skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Please show me when there were 60 senators who would support this. Oh that's right at no point did that exist. Obama barely had 60 for Obamacare and that includes multiple people who would never vote for abortion. So your spoiler is quite divorced from reality
Pressure to improve trade imbalances is a good idea! Particularly with China and some of these extremely low wage countries. Democrats being silent on the topic or not wanting to do anything about it is one of the bigger deciding issues for the kind of moderates who would actually change their vote between parties.

The current administration is like... if you're being charitable you can imagine at some point someone had a reasonable set of ideas that got filtered through a long string of fools in a game of telephone so now we have an angry toddler with a gun destroying the global economy on the basis of ideas which very well may have been interesting at the beginning of the chain but have long since descended into incoherence.
> Trust is not important if they are afraid of you .. Europeans seem to be much more susceptible to an "if you don't want it to be done to you don't do it to others" argument.

I've noticed this also, having spent a lot of time in both places. Some would say this is part of the American national character, and it's the darker side of hard-nosed individualistic cowboys, etc. The famous opening speech of Patton comes to mind here:

> When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big league ball players, the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time. Now, I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed.

There's at least some truth to this and the mean-spirited arrogance/strength in the rest of the speech being in line with national character, I think it has to be admitted. This seems like the guy was certainly never cut out to be a diplomat or act with moderation, and maybe most Americans aren't. That said though.. maybe a deeper issue is that suffering (economic or otherwise) changes people. Makes them merely hypocrtical in the best case, aggravated and mean on average, or in the worst case positively cruel. A lot of America has not been ok for a long time now.
Not wanting to critique women for how they chose to look, this feels like a valid case: willingness to body modify to a specific look, and that look appear significant.

Trump is very fond of the "nasty" hook. It seems all-pervading and his praise of women is often about their appearance and sexual energy, not the policies per se.

I don't feel much like arguing on this. Comments made light-heartedly to trout pout and buccal fat are seen as derogatory and probably are. I'd rather not feed the machine. For some women (and men) there is a marked body dismorphia tied up in internet filtering on images, and AI image generation is probably feeding it.

I think Trumps appeal to women, and the women's body types which appeal to Trump is tied up in this, but really the ideology is most of it.
One alternative that works is an nginx reverese proxy and 10 minutes of configuration :P
I am British and have been a consultant.

While permanent IT staff are often regarded as generic office workers, usually in poorly performing small to medium enterprises in backwaters around the country, in London and in Finance this is not really the case.

Consultant IT people can make out like bandits, IR35 or no, and even those perm people in the backwaters are middle class in earning and habits. It’s absolutely not a working class occupation.

Incidentally this attitude from middle management in (mostly) non-London SMEs is a big part of why they are doomed to fail - they value middle-management above skilled workers and end up in a doom spiral of low pay, low productivity and low expectations. If you’re in one of those situations - get out, opportunity is out there. But you won’t find it in a shabby office at the back-end of an industrial estate in Basingstoke.
2 per 100,000 is not lower than any western hemisphere country. Where did you get this from?
Trump is only confusing if you think his policies are meant to benefit America.

If you don't believe that, then his policies are terrifyingly not confusing. If you believe his policies are primarily meant to benefit American oligarchs or Russia, his policies are even less confusing.

Withdrawing support for Ukraine and not putting tariffs on Russia, despite putting tariffs on uninhabited "Heard Island and McDonald Islands" is probably the least confused I've been since his inauguration. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/donald-trump...
Benign? Native American genocide, the transatlantic slave trade, chattel slavery, segregation, Japanese interment, suplying drug cartels with weapons and money, the havoc that's caused in virtually every Central and South American country, the only nation to ever use nuclear weapons against a foe (twice, and against civilian population centers no less), Korea, Vietnam, the Middle East, all the CIA-backed coups and regime changes, becoming the world's arms dealer, economic imperialism and almost starting World War Three (the Cuban Missile Crisis should really be called the Turkey Missile Crisis).

We also end up consistently on the wrong side: apartheid South Africa, Pinochet's Chile, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the list goes on.

Russia? We enabled the looting of Russia after the collapse of the USSR that directly created Vladimir Putin.

North Korea? This continues a long trend of simply starving countries for the hell of it, just like Iraq [1], Venezuela and Cuba.

China? What's China done exactly? I'll tell you what: it singlehandedly lifted hundreds of millions of people out of extreme poverty in the 20th century. Remove China from the stats and poverty grew in the 20th century. China became an economic powerhouse while having a much fairer distribution of wealth than the US has had or currently has. And they continue to build infrastructure rather than minting a few more billionaires.

[1]: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/25/lets-remember-m...
They used a 0.25 constant in a formula and the article is arguing they should have used 0.945 instead (difference of ~4x). The constant the Trump administration used seems to have been the one for estimated effect of tariffs on retail prices (ie, consumer facing) and it was more appropriate to use the one for the effect on prices at the border.

I assume that is similar to me being a computer company importing chips, a 25% tariff on microprocessors will make the imported cost of microprocessors go up by ~24% (because some really expensive ones don't get bought) but it would increase the price of the computers I build by ~5% because most of the computer isn't a microprocessor.

It is an exciting time to learn about the country of Lesotho.
Is it really.
When I was a teen, I applied to be an ATT lineman. At that time at least, they sent you a giant study guide that has everything one might want to know about electricity. I was actually blown away by the material.

I've since lost it, but wonder if it exists on the Internet somewhere. My cursory search didn't return anything.
Piper is also dead, though it's also still the best option for local TTS on low-spec devices.

Kokoro is probably best local TTS overall if your target platform and hardware support it.
that connection between surplus value and the labour theory of value is fully unexplained in your post, so... you have not said nothing, but you haven't said enough to make your post consequential I'm afraid
There’s a weird gap in the modern world when it comes to travel, which is traveling as a group / society. In the distant past it was very common for entire societies to be nomadic. You’d have both your friends and family + movement around the globe.

On the other hand, the solo traveler is a recent phenomenon largely enabled by 20th century technology and political developments.

I know there are programs which travel the world as a group, but they tend to be very ends-focused (“startup travelers”) etc.

So, the era of time when the Earth had open, undefined spaces (“smooth space” as defined by the philosopher Deleuze) seems to be basically over forever, barring an apocalyptic event. We might have to wait for new planets to see nomadic societies existing again.
Nothing will happen to Vietnam. US consumers will just pay.

It’s ok to be Republican/conservative and increase taxes now.
He bankrupted casinos 6 times. Six. Managed to lose money on a money printing machine.
Pytest for Neovim
Traveling to big cities certainly loses its appeal after a while. Nowadays, I tend to prefer little adventures involving nature/sport.
Thank you! I plan to add "sync with meetup" via API sometime in the future.
Reddit's r/QuiverQuantitative. follows trades and puts by members of congress. MJ Greene bought stock in Dollar General.
And offer a loophole to any European company.
There still is, just small. I quite like my American Giant tshirts for example.
I wouldn’t say sour grapes, just that people have a certain budget. Forgoing Business/First i used to be able to afford more days away, maybe an extra city, etc

As I get older I take business class more, because I prefer the comfort over having a few extra days. Ask younger me and he would have taken the extra holiday days
That’s a nice idea, but I’m skeptical—where is the new wealth coming from that will allow Lesotho to pay its workers more? It’s not an issue of strong-arming some bad guys in Lesotho to pay their workers more using tariffs as a negotiation tool.

I feel that conflating tariffs with some sort of negotiation tool to bring about positive global change is disingenuous, because the real aim is clearly protectionism.
Citizenship is definitely not relevant. Owning a SEPA account is a precondition at most sellers, even a German SEPA account at some, although the latter has been decided unlawful by courts before.

However, another comment somewhere mentions a seller that accepts Paypal. I'm sure I have heard about others accepting credit card. They are rare, but they exist. It doesn't matter where in Germany you buy the ticket, it's always valid everywhere. Buying the smart card version at some weird place might be practically infeasible and sometimes they are not issued on the spot but after a delivery time. But for buying the app version you "just" have to do your homework. Quick, easy, and convenient, no. Possible, yes.
Suspicion of what?
That must have been why PacMan was such a dismal failure. How realistic is to play a giant yellow mouth chomping on dots in a maze while being chased by ghosts
I was going to say I have a old twiddler 2 (wired usb). There was this program I used to learn called "twidor" that was like a type tutor but had graphic that showed you the chords. Really helpful. I didn't see anything like that in the github repository linked in the video. I guess they are up to twiddler 4 now. I read the linked chordite page and I agree that a problem with the twiddler is you are kind of trying to hold the thing steady so you can chord with the same fingers you chording with.

https://wearables.cc.gatech.edu/projects/twidor/screens.html
Nice memories of having our own AOLServer like clone, Vignette, routinely writing extensions in C, and also why since 2003 I tend to avoid languages without JIT/AOT unless it is for banal OS and application scripting task.
I think csense is engaging in good faith discussion. The proper response is an explanation, not downvotes.
Designing Embedded Hardware: Create New Computers and Devices by John Catsoulis.

Applied Embedded Electronics: Design Essentials for Robust Systems by Jerry Twomey.

There are lots more with varying levels of basics/advanced but the above two are what came to my mind immediately for self study.
Emergency of convenience?

Or a Reichstag fire Emergency?
The Reichstag fire was Hitler's pretext for declaring the national emergency that ended democracy during his reign.

Mussolini did it earlier in 1922 but the pretext was more vague. So perhaps just a Mussolini emergency?
No? The tariffs aren't popular with anyone, have already produced multiple defections from his own party in Congress, and severely undercut the rationale business and financial leaders had for supporting him in 2024. His co-consul Musk, who normally spares no effort to hype up Trump's decisions, has spent the past few days carefully avoiding even indirect acknowledgement of the tariffs. It's really hard to see how this policy could possibly lead to consolidating power.
I’m not in the US, what could this mean?
Designing Babies
this is a classic way that kings and other authoritarian leaders demand patronage.
> As for the Rust belt. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it’s not going to recover. There’s no chance it ever meaningfully does

> I don’t understand any of this unfounded confidence

Usually when I post about political topics here, I'm full of skepticism, devil's advocacy and cynicism. But today, I'll reveal my true colors: I'm secretly an optimist.

I really, truly believe that human progress has a generally positive trajectory. That technology will continue to progress. And such progress generally improves peoples' lives and makes a positive impact on the world.

Our society used to have things figured out. We used to have a social narrative that made sense. I truly believe that we can set up a society where success and opportunities are available to anyone who's willing to make an honest effort.

Why? Because I'm an optimist. Because we already did it.

Observing the sustained, long-term backward progress, shrugging, and saying "Well, that's just the way things are now" is something that I do not understand and do not accept. The idea that that's truly the way of things seems wrong and counterintuitive.

Both objectively so: It seems to go against the model backed by most of human history, that the trajectory of progress is generally forward.

And subjectively so: If there is truly no path forward, that set of affairs isn't just an intellectual curiosity. Living in a world where that's true is a genuinely frightening prospect.

Let me just emphasize how absurd it is. Our society solved the problem of routing good economic opportunities to most people and then one day we just stopped doing that.

The solution's so obvious it's a farce. Just go back to what we were doing before! Global trade used to be expensive, and a lack of global trade seems to be a big piece of the puzzle as to why the economy was the way it was back then. To me, making global trade expensive again seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to attempt!
An exception that doesn't change the rule, where are the Vulkan extensions for DirectX neural shaders, and RTX kit?

As a more recent example, not feeling like enumerating all of them since DirectX 8 shader model introduction, and collaboration with NVidia where Cg became HLSL foundation.

Exactly, proprietary APIs don't have extension spaghetti like Khronos APIs, that always end up out of control, hence Vulkan 2025 roadmap plans.

Khronos got lucky that Google and Samsung decided to embrace Vulkan as the API to be on Android, Valve for their Steam Deck, and IoT displays, basically.

Everywhere else it is middleware engines that support all major 3D APIs, with WebGPU becoming also middleware outside of the browser due to the ways of Vulkan.
The part that really got me was him packing up and leaving with no fanfare, no goodbye, nothing. Like, this guy built Sierra from nothing. And it ends with him slipping out the back door.
My traveling taught me that people are the same everywhere, but now that I know that, I no longer want to to travel just travel.

It’s more of a reminder of that
Can anyone explain the reversal of positions on free trade between left and right since the 2000s? Back then, the biggest bogeyman of leftists was globalization and they would protest against free trade agreements and wanted to boycott imports from poor countries because it was exploiting workers there and taking jobs from poor people in rich countries. At the same time rightists loved free trade because it was good for economic growth everywhere. Since Trump 1 when he cancelled some trade agreements, that somehow turned upside-down and leftists since then love free trade while rightists (or at least Trump) oppose it. Trump seems to be like part of a 2000's leftist dressed up as a rightist.

I wonder if the change in leftists is just a reaction to Trump who they didn't like because of his personality. Now everybody's making economic arguments which is nothing like what the older type of leftist would do.
It's a store chain that will soon be rebranded 'Ten Dollar General'.
FUTO is what tech companies should be
> The US does not have most countries in an economic chokehold

Tell that to any country having trouble repaying USD denominated debts. The US loves lending money to other countries, especially via military goods, and then the US uses the debt as a hammer.
My understanding is they are saying the elasticity of the price (what can be absorbed by tariff increase) comes from the transaction in the retail market it ultimately sells to, yet the "equation" was using elasticity of the import costs.

In other words, Trump's equation thinks that import price will absorb (elasticity) the tariff's impact, but that's not true. It's passed on almost entirely (the 0.945 number, so 0.055 may be absorbed).

So it's using wrong numbers to justify the effective tariffs. IMO, I don't think Trump cares. I think the equation was a "straw-man".
35% — that's wishful thinking where I am. I can get 3% in a supermarket and 6% in a pharmacy. I can get H2O2 stronger than 6% but it's a major undertaking, and one is treated with suspicion and or put onto registers—like 'what the fuck do you want that dangerous stuff for?'.

"I'm coming to realize that any truly potent or powerful substance is strictly off-limits in consumer spaces."

There's no doubt about this and it's a damn pain. Outside industrial settings, chemicals that really work are becoming very difficult to get. I accept that highly concentrated (say >50%) H2O2 is dangerous and not something I want or need, and fuel grade (>70%) needs special handling thus the need for controls, but concentrations of about 20% are useful for bleaching where sodium hypochlorite is unsuitable, etc. For example, 6% H2O2 often isn't strong enough to remove foxing from documents, books, etc. so having ready access to a more concentrated solution that I could dilute to suit would be very useful.

It wasn't always like this, I'm old enough to remember when I could get most chemicals I wanted with little effort. Unfortunately, both occupational health and safety and terrorism have put the kibosh on ready availability, controls and restrictions have screwed all of us legitimate users.

Of course, restrictions covering to whom chemicals are sold haven't detrimentally affected the chemical companies one iota, in fact I'd maintain they've benefited them. They've proteced companies from potential lawsuits when users misuse chemicals and they've provided endless possibilities for them to market nigh-on-useless products to naïve consumers like the household cleaners to which you have referred. I could give examples of how some common household products have become less potent over the years but it'd take a full blog to go into details.

There's another downside here too, the less consumers know about the chemicals they use the more unskilled they become at actual chemistry—even if taught chemistry, using products whose ingredients are unknown doesn't add to their understanding. That's also a matter that I've not time to elaborate about here except to say lack of knowledge about chemicals is one of the significant reasons why society is becoming overly chemical-phobic.
Using AI systems for high-speed security actions, proactive and reactive, seems necessary but not sufficient:

I expect attackers will also use AI systems, trained on the latest in effective attacks. What about defense would make defenders' AI systems more effective than attackers'?

I think it's necessary because, if the attackers use AI systems then the defenders need to keep up.

Also, we need to be creating far more secure systems to start with. Now it is, to a degree, security through obscurity - something is secure when attackers can't find the bugs fast enough. Security through obsurity wouldn't seem to work well when the attacker uses AI software.
Tourism has been in an absolute bubble since the 1990s . The social media turbocharged this , creating a literal rat race where travel became almost 'work' in search of the perfect selfie.

Do you think we might be seeing this bubble bursting now ?
Jimmy Maher has that rare mix of deep research and genuinely engaging storytelling. He somehow makes technical or historical rabbit holes feel like page-turners
because the constituencies have been largely reversed.
Replacement: I wrote something here and then deleted it. You may also want to rethink about your comment.
My gut says the concern arose around the balance of gold, which would behave differently. But that really doesn't work with Bastiat's example, because there is no flow of gold (or other currency) in or out of either country.

But the fact that there is no flow of currency makes the problem look stupider. England is notionally benefiting because it has gained some wine "worth" 50 francs while losing some coal "worth" 70 francs. France is suffering because it's lost some wine worth 50 francs while gaining some coal worth 70 francs. With no francs traveling abroad, the matter is closed and France has ended up better off. What was the problem?

From this perspective, "trade deficit" appears to be synonymous with "gains from trade". (But note that the analogy falls apart immediately; England is also experiencing gains from trade, but it has a surplus instead of a deficit. The difference is driven by the artificial division of the trade into two legs, one of which happens first. If the import happens first, you get a surplus. If not, you get a deficit.)

With fiat, I think there is a concern floating around that if some foreign party absorbs a lot of our currency, and then we print more to replace the loss (so that we continue to have an appropriate amount domestically), the foreign party could suddenly crash the value of the currency by deciding to spend it. That's true. It can't be the origin of the fear of trade deficits, though, because nothing similar appears in Bastiat's example, where currency never moves. It's more analogous to the traditional fear of seeing your country's supply of gold drained away by trade.
https://archive.is/wkSG9
> There are also “rule breakers” who can’t fathom being told what to do.

> Both types of people are insufferable.

He says, on "Hacker" News
Deleuze mentioned on HN? I'll have to check my window for aerial pigs come the morning.

> when the Earth had open, undefined spaces

For physical spaces, you're correct, but it is worth noting that other spaces have appeared and thereafter made the same transition. The internet, for example, is a pretty clear-cut case of a striated system today -- it facilitates desires into tightly-controlled pathways and channels by which means value can be extracted. But in its early years, it was almost totally smooth: communities like Geocities and MySpace demonstrate this through their total stylistic incoherency. While it is of course different than actually going to a new place, it's still a rare thing -- to experience a "totally new" place, unblemished and unoccupied.

And it's not impossible for striated spaces to be deterritorialized: as Deleuze points out, this is in fact a natural tendency of striated space, and it takes active effort (e.g. by a capitalist world-system) to maintain the existing striation.
Yeah, that exchange says so much in just a few lines.
I don't go to big resorts by myself. But when I travel, it's to finally meet discord friends, or to meet them again. That means also hosting friends from abroad, which absolutely feels like vacation on its own.