skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't matter how intelligent or educated or homogenous culturally the Finns are...if Russia were to decide to invade.

Domestic political antifragility means nothing if you're not anti-fragile in terms of the outside world.

It's called the anarchic global system for a reason. The only thing enforcing norms is power and the fear of it.

Antifragility would be the EU finally forming a real union. As someone living in Finland, I'm not holding my breath that happens in our lifetimes. If you take a sample of average, non-cosmopolitan Europeans, they can barely even communicate with each other in the same language. Let alone come to agreements on who's going to pay for each others bloated social welfare expectations.

The EU is the very definition of Fragility. While Finland has made far more rational decisions than its EU neighbors (having correctly prioritized energy security, military, and technology), it doesn't matter because size is more important.
It doesn’t matter where you invested. Everyone’s taking a haircut.
The same arguments can be made for free trade, and i think most would agree that the world is better off with international trade than without.
You're allowed to move the numbers that represent the people in the matrix multiplication such that the interactions are close by.
The new reserve currency won't be a single country's currency but a basket of currencies, where the ratio contribution of component currencies gets adjusted every once in a while.
Research on LLMs suggest that's probably not the case. See the work on reasoning in latent space, and on shared concepts between languages being represented independently of the individual language.

Of course one might argue that even if LLMs are capable of ideation and conceptualisation without natural language, doesn't mean humans are.

But the fact that up to 50% of people have no inner monologue seems to refute that.
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Trump told you, I don't know why you still wonder what's the plan: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-tells-christians-they...
If you look at some famous(ish) projects that do this, there are two main ways:

* write a piece of software that can be commodized (the SourceHut route)

* become a consultant specializing in the software you're developing (the cURL route)

None of these things are guaranteed to work though. You need a good product for the first or your project needs to be the linchpin for many other things for the second.
Computers can and should help along the way, but Dijkstra's argument is that a) much of the challenge of human ideas is discovered in the act of converting from natural to formal language and b) that this act, in and of itself, is what trains our formal logical selves.

So he's contesting not only the idea that programs should be specified in natural language, but also the idea that removing our need to understand the formal language would increase our ability to build complex systems.

It's worth noting that much of the "translation" is not translation, but fixing the logical ambiguities, inconsistencies and improper assumptions. Much of it can happen in natural language, if we take Dijkstra seriously, precisely because programmers at the table who have spent their lives formalizing.

There are other professions which require significant formal thinking, such as math. But also, the conversion of old proofs into computer proofs has lead us to discover holes and gaps in many well accepted proofs. Not that much has been overturned, but we still do t have a complete proof for Fermats last theorem [1].

[1] https://xenaproject.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/fermats-last-th...
Dramatic cuts in China's air pollution drove surge in global warming
> Everyone is focused on how the rich are getting richer. This is inevitable in liberal societies. The goal should instead be to stop the poor getting poorer

These things are fundamentally connected. When the wealthy have too much power, they squeeze the middle and the poor too hard.

Unlike much else in life, the pool of money is a zero-sum game (though this is addressed in the paper, notably). When 3 Americans hold more wealth than 50% of the rest of us, that's a real problem. This historic and rising inequality leads nowhere good, and we are in existential crises which require that this be properly addressed.
If they have to fire people, they're running it poorly, so yes?
The UK Labour government was opposed to Photo ID it was the right wing that introduced it.

It is an Anglo-American thing not to have PhotoID probably related to never been invaded in the last two hundred years.

The issue is that to get back in power the Democrats need votes top overturn Republicans and so the IDs in Republican states matter those in Democrat states do not. So better top show full disapproval as they won't lose any seats over that and can keep some pressure up.
Doesn’t matter if they’re gone in 6 months. The damage is done, businesses will see the United States as too unstable and unreliable to plan long term goals in. We will pay the penalty for decades. Even if you get a new administration, that administration can be gone in another 4 years.
The UK has a monarchy with severely curtailed official powers. But it's a front. The UK is effectively run by the Crown, and the aristocrats have huge land, property, and investment/financial empires, own all the main media outlets, and set policy through their clients in the political system.

The aristocrats are narcissistic, shockingly racist, and often rather stupid - good at tactics like manipulating elections and news cycles, but contemptuous of most of the population, and clueless about how to build an economy based on growth and invention instead of rent-seeking and extraction.
> Advertising made smoking cool
Nicotine is incredibly addictive, so one would suspect that that addiction made the change stick better.

> it made diamonds valuable

This one is interesting, in that diamonds are valuable for a one off high value purchase (i.e. wedding rings). I'd need to think about this a bit more, but on the face of it is a good counter-argument.

> Long term behaviour change is difficult. Short term behaviour change; not so much.

Can you provide some evidence for this?

Context: I have a PhD in psychology, and have read so many behaviour change meta-analyses that show really, really small effects so my prior is pretty strongly against this.

Additionally, I worked at a big tech on ads, and while one could definitely see changes in conversion rates due to ads, the incremental changes (i.e. measured by experiments) were much, much lower such that a good model of Google/Facebook etc is that they show ads preferentially to people who were probably going to convert anyway (it seems to work well in situations where there is no awareness of the business, but for larger businesses it's all about taking your competitors customers).

So my thesis is more that advertising re-allocates the dollars spend between (mostly) interchangeable products, which is consistent with the psychological research.
In Alaska you have UBI and it comes from the state selling oil… where does the money come from for pie-in the-sky UBI?
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The buck stops here - Harry S Truman. He had this sign on his desk when he was president.

Here is an explanation of what it means:

https://www.trumanlibrary.gov/education/trivia/buck-stops-he...
You're trying to claim a law that is exclusively used to fleece U.S. companies and never EU competitors is 'not bad faith'?

When has the DMA been used against EU tech companies? Never.

Your comment also shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the DMA and GDPR laws. Neither of them are objective laws, and they are applied subjectively without guidance.

Let me be very clear: the EU does not tell you how to comply with either the DMA or the GDPR, period. The law is extremely vague and does not prescribe how to comply in any way, shape or form.
Developers should get the axe even though there’s an entire process behind pushing code out to production? QA, UAT? Surely people sign off on what’s being pushed out?
It's not really split down the historical line of north and south. What you are actually seeing are urbanization rates, with more urbanization in the north east (this was true and a factor during the civil war too). You can look at the county level voting maps to see this exists in the north too. If you look at only state level maps, then you lose that precision. It's not a north vs south thing, it's and urban vs rural thing.
The US can use internal policies to support the industries and skills you mentioned. Tariffs as implemented, and greatly damaging longstanding relationships with allies, will have the opposite effect. The existing lead in services will be lost, consumption will drop, and the increase in production of goods due to tariffs won't offset it. I would recommend you read the outcome of the Smoot Hawley tariffs.
Because you know what you installed and so which sl to use.
If anyone is interested, you can find the US's assessment of the tariffs imposed on the US by other countries here: https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/Reports/202...

EG:

"The UK has duties on approximately 5,000 tariff lines, including on certain agricultural products, ceramics, chemicals, bioethanol, and vehicles. Tariffs on some products such as bananas, raw cane sugar, and apparel, which tend not to be import sensitive for the UK, are maintained to provide for preferential access for imports from certain developing countries into the UK compared to the MFN rate. The UK has some high tariffs that affect U.S. exports, such as rates of up to 25.0 percent for some fish and seafood products, 10.0 percent for trucks, 10.0 percent for passenger vehicles, and up to 6.5 percent for certain mineral or chemical fertilizers"
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We're excited because this gives Nix fine-grained caching with early cutoff optimisation (see the Build Systems à la Carte paper). Combined with remote build farms like Nixbuild.net, this moves Nix into the incremental cloud build systems arena, alongside Google's Bazel and Meta's Buck2.

Dynamic derivations and content-addressed derivations are still experimental features in Nix, so we're hoping to accelerate their maturation by providing a compelling use-case and implementation. Our north star is to have Hydra (nixpkgs' CI runner) support incremental compilation in nixpkgs for slow builds like LLVM.

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The numbers appear to be based on the trade deficit alone, not on any differences in import duties etc.
Power abhors a vacuum. No such thing can exist without some state eventually dominating 51% of it. We've just tested this out since 2009 and it's already obvious that no crypto can escape state control, because the ingress and egress points are already under state control. Short of establishing your own colony on the moon or Mars, this ain't gonna happen.

Luckily, it's still possible to change governments. Sometimes, in some places. Maybe not for much longer. But the idea that crypto will free us is a fantasy that at this point is mostly being peddled by secret police agencies in name-your-country.
The issue is not that the barrier is insurmountable. The issue is that small amounts of friction become meaningful at scale in elections. Place the friction in the right spots and some people experiencing that friction choose not to bother. If the people who choose not to bother disproportionately vote for one side then there's a small electoral benefit to the other side.
Every opinion on UBI is short sighted, and does not understand the macroeconomic poison that is UBI. Our economy, all economies, have lowered ethics players operating at the top of each economy. UBI institutionalizes these low ethics players, as well as institutionalizes the UBI recipients and forever casts their offspring into those economic roles. UBI is nothing less than the death of hope and the elimination of any economic ladder up and out of one's birth situation. The only path is stagnant or down.
And all the kings? Henry VIII for a start.
This is not a game. Others will not take it as a game, and will retaliate. You can only play the bully for so long before others start treating you as a bully, and stop backing down, even after you have backed down -- as they never know when you are bluffing.
Love mermaid. And for me mermaidchart.com was synonymous with mermaid markup. Thank you very much! I didn’t know the official website of the project is https://mermaid.js.org/ Just learned from you.
Every time I think about that it strikes me as a dumb idea. Everything that cant be allowed to fail should be a government enterprise.

I would go nuts with the concept, turn city hall into a museum, hotel, grandcafe, restaurant, cinema, casino, conference rooms, desks for rent, city tour guides, etc etc open 24/7. Live music if there are no council meetings on the big screen. It should have a room to smoke weed too.

If you ignore how silly it sounds, what do you think the revenue will be like?
The width of the spectrum of political views for 65% of people used to be relatively narrow.

That's increasingly not the case.
I guess all the most widely read authors (and almost every other published writer) are just boring.
hell same
> Ray Dalio's Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order feels prescient

Maybe Dalio is right, but a lot of his data was sketchy [1].

My personal theory is that Dalio somehow benefits from saying nice things about the Chinese regime.

[1]: https://youtu.be/s1iv0q_SW3E
Too many steps, why do I have to signup? Why do I have to create an engine.

Remove all of this, just let me directly use your app, I want to search and create engines on the fly.

I don't need to save them for future uses, if I am not going to use your app even once.

If you want this to take off, it needs to just work, no extra steps unless I want to.
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hetzner is $1.5/TB for us and eu.
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ever work for a manager that barely understood what you do, or how it’s done? Been there, done that. Never again…

Engineers shouldn’t be _forced_ into management but the option should be encouraged if they have the aptitude for it.
There was a lot of other stuff than just import substitution in the Asian miracle. See
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/book-review-how-asia-works
Comment on the comments.....it sure looks like moores law is loosing relevance and that going forward the possibility for durable, stable, device implemtations, that can last for generations is inevitable.
Manufacturers may be resistant, but with 8~9 billion customers, and the inevitable losses and damage to devices, it will take a generation to get one in everybodys hands
Can you explain how it make it difficult?

Ie. Give an example of how the system is an disadvantage for en American exporter or an advantage to an European exporter
> hot takes "they have no idea what's coming" are I believe naive. They know. They just don't care

I think they know, they care and decided that it is a reasonable way forward given very limited (trade and budget deficit) options. Otherwise I think you are spot on.

To spitball some ideas on your midterm comment (again, agree to it). One possibility is they see it as an unavoidable loss, plan on using veto to maintain course set during the first 2 years (which is why they rush) and hope to be in the updraft phase by the November 2028 elections. Maybe.
Adding a ticket for this :)
Lol. "Liberal" people create an echo chamber by eliminate opposing opinions and then are surprised that people elect far-right candidates.

> Until we can live in a world where fundamental rights are protected and respected

It wasn't hiding from uncomfortable things, opinions and people, that created the world where you can even think about women or minority rights, or even know how to write to express your opnions.
So this approach will not create the world you described.
I’m not sure I see any differentiation here compared to just using an AI chat app directly. I asked Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity the example “What’s the difference between the Nikon D3500 and D5600?” question, and they all did a great job.
Vibes aren’t really about clarity, are they? The point is that a clear, programmatic approach is not the only effective computational mechanism for realizing intentions anymore.

Keep in mind that Dijkstra had some giant shoulders to stand on. This article is the very first one I’ve ever seen that directly dealt with vibes.
There are definitely cars that size and bigger and I frequently see their drivers struggle to park or navigate narrow roads.

I'd call something like a Golf/Focus "mid size". There's approximately two sizes below and two sizes above.
Russia is the number one war criminal in the world. Of course now that Russia owns American leadership, we can partially blame them for American human rights abuses.
Yeah. I never really even considered Lenovo's new additions to the ThinkPad line. I focused on the machines that were continued from the original THinkpad series (T, R and X).
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Look into LibRedirect and the projects it uses and also things like youtube-dl/yt-dlp.

https://libredirect.github.io/

https://libredirect.codeberg.page/

> A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends.

https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends

https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36146076
> If absolute gender equality is what we're after, I think the premise is flawed form the start.

I thought we were talking about some sort of equality. Re the OP, who mentioned that they wouldn't participate in certain "women's issues", I couldn't think of an equivalent example where women shouldn't participate in "men's issues". That fact alone strikes me as unequal - it can't be that one sex (or race, or whatever other distinction) should have rights in law, that others don't have. Such a circumstance would an example of creating inequality, which I think is the antithesis of the OP's point.

These questions are not straightforward. Presumably we don't want to initiate or institutionalise inequality.
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But some of those places aren’t even countries. As already stated - weird.

It’s almost like it wasn’t well thought out.
Why haven't we questioned the asymmetric high tariffs imposed by the EU on America for decades?

The EU imposed a 10% tariff on US cars for decades while the US only imposed 2.5% on the EU. And this happened while the EU exerted a significant trade surplus against the US on automobiles.

I don't advocate trade wars, but I can understand the case for some rebalancing, given the historic context. Hopefully Trump will only use tariffs as a negotiating tool, and they will soon be lifted. He's a dealmaker.
Checks his own country: "No channels available."

Damn, even Afghanistan has a dozen available.
Yeah I don’t think many households have 10%+ fat to cut in their budget
I suppose the question is if controlling the economy with a single lever for interest rate is a poor solution. The answer seems an obvious yes.

I've always thought a basic income should start with 10 bucks so that we can figure out the logistics of it. Have real world data on how hard it is to implement.
The name is probably inspired by TV Garden from Nam June Paik from the 70s
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If you pay closer attention, you can see that some of the designs rely on very deliberate placements of circles; for example, eyes of the monkey and owl, and the nose of the whale.

Those are just the obvious ones that I can immediately spot — there was probably a lot of careful consideration into the placement of circles in order to facilitate good looking arcs and circles that bring the animals to "life".
The US has levied a 25% tax on imported light trucks since 1964, and 2.5% on passenger cars. The EU levies a 10% import tax on all cars from the US.
The DMA is already a tax on US tech companies specifically, given it is enforced exclusively against US tech.

Hence the retaliatory tariffs. The backdoor taxes through 'laws' (that are NEVER enforced against EU companies -- Spotify got a DMA carve-out).