skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is such an obvious fact and the fact that not more people see through this is insane to me.

The "trade deficit" is an arbitrary number unrepresentative for what the US makes the most money with.
Thank you! The images are created via Flux (Schnell, due to cost). An LLM (currently Gemini Flash) creates the prompt, Flux generates the images, a rembg lambda that I open-sourced trims the background out, and then a vision-based LLM (also currently Gemini Flash) grades the resulting output for prompt adherence, background removal artifacts, etc. A lot get thrown away but the cost is so low that even a 25-50% success rate is adequate.

Background removal lambda if you want to check that out: https://github.com/joshdickson/rembg-lambda
> They'll probably freak out once they finally realize the implications of cheap drones + smart AI + auto-aim guns.

Hopefully in the US. People seem to not care about the development toward AI controlled weapons everywhere in the world.

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20240210-israel-deploy...

https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/10/17/israel-deploys-ai-p...
> taxation and wealth redistribution remain an effective way to bolster a societies resilience

Tangentially:

It’s wild how inconsistent the public and political reactions are to different ways of getting revenue. Take this common pattern:

When DOGE identifies billions of dollars in waste, fraud, or unnecessary spending, the reaction is often: "That’s only 0.01% of the federal budget. It’s nothing!"

But when someone proposes a tax on billionaires that would over time raise a similar amount suddenly the reaction flips: "We’ll solve inequality! Fund healthcare!"

This contradiction is everywhere. How can $20 billion in government savings be "nothing," while $20 billion in new tax revenue is "transformational"? It's the same money.
Their point has nothing to do with term limits.

> Hell, even the current [president] could [eliminate these tariffs].

The point is that the goal of building onshore production isn't as likely to be reached with these tariffs due in part to the uncertainty surrounding the method of enacting the tariffs.
I remember the days when every new project started with "now let's write our own String class". As someone who works on both, it seems server and native software left this era in the distant past, but we're still there in web development.
Reminds me of the Pavlok creator that paid someone from Craigslist to sit next to him and slap him in the face if he got off track or unproductive.
Another angle: We tell people to "vote with their wallet" to let the better producers rise to the top. That works a lot better if more people actually have something in their wallet to vote with.
The vast majority of industries from the past are now highly automated and would be made even more so if the alternative were paying US-scale living wages to the employees.

So you bring the factories back to the US, but 95% of the created jobs are for robots.

Problem solved...?
This is insane. API looks great, landing page is the best thing I've ever seen and just so feature rich. I wish I had a way to use this in my primary application.
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We mostly abandoned the long-term viability of that in the Bush years with the tax cuts plus expensive wars, and doubled down in Trump's first term (more tax cuts). That exhausted our margin for responsible emergency debt spending, and we had two crises on top of it (as always happens from time to time) so we were down to just playing for time and hoping for a way to spread out the pain rather than let it hit all at once.

We now do not appear to even be playing for time and are rushing toward the "all at once" thing.
It's not just that the axes are wrong, there's a fundamental problem with the idea of the graph in an article about considering viewpoints and overcoming tribalism. Fundamentally the author put a graph in the article about tribalism and not considering other views where only people close to him ideologically are "free thinkers" (it's especially weird since "free thinkers" are congregated where most people are). You can sorta see this problem with the rest of the article, there are a lot of claims about how other people think badly and how he thinks is good. This is his perogative but it makes the article deeply insular and not really about how to understand and reason with other people.

It's particularly frustrating to me since from my experience I think both sides thinking he is farther away ideologically than he is is from then is from this tendency. I have the opposite problem, people generally think I'm much closer ideologically than I am even though I'm uncompromising in my principles (I'm very far left and even a vegan, which is anathema to many people). I've found if I listen to people and, more importantly, am willing to understand and speak to their values the more my experience is the exact opposite of the writer's. People's political views are often irrational but also they are driven by a diverse set of underlying ideologies and values and if you think "independent thought" is going to cluster in particular spot in an ideological spectrum and everyone else is just subject to groupthink (but you aren't somehow) then of course talking to other people who aren't ideologically close to you is going to be miserable.
I think you started to form a persuasive argument, but you discredit yourself by saying "orange man".
> The Three Laws of Robotics are a set of rules devised by science fiction author Isaac Asimov, which were to be followed by robots in several of his stories.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Laws_of_Robotics

You know that's from a fictional book, right?!
If it's meant to never pause, yes.
You were still going to lose export markets as international competition grew, and you were still going to shift to higher value-added service jobs as the economy developed.
The difference is when guy from an app falls and breaks something it will turn out he doesn’t have insurance so you will lose much more than 3k when he sues
On a T480 secondhand with a wonky keyboard. Where are you guys sourcing keyboards from?
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It is answered here: https://c3-lang.org/faq/compare-languages/
The thing is, you need to take into account the fact that a lot of the political "deals" are not done during official EU sittings, when these translation services are available.

A lot of the discussions happen during the informal after-hours in cafes and restaurants.

This is one of the reasons why, for many years, the Dutch delegation was very unsuccessful at pushing their own interests and placing their representatives in "important" positions, as they were all keen on taking the first train home from Brussels, and were skipping these informal gatherings.

It's not a stretch to imagine that a poor mastering of the "important" EU languages will put a politician at a disadvantage in such settings, due to an inability to communicate with his/her peers.
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Weighted average is an interesting metric, but I'm not sure of its value in this context. I can imagine that perhaps 2-3% is more of an equilibrium and any amount of tariffs will still trend towards some market equlibrium.

I believe the EU has 10% tariffs on all US autos and we didnt have tariff theirs. That seems relevant in a way that this weighted average doesn't account for, right?
The experience begins when the conductor starts marking time.
To protect local industries which create higher prices. Smaller countries do this to protect jobs from economies of scale but pay a price and have a lower standard of living.
But even real translation is bad.

There has been some efforts to make computer languages with local (non-english) keywords.
Most have fortunately already failed horribly.

But it still exists, e.g. in spreadsheet formulas.

In some cases even number formatting (decimal separators) are affected.
> The Republican party passed the Civil Rights Act

Way more Democrats in both houses of Congress voted for it than Republicans (to be fair the Democrats held the Senate 67-33). A Democratic president signed it. His Democratic predecessor asked for it. How do you figure "the Republicans did it"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964#By_pa...
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Are there any examples of using a C library (binding, FFI) in C3? A quick search came up empty.
tbh I think one of the things I really liked reading through examples was the change in the switch/case behavior. I always thought implicitly falling into the next case was an awful design, and that a break is the more logical implicit behavior except in the case (no pun intended) of stacked empty case statements.

I do all my coding in Python, but if I ever find myself needing to reach for C again, I'll certainly consider this.

EDIT: Though is there a reason why "fn" is needed? I would think the AST builder would still be able to identify the beginning of a function definition without it, and as a programmer, I can identify a function definition easily.
As a local, the brand called Dilmah is just a regular supermarket brand for us, but I hear it's quite popular in places like Australia and New Zealand.
I haven't talked to my grandmother since Trump won the first time in 2016.

It wasn't just that she voted for him, but the fact that she actively supported all of his policies around immigration, including mass deportations that would have included my wife (who was on DACA at the time). She has also said some extremely disturbing stuff about what should happen to gay people that I don't even know that I can post without breaking some form of TOS, which would be horrible already, but slightly worse to me because my sister is gay.

It's easy to say "just be neutral and don't talk about politics around her", but there are some issues with that.

First, you don't know my grandmother; no matter how much I try and avoid any political subject she will keep bringing it up. She will divert a conversation about my job as a software engineer to somehow a rant about how Mexicans are stealing American jobs (this actually happened). I could just roll my eyes and bite my tongue, but this brings me to my next point:

Second, neutrality isn't neutral. I don't really know who started this myth that somehow avoiding the subject is "not taking a side", it's just a lazy way to endorse the status quo. If I keep trying to be amicable with people who actively want my wife to be deported, then that's sort of signaling to my wife that I don't give a shit about what happens to her. I don't want to signal that, because it's not true. At that point, my only option is to either stop talking to my grandmother or talk to her and constantly push back she says something racist or horrible, which isn't productive.

Before you give me shit over this, all of you do this. You all draw the line somewhere. You probably all draw it at different points than I do, but you absolutely do draw the line. If your best friend suddenly joined the Klan and became the Grand Wizard, you probably wouldn't continue being friends with them, even if you could avoid talking politics, because that would signal that you're ok with their racism. You also probably wouldn't be friends with Jeffrey Dahmer even if you could avoid the whole "killing and eating people" topic.

As it stands, I don't really feel bad for cutting her off. I absolutely do not make a concession for age on this. If you're going to live as a grownup in 2025 then it's not wrong to judge someone by 2025 standards. I don't give a fuck what the world was like when you grew up, you have to live in the world as it is now.
As long as there's someone to produce it ... forever?

I somehow keep eating 6-10 eggs a week despite not having a chicken.
I disagree with this. Jan 6th didn’t affect 99% of peoples lives directly. It was clearly bad, but few people saw impacts in their own lives.

Higher prices and a possible recession will affect every person in the country and even globally.

His MAGA base might not blame him, but that’s only like 30-40% of the electorate. The other 60-70% won’t be happy if their lives are negatively impacted.
What operation or transformation does rotate mean?
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Yes, but far less. We can have tax free thresholds, you know. Like the capital gains exemption for sale if a house.

Any working class person against higher and broader capital gains taxes is not thinking very deeply, in my opinion.
> He is a conman, but not a good one.

How many other conmen have conned 77.3 million (at least, that's just in the US and I hear there are many outside the US who have fallen for his schtick)? There have been a few others in this class (Mao, Stalin, Hitler, Pol Pot, etc.) but there's no denying that he has confidence skillz...
The argument is that increasing government revenue doesn't automatically mean We the People benefit; it usually means more pork and other ways of funneling money to benefit the people with the power to funnel it.
You’re venting, not arguing. Teaching three people doesn’t scale, and anecdotes aren’t data.

No one’s dismissing Rossmann or the value of empowerment. The problem is acting like isolated efforts equal systemic change. If this were as easy as you claim, the landscape would reflect that.

So yes, you’re missing the point. Passion is fine, but without policy, infrastructure, and incentives, it goes nowhere.
You can add micro nutrients to those foods, they just don't always have them. Or so I thought.
The Swiss Food Composition Database (https://naehrwertdaten.ch/en/) is an exceptional resource for detailed nutritional information on over 1,100 foods available in Switzerland but also around the world. It offers comprehensive data on macronutrients, micronutrients, and fat composition.

Maybe that would be a good source to challenge and validate the values provided by your LLM approach.
I missed that there were diagrams because I immediately activated reader mode at the top.
I get a black screen with a scroll bar. Lockdown mode on iOS.
That's kinda the point. Previously they couldnt but with an LLM driven conversational interface they wouldnt have to standardize - all of those phrases would turn on the wipers.
If a city enforces a new speed limit somewhere and only people living outside of the city break that speed limit, you argue that the law isn't applied equally because no resident of the city has been fined so far?

That's the most backward way of trying to prove a point (without even addressing whether DMA and GDPR are a good thing or not, just based on that...)
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I am so glad there is another open data for nutrition. My favourite one so far is https://www.nutritionvalue.org/ which is awesome. As a fitness enthusiast/gym rat I really appreaciate having a pure facts only nutrition website (even if it is AI enhanced a bit), because these days if you ever google "Nutrition value of XXXX", you inevitably find useless search results giving "Benefits of eating XXXX". I have a feeling this might be true even if you substitute "XXXX" with "human poop". I hope this site doesn't start learning from those crappy articles.
The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar so we know that Zazu Nova must have been there due to being a gay man. As the previous iteration of the website describes Nova as "queen", "she" and "transgender woman", this means that in 1960s terminology Nova would almost certainly have been understood to be a transvestite, possibly a drag queen.

Sources on the web refer to Nova having involvement with the Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries group, which fits with that description also.
> Now free trade is hurting USA economy

Then why is the economy crashing under these new tariffs when it was recovering nicely just a few months ago?
Yep. Just some mechanical calculation.
No, China did not.

They didn't put a gun to anyone's head, they offered competitive pricing in exchange for moral bankruptcy. The corporate elite of America chose this so they could wield immense profits and avoid the cost of ethics and worker rights. And the American people happily accompanied them the whole way, now going so far as to prop up Temu in their pursuit of cheap crap.

And yet America is (perhaps soon to be was) still rampantly wealthy and productive and powerful. Moreso than any nation on the planet.
anybody use this?
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“Diversity” is a nice positive spin on what is an extremely fragmented/disjointed/nonexistent energy policy, military strategy, technological cooperation, consumer markets, etc. Like I said, the average European cannot converse with his/her neighbor even at a 1st grade level in a common language. These are obviously not strengths in the context of the current international order, and to try to brush that away with platitudes is to live outside of reality.

If the EU had a cohesive strategy on these things, you can 100% guarantee Russia wouldn’t be starting wars along its borders. Russia is a small, weak economy compared to a theoretical unified EU (the irony of that phrase!)

Also, the reason Finland didn’t join NATO before is not because Finland felt they were so strong on their own. It’s because Finland didn’t want to piss off Russia in the slightest way and end up like Ukraine. An inability to make formal alignments comes from a position of weakness, not strength.
Reid Hoffman is a pedophile, and his opinion is worth nothing to anyone.
I should have said "directive".
For the EU and US:
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...

> For technical reasons, there is not one “absolute” figure for the average tariffs on EU-US trade, as this calculation can be done in a variety of ways which produce quite varied results. Nevertheless, considering the actual trade in goods between the EU and US, in practice the average tariff rate on both sides is approximately 1%. In 2023, the US collected approximately €7 billion of tariffs on EU exports, and the EU collected approximately €3 billion on US exports.
The current spending bill has a 4.5T giveaway to corps and the ultra rich. The goal is to drive prices to the floor and then buy everything up.

What's a 50% drop in value to a billionaire? Most of them would still be a billionaire and the ones that fall from that group still have more money than they could ever spend. No wealthy person will truly feel what's going on. They'll still vacation and eat their caviar. Caricatures aside, it's absurd to compare someone stock sheet numbers going down with people not able to find medical care or feed themselves.
Maybe if they're well regulated otherwise they'll just become another vehicle for corporations to take advantage of the same plebs.
Beethoven’s 5th symphony (da-da-da-DAA) starts with a rest too, it’s not unusual to notate like this. Many pieces have “pickup” measures which are not complete and much shorter than a full measure. But when the pickup is more than 50% of a normal measure, it’s no longer much of a pickup and starting with a rest to make up the complete measure makes sense.
> Can you explain why countries have tariffs if tariffs are bad for their economies as a general principle?

Primarily special interest groups. e.g. You have a hundred people, everyone loses 1% of their salary due to tariffs, but one person retains 90% of the tariffs and the remaining 10% is lost. The net result is negative, most people don't care much about the 1%, but the one winner is vociferously against losing his entire income.
Valve used its influence over game publishers to stifle their competition in the digital distribution market.

I'm a happy Valve customer, and I'd still likely buy with them even if other platform's offered lower prices, but that doesn't change that they've leveraged their market domination to force concessions from publishers that benefit their business at the cost of competitors and customers.
The decade-long growth of government-authored news media in China
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> Where I live right now it's simply impossible because it's required to have an ID, we are also 10 million people so it's pretty easy to not fall into the cracks.

The hypocrisy here is astonishing. You are fine with your country requiring an ID but not mine. I think it's really telling that everyone on this thread is concerned with letting people vote without an ID, but nobody is saying we should try to help get people IDs because without an ID your life must be a complete shambles and they have no access to many basic government benefits or just basic things in life.

A state ID is proof of citizenship. There is no federal ID card in the US. I'm sorry, you shouldn't express opinions on these things when you clearly don't have basic understanding of what is going on.

> You simply are talking past through me, it's clear as day that people in the USA who want to vote many times cannot vote

Right, that is what the media puts out there, but it never actually happens. That's why I said it must be easy to find at least one actual person who couldn't vote, because supposedly there are so many. I've never met one nor heard of one. In the worst case they give you a 'provisional' ballot and in the event the election is close enough they check each one to see if that person was qualified to vote before counting it, but they ALWAYS let you vote. I had to do a provisional ballot in Santa Cruz, California (one of the most liberal cities in the US) to vote for Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary. It's not uncommon, but they NEVER turn anyone away from voting. I'm sorry, but you just have absolute ignorance here.
That has no bearing on my point. US companies purposefully outsourced to China
Also there's no tariffs on the billions of $ imports from Russia. Funny that.