skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They're not as dumb as you think. They know tariffs will raise prices. What they think is that tariffs may repatriate manufacturing, leading to more and better jobs and higher wages. Lower prices have resulted from outsourcing, which has resulted in their unemployment and under-employment.

They had a different reaction to price increases under Biden because those were not resulting from pro-American-worker trade policies, or at least were not perceived as such. In reality Biden was doing some things to try to repatriate manufacturing, but these policies were badly communicated if they were telegraphed at all, and they were not enough.

Constantly assuming these people are all just stupid isn't winning back any votes. To be fair: Republicans and MAGA spend a lot of time attacking straw man Democrats and liberals too.

BTW -- I see what they're thinking, but I suspect a lot of repatriated manufacturing will be so heavily automated it will not result in the mass employment gains they're hoping for.
you just described how a good developer works.
Yes I'm sure the Danes are wishing they had purchased their fifth generation fighters from China or Russia instead.
*They can’t rely on USA and the American tax payer for the defense of their country. Finally some defense spending will have to take place
Maybe the USA truly needs more than two parties, so these alternatives can have a voice.
> Trump might be alienating his traditional allies and cosying up to Russia, but he still apparently sees China as a problem or adversary.

It seems to me it's hard to believe anything Donald says, or to think it could not change without warning in the near future.
Lack of maintenance parts is just a kill switch with a timer.

Jet Fighters need a lot of maintenance, they are not like cars.

So a kill switch in software is not needed. If the US stops shipping parts, then it is only a matter of time before the Jet Fighters is an expensive paper weight.
And to clarify, this was a bit of a tongue in cheek comment implying that the US will become friendly enough with the two big autocracies of the world so they will officially buy arms from US defense companies (in which case Denmark can pass those F-35s to them).

For the record, I dearly hope it doesn't come to this, but right now I'm not sure.
Taiwan should be thrilled. Every indication is that this administration is letting Europe fend for itself so it can focus on the Pacific.
> Trying to reverse engineer software (the policy was that no one gets access to the original source code for the F-35[0], at least back in 2009) is probably a no-go under those agreements.

the UK made access to the source code a condition of purchase, and the technology transfer agreement was signed

in a hypothetical scenario where the US federal government falls under the direct control of a russian asset, I imagine this would end up in our allies hands reasonably quickly
One, I'd like to note that Alex has an exceptional component of his site dedicated to older-edition-style tabletop roleplaying and it's well worth checking out if you're interested.

Two, given a choice between the front page of the New York Times and a PDF or expert blog post - I typically select the latter - or read about my town and local jurisdiction. I keep Bloomberg and the AP around for things that are events I may need to know about quickly.

Of course this gets into the problem of filtering and knowledge gaps, I might be reading something really interesting about natural gas but I have no idea if the person is a crank or not because of my lack of domain knowledge - so I've got to cautiously work the bubble perimeter every time.
How is Germany divided?
That wasn't at all my experience in either undergrad or grad school in the US. There were midterms and finals but also various problem sets and projects, whether individual or group.
Jets are massively used in this war-- to launch glide bombs and as roving defense against cruise missile threats. Ukraine is mostly doing the latter.

Yes, the amount of direct CAS and amount of direct air to air engagement is low.

Making an argument that "everyone knows" something without a basic effort to inform yourself is not great.
Oh yes. The two-party duopoly is a major cause for pretty much everything that's wrong. We also need term limits in Congress, badly.
I don't think anyone is dumb enough to restart atmospheric testing. If you want a subsurface test to be public knowledge, there's a pretty good track record of how to do that: invite the press. Pakistan, North Korea, India & others can serve as a good example.

In fact, while most nuclear powers have dabbled in the idea of 'how could we conceal a nuclear test', it seems that only Israel is capable of doing it. That is an argument from the absence of evidence unfortunately.
This correlation isn’t necessarily causal. Companies that are failing are more likely to layoff could be just as true as companies that layoff are more likely to fail.
> one of the most innovative car manufacturers in the world

Off topic, but I'd like some more specific thoughts regarding what you are aware of for specific automotive technologies that GM has innovated over the past decades, to make this statement.

Intuitively, GM cars do not do well internationally, have been known to have creaky interior build quality, have silly features like turning the reverse lights on when you unlock the car in a parking lot, and are not competitive on a scale of luxury compared to their European and Japanese counterparts.
That's US's problem. Which is very minor compared to Ukraine's or Europe's problems with this war.
Does Europe lessening their desire to buy US-designed and US-made military hardware benefit or harm the US?

Extend this to other areas of commerce. If the US is no longer a reliable trade partner and its allies lessen their economic ties, is that a positive outcome for the US?
I don't know where you got this myth from. Extermination of elite VDV units was not just one plane shot down.

There were many russian helicopters successfully landing at Hostomel, the area saw heavy fighting for several days until it was under Ukrainian control.

> The Russian Il-76s carrying reinforcements could not land; they were possibly forced to return to Russia.[35]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antonov_Airport

Rumors of an Il-76 downed close to Vasylkiv did not prove to be true:

> Claims have been made that Ukrainian aircraft shot down two Russian Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft transporting assault troops.[33][124][34] However, The Guardian reports "no convincing public evidence has surfaced about the two downed planes, or about a drop of paratroopers in Vasylkiv".[125]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_front_of_the_Russian_...
I don’t know how much it’s worth but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning...:

“On 27 May 2006, President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair announced that "Both governments agree that the UK will have the ability to successfully operate, upgrade, employ, and maintain the Joint Strike Fighter such that the UK retains operational sovereignty over the aircraft." In December 2006, an agreement was signed which met the UK's demands for further participation, i.e., access to software source code and operational sovereignty. The agreement allows "an unbroken British chain of command" for operation of the aircraft.”
Europe has had 20 summits and talks about what they plan to plan to plan to do… eventually. USA will be fine.
>and its superiority is front and center.

The vast majority of the comments I am reading on this site are not stating this. The vast majority, even the Americans, are agreeing that this is a bad decision. Unsure where you got this from.
>Revenue is high but no meaningful transaction has happened. The money is just being exchanged between the same top HFT firms. And the best of our minds are fighting it out in the arena of algorithms rather than creating real world value.

Liquidity is "real world value". Being able to buy/sell a stock instantly without a massive premium/discount makes stock ownership for the average person possible. Contrast this to an liquid market, like buying houses, where you need to spend months house hunting, and pay a 6% commission on top.
and if you assume cows are spherical and frictionless it's quite convenient

sometimes roads go diagonal
(Also a deep-red-state resident like the GP.)

The way I look at Trump/MAGA is they took over an ineffective, sclerotic Republican party that spent 40 years talking about “family values” while selling off the productive base of the country to globalization and letting rural America rot. The tea-party movement of the late aughts was their last chance to avoid being decapitated. They failed. The Republican party has been hollowed out and is simply not the same entity it was 10 years ago. It has been taken over by a very angry insurgent force.

As I see, the Democrat Party is where the Republicans were in 08/09. They have, perhaps, a few more years of whatever it is they are doing before they similarly get taken over.

Best case scenario: we end up with a new political party (or two) that represent the more sane interests of the old guard and of the population as a whole. Worst case scenario: we end up with two absolutely insane zombie versions of our two legacy political parties fighting for control of the nation.

At least we don’t have more guns than people and a bunch of nukes. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's the ironic part.

Trump is the result of anti-system vote by people who were ignored for decades by both parties.

Trump obviously won't solve their problems. Inequality won't decrease. Healthcare won't become more accessible. Workers' rights won't be fixed. Homes won't get more affordable. Inflation won't drop.

So - even when Trump disgraces himself completely - these disappointed voters will just vote for another anti-system con-man.

Trump's core voters desperately need Sanders to win. But they will vote Trumps and get fucked over time and time again.

This is how democracy dies. People distrusting the system so hard they destroy it.
A Man Behind the American Oligarchy [video]
France sending jets while the U.S. waves the white flag? Looks like the surrender baton just got passed westward.
And all everybody speaks of is expenditure, not capabilities. That alone should tell you what the goal is.

Except it might backfire if Europe understandably decides it must buy European.
Not American, but provided US military has an oath towards the Constitution (and not to whatever the government claims), I doubt _all_ of US army would follow (either internally, either externally) such a brutal reversal of duty as well as alliances.
I take this point but would offer that the culture you reference is also quite real. By contrast, in southern cities you will find some of the most impassioned progressives you’ll ever meet. There is nuance.
Saw an interesting article on zero-sum thinking as contingent on the idea that the pie stays fixed, thus ruling out the possibility of "lose a little now, but the pie grows overall so your share grows more to compensate" (the basis for friendly trade relations, basically).

What I realized was that, for people who've been "left out of the benefits of the global economy", that picture makes total sense--the pie didn't grow, and in fact probably shrank for them. Thus, zero-sum thinking makes perfect rational sense. It's an accurate worldview, and anyone trumpeting "the pie will grow, you just need to give up a little more (in increased taxes or jobs shipped elsewhere)" in spite of the evidence that IT HASN'T, must be either a fool or outright lying to them.

Anyways, for the first time I felt myself understanding a little bit how these voters may feel.
please read this page:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/
Japan was just asked why the US spends so much defending it...
I view it as China valuing stability. They want to control their interests, but countries like Russia or the post-Trump U.S. make long-term planning hard because you can’t assume rational decisions by the other major players.
We’re talking about the “fuck your feelings” crowd right?
Next national elections are the midterms in November 2026 with a new house and senate taking over in Jan 2027, 22 months time.

If the American people want to shift track they have the opportunity to actually elect a Congress which will do something.

If not it’s November 2028 for the next presidential election. Trump (if he’s still alive - he’s not exactly young or healthy) won’t be able to stand for a third term unless a constitutional ammendment is past
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From before people even knew what llms were: https://handmade.network
How exactly was the US benefiting in this arrangement? Sounds very one sided if the American tax payer is doing the bulk of spending while Europe is freeloading
Reddit has been dead for a while. There is still a lot of great information hidden along the noise, but it’s very much not a community that you can belong to. Your comments will almost never be taken seriously, or even be noticed. There’s almost no point in taking part in actual discourse on Reddit. People might think this is about politics, but I really don’t discuss politics on Reddit. Instead, any topic on Reddit gets this treatment, even when the topics are mundane. Smaller subreddits do still manage to avoid this, to be fair. But at any moment any small subreddit could get new mods, get banned, or even just see an influx of new users which permanently changes its character.
Just get Hamas to release ALL hostages and stop fighting it would all stop
I’ve been around long enough to see the underdog beat the well funded #1.

Linux beat Windows,
PostgreSQL beat MySQL.
Melatonin: Much more than you wanted to know (2018)
In my experience, the average Trump voter is far more accepting than the average leftist, who will refuse to even engage with you if you think differently than they do.
Perhaps you have thought of one? If so, the rest of us are dying to hear it.
We All Have Predators Inside Us
https://archive.ph/DIWHU
I sure hope any US invasion for Greenland is met with a significant NATO force, not just the Danish.
AFAIK, we in the USA are still recommended to get the shingles vaccination, which has two shots, after age 50, and it's only effective for 7-10 years.
Real talk here, and I'm sorry for being "that guy"

Why do tech workers get so wrapped around the axle of layoffs when most people are in a chronic state of tech job hopping? I know multiple people who have worked their entire career thus far without ever staying at a place for more than 3 or 4 years. Some no more than two. Tech job culture is practically a mono culture with "hop jobs" being a hallmark.

From an employers perspective it's not laying off a bunch of family members (Southwest has an average tenure of 11.5 years), it's laying off a bunch of people who were gonna dip in 6 months to a year anyway.

I know this is controversial take, but recognize that the tech industry is an outlier industry, with outlier amounts of money and outlier amounts of volatility.
I would love to hear specifics on how you couldn't get the layout looking how you wanted it to. e.g. do you have a link to the presentation you did? Feel free to shot me an email at gmail, it's easily findeable online.
Warehouse 14 time
Because the captain owns the ship. Or is the best buddy of the person that owns the ship, and can blame subordinates in closed-door conversations.
I'd love to have this, too!

There are a couple of things I'd like to do next:

- make it into a public API - so that it's easier to create plugins;
- provide multiple "blueprints" for different types of text (in this case, for emails).

I think with these 2 features it should then be trivial to make it available in email clients, or as a browser extension.
Oh, this captures my experience perfectly.

I've been using Claude Code a lot recently, and it's doing amazing work, but it's not exactly what I want it to do.

I had to push it hard to refactor and simplify, as the code it generated was often far more complicated than it needed to be.

To be honest though, most of the code it generated I would accept if I was reviewing another developer's work.

I think that's the way we need to look at it. It's a junior developer that will complete our tasks, not always in our preferred way, but at 10x the speed, and frequently make mistakes that we need to point out in CR. It's not a tool which will do exactly what we would.
Advertisement is positive sum: it connects people who need goods or services with people who can provide those goods and services. The modern advertising industry is negative-sum: the sheer cost to everyone far outweighs this theoretical benefit. (Most people I know will deliberately refuse to buy anything that's advertised at them, unless they have no other option.)

The "attention economy" is stealing people's time, then trying to sell it. Other people's cognitive resources are not yours to sell. (Are there really people who do not realise how cartoonishly evil this is?) Time was, people used to pay for big books full of advertisements. Would anyone pay to receive modern online advertising?

The advertising companies are a big part of why I don't have the money to spare to pay for "ad-supported" websites: I'm too busy trying to keep my personal life away from their mass surveillance systems, missing or declining opportunities in the process. I, and those around me, would be richer if not for this pointlessly-wasted effort, me establishing increasingly-impractical countermeasures to maintain my privacy, and them building increasingly-elaborate workarounds to spy on me anyway, all so they can try to sell me a washing machine.

Banksy put it best. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Banksy

> People are taking the piss out of you every day. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.
>people are terrified of trans people

For no reason. Trans people aren't doing anything but trying to live their lives but the concept of being trans disrupts their view of the world. People fear what they don't understand and because they don't understand the real reasons for their struggles, everything they don't understand can be conflated by a confident liar saying they are related.

Possibly the most succinct summary has been sitting in pop culture for a quarter century but how it could apply to real life never clicked with most people: "Fear is the path to the dark side"
You don't read books by women? What? Maybe if you did you would understand how big of a role the socio-political effects of European patriarchy had in whatever veracity the rest of your assertions had.

This is all pretty off topic and not the time to get into it but I find what you're saying pretty wild. Of course there's nothing wrong with being a man but it's still a good idea to listen to women's experiences and learn from books they've written. There are all sorts of unfair power structures in the world and it's good to learn about them, especially at this juncture in history, or else we run the risk of making the same mistakes again and again.
The spending that happens, though, will not be flowing to the US like a very large share has in the past.
There's some truth to this, but the bigger issue is that we've been paying A LOT in taxes for A LONG time and because larger and larger portions of that are going to pensions, people are starting to second guess every expense.

The good news - form my perspective - is that the GROWTH in the percentage of the workforce living off pensions is slowing dramatically and is now under REAL growth, which means working folks might feel like life is getting better again.

The reason people have complained that life hasn't gotten better for workers over the last 20 years is because nearly all growth has gone to more people being retired and the 0.1%.

If you keep the same growth, but the number of people retiring slows, there's a little more wiggle room with the pie.
Let's say you are looking for the closest gas station. One that is in the close corner of a "diagonal neighbour" would be closer than most points in the "edge neighbours". So if you want to find something nearby, you'd usually want to look at all 8 neighbours. The hexagonal neighbours look more like a circle centered in the original hexagon, thus more convenient for that purpose.
Hav you read https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th... ?
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Developments like this make it clear that China’s government is effective. It is a bit disappointing to see where Chinese education is, and where American education is. While China trains future workers with future skills, Americans are still trying to figure out why public schools have worse results on the basics each year.
The Soviet arms industry experienced a similar boom in the 1980s due to an eye wateringly expensive arms race with America.

Spoiler alert: it did not end well for them.

Putin is setting another trap.
> In short, the problem comes down to scarcity

Exactly. One-on-one tutoring isn't scalable.
Do you have reasoning to support this improbable conjunction, or are you just seeking to bet money?
You mean `foo = *bar[10]`? That’s equivalent to `bar[10][0][0]`, i.e. the array element access is done first, then the retrieved element is dereferenced twice. I’m quite confident in this, but I’m a systems programmer working in C++, so that’s my bread and butter.
Where did this bogus "transgenic" narrative come from? And BTW he didn't say "research on transgender mice", he said "making mice transgender"... which is technically incorrect but obvious to me (and, I thought, anyone knowledgeable in the field) that the research involved giving mice hormone therapy.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/04/politics/fact-check-trump-add...
They're kind of solving different problems. It's a bit like TypeScript vs Elm or PureScript: one is a type system overlaid onto an existing language with its own rich ecosystem and set of idioms, and the other is a new language that targets the same underlying platform but has different idioms and semantics for static analysis.

If you already have lots of Elixir in production, or you enjoy Elixir's highly dynamic approach to solving problems and would like to get some additional safety for free then sticking with Elixir is a no-brainer!

If you'd like a simpler language with tighter static analysis guarantees while still being able to dip into the wider ecosystem then you might prefer Gleam.

Ultimately I think the two languages have very different philosophies and idioms, folks will naturally find themselves preferring one or the other ^.^
What My Father's Emails Taught Me About the Craft of Writing
More to your point this isn’t some 1914 march through the mountains when this sort of Westphalian ethnic cleansing is acceptable
This level of 'us vs. them' doesn't really help anybody. If your employer is actually this cutthroat (I imagine the majority are not) then perhaps this tactic is warranted. But as a general recommendation, TFA has a valid point regarding a potential source for a strong reference or even future collaboration. Burning bridges should always be a last resort. Also, I don't think the author is recommending 'mouthing off' but rather sitting down and having a civil discussion.