skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm glad I read your comment because I've been wondering the whole time whether services are factored in. It's absolutely insane that the administration is ignoring the exported value of some of the biggest companies in America that all these countries are buying services from.
Why FOSS OSes often don't have power management as good as proprietary ones
I'm not usually into historical fiction, so I skipped it, but I've been sleeping on something great, haven't I?
I love my Framework AMD 13. Coming from an old Thinkpad X1 Carbon gen 3 I got used after a few years. Excellent form factor and oh so repairable. I’ve been very satisfied with the purchase.

I’m really rooting for Framework over the next decade to really establish themselves and hopefully affect some change in laptop repairability. And hell, even if they don’t, hopefully they’ll be around so I can continue to be a customer.
Type (YC W23) is hiring a senior software engineer
> EU market is harder to operate in (because everyone pays VAT)

Surely it's not exactly rocket-science to handle VAT...

Explain how it's an disadvantage for an US exporter compared to a domestic company... Give an example instead of handwaving. I'm willing to admit I don't understand all the details, but you wont convince me using this vague statement: "harder to operate in (because everyone pays VAT)" ...

If the US adjusted selected tariffs to protect selected industries the outcry wouldn't be the same, so I'm not very interested in specific examples where the US have a lower tariff than the "counterpart".
Reagan summed it up.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9C5Jig7XCw8&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5t...
> People using others papers to vote

Except every analysis has shown people are not doing this. Oddly, the few times there have been real cases, it's often GOP voting more than once or for their dead spouse or some such.

Think of it, if someone is truly not eligible to vote, why expose themselves to additional scrutiny for a single likely inconsequential vote?

Where fraud could happen is at scale, and with DOGE getting access to all systems and dismantling the agencies that guard against voting fraud, I feel that once again we're seeing that every accusation is an admission.
> There is really one ultimate question here: "Is this the best use of our tax dollars?"

This attitude right here is why UBI will never exist without being a farce, a trap, and those that go on UBI regulated to institutionalized misery.

Plain fact: humans do not give gifts without expecting returns. UBI violates this basic tenant. No, the economic activity generated by UBI is not enough, that's a flat wash, the returns need to be just like investments.
You could add it from source which is pretty easy to do but you lose chrome’s syncing feature.

Having said that I haven’t developed a chrome extension in years. They are so strict now. I know they can’t manually inspect each line but I do hope it helps solve the problem of extensions going rogue.
Why does that make it inaccurate to blame the two party system? The two party system causes the problem, but that doesn't mean something else can't cause the two party system.
You hit on why I got my first used ThinkPad many years ago (a T42): it was so cheap as to be disposable. I was going on a trip that promised to be somewhat...ah...rough on my kit, and I picked up the T42 for dirt so I didn't take my new, very expensive laptop only to have it trashed (I don't remember what it was now...probably some Dell). The Dell(?) is loooong gone. The T42 made it through the trip fine, and over many years has gotten an SSD, a memory upgrade and a new screen (old one worked fine; wanted the pretty SXGA screen) and because it has a real, honest to gawd parallel port, it's still serving duty today controlling some stuff in my lab (PROM programmer, some finicky windows software, etc). It might not be a daily driver, but it gets fired up most every week to do real work.
The term is polycrisis, and it is quite widely used. It's not multiple crises happening in parallel, but fanning each other. Such as climate change putting additional strain on supply chains, that are already strained by global conflicts.
Over the last couple of weeks or so of me finally starting to use AI pair programming tools (for me, Cursor) I've been realizing that, much like when I play music, I don't really think about programming a natural language terms in the first place, it's actually been kind of hard to integrate an AI coding agent into my workflow mentally
The most visible example of tribalism is when groups fail to update their ideas and beliefs as facts start to come in. You can't escape the religious parallel.

This occurs clear across the political spectrum, but a standout example is record-breaking levels of immigration in European countries like Sweden and Germany. Instead of realizing the policy failure and acting to fix it, the line becomes "it was the right thing to do, it was just done poorly."
Kessler is mainly a problem for things in continuous orbit, not for things leaving earth and heading to GEO and beyond.
That doesn't seem likely, because they separately listed parts of France that are wholly in the EU (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Réunion and French Guiana, separate tariffs there are as meaningless as having separate tariffs for Berlin and Munich) but they also did not list those that are NOT part of the EU (EDIT one list I found does list French Polynesia, but not New Caledonia[0]) even though they are the ones where a separate rate would make the "most" sense (if any of this makes sense anyway).

There is trade today between New Caledonia, or French Polynesia, and the US. They are probably going to be tariffed at the rate for France, which is probably going to be the one for the EU, but who knows, neither New Caledonia nor France itself are listed.

It is really apparent that there is no understanding behind this half-assed list.

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2025/04/02/heres-...
The core EUV/DUV IP is co-owned by a mixture of National Labs, and much of the intermediate parts manufacturing has remained in the US as a result. It's not much of a check

> Zeiss the optics

Much of the photonics optics portion is in Dublin CA because of the DoE National Labs commercialization partnership

> ASML the mechanics and metrology

Much of which remains in California as well.

> I gather in Cambridge/UK they'd disagree with you. Even if in classical English stiff upper lip style they may say it less brashly (but not less harshly) than a Texan

Maybe, maybe not.

Hiring data (both open jobs as well as LinkedIn) show otherwise. Their design presence in UK and US is similar in size, and the India one is not far behind.

> This World is rather intertwined

I agree, but the world is not going to end with a goods tariff.

Canada and Mexico have been exempted (thank goodness Congress held the admin accountable), and much of the Americas, Australia, UK, and Philippines have been given a lower tariff slab.

Semiconductors, Pharmaceuticals, Services, Automtive intermediate parts, and a couple other high value goods have been exempted.

The only industries this really hurts is apparel and textiles (never coming back to America anyhow, but now it will return to Latin America) and assembled electronics (consumer electronics will not return to the US either, but Mexico and Brazil are now cost competitive over China and Vietnam).

This kind of a change was inevitable - we faced similar consternation from Europe when we rolled out the IRA under the Biden admin, and we never rolled back the initial tariffs from Trump 1. There is bipartisan appetite for this kind of an action (more planned mind you) but still the principle of supporting American industries either thru subsidies like under Biden or autaurky like under Trump holds.

Now go back to selling off your Satelite players (Eutelsat, OneWeb), Steel manufacturers (Port Talbot), telecom (BT), and battery (Faradion) players to Indian companies like Bharti, Tata, and Reliance.
While any mass produced off the shelf baloney runs the risk of being transformed into art at a moment’s notice.
> using the open-source Stalwart stack

This is REALLY cool news. This will make them the second JMAP compatible vendor and the first that didn’t invent it (which is an ick)!

This makes it MUCH more interesting to build JMAP clients. I will most likely subscribe to this just to play around with JMAP because I‘ve been to lazy to set up Stalwart for myself.

I wonder whether they will build a new web front-end, since the existing FOSS ones I’m aware of aren’t all that great.
No images. No reposting. No (public) popularity contest stats. A general vibe against politics posting. There's just not much here to attract the worst kinds of behavior.
Alright, how do these mobile offices confirm who they are issuing the documents to then?
I weep for the future of post-post-modernism.
South Korea was torn apart by a brutal US-led war; Japan nuked, twice, by the US. For every country where US barbarism has led to stable, peaceful societies, there are countless ruined shells: see Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Libya for recent examples.

As far as the outcome of WWII is concerned, I'm presuming this is what you're referring to, Europe owes just as much to the Soviet union in the fight against the Nazis, they gave many more lives. Does that go on the Russian ledger?

> It's a form of confirmation bias to assert now that all the world's maladies and wars stem from American interventionism.

At no point have I claimed this. My claim is that I struggle to think of a country that has a worse human rights record than the US, which I'd lightly tweak for living memory.

Still struggling.
Sorry but rifling through your weblog there is a ton of freak shit posted dog
I've seen a suggestion that they're using ccTLDs.

Which might explain why the British Indian Ocean Territory - population, one US military base - has such a high tariff. The BIOT, aka Diego Garcia, has the ccTLD .io.
Actually this is one time when Brexit is paying off. We get 10% tariffs, the EU gets 20%.
Taking on a big risk shouldn’t make one feel cavalier about other risks, even if they’re smaller.

(Spoken like the project planner I used to be)
That's just an indication you're not a fruit fly. :)
> SpaceX stands to lose just as much as the rest of us if they fuck this up, possibly more

No it will go bankrupt and be forgotten.

While we leave future generations with a problem that may not be economically or technically solvable and ruin space for ever.
The 500 is the length of the race in miles. It’s 200 laps of a 2.5 mile track.
It was never going to last if the US allowed for very low cost imports from those countries. This is literally one of the largest points of tariffs - protecting domestic manufacturing. We could have had high tariffs the whole time and offshoring would have been much less pronounced. I'm not saying that would have been a net positive, but to say it would never last is only true under certain circumstances.
50 years ago, in "The Mythical Man-Month" Fred Brooks was already discussing the cost of cloud based solutions.

> Since size is such a large part of the user cost of a programming
system product, the builder must set size targets, control size, and
devise size-reduction techniques, just as the hardware builder sets
component-count targets, controls component count, and devises
count-reduction techniques. Like any cost, size itself is not bad,
but unnecessary size is.

And the why of Agile, DDD and TDD:

> Plan the System for Change [...] Plan the Organization for Change
Yes, but only because iPhones, Dell computers, HP printers are shipped from China and not the US. Yet the majority of profits from these trades are accrued in US companies or offshore tax shelters owned by them.
Exactly Europe is on a downward spiral into irrelevancy - Trump moves actually give the idea of a relevant EU space.
pretty much every source in the world disagrees with the idea that China doesn't have a retirement system

https://www.cfr.org/blog/what-chinese-pension-system-and-why...
US Emerges as Biggest Loser in Markets from Tariffs
You're both wrong (-:

Currently it's too hard for normal users, but it would be possible for e.g. Proton to add a feature where you can either import your domain name, or create a new one.
Why don’t you show some data supporting a more clearly-stated theory? All countries use economic policy, but there’s usually some kind of strategy involved - for example, the EU has a tariff on American steel and aluminum because that was retaliation from Trump’s earlier tariffs. Similarly, a lot of the EU agricultural duties are both protecting local industries but also enforcing quality or safety standards (this is also the reason for the Australian beef imbalance the President mentioned: they have a strict mad cow containment plan American producers dont follow).

The American action doesn’t follow a discernible strategy other than the fantasy that we can somehow “win” every trade relationship. That’s why you see massive taxes on poor countries we buy a lot of raw materials from - Madagascar can’t afford to buy the kind of expensive goods we primarily make, but we love to buy vanilla, so that trade “deficit” is both voluntary and to our mutual benefit.
Yeah, see the article about "RealID" yesterday. The first step is to require an ID, and the next step is to make it harder to get. For example, a married woman without a perfect paper trail of name changes? No Id.
Yupp, no one says tariffs must only be matched with tariffs. This is a big trade war.
Just in the last election cycle, we saw tribal Democratic voters try and silence those protesting the Biden administration and then immediately go "we have always been at war with Eurasia" and do the exact same thing for Kamala.

And MAGA goes beyond being tribal: by any objective measure, it's a cult.

Plus you see an awful lot of people who will criticize one side for doing one thing while supporting the other side for doing the exact same thing. Obama, for example, was the Deporter-in-Chief (~3 million deported), Biden continued the Trump policy of using Title 42 to deny asylum claims and Kamala proposed building the very same border wall that all Democrats protested when Trump proposed it in 2020.

I'm a leftist and any leftist will have seen so many liberals who love progressive aesthetics but turn into a jack-booted fascist the second you want to address any of the underlying economic issues. For example, tell people "house prices need to come down" to solve any number of issues such as homelessness and see how they react.

> The implication instead seems to be that unless you are somewhere in the middle of the spectrum you must be "tribal". That feels dismissive.

On this, I 100% agree. There are several reasons why:

1. Intellectual laziness. People think they're "above the fray" by bothsidesing everything;

2. Ignorance. This is particularly an issue for Democratic voters in the US. Both Democrats and Republicans are neoliberals. US foreign policy is bipartisan. Full-throated support for capitalism is bipartisan. But a large segment of Democrats tell themselves they're good people for wearing a pride pin while at the same time thinking homeless people should die in the stree; or

3. Deception. This is particularly the case for Republicans who will try and center their positions by appealing to "common sense" and label Democrats, who are a center-right party, as "the far Left" or "the radical Left".

So, yes, people do use "tribalism" as an epithet to silence legitimate criticisim but there is also tribalism.
> Our debts would suddenly become existential because inflating our currency to pay for them could result in functionally not being able to import goods required to run our economy.

Can you elaborate on this? Every other country does not have the luxury of having its currency be the reserve currency but still manages to both inflate that currency when needed and import good just fine.
That would be fine unless Telegram

1) Didn't say it was "Heavily encrypted" on its front page.

2) Didn't claim it was more private than WhatsApp which is always end-to-end encrypted with Signal protocol.

3) Didn't claim secret chats were somehow adequate.
Tell me more about these fake intellectuals who degrade discourse by telling everyone else they’re doing it wrong?
It won’t decide what’s fair it’ll tell you what’s true.

How can someone possibly know they are currently underpaid without evidence that they can earn more than they are currently earning?
Yes but this isn't really much of a crime or tell to me. The name is great as far as I'm concerned.

And he's full of himself and completely wrong in this crusade he launched for some reason, completely indefensible acts left & right for over a year.

Both true.
I think humanity as a whole (not individual tribes) is quite good at getting out of local maxima in the past 2000 years.

Stable socioeconomic systems that in isolation could've existed for millennia are constantly getting crushed by their slightly more effective neighbors. When they're not crushed from the outside, they get consumed from within. In the end the better economy wins most of the time.
> Do you know anyone in your country who doesn't have a state issued ID card?

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.

Back in my native country (Brazil), yes, I do know people who did not have any form of documentation up to when they died, like my great-grandfather, or a former's colleague grandmother.

> It's simply not true that 10% of people lack a state ID, it's absolute fiction made up for political reasons.

It's not about state IDs, read the fucking thing I posted, it's about "proof of citizenship" which 10% of the population does not have ready access for it, and rules have been changed for voters needing proof of citizenship, learn to read before spouting vitriol, please.

> So Norway isn't a real democracy? Ireland? Germany? Sweden? Netherlands? Italy? India? Greece? Why aren't you on their forums calling them fake democracies?

Here in Sweden is really easy to vote, nothing even close to what the US does to its voter rolls, or states deciding to purge them right before elections to tilt the scales, etc.

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, you live there so probably have read more articles about this happening than I ever did. That is a problem, it's a fact, and it's used for political manipulation, 10% of the population will have increased friction to exercise their right to vote, that's simply anti-democratic, plain and simple :)
> One can easily imagine a counter-history in which any of the forces America fought against had run over neutral countries without opposition

There are examples of that. Tibet, North Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Warsaw pact countries.

On average the US side was MUCH better. There are examples that go the other way (e.g. Afghanistan) and that were bad enough it might have been better with the other side (many South American dictatorships)
Ye sure the third point is a attempt to differentiate left and right on a fundamental level.

If I were to do that, I would say something like "pull the ladder up behind you or tear it down before you" with a comical touch. I don't think it is possible to keep such descriptions short or stringent.
I think you might be too focused on advertising’s role in nudging individual purchasing decisions, while underestimating how advertising shapes cultural norms and values over time.

The diamond industry’s marketing campaign didn’t just convince people to buy a diamond - it redefined what engagement meant in the Western world. That’s a fundamental shift in social behavior.

Yes, nicotine is addictive - but 'clever' marketing redefined who could smoke, and why, for decades. This lead to billions in profits - and millions of deaths.

The tobacco industries playbook is still being used; by climate companies, by big tech, by polluters, sugary drink co's etc. These aren't areas where things are "mostly interchangeable" - I want a climate, and clean soil, and drinkable water; not a choice in who destroys every common good.

And think on this - of the ads you saw in your days working for big tech, how many of those ads were based on making someone feel insufficient in some way? How many exploited insecurity or fear? How many manufactured fake urgency? ... How many were straight up deceptive? Etc.

Tbph, I don't get how someone with a PhD in psychology doesn't just defend this industry, but actively works for it. You must know some of the damage being done, after all those years in school.
That's a great film, but I have to disagree, simply because of the scene with the bad guy in the back of the cow suit.

God knew what those Catholic priests had been up to.

And now that my parents are in love with that orange demagogue, I see God's humor and justice.

My parents used to be good people, but I'm not sad, it's their choice, and we each reap what we sow, for good or ill, in perfect harmony with our choices. My phone is open to them, but they don't call, because -- evidently -- it's hard for a person to dial a phone with their head up their arse. One can only help the willing.

They have taught me that how one is in the beginning is not nearly as important as how one evolves and whereto. Once I stopped pitying myself, I stopped pitying others, and instead embraced empathy, compasson, and generosity.
I've noticed that many .gov email addresses just relay to gmail. I assume or hope it's at least business accounts and I hope they require 2FA at least. This has mostly been state .gov addresses that I have experienced gmail bounces, errors and such but there probably needs to be an extensive audit done for all .gov email addresses to see what is being relayed or routed where and which of those emails are encrypted and have the correct government classification headers for gov-to-gov emails. That should give DOGE something to do.
Great article, thanks for the link!
They're absolutely in addition to.

We run a very small business (luckily just for side income). One of our suppliers expects prices to go up 45-55% by the time this is done. It sucks out loud because there are literally no suppliers from the US for the parts we need.
Tariffs to lift companies' costs and hurt exports
No. I will not stop pointing out the hubris and nepotism in the company. No real changes have been made in who's designing security for Telegram, so their past is their future. Incompetent people doing crap job.
The problem is that the truth, that this was some haphazard nonsense thrown together at the last second using some ChatGPT prompts, is hard to believe, so people try to insert rationality where it doesn’t exist.
Have you tried a reciprocal tariff?
I entirely disagree with our current administration but your display is a bit comical. I don’t think there is much room to argue that the US has historically given the EU a huge margin of protection. I think about some of those comparisons where the US navy is great than the combined top n countries.

Now again it’s not a defense of the administration or to flex some sort of agenda but it’s hard to argue, the EU has underinvested in its military for decades.
Exactly. Robodog that costs 5K USD, which is probably less than one month of cost of the infantry soldier, and can be sent to fight in the trenches is something generals would dream of. Ukraine, that is experiencing soldiers shortage will go in that direction, at the beginning with something simple like remotely steered land drones.
Not all, but a lot of ThinkPad fans enjoy the track point. No laptop without a track point can be considered a viable alternative for me :-/

And thus, I have everything from a 14 year old t420s to my trusty t25 anniversary edition, and then a few workhorses with 8th gen Intels (x13 yoga, x1 carbon, t580) as personal and family laptops.
They could have transformed it from insane to sublime by slapping a highly restrictive license on the readme itself. Seriously missed opportunity.