skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/11/democrats-...

I will leave this here. I wish I could pin it. It's also very disingenuous to proclaim that the economy is 'terrible' and blame someone that's been in office for 2 months.

I'm not just going to assume ignorance on this topic, since HN seemingly has more intelligent people commenting here, but economic changes don't happen this quickly and are a direct result of the state of the economy prior to Trump coming into office.
And this is appropriate for your domain and the jobs you work on.

If your job was to build websites, this would drive you insane.

I think I'm coming around to a similar position on AI dev tools: it just matters what you're trying to do. If it's a well known problem that's been done before, by all means. Claude Code is the new Ruby on Rails.

But if I need to do some big boy engineering to actually solve new problems, it's time to break out Emacs and get to work.
The thing that puts me off AI the most is that I feel it's only free/cheap while we train it, and in 3 or 4 years it will be a few thousand a month and only available for corporate
Show HN: Neptunes Heart – an astrology site you can rig to say what you want
We are seeing improved _US_ ISR in last 20 years enables UKR to hit RU assets. What UKR is fully capable of doing is follow up predominantly US supplied intel, especially for longer range / standoff strikes.

EU part of NATO has improved ISR (helios, sarlupe, copernicus etc) but nothing rivalling US tactical and strategic capabilities, i.e. as far as I know, there's no EU system that provides all weather real time targetting.
> Musk is out there talking about the US going bankrupt

Musk is particularly dark—he was born in South Africa. He knows how this winds up. Yet he seems adamant to recapitulate the ANC’s corrupt playbook.
Similar experience, I had a Cyrix PR200 which really underperformed the equivalent Intel CPU.

Convinced my parent's to buy a new PC, they organized with a local computer store for me to go in and sit with the tech and actually build the PC. Almost identical specs in 1998: 400Mhz Pentium 2, Voodoo 2, no zip drive, but had a Soundblaster Live ($500 AUD for this at the time).

I distinctly remember the invoice being $5k AUD in 1998 dollars, which is $10k AUD in 2024 dollars. This was A LOT of money for my parents (~7% of their pretax annual income), and I'm eternally grateful.

I was in grade 8 at the time (middle school equivalent in USA) and it was the PC I learnt to code on (QBasic -> C -> C++), spent many hours installing Linux and re-compiling kernel drives (learning how to use the command line), used SoftICE to reverse engineer shareware keygen (learning x86 assembly), created Counterstrike wall hacks by writing MiniGL proxy dlls (learning OpenGL).

So glad there wasn't infinity pools of time wasting (YouTube, TikTok, etc) back then, and I was forced to occupy myself with productive learning.

/end reminiscing
Nvidia is up 24% in last 1 year compared to <10% for Nasdaq or S&P. Cherry picking the point to compare to is bad.
Ironic that printers were the genesis for the entire open source movement[1]. "Oops! All Operating Systems!"[2]

[1] https://opensource.com/article/18/2/pivotal-moments-history-...

[2] https://www.capncrunch.com/products/cap-n-crunch-s-oops-all-...
This is all looking like a strategy to intentionally depress asset valuations so that they can be acquired at fire sale prices.
Chrome is no longer available on my machine. It hasn't been for some years now but still.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/4325...

page 5. also in other documents.

It's ok, it was only declassified 9 years ago.

and if we're going to point at everything trump says and react with gusto - like canadian politicians saying they need to arm themselves with nukes to prevent invasion, just to name one - then i question the validity of "oh they didn't sign it so it doesn't matter" The secretary of state said to Gorbachev multiple times "not one inch to the east" of the "NATO" base in Germany.

But none of this matters, because Ukraine is 250 miles from Moscow, and that's a lot different than the nearly 600 miles away Poland is. the closest nato point to moscow as it stands right now is 350 miles away.

if you can't see the difference, i'm sorry. A big point of contention for Russia is the "Ethnic Russian" portions of Ukraine, near the border, who would "gladly" be part of russia, but because of an arbitrary border, they cannot.

Here's infamous socialist George Galloway explaining it better than i can, and with a better accent: https://noagendaassets.com/enc/1740955477.979_georgegalloway...
What is this link supposed to illustrate? It doesn't render properly in Firefox - some CSS glitch, elements all on top of one another. Was this produced by AI?
The stock market is not the economy. International allies purchasing decisions is not the economy.
Has there been efforts to create migration plans / tutorials for most of non EU tools ? so that a lot of teams can get off the US train wreck.
it's definitely more organic than you think. I know smart productive people doing it as purely a 0 to 1 thing.
> … AI Startup School will gather 2000 of the top CS undergrads, masters, and PhD candidates in AI to hear from speakers including Elon Musk

What a blunder by YC. What is this tool going to add to the conversation?

Hope he gets removed from speaker list.
They're busy trying to pass a continuing resolution on Republican-only votes the keep the government open.

Because heaven forbid both parties compromise.
and being fed a diet of propaganda from Fox, FB etc
Yes, better understanding of the stack makes you a more efficient prompt engineer. and yes I don't say this ironically, prompt engineering / vibe coding is not easy, as evidenced by the amount of people who think it's only good greenfield yeet prototypes.

A lot of my programming skills have atrophied over the last two years, and a lot of skills have become that much sharper (architecture, algorithm and design pattern knowledge, designing user facing tools and dev tools, setting up complex infrastructures, frontend design, ...) because they are what allow me to fly with LLMs.
> The fact that Canada, Mexico, China and the EU haven’t banned Tesla imports yet is remarkable.

Why do they need to? They can just apply tariffs and let the consumer do it without the political baggage.
I got yelled at once at the bank in my office's parking lot for going to the drive up ATM instead of going inside to a teller. So they definitely agree with that. Not allowed to walk through a drive through.
They don't have to. Sales are falling off a cliff in all those places.
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The standard move is to hunker down for the next 4 years, keep buying low, and wait for Democrats to come back and fix things in their next term. The same cycle has repeated what, 5 times in the last 30 years?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43262531 ("uBlock Origin forcefully disabled by Chrome", 5 days ago, 204 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43099417 ("uBlock Origin Has Been Disabled", 19 days ago, 40 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43299886 ("The DOJ still wants Google to sell off Chrome", 2 days ago, 663 comments)
I run https://BareMetalSavings.com.

The amount of companies who use K8s when they have no business nor technological justification for it is staggering. It is the number one blocker in moving to bare metal/on prem when costs become too much.

Yes, on prem has its gotchas just like the EKS deployment described in the post, but everything is so much simpler and straightforward it's much easier to grasp the on prem side of things.
It's commonly said Presidents get 100 days in office to enact the bulk of their platform. It's an approximation, of course, but it's about then that the new-to-office approval rating bump starts to wane and Congress starts gearing up for midterms. We're about half way there.

If the economy is in bad shape in May, I would not be surprised if Congress intervenes on tariffs. The fear of being primaried by MAGA loyalists will become smaller than the fear of losing to the other party very rapidly if a tariff-induced bad economy is the result.

The constitution gives Congress the power, but they've delegated it to the President, which means they can take it back. They will if losing elections seems likely.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's an inner circle buy/sell club around the tariff announcements. There's no economic sense to pushing them hard and then hitting the brakes so much unless you are actively looking to manipulate things.

The on/off tariffs are just as bad as imposing them for market confidence (if not worse).
The industry only has themselves to blame. When you promise literal utopia and inevitably don’t deliver, you can’t be surprised by what happens next.
At that point we're begging the question by going too deep into the analogy and finding the original situation again. The point has still been made that working on something without ownership can be enough to justify a say.

And the framers might have a say, it depends on the company.
The Torturial
One thing I'd love to short is the idea that we're going to have a second AI winter. Lots of people predict it but I believe this time is actually a real step function innovation (and last time was caused by it being a very distant research project and money dried out because competition with the much more lucrative internet which was growing at the same time).
I think most of this work going towards mammoths is also applicable to other species and a lot of the people specifically against reviving the mammoth seem to forget that.
I’ll never cease to be amazed that there’s an XKCD for literally everything.

I bet there’s even one related to using the word literally as hyperbole…
Thanks for your comment.

I am arguing the hype has peaked, and that there will likely be a pull back in investment in the next year. This is not to say the technology has "peaked", which I'm not sure one could even define precisely.

Important technologies emerged during each past "AI summer", and did not disappear during "AI winter". LISP is more popular than ever, despite the collapse of hype in symbolic reasoning AI decades ago.

As I mention in the OP, I think productivity enhancing tools for developers are one of the LLM applications that is here to stay. If I didn't think so, I wouldn't be concerned about the impact on skill development among developers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
Listening to his podcast on the topic was so disappointing. I think Ezra is a smart guy, but he doesn’t understand the field and the entire premise of the long discussion was that LLMs are going to get us to AGI.
There was absolutely a cost-of-living crisis under Biden. Those didn’t show up in core inflation, but there were obvious in total inflation, and the party line of it being transient—which I bought at the time—was wrong.

> disingenuous to proclaim that the economy is 'terrible' and blame someone that's been in office for 2 months

He’s enacted massive tax increases and trade disruptions by fiat. You can see the stock market crash when he speaks.

Biden and Democrats overstimulated the economy in ‘22. Trump is trashing it in 2 months. If you have doubts, listen to him, Musk and Bessent on whether their policies will cause recession.
It's intentional. Anyone thinking otherwise hasn't been listening to Treasury Sec Bissent talk these last two months. The goal to lower prices is to "increase supply and lower demand," and yes that's a direct quote. You don't lower demand by asking people to stop buying things. You lower demand by reducing people's ability to buy things.
In 1985, any time I needed any level of performance on my 1Mhz Apple //e, I still had to use assembly or when BASIC didn’t expose the functionality I needed. Mostly around double hires graphics and sound.
That’s a great argument for decentralization of search engine usage. The more small players with different ranking algorithms we have, the harder it is for SEO to work.
Reasonable ideas, reduce harm, don't increase it.

But I wonder about "Designated drunk driving lanes". How would the drunk drivers stay on that lane? :-)
Related. Others?

Does Visual Studio rot the mind? (2005) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29760171 - Jan 2022 (143 comments)

Does Visual Studio Rot the Mind? (2005) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22258198 - Feb 2020 (118 comments)

Does Visual Studio rot the mind? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3386102 - Dec 2011 (2 comments)

Do modern IDEs make us dumber? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387495 - Dec 2008 (37 comments)
Such a curious dance. About 5 years ago the headline was, "President Donald Trump has signed a law that will impose sanctions on any firm that helps Russia's state-owned gas company, Gazprom, finish [Nord Stream 2]." https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50875935 Of course, Trump isn't the only one to do an about-face. In 2019, Germany supported Nord Stream 2, but now opposes Russian gas imports.
NASDAQ is already down 11.5% in the last month.
>Back in the early 70s the lab I worked in had a colony of mice called "wobblers" that in some sense modelled Parkinson's Disease - but not usefully, as far as I could see.

If it wasn't useful, why did they have them? It's not labs just keep breeding mice that aren't useful for their experiments.
None of those cases are "generative" AI.
He did get elected at 49.9% of the popular vote... so there's not exactly a lot of natural approval margin in there for him.
The American economy is a giant magnet right now -- after the inevitable crash I think that innovation would be a lot more distributed and that'll be a good thing.
It's not a difficult puzzle: I find an always working and worry-free sync of open tabs more important than having extensions on mobile. I'd like to have those too, but right now I have to choose.
But he continues doing what he started. Considering the fact that he is very smart and definitely hungry for absolute power, you can think about his true goal. If he is ready to risk that much of his worth, it means that the potential win for him will bring so much more.
This. He was playing a character. People think it was a documentary.
> "you basically just need to know a lot of rules..."

This comment commits one of the most common fallacies that I see really often in technical people, which is to assume that any subject you don't know anything about must be really simple.

I have no idea where this comment comes from, but my father was a chemical engineer and his father was mechanical engineer. A family friend is a structural engineer. I don't have a perspective about AI replacing people's jobs in general that is any more valuable than anyone elses, but I can say with a great deal of confidence that in those three engineering disciplines specifically literally none of any of their jobs are about knowing a bunch of rules and best practices.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that just because you don't know what someone does, that their job is easy and/or unnecessary or you could pick it up quickly. It may or may not be true but assuming it to be the case is unlikely to take you anywhere good.
I think it’s possible to create value and therefore profits without externalizing costs upon the public.

Personal responsibility is not all or nothing, and some of it belongs with wise voting. As experts are concerned, that can mean experts in regulation which is fine. Currently that’s often conflated with industry insider experts which is a mistake and the root of a lot of this corruption. Police prove that approach is unnecessary, there are many fine drug detectives for example that were never involved in the illicit drug trade.
Something I've been saying for two years now is that AI is the most over-hyped and the most under-hyped technology, simultaneously.

On the one hand it has been two years of "x is cooked because this week y came out..." and on the other hand, people who seem to have formed their opinions based on ChatGPT 3.5 and have never checked in again on the state-of-the-art LLMs.

In the same time period, social media has done its thing of splitting people into camps on the matter. So, people – broadly speaking, no not you wise HN reader – are either in the "AI is theft and slop" camp or the "AI will bring about infinite prosperity" camp.

Reality is way more nuanced, as usual. There are incredible things you can do today with AI that would have seemed impossible twenty years ago. I can quickly make some python script that solves a real-world problem for me, by giving fuzzy instructions to a computer. I can bounce ideas off of an LLM and, even if it's not always 'correct', it's still a valuable rubber-ducky.

If you look at the pace of development – compare MidJourney images from a few years ago to the relatively stable generative video clips being created today – it's really hard to say with a straight face that things aren't progressing at a dizzying rate.

I can kind of stand in between these two extreme points of view, and paradigm-shift myself into them for a moment. It's not surprising that creative people who have been promised a wonderful world from technology are skeptical – lots of broken promises and regressions from big tech over the past couple of decades. Also unclear why suddenly society would become redistributive when nobody has to work anymore, when the trend has been a concentration of wealth in the hands of the people who own the algorithms.

On the other hand, there is a lot of drudgery in modern society. There's a lot of evolution in our brains that's biased to roaming around picking berries and playing music and dancing with our little bands. Sitting in traffic to go sit in a small phone both and review spreadsheets is something a lot of people would happily outsource to an AI.

The bottom line – if there is one – is that uncertainty and risk are also huge opportunities. But, it's really hard for anyone to say where all of this is actually headed.

I come back to the simultaneity of over-hyped/under-hyped.
Even Your Hobbies Aren't Safe from Trump's Tariff Chaos
Docker-Compose is likely the simplest solution for your needs (assuming you have some familiarity with Docker).

Your docker-compose.yml file would look something like this:

```

---

services:

frontend:
image: localhost/frontend:latest
ports:
- 6767:6767
environment:
- ...
volumes:
- /home/user/dev/app/frontend:/app/frontend
restart: unless-stopped

backend-1:
image: localhost/backend-1:latest
ports:
- 7878:7878
environment:
- ...
volumes:
- /home/user/dev/app/backend-1:/app/backend-1
restart: unless-stopped

backend-2:
image: localhost/backend-2:latest
ports:
- 8989:8989
environment:
- ...
volumes:
- /home/user/dev/app/backend-2:/app/backend-2
restart: unless-stopped

```

This example even includes volume mounts to your local files from you app development folder (update to suit your setup) so that any changes are immediately reflected in your running frontend or either backend containers when you save your files.

You would bring all of your services up with this command:

docker-compose up -d

And bring them down again with:

docker-compose down
Does this mean it won't be able to get updates to extension code(not block lists) anymore?

I am getting high CPU usage with uBO since yesterday but I do have a lot of tabs so I was wondering if thats a bug that will get fixed.
People that know they need useful reasoning are usually fairly good at it themselves.
It makes zero sense to claim Trump was referring to transgenic mice because nobody cares about that, regardless of political affiliation.

He attempted a bit of misinformation, which characterizes most of his address. Certainly, his supporters interpreted it to mean transgender mice. IMO, this was deliberate. If it wasn’t deliberate, then Trump is just an idiot. If it was deliberate, then he’s purposefully spreading misinformation in pursuit of some culture war.

No matter how you cut it, it reflects very poorly on our president.
SP500 is already down 10% in the last month
> You're trying to present an "instead of" that assumes I should want native apps

Yes.

> and should jump through hoops to find a way to get what I want from apps that aren't designed for it

What do you want which isn't designed for a native app?

> I want web apps, because they already do what I want, and keep getting better.

Perhaps. But where a web app might do what you want and get better, a native app can do what you want and get even more better.

> The best available application sandboxing solution that provides useful comprehensive APIs is the web.

You missed the next part: Or, hey, use an open source operating system and extend the existing sandbox solutions for whatever you think is missing.

> If an application is open, then sure, there are plenty of other options. If an application isn't open, I want it contained in a sandbox not of its own making, that it can't escape, that provides sufficiently comprehensive APIs such that interesting applications get built for it, and that keeps the user in control.

So you're either wanting to use and develop for Linux, or you're wanting to build apps that fit in walled gardens.

Guess which one lets you build and/or run native apps in a sandbox not of its own making, and provides comprehensive APIs, and keeps the user in control? It's not macOS or Windows, it's not iOS or Android, and it's definitely not web apps (which are the least common denominator of the list).
One outcome of this is that faster-than-light communication is definitely a thing, but we can't use it.

An analogy is that there are two telegraph operators in different cities. You write a message on a piece of paper and hand it to the operator in St. Joseph, Missouri. He transcribes it into Morse code and sends it to another operator in San Francisco, who transcribes it back into English for the recipient there.

EPR pairs are like those telegraph operators, except they can communicate with each other instantly across the entire universe.

Wow!

Unfortunately they also have a few caveats:

1. The sending operator completely ignores the message you wrote down and sends a random message instead. You can control when the message is sent and you can see what message was sent, but you cannot control the contents of the message.

2. The recipient can see what message was received on the receiving end, and they can prove it is causally correlated with the sent message by using out-of-band (i.e. ordinary sublight) communication.

3. Once a [random] 1-bit message has been sent, both operators cut the telegraph wires and they can never communicate with each other again.
>and now we bring back mammoths for shit and giggles

You realize this research has other applications right?
I clicked your link and have absolutely no idea what I am looking at. There is overlapping text, obscure words without definition, terribly confusing UX.

What is this?

Who is it for?

Why do you think this is demonstrates the OP is BS?
The administration is trying to definancialize the economy. Everything points in that direction, from tariffs to foreign policy moves that would reduce the dollar’s status as a reserve currency.
> Since SpaceX seems to be aligned with russia in the forseeable future

Why do you think this to be the case? Or, to rephrase it, do you actually think this to be the case?
One interesting thing about technology, design and UX is that it seems like we're probably nearing the end of the a big explosion in materials science over the past 100 years. Like things are about as smooth and round and shiny and colorful as can be. I guess we could make a transition from like touch screen to holograms or something? But kinda makes me wonder if we'll start circling back to older design ideas.

I wonder if in some sense the idea of inevitable progress that we saw in the 20th and early 21st century had to do with being at an inflection point with technology, and though progress will still happen, you won't see the sharp cultural impacts you saw in these past two centuries.