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I'm hugely sympathetic to this, but at the same time, I want to say, "snap out of it!"

We shouldn't take on the burden of things we cannot control. I think telling kids that they can change the world is mentally damaging. They could easily come to believe that if the world sucks, then it's their fault for not trying hard enough.

As for how to actually process the news, I remember a scene from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Total Perspective Vortex is a torture device that shows your true place in a vast, uncaring universe. You are revealed to be an insignificant spec on an insignificant dot, thus demoralizing you. But when Zaphod Beeblebrox steps into it, he come out unscathed. "How?" ask the torturers. He replies, "I'm Zaphod Beeblebrox!"

I'm a Gen X'er. We lived through the end of the Cold War, when we expected 30 minutes to say goodbye after WWIII started. We lived through the AIDS pandemic, which made every sexual encounter (rare or not) a life-or-death decision. And we were at the tip of the spear of the technological revolution that is still changing the world today.

As a generation, we are cynical optimists. We believe people are idiots and the world sucks and it's probably only going to get worse, but...yeah...things will work out for us personally.
If the reason someone wanted to learn Arabic was because they thought they could learn one language to do all of those things, it's clear why they might just drop the idea when they learn they can't.
Putin is the reason why NATO had more members join. This war is 100% all Putin's making.
Because it’s not about efficiency, it is about cutting tax collection capability. Who stands the most to gain from this? The wealthy. They don’t believe they should have to pay the tax. They can’t change tax law without Congress, but they can cripple the IRS without them.

Think like a threat actor.
How can any reasonable national leader justify building their military on American systems anymore?

Especially now that the U.S. government is also talking about not living up to its NATO obligations.

This is not gonna hurt the rest of the world. Defense is where the U.S. exports a lot. So cutting back on U.S. weaponry will only help other nations.

The same is true of Tech. Currently the tech industry is global, but expect it to become increasingly national. Considering this is one of the biggest and fastest growing industries in the U.S. and one of its biggest exports, again, this is only gonna hurt thenUS economy.

And the US’s dominance in this space is so high the rest of the world will simply push for open source at no loss to their own economies, since it’s only the US’s profit making will be hurt.
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I can't tell you why, but the fact that LSD is a schedule 1 drug with a strong stigma and that it's a drug that can't be patented will severely hamper any study efforts.

Some current theories re: microdosing efficacy that I've seen are that people who report benefits from microdosing (beyond placebo) are inadvertently self medicating ADHD symptoms, which seems plausible, given LSDs stimulant effect and 5HT2A affinity.
And the billionaires controlled by Russia:
"Musk says he could 'collapse' Ukraine frontline with Starlink decision"
- https://news.sky.com/story/ukraine-war-trump-zelenskyy-putin...
> This is how democracy dies. People distrusting the system so hard they destroy it.

Funny. Reminds me of the last time I visited Brazil. In the last day I heard someone justifying voting for Bolsonaro by saying "things are so bad that I just want someone who will destroy everything".
I think it's good that HTML serves a narrow purpose. What's problematic is that we want every other purpose to be served by just one or two things (CSS, JS). It shouldn't be a struggle to differentiate between "script that makes buttons work" and "script that browses cat videos and downloads them to your hard drive". We can call it "minJS" and "maxJS" or something, and make it so users can disable "maxJS" without disabling "minJS". Or wait, why even mandate JS at that point? The biggest problem with the Web is not particular design decisions (although of course they have many problems), but the fact that we won't change them fundamentally and instead just keep piling things on.
Regardless of how McCarthyism is antagonized under post Cold War era, it is not at all clear to me that such crackdowns wouldn't have been essential in ensuring the culture war is not lost to the Soviet Union.
He is indeed an idiot. Often more of an idiot than anyone else around.
No one said they were.
lmaoooooo buddy "oracle" implies they know something; the people brought in to fire people at Twitter spent almost no time in determining who was good or even how the company worked, completely undermining your thesis. It was madness: people were instructed to print paper copies of their code to bring into an office, like it was 1995. Remember geohot in a Spaces saying "the main problem with Twitter is that you can't run it locally?", as if any company of that size has run that way at any point in the last decade? Additionally, the horrible communication and chaos made it even harder for performers to perform. As others have pointed out, its stock lost a ton of value, it performs worse financially, and as a product by virtually every other metric has gone to hell (outages, CSAM safety, spam, bots...).

You tell a decent story at the start, but your choice of example couldn't be worse.
That’s great but not at all my actual experience. The roads in LA aren’t great, and I felt/heard every bump in the Y along with hearing rattling. Not so with the EV6.
Could you please implement Sander's socialist paradise in Vermont first? I'd really like to see how it works out before you try and subject the rest of us to your ideas. thanks!
I think the story is Russia becomes powerful enough to threaten Europe, one state at a time.

Ukraine has an amazing job, but they wouldn't have been able to do even that without convincing others that it was in their best interest to fund the war. That's been clear from the beginning.
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Its not that the market is saturated, its that a lot of incompetent ex googlers are interviewing now. People usually have a pretty good idea they can't do their job. They find a niche where a manager is not paying attention, or they can obfuscate and take credit for others work, etc. These people don't usually job hop, the interviews are way too hard and then they are very unlikely to find another long term safe niche to hide in. So previously seeing google on a resume correlated highly with strong competence. A lot of people laid off from google are complete incompetents. A lot were hard working geniuses too, but it doesn't take many interviews where a exgoogler is completely useless to spoil the brand.

The reputation for googlers on the market right now is very bad, and it will keep getting worse as the group of ex googlers who are basically unemployable keep interviewing over and over and over.
USA had two military alliances of central importance, one with Germany, one with Japan.

The first is to keep Russia in check, the second China.

The rumours of a carve-up, spheres of influence, begin to resonate.

Problem is, you cannot run a country as if it were a business, because to do is to value influence and power above freedom, human dignity, and human suffering.
> which do you want to write?

Neither, honestly. They both look terrible.
I wonder if part of the problem is that we abdicated our information intake to online sources, which for whatever reasons end up driving the divisions (engagement optimization, ads, money interests, etc.).

Where information input before the Internet might have been: 20% newspapers, 50% face-to-face (at the bar, church, work), 10% radio, 20% TV, now it's more like 80% Internet, 10% TV, 10% face-to-face. And it seems to make it a lot easier to grow hateful without the human element.
> Where the fuck is the company showing any loyalty to its workforce?

They have been and are out there. But all it takes is a change on C level and cost cutting suddenly is everything, loyalty a thing of the past. That is, you cannot count on loyalty anymore, even if the company you are working for is currently showing it (or seems to).
No… I’m sorry I don’t have time to explain TS now. But that’s not what’s happening at all. What you’re proposing would be the equivalent of ‘var foo = new Foo()’. The default value in TS is undefined, which behaves generally isomorphically to nil.
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This happened to me. There was a layoff, I got overwhelmed with work that had to get picked up, lost motivation, and burned out.
Wish more people would report their placebo experiments. I have periodically run them on myself, and am consistently surprised how I have been unable to differentiate substances I thought were helpful (adderall, kratom) end up indistinguishable from placebo over 20+ trials. I guess that my main takeaway was that it is hard to pinpoint when subtle drugs work. My second takeaway was that the data I generated would prob be useful to share, but with no examples anyone cared I opted against. This story inspires me to potentially revisit some of my past placebo tests and show my data.
I wouldn't classify it as "changes in government paperwork" since the EO defined the official name for a geographical feature, very different from some law changing the usage of a term in a government's form. Quite a different level and degree, if that's out of consideration everything can be reduced to some more general form to be played as equivalent.
What do people use to create sexy software product videos?
I see so many YC startups launching really polished product videos. I am NOT talking about screen studio / loom type videos. But videos that have text / fancy animations and music. Of course they could all be hiring video editors or well versed in after effects. Is there an AI tool for this I am missing?
The US voting system is probably fairly unhelpful, here. Most democratic countries have _multiple_ sides, and need to form coalitions; compromise is, of necessity, more of a thing. For instance, the next government in Germany will likely be a centre-right/centre-left coalition.
The issue is that you think people are voting for policies. I don’t think that’s true anymore, and maybe it never was true.
"better" .... Only the Sith deal in absolutes.
They can't rely on weapons that they have bought from US defense manufacturers
When we briefly had a balanced budget (kinda, if you squint just the right way) we had 1990s tax levels and a major economic boom.

We’ve since had two major rounds of tax cuts by republicans, so a balanced budget isn’t feasible even in booms and when we’re not deficit spending on two stupid wars. And now we’ve got all the interest on the debt from those tax cuts and wars to worry about.

If only anyone could have predicted this. Oh wait, everyone who knew anything about taxation policy did.
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Is this really free software? I am really looking for _GOOD_ TTS software which is maintainable, really opensource (for every usage) and can do english/german/spanish/french/russian.
We know for a fact, that within the constraint of 12 pitches, it is unlikely you will write an original melody [0].

[0]: https://archive.org/download/allthemusicllc-datasets

[1]: http://allthemusic.info/
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Execs go on to "pursue new interests" or "spend more time with family" all the time. They may get pretty good packages to do so but it absolutely happens.
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Technically, disguised as pet onomatopoeia. I was so hoping for actual sounds. :)
Clearly, we don’t work at the same company.

What I claimed applied to my company, exactly as I said.

If it doesn’t apply to yours… ok? Congrats?

Looking back, maybe you didn’t understand the shell variable syntax?
> provides the vacuum for better processes to grow back into

Or worse.
Or no services at all.
>Left means unions, workers rights, socialism or sydicalism; generally, power to the workers/99%/people rather than the capatilists/monarchists/regime.

Everyone claims they're the true voice of the 99%. Trump, despite being a billionaire, claims he's defending Americans workers by imposing tariffs and deporting undocumented immigrants. More broadly the right claims that they're fighting against the "elites" in the media/academia/corporations/"deep state".
But then you will still get short-sighted layoff decisions getting made, only by directors instead of C-suite.
This is such a wild con, especially looking at the whole thing from Europe. The Us has no significant political left, how on earth are they "behind everything" if they can't even manifest some influence within the Democratic party?

If the left was strong in the US there would have been a contest between Hillary Clinton and an actual left wing contender like Bernie Sanders. Even people like AOC would make a decent centrist candidate in Europe.
Even further, the US position is getting tougher.

Now there are new ideas getting pushed (through influencers like Musk): that Ukraine "should be sanctioned", that Ukraine "should give their minerals to the US", that Ukraine "should give up their lands", that Zelensky "should resign" and finally that "US should leave NATO".

With such allies, you don't really need enemies.
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Damn, was thinking it used audio. Lame.
This is one of the peak "move fast, break things" moments for the US. However, people warned about Chesterton's fences for years...

I think we have passed the Rubicon for quite some time. There's no turning back now. The equilibrium will be found in another configuration.
Poland is still in the midst of a constitutional crisis caused by the Law and Justice party's attempts to subvert the country's constitutional court. It's only with the formation of Donald Tusk's government in 2023 that Poland has come back from the brink.
He is either right, in which there is nothing to see here.
Or he is wrong, in which case he should be corrected (and/or you know, vote with your wallet), but so far it looks like he isn't seriously challenged.
I don’t write binaries, assembly, or C. If I don’t have to write an application, I’m okay with that.

I still have to write the requirements, design, and acceptance criteria.

I still have to gather the requirements from stakeholders, figure out why those will or will not work, provision infra, figure out how to glue said infra together, test and observe and debug the whole thing, get feedback from stakeholders…

I have plenty of other stuff to do.

And if you automate 99% of the above work?

Then the requirements are going to get 100Xed. Put all the bells and whistles in. Make it break the laws of physics. Make it never ever crash and always give incredibly detailed feedback to the end users. Make it beautiful and faster than thought itself.

I’m not worried about taking myself out of the loop.
"...and its leftist views..."

Aaaaand you lost me.
Social democracy is orthogonal to immigration policy.

You can have welfare state with close or open borders and anything in between, and you can have libertarian state with close or open borders.

For the last few years most EU countries have been going towards pretty strict immigration policy but not towards libertarianism.

Also Poland is not a good example (it's been accepting A LOT of immigration since ~2014 - more than average in EU). But that argument gets pretty detailed very quickly so unless you want to go into it - I'll leave that alone).
I find it mostly with younger people steeped in ideology and dogmatism, that reparations need to be made for a long history of imperialism.
That's a steller idea, thanks for mentioning it! I didn't realize that different profiles assign unique DNS servers, allowing me to partition off devices that don't support DNS-over-TLS/DNS-over-HTTPS/IPv6. I don't think it'd affect total queries, but tighter rules for machines/robots, etc. should increase the percentage of blocked requests.
Show HN: A preference passport for AI agents and faster shopping
I created a prototype for a "Universal Preference Passport" that stores all your detailed preferences to make shopping faster. It describes a preference profile where you store all your requirements for products (in this example, outdoor gear) and retailers and experts can recommend products that meet all of your requirements.

Why preference passports?

I always wonder why I have to re-enter the same preferences and data on multiple websites. For example: Entering the same size|color|price|shipping filters on multiple shopping sites, entering the same flight duration|luggage|budget|#stops details on multiple flight booking sites, entering the same age|height|weight|fitness goals details on every new fitness app I try. Why not store all of these preferences in one place and have the businesses pull this data to give me recommendation?

Even better, I could broadcast my preferences in gory detail and share it with retailers. It would be like reverse advertisements where I advertise my needs to businesses and they get the opportunity to win my business if their product fully meets all of my criteria. Imagine a world where advertisements were actually useful product recommendations.

Other ways these passports could be used:

- Share your preference passport with AI agents so "plan a trip" automatically becomes "plan a trip for these flight budgets | dates | #passengers | hotel ratings | types of locations to visit | budgetary requirements | noise levels | review red flags | luggage requirements | refund options | preferred flight and hotel providers

- Share your preference passport easily on Reddit, Hacker News and other "give me advice" forums so experts can tailor their advice to your needs and background

- Apps, retailers and service providers can get aggregated and anonymized preference data to understand market needs and build better products (e.g: A fitness provider may learn that there's a sizeable number of people in their area looking for a semi-private offering in between group classes and personal training)

What do you think? Are there areas where a preference passport can help you get to the perfect products and services you need faster?
Gleam reserved a handful of keywords in 1.0 (including echo), so it isn't a new keyword.
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What's truly eroding trust is the voting system. A system that places so much power in a single individual with complete immunity exposes its vulnerabilities-especially in a time when people can be manipulated so effectively. To be honest, I see the lack of justice as the biggest problem. If the highest courts in the U.S. are essentially political institutions, shaped by those in power rather than acting as neutral arbiters of justice, that seems absurd to me. It feels like you can basically do whatever you want. And the lifetime mandate? That's a joke. As a European, I'm sorry for shitting on Europeans. It's far from ideal here, but I'm finally starting to appreciate what we have. Let's hope this would not spread.
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Genuine question: do you consider Hacker News news? Because I believe answer is yes (judging by the name). Maybe it would be good idea to once a week open some site that aggregates top HN posts of the week and treat it like weekly newsletter

I guess every blog infrequently emitting posts can count as weekly news too, you don't even need to aggregate anything. RSS definitely helps to keep everything in one place though
Not at all, the reason the current administration is acting so cruelly is to bring people to despair. And desperate people do desperate things. A violent action will be used as excuse to deploy US armed forces against US citizens.

"Trump suggests he’ll use the military on ‘the enemy from within’ the U.S. if he’s reelected" - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-suggests-hell-us...

Democrats will dress in pink...

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/20/1246134779/the-reality-behind...

"In the near future, the U.S. president has given himself a third term. He's disbanded the FBI."

"Trump Muses About a Third Term, Over and Over Again" - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/us/politics/trump-third-t...
Tons of people have gone to work at companies with various stack ranking schemes. Most people need jobs.
I’m familiar with H1b visas. Yes it’s an irritating situation for an immigrant to be in but it’s not as bad as you make it out to be.

If you have good life savings, you can convert to tourist visa, and stay in the country for an additional 6 months and a higher hassle when restarting your career.

You can leave the country, and get back as long as your H1b is still valid.

If your spouse is working, you can be convert to being a dependent on them with H4 visas.

At the end of the day I think the government should not let people end up in such a situation. After the 6 year H1b deadline, I would prefer if the government just sends a notice to those that it thinks can immigrate long term and send the rest back. At least then we won’t have the ridiculous situation of upending families and children who have started schooling just because their parents lost a job.
Er no. There is a huge extremist leftist attitude that pervades the country. And all these leftists think they are centrists.

Leftist now refers to that. The leftist of like over a decade ago. That leftist is now more centrist.
I don't actually agree that it makes the mental model smaller. I see something that is just different from what I expect, is cognitively jarring, interrupts the flow of what I'm doing, and forces me to focus on something I shouldn't need to.

But it seems like I'm in the minority, so maybe it's just "old man shouts at clouds", I'll just ignore the language and move on :)
On tech side, personally I started to move my servers and personal infra to Europe, both physically and legally.

I'll not be able to leave some companies outright, but I'll be taking backups and reducing my reliance fast.
Kinda.

Some of the P(weapon failure) is constant: from what I hear, a certain fraction of Soviet and US systems (and presumably everyone else's) just don't work.

If that was all it was, then you would be correct.

But: some failures come with age, and require ongoing maintenance to retain function. For example, I expect all the tritium has decayed, and also that in many cases the money that was supposed to get spent replacing the tritium was instead spent on a fancy yacht or a football team or a seat in the UK's House of Lords etc.

And I don't know how good modern anti-missile weapons are, but I would expect them to have improved; conversely, despite Russia's talk about new hypersonic missiles, what they've shown hasn't been very impressive, and they've even used up some of their old nuclear-capable missiles while attacking Ukraine.
They have connections from previous jobs who will vouch for them.
I hope these folks periodically revisit these rules as some of them seem pretty dated (for example I haven’t seen the phrase “as an AI” for quite a while). Some of them might be helpful for a chat session but not in a coding session (eg: content policy?)

A much better set of rules would be describing the project, its architecture, how to call various commands, where to find things, any “constants” it might need (eg: aws region or something) etc.

Prompts are context and with LLM’s providing relevant, useful context is crucial to getting quality output. Cursor now has a more thorough prompt / rules system and a single cursor rules file is no longer recommended.
Privacy Pass removes the need for 'trust'. It gives you cryptographical guarantees of anonymity.