skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just my perspective—limited as it might be. I'm from the US, so my general view aligns with yours. However, everything shifts when I fly into a random UK town. You get these shitty streets that give off “Baltimore, might get stabbed” vibes, with infrastructure in complete shambles, and then you step into a townhouse owned by someone making about what I do—and inside, it's a mini-Saudi royal palace.

I’m no economist, but after working closely with many UK clients, I’ve noticed something: the upper-middle class here may not be flush with current cash flow, but they're sitting on a ridiculous amount of generational wealth that's been safely accumulated over the last 200 years within tight-knit family networks. In my view, the elites have both robust current cash flow and deep generational wealth, while the upper-middle class primarily relies on that generational cushion. They might not be buying Bugattis like the elites, but they're still living extremely luxurious, lavish lifestyles. Anyone without that kind of inherited wealth—unless you hit it big with a million-dollar tech idea—is stuck in the rat race, whether you're working at Starbucks or engineering at a tech firm.

The US seems a bit different. Here, there’s more opportunity to generate enough cash flow within one generation to set up the next with “generational” wealth. In the UK, it takes longer—about 3–4 generations—to build that legacy. But once a family in the UK secures this wealth, it tends to provide a relatively stable, luxurious life for the next 2–3 generations. In the US, while you might build wealth in just one generation, it can just as quickly vanish—sometimes within a single generation or even half one—due to medical debt, mismanagement, or economic swings. It takes a structured effort, clear strategy, and a strong individual family culture to preserve wealth in the US. If it’s not properly secured, that wealth ends up transferring to someone else who is setting up their own cycle of generational prosperity.

I also think the UK’s cultural and systemic setup makes it much harder for wealth to move from family networks at the top down to the working class. Over the past 10 years, globally, more wealth has shifted from the working class to the upper-middle and elite tiers. In the UK, that wealth is now entrenched at the top for the next four generations—even if the flow stops today, it’s going to stay that way for another 50 years or so. In the US, although wealth has also moved upward, there’s a genuine chance for it to “expire” at the top within 5-10 years and start cycling back down to the working class. I think this is the major difference in US economics as opposed to much of the world.

That said, who really knows what will happen given today’s global political climate? Everything’s kind of up in the air right now, and we'll have to see how it all settles over the next few years.
all parties are beneficiaries of the institutional structures that allow for a party to do those things

so the things you are bothered by and demand everyone to prioritize are actually solved by addressing the underlying mechanisms, as opposed to simply trying to propagate your preferred party's numbers

something... both sides... might actually be into. if the other party is afraid of the opposition party doing the same thing to different people, then there might actually be overwhelming consensus to change the thing that a "both sides" person is trying to point out
> Google super imperialism

Not sure which one the parent means but this is what I found:

https://www.amazon.com/Super-Imperialism-Origin-Fundamentals...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super-imperialism
Hard disagree. In the real world, the source of this app is open and therefore it is open source. You guys are behaving like extremists.

Would you prefer nothing at all? Sounds like in this case everyone here is looking past the golden egg in front of you - a successful rails app you can explore and play with - and focusing entirely on the wrong thing.
Carnegie Mellon settles class action suit over Covid-19 classes moved online
Then regulate those negative externalities. Huge progress has been made on that front over the years. This tariff approach is demolishing the whole bathroom full of people to get rid of the bathwater.
In a free country, private employers should be allowed to choose who they employ, with very narrow exceptions for discrimination based on race, religion, etc.

In a free country, citizens should be allowed to read what other citizens write in public.

Those both seem pretty obvious, but put the two of them together and it means people can lose their jobs or not be hired for stuff they tweet. How do you resolve that?

IMO the real issue isn’t that employers can make decisions based on this stuff. It’s that employers are far too big. If we had 20 Amazons, getting fired from one of them wouldn’t be such a big deal.
Oh hey, I spent a really long time watching this debate on CSPAN when I was like 10 or 11! (I was a weird kid)

MFN status seemed like a bad idea to me at the time, and reducing trade with China is something I've supported ever since.

Doing that suddenly, rather than phasing it in, and while also walking back free trade with the entire rest of the world, including the developed world? Um. No? Maybe not that.
They require youtube for schoolwork, and you can’t block shorts specifically so yes this is totally true.
when did this place become /r/politics?
This is a completely unserious claim
> but there's a factor of cant pay the creditors and you just stop

in the UK case then £895 of the debt is owned directly by the bank of England. So in the case of about 1/3rd of the debt the 'creditor' is your own central bank.

The government can of course pay interest on gilts by simply issuing more gilts. It's one of the advantages of running a country, intergeneration debt.

> The total tax burden is probably over 100%

Compared to what? income? capital gains? GDP?

total tax in UK through all taxes is 36.1% of GDP.

Taxes are not high in historical terms. USA for example had much higher tax rates (90% top income tax band) while it was arguably undergoing its phase of highest development.

Roads (and everything) get worse if governments do not invest in roads, or they invest in roads, but have outsourced to multiple layers of contractors who end up extracting a lot of the investment in profit and squeezing of labour costs and not in quality of road building.
Was super disappointing to see him up there at the inauguration. E-mailed tim.cook@apple.com and told him as much.

Would cancel my Apple family plan but like my family, instead, bought a refurbished second hand iPhone instead of buying a new one recently.

Will be speaking with my wallet in a variety of ways, along with calling, marching, etc. We start here... let's see where we end up. The moment is _now_.
We were close to your viewpoint being the popular one, but sadly many (most?) independent content creators are so overtaken by fear of AI that they've done a 180. The same people who learned by tracing references to sell fanart of a copyrighted franchise (not complaining, I spend thousands on such things) accuse AI of stealing when it glances at their own work. We're entering a new golden age of creative opportunity and they respond by switching sides to the philosophy of intellectual property championed by Disney and Oracle (except for those companies' ironic use of AI themselves..).
and the article specifically mentions the fictional company (clearly designed to generalize the Google/OpenAI's of the world) are supposedly (according to the article) working on building that capability. First by augmenting human researchers, later by augmenting itself.
This can be associated with ADHD. Guess how I know.
I say plan for the worst and hope for the best.

> but I'd go to war over that concentration

I think this is why the US is trying to annex greenland.
It's great to see innovation in the Terminal space. It's an interesting problem to tackle, because _so much_ of our interaction with computers (and therefore people and other computers) is done through the medium of text, and so much of our recorded knowledge is in books and other texts. It's hard to take a text-based interface out of the equation.

I, for one, would love to see a more generic, non-TTY text-based interface for systems management. You kind of get it with PowerShell, but then you're also sacrificing text-mangling for objects, which aren't as flexible (to me). And marrying yourself to a system that feels verbose and half-baked on non-Microsoft platforms.

So, for the time being, you can pry the terminal from my cold dead cursor.
Pretty stupid to label something "not real" just because it's not a pure spectral colour.

I guess white isn't "real" either.
> This situation has little-to-nothing to do with the current US administration.

This has everything to do with current policy in the US. Which is creating a lot of uncertainty, rolls back the clock on existing commitments, and creates huge disruption for existing manufacturers. This is a direct response to that and there will be more of it.

The notion that this is somehow going to save the US ICE car industry is misguided IMHO. I believe it will actually speed up it's demise. The domestic US market was already lagging behind international markets. GM and Ford are really struggling in those markets. Tariffs and counter tariffs are going to make that worse. Scaling back investments in technology that would allow them to catch up is not going to help either. It's a sign of weakness, not strength when companies stop investing in the future.

BYD is really crushing it in places like South America, Australia, all over Asia, etc. All markets where GM and Ford have to worry about keeping up. The Australian market is particularly interesting to watch because it's similar in tastes to the US but not crippled by tariffs (aka. taxes). It doesn't have a domestic car industry. Or an oil industry. So, they import what's good and affordable. And BYD and other Chinese manufacturers have a big presence there that is rapidly growing.

What happens inside the US is ultimately going to follow what is happening elsewhere. ICE cars are going the way of the dodo one way or another. It's process that's largely completed in China, well under way in Europe, and starting to happen all over the world now.

EVs aren't expensive anymore. That's a local problem in the US that has more to do with the US and how things (don't) work there than with the technology. You can get very decent ones below 20K now in many places. BYD will sell you EVs below 10K in China. The only thing keeping those off the market in the US is tariffs. The rest of the world is wide open to the Chinese and they are happy to grab market share wherever they can.
My pet crank proposal for this would be that listed buildings should require somebody from the public to pay to keep them on the list. Nowhere near the full cost, something in the region of £100.

Add a crowdfunding frontend. Put the sponsor's name on the website next to the building. Have a little thing promoting all the unsponsored buildings. Run a lottery which pays back some of the collected fees to privately-held listed building owners to help pay for upkeep.

But if nobody cares enough to reach into their pocket and spend the equivalent of a mildly expensive restaurant dinner on keeping this building listed? Maybe it's not actually important or significant at all. Fewer, better-maintained historic buildings, rather than just having them with the owner quietly waiting for them to burn down so something useful can be built.
Guarantee that all "nonfree open source" is different readings. Take the NASA case. If youu read it as strictly as Stallman does then it violates the OSD also. The people at OSI at the time it was submitted read it more like a lawyer and decided it was compliant. Possibly today's OSI would disagree. Possibly tomorrow's FSF would agree. It's not a difference between free software and open source but a difference between how two sets of humans interpreted the text of the license.
Great! It sounds like we're coming from a similar place. I wouldn't describe myself as "on the left" - more of a general libertarian that sees the merits and flaws in both rightist and leftist thinking. I had never voted for a major party in a national election until 2020, after the Republican party went batshit crazy.

The reason I judge The Twitter Files as a rightist talking point is that it's trying to pigeonhole the motivation for censorship solely onto the government. If an argument is simply about the coercive power wielded by corporations and governments, you don't need a smoking gun of cooperation/direction to tie the two - seeing them as similar organizations with similar top-down motivations suffices. That evidence is only important if you're aiming for reform using the first amendment (an understandable desire, but the wrong tool for the job), or trying to absolve the corpos as mere victims of the de jure government (delusional).
> impossible to make any long-term business decisions.

Only if the long term decision depends on high tariffs. There are lots of business decisions that don't.
That's a damn nice car, though.
I'm glad someone said it.

Tesla is literally one of the most heavily subsidized auto companies in American history.
Perhaps performance, multi threading, and static typing are not the #1 things that make a language great.

My guess: it's the community.
I'm manually transcribing the AltairBASIC source, ten lines a day starting today
No AI or OCR here, just an idiot with too much free time. After seeing that the AltaBASIC source posted was a scan of paper tape, I thought having it in a digital document proper would be good for preservation and novelty's sake. I've never written Assembly, and I'm not a typography expert! Feel free to point and laugh at any silly mistakes. Let's see how many days it takes!
You are not thinking clearly about the post you're responding to and you're not thinking clearly about the problems faced by the places you're describing. The person you're responding to probably thinks having a lot of deeply impoverished people makes a place "poor." You: some bullshit about GDP.
Nothing, not a particularly active or savvy investor, had most in nvidia/amd (bought both around $15) and s&p 500 index. Gold and EU arms is obvious in hindsight. Just waiting for some of this to be over and I'll buy index funds again.
The Middle East human rights situation is in conflict with my belief and value system. Agency and autonomy are important, as well as shared responsibility and collectivism (as no one is an island). Us, not I.

I like taxes, with them I buy civilization, help those in need, and build lasting institutions of value and relevance.
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I'm not arguing in favor of el salvadoran prisons, but he's not in an el salvadoran prison. He's being charged with being in violation of his Visa. And yes, I do expect you to report the time that you "Interned" at the UNRWA. This organization has always operated tightly with Hamas and the PA, and if I'm establishing your background, I need to know about it so that I can investigate it, period. I don't need to know about your affiliations with hackernews, because hackernews is not closely affiliated with designated terror organizations. Now that the UNRWA is properly designated as a terrorist organization itself, do you think it would be appropriate to lie about your affiliations with them on a visa application?

Mahmoud Khalil is in an American jail awaiting trial. A New Jersey court will rule on his status.
That's not really the reason. Green is a spectral color, and in fact the sun peaks around the green part of the spectrum. But to see a star as green, it would need to exclusively emit green light.
> Obviously a horrible hideous theft machine [...] awful [...] horriffic

Ah, I thought I knew this account from somewhere. It seems surprisingly easy to figure out what account is commenting just based on the words used, as I've commented that only a few active people on this site seem to use such strong words as shown here.
What I don't understand is why, after twenty years, we still haven't versioned Javascript. A simple:

'v2';

At the top of every file could let us eliminate all this 20-year old cruft (like document.all hacks to support Internet Explorer).

Yet, despite the already established `use strict`; (which is basically 'v1.5'), the community seems completely against modernizing the language.
Full Disclosure: I built an indexing engine for Git and GitHub that can process repos at scale and my words should be taken with scepticism.

I think using MCP is an interesting idea, but the heavy lifting that can provide insights, is not with MCP. For fetch and search to work effectively, the MCP will need quality context to know what to consider. I'm biased, but I really looked into chunking documents, but given how the LLM landscape is evolving, I don't think chunking makes a lot sense any more (for code at least).

I've committed to generating short and long overviews for directories and files. Short overviews are two to three sentences. And long overviews are two to three paragraphs. Given how effectively newer LLMs can process 100,000 tokens or less, you can feed it a short overview for all files/directories to determine what files to sub query with. That is, what long overviews to load into context for the sub query.

I also believe most projects in the future will start to produce READMEs for LLMs that are verbose and not easy to grok for humans, but is rich in detail for LLMs. You may not want the LLM to generate the code for you, but the LLM can certainly help us navigate complex/unfamiliar code in a semantic manner, which can be game changer for onboarding.
P.S. Tetrachromats can distinguish between violet and purple, unlike us normal humans.
> but every JS setup these days contains a linter that yells at you for code like that.

Yes, it can find some cases, but in general would require solving the halting problem.
They invested heavily in GPUs PRIOR TO the increased tariffs.
I'm having a struggle with this computer, it loves to correct Altair to Alta and I keep forgetting to correct it. Whoops.
Same thing happens to me with Bear.app (note taking). It only has tags, and the first thing I believe everyone does is to go with hierarchical structure again, because you need some tag, but also an additional specifier. Which help with grouping an location (And Bear.app have support for that naming scheme and displays it as a tree).
And they don't even bother holding their noses tightly sealed as they let them pass. Source of income (you know what I mean) has no bearing on these places. Enjoy your neighbours, definitely don't piss them off without.. consequences
It has the ability to "steal" lock from another tab. Once tab loses a lock, it can pause the playback.
Yea, holy hell... someone with _nuance_ in their views? Blasphemy!
Right, the focus is on IP theft, and that’s part of it, but let’s set that aside.

How useful is an image generator that, when asked to generate an image of an archaeologist in a hat, gives you Harrison Ford every time?

Clearly that’s not what we want from tools like this, even just as tools.
The difference between oil and silver / gold is only the scale of economic loss.

People have used physical oil as an investment, unrefined oil is stable across millions of years. The underlying economics mean people only attempt it in the short term when the price is unusually low. Or as a state sponsored hedge https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_...
I hope you have a good time! It’s a lovely place. And exactly, because to each his own I’m glad America has made this choice over that.
You don't only exist in my brain.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/average-battery-cell-pric...

Battery costs are continually declining. If you buy an EV today, and then if you need to replace the battery in 15 years, because you put 300,000 miles on it, it won't break the bank.

https://insideevs.com/news/754979/hyundai-ioniq-5-400000-mil...
I mean, it just seems like a false or unrealistic pretense to me.

For example while a hockey game is a 'game' what about a person making a bet on that game that now loses a bet because of the penalty actions? Or a team loses that would have won because of said penalty and does not go to the world championship. So yea, saying there is no consequences is like rejecting the premise of causality as the game doesn't live in a closed system.