skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I disagree but the current policies guarantee it's not recoverable so a debate would mostly be around hypotheticals. We're reducing revenue but not spending (or not enough to offset the reduction in revenue so the deficit will rise), so the debt will only continue to rise at an increasing rate.

Ironically, Trump has the record for the highest deficit ever in US history. He's on track to beat it though and with a reasonably strong economy when he took office (again, not an ideal economy, underemployment is a major issue, but not a weak economy by any stretch).
To the extent markets recover it will be because there’s confidence that exposure to bizarre and unpredictable behavior from the US has been reduced.

EU / China trade pacts, China / California, Mexico / EU. People have to patch around the mistaken over-reliance on sanity from the US. It’ll happen, not sure if it’ll take a few weeks or a few years though.
This is as ridiculous as it gets -- so malicious Linux install media is the problem you want to defend against? When has this _ever_ been a problem? And more importantly -- why is this ridiculous problem so important the solution must be giving MS even more monopoly abusing powers?

People may use pendrives, but even if they literally google "Linux install" and click on the first result they are getting the media from the correct website. One could even claim it is in practice even a better situation than getting it from a random, even if reputable magazine as it was common 20 years ago.

The certificate is not meaningless; it still identifies the same publisher. E.g. if you already trusted Suse once, you do not get the same prompt again.

If you really cannot reliably identify the contents of your install media for the very first installation, what do you want to do here? And why is Windows having the advantage even improving the situation at all? With no dbx, you have a myriad of exploitable Windows versions ready to be used in your 'compromised' Windows install media. And due to the draconianess of the secure boot lockdown, most Linux users will either disable secure boot entirely, add the MS UEFI CA (with the extra bazillion of now non-MS backdoors that entails), or roll their own PK/MOK. In all 3 cases, your compromised install media 'wins' and secure boot has been useless. These are not dumb users precisely...

As usual with secure boot, the threat vectors it 'defends' against are very farfetched, made redundant with a plenitude of easier attack vectors that secure boot will not protect against, and anyway whatever protection SB may give is defeated entirely by comically easy methods (e.g. using a legit windows install media to simply boot the pc with your fake fullscreen windows install/logon dialog while you clone the bitlocker encrypted disk. Bonus points if you use that same computers' recovery partition instead of external install media, which was still an unpatched hole just a couple years ago) precisely because SB basically defaults to "trust anything from MS" instead of trusting only what the user wants it to trust. It also happens that MS not only benefits significantly from this current implementation but also has repeateadly used it to push other OSes away.
> It wasn't completely blocking her windpipe but it was very close to doing so.

I'm wondering why they don't make coins with a hole in the center, like pen caps.

There's even an ISO standard about pens. Why not coins?

https://www.iso.org/standard/81889.html
i generally cannot go to the US government with a dollar to withdraw its worth in gold.

US debt is an IOU, but USD is just an object that i can barter with
There’s a lot of existing Python code in this space and many ML researchers are comfortable in Python.
Did I ever defend a particular industrial policy? No. You misread my comment.

My comment was intended to give the GP poster insight into the mindset of Americans who revel in the “bullying” behavior they described.

But one point of inquiry — how are foreign aid programs like USAID mercenary? Even if they are CIA fronts, it’s hard to argue that they are in any way economically extractive.
Doing nothing and just watching how how dictatorship pans out is also an option, sure.
I used Squarespace for a domain and website for a relative who had a very low tolerance for futzing around. No major issues. They also have O365 for email and there have not been any problems with eg email being rejected.

The biggest issue: I've learned that SQS really doesnt like people trying to go their own way, even if technically it is supported.

For example:

- you can embed your own JS scripts...but it's clunky, and debugging is not fun, because you are fighting with objects wrapped in squarespace's own object model.

- you will have a far, far more pleasant time using their payment systems, appointment tracking systems, etc than trying to integrate your own choice of third party. Thats great if they already do what you want, less so if not. So you def want to look at all the ancillary services like those that your client might need and confirm that they can live with what SQS offers.

- Finally, I no longer work on this site, but I do not remember seeing any versioning, source file backup, etc. They do have a staging system though. So you might want to consider how to preserve your client's site in case of screwups.
I walked into a Mumbai slum 20+ years ago and recently checked on Streetview and other 360 image spots to see how it compared. Still there. How do those get categorise with regard to poverty? Or is/was the poverty-poverty the people sleeping in/around train stations?
>I've never understood why countries like the EU pass strict environment and labor laws and then DONT place some kind of tariff or tax on countries without those restrictions.

This happens all the time though? GMO are very restricted there, so farmers there can't use them. Imports are also banned.
Sending people there and then saying you don't have jurisdiction over them anymore is dysfunctional by any reasonable measure.
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Let's be real he's over blowing the novelty of parallelism. We know what parallelism is. The real "5th optimization" is quantum computing.
No, if it were ruled unconstitutional and the President continued to enforce the policies then Congress would be justified in impeaching and removing the President. This is unlikely to actually happen with the current Congress, however.

Could the President remain in office after an impeachment? Ask again in 2-3 years, but today, no. He'd be removed, no federal employee (civilian or military) would continue to take orders from him except perhaps his Cabinet and the DOGE boys. They all swear an oath to the Constitution, not to the man. In 2-3 years, though, could be a different culture.
I just tried the same search from my mobile phone. I see the same AI generated response.

Real question: Do you think normies distinguish between traditional Google search results and AI Overview? To me, normies use Google to find an answer. They don't care too much where the answer comes from.
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Yes, because the math provides a much simpler explanation.
People underappreciate how much luxury pricing diverges.

When you have a customer base with 1000x average income, you will rapidly find there's a 1000x priced option... even if it's only 2% better than something priced 10x average (or often, simply labelled differently).
The Kremlin can come up with a rationalization for whatever their territorial desires are.
I don’t think that would matter at all. Pass all the laws you want, when the head of the executive branch orders the CBP to collect tariffs, they will. We’ve long since left the rule of law.
Things are easier to break than they are to fix. The next president, if there will be another, will not be able to easily glue the pieces back together.
Since you know Sri Lanka well (and I do not), can you share one or two specifics?
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There’s been a leading theory that Twilio has turned a big blind eye to misuse of the their platform for sending spam. They have all these clauses, rules etc sure; they make a good show of it, but they are really slow for example to close loopholes, if at all. They’ve done a good job of making the whole thing look like they take it seriously while being clever enough to leave loopholes and obvious workarounds to anyone who knows where to look

Or so the theory goes
On NPR they ran a response quote from Ryan Zinke that was nominally against it, but if you read between the lines you can see them laying the foundation. It was something like “I draw a hard line at violating the constitution, that’s something I’ll never support. But also right now there are leftists and activist judges who think they can violate the constitution by taking power away from the executive”

He never directly spoke against a third term, just “violating the constitution”, and then named some enemies. It’s a long way off still, but you can see the groundwork being laid for something like “emergency measures to protect the constitution” if they decide that’s the way they want to go.
What would it take for Canada to hit 2%?

https://globalnews.ca/news/11050336/canada-defence-spending-...

The US massively subsidizes Canada’s national defense and energy production (crude oil refining).
This seems epistemically dubious. If Trump decided his first act as president was to cut corporate taxes instead, and stocks rallied, I bet the same people are going to complain about how "this is exactly what oligarchs want". Short of a communist revolution, what wouldn't oligarchs want?
"Fire in a crowded theater" was originally a strawman introduced by the Supreme Court to justify their ruling in Schenck v. United States. To remind, Schenck was a Socialist Party member who was distributing flyers encouraging resistance to the draft during WW1, and was convicted for the same under the Espionage Act of 1917.

SCOTUS affirmed his conviction, saying that "the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils".

Here's the flyer itself, in case you want to read those very dangerous words for yourself:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States#/medi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schenck_v._United_States#/medi...

So, all in all, a good reminder that not only the slippery slope very real, but sometimes it's there from the get go.
Yeah, that's an idiotic take...

The US has benefited massively from soaking up the best brains globally. That's not going to keep happening; I have plenty of colleagues already who are refusing to travel to the US. We may well even swing into brain drain as Trump et al move closer to executing their cultural revolution.

Meanwhile, all those other countries will start trading more with each other. The US stands to be left out. Won't happen overnight, but Trump is pissing away the advantages. When the dollar isn't the global currency anymore things will really start to hurt.
I think there is a decent argument that some of the nihilism we see in the population comes from seeing a general unwillingness to jail or proportionately punish wealthy criminals. As we have heard for a long time, if the bill for breaking the law is too small it is just a fee and if you steal from enough people it becomes a statistic.

I'm not optimistic about this. I think removing due process to allow for exporting people without any rights is a terrible idea. The writers of the declaration of independence specifically named these.

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
Furthermore, Russia has no plans to invade any NATO country. It just won't let NATO invade^W expand to Ukraine. And no, this war is not how you describe it: said 'much smaller country' was 2nd biggest (in terms of military strength) in Europe after Russia itself.

And it's not a 1x1 war of big Russia vs small Ukraine: Ukraine got help from all over Europe, G.B., U.S. and Canada. Help in arms, in intel, in training, in money and other resources. Russia got sanctioned badly, by such a big bunch of countries that you'd rather be smirking not about Russia not being able to win already, but at Europe (and now U.S.) economy getting some hits... while Russian economy still stands yet. While all the sanctions are still in effect. For years.
> So there's a lot of luck involved here

App Quality and Luck are not the only two factors that go into App Success.
Somehow his taxonomy of optimizations doesn't have a category for things like "unroll a loop", "fuse loops", "block your array accesses", "avoid false sharing", or "strength-reduce your operations". He has a "use a better algorithm" category, but his example is switching from bubble sort to selection sort, which is a much more disruptive kind of change than such micro-optimizations, which are usually considered to be "the same algorithm".

This is rather puzzling, given that he starts off with, "Premature optimisation might be the root of all evil, but", quoting Knuth, and in context, Knuth was primarily talking about precisely such micro-optimizations: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/356635.356640 p. 267 (p. 7/41)

Specifically, the optimizations Knuth was exhibiting in that section of the paper are:

- speeding up a sequential array search by copying the search key to an empty spot at the end of the array, so that the loop only requires one termination test (are keys equal?) rather than two (are keys equal? is index in bounds?), speeding it up on typical machines of the time by 50%;

- unrolling that version of the loop 2× in a way that required gotos, speeding it up by a further 12%.

None of the optimization techniques being applied there fit into any of Tratt’s categories!

Now, I can't claim to be any sort of optimization expert, but I think these kinds of micro-optimizations are still important, though, as Knuth pointed out at the time, not for all code, and often the drawbacks are not worth it. Sometimes compilers will save you. The C compiler might unroll a loop for you, for example. But often it won't, and it certainly isn't going to pull something like the sentinel trick, because it doesn't know you aren't reading the array in another thread.

This sort of depends on what context you're working in; arguably if your hotspots are in Python, even (as Tratt says) in PyPy, you have bigger opportunities for optimization available than manually unrolling a loop to reduce loop termination tests. But I've found that there's often something available in that sort of grungy tweaking; I've frequently been able to double the speed of Numpy code, for example, by specifying the output array for each Numpy operation, thus reducing the cache footprint. The code looks like shit afterwards, sadly.
Why would anyone purchase the T-notes with a poor return? Especially if other assets are in a dip?
No, but people will be waking up at different times.
Well, I’ve never said I agree with how the current administration is going about their business. But it’s instructive to understand their perspective.
GDP is a pretty good measure of national incomes and, yes, I think income is a good number to look at if you're judging welfare.
Yes it does. Consider too that after kerosene whaling declined while world population, wealth and demand for lighting grew rapidly.

Also, kerosene for lanterns became a thing in 1846, not 1865 as claimed in the article, and by 1856 was already widespread. Wikipedia has this to say about its impact:

As kerosene production increased, whaling declined. The American whaling fleet, which had been steadily growing for 50 years, reached its all-time peak of 199 ships in 1858. By 1860, just two years later, the fleet had dropped to 167 ships. The Civil War cut into American whaling temporarily, but only 105 whaling ships returned to sea in 1866, the first full year of peace, and that number dwindled until only 39 American ships set out to hunt whales in 1876.[36] Kerosene, made first from coal and oil shale, then from petroleum, had largely taken over whaling's lucrative market in lamp oil.
Interesting, but I don’t see it this way at all. The west talked Ukraine into giving up their nukes and said we’ll keep you safe. All that without NATO. But as time has ebbed, and Russia meddling in eastern Ukraine went largely ignored by the west, Russia grew emboldened and decided it could just invest in a history rewrite, an airing of past grievances, and an invasion.

If Ukraine had said “fuck no” from day one, “we’re keeping our stuff, we don’t trust any of you long term at that level”, it would be in interesting world we live in.

This narrative that NATO provoked Russia into this is non sequitur. A gaslight of grandeur.
Isn't the trim/joinery/etc effectively 'investing' the money into (hopefully) skilled craftspeople? In Australia, the equivalent project might involve using local premium timber instead of imported, or custom cabinetry over imported flat-pack.
And yet even after stiffing the contractors, the casinos still went bankrupt.

It’s a culture thing.
If you want a crash course in the mechanics of FP math, i.e. how it’s done at the bit level, then head over to the Project Oberon site and look for the PDF describing the implementation of their RISC machine in FPGA.

Chapter 16, pages 8-10, gives a very concise description of the process.
The constitution says you’re wrong. And the justices he appointed would uphold the constitution if he tried it.
I’ve never said I agree with how the current administration is going about their business. But it’s instructive to understand their perspective.

My comments in this thread are mostly informed by everything I read about Bessent.
Adobe claims Firefly is trained only on creative commons and the images they own
Thanks for the explanation! Most of what you wrote makes sense to me. In particular, I think the concept that going hard -> soft economic assets is easier than the reverse is really interesting. I'll have to think on that more.

Things that still give me pause:

1. I don't understand why hard economic assets like manufacturing are more heavily impacted by this phenomenon. Wouldn't exporting a $50,000 car and a $50,000 software license have the same impact on the country's current account? I think it might have something to do with the marginal cost of replication point you made, but, for example, the marginal cost of manufacturing semiconductors is very small, and we trail in that too.

2. I disagree with your assertion that 'vertical integration is the key to “innovation” in the abstract.' I think this is often true, because vertical integration enables more control/flexibility and faster iteration, which allows innovation to occur. However, there are many cases (e.g. fabless semiconductors, meat poultry farming, software companies build on the cloud) where the innovation was actually to split the value chain into separate concerns with separate concerns.
An audit that makes your customer look bad isn't good for repeat business.
I don’t mind schemas and repositories, but I feel it’s a bit backwards. That’s the kind of work I would hope we can avoid with AI.
Too much text for not enough fun. Try this instead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnxS5SZBYDM for about 2 minutes and 20 seconds.

ICH WILL!
voip.ms

(word of caution: only works with US numbers)
Wasn't part of the whole premise of SQL that it is already basically natural language?
Yes, on an individual basis. I don't think I like the sound of group consent. Hi! Your peer group has decided that you consent to xyz.
> considering whether they have either the force of personality or the physical strength to keep what they currently have in a new regime.

They know the answer and that’s why they lined up like show ponies at the inauguration.
Seems like this might be a way to reduce reliance on Canadian timber. Canada exports 45 billion CAD (USD ~30 billion) yearly, mostly to the USA. Substituting American timber could move some of that economic activity south of the border, reducing Canada's GDP by up to 1% and moving several hundred thousand jobs.
JFC just learn SQL. It is one of the easiest languages that exists, and you probably don’t have to know 1/2 of it to be productive.
No, nginx uses a fixed number of worker processes and communicates primarily through explicit shared memory and message passing.

Threading works ok, but there's rarely much shared state so the fork and pipe / she model wins cleaner and more secure.

As for UIs: maybe! I'm sure it depends, but this isn't an area I know a ton about
A concentration camp for people of a certain race. Blocked by judiciary but proceeded anyway. Nope need more evidence.

It is not prison if there is no due process.
>And you feel pressured not to leave a negative review, as that would negatively impact your ability to book in the future, since the hosts (I have heard) can see your average review score.

Source?

I did a quick search and couldn't find anything to confirm this. Various airbnb screenshots geared towards hosts also don't show anything about guests' average rating.[1]

[1] https://www.airbnb.co.za/resources/hosting-homes/a/know-more...
Austin is a very recent example.
Trump's father lived to 93, and mother to 88. He doesn't have any serious medical conditions (that we know of). There isn't a high chance that he's going to die of natural causes in the next 4 years.
Curing aging might be immediately obvious--like old folks have all their diminished capacity restored, and they are more similar to their physical peak.

Old people may have a lot of reason to volunteer to use these.

I think we will discover that our body can reset itself via some trigger mechanism. It built us once, the code isn't gone. It can do it again.
>a country having enough money to import without export?

there's no such thing. when you import, you send your currency overseas to pay for the goods. There is nothing they can do with your currency except send it back to you by buying things from you, lending it to you, or making direct equity investments in your companies. (otherwise there is this huge growing pile of your currency accumulating overseas which drives down your purchasing power since it's in surplus)

not sure if Friedman said that, but he did know more about econ that me, and what I've said is accurate.