skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US does not have most countries in an economic chokehold - it's laughable even compare the US and its partners to India and Britain. India was forced to buy cheaper machine made cloth by the shipload in a concerted effort to kill off the traditional Indian man-powered textile industry. Meanwhile the EU and the rest of USA's trading partners choose to use American services or buy American products (granted, in Europe, we don't see much American product either). They could have switched away from American goods but chose not to, because of free trade. With tariffs in place, if there aren't severe switching costs, most countries will definitely move away from the US in the short-term, while drawing up plans to move away from US services in the long term.

Your examples of Cambodia and Bangladesh don't really fit in as American colonies. Both countries are already more dependent on China than on the US for imports. Only a fraction of their populations actually use American goods, what maybe an iPhone or some American brands tops.

They do however manufacture final goods for the American market (and the overall worldwide market), so I don't see any losers here except for American consumers. Your average American clothing company isn't going to move away from these countries because they have the full supply chain in place, and your average overseas production facility isn't going to continue producing for an American company at a cheap price if tariffs are in place.

You're on the money with the last point though. The only way to balance it out is to make low value goods, but that was the whole point of outsourcing it to Bangladesh or Cambodia in the first place. Because that was low value production.
The thing is, HN is a technical audience, not an average person in this regard.

People here know the difference or are easily able to understand it if they haven't been confronted with it.
Cafes use it too. E.g. a corner coffee shop may stock pastries that nobody buys. When people walk in "wow look at all their pastries!" And they feel good and become regulars.
Whatever the intent, the point stands: why would they need secure boot to do that? They could just do it with proprietary controls. So how does the existence of secure boot as a user-controlled feature affect that risk?
The overwhelming majority of soy farming is used to feed livestock for human consumption.

https://wwf.panda.org/discover/our_focus/food_practice/susta...

Blaming soy lattes for deforestation is like blaming avocado toast for a bad economy.
I think this is spot on.

I feel like folks on both sides would stop talking past each other if they were willing to understand the other POV rather than dismissing it as crazy.
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Or if it's diet coke or regular coke. Yes, it's drinks, not food, but the same concept applies.

They claim 90% accuracy, whatever that means, but I have my doubts regarding it's usefulness.
Yeah, whenever I see one of these articles, I just feel disappointed at what kind of mindset could be given an amazing new tool to build previously impossible things with, but just goes "meh".

I'm really excited that LLMs exist, and they've been making my life much easier, but to each their own.
For most people (pre retirement age) the funds are locked in a trust they can barely access themselves. I presume (big if) that those that lost money were retired and payment details for their monthly income was changed to pay to the bad guys accounts.
He got a legal threat when he was 19 and claimed to be no longer hacking people's paypals. We don't actually know that he was a minor when he stopped.

I think it's fine to say that things done even at 19 or younger shouldn't be with people forever. But it's certainly newsworthy, given the types of sensitive information DOGE staff are given access to. People can decide for themselves if it's a problem or if it's actually smart to hire people with hacking backgrounds for reasons some folks here in Hacker News would argue. The idea it's out-of-bounds to even report on it, not by you but others here, is wild.
I feel like a lot of people are really getting stuck on the Trump stuff and missing Buffetts core argument. Here's a pretty simple guy:

When the US has a trade deficit with China, it tries to balance that out by issuing debt in the form of treasuries.

As more treasuries get issued to foreign nations, the risk to American sovereignty increases. People really forget Japan's blitz on US real estate and businesses in the 80s and the drastic actions of that era the US took to knee-cap Japan.
OK, let's put it this way. You would struggle to buy a house if you worked at VW assembling cars. You would be able to rent an apartment and have a relatively good if modest existence. Nothing close to what Americans are able to afford.

But if you wanted to create blue collar jobs and if the government was going to step in and contort the economy with heavy handed measures, anyway, then just setup a public works program and build a bunch of housing, build and maintain energy and transport infrastructure, build climate mitigation projects. That would actually address a real demand and make a whole lot of sense.
When I work from home, I usually listen to Sade, Brandy, Monica, Faith Evans, and similar music. Although the music is often about heartbreak, it doesn't make me sad. I find it calming.
I don't know if anyone's necessarily saying that. I think it's a matter of "if tax differences cause trade imbalances, then increasing tariffs by the other side is basically a fair response, since it is also a tax."
From a national security and intelligence perspective, this is awful.

You now have people like Loomer, that are seemingly fully occupied with sniffing out "hostiles" of Trump - which just translates to the people in the government that aren't 100% sucking up to him. It is like internal McCarthyism.

Imagine trying to run a functional government, when you have people like this running around.
It has been called refusing to use proprietary software. People who use FOSS. Users, not useds.
<< Would you agree with "Countries bend over backwards for capital inflows, including from individual investors"? It's a mouthful, but perhaps expresses the same sentiment.

I think so. It sounds closer to what seems to be happening. In any event, thank you for this conversation.
Counterpoint: I am not bored at all.

Hyped as it is, it is important to be here to discuss its uses, misuses and implications. Some if it is fascinating, and other parts are fascinatingly bad.

I understand the fatigue with it. But that it is used right (or at all) is a conversation worth having.
Sounds like genuinely good coder in his teens.

I'd definitely hire a decade or two later.

Author seems clueless.
> The first one is hearsay from a dead guy

The first article also contains testimonies of some of Trumps former class mates, citing them by their full names.

> and the other one is a creative writing project.

Did you actually read past the first paragraph? You may disagree with the style, but it has some reputable sources. For example, they quote Michael Cohen's testimony in the House where he told that Trump ordered him to threat all of Trump's former schools and universities with legal action if they would ever release any records.

> It doesn’t tell me he doesn’t understand economics.

His public statements clearly suggest that he doesn't understand economics. You brought his Bachelor degree as a counter example. I tried to point out that such a degree doesn't say much if you just did the bare minimum to pass. Hell, he said it himself in "The Art of the Deal":

"In my opinion, that degree doesn’t prove very much, but a lot of people I do business with take it very seriously, and it’s considered very prestigious. So all things considered, I’m glad I went to Wharton."
It's AI. 100%
> I’d hope a “best mind” would be, above all, empathetic. Concerned about the well being of their fellow humans. Philosophical about the state of the world. Patient. Curious. Wise and not just smart.

A person may be all of those things, but they still need to pay bills and eat. That requires a job, and jobs depend on the bourgeoise, that's none of those things.
Here's the root of the problem though, how do you know that the AI is actually "thinking" more carefully, as opposed to just pretending to?

The short answer is: you can know for a fact that it _isn't_ thinking more carefully because LLMs don't actually think at all, they just parrot language. LLMs are performing well when they are putting out what you want to hear, which is not necessarily a well thought out answer but rather an answer that LOOKS well thought out.
Harvard is a hedge fund that happens to do some education and research as a tax-advantaged side gig.
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Yep what sets middle class apart from lower class is consumption.

But the lower class will also feel the tariffs. Because the lower class needs that $9.99 sweat pants.
It isn't a prank. I've just tested it, and it works well. The project has been quite active recently.

https://github.com/HaloTech-Co-Ltd/openHalo
That partially the fault of MS.

They have a terrible naming history.

Remote Desktop App is deprecated and gets replaced by Windows App but Remote Desktop Connections aren’t affected.
Ethical AI in Higher Education
Though it's easy to dismiss as science fiction, this timeline paints a chillingly detailed picture of a potential AGI takeoff. The idea that AI could surpass human capabilities in research and development, and the fact that it will create an arms race between global powers, is unsettling. The risks—AI misuse, security breaches, and societal disruption—are very real, even if the exact timeline might be too optimistic.

But the real concern lies in what happens if we’re wrong and AGI does surpass us. If AI accelerates progress so fast that humans can no longer meaningfully contribute, where does that leave us?
Your point seems to contradict with Nupedia vs Wikipedia history, that was a competition where the old-fashioned encyclopedia lost to the bazaar-inspired approach.
Sahil anticipates AI will significantly commoditize software. Especially following DeepSeek's impact. He has promoted Devin via twitter and likely aims to position Gumroad as the leading creator-focused alternative to traditional Open Source e-commerce platforms.
So you also condone people breaking into personal cloud accounts for "fun"? If someone young breaks into a house for "fun" and not causing any "real" damage, you condone that too? How about a commercial building? When does the line stop?

What does "real damage" even mean here?
Nobody asked for it???

Nobody wants it???

You're not paying attention.

I want it. I think it's our only chance at quickly solving huge complex problems like aging, cancer, Alzheimer's.
David Snowden does/did a lot of talks about these, how hard rules break catastrophically and you need systems of constraints with flexible rules which have rules baked in about when and how you can break the rules.

Worth looking up the talks they have on youtube. Just be prepared to hear the same few anecdotes 50 times.
I get the sentiment, but using ship building is an unfortunate example with respect to substantiating your point. The US shipbuilders are alive and well (not to the extent they were in WWII era). Military ships, Jones Act compliant commercial vessels, ferries, tugboats, etc. All US made.

Separately, your first paragraph also seems problematic. Let’s take Vietnam and Cambodia as examples: neither has a US military base, port, nor sells natural resources to “Wall St”.

Finally, I’m not sure I follow how that would cause the US to accumulate 50% of the world’s market cap—especially because the vast majority of the companies in the S&P 500 have nothing to do with defense, shipping or natural resources. I haven’t done the math, but I would venture to guess that >50% of the S&P 500 market cap is tech or tech-adjacent.

I decry this misplaced pessimism.
:) pleasure is the gateway experience into enjoying yourself
Building a browser game based on KiCad
You know what’s more fun than having a bad junior write crap code while you point out their mistakes? Writing good code yourself.
Therefore...

4. I don't need this app.
Even more so for individuals.
People forget that Robert Morris of Y Combinator was a convicted felon, in fact the first under CFAA IIRC (not that I believe his intent was nefarious at the time). He’s fine now.
It's risky if you have any chance of ever crossing $1M in company revenue because the license will terminate as soon as you reach that and you'll have to rewrite everything.

> The licensor grants you a copyright license for the software to do everything you might do with the software that would otherwise infringe the licensor's copyright, but only as long as you meet all the conditions below.

> You may use the software under this license only if (1) your company has less than 1 million USD (2024) total revenue in the prior tax year, and less than 10 million USD (2024) GMV (Gross Merchandise Value), or (2) you are a non-profit organization or government entity.
That's quite opinionated.

The privacy shield was 'shot down' because it would allow the US unprecedented access to personal data of EU civilians (including unlimited surveillance).

GDPR is not that bad. It has downsides but it is not overly complex.

Companies (including cloud services) have to comply if they want to have business in Europe.

Fines by EU:
Meta: 1.5 billion
Amazon: 750 million
TikTok: 350 million
Clearview: 30 million
Apple: 1.5 billion
I looked but I couldn’t find any evidence that “occultism” comes from encryption of heretical ideas. It seems to have been popularized in renaissance France to describe the study of hidden forces. I think you may be hallucinating here.
But no tariffs on them? And actually I mostly watch home grown stuff - can't stand US TV series.

Most of the software I use is open source, and again even if I pay for it, is there a tariff?
I'd love to use netbird, but it doesn't yet have capabilities to be embedded in a go binary, like tsnet for tailscale allows.

Here's a gh issue for it.

https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/issues/1103
Damn, and there is nothing to be done after the transfer to overseas? They would be able to figure out who the perpetrator is, right?
My software working group has spent much of the quarter discussing whether or not it’s made us more productive. They still can’t decide, but I bet we’ve racked up 1000 coder-hours debating it.

I don’t use it because our products have the potential to harm other people and I’m not personally comfortable assuming that risk. Nobody else seems particularly moved by that argument, however.
He is probably the American billionaire most aligned with American long term success - both in speech and action. I recommend deeper investigation.
The Readme goes right to how to install it, and other than the logo saying "sell your stuff, see what sticks" there is 0 information about what it does. Sure I can Google, but I think it should be right there, at the top of the Readme.
I can see congress starting to build the will to block. Sentiment already swung left in special elections merely 3 months into the presidency. In one case Elon contributed 25 percent of all money in what should have been a close election and lost by 10 points.
That’s a fascinating take. Music until very recently was indeed an incredibly social activity bound with layers of talent, leisure (purpose/meaning/security), belonging, etc.

As people have been chatting about the Metaverse or AR I often quip that we’ve already had AR for awhile: headphones.

The ubiquitous of AirPods, even amongst employees on the clock in recent years, has only reinforced my belief that we are already deep down the AR rabbit hole and seeing both the positive and negative effects. Augmented reality is great, but we still need to be grounded and able to act within reality. It’s the reality that must be our base, not the augmented part. The augmented should serve to improve reality, not replace.
If we have enough drugs with different mechanics bacteria can’t out evolve all of them. It becomes less of a risk.
AI is very open source and very commercialized at the same time. I don't understand your comment.
My Approach on front-end state management
> even if this doesn’t lead to AGI, at the very least it’s likely the final “warning shot” we’ll get before it’s suddenly and irreversibly here.

I agree that it's good science fiction, but this is still taking it too seriously. All of these "projections" are generalizing from fictional evidence - to borrow a term that's popular in communities that push these ideas.

Long before we had deep learning there were people like Nick Bostrom who were pushing this intelligence explosion narrative. The arguments back then went something like this: "Machines will be able to simulate brains at higher and higher fidelity. Someday we will have a machine simulate a cat, then the village idiot, but then the difference between the village idiot and Einstein is much less than the difference between a cat and the village idiot. Therefore accelerating growth[...]" The fictional part here is the whole brain simulation part, or, for that matter, any sort of biological analogue. This isn't how LLMs work.

We never got a machine as smart as a cat. We got multi-paragraph autocomplete as "smart" as the average person on the internet. Now, after some more years of work, we have multi-paragraph autocomplete that's as "smart" as a smart person on the internet. This is an imperfect analogy, but the point is that there is no indication that this process is self-improving. In fact, it's the opposite. All the scaling laws we have show that progress slows down as you add more resources. There is no evidence or argument for exponential growth. Whenever a new technology is first put into production (and receives massive investments) there is an initial period of rapid gains. That's not surprising. There are always low-hanging fruit.

We got some new, genuinely useful tools over the last few years, but this narrative that AGI is just around the corner needs to die. It is science fiction and leads people to make bad decisions based on fictional evidence. I'm personally frustrated whenever this comes up, because there are exciting applications which will end up underfunded after the current AI bubble bursts...
So basically all you need to do is pay Americans less... Sounds like a race to the bottom.

In Italy it is not Italians who work in agriculture they also have (illegal) migrants.
> I agree that it’s good and not going anywhere, but I also think it’s overhyped at the same time. Both can be true.

I think that to say it is overhyped says more about what you read and the company that you keep than it does about the actual technology. I don’t mean that as an insult or anything - clearly there is a lot of hype about AI on HN, which I also read.

But I would say that most people in my life actually don’t have enough experience with AI. Outside of work, I’m the only person I know using it every day. And it’s something that very rarely comes up in discussion.
Where exactly did you look?
> There's a social element, the opportunity to feel competent through combat or exploration-based play, engineering, creativity and finally survival-based gameplay

It may be simplistic or outdated, but one can start with Bartle's taxonomy of player types to understand the broad categories of players [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartle_taxonomy_of_player_type...
Not sure if your response was deliberately obtuse or not, but in case it was accidental I wanted to point out that you may have missed a key word - "social" well-being.

It's one thing if listening to music makes you feel good, but another completely if listening makes you more capable of socialising. This may be more important for others than it is for you.
On that specific quote -

I feel like this is offensive on more than one level. The waste of our best minds... sure. Fine. But - "to sell you ads."

Marketting has the dubious distinction of being one area of human endeavor where technological advances serve mostly to make your life worse, make your mind less focused, make your wallet more empty.

The spherical-cow "ideal" 100% efficient perfect marketing campaign/tactic literally hypnotizes you into dropping all your money on an arbitrary good or service. It is isomorphic to somebody mugging you. What does it look like if we achieve 10% efficiency? 1%? How is this infringement on your agency and financial well-being a positive social good? What if we could achieve profitable returns even by flooding the zone at 0.001%? How many ads do you want to be subjected to per thing that somebody in your neighborhood buys?
Trump learned from his last presidency, that there can be nothing but 100% unwavering loyalty to him and his vision. So Loomer and the likes of her are going through everyone, to sniff out those that aren't complete lackeys.

When they find someone, they go to Trump with a list and tell him that those are bad people that will only hinder him. Deep state operatives, undercover democrats, RINOs, etc.

Basically his own little group of Stasi-hobbyists.
I dunno, DOGE's activities feel very much like a public policy version of being a script kiddie.
I think it's vice versa. Some students prevent other students from exercising their free speech rights. E.g. try to prevent speakers they don't like from speaking on campus. Or harass some people for their ethnicity in context of Hamas/Israel war. Then universities look the other way.
I'm talking about the virtues that you've just tried to paint on people that practice breaking into other peoples computers for fun.

It seems like what you are looking for is a discussion about whether or not it it is ethical for bureaucrats and elected officials ought to circumvent or ignore their countries democratic processes and laws.

I'm sure there are some ethical justifications for doing this in some hypothetical situations, but really I'm not sure it's as useful to be discussing hypotheticals rather than specifics in this space.
The only real difference is that magsafe ports are recessed really. I tend to check regularly that my magnetic ports aren't dusty.
It’s so bad, still.