk stated it has been "deleted": https://www.nextgov.com/digital-government/2025/02/musk-take...
> It looks like the US wants a regime change in Ukraine, it's possible that this became a pre condition from russia for talks to go forward.

It's not just possible, it was stated openly multiple times by Russian diplomats. The official position is: anything signed by Zelensky has potential to be invalidated later, because according to constitution of Ukraine he is not a legitimate president anymore. So this legal loophole should be removed before signing any agreements.
I don't really care about a single YouGov poll about what people think about a headline -- that's a shallow approach, misses quite a bit of context, and when used as a summary would rightly be called clickbait. Digging deeper and past propaganda, the activities of DOGE are deeply unpopular to the electorate wholesale, and my 90% claim is easily justified by a groundswell of current and long time understanding of the electorate:

- negative impact to the economy is deeply unpopular [0]

- lying about savings is deeply unpopular [1]

- threatening cuts to entitlement spending is deeply unpopular [2]

How you ask a question, what question you ask, and how you collect data will unduly influence any poll -- event with adjustments.[3] People aren't as fickle as headlines would otherwise lead you to believe.

My take on your oblique reference to "maybe [I] have confirmation bias" is that you are taking the headlines as fact and thus can dismiss anything that doesn't agree with your perspective. This may be mistaken on my part, but if you feel deep inside that it is not, then I encourage you to dig deeper.

[0] "It's the economy, stupid!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1hxNKweJbc

[1] DOGE is not trusted - https://truthout.org/articles/nearly-6-in-10-voters-concerne...

[2] https://www.nasi.org/learn/social-security/public-opinions-o... - Gallup shows opinions are fairly stable even though this source is somewhat dated

[3] Now-infamous Selzer poll https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/03/trump-harris...
Or just transfer their wealth to the rest of society. What they think is theirs is only true if the rest of us agree.
When the CEO's vibe-coded slop gets chucked over the wall to become someone else's problem once completed in rough prototype form, and the ensuing bugs and scalability/reliability issues manifest, troubleshooting is going to be a more valuable skill than ever!

We'll get paid peanuts for it, but hey, we should be thankful for the work in the first place!
Similar things have happened before:

https://gizmodo.com/amazon-engineer-leaked-private-encryptio...

"An Amazon Web Services (AWS) engineer last week inadvertently made public almost a gigabyte’s worth of sensitive data, including their own personal documents as well as passwords and cryptographic keys to various AWS environments."
My interpretation is that this conversation had many layers. One of such layers was that the Trump team claimed Zelenskyy campaigned for the opposition, Kamala Harris.

And one of the objectives of this whole situation was to frame the discussion as a humiliation ritual or character destruction to show what happens when you are not aligned to deter others from doing the same in the future. Shaming individuals who are not aligned is a recurring theme in rallies. e.g.: "Do you see this? Do you want to be seen treated like this? don't campaign for our opposition".
> War destroys existing structures and gives them a chance to evolve again.

are you suggesting that destroying things, results in improvement in the long run? I don't know that I could be farther from agreeing with that. If starting from scratch was better, why wouldn't we be doing it voluntarily at frequent intervals? It just seems easily dismissed as entirely incorrect.

> The economy is growth dependent and can only perform its basic functions under growth, even if that growth is fake.

I don't think this describes the economy, it just describes some of the metrics we use to gauge the health of the economy. burning down the internet and killing everyone that understands it might result in another dotcom boom, but would you say the economy is more healthy than some other reality where the internet continued to exist with no reset and only has smaller incremental gains?
I don't know man. Russians vote, but their vote doesn't have any meaning. American votes aren't very meaningful either. They don't create positive change, not in my lifetime.

The point of an election is to give a leader a mandate (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_(politics)) to rule...

From a theoretical perspective, if a president wins by 1 vote, how much of a mandate to rule do they actually have?

Our governments founding document specifically mentions the consent of the governed. I consent to tax policies and housing policies I disagree with, but I don't consent to a government that doesn't seem to have any ruling philosophy other than might makes right. I definitely don't consent to a government that threatens allies in a way that irreparably damages the negotiating ability of future presidents, and I don't consent to rule by a person who wishes to make my future votes meaningless.

If you vote for someone that violates rule of law, it contradicts the system of voting itself.

I don't disagree we "elected" him, just that election is a very black and white view of politics. We elected him, but he does not have mandate to do what he is doing.
digital:
$1
$2
$3
...

vinyl:
-$4990
-$4980
-$4970
...

If my wildly estimated pricing is accurate, the break even point is 555 records sold. BandCamp looks to be about $4 per EP (and you'd get maybe $3 of that), so this may be a conservative estimate.
Backbutton hijack warning!

Old discusssion from another URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14163430 (41 points | April 2017 | 43 comments)

Cherry picked partial comment by rpmcmurphy:

> I am also a pilot. I'll add to this by explaining a couple of basic principles in flying aircraft.

> The #1 reason this is a very bad idea is it is not compatible with flying what's called a stabilized approach, which is fundamental to safe landings. What this means simply is you fly your last (final) leg of approach on a straight line aligned with the centerline at a shallow glide angle. The moment before touch down you reduce engine power and flare (bring the nose up) and stall the wings just above the runway. If you are flying into a crosswind, you crab (fly with the nose angled into the wind to stay on centerline), then kick out of the crab angle just prior to touchdown (you control the rudder with foot pedals). A banked circular runway is totally incompatible with this. If you misjudge your approach a bit and land long, you miss the runway. You have to go from wings level to a banked turn at exactly the right moment. Lots of potential for things to go wrong. It's just a bad, unsafe idea.
Things are changing to accomodate the increasing complexity, same way as ever: specialization. There are now subsubspecialties, and 'cardiologist' or 'nephrologist' have become incomplete qualifiers. It may not look like that from the pov of outsiders, but medicine is becoming more and more secure by the day. Things were much worse before.
Would be nice to have a way to show them how much we appreciate what they did. Lastly game editors have been more in the mood to screw players for money instead of being leaders of good will.

I could easily just buy the game again lol
No, you don't omit the leading term by accident. Not five times in a row from three different angles.

In any case, this is also matter of historical record: the purge of left-wing thought from economics and politics at the end of the New Deal Era was loud and vicious. It didn't stop at ensuring capitalist principles got top billing, it scorched the earth until even the most earnest self-examination of capitalism's largest weakness was cause for cancellation. You bury it, or you wear the scarlet letter. Most chose to bury it, and here we are.
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We used to use Maestro but then they unfortunately decided to go all in on AI and hiked the price to match, making it no longer worthwhile for us.
What I'm saying is that language mattered little. If Zelensky was an anglophone from the UK, he was going to get shafted just the same (as it all looks like he walked straight into a trap there).
1. What are the growth rates per quartile?

2. How have living expenses grown?
It's not ridiculous at all. The pace of AI development was greatest 5 years ago when we managed to get BERT and GPT-2 running with little prior art. Today's "progress" involves either scaling up contemporary models or hacking the old ones to behave less erratically. We are not solving the reliability and explainability issues inherent to AI. We're not getting them to tell the truth, we can't get them to be smarter than a human and we can't even manage to make real efficiency strides.

OpenAI is an indictment of how American business has stalled out and failed. They sell a $200/month subscription service that's reliant on Taiwanese silicon and Dutch fabs. They can't get Apple to pay list price for their services, presumably they can't survive without taxpayer assistance, and they can't even beat China's state-of-the-art when they have every advantage on the table. Even Intel has less pathetic leadership in 2025.

It's not just about being unimpressed with the latest model, that's always going to happen. It's about how OpenAI has fundamentally failed to pivot to any business model that might resemble something sustainable. Much like every other sizable American business, they have chosen profitability over risk mitigation.
Is 1.6% a healthy median rise in income? According to Statista the inflation rate has been equal or more than that with the exception of four years during that time frame. https://www.statista.com/statistics/191077/inflation-rate-in...
If the safe speed of the road is 25mph, and the design speed of the road is above 25mph, you will not have safety no matter what the speed limit is. Vision Zero strategies take these factors into account to ensure safety.
Hmm, it loaded instantly on my machine.
We are both making the same point. The language didn't really matter at all.
Is it basically saying to tax land that has productive assets? Like if you have land that has a factory, you're paying taxes, but if you have land with a house, you're not?
And evil if you are.
You have to experience it. Living and working in Europe. Do it for a few years. Then see what you prefer.
Oh ok, it is quite useful for disambiguation. I get that
"Housing is a good investment" means that the total returns from investing in housing are competitive with the risk-adjusted returns of the overall market.

The returns from an investment include both capital gains and dividends. For example, there are stocks that never pay dividends, but might still be a good investment if the stock price increases. There are other stocks that only hold their value, but pay higher dividends, and those could have the exact same total returns.

In the case of housing, rent or imputed rent is a dividend. If you get $250/mo in [imputed] rent on a $25,000 investment, or $5000/mo on a $500,000 investment, that's 12% annually. That's a good investment even if the sale value of the property remains flat.
If this is an S-curve (or multiple stacked S-curves) then some flat periods are to be expected.

Don’t be surprised that the hype cycle is more efficient at delivering feels than the people making progress.
There's a dead comment replying to yours with this link: https://mailinator.blogspot.com/2009/06/beautiful-race-condi...

...which I don't think I've ever seen before, but nicely explains the problem I saw, and coincidentally is from the same year!
"Scandal-plagued" is the mildest way I can think of to describe this individual.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/06/1043651361/oath-keepers-calif...
Most likely is that the side with the army and guns turns the blue areas into an occupied police state, and sells it to the constituency as a "civil war", despite it being completely one-sided.
Eutelsat Just Did 5G in Space
> Are you seriously saying porn is being suppressed?

You are doing it right now!
The government of Florida operates with no income tax. Its GDP is comparable to Spain and its population sits between Chile and Australia.

Less than one fifth of its revenue comes from federal sources. If its residents weren't paying federal income taxes, Florida could probably afford to increase its taxes to cover the difference.

In the US, local taxes—not federal taxes—pay for the majority of surface street maintenance, schools, emergency services, licensing regimes, health and safety inspections, unemployment insurance, etc. I.e., most of what one considers to be staples of the social contract in a well-administered society.

It seems as though you're implying income taxes are a prerequisite to some standard of living comparable to the US, but that presupposes that income taxes in the US actually pay for the things that make a place worth living in.

If all of those staples are paid for by local governments, then what do federal income taxes pay for? Retirees and military procurement, for the most part.

Can you imagine other ways to raise those funds?
Right—they fell sharply from 1945 to 1955 (it looks the data points are sampled every 10 years) but have been pretty stable in the post-war era, as I said. Note that OP stated the top tax rate was lowered starting in the 1970s.
Why not? The billionaires are still paying some tax.
I'm the founder of WorkOS and we solve this problem for developers, primarily focusing on the challenges around enterprise SAML, SCIM, complex RBAC, fine-grained authorization, and more.

We build the Admin Portal for IdP configuration: https://workos.com/admin-portal

WorkOS actually launched on HN about 5 years ago[0] and today it's used by OpenAI, Cursor, Perplexity, and hundreds of other companies.

Feel free to email me if I can help: mg@workos.com

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22607402
Oh good, checks and balances work, unlike the current Admin
Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as disagreeing with you, I just wanted to point out what I thought was an interesting fact. Yes, the original source code is unrecoverable.
AI and the Meme Economy
Hi everyone, co-founder of Mobile.dev and co-author of Maestro here . Thanks jstan for sharing Maestro and for the kind words—really glad to hear it’s working well for you!

We built Maestro because E2E testing felt unnecessarily complicated, and we wanted something simple and powerful that anyone could use — whether you’re a seasoned developer or just getting started with automation. It’s been amazing to see it adopted at companies like Meta, Block, DoorDash, Stripe, and Disney, but honestly, what excites us most is seeing teams who’ve never done test automation before finally get a solid strategy in place because Maestro is so easy to use and get started with.

Oh, and if you’re wondering — yes, it works for web testing too!

We’re constantly iterating and adding features, so if you’ve got ideas, run into issues, or just want to chat, let me know. Always happy to hear how we can make it better.

Thanks again for checking it out, and happy testing!
We are escaping this zero-sum game with innovation. We are finding replacements for expensive materials or figure out how to use less of them. Innovation and knowledge are compounding: a bit more knowledge today means a bit more knowledge a year from now, and then a bit more knowledge a year later etc..
My read: if you have the right skills you’ll never be out of work.
I bought a house here on ridiculous terms (believed in my job at the time). Then I got let go and I've been paying $4k/mo ever since hahahaha. I cannot wait to sell and get out.
I mean, if there's restricted supply/excess demand then the ones at the margin moving the point where supply and demand cross will the ones willing to pay high prices.

It shouldn't surprise anyone who took econ 101 that new builds are appealing to the ones at the margin of buying or not buying, and that those people are way above the median income right now.
There's a huge difference between a public forum and cloud storage for e.g. your private bookmarks.
Consider how big the difference is between each segment identified here. Realise that the upper income bracket itself could be broken down into three segments that would show an ever starker difference.

Unequal gains is the problem, and your intuition can help inform why: the 2023 dollar index used is based on what rate of inflation? CPI? RPI? Something else? Why is it that in 1970 a median income household could buy a home on a single income and raise a family (including sending kids to college), on a 2023-dollar income of $66k, but that's mostly not possible on $106k in actual 2023 for most households.

When you adjust for real buying power using a less favourable means of assessing inflation and taking into account housing costs more fully, I sense you'll find that the bottom two brackets are behind their 1970-adjusted counterparts, and the upper income bracket is significantly better off, especially if you then break that upper segment up a little into more categories.

And, without something happening to adjust this, the effect is going to just get worse and worse, and everyone knows it.
Why'd you bother typing this?
He has found something of an audience in the social media oriented audiences, who are educated enough to grasp the general idea, but not specialized enough to verify his claims.

I've only heard of him because of this sort of Hacker News comments, and my general impression is that he is usually so off the mark that it is hard to have relevant conversations.

He makes money selling books and having an Youtube channel.
> a fair piece

Who defines what is “fair”? If it’s people, people are imperfect AF and centralized planning economies tend to fail spectacularly.

I would agree that a system can be unfair, but what changes to the system are sustainable while still incentivizing risk-taking and achievement?
Full title: Eutelsat Just Did What Apple And Starlink Couldn’t — 5G In Space!

The key takeaway: Eutelsat OneWeb, along with Airbus, has tested the world’s first 5G non-terrestrial network (NTN) in low Earth orbit (LEO).
Hard disagree with this take. There is certainly a purpose responding to them. Whether or not their opinion is changed comes down to them.
If it's open source, extremely reliable, cross platform including Android, opens in less than 2 seconds(like Google Keep does), and is packaged for Linux in a maintenance free way(AppImage/Flatpak/single binary), then probably.

Sync has to never lose data due to conflicts, the desktop version needs to not be entirely keyboard shortcut driven and not take a week to learn.

I've tried pretty much all the notes apps, none are 100% perfect, but Google Keep is hard to compete with.

I suspect it would not be too hard to make a great one, because you could use SyncThing and plain text as the backend, and I've thought about doing one myself, but the effort of maintaining a cross platform app by myself is more stress than I want to add.
Most people reading this didn't experience FoxPro DOS probably. Why not say more?
This is such a "'No Way To Prevent This,' Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens" comment.
I don't think smart people make better docs. I'm USMLE 90+ percentile, and not particularly clever. It is however, important to be clever enough to understand what you read.

Good docs are humble, meticulous and knowledgeable. Stellar docs are excellent communicators.
Long Live the Vo1d Botnet: New Variant Hits 1.6M TV Globally
I found the matching suits curious:

https://apnews.com/article/republicans-trump-zelenskyy-meeti...

See second image.