skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My side projects have always mirrored work to a certain extent, kind of building what I wish I could really do at work.

Led to my current job, which I love. Hopefully this lasts.
It's an interesting read. I'm in the complete opposite camp. I can't pick up a game controller for more than 5 minutes without feeling like I'm wasting time.

This has lead to many, many side projects throughout the years, which I tend to like a zen garden[1]. Pruning, refining, improving, and sometimes rewriting.

As soon as I work out the game mechanics of any game, I just see it as just content now, and there is nothing holding me back to play any longer. Same with watching TV shows or movies, I lose interest pretty quickly and feel an urge to create something.

I've always been very in tune with time, our lack of it, and felt like consumption is a waste of time.

That said I believe creativity is hormonal (that is only my personal belief, unproven). It comes and goes. Some days I can't stop creating, somedays I want netflix and chill. But that's 10 days cycle of sorts, 10 days on, 10 days off.

Depending on where you live, it's perfectly normal that due to current events, or a personal loss in your life, etc. you might not feel the creative bug tickling you. The creative hormone might be totally wiped by your current environment or predicament; tiredness, anger, stress, all play into it.

After all, since our early days in the caves, drawing on walls, Humans wouldn't do so unless they had safety, a full belly, and a warm fire. A place to call home. Creative time needs conditions to be filled.

[1] https://noben.org
Any underlying dependencies we need to know about?
Trump just said "fuck you" to 95% of the planet. These stocks have a long way to fall.

It sure would be nice to have a competent, organized opposition that does more than finger wag and tsk tsk in a scornful tone
But these beliefs have been core to the American left for decades. Even left wing intellectuals like Noam Chomsky have attacked the neoliberal trade agreements I think.

Trump’s populist right wing fans have adopted traditionally left wing views. What’s surprising is so many left wing people are supportive of free trade when they were against free trade during the Reagan era.
100% agree with this perspective. It’s surprising how few others seem to note this.

Thanks for posting it.
> instead of shifting the numbers in filenames step11_ onwards

There are idioms used when programming in BASIC on how to number the lines so you don't end up renumbering them all the time to make an internal change. It's interesting that such idioms are potentially applicable here also.
Sounds like you're looking for Iosevka!

https://github.com/be5invis/Iosevka
Trump himself has said the tariffs are to raise revenue in order to get rid of income and corporate taxes. But now they’re also a negotiating tool to eventually remove all tariffs with our trade partners? That makes no sense
let me know if you find one: https://github.com/leeoniya/uWrap/blob/main/package.json
Petulantly, I’d observe Trump hates or doesn’t believe in knowledge economies. He’s delivering pain to a lot of people in my circles.

For all that, a strategic goal of ensuring trade is sustainable is probably worth sane discussion.
Except, for example, VSCodium does not use vsdbg. It uses open-source NetCoreDbg maintained by Samsung and the fork of the extension, which itself is distributed under MIT and not subject to what article discusses.

But, you know, spreading FUD about .NET is way more important, is it not?
No actually. It is never just that.

The question was about "to get a social media frenzy going".

And this is never just an employer randomly looking at a tweet, for which they are almost never going to do anything about it. Most employers don't care.

Instead, the much more likely scenario is mass points of harassment, stalking, and death threats targeted at people's friends and family, when such a "social media frenzy" happens.

You cannot ignore the actual mostly likely result of your advocacy. And when you just say that this is all "free speech" you are doing disservice to the massive amount of illegal harassment that these internet mobs cause.

You do not control the mob, yet you are response for its harm anyway if you try to start one.
The "4D Chess" is that some powerful internal people doing a lot of manipulation want America to be an isolated very independent fascist state, and some powerful external people want to destabilize America and reduce its foreign influence. They're both making solid progress towards their goals.

The majority of the American people who voted for the current regime are being taken advantage of but like many they'll progressively more and more identify with wanting whatever outcome "their" team achieves.
I’m pretty sure the only ones it will be good for are the rich. Make the rich richer. They will be able to buy stocks cheaply. They will be able to buy homes cheaply as people lose their jobs and foreclose. They will make the USA into a nation of renters. They will increase inflation and prices of everything so most people will be on the cusp of insolvency so they have to work multiple jobs for lower wages and can never retire. They will decrease education so people won’t be able to recognize the propaganda for what it is. They will disappear dissidents. They will make abortion illegal so people churn out the next generation of wage slaves. They will create false enemies (Canadians, gays, liberals, atheists, Jews, Muslims, anyone not white, etc.) to distract people from the real villains.
We're trying to convince folks that this should be the case!
> As global GDP grows, it becomes increasingly burdensome for the United States to finance the provision of reserve assets and the defense umbrella

I don't understand. US share of global GDP is around where it was in 1980, and in 1995[1]. Is Miran arguing that America's "exorbitant privilege" of being the source of the world's reserve currency, literally being able to buy goods from any country in the world with money printed out of thin air, is actually a liability?

[1] Page 8 of his paper

EDIT after reading through Chapter 2 of the paper: Thank you for sharing this. I don't agree with many of the arguments Miran is throwing out so far, but at least it's self consistent.

He is saying:

1. If the US's global share of GDP decreases, then a set of global economic factors will cause the US to keep having to take on deficits to fund the rest of the world's desire for USD (because that is the world's reserve currency). If the US becomes small enough relative to the world economy, then this pressure will cause the US to risk defaulting on its debt.

2. The US's status as the reserve currency issuer means US dollars are artificially expensive. This means that low margin, high-labor industries like manufacturing can't thrive in the US. This is a national security risk because China/Russia can make lots of tanks/drones/etc and we can't.

3. The US benefits from being the reserve currency issuer because it can use that power to project force worldwide and maintain national security.

4. (He doesn't say this, but implies it in that coy way that people who read The New Criterion like to do) #1 is an unacceptable risk for America, and the US should employ a range of unilateral or multilateral measures to reshape the global financial system in a way that devalues the US Dollar, strengthens US manufacturing, and forces US trading partners (esp. other liberal democracies) to subsidize the US's status as the reserve currency issuer, since the US provides a global hegemony that is beneficial to them.

Also, having read portions of the Project 2025 "Mandate for America," it's really interesting to me how all of these right wing thinktank writers (Russ Vought, Max Primorac, and now Miran) seem to share the same writing style.
This all tariff imbecility created solely by Trump it’s atrocious, still, if EU response is to hit the main players in Nasdaq - where there are a lot of chip producers necessary for the ongoing AI revolution - we are just shooting ourselves majorly in the foot.

Surely there are much better companies for the EU to apply directed tariffs. EU absolutely has their weaknesses, but giving blunt responses (like China just did and put tariffs on everything) is not really our way. Expect EU answer to be well crafted and directed at very specific areas.
That's generally not true. Crashes hurt everybody, but rich people making a killing during the recovery.
The dollar may devalue, but Apple just did.
There's also deformity.ai for a much cheaper/freemium version. I can tell you how Deformity is useful:
- You can type logic in plain English (no more complex logic trees)
- AI controls the conversation, meaning it can dive deeper and ask clarifying questions beyond a traditional form
- It speaks 120 languages, meaning you need to do nothing to collect data from a global audience
- You can choose between AI forms or static forms, so you can use AI for cases where you need or want and not otherwise
- Beyond that, AI can reference other information to answer questions (such as data from your website or files). So it can do more than traditional forms can
These are mostly Nissan Rogue's since that's the thing we could get 100 of
Are you just a text message? I don't think my brain generates all the text messages in the internet, it isn't that creative.
I think this might be a move to stop a world war (between Russia and NATO/Europe). If U.S. also leaves NATO any time soon - the chances for a world war would decrease greatly.
It could be down another 50%, it could already have passed. Historically, troughs in P/E ratios have occurred all over the place.

https://www.macrotrends.net/2577/sp-500-pe-ratio-price-to-ea...
That seems unconvincing. Don't most people already have most of their money centrally stored in banks? The topic at hand is merely if when they want to spend that money, if they take it out of the bank in physical form first and then spend or if they use electronic payments. Refusing to move to a cashless society won't prevent people from being locked out of their money except for what they keep under their mattress.
This could lead to the largest "free trade zone" in the world... everyone but the USA.
It's not numerology. The length of time is roughly one human lifetime, which suggests a possible causation.
NOAA all services, specifically Amazon Web Servies (URGENT)
I think that is unlikely. Trade deals require precitability and trust. Nobody wants to sign a trade deal if it might not be worth the paper its written on next week.

I would expect that it would make future trade agreements more "unfair" to usa because other countries will price in a risk premium to cover america's unpredictability.
Nice idea. What number shows at the receivers phone?
Also “do it in advance (and reuse)”
Is that really what he’s doing? If so, then that’s some 5d chess right there.
I've seen people begging with their electronical direct transfer info.
“The Stock Market(s) are literally crashing. There was no reason for this, all self inflicted!”

- Trump….https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/1084698607876...
Rare Beatles Audition Tape Surfaces in a Vancouver Record Shop
Gold is up 14% this year, and up last year as well. A lot for something not inclined to move.
I'm the same, and it has kind of ruined me. No one I know thinks the ways I do. I keep wondering if it's just due to anxiety or a fear of death, or an inability to feel present or what. But I really wish I could figure this aspect of myself out so that I can relax and enjoy in a moment.

Whenever I realize that I was lost a moment, I get anxious about what I should be doing with my time instead.
You may have intended to say SPI. I²C does support "clock stretching" to delay until ready, but that's only in one particular case; otherwise the I²C clock advances all the time at whatever your baud rate is, not only when a pin is explicitly toggled.
No party has had 60 or more votes in the Senate for many many years. Which means nothing can pass under the goals of one party. The game is that one party says the measure being presented is unnecessary and redundant and doesnt vote in favor of that law. Rinse, repeat.

But yes, the culpability is ultimately on Congress.

Its also easy to see why it is gridlocked
What souls did Silicon Valley ever have, c'mon srsly
These tariffs don't create an incentive to strike fair deals because they're not based on trade barriers, they're solely based on trade deficits.
I think in theory it forces the middle class to buy American due to tariffs, which builds a more sustainable lower class at the expense of the middle and lower upper classes.

I think it’s still an overall net negative (dramatically) that sees us become overall poorer and less influential, but I would guess there will be more factory sorts of jobs.
https://archive.ph/A6i8T
Incredible. Trump is in office for 9 of the top 10 single-day point losses.

I know % losses are far more relevant, but it's still baffling the support this guy gets.
Financial markets are generally better indicators of overall sentiment than betting sites but point taken
This weekend is going to determine that. There’s a pretty blood chance we’ll see the real crash Monday.
Yes, it’s different from Excel tables. @wtallis probably explained it better, but I’ll give it another shot:

A “spreadsheet” or tab in Numbers is like a canvas where you can put tables, text boxes, , charts or shapes.

The classic spreadsheet is one of these table objects. If you want it to behave like a classic spreadsheet, you can have a single table object that takes the whole canvas; otherwise, you can have multiple. Each is like a spreadsheet with columns and rows; formulas can refer to cells in other tables.

It’s handy to create dashboard-like views or visually organize your work.

In other words, Excel tables are a special region in your spreadsheet; Numbers tables are individual spreadsheets on a canvas.
One of our kids stuck a bean in their nose. The doctor at the urgent care clinic spent 30 seconds removing it. The bill was $600.
I get it and even sympathize, but I don’t think it will work for three reasons.

First is the uncertainty they are creating. Factories take a long time to build and staff and cost millions to billions depending on size and industry. Who in their right mind is going to invest that to build factories that are only economically viable under a tariff regime that could vaporize after the next election? Or if Trump changes his mind? Which he has a history of doing. Chaos like this is anathema to that kind of long term investment.

I am not opposed to the idea of trying to rebalance trade and repatriate manufacturing. Not at all. But it can be done skillfully, strategically, and without panicking global markets. This economic pivot is less well planned and executed than Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The second reason it won’t work is that there’s way more competition today. After WWII during those glory days of US manufacturing everyone talks about Europe was destroyed and much of Asia had not yet industrialized. We were not just selling to a domestic market. We were selling to a world that had no alternatives. That’s just not true anymore.

The third reason it won’t work is that these tariffs are going to be massively inflationary and that will wipe out any gains the working class gets from more or better jobs.

Meanwhile they are doing nothing to address cost disease in housing, health care, or education.

Housing is the big one and I haven’t heard a peep. Instead of using Federal leverage to tilt at windmills like trans people using bathrooms, they could use that power to push states to regularize zoning and allow more home construction. “No more Federal highway funds unless you implement a plan to reduce housing costs.” Now that would help the working class and the young. It would also help things like the birth rate, which I know a bunch of people on the right are freaking out about. Reducing the #1 cost barrier to family formation would help a lot.

In short I think they’re doing a terrible erratic job of implementing a dubious strategy. This is going to fail, and we will all get poorer as a result. China will be the largest beneficiary since even more of global trade will now shift to them. They are now seen as stable, responsible, and reliable while we look like a basket case.
0: Make your requirements less dumb.
Surprised no mentions of sqlite yet :) I've always associated Tcl with sqlite because of how much it is used in their test suite and how you can have a tcl interpreter as a virtual table. Very interesting and seemingly often overlooked little language.
> Hopefully for the US they won't go in a similar crisis like the UK is going through...

Err.. do tell about the UK's larger crisis than US'?
4D chess is an absurd notion when you consider the actors involved. Only malice and incompetence are credible theories.
Very well put. Alliances take years to build but can be broken in just days.

I'm tempted to think (hope? dream?) that the markets and trade will rebound if all this chaos makes American politics swing back towards an interest in global stability, but I think anyone partnering with the US would do so VERY carefully and right now the entire world is plotting how to remove US dependencies.
Police in El Salvador start each day with a quota of people to round up and imprison without trial. If they don't meet the quota, they don't get to go home to their families.

https://apnews.com/article/nayib-bukele-san-salvador-el-arre...

https://www.hrw.org/report/2022/12/07/we-can-arrest-anyone-w...

Frankly it's shocking every time I see people praise Bukele on Hacker News.
Leopards getting purchased instead of Abrams.
The fact a Secretary of Defense (second in command of the US military) and a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (highest ranking officer and principle military advisor) have both said he is unfit and doesn't care about the law.

Jim Mattis, a Secretary of Defense, in a letter titled "I cannot remain silent":

“Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us... We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership... We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution.” [1]

Mark Milley, a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spent his final days in his position making sure that the military understood that they took an oath to the constitution before president. Mark Milley in his retirement speech said:

We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator. [2]

[1] https://archive.is/UmFxO -- https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/american-c... [2] https://www.politico.com/news/2023/09/29/milley-farewell-spe...
Totally agreed! But bulling 95% of the class room... That doesn't work. New alliances would emerge, like Canada and the EU. No more new pipelines for the US but more upgrades to Canadian ports to ship oil to the EU. New economic routes will be created, new partner deals, etc... Without the US.

Trump just locked the US, kinda did the finger to the earth, and hopes people will come begging for trade.
I would love to know how YouTube does this for music. There's some holes obviously, like some cover artists will play the iconic riffs of a song and then stop somewhere. There's people who do reels or "commentary" of a movie scene and then put some horrible high pitched music to mask it from copyright.

There's probably even some rules around this to only detect just enough to take legal action. Like GP stumbled on a trademark landmine, but obviously just selling red shirts with a bird on it can't be a trademark violation; it needs to be a specific kind of red too.
It's not 4D chess. It's not even 1D chess.

Sparking the local industries needs to happen with incentives, not a tsunami.

You can't swap the supply chain to a local-first instantly. Many things aren't done locally. The factory buildings are gone. The labor isn't there or trained. The basic materials aren't local and need to be imported. The machines needed to produce the parts don't exist locally and need to be imported themselves; sending margins to unrealistic numbers and making it a non-starter environment.

What it is, is another flip of the table, an upset, to cause chaos and feed a positive environment for more chaos, which only suits those who benefit from chaos.
You can use a chip clip, but presumably you rejected that idea because your objective is for this to be replicable by the kind of people who don't know what a chip clip is.
> Manufacturing output is at all time highs.

In terms of dollars not in terms of goods.
Mixed scripts as well. In March 2024 I asked Gemini Advanced (whatever the version was at the time) to transliterate an image which had the following Persian text on it:

> یوسفی بود ولی هیچ خریدار نداشت

Its output was:

> Yoosefi بود ولی هیچ khaरीदār nadāsht

That's three different scripts with two different Romanisation schemes just for the Latin/Roman script (writing "Yoosefi" as "Yūsefī" or "Yūsufī" would have been more consistent with "nadāsht").
The boundaries of what is politics and what isn't is difficult to suss (for me) these days. I personally do not believe this is good. But I have a theory on why those that do think so.

I'm 54. It follows that I see a number of people my age. I'm churchgoing, as well as involved in a number of clubs (pilots, rowing, legos, etc). So I get to rub shoulders with a decent amount of people. And especially a bunch of older people. Our parents are aging.

I'm just beginning to see how hard these years from here on out have a number of difficult challenges. I've begun writing myself notes that I hope will help me navigate the years ahead. One of the key issues is feeling relevant still. As well as losing your competitive edge. Your formative wisdom is being invalidated and eroded constantly.

Couple that with a period of euphoria that was experienced as post WWII prosperity followed by the cessation of the "cold war" and a surge in population, and you have a group of people that are more in their own generational bubble than historically. There's enough peers to make you feel like you're in the majority. I think many of these people feel like this is good, because it feeds the need for relevancy. It's not uncommon for older people to lash out, somewhat foolishly, as they transit these years. And as cognition decreases, it becomes easier to game people in this age bracket (unless someone has a better explanation for why older people are the best target of scams).

As I visit with many of the older genrations (not all of course), their justifications, when pared back often come down to "this makes me feel relevant again". And attempts to restore "the narrative I have in my head about how life was in the good years".

Just some rambling thoughts, about why some people think this is good. It's less about the money to them, and more about a hope of something gained. Not unlike a terminally ill person blowing a wad of cash on something that they would never otherwise have justified.

It is sad, that it comes at the expense of the younger generations. It breaks my heart actually.
More manufacturing will move to the US, but they're about to get a real-time lesson in Econ 101 in the form of the destruction of their country as they abandon comparative advantage and achieve autarky, joining the illustrious club of North Korea.
Are globalist multinational corporations the main ones that get hurt by tariffs?
No, that's just the difference between real and nominal dollars. A dollar today is worth more than a dollar 30 years from now even after adjusting for inflation, because the dollar you have today could be invested, or the dollar you don't have today has to be borrowed until you have it, and investments and loans both have interest rates in excess of inflation.