skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion it's clear that Trump does not care about global trade and is only trying to consolidate power by destroying the economy and the middle class. Canada is closer to realizing what's going on, but not quite yet, and France is really far away from realizing what's going on, but they will faster than the rest of Europe.

Canada's likely new Prime Minister Carney: "Canada must be looking elsewhere to expand our trade, to build our economy, and to protect our sovereignty. Canada is ready to take a leadership role in building a coalition of likeminded countries who share our values… If the US no longer wants to lead, Canada will"

France's Macron: "It was important for us to meet as quickly as possible after last night's announcement from President Trump, which are a shock to international trade, not just for the EU and France, but fundamentally for the proper functioning of global commerce. What's important is that we pause future investments, or these announced in recent weeks, until we've clarified things with the United States. What would be the message of having big European players investing billions of euros in the American economy at a time when they are hitting us? So we need collective solidarity." https://bsky.app/profile/rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social/post/3l...
>Yes, this includes things people may not like, especially environmental or 'social justice' groups.

They tried that before and got The Aberfan disaster, Newgate Prison, and child labor.

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> I was the best f*king trader in the f*king world and I am the bloke that called it right every f*king year

He possibly had the highest p&l on his desk ($35mil) in 2011 - was not top in 2011 in the bank, and certainly not in the world. $35mil - rookie numbers in this game, and in a seat at Citibank, middling at best.
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Given the title of the article I thought it would start by pointing out the high rate of child poverty in the UK, relatively higher than most EU and OECD countries [1], the soaring rates of child homelessness and overall homelessness [3]. I thought it might lead with the sorry, no, the tragic, state of English railways [4,5]. Or the postcode lottery and the constant under-funding of the NHS, or its hemorrhaging of skilled workers [7,8]. The sorry, no tragic state of the nation's teeth (!) [9,10]. The absolute forlorn misery that is the high street in most English towns [11]. The boarded up shops. The desperate people. The dysfunctional everything and everywhere.

But, no.

>> The big picture is pretty simple: we have a huge debt burden sucking over £100bn out of the budget every year (more than the entire education budget and nearly double the defence budget); and that would be okay-ish if the economy were growing, but it’s not.

No no. The economy is not growing. That's the problem. It's a bottom line on a spreadsheet.

And do you know who is responsible for all this? Well according to the author of the piece above that's all the useless public officials and quangos (maybe we should take ... a chainsaw at them?) and the crazy overspending the must obviously be responsible for (or at least that seems to be the allusion in the article, though never stated directly like that).

Sorry but given all of the above I have very serious doubts about the article. I mean it's clear there is an agenda here and it's not about poverty, or not about reducing poverty anyway. It sounds more like it's all about increasing richess, the richess of people for whom poverty doesn't mean a trip to the local food bank, but a trip to the Greek islands in a friend's jet because you can't afford the fuel for your own.

And maybe that's the reason why the UK is a rich country but so many of its people are poor. It's not a matter of quantities of money, it's a matter of distribution.

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[1] https://cpag.org.uk/sites/default/files/2024-01/CPAG-Poverty...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/68574869

[3] https://england.shelter.org.uk/what_we_do/updates_insights_a...

[4] https://theconversation.com/rail-disruption-in-the-uk-is-so-...

[5] Personal experience: 3 out of 5 of all train journeys during my four-hour commute would be cancelled or delayed. Fortunately I could WFH.

[6] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clynvjgynp8o

[7] https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/staff-shortages-in-the-nh...

[8] https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2024-079474

[9] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-62253893

[10] https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/hundreds-queue-around...

[11] Personal experience. I live in an affluent student town by the sea but outside this affluent enclave it's like another country and you can see why people would jump at the chance to bury the current political class and piss on their graves.
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South London is pretty extreme though. In the towns and smaller cities it's usually not as bad.
I don't really think that matters at all, it's just an old tenuous bragging point, he's just a guy with a tough looking face and maybe has an elementary understanding of economics that relies less on being accurate and more on the viewer agreeing with him about why everything feels broken. (not that everything isn't broken, or that those reasons aren't ever accurate, but it's just a classic grifter move to pull on the thread of truth till it unravels, like asmongold)

Crashcourse economics likely provides much more value to anyone really looking to learn.
You don’t remember the dog and pony show Cook did with Trump about manufacturing Mac Pros in America - all ten of them that they sell in a year?
Fair enough, if you're using it as a better way to find relevant papers I have no complaints.

I've mainly seen it used for getting answers without needing to or even being able to access the original source.
> I swear discussions about American politics are the most infantile and tribal things

That’s what wins elections now, sorry. If you don’t like it you’ll have to take it up with the voting public.
UK is the most expensive third-world country I've had the displeasure of visiting (and before that, living in).

If you want the extreme of "cheap and run down", some Eastern European countries fit the bill. If you want the other extreme of "expensive and well-kept", Switzerland.

But Britain is in a unique place of both "expensive and run down".
Ironic that he laid the foundation for the end of American constitutionalism and that so many of those who venerate him today are the same people who voted for this "soviet" like crisis we are experiencing now.
OSINT is a symptom of it. When GPT-2 came along, I was worried that at some point the internet will get spammed with AI-crap. Boy, was I naive... I see this incredibly frequently and I get a ton of hate for saying this (including here on HN): LLMs and AI in general is a perfect demonstration of a shiny-new-toy. What people fail to acknowledge is that the so called "reasoning" is nothing more then predicting the most likely next token, which works reasonably well for basic one-off tasks. And I have used LLMs in that way - "give me the ISO 3166-1 of the following 20 countries:". That works. But as soon as you throw something more complex and start analyzing the results(which look reasonable at first glance), the picture becomes very different. "Oh just use RAGs, are you dumb?", I hear you say. Yeah?

class ParsedAddress(BaseModel):

street: str | None

postcode: str | None

city: str | None

province: str | None

country_iso2: str | None

Response:

{

"street": "Boulevard",

"postcode": 12345,

"city": "Cannot be accurately determined from the input",

"province": "MY and NY are both possible in the provided address",

"country_iso2": "US"

}

Sure, I can spend 2 days trying out different models and tweaking the prompts and see which one gets it, but I have 33 billion other addresses and a finite amount of time.

The issue occurs in OSINT as well: A well structured answer lures people into a mental trap. Anthropomorphism is something humans have fallen for since the dawn of mankind and is doing so yet again with AI. The thought that you have someone intelligent nearby with god-like abilities can be comforting but... Um... LLMs don't work like that.
While I was writing my recent fever dream inspired article, "Optical Micro-Particle Shield Array (OMPSA) for Advanced Spacecraft Protection in Orbital and Deep-Space Environments", which deals with the application of photon traps to manipulate lattices of micro particles in order to create force fields, it occurred to me that the same underlying technology could just as easily be applied to other core "Sci-Fi" technologies:

- Force Fields
- Tractor Beams
- Cloaking Technology
- Reconfigurable Matter

Freaking lasers solve for basically 4 out of 5 Star Trek technologies!!! Basically the only thing that is missing is the transporter. And I wouldn't be surprised if lasers somehow solve for that too, but for now I wanted to write an overview of how these foundational technologies are imminently possible.
The question is not whether it should but whether it is.

The likeness of the character is owned by Marvel. Does it mean there aren’t vendors selling unlicensed versions? No. I am sure there are. But just because not everyone is being sued doesn’t mean it’s suddenly legal.
There's no way he's going to do that. The leverage and market advantage would evaporate.
Why are you still assuming anything this government does is in good faith? How much will it take before you wake up?
I'm not sure if you realized, but you are not any kind of intellectual authority in any matter related to art. The idea that all artists are leftist is just imbecile, to say the least.

You are just part - probably only a satellite - of the self pleasing circle of modern art critics that ultimately live on the backs of the working man.

People that write stuff like this about a urinal on a wall:

"Arensberg had referred to a 'lovely form' and it does not take much stretching of the imagination to see in the upside-down urinal's gently flowing curves the veiled head of a classic Renaissance Madonna or a seated Buddha or, perhaps more to the point, one of Brâncuși's polished erotic forms."
Then, since there are more people who voted for the current administration, there can be even more powerful counter protests. Then we can have people fighting in the streets, then a civil war.
That’s just wrong on so many levels. If I look at just one error, inflation doesn’t affect everyone it is a tax on savers ie the rich. Wages and prices go up with inflation (prices by definition), but cash and savings go down in real terms.
It is about choices. You gain a certain amount of money and you can do various things with them. You can choose to eat 100 burgers I can choose to eat 100 carrots and buy a TV.

Antibiotic resistance implies "killing most of people faster" which in my book is worse than "decreasing quality of life for meat eaters".

I do eat meat occasionally, but I generally I am not able to eat all that I like each day (think: different cuisines, deserts, etc.) so maybe people just did not try enough stuff to enjoy more than one/two dishes... which in itself sounds sad to me.
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Doing it completely solo — built the product, run the ads, do the outreach, everything.
Struggling with sales now. Thinking of narrowing focus and solving a more specific pain point.

Curious if anyone else here is grinding through early-stage B2B SaaS — would love to hear how you're tackling this.
I know people who had to retire (via IBM) last year. Their biggest worry when Biden was elected in 2020 was "Biden will destroy my 401k".

Now that their retirement account has fallen +10% thanks to Trump, I will have to find out what they think. Could be a risky question if I decide to ask them.

Also I am surprised Wall Street is not revolting against the GOP. My guess is they are praying for the big tax cuts first.

Between this and the tax cuts, Zimbabwean Dollar is looking good /s
Eh, that's cute.

scrolls down

Wow. Okay.
London is not representative of the rest of the UK. It’s about 11% of the population, consisting of numerous councils and boroughs with different demographics and “upkeep”.
>>But he looked around. “We were surrounded by people that were in their late 20s or 30s all day. And I realized that if I didn’t go to college, this is what life would be like.”

Its just a marketing stunt. They complain about not getting into Harvard but he could literally rent a penthouse in Cambridge, hang out on the campus throw big parties and get 90% of the experience while supposedly running a 30M ARR company. Absolutely no benefit to actually enrolling except ego.
What he wound up arguing for was that everything would have a globally unique name.
And yet, per the spec, new syntax features are allowed to break ASI:

> As new syntactic features are added to ECMAScript, additional grammar productions could be added that cause lines relying on automatic semicolon insertion preceding them to change grammar productions when parsed.

So really, the rules are “there are currently 2 exceptions and an infinite number allowed to be added at any time”. To me, that’s worth letting prettier auto-insert semicolons when I hit save.
Yeah, the housing market is completely broken.

I feel more optimistic that the energy issue will be solved with a shift to nuclear and renewables.

Housing just seems so hard to fix as so many people have a vested interest in not fixing it.
> They should stand or fall on their own merit.

And they do. They stand on the fact that they save time, raise productivity, and assist in learning. That's the merit.

Demanding absolute perfection as the only measure of merit is bonkers. And if that's the standard you hold everything in your life too, you must be pretty disappointed with the world...
Well, my online game cheating days are over. Y'know when they say Pool's Closed, they are missing a lot of lore. ;)
I take some silicon from high-purity quartz in North Carolina. I make CPU chips out of them. Have I not created wealth? Is not the CPU chip more valuable than raw, high-purity quartz?
Your analogy between copyright infringement and bread theft is interesting, given how "stealing bread" has traditionally been used as a shorthand for systemic inequality.

Copyright is why Disney can ruin someone for doing something with Goofy they don't like. Yes, it protects smaller, less profitable artists too, but make no mistake: it's a tool of mass control and cultural capture.

Perhaps it's time to seriously ask whether copyright is actually doing its job of "promot[ing] the Progress of Science and useful Arts." "...but generally speaking, other nations have thought that these monopolies produce more embarrasment than advantage to society" [Jefferson].
Antibiotics are much cheaper there. They even prescribe it as a preventive measure.
> Seems like one of the dangers of empire is that losing it, which is inevitable, leads to a hard-to-shake condition of feeling like a has-been society. It makes it hard to just be a good nation, a good place to live.

I think you are right, but I also think it afflicts the ruling class a lot more. In particular, politicians, who are power seekers by nature, feel the loss more than ordinary people do. IN their minds, not being a super power equates to declined, even if life improves for ordinary people (which it did).
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This is what people actually do in practice when collaborating on large non-code documents.

The example I’m familiar with is assets in the video games industry. Everyone used Perforce (or maybe SVN) and artists/designers lock the 3D model or whatever they’re editing. People ask each other to give up a lock all the time.
The only benefit of health insurance purchased via employers is that you can use pre-tax income to pay for it. Otherwise, it has all the same deductibles and out of pocket maximums as policies purchased on healthcare.gov, except for government employees and some unionized businesses.

The answer is that most Americans still have pretty decent lives, and they like those in power (whether or not they are actually benefiting).
I feel like you used to be able to do this in Excel, as sheets instead of tables, that doesn't seem to be the case anymore.
More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43578475
> That doesn't change the raw GDP figures though

That's assuming they're relevant, and spoiler, they aren't for the topic at hand.

How is any individual's life better because they work at a café selling $20 coffee vs £5 coffee? Because if you measure GDP, person one is drastically more productive, but in reality, it doesn't matter, really. If both are earning minimum wage, the person in the UK with the cheaper coffee has higher income (outside of a few US states). But what is their quality of life? That's highly dependent on where they live, what are their housing costs (which are quite high in the UK in most desirable locations), etc. In any case, GDP doesn't evaluate that, and it's probably the main thing people care about and what they mean by "poor".
Plenty of crowds at my local theaters.
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So, it'll probably be tarriffing the large US financial institutions first, and excluding them from public procurement.

Honestly not sure what they'll do about tech, but it's not gonna be pretty.

Trade wars are bad for everyone, but we are where we are I guess.
Other than the stock market what metric are you using to indicate that the economy is doing badly? A jobs report just came out today indicating good growth there.
That’s no asshat; that’s Broccoli Man! Not the hero we needed but the hero we deserved.
Esp. considering how they've always got someone to blame for the issues that they cause. It's an ancient playbook

1. Identity a problem

2. Blame $group of people for the issue and rally citizens to you

3. Oust previous administration/rulers with rallied citizens

And then to stay in power

1. Create or identity a problem

2. Blame $group of people for the problem

3. Rally citizens to ostracize the new group of ppl

4. Back to 1

The issues never need to be resolved, as long as the citizens blame someone and feel empowered to lash out against someone (the people getting blamed).
i mean why terrified about AWS's Lambda?
Cool idea and inplementation. Only suggestion is to remove the name before ‘Clock’ since personally I can’t see that name at all
Charitably, they may mean "the proceeds from their endowments" (or maybe "engorging their endowments", if that's even a proper use of the word), but I think that's a weak point. Proportionally very, very few institutions have significant endowments.
> Like “what are some quotes famous athletes have said about Usain Bolt”.

What a strange counterexample. When I try exactly that search in Google, I get a nice list of quotes from "AI Overview" in the results.
Fair enough. I don't see it on BBC or any of the british sources I read, and you'd think it'd be a pretty neutral topic, since the data is published by the central govt.
> Probably because ~50% of that budget was being wasted.

Crazy how you just made this up.

> There's likely still a big buffer before anyone runs out of meds.

And this.

> Also there are lots of private donors who would make up the difference (if it's only 20% of Americans, that's more than 65 million people, who can easily come up with 25% shortfall of the $6.5B budget, that's less than $10 per person).

Now you're just being absurd.

You're literally describing the tax system that was funding it before it was axed by the guy who can't stop making mistakes.
Parties don't change by the individuals within them changing their minds, they change by replacing the individuals. People are absolutely livid about the things you're mentioning, which is why their approval ratings are low, which is why they're going to be replaced.

> then they must actually be completely bought by corporate interests.

This is a non-sequitur. I know it's an easy out to avoid thinking through the actual mechanics at play here (one of which is certainly corporate interests), but it's worth being more curious about this stuff and the individuals' motivations.
You've just invented Unison :)
Repeat this experiment in the North of England, or anywhere but the South-East
Just from personal experience, listening to music in the morning while I make my coffee is an essential part of my morning routing, to the point that I will be upset if I can't do it.
This looks amazing, is there a plugin to convert CAD parts for use like this?
Exploding part views in this style would look so fantastic.
Also copyright duration when Star Wars was created was a maximum of 56 years, and obviously George Lucas felt that was sufficient incentive to create it!
In any governance system, there's going to be extremely bad outcomes. In and of themselves, they are not reasons to abandon the systems altogether.
Excerpts from Project 2025. Godspeed, America. We’re all toast, and while we can compliant all we want about it, are we really doing anything to stop it?

> The National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) should be dismantled and many of its functions eliminated, sent to other agencies, privatized, or placed under the control of states and territories.

> Break Up NOAA. The single biggest Department of Commerce agency outside of decennial census years is the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which houses the National Weather Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, and other components. NOAA garners $6.5 billion of the department's $12 billion annual operational budget and accounts for more than half of the department's personnel in non-decadal Census years (2021 figures).

> This industry's mission emphasis on prediction and management seems designed around the fatal conceit of planning for the unplannable. That is not to say NOAA is useless, but its current organization corrupts its useful func-tions. It should be broken up and downsized.

> NOAA today boasts that it is a provider of environmental information services, a provider of environmental stewardship services, and a leader in applied scientific research. Each of these functions could be provided commercially, likely at lower cost and higher quality.

> Focus the NWS on Commercial Operations. Each day, Americans rely on weather forecasts and warnings provided by local radio stations and colleges that are produced not by the NWS, but by private companies such as AccuWeather.

> Studies have found that the forecasts and warnings provided by the private companies are more reliable than those provided by the NWS.

> The NWS provides data the private companies use and should focus on its data-gathering services. Because private companies rely on these data, the NWS should fully commercialize its forecasting operations.
The cultural emphasis HN has on original commentary and not doing low-effort link posting has its costs. Sometimes an FAQ model is just a superior line of inquiry.

The most plausible models for UK decline that I've encountered come from a Youtuber named Britmonkey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZxzBcxB7Zc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5aJ-57_YsQ

He talks about housing as _ongoing existential crisis_, contra widespread apathy on the subject, and about how since Thatcher, the political rule has tended to integrate the worst aspects of center-left and center-right governments.

Ezra Klein's _Abundance_ has been in the news lately, and there are some very similar arguments made there, focused on the US context.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VO_2HfVwrY&t=1s