skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> that led to interest rate rises

Interest rates didn't rise because of industrial revival acts; they rose because they had been artificially low for a decade and someone had to throw water on the economy to cool it lest hyperinflation hit.

> and a TON of tech layoffs!

The nature of tech layoffs and what has happened in the Midwest over the last 50 years are completely different. When a guy is let go from Meta, he's let go from a job that earned him well over the median salary for Americans. Provided he hasn't blown it out his ass on courses at microdosing at Esalen, he should have something in savings. He has resources. He has connections. He has opportunities. When you work in an area with that much money in it - remember, Larry Ellison, Elon Musk, and Mark Zuckerberg each have a net worth that puts them on par with the yearly gross economic product of small American metropolitan areas - you can recover.

When a guy was let go from an automotive parts supplier in Michigan in 1988, he's making near that median salary. He has far less cushion. The nature of his work does not allow him to simply open his laptop and toy around with new business ideas, or open a startup; his former employer was the employer in town. When it went under, the town went under, and he had no way to get out.

And that's before accounting for what the rusting hulks of machinery did to the town. Chemicals dumped before regulation poison the water and soil. Major swathes of real estate needing millions of dollars in cleanup before any real redevelopment can occur. Maybe the Feds will get around to it with the Superfund in a generation or two; the developer from back east sure as hell isn't going to pay for it. By the way, can the town - which is already short on funds - give them tax increment financing for that redevelopment? They'll never come out ahead otherwise. You can't just convert a former brake pad manufacturing plant to lofts like you can with a former tech headquarters in San Francisco.

> And are you saying that the US media doesn't pillory Californa as a liberal hellhole? I actually don't even know what distribution of media you consume that doesn't handwring over the morality of liberals.

... where are you getting that from OC's comment?
Yeah, the naming was pretty bad for a while, but it seems today `#!/usr/bin/env python3` is a safe bet. And pip/virtualenv should not matter - remember, we've are talking about "python-without-dependencies"

As for tabs vs spaces - I really don't get it... My editor (emacs) picks the style automatically, I don't think I even had to set this up. But most of the python code I see use 2 or 4 spaces, so if someone puts tabs, it's immediately visible 8-character indents, which makes me alert (and then I turn on whitespace highlighting in my editor).
Yeah totally, the fact that it has all this extra design makes me imagine a mid sized paid team behind it, with ghost writers.

The voice of this blog post does sound a little corporate, tbh
> If you know that the US is pissed off because you're hoarding dollars because its the reserve currency and its causing the USD to rise too high

But you don’t know that! The explicit US position is that their tariffs are purely retaliatory, based on a formula they invented a few days ago which claims to compute an effective rate consisting of tariffs and non-tariff barriers. Export tariffs would make the formula as currently constructed go down, but the US would clearly see you’re juking the stats rather than actually removing trade barriers, and adjust the formula to account for it.

Perhaps you think the US is being strategically deceptive about its motivations? I do see a lot of people offer that as a “defense” of the US position, although I don’t clearly understand how this is meant to make things better. How should foreign trade negotiators know which HN commenters are telling them the real position and which ones have been taken in by the misdirection?
It probably has its advantages but until the UX reaches what we get with “docker run” this technology will never achieve its potential. When developing we need to think not only about what is possible but also how people do things currently and how does that compare to what we are proposing in terms of ergonomics. How many commands to get from 0 to hero with incumbent solution? How many with proposed solution? You get the point.
Is the .NET Ecosystem in Crisis?
I learned from the 1st edition, in 1984. It's worth noting that the book was actually written for scientists rather than engineers. I was a math and physics major. By a long standing tradition, an electronics course is a standard part of the undergrad physics curriculum.

My dad had "Electronics for Scientists" by Malmstadt et al., 1962. His employer put a bunch of scientists through an electronics course.

The contrast was pretty remarkable. It's all about vacuum tubes, with some introduction of transistors. The 1st edition of AoE had a reasonable amount of material on digital circuits for back then, but I imagine a similar contrast between 1984 and today.

The span of 40+ years has certainly changed how I do electronics.
In Japanese learning, people sell premade decks for things like learning kanji with mnemonics and graphics, or curriculum-like decks that provide a sensible order such as N+1 sentences (sentences with at most one unknown word or kanji)

I'm also in the business of generating Anki decks, except on the tools side: https://reader.manabi.io is growing in popularity for Japanese sentence mining for Anki on iOS & macOS

My project began as a "blissful" side project and is now my full-time occupation.
"Don't bother learning anything. AI will do all of this grunt work soon. You will be free to do what you really want"

It kind of misses the point that many people actually want to know how things work and how to design and build things. This isn't going to go away.
Tax cuts for the rich. Defunding the IRS, cutting social services, and pushing tariffs to tax the working class are all consistent with needing to keep the government running without taxing the billionaires.
In reality, Canadians have bravely fought and died for American interests in the Middle East. Don’t take any of this as my personal view, or as a repudiation of the interpersonal camaraderie that Americans, by and large, still feel with Canadians (although I understand it’s no longer universally reciprocated).

However, as a matter of industrial economic reality, NAFTA likely benefited Canada more than it did the US, and the US does subsidize NATO and Canadian defense by extension. What barriers are there to an independent Canadian defense industry?

(Although I would argue that NAFTA benefited both countries, and we should continue our free trade agreements!)
Trump's Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It's Also Based on an Error
> When the publisher of the article was also the actor in that scandal, I don't think it's ad hominem to wonder whether they're trying to whitewash the term.

No one working at the CIA today was there during MKULTRA, which was founded around the time Eisenhower was elected.

> Are you saying that MKUltra was actually so much more than the scandalous parts, to the extent that the CIA can just throw the term as innocuous into fluff pieces, as if there weren't overwhelmingly negative associations?

Again, I am saying that you don't know or have not presented convincing evidence otherwise, and to me, it sounds like you are just saying speculative shit.
Maybe hard to ignore in Japan. In the U.S., their success was based on their leadership in technology innovation, not real estate. Leadership which was eaten by the U.S. tech industry starting in the late 90s.
> We couldn't even convince everyone to wear masks

They couldn't even decide if they wanted us to wear masks then lied about the efficacy in the opposite direction once they got called out for lying about the efficacy.
It could be a distribution cost issue. It could be cheaper to use Canadian lumber in some parts of the US than it is to transport US lumber from where it is sourced to where it is needed.
They have people whose jobs it is to even out those troughs, and I don't think you realize just how wealthy the wealthiest wealthy really are. Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, and Larry Ellison each have a net worth that is on par with the total gross economic output of a small American metropolitan area.
i think sms should be purely left to person-to-person communication.

i hate getting business sms
Yeah, that's the uncertainty we all have to face. I hope they find some local jobs at least.

I don't even know what I can do if I can't find an IT job. I don't have any other skills.
Is there a good reason we want to do this though? It doesn’t pay very well and the work is seasonal.

This feels like “adding any job no matter the job” is the goal, as opposed to investing in our citizenry through education, training and using subsidies to help with the transitioning to better paying employment like high tech manufacturing, pharmaceutical production, professional trades etc.

We should really be focusing on the quality of jobs added and encourage that growth, preferably with an eye on long term stability
The last trip to Brasil I had problems with AirBnB - both incorrect listings (e.g. wrong location) and listings that weren't actually available.

I've used booking.com around the world and I can't recall any serious problem. When dealing with an issue, AirBnB error flow often sucks and booking is mostly fine.

When AirBnB works out great, you can find some real magic, but when it fails it really sucks.

I've found booking.com is usually more hotel-like and professional (e.g. contactable and reliable).

I still use both but I'm careful to choose depending on perceived risks.

Disclosure: long booking.com
SO I worked as a professional musician for over a decade before a career change to software development... and since that change, the act of _listening_ to music has completely disappeared from my life. I cannot work or study with music on, I do not put music on when I'm home alone, I do not listen to music when driving... And for many years I gave up completely playing music even as a hobby. So although for most of my life I would have been shocked that someone could entertain the idea of living without music, I am actually now more shocked that people can do things like study or program with music on at all. In all that time though I was always impressed and surprised by what people would consider music :D
Honestly? I think the biggest cause of JavaScript hate is that a huge percentage of developers have very little choice but to use it.

The web ate almost everything else for a host of reasons, and JavaScript is still the only language that the web natively supports. You can compile to JS or use WASM with occasional callouts to JS, but you can't get away from it entirely.

Most other languages have a greater sense of choice surrounding them. For backend work you can pick pretty much anything, and mobile is still a small enough chunk of the ecosystem that if you really hate Swift you can just find a job that isn't iOS dev. It's not so easy to get out of web dev without dramatically shrinking your job pool.
I have been wanting a tutorial like this. Thanks
We are going to have to create a new term for "emergency", since this one is used for all manner of situations ranging from timber production to heart attacks.
> The best (if not only) valid argument for tariffs is that they can be used to negotiate lower tariffs.

> Unfortunately, Donald Trump doesn't agree with that.

I think most countries hit are in active negotiations to reduce or drop the tariffs. Israel has already said they're dropping their tariffs on the US and Argentina is in negotiations to do so.
Did you also call Obama's inaugural funding as corruption, when he was donated $53 million in 2009 and ~$43 in 2013 ?

Did you also call Biden's inaugural funding as corruption when he was donated ~$62 million ?

Donations included several billionaires - including the Gates family.

Is raising Presidential inaugural funds considered as
"corruption" only for one party ? Or only when it crosses ~$100 million like President Trump did ?
Thank $DEITY. Why didn't they do this sooner?
> As stated by the leadership of both Mexico and Canada, USMCA will need to be renegotiated to address issues identified by all three parties

On the canada side, i think the issue identified that needs to be addressed is the US president being a dick.

(I'm not being sarcastic here, that is my genuine impression. If you disagree can you cite a source for what issues canada wants addressed? Obviously times are a bit weird since we are having an election and its considered bad form for the gov to do anything during election season)
3 kinds of people:

- Those who talk about people.

- Those who talk about things.

- Those who talk about ideas.

There are both men and women who fit into each of those buckets more than they fit into the other buckets.
> can price out small businesses from messaging customers

Inshallah
fun fact - this person (jcs) also founded lobste.rs
It used to be pretty common to buy strategy books for the really tough games!
This is an interesting question, but it seems at least possible that as long as the fundamental operation is simply "generate tokens", that it can't go beyond being just a form of next-token prediction. I don't think people were thinking of human thought as a stream of tokens until LLMs came along. This isn't a very well-formed idea, but we may require an AI for which "generating tokens" is just one subsystem of a larger system, rather than the only form of output and interaction.
> something close to I²C should be feasible.

That'd be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_Management_Bus
Yeah, I know protectionism used to be a ‘left’ position. I agree with parts of the reasoning, like opposing transnational DRM schemes, which the TPP tried to push. But hardcore protectionism has always felt more populist than leftist to me, kind of like how hardcore nationalism isn’t inherently right-wing, but often ends up there.
Oh, high quality will recover. Biotech will recover. It’s possible Walmart stock doesn’t recover. Auto makers will be interesting.
Different than OP, but I’ve left 2 negative reviews that were purely factual - they were simply just deleted.
SpaceX, ULA, Blue Origin win $13.7B in US Military launch contracts through 2029
I wrote the notes app of my dreams (no coding required)
RISC-V in Sandisk.
Jail are not more secure than Linux containers.
The last admin attempted that, creating well paying union jobs in clean energy and chip manufacturing. But it takes time, TSMC took 3-4 years from breaking ground to startup in Arizona. The electorate expects results immediately, which is impossible. And so, the thrashing continues. You can’t sell long term investment in the US, there is no will, but systems take time and investment to come up to speed.
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Think about it: with 20% tariffs, we will now have the option to work 14 hour shifts for 60c a day!
Nothing in what I posted was about solicitation.

It's about years of routine communication between a business and it's own customers that stops. Like my clients who had to stop providing product support over SMS - even tho that what their customers prefer.

It's about I can't send or receive texts from my personal numbers to anyone because my MNVO carrier can't afford the cash and ceaseless headaches that TCR impose.

SMS spam continues to flow. Legit traffic is cut off unless the ransom is paid.
Tariffs were the catalyst, but high interest rates certainly put downward pressure on markets, which was the intent, to cool inflation. Also the profitability underperformance of AI is very similar to all the .com companies who constantly lost money but had soaring stock prices. Companies like Microsoft and Google have poured billions into AI and it doesn't look like they are going to get a ROI any time soon.
NASA seeks proposals for two private astronaut missions to ISS
I don't think of it as the classic conspiracy in the sense of a La Cosa Nostra meeting in Apalachin.

It's more like a shared set of ideas, and those ideas are crazy, at least if you don't have a net worth that is enough to ride out all but the most historic of social upheavals. And part of avoiding that most historic of social upheavals is not laying off people for the sole profit of it, at least not without a good excuse.
Watched the video and super excited to see where tech like this ends up in a few years. Was on the quest to find a split keyboard last week and ran across this. Ended up with a UHK, but man I thought hard about buying one (pair) of these. I was just worried about dust, dirt and overall longevity. Seems like something that would need to be worked on every month or two. The kit is reasonable and might be a fun (next) project.

https://svalboard.com/

Would be interested to hear about anyone's experience that owns one of these. How do they hold up? How long did it take to get used to using? Would you recommend to a friend?
> One way to mitigate the problem is to define strict design rules which minimize problems but that would also mean we minimize creativity.

This is not true. Creativity thrives among constraints. The kind of design rules that minimize bugs in programs do nothing whatsoever to limit the kinds of programs you can write. The only things that design rules should make impossible are things that you wouldn't want anyway.
If you're feeling dejavu reading this article like I was, you might have read this previous piece on Vice [0] four years ago which also drew on Ken William's book, including many of the same quotes. It was discussed here as well [1].

0: https://www.vice.com/en/article/inside-story-sierra-online-d...

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24941667
This is the weirdest notification workflow I have ever heard of.
All I can say is that’s the cost of doing business with the browser being the main platform.

If devs want to interact with it less then focus on moving more to the server. You can still serve HTML and CSS and get a long way without ever touching JS.

It’s no different than other domains where one or two particular languages largely dominate. Like I don’t hear developers decrying the existence of C/C++ every chance they get

I think the hate is entirely unjustified. It’s fine to have preferences but so often it goes beyond that.
I found it impenetrable.
Does it make sense to talk about the index of a token? The model never sees such an index does it? I thought the tokens are converted to learned embeddings at the first layer.
SMS spam hasn't stopped. I still get it. What TCR stops is legit SMS traffic. SMS that is wanted - and sometimes needed - by the people who receive it.

Small biz and their own customers is who TCR stops communicating.

Big biz pays for TCR compliance and they blast out SMS like they always have.
Yeah ok I reviewed some of your post history and figured this isn't the first time you're being called out for your opinions. You've been downvoted about this topic for the past several years. It's not even the first time we two are having this discussion. You obviously aren't someone who changes their mind when presented with arguments so it makes zero sense to continue. Take care my weird Russian oligarch defending Dane.
I remember the Army was talking about this 20 years ago. That it was impossible to squeeze all the mandatory training in the calendar.
Note that the Shiller ratio is still at 31.3.

Stocks are still historically expensive, and have much room to decline further.

Seeking peace of mind? Proceed to Bogleheads.org and read.
These people all have a shared idea of what they're doing, and since they sit in financially-backed echo chambers, those ideas eventually turn so absurd that they appear to have no idea of what they're doing.
Under ordinary circumstances, sure.

But right now, sell sell sell is a forgiveable reaction.
There’s also the phenomenon of intra-industry trade. One big example is natural gas, which the US exports to Canada and Mexico, while paradoxically importing natural gas from Canada.

Beef and pork are another example I can think of though, this has to do with specific cuts and quality for various markets.
Trump is a poor person's idea of what a rich person is.
OK but they still just need a majority in the house to undo that? And that is assuming that silliness isn't smacked down in the courts forcing them to hold a vote anyway.
> Good? I want it to be expensive and difficult to send me text messages

SMS spam continues to flow. Largely from mass senders who can afford the compliance.

Legit SMS from small biz can't afford the cash and headaches.
> It's about I can't send or receive texts from my personal numbers to anyone

You have a mobile phone plan from which you can’t send SMS?
Logging an area doesn’t necessarily decrease the fire danger. If you go to cut blocks in the PNW you’ll notice huge piles of slash in every cut block.

There are ways to log that do decrease fire risk, but generally those are not the techniques used in industrial logging since they are less profitable and tend to leave quite a few trees standing.

Here’s a good primer that lays out the basicshttps://davidsuzuki.org/expert-article/will-logging-more-in-...
This is not an either/or scenario. If one wanted to maintain the handouts while simultaneously working to ensure they won't be necessary in the future, we absolutely could. And it doesn't take years to spin up plant and lab, months at most. But we do nothing of the sort, and there's no logical reason for this, unless the entire point is to create dependencies.

And when I speak of the US political system I'm obviously not speaking of this side or that. Both sides operate the same way in regards to each other, with all the sophistication of two children in a playground spat.

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Actually there's even a simple litmus test here to evaluate your own belief in "high-minded altruism." Imagine Russia or China decided to start pumping billions into projects in rural America: food banks/free healthcare/etc - lots of free stuff, but with no effort to create sustainability. Beyond this there would be no strings attached and no further aims than improving the life of rural Americans. Would you again support such "high-minded altruism"?
What are you trying to convey?
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So all goods. Care to explain how it will affect all goods including domestic goods?
Fuel reduction for wildfire mitigation, if that's what you are referring to, doesn't focus on mature trees, which are pretty important for the long term health of forests.

This doesn't so much address the health of forest ecosystems so much as remove them, which really fucks stuff up. Habitat destruction, changes to waterways and luvial fauna, soil erosion. We already do a lot of timber farming, like a lot of DT policies it's hard not to read this as a simply spiteful move.
After this, I don't think they'll succeed. This is Trump's Afghanistan pullout moment. His approval will crater and never recover. He's not surrounded by adults like the first time around.
I find that due to having a remote job and living alone (albeit with my lovely dog) I'm less inclined to work on a side project where I'm again alone. I tend to gravitate more nowadays to spending time with people and being outdoors.

I used to be really active on side projects when I was a teacher. I'd have my social interaction filled to the brim so side projects were a way to have some alone time and recharge.
Stocks have now declined to where they were about a year ago. The Shiller ratio is at 31.3.

Stocks have done very well and have been at historically high prices. There is still much room to fall.