skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What the OP said is true. Countries do trade USD with each other, but considered as a group the net effect is that countries can only:

>send it back to you by buying things from you, lending it to you, or making direct equity investments in your companies.

That's true whether one foreign country exists or 10,000.
America is the richest country in the world. That is the payback. Yet somehow the working class is screwed.

People don't want to admit wealth distribution is the problem because that would make them "communists". It's an emotional response. I'm scared how far they take it.
What you said above is correct but is not related to what was being discussed before.
All of the Chinese buying Google and Facebook ads, do you think they will keep buying?

Do you think that Apple, Google, Fb will be able to continue operating in the EU as frictionlessly as they do today ?

US software now has to respect borders.
I can count on one hand the number of times I've needed something like this in the last decade. But I'd also need to count the same number of times I've implemented a less than ideal solution that's ended up in prod. Great work!
They're in a number of places, but the most complete seems to be morphosource:

https://www.morphosource.org/projects/000368762 (17867 scans, 10920 specimens)
Nope. The rider to the “clean cr” took care of that contingency.

https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hres211/BILLS-119hres211r... - see page 4
Why training AI can't be IP theft
It's not really about the content - it's a McLuhanesque phenomenon of "the medium is the message". When CD-ROM became affordable for consumers, investment into content that demonstrated the power of CD flooded in.

A few years later, the investment cycle moved on towards 3D and online. Different medium, different message. That really is all that is needed to explain the trends. Galaga remains fun and playable, but nobody is marketing Galaga as the next big thing, so it isn't making sales charts.
It's an idiotic take I agree. However, I don't think the US has benefited massively from soaking the best brains globally because of its foreign or trade policies. Most dominant voices about US foreign policy and foreign business interest has always been characterized by aggression and exploitation.

I highly doubt people were ok with that because the US had low tariffs on their countries exports to the US.
You're thinking about this all wrong.

When the NSA declares for the dictator the fact they see everything is a great and easy vector for protest.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/22/business/facebook-content-mod...

Everything is backdoored. We can traumatize them to death. They've hooked themselves up to US! TO US!? Can you fucking imagine?

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2493842/a-clockwork-orange-...

Any time you see a PSA about security in the next few months just picture the last sad little lickspittle training their psyops AI to pump this shit out and Tulsi Gabbard in latex with a whip standing behind him. He's shitting himself. She's sending pictures of his console to the signal chat.

*I swear I'm not bugging the scotch. This is just fucking hilarious timing.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-security-agency-ti...
I have fond memories of the game MacWesleyan. I wonder how true the depiction of campus was.
Canada's is less than 2 per 100k

https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=351000...

I also have to doubt the accuracy of such data collected in the 1700s.
Everything Made by an AI Is in the Public Domain (2023)
Few people are 'cut out' for programming in the traditional way
Nobody is truly that "cut out" for programming. We might be emotional and biological machines, but we aren't logical circuit boards. As humans, we are wired to appreciate patterns in life and relationships, not binary 1s and 0s. However, coding patterns like decision trees, loops, recursions, etc. also do feel interesting to us as long as they produce interesting and utilitarian software which feels like magic.

But when the drudgery of programming sets in and all you're seeing is just heaps and mounds of instructions that need hours to fathom their working, even the best of programmers feel like leaving the field and running away! And that's exactly why things like no-code, low-code, AI assisted development, frameworks and packages, etc. are becoming so popular increasingly. Humans aren't "natural" programmers in that sense, they're primarily story tellers and meaning seekers in life.
(2024) Original source: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/scientists-ct-scan...
Yeah, I was working on a Windows NT image processing program in 01998. My desktop had two processors, and the machines in the dev lab and in the field had four. Mine were Pentium Pro. Some friends of mine had accounts on pioneer.unm.edu, a Sequent Symmetry with I think 8 80386 processors on a single memory bus, up until it was lost or stolen in about 01994. Then I got an account on the MHPCC SP2 UNM had the contract to administer, with I think 384 RS/6000 POWER CPUs, but without shared memory (not even NUMA).
We love cheap stuff if the country providing it is weak and not a threat of any kind. Suddenly we don't love good Chinese prices any longer. The massive world wide tariffs are a scheme to restructure the trade order because we have lost control of the WTO, etc to China. We have been so greedy American companies fell over themselves to build factories and joint ventures in China only for China to create competitive companies and force these joint ventures to bankruptcy. Because of the greed, intellectual property and knowledge transfer to China Donald Trump has decided to save the system himself. The stock market being at all time highs doesn't matter if the United States is left empty of capabilities.
If we were dependent on Canadian timber, we probably wouldn't be exporting the exact same lumber to them[1]. They're our largest importer of lumber.

The simpler explanation is that we have (or had) a free trade agreement with Canada, and it's just plain cheaper for all parties to import or export when/where the supply chain is already present.

[1]: https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/wood-products...
Can you share your understanding of what you think the debt actually is?
Wix has alot of integrations included so it is interesting in terms of saving costs! For clients its a really nice platform that requires no maintenance whatsoever and less headaches for me!

No more panicked clients email late in the evening no more headaches in that sense…

Their new version Wix Studio offers even more flexibility and you can even go headless if you wanted! They offer alot to devs that takes the time to understand Velo code (JS)

I may sound biased at this point but Vevo has 10m monthly users and their website is built using Wix…

Only downside for the moment is performance in terms of loading times/general performance and i think thats mostly related to their native CDN thats offered by default… this becomes more apparent when browsing Wix sites on mobile
Why not just have notifications only for that filter? I get not checking emails, I get so many that anything important is just ignored along with all of the other crap but if you already have a good filter, just use that.
Can you elaborate a bit more on the similarity between MMS and email? I'm curious to know how similar. Is there an MMS RFC?
> Furthermore, Russia has no plans to invade any NATO country.

Not only are you attempting to prove a negative with "trust me bro" but it's especially laughable given recent history. Please tell me how many days before the Ukraine invasion Russia had "no plans to invade".

> this war is not how you describe it: said 'much smaller country'

Personally I consider 1/3 the population "much smaller" but you do you.

> 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.

Exactly why the US remaining in NATO prevents a large scale conventional war. Because Russia is pathetic unless it is bullying smaller neighbors or threatening nuclear war.
There is always a risk that a specific stock will go to 0. It happens even in good ecconomic times.

The decision to sell is not straightforward, even given the current situation. It would probably be the wrong decision for the average person unless you really know what you are doing.
Great exposition on that page .. with the animations clearly explaining the phenomenon [ yet not preventing reading ]

I expect to see many small startups using RL to solve realworld B2B problems, of this flavor, that were previously too-hard to tackle.
I'm always torn apart when it comes to LLMs and analytical tasks. When you perform an analytical task, whether it is something simple like assessing the potential risk and impact of a vulnerability or complex like analyzing an obfuscated malware sample to determine its capabilities, you have to thoroughly go over the data points available to you, and corroborate the data points or evidence you are using to come up with conclusions. LLMs can help with a lot of this, but you still have to go over their reasoning (black-box mostly) or backtrack their work before you can accept their conclusions.

In other words, even with humans, their skills and experience are never enough. they have to show the reasoning behind their conclusions and then show that reasoning is backed up by an independent source of fact. Short of that, you can still perform analysis, but then you must clearly state that your analysis is weak and requires more follow-up work and validation.

So with LLMs, I'm torn up because they kind of make your life a lot easier, but does it just feel that way or are they adding more work and uncertainty where that is intolerable?
Money, I suppose? Heroku is notoriously trivial to use, and notoriously expensive for the amount of storage and compute you get.

A semi-successful but not heavily monetized side project on Heroku could cost you an arm and a leg, while running the same thing on some Hetzner box under Dokku, along with a couple of others, may be not that much noticeable.
The tweet is from June 13, 2022.
Duel of the Dual: The Mystery of a Quasar Pair
Thats fake news you CAN move away from wix for one and second of all in terms of cost it is pricier than other platforms but they have sooo many integrations that you would end up buying plugins for anyways on wordpress…

Oh and Wix has top notch SECURITY!
Right, and I think that’s largely true.

Whether or not the “right wing working class” are right in their root cause analysis, the domestic situation in the US is catastrophic enough to demand explanation:

“If we are the richest country on earth, why can’t I afford a house and healthcare?”

Answer 1: You are being taken advantage of by wealthy elites within your country!

Answer 2: The whole world has made Americans front the bill for a regime of global peace, security, and a trusted reserve currency, at the cost of you, the American worker!

Depending on which answer you choose, and which camp you ally with, your worldview will differ.
I really liked Practical Electronics for Inventors, Fourth Edition, by Paul Scherz and Simon Monk.

I’m definitely interested in more electronics books for self study though.
Not bad for just "banging it out on the phone". Thanks!
do these friends participate in the market?
Perhaps there is a place for a simpler alternative. My comment was pretty tangential to this discussion about the merits of SPI vs USB vs whatever. My point is that I believe some benefit can be had by software developers in understanding how components can be integrated together using a primitive as simple minded as SPI. I used the qualification "some" again, as well. I don't offer any revolutionary insights, but if you survey how SPI is used in practice, you'll learn some things of value, even if you never use SPI yourself.
Ask HN: Year Deep Dive in ML
I'm planning to spend significant time this year on ML and I'm looking for advice, feedback from people that did it successfully.

I have quite a lot (>10Y) of experience in software and everything data already, and at some distant point in the past I did play with NNs a bit - I have a decent (for a non practitioner) understanding - but that was before LLM, transformers.

I'm not necessarily looking to learn things that could get me a job in the field in the short term, but much more on developing a deep understanding of underlying concepts, play with new architectures.

I watched some Yann LeCun talks recently and I quite agree with his view that current trajectory of improving LLMs is a waste of time. It also makes me think about the Capsule Networks (which were looking promising last time I checked, but apparently disappeared completely by now).

So:
1. What resources would you recommend
2. Any advice from your 'journey'
3. What are good forums where one can ask questions
It’s relevant because republicans campaign on it. If neither party claimed to be fiscally responsible I’d agree. However one does and isn’t. That makes the relative debt load under that party compared to the other fair game.
IBM execs would beg to differ
If I am brainstorming ideas and ChatGPT gives the inevitably fawning response, it always reminds me of those friends who have never heard a side project idea before and get excited about anything.
Show HN: Yet another client app for reading Hacker News
Hey All,

I am trying to learn building apps. I came across the public API of HN and tried to build an app around it. Let me know what you folks think.
> Imagine what the vibes would be on the West Coast if there was a huge set of policy changes that decimated and liquidated the high tech industries. All those software and engineering jobs just vaporize in a span of 20 years.

> Then the media makes you the butt of jokes. Calls you “flyover country.”

The people in your analogy are not the same types suffering from rust belt rage. One group is willing and very wanting to learn and grow and build, and the other is openly antagonistic to any sort of growth.

That's why they became flyover country. I don't think that would happen on the west coast if your scenario were to occur because of the different culture.
AutoGenBook – Create non-fiction books with Python and LaTeX
https://archive.md/NnDFk
This could also be played the other way around if the customers are completely churned. (ie: airbnb will lose a full unit with XX bookings but can also loose XX customers multiplied by XX Life Time Value).
Which is why China doesn’t need to do anything but reliably trade right now and take the US market share.
China announces 34% retaliatory tariffs on US imports
>I don't think many people have actually contemplated what absence of law, defined as rules that apply to rich and powerful people too, is like.

Maybe not many people in the US have, but people in CCP China are plenty familiar. That is an example of "rule of the people" instead of "rule of law". Remember the melanmine milk scandal? Barely a slap on the wrist for Sanlu (the vendor). Or, did anything happen after the child molestation incident at a Beijing kindergarten?
Oh, you’re actually British, how surprising. Perhaps it’s only still a topic among people who understood what was going to happen.
If none would, then why was it already starting?

https://www.investing.com/news/politics-news/investment-comm...
>businesses abandoning SMS

Good? Stop asking me for my phone number.
What personally made me switch over is when i had a client project for a restaurant that needed to setup delivery/takeouts it took me literally 2 days to have everything up running setup!

I was even able to configure that when orders are placed on the website they would get a phone call with a automated voice telling them an order #xxx has been placed all with no code whatsoever and this was integrated by default!
The entire new tariff scheme is napkin math. Although it could also be napkin math done by some LLM.

If it was real math, it wouldn’t assume that there is some magical trade elasticity that is completely linear in the tariff rate. And real math might notice that the prices of goods that are subject to tariffs are an utterly absurd measure of value, cost, movement of money, or anything else.

Consider:

A US company does a bunch of R&D and designs a widget. They pay $10 each to a Chinese factory to manufacture it. They warehouse the widgets in Hong Kong. Each widget purchased by a US customer results in a “$100” item being imported. $90 stays in the US. $10 goes to China.

The same company does exactly the same thing except they ship in bulk to a US warehouse. The imported item is now “$10”. The tariff is 1/10 as much, the napkin math sees 1/10 as much trade imbalance, but the economic effect of the import is identical.

Or maybe they ship from Hong Kong to a French customer. This should be seen as an export from the US to France with $90 and an export from China to France worth $10. But I think it’s invisible to the napkin math.

Now consider that the US is home to some wildly successful companies with names like AMD and Nvidia. They sell chips for thousands of dollars each, worldwide. They pay TSMC quite a lot less to make them. If they warehouse in the US, they may be screwed now! If they ship from Taiwan to a buyer somewhere else, the US has, in effect, exported quite close to the full sale price of that chip, but no trade goods ever touched US soil. Can the napkin math sees that?

You can bet that several other countries use brains instead of napkins and will have no difficulty thinking that they could retaliate by restricting or taxing of these US-designed goods even if they’re imported from elsewhere. And China is working very hard to make their own alternatives, and they will surely be willing to export them.

(Don’t forget: The UK and Israel have CPU design expertise. ASML is dependent on tin zapping tech from San Diego, but they’re an EU company. And it looks like the successor to that tin zapping tech might be free electron lasers, and that technology come from US national labs and universities, but other countries also have FELs, and the nerdy physicists who fiddle with them are not happy with the US government right now.)
This seems to be the economic model conservative “populists” seem to hitching themselves to with the thrusting of these tariffs onto the American public
Good? I want it to be expensive and difficult to send me text messages. I can count on one hand the number of non humans I want to have the ability to send me a text and if this makes spamming financially impossible, I’m willing to deal with the baby getting tossed with the bathwater. There’s nothing so urgent I need from a small business that it can’t be either an email or a text from an employee instead of an automated system.
Edit:

Sort of, but not in the way you are thinking about it.

People want help with this yes, but they shouldn't be outsourcing it.

The founder needs to ask literally thousands of questions to the market (can vary depending on how simple or complex the market is). If they haven't asked these questions, then they shouldn't be outsourcing it.

If they have asked all the questions, they know who to approach, what to say, how to say it. Then they can hire consultants to help them build the sale engine, which is actually all about adopting the best tools, distributing work, hiring, performance management, incentive structure, etc.

The parts that are specific to the startup (who to connect with, what to ask, what to say) need to be figured out by the startup and done by the founders. The parts that are more generic to all companies (hiring, training, performance management, team structure, tool stacking). Can be outsourced, and probably should be if the founders don't know how to do these things or really don't want to.

Edit 2:

The reason the founders shouldn't be outsourcing this, is that the founders are the ones to decide which part of the market to focus on and what to prioritize in the product. If they try and outsource it to someone else, there is an extra layer of noise in the communication between the two.

There is also this thing called the innovators bias (lots of cognitive biases really) that will exacerbate the situation because the founders with the power will over-weight their own incorrect instincts against what they hear from one person (consultant), but they will more appropriate weight their instincts against what they hear from dozens to hundreds of actual possible customers.
Reminds me more of the Amazon Delivery Partner model where the way you want to do something implies harming innocent people, so you have a third-party do it to shift blame for the deaths.
Exactly. Within a given field, there is always a shorthand for things, understood only by those in the field. Nobody describes things in natural language because why would you?
"Tried to force" is a funny way to say "didn't force".
#28, pwd, looks like a play on words with "powder" that you would put in a box.
What changed my mind was the Signal group chat with Mike Waltz. Absolutely none of the statements from officials appeal to the critical thinking element of opsec. And he’s been employed in this role since the early 2000s. If he can’t learn it, then practically speaking, then it cannot be taught to the kind of person who gets elevated to that role.
I know. There is no reason to believe in #2. Its an emotional response. And so you cant change it. Just like you cant use logic with a flat earther. And that's scary for the rest of the world. I just hope no wars happen.
Canada sends raw lumber to the US for processing. The US exports processed lumber back to Canada.
He walks out because of the constant bickering and says he's left the group. The others sweet talk him round. It lasted about two weeks. George is also a bit whiney about his stuff but it's contained.

Billy Preston sort of glued them back together. He was an amazingly nice person to them, really helped things along.
> The Democrats blew it by being unresponsive to their voters' material demands

The margin is so close that one can name any of a dozen reasons why they blew it and be totally correct.

The Democrats blew it by no cravenly violating norms like refusing to seat a supreme court justice because it was too close to an election.
The Pope.