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Billionaire boys behaving badly! Let’s teach them a lesson! That will solve all the problems in the world! /s
According to monetarist theory these two things are one and the same.

The main source of "money printing" is banks making loans. And this is what the Fed targets when it raises interest rates.

I'm not quite sure whether tariffs really do lead to inflation. It depends on how consumers and companies respond to higher prices of imported goods and to the general sense of uncertainty.
Usually this is happening where you import "parts" and the final assembly "the product" is "made in" and sold as "product xyx". Then the origin country of the parts do not matter.
You jest, but I wonder if this is to stop shenanigans like claiming your business operates from there just to dodge tariffs.
The guy bankrupted six casinos. The United States is next.
Either compare ideal tax structures with “no loopholes” (none of these exist in the real world) or compare actually-existing tax structures.

Comparing your ideal flat income tax with the current system is apples to oranges.
Did not turn out too well the last time they sold tea, silk and porcelain and accumulated the vast majority of the world silver reserves.

You don't want to buy anything? You don't need anything? The British had one thing the Chinese "needed".
I'm sure they are working on a very strongly worded letter about this right this very moment.
Computers do what you tell them to, not what you want them to. This is naturally infuriating, as when a computer doesn't do what you want, it means you've failed to express your vague idea in concrete terms.

LLMs in the most general case do neither what you tell them, nor what you want them to. This, surprisingly, can be less infuriating, as now it feels like you have another actor to blame - even though an LLM is still mostly deterministic, and you can get a pretty good idea of what quality of response you can expect for a given prompt.
The problem you’re referring to arose precisely due to lack of formalism. It was a problem back when mathematicians were toying with naive set theory, one not based on axioms, but instead on intuitive terminology. Moving to axiomatic, more formal, set theory solved it.
The censorship really annoys me. I would've happily paid for the definitive edition (even though I already own the game), but I'm not willing to support a rerelease which changes stuff about the original game like that. If the devs want to make sure their new content is politically correct then fine, but changing the original content isn't cool.
He's one economist from a very conservative line of thinking.

As a counter example, Thomas Piketty argues at length that taxation and wealth redistribution remain an effective way to bolster a societies resilience and lessen wealth inequality - which is still a very real issue in the world, and arguably one that the US shows can have very real negative consequences for letting it go unaddressed.

As for demand and inflating prices, yeah, domestic products may be more attractive, but the economy is huge, and much of it does not have a domestic allegory. The other issue here is the tax is on all imports, not only manufactured goods, which means raw materials - which often have to be sourced elsewhere - make manufacturing more expensive even domestically
There are small olive oil producers in the US. Do they see this as a good thing?
Well the good news is that there are multiple plausible paths forward.

The bad news is that they're all terrible.
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My contention was never so much experts making recommendations based on projections built on weak evidence, but rather experts issuing orders on these wildly false projections that imprisoned and fined people for something as simple as dancing on a sidewalk in protest.

Experts should be free to advise the public. Thankfully the health director issuing the order that jailed and charged this man with a felony had to resign in disgrace.

https://archive.is/KhIQx
Stupidity is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for believing in Trump's particular delusions. You can be stupid and not delude yourself into thinking that others must lose for you to win.
We built useful, legitimate services off crypto (think paying people out for doing work online). But the regulation became insurmountable.

I will admit however, almost everyone "interested" in crypto has never made a transaction.
I saw this post come through via RSS (that's still how I consume most relevant information in my life... sadly some people nowadays have no RSS feeds for their posts, but that's a different discussion).

I've experienced something similar, with LinkedIn often edging out Twitter and Mastodon—though Bluesky fares a little better for my content, in terms of getting good conversations started on most platforms.

The annoying thing is, Bluesky and Twitter especially don't seem to be conducive to good conversational replies (especially since they get so disjointed). Mastodon is a little better there sometimes, but so few people (comparatively) are on that platform a lot of conversations languish.

Blogs with comments and forums are still the best for actually thoughtful conversation, with back and forth... but so many communities break off into Discord nowadays, it's hard to have anything as centralized for conversation/thoughts.
I think what's meant is that you need to be open to changing your opinion and manner of approach to things. To stay with the analogy: when you "remake" your bed and it ends up the same, chances are that you didn't try to improve on its design.

By turning on Fox sometimes (provided it's not your main source) you might already not fall into the category of people not trying to remake their bed.
>It doesn’t raise prices of domestic goods and actually increases demand for domestic goods.

Have you ever tried to purchase electronics in Brazil? I don't know if that increased demand for domestic goods is necessarily a good thing...
This is interesting to me, because Spain and Italy are also exporters of olive oil. And there have been famous discoveries of fraud in the EVOO market as it has boomed. I wonder what percentage of Spanish and Italian EVOO exports are actually blended with (or wholly!) Tunisian imports?
HN has always hated anything out of Redmond, both justified and not. There's good reasons for it, the halloween documents and the EEE era are not easily forgotten so I sympathize somewhat, but not all corps are treated equally here. Google and Apple will regularly get a pass for doing the same stuff Microsoft did or does.

Outside of the SV bubble .NET will continue to be one of the most productive platforms to work within, and is continuing to grow in market share. Hardly a failure.

That being said, I do see the meaning behind where OP is coming from. There is a certain, shall we say, enterprise, culture around .NET (much like Java) that hasn't caught up yet, or hasn't fully embraced the new world of open source from Microsoft.
So does the US??? Ex - we've been placing tariffs on solar/ev parts for many years now to drive investment in those industries (And this is hardly the only place we've done this).

Targeted tariffs to protect and strengthen specific industries are fine - especially if done slowly and while supporting those industries internally to make sure that they aren't disrupted, and that they can actually capitalize on the space provided by a tariff.

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This policy is not fucking that. It's just a backdoor tax on everyone, with zero planning and support internally to bring those industries back.

Simple terms for your simple comment:

A morbidly obese guy slowly exercising is great.

A morbidly obese guy getting dropped into a marathon with no prep is a recipe for a heart attack.
> what about the former domestic producers who could not compete,

Tariffs won't make them any better at their jobs. So the American customer can expect higher prices and lower quality of products and services.
You claimed they weren't deterministic, I have shown that they can be. I'm not sure what your point is.

And it is incorrect to base your analysis of future transformer performance on current transformer performance. There is a lot of ongoing research in this area and we have seen continual progress.
This seems like another case of the web development industry (in general) "fixing" "problems" that aren't really serious problems. I don't know of any user who would be confused by simply being at the bottom of a web page. I didn't look at the code, but my guess is it's a lot of Javascript spending cycles on my machine to solve a non-problem.

I suppose the article author disclosed right away that it's "overegineered" so maybe the post is more of a joke or exercise in absurdity? Nobody would really spend time doing this for a real project, right? RIGHT?
> When installing Windows 11 and you reach the screen asking, "Let's connect you to a network," you can use the Shift+F10 keyboard combination to open a Windows command prompt.

> At this prompt, type start ms-cxh:localonly and press Enter
Of course, but I think people tend to overestimate the amount politics, especially federal politics actually impact their lives.

Spending hours a day worrying and reading about cancer risk and fatalities increases your understanding, but it certainly isn't healthy or proportional.
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It is the culmination of the holocaust.
Or, hear me out, you could build relations with friends and allies and not pretend you're Qing China and it's the 1800s.
The whole "decide that maybe you don't need olive oil that much" thing is what's going to crush the economy in the US. The problem is that demand does not shift to alternative supplies elastically. It takes years and sometimes decades to build an alternate supply chain for some industries. So what you're saying is that an entire generation of children in the US are going to have to grow up materially worse off than their parents and grandparents. And that's assuming that a bunch of businesses magically start overnight to fill the enormous gaps caused by a lack of access to international supply chains. If you look at other countries such as in South America or for example Italy where there are huge protective tariffs, the industries you expected to magically appear didn't. Instead people just have less and work less.

So your dichotomy applies, but it's not some magical ratchet out of globalization unless there's a corresponding push on the federal or state level to build competitive domestic industries to replace the international supply chains we've been cut off from.
It held also the promise of making me very, very rich.
Baggage which is back in vogue this year.
Regulations kill any and all profit on physical goods made in the US. It was more important to lift China out of poverty (Communism), kill a whole class worth of jobs and enact regulations to stifle any innovation because it’s okay if China pollutes, just not the US. It’s okay to buy goods from mega polluter China shipped on boats running on crude oil, instead of supporting Americans and American companies.
Not OP but I'm on ZeroTier because it was one of the best free tiers available before Tailscale could run as a Windows service.

Also I believe it implements a lower layer of the network stack so more options are supported, though I haven't needed to investigate in detail.
No? The prices are starting to trend downward, but the prices are still double where they were before the prices started going up.
I mean if you could make olive oil cheaper in America wouldn't someone have done that by now?

The US never lacked for smart entrepreneurs looking for a business opportunity. See wine.
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LLMs are usually used to describe goals or to provide feedback (correction or encouragement) towards its implementation.

Programming is about iteratively expressing a path towards satisfying said goals.

What LLMs are doing now is converting "requirements" into "formalizations".

I don't think Djikstra is wrong in saying - that performing programming in plain-language is a pretty weird idea.

We want to concretize ideas in formalisms. But that's not what any human (including Djikstra) starts with... you start with some sort of goal, some sort of need and requirements.

LLMs merely reduce the time/effort required to go from goals -> formalism.

TLDR: Requirements != Implementation
> These are but pricey bug bounties.

This isn't sarcasm to me, but the rest of your comment is.
Due to spam and deliverability issues, I'd personally never self-host an email server either. Plenty of good providers will allow you to bring your own domain and deal with the hard parts for you.
Those were good wars, though, apparently, since they bolstered US dominance and the spread of a certain flavor of "liberal democracy" based on progressive politics and consumerism.

I could have sworn they were bad wars when they were happening ("No blood for oil"?), but opinions on that seem to have shifted all of a sudden for some reason.
Because it is reassuring.
The trade deficit is balanced by USD flows, which are ultimately reinvested with leverage into American capital markets.

In many ways the US trade deficit combined with the USD reserve currency status is thus what enables the high budget deficit in the first place.
One unintended benefit of this move might be reducing greenhouse gas emissions from global shipping ... if US consumers are consuming more US made products, the supply chain for those projects will have gotten significantly shorter in nautical miles.

I'm hesitant credit President Trump with this too soon though, after all, his motto is "drill drill drill", but It's going to be interesting to see what happens.
Are they going to actually do anything about it? If not, their displeasure isn't worth a fart in the wind.
Also people buying stationary stuff from China, how will their pricing be?
There are factors that affect the education pipeline as well. Representation can make it appear as if some groups aren't welcome. Read about the Scully effect to see how simple representation (in fiction no less!) changed the number of women who grew up watching the X-Files who chose a field of science. Harassment during education has caused candidates to change majors. I've seen this one happen IRL to a friend. She ended up pursuing her software dev career independently of a college degree because the environment was so toxic.

The problem isn't just hiring, but helping hiring will help with the other two by addressing those cultural problems.
The Trump administration set the Russia tariff to zero, and we do still import stuff from Russia in spite of all the sanctions and set the blanket ten percent rate on Ukraine as you write. Maybe this is simply the current administration's national security interest.
Let it go. You're not even discussing the subject matter anymore, and are arguing about the meta. No one is thinking in terms of superiority except yourself. This is a toxic discussion, and it is over. Have your compulsive last word.
It was the term invented by the architects of the Holocaust, and I disagree that "eh, context matters".

Setting all moral arguments aside, it's important to know that similar phrases can work as dog-whistles to signal belonging to radical groups, and as such can easily give people the wrong impression about you as an author.

If I were to see a blog post titled "Work will set you free"[1] written by a peer, prospective employee/employer, colleague, etc., it would immediately set off alarm bells in my mind – even if the content of the post is a completely innocent discussion of the uplifting benefits of buckling down on one's workload. At best, it implies lack of awareness – at worst, it implies some extremely hateful beliefs and desires.

[1]: Written above the entrance to the Nazi concentration camps as a false promise encouraging prisoners often destined for death to work hard in forced labor.
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Why does it need vim and tmux?

Couldn't it use vim itself for multiplexing?
The US is fairly unique in imposing an "expatriation" tax precisely to avoid this situation. The IRS taxes all of their assets as if sold on the day before expatriation.

Of course collecting taxes internationally is difficult, but anyone wealthy enough to meet the criteria will probably need to visit the US at some point.
> It seems to be used exclusively by smart people as a means of extracting wealth from people who don't understand it.

I'm all for an era of crypto feudalists
Even definitions there are extremely hazy. "The most good for the most people".

Define "good". Happiness? Economic prosperity? Community? And over what time span?

Define "most". Percentage of people served? Number of people served?

Define "people". Are you counting citizens? Immigrants? Foreigners? Prisoners? People in the future?

You know the joke in the sciences about how everything distills down to mathematics? I would argue that we just as often distill down to philosophy. You have to reckon with a lot of questions which a stats degree can't help you much with.
> The reality of professional standards is we can't control what people feel or happens to them but we sure can put a good faith effort in to try and make the experience as neutral as possible.

You should use some Microsoft or Google products. They "sure can put a good faith effort in to try and make the experience as" crappy and masochistic as possible, while siphoning all your data.

And yes, avoid people without humor, especially the serious types.
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which moral grounds? how does that involve buying and holding, the most passive outcome possible
If it's fundamentally a jobs program, you can be a lot smarter about it than tariffs.

If companies couldn't compete before, they're now further disincentivized to compete, leaving the rest of us worse off and uncompetitive with the rest of the world.

Tariffs are just bad policy.
The F-35 jet will cost over $1.5 Trillion, doesn't work and won't be used

Cancel it and stop making everyone's daily life absolute hell by doubling the prices of groceries, car payments, etc. every month

National Debt is not a problem for a country that will be around for 1000+ years unless you know of something that is going to greatly shorten that.

There are nearly 1,000 BILLIONAIRES in the US, the debt is their problem, they can pay more taxes until it's down to a number you like.
The penultimate step. The final step was the Allies stopped the German final solution, and sent them off to colonize Palestine instead (while keeping the gays in the concentration camps because the Allies were homophobic too).
Everyone likes to use fascist to smear their political opponents, yet I'm not seeing a lot of evidence that the "anti-fascists" are any different. They support mass censorship, state propaganda, political violence, forever war, discrimination, debanking, lawfare, lockdowns, and ironically even infringement of bodily autonomy through unconstitutional vaccine mandates.
> thanks to the carefully, or at least consciously designed formal symbolisms that we owe to people like Vieta, Descartes, Leibniz, and (later) Boole.

Please check this talk on the contributions of these mentioned people for the complementary form of deterministic AI (machine intelligence) namely logic, optimization and constraint programming in a seminal lecture by John Hooker [1].

I have got the feeling that if we combine the stochastic nature of LLM based NLP with the deterministic nature of feature structure trchnique based NLP (e.g. CUE), guided by logic, optimization and constraint programming we probably can solve intuitive automation or at least perform proper automation (or automatic computing as Dijkstra put it).

Apparently Yann LeCun also recently proposing optimization based AI namely inference through optimization, or objective driven AI in addition to data-driven AI [2].

Fun facts, you can see Donald Knuth asking questions towards the end of the JH's lecture presentation.

[1] Logic, Optimization, and Constraint Programming: A Fruitful Collaboration - John Hooker - CMU (2023) [video]:

https://www.youtube.com/live/TknN8fCQvRk

[2] Mathematical Obstacles on the Way to Human-Level AI - Yann LeCun - Meta - AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture at the 2025 Joint Mathematics Meetings (2025) [video]:

https://youtu.be/ETZfkkv6V7Y
>I'm not quite sure whether tariffs really do lead to inflation. It depends on how consumers and companies respond to higher prices of imported goods and to the general sense of uncertainty.

They won't absorb the new costs. That has not happened in the history of capitalism as far as I am aware. Higher costs will inevitably equate to higher prices without an offset somewhere.

Investors don't like unpredictability, which Trump has already shown to be very unpredictable in regards to tariffs (the whole on again off again stance changes for example).

Higher prices also lead to less buying activity. History has proven this out too.
Why not give it a new name? We could do so with Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, etc.
There is no reason we have to stop giving these phenomena a new name. You can always talk about the similarities, but if you mix it carelessly you'll lose the differences.
We ought to change the whole IT terminology then. We keep killing parents and children. Context absolutely matters. Lack of context awareness is a deficit one should work on.