skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you aware that living standards are higher in many European countries than the US, right?

If we measure the total pie then its much smaller in Europe than in the U.S (I mean total wealth/gdp per capita). Only small countries like Norway or Switzerland have high gdp, in France or Germany its almost 50% lower than in the U.S.

Now the pie does not distribute equally in the U.S that's true, but still, there are tons of millionaires in the U.S and I mean pretty regular people (doctors, finance, software devs etc) that had they lived in Europe they would have been comfortable and nothing more. think something like 100k Euro a year (at best) instead of 3-5 times as much which is what they make in the U.S. If the U.S loses reserve status there just won't be enough money to go around for those salaries, or if there will there will be a horrible inflation, either way it just wont be sustainable.

P.S - lots of middle class people in the so called rich European countries like Germany or the Netherlands cannot afford heating anymore. So no, it is definitely not third world but its also not particulalrly rich. The main advantage though is Europe has mostly free healthcare and the U.S is an absolute mismanaged mess in that regard.
My refrigerator doesn't use anything like 300 W average. An IKEA 310 l fridge is rated at less than 100 kWh per year.

Even if you add a 210 l upright freezer to it is is still less than 300 kWh per year. That's 300 kWh / (365 * 24 h) = 34 W
Anyone who has been paying attention to the body count since the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 can tell you that the rest of the world has a long, long way to go to catch up with the atrocities committed by the American people across the globe, from Iraq to Afghanistan to Syria and Libya, Pakistan and Somalia and Yemen (which the USA and its partners were mass-murdering for 15 years already before the current conflict), and now .. Gaza .. for which the American people are very definitely responsible as major funders and supporters of that particularly vile act of mass murder.

But if you want to inform yourself, follow https://airwars.org/ and look for reports on the matter by trusted sources, such as the Physicians for Social Responsibility, which has produced casualty reports for all of America's illegal, heinously irresponsible wars.

This report for example, from 2015, demonstrated the magnitude and extent of the crimes committed by the American people in Iraq alone - and things have gotten a lot, lot worse since then:

https://psr.org/resources/body-count/
I can fully understand how people on both the left and the right could have ideological differences with Trump, how they can hate the way he interacts with people, think he's picking unqualified cronies for high level jobs, etc. I disagree with the last one but I can at least see how a reasonable person would get to that conclusion.

"Trump is committing treason because he is instituting tariffs" or "Trump is a Russian asset" is not a position any reasonably intelligent person can come to without being blinded by partisanship. It's simply not a serious position to have.
EU trade relations with the United States
The demographics of the parties have shifted quite a bit with Trump's second term. The Republicans lost much of their educated elite but made up for it by gaining a lot of the poor folks that have hitherto been the Democratic backbone and who are most hurt by voter ID.

Trump lost the $30k–$50k democraphic by 9 points in 2016, but turned around and won it by 6 points in 2024—a 15-point swing! Meanwhile he won the $100k–$200k and $200k+ demographics by ~2 percentage points in 2016, but lost it by 5+ points in 2024 even while winning the popular vote.

It's possible that this was a one-off and not a major permanent realignment, but it's definitely not as clear cut as it used to be.
No, you are simply incorrect, a VAT system does not make it harder for US companies to compete. It's explained well here: https://www.economicforces.xyz/p/stop-saying-a-value-added-t...

For those who don't follow the link, here's an extract from the article explaining the core situation:

Imagine a car that costs $30,000 to produce before tax. Now compare four scenarios:

1) BMW sells the car in Germany (domestic sale): Germany’s VAT (let’s say 20% for simplicity) is added on the final sale. The German consumer pays 20% VAT, i.e., an extra $6,000, for a total price of $36,000. BMW forwards that $6,000 to the German government as VAT.

2) BMW exports the car to the U.S.: Since the car is exported, BMW does not charge German VAT. Any VAT BMW paid on parts or inputs is refunded by the German tax authority. The U.S. buyer pays the $30,000 price, and since the U.S. has no federal VAT, there’s no equivalent federal tax on that sale. (A state sales tax might apply at the point of sale, but we’ll come back to that.) The key point: the German government collects no VAT on an item consumed in the U.S.. This makes complete sense because that car’s being enjoyed by an American buyer, not a German resident.

3) GM sells the car in the U.S. (domestic sale): The U.S. has no VAT, so the American consumer pays $30,000 (ignoring any state sales tax). No federal consumption tax is collected. (In states with a sales tax, the consumer might pay, say, 7% extra to the state government, but again, the federal treatment is no tax.)

4) GM exports the car to Germany: When the car arrives in Germany, it faces the same 20% VAT as any car sold in Germany. So a German customer buying the American-made car pays $30,000 + $6,000 VAT = $36,000. That $6,000 goes to the German government. From GM’s perspective, it doesn’t owe U.S. tax on that export sale (since the U.S. doesn’t tax exports of goods), but its product will bear German VAT when consumed in Germany.

What outcome do we have here? In Germany, both the BMW and the GM car cost the same $36,000 after tax, and the German government collects VAT on both. In the U.S., both cars cost $30,000 before any state sales taxes, and the U.S. government collects no federal consumption tax on either. Each country taxes consumption within its borders—no matter where the product came from—and does not tax consumption outside its borders. This is precisely the goal of destination-based taxation: neutrality. Consumers in each country face the same tax on a given product, whether it’s domestically produced or imported. And neither country’s producers carry their home consumption tax as a “ball and chain” when they go compete in foreign markets.
I meant a certain type within TV/movies. As opposed to other types of TV/movies.

I can't speak to video games, but of course it would make sense it would apply to dramatic video games as well.
Right, but citizens of British overseas territories, crown dependencies and whatever other statuses exist are not necessarily British citizens. Same as with the various US territories.

This is what I meant when I said these citizenships work in more complicated ways than the French one.
lately in conversations with people who have always openly hated the US hegemony and the "western system" (and I can myself see the many issues with that system) I see a certain glee at the current state of affairs, as if they are happy that finally the pain inflicted by "the west" on third-world countries is finally coming back to haunt the US and Europe. They don't seem to think two or three steps ahead, what is the alternative they are cheering for? A russian style oligarchy? A chinese style one party dictatorship?
He is a childhood buddy of mine and I had the same reaction to seeing him here.
Erudite music (i.e. what we call classical Music)?

I think it managed to hold off a bit more, we still have Bizet, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius, even Stravinsky and others composing great (fantastic, in some cases) pieces in the first half of the 20th century.

But then, a bunch of Jonh Cages came along...
So the US has been, more or less, the best place in the world to do business. Stocks historically soaring, yadda yadda yadda ... and somehow this guy sells the story that the US has been taking advantage of by all the other evil countries in the world. It does not, in any way, make sense.
What a clown. A totalitorian clown unfortunately.
The best thing about your comment is you could be referring to Trump, or the GP. 9 out of 10 people who read your comment will say "hell yeah" and think you agree with them whether you do or not.

Brilliant.
Countries Targeted by Trump's Tariffs May Strike Back at U.S. Services
Unfortunately the world bodies like the UN are overwhelmingly stocked with dictatorships ranging from Angola to Russia which have no interest in civil liberties or human rights. While they frequently claim the US to be the world's greatest human rights abuser, as you have, they perpetrate mass murder on their own citizens. The living memory of my family from Odesa, who survived the holocaust, who survived the famine, to see the invasion of Ukraine and the butchery of Hamas, while the culprits and murderers themselves run the United Nations and ICJ, and while people trying to survive are told they are the worst war criminals in history by the people whose history is one of ceaseless murder tells me that it's better to be American and, if necessary, spit out all those organizations for their lies.
Whether one umbrella factory moves from China to the US within this election cycle doesn't really make a dent. The moving of industry from the US happened over decades, and was hand-in-hand with the US making fewer umbrellas and more computer programs, satellites, and microchips. Moving basic manufacturing of low value goods to the US would cannibalize the capacity of producing higher value goods. And none of it will be noticeable while Trump is still alive.
absolutely. i just saw a documentary about that. south korea has a birthrate of 0.72. in a few generations the country will be full of elders in poverty because the pension funds have run out of money and there are not enough workers to replenish the funds.

https://youtu.be/Ufmu1WD2TSk
Yes, I agree launches also contribute and increase frequency is also a plausible risk factor (and is significant increases in launch frequency themselves driven by megaconstellations, though I don't think the Falcon 9 is as problematic as the Shuttle was) Main difference is that the satellites lose most of their mass in the relevant zone, whereas launches pass through it as quickly as possible. Satellites are small, but Starlink's deorbiting cycle is expected to reach 2 tonnes per day.
No, the key difference is that an engineer becomes more product-oriented, and the technicalities of the implementation are deprioritized.

It is a different paradigm, in the same way that a high-level language like JavaScript handles a lot of low-level stuff for me.
The UK will need a lot of time to be seen again as a grown-up, after electing a string of buffoons and cutting off its nose to spite its face. Even though Starmer looks more stable, a large part of that look is due to his opposition being in complete chaos and functionally useless.
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Experienced C# developer, mostly focused on backend but I contributed to all things I was allowed to. I worked in an Italian scale-up and I was the first engineer joining my current company, a German startup. I'm always willing to learn new technologies as needed. I prefer roles where I can poke at multiple things (infra, iac, gitops, a bit less on frontend).
>It's just a group of randomly selected countries meant to sound nice

Source? Pretty sure BRICS is comprised of the largest regional economies that specifically aren't in the first world, that make for useful alliances for Russia & China specifically.

Africa for a long time didn't have any serious economic contenders for something like BRICS other than South Africa. Nowadays Nigeria is a closer contender on the continent. And of course you have long histories of South African politicians having spent their time in exile during Apartheid in places where they learned to call each other "comrade" even to this day in their political parties. It's not an out of the blue arrangement.

Brazil as far as I'm aware seems to be by far the most economically active in South America too?

India seems like third fiddle to Russia & China in this arrangement as a large economy in Asia.
I actively practice not discussing politics but intentionally being member of groups of different political affiliation.

I can only encourage everybody to do the same.

People usually know if you are a „filthy liberal“ or a „closet fascist“ anyways and my experience shows that just knowing you will draw them away from the political extremes.
How long do we expect it to take dynamic derivations to get stabilized?

The GitHub RFC says it's only 80% complete
cui bono? It is clear that the american taxpayer is not profiting from this but neither seem the billionaires. So who does?
Younger teachers get "out there" for the same class of reasons software developers today want to be more "out there" - website,twitter,etc - compared to the relatively quieter personal websites of the last generation.
I should probably do the same since my Kindle has packed up and will no longer start, so I could at least use the pad for that.
Absolutely - incredible to see how many places that code shows up.
Thomas Rattigan, short-lived Commodore CEO
They didn’t really care about egg prices.
Why I, as a black man, attend KKK rallies [video]
The site was of course trash, but from what I remember he was asking if people gave themselves sunburn would it kill covid.

His words to me felt they were those of a typical 5 year old, or an 80 year old with dementia, asking questions about subjects he doesn't understand but desperately trying to fit in.

But no, he did then ask about injecting a disinfectant.

Now it's quite possible Trump doesn't know the meaning of the word "disinfectant".

In the same press conference he also asked if "heat and light" will get rid of covid.

(Although of course he says this as "suggestions" and the "I'm just asking questions" tactic)
1979. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0014656
> Where do you live, in a cave?

That's a personal attack.

Please review the HN guidelines.
I love old Thinkpads for single purpose computers. Install Debian, boot it once a day, or once a week, or once a month. One for all the flacs I had the energy to rip in my 20s, one for wine and dosbox, one for messing around with programming languages, one for household stuff. It prevents distractions.
Maintaining an empire will destroy your society in the long run. What’s good for America in the long run is a country populated by americans, producing and consuming goods and services made by other americans within the umbrella of the same democratic polity.
While important, it actually misses a common problem I see: the assumption that every measurement is accurate.
Well, enough of some Americans elected a convicted felon to the Oval Office, so...
no. that security theater have always been exclusive of the usa.

keep in mind if you're flying into the usa you might be passing thru usa-owned security screening even overseas. Britain, Ireland, have separate security screening, all with USA personnel.
> Americans have been hurt for 50 years

Can you please explain a bit more about this 'hurt'?

My understanding is that a significant majority of sources of US 'hurt' are internal and there has been ample opportunity to vote at least some of it away, but the votes keep going in the direction of making it worse.

The worst thing about it is that the situation has essentially been perpetrated on the citizens of the US by those with power and influence for the simple human weakness of greed. Unfortunately they've got the power and resources to effectively do large scale "convincing".
VAT has nothing to do with this.
It's insane, because all those people have now backpedaled and no longer bring up the economy as their primary concern.

Also insane because all of this was so predictable. Trump couldn't stop talking about tariffs throughout all of 2024. It was obvious that he was going to do this, and obvious that it would tank the economy.
Aside from everything else one thing what strikes me as particularly insane is how it’s not even defensible as a protective measure. My favorite everyday olive oil comes from Tunisia. They now have a 38% tariff on them. There are no out of work olive farmers in the US.

The orange man wanted tariffs, the orange man is going to get tariffs. Now we have to hope the American people aren’t so dumb as to still be convinced only he can solve their issues. I don’t hold out hope for that.
You are fixated on a straw man, clearly too ignorant of the subject material to have a discussion on this.

I provided resources. Read them and get back to me, otherwise there is no reason to continue, since your aim seems to be controlling the narrative and not actually engaging in substantial discussion.
The people who know what the effects of lead poisoning are, know :D
The other being that once women have largescale representation in the workforce, can open bank accounts and credit cards on their own, and can support themselves financially, one of the key pressures to marry is removed. Once there was no fault divorce and women did not need to prove why they needed to divorce, one of the key pressures to stay married is removed.
True.

But from fire-resistant storage cabinets, to concrete-lined file rooms, to underground archives, the tech to make archives ~99.5% fire-proof is more than a century old. And if you add redundant storage sites for the high-value stuff...

Vs. anything digital is far more vulnerable to digital malice.
Curious - what would count as a non-average member of public?
Steve Wozniak's startup, Privateer[0], was originally created to clean up space junk, but it seems now their “mission” is to develop better tracking of objects in space, and to use this data to help avert disastrous collisions.

On the site is a fun interactive object tracker.

[0] https://www.privateer.com/
Skilled people don’t just appear out of thin air. Skilled people need years of practice, and advice from a network of adjacent skilled people to become skilled in a particular craft.

You can be skilled at Excel and be 10 years away from knowing how to make even mass produced low quality clothing.
Transformer models like BERT have been lurking in Google search for a few years now (and non-transformer language models before that). The distinction between LLM and chatbot is pretty thin. Dismissing "chatbots with web access" when you are actually using LLMs is not a very clear or useful differentiation, even if the way you use a LLM really is different. More end-user control over results is a good thing, but there is an opportunity to engage much more clearly.
Big beautiful oceans
I was feeling a lot of Erich Fromm there. Same spirit: insanity is a
sane reaction to an insane society. We are all, well, well past that
point today. Change will come. The easy way. Or the hard way.
Not exactly. The house of representatives should be much much larger than it is.

The same thing with the senate too. Current senate setup gives a lot of power to empty land.
Bought an X220 years back and it unintentionally became my main laptop for a few years. Sold it on in much worse condition (I kept the keyboard) at a profit and got an i7 X230T instead, which has also somehow gone up in price since.

the X230 didn't last as long, the efficiencies of the M1 macbooks were too good to ignore. Gave it to my mother since because she wanted "an old laptop that just works"
Here's something I want to understand: In 1930 the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act was passed by congress - an act of legislation. Nearly 100 years later we have the president unilaterally picking any tariff numbers he wants. What happened?
MediatrR is useful for CQRS or if you structure your app around event dispatching. I use it some time, but now I will spend a day or two writing a library because I don't need anything fancy.

Automapper is not a concern. With AI you can map a class to another very fast and have better performance.

For MassTransit I don't care. I work with microservices since at least 5 years and we either used RabbitMQ, NATS, Kafka, Azure Service Bus directly or write our own wrapper.
For some strange reason, I’m better at sewing than both my wife and mother-in-law. I learned it in public school when both genders learned both woodworking and sewing, and maintained an interest so that I could wear “grunge” in the 1990s. The teachers I had remembered that those classes were gendered while they worked.
Assuming you're actually arguing in good faith, the "erasing" bit has been quite obvious and blatant.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/02/13/us/stonewall-inn-national...

Removing people from information about a historical event doesn't look good under any lens.
Fair point, but does it change anything? You don’t need factories in all states.

Florida has 19% of children living in poverty, which to me sounds very high. That’s a large and vulnerable group of people.
I'm out of the gaming platform loop but assume the timing of this post is related to the Switch 2 announcement?

Others have suggested the Switch 2 is one of the best endorsements for buying a Steam Deck.

(Not really a gamer, despite having written games, ha ha, but I picked up a Steam Deck a couple years ago to test a game I ported to it — and was duly impressed.)
My impressions were they meant values and you meant policies.
> If big companies are allowed to pirate content to train their models, so do I.

The syntax brought to mind Stephen Colbert's 2007 book, I Am America (And So Can You!)
Outlawing LLMs would certainly work. You may have them on your harddrive, but almost nobody else has, and they certainly don't know how to use it, nor do they have the capacity to run anything like it.

Schools definitely have to adapt, but there's so much inertia there, and in many countries, schools have a perverse stimulus to make as many pupils graduate as they can. It'll take another lost generation, I'm afraid. And the makers and exploiters of LLMs can take the blame for that.
* Does it work well?
* Do you recommend it?
* Do your users care?
* Is it difficult? Do you have to maintain it or is it basically set it and forget it?
* What was memorable about setting it up?
* Why did you go for Headscale vs Tailscale or Netbird or some other solution?
This is just a stray thought of mine - but I feel like the US might go down a very dangerous path - I think to avoid retaliatory tariffs, US companies, such as NVIDIA might decide to create foreign subsidiaries, and license the technology to them - after all the tariffs don't apply if Europe does business with a Taiwanese subsidiary.

But this will expose them to a technology exfiltration scheme and/or hostile takeover in the vein of what happened to ARM China.

Am I reading too much into this?
Good point. I live in the US and I wouldn’t start with the American civil war. Talk about other people’s history. I’ll trade you the American Civil War for the Franco Prussian War.
Common Go Patterns for Performance
How to write good prompts for generating code from LLMs
This is an example of moving the goalposts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts

It's impossible to engage meaningfully with you if you're going to rely on argumentative fallacies and ignoring everything that is said to you.
If Trump were a Russian asset, what could he possibly do to advance their interests more than what he is already doing? Hell, he is running Putin's playbook on Canada and Greenland. Did you vote for that?

NATO is already over because none of our allies can expect Trump to honor our treaty obligations.