skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The deficit is 2 trillion.

Income taxes on individuals are 2.4 trillion.

How much do you expect to raise taxes to cover that gap? You double my taxes and I’m in the welfare line.

Further, and this is not referenced enough - the US must rollover ~9 trillion in treasuries this year. The lower the interest rate to do that, the better. Otherwise it increase the deficit even more.

The only way this ends is one of two paths - a path similar to what we are on; default.

We may not like this one, but default is world destroying because of the broad use of the Dollar around the globe.
In principle, that still injects cash into those companies though; it's just that the popular conception is that these subsidies are intended to make the product cheaper for consumers, instead of encouraging companies to produce them because they're more profitable due to the subsidy.

(This should not be taken as a blanket endorsement, god knows that companies follow the incentives, which is rarely perfectly aligned with the intent)
I don't think that is true, if your only work at your job is coding, you should be afraid but most folks don't just code, they engineer solutions. In that way, AI can't destroy jobs anytime soon.
Thanks for publishing the article. Idk if my comment sounded too harsh; sorry if it did.

If you're taking more unsolicited nitpicky suggestions, imo the ToC items on the left could use cursor:pointer and a background color change on hover.
We call this people "Fachidioten" in Germany, people who are really good at their craft but absolute morons in every other field. Unfortunately, these are the people that dominate tech and you can see this in how technology develops.
The way 99.95% of customers would replace a macbook battery is to take it to the Apple Store and have them do it for a fixed charge while you wait. It's a great service. Apple will still replace the battery in your 2013 MacBook Air. By contrast there hasn't been a first-party battery pack for the T400 in many years.

These "fragility" arguments always, as in the case of the OP, ignore the actual experience of owning and using the thing. People will adopt an ancient smartphone because they are locked into the idea that removable battery and removable SD cards are morally superior, and then blindly ignore the fact that the battery life sucks, the only batteries available are random chinese junk, the backs are easy to break and lose, SD cards are unreliable and easy to lose, and so forth. There is a reason that the market overwhlemingly prefers phones and laptops with fixed storage and integrated battery packs.
TNG was lit much like other action/adventure shows when it debuted in 1987, e.g. MacGyver, Magnum PI, Simon & Simon, The A-Team (which ended that spring) -- the Bridge and hallways were much brighter than even a sitcom, I'd bet as a specific aesthetic choice of The Future Is Bright.

When DS9 debuted a few years later, it was stepping into a cultural mindset that had embraced Dark And Gritty in broader entertainment. That series is still much brighter than many shows today, but that's because of a technological revolution (including costs) rather than a change of "TV as an art form rivaling movies".

Yes, there is a mindset within Hollywood circle(jerk)s that so-dark-I-cannot-see is "more sophisticated, serious, and artful", but viewers broadly think it is idiotic. (Also, 2-and-a-half or 3 hour movie runtimes.)
That's like saying "my meal begins from the time I start driving to the restaurant". It's just not true.
Yes, but in a culture where this kind of thing is normal (and statically linking the libc was popular for a while), that is in mostly understood, CPython’s particular brand of awfulness notwithstanding. It is in any case a much milder problem than two libcs fighting over who should set the thread pointer (the FS segment base), allocate TLS, etc., which is what you get in a standard Linux userspace.
I not sure about these numbers, but here is article on this topic:

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/06/is-the-total-value-of...
That should not be the case, and your saying this is an indication of how far America has fallen. You can just look at the Afghanistan withdrawal. That was executed by the 2020-2024 administration to complete an agreement signed by the 2016-2020 administration. It was unpopular and a bad outcome, but the 2020-2024 administration realized a country had to keep its word, even with the Taliban.

If the word of America is not honored that is exactly the disgrace I'm talking about. A nation's word - the treaties they sign, the contracts or agreements they make with people of other countries - has to be honored. Like the conditions of visas.

An administration can change future agreements or renegotiate within the frameworks it agreed to, but it should honor existing agreements. That is one of the many ways a government is not like a corporation.
It's one of the best devices I've ever bought.

I've used it for all sorts of stuff from gaming on flights, to local multiplayer, to controlling a robot car, to watching YouTube with adblocking, etc.
Leveraging reinforcement learning (RL) for LLMs is a fascinating evolution in search technology. The potential for improving search engines to reason intelligently and process data in real-time could revolutionize the entire industry.
Lets enjoy the moment while it lasts…
I bet every generation before us thought the same and every generation after us will think the same.
> That would have made Rust drastically more mature and proven.

Rust's successes in a variety of codebases and in a variety of organizations does far more for maturing and proving Rust's value proposition than a single codebase would be.
That's the biggest problem these days - people don't talk about much meaningful - but they do chat and spend ridiculous amounts of time on socials
You could flip this around. Why would a country the size of Belgium need to export as much as it imports from the US?
Meta-optics are such a groundbreaking innovation! Their ability to control light in ways that traditional lenses cannot opens up many new opportunities in fields like AR/VR and optical computing.
Yet, huge swaths of the US electorate to this day oppose Martin Luther King Jr.'s goals, message, methods, and outcomes.
Optimization is dependent on the technical aspect of the implementation. Ultimately, it is going to be a computer that's going to execute the program and it has its own constraints. Reconciling the domain and the execution platform is where the programmer expertise comes in.
There's a lot of nuance in the healthcare access and affordability issue. In developed countries at least there's a pretty broad consensus that if someone is having a medical emergency then they should receive treatment regardless of ability to pay. But beyond that it gets sticky and there are hard choices that no one likes to discuss. Resources are finite but demand is effectively infinite, so one way or another there has to be some form of rationing. Like if a poor patient is dying of cancer and a drug could extend their life by 3 months at a cost of $100K then should society be obligated to pay? This is inherently a political question with no obvious correct answer.
Hard disagree. Compared to the OECD average, we collect almost double in personal tax revenue as a proportion of total tax revenue. What's more, historically personal tax revenue as a % of GDP stays roughly the same - regardless of active tax rates.

Where we fall dreadfully short compared to other countries is corporate tax revenue. In 2021, corporate income tax revenue in the U.S. was 1.6% of GDP, compared to the OECD average of 3.2%
Well tried it, it was too confusing to find the buffer with currently implemented window functionality.
That's all fine and dandy when you're talking about a genuine piece of music. But for something like this, counting a rest that goes for 17 years is taking it way too far.
Vivid Reader||enhance your reading experience
Agree and so I went looking and here is the reason: https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare/commit/3ee721035525dbb1....

They started with a specific version of systemd and have been mutating it since then, so the whole this is "tainted" with LGPL now.
It's crazy that this was flagged -- acknowledging the role of structuralism is apparently a radical act in 2025.
The scary thing is that the robots will only continue to improve, and large numbers of them can be controlled by a small number (1?) of people, with other robots to handle logistics and support. So scenarios like "rogue leader ignores will of the people and orders his troops to ethnically cleanse a city" would go from being a mistake that causes the immediate end of a political career, to something that takes 15 minutes for 100% success.
I'll check it later to give more constructive feedback, also it seems like you are hammering a backend request with each keystroke (?), cant verify it on mobile but you might consider debouncing the user input a bit to ease off the load
Because it’s a fork of systemd which is GPL. So, working as intended. Sorry Apple, you’ll have to keep using your own init system.
>But at this point you're not really engaging in good faith if that's your argument. Can we not do that ?

Can we not say people aren't conversing in good faith solely as a method of shutting down further conversation?

They stated something as an absolute and I gave examples of why it isn't an absolute. That's a perfectly normal conversation. It's not even an argument.

As for Bazaar, it seems like you haven't played and aren't a fan, which is totally fine, but just a note that it is not in beta anymore. I'm not sure what your comments about "making my game with direct sales figures in mind" are referencing.
Yeah, good point. It's kinda common to have a big footer.

Examples: https://getbootstrap.com/, https://discord.com/, https://tailwindcss.com/

That way on desktop you could get away with a 50vh margin under the content and then another 50vh for the footer. That's free overscroll.
A privacy-focused email service by Mozilla is a welcomed addition to the market! Given the ongoing concerns around data security, it's refreshing to see companies like Mozilla pushing for better privacy standards.
Confirmed by the White House here: https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations.
> Valve will just put a "verified" tag on a game with zero input from a developer.

This is a big claim, is there evidence for this? I'm an end-user, not a developer, but there are plenty of games in Unknown status. I would assume that should be the default, not Verified.

I can see an argument that Valve has incentive to have flagship games get that Verified badge, but there is also precedence for them downgrading popular games after launch. For example, Spider-Man 2 recently went from Verified to Playable (rightfully so, in my opinion).
> People (and living beings in general) acting in their own self-interest - pretty much all the time - it is the most universal general principle of life if there ever was one.

Base evolutionary instincts to survive don't translate to humans living in complex modern societies acting in their self-interest.
We often reach for black and white thinking which makes political discussions difficult. Both sides do it, and it stunts our empathy for why people vote the way they do.
Most Americans think AI won't improve their lives, survey says
I'm sorry, but going back to my very first post on here, staying in living memory, the US has a vast litany of egregious human rights offences to its name. This is an objective fact of record.

The notion that it's any better than a hypothetical does not address the core point that the US government, has in actuality caused more suffering, to more people, in more countries, over a longer period of time than any other since the end of WW2.

I don't want to see another empire, but the world won't be sorry to see the back of the US.
I recently asked Claude 3.7 (Thinking) to help me debug. I told it that it seemed my code crashed when MY_FLAG was true. Its solution? if MY_FLAG: MY_FLAG = False

Do you come across issues like this too or am I not prompting it correctly?
>A functioning democracy requires that the common people are able to use the law and courts to right wrongs. Are the common people able to use/afford access to the courts when wrongs are committed.

Having recently been completely railroaded and betrayed by the court system I can tell you. No. I literally had all my evidence thrown out with no explanation from the Judge other than "I don't think this is relevant" in regards to several different topics that I had made an organized report on. Meanwhile the corporate defense provided unorganized meaningless piles of documentation that would takes months to go over and it was left as "evidence" I do mean meaningless, several hundred pages were literally blank white pages submitted as evidence. I guess the crappy software they use to do discovery generated lots of white space in between snippits of info.

The court had decided before the trial that by default a person is wrong and a corporation is right.
I asked ChatGPT to explain the arguments of Sowell and Piketty.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67eebae2-df3c-800b-aba9-6e36c04810...

I liked Sowell's book, "Wealth, Poverty and Politics". Can you recommend one of Piketty's books?

> raw materials - which often have to be sourced elsewhere

Is that necessarily true? The US has abundant natural resources. Tesla could be mining lithium a few hundred miles away from their factory instead of importing it...
The issue of cybersecurity in crypto is becoming more critical by the day. The scale at which nation-state actors are targeting the crypto world shows just how vulnerable many systems still are.
I fail to understand what is "malicious" about the idea that we, as a single species, can someday achieve an equitable and global state of cooperation despite historical tribal / racial / religious differences.

Just because an idea originated in Europe doesn't make it a bad one out of hand.
>Partly because women's rights have become so politicised.

What is the womans suffrage movement?

I may be extrapolating on a single statement too far, but I do feel that you are missing a huge chunk of history regarding all the rights women (at least regarding the US) did not have.

Womans rights have been political for the last 200 years if not longer.
Way more than anyone should be comfortable with.

Looks through thread

Tribalism and purity tests abound.
Here you go:
https://ebn.codeberg.page/programming/c3/c3-opengl/
This one is for OpenGL.
Civilization has always operated on the idea that men must work for it to function properly. When less people willingly work it can be detrimental for future welfare.
The way that unemployment is interpreted by the public now is not very accurate. The gig economy has grown massively since 2020, which counts towards labor statistics, but its arguable to say if they should. The number of small or local owned businesses have grown substantially since 2020 - but is that because of a surplus of opportunity or people looking for ways to make additional money? The quality of the labor matters.
Ah, so a practice that ruled on years ago, and which it turns out still didn't have any significant impact on imports anyway?

Also, remind me, when was the last time that the US actually complied with an unfavourable ruling from the trade panel?
> Same for maths and coding - once you reach a certain level of expertise, the complexity and redundancy of natural language is a greater cost than benefit. This seems to apply to all fields of expertise.

And as well as these points, ambiguity. A formal specification of communication can avoid ambiguity by being absolute and precise regardless of who is speaking and who is interpreting. Natural languages are riddled wth inconsistencies, colloquialisms, and imprecisions that can lead to misinterpretations by even the most fluent of speakers simply by nature of natural languages being human language - different people learn these languages differently and ascribe different meanings or interpretations to different wordings, which are inconsistent because of the cultural backgrounds of those involved and the lack of a strict formal specification.
Show HN: Mass renamer TUI written in Rust
this SHOULD be really obvious to those in charge, but I think is too subtle for them, or they're willfully ignoring it for the "trade deficit" narrative. I don't see how the end result is not a decline in the global role of the US and a whole bunch of pain for everybody as this all unwinds. All for the hubris of an old man...
> https://www.belastingdienst.nl/wps/wcm/connect/nl/internetaa...

Is suspect you can translate yourself. Every country has a site I am sure (looked up uk tarifs yesterday for instance)
In that example, the UK would soon run a trade surplus, and presumably the US would increase their tariff.
There's always an opportunity cost to making art. Taking your argument to it's extreme people should never paint or make music but instead spend all their time growing food and building homes (and distributing those goods because that's a big crux, we could feed everyone on the planet if we got food to the right people).

The cool thing about freedom is that we don't have to be rational monks that are slave to economic utilitarism.
FYI on the topic of scroll position, it seems inconsistent between history navigation. For example scroll to the very bottom, click your Internship blog post, and go back - it ends up somewhere towards the end but not quite. (Chrome Mac)

On mobile just clicking the other blog post takes me to the end of that post. (Chrome iOS)
I too appreciated that they readily stepped back from reinventing a bunch of wheels. Doing it with humility adds a bit of polish to their project.
It’s a deliberate provocation, he certainly anticipated exactly this sort of response.

In a sense he is exploiting a lack of rules that would prevent a piece from starting with this long of a rest.

In other words, he is hacking the process.
Wait, we're designing bedding now? Not just remaking our beds? What a strained analogy that when you 'remake' your bed and it's the 'same' (why would it be different?) then you didn't improve the design?? Even more shocking is that you ran with this as opposed to realizing that these were warning signs that either your fundamental argument is ridiculous, or your analogy is.
Why are North Korean hackers so skilled?
Are their technical skills top-tier?
And now we're almost coming full circle if you want to run Windows without connecting it to an online account :)
The library one amasses is a huge lock-in though, you’re downplaying it
Reasoning models don't always say what they think
> So, very little nutrient info beyond calories and protein. No info about micronutrients. No info about minerals, vitamins, amino acids, fatty acids.

Many items do have these things.

https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/5060495116377/huel-b...
Yes, art needs to have both aesthetic beauty and technical skill behind it. Contemporary art has neither of those things, and thus it is an embarrassment to the label of "art".
They did Bibi, which was good. Growing a pair in its old age.
Is this really the case? Every video I've seen about Switch emulation on the Deck shows stutter, low framerates, audio glitches, etc. in most games.

For ToTK in particular, this video suggests it'll barely hit ~30FPS on the Deck under Yuzu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afetsBdQFyc

Whereas on a modded Switch you can run it at ~60FPS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Z6W_AUNY0

There are other more recent videos backing this up and showing that the game has far more frequent stutters than on the Switch.

Anyway, the point is, I wouldn't dismiss sticking a picofly into your Switch as pointless. Even if you have no desire to inflict some Meta-style "fair use" on videogame publishers, it's still worth doing for perks like sys-clk, RetroArch, sm64nx and 2s2h.
Does the ticket come with a snorkeling set?
Yeah, I think all of the arguments made for and against tariffs are only partly true depending on the context.

Interestingly, Lua came out of Brazil for these reasons...
Our product assumes familiarity with Caddy/Nginx -- we'll make it more accessible soon. We give you global anycast nodes on it and you're in full control of the config (they can be edited on the website), so anything you can have in a Caddy config can be used on Novanode.

The managed bits are the certs/configs/failover so that you don't need to be concerned about that.

Though for a single VPS instance it could makes sense to just host your own caddy on that node. If you need global distribution Novanode is a good answer.
here's the cite:

https://noagenda.clipgenie.com/content/34613737-6134-3364-66...
The other comment I made here was flagged, though it very clearly doesn't have anything in violation of the rules. It's clear that people here are using flagging to try to censor opinions they don't like.
Yes, at the end of the day it's necessary to have some amount of "trust" in the people doing the work. Which is good- you can try to avoid that but if it didn't happen very little would get done.
That's true for most other places, including the EU. With services included, the trade imbalance is negligible. Source:

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...
Devin 2.0
The repo has had 3 commits in the last 4 years or so. I don't think it's going to get developed from alpha unless something suddenly changes.
Thank you for the feedback.

Have you asked one of the LLMs used to tell you about the choline content of a food, even ungrounded? They are surprisingly good at reasoning about what kinds of foods tend to contain large amounts of choline because their training datasets will include all kinds of similar data points, even if the single food you're looking for doesn't have it listed explicitly.
> but is that only because we're exploiting poorer people in markets with fewer worker protections and fewer environmental protections

That's definitely happening, but there are other possible reasons. For example a good could be more efficiently grown or produced in a country because of geographical reasons.

Also, from a pragmatic standpoint, it is simply not the case that all wages and wealth across the countries of the world are equal. Maybe that could be a goal but is anyone talking about that? Either way, it does not follow that the workers in that country are necessarily exploited when paid lower wages compared to the importing country, unless we are using different definitions.

This is not to mention that untargeted tariffs can increase the cost of living _for no gain at all_. If Germany manufacturers some specialty tool (not with slave labor, I would hope!), and no US manufacturer wants to make it, then I suddenly have to pay X% more for no reason at all.
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Another simple css-only solution as the article mentions is gradients. Like

background: linear-gradient(
to right,
#51463e 0%,
#28241f 100%
);

Tool: https://tools.w3clubs.com/gip/
I mean laymen. All epidemiologists and the like are certainly aware of such problems. You'll see these biases and many others buried in the discussion/limitations or other such section in any study. Here's [1] a random one from the CDC:

- "confounding might exist because the study did not measure or adjust for behavioral differences between the comparison groups"

- "these results might not be generalizable to nonhospitalized patients who have ... different health care–seeking behaviors"

Along with many more. The problem is that there was no meaningful public debate whatsoever. You were on board with absolutely anything and everything, or you must be an "anti-vaxer" and just wanted everybody's grandmother to die, and probably also thought COVID was caused by 5G.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7044e1.htm
The deficit is not in fact 2 trillion.
Source: https://www.bea.gov/system/files/trad0225.png (and many other official documents)

Also, this is a false dichotomy.
organizations spending 8+ figures yearly, I guess