skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By the time the midterms come along I doubt there will be many people left who want the job of fixing up this mess. So they will likely get to keep it.
The generated images have an interesting surrealist feeling to them.

This also makes me think that, for now atleast, including mirrors in photos/videos would be pretty potent to help prove that something is not AI generated.
Build to Replace: The Secret to Flexible Software Architecture
> There are those in the States who want to devalue the dollar as a pathway to greater industrialization and domestic productive capacity. The idea is to make the US labor force competitive with the rest of the world.

> Problem is, reigning in wages for labor after decades of encouraging rampant consumerism and being in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis especially for housing seems like a political earthquake in the making.

My guess those people are fine with basically converting most of the American labor force into indentured servants but normally politicians wouldn't go for it. Trump probably assumes he is immune to any reaction, let's see.
Yes... and no. Having own currency as a global reserve currency has its disadvantages too. For instance it keeps value of the currency high, what makes whole USA production noncompetitive. USA exports two things: internet services (all those Googles, Facebooks, etc.) and military equipment.

The problem is that internet services are making rich small group of people (owners, software engineers), military production is a niche, so there is a big group of people who lose jobs, are on low paying positions, as being, say, a car factory worker, does not bring enough money. Those people voted Trump, so Trump is trying to solve their issue by bringing back production back to USA, and the way to do this is twofold: make USD weaker and make foreign goods more expensive.

All this was not a problem till early '00, when USA didn't have much competition (basically Western Europe and Japan), but the times has changed and USA is seeing that. BTW this is not a Trump thing, Obama, Biden administrations were also noticing that and taking actions, like (in)famous Obama reset with Russia to be able to expand trade over there. "Pivot" to Asia - failed Biden project of Indo-Pacific, that was supposed to convince Vietnam and others to follow USA job regulations, what would make their products more expensive. Surprisingly, they told Biden to go away...

Another thing is that for years USA was in a sense donating European industry, for instance taxes on European cars in USA were 2%, while taxes on American cars in Europe (that is European Union) were 10%. Trump puts this to an end.
>It's called Import Substitution. Import Substitution: A Tried and Tested Policy for Failure

Which worked exceptionally well for China, South Korea, Japan and pretty well for Russia and India.
>Many other countries, including EU members and China, already apply tariffs and non-tariff barriers far in excess of what the US is applying now.

>So why no complaints about them?

Because that's not true.
No I’ve not staked my career on React, I’m not even primarily a front end guy and React is my least favorite framework among popular ones, but thank you for your concern. I was debunking one ridiculously wrong comment criticizing my least favorite framework with solid, reproducible statistics, but that’s apparently a rant compared to your very insightful questions like “100ms to download 100KB, is that fiber? Cable? 5G? 4G?”, then okay. You clearly struck a chord with a large number of people so out of touch that they believe a copy of React is required for each button, and pride themselves on such ignorance because it’s “resume-driven-development”, so congratulations.

(Another tip: Don’t bring votes into discussions, it’s both against site guidelines and laughable.)
Should be understood as buying dollars for goods.

Also us trade is not bilateral.

The usd that are exported from the US, is not used to buy gods from the US. They are used to buy gods from other countries.
Europe is egalitarian in the surface but class-based deep down. Your word is worth as much as your title.

Of course I can't speak for every country but that's the reality.

I'm not saying that anywhere else is better, but in other places I worked there was no such illusion.
> I can buy a brand new Ryzen 7000 series laptop for the price of replacing a Ryzen 7000 series mainboard for a Framework laptop.

I haven't been able to confirm this (I found laptop prices running at about twice the cost of the mainboard), but I wonder if you're comparing an EOL runout model from a place that can afford heavy discounts against a standard price from a smaller company. If you just need a laptop and you're not too fussy, that's definitely a fair choice. But if you're buying a laptop for ten years, you probably aren't going to settle for the unsold 16GB 512GB.

> Their laptops are also a lot more expensive than same spec branded ones from Asus, Lenovo and Dell that have better build quality and design.

I guess a Framework isn't for someone who wants a same spec Asus, Lenovo or Dell.

> Eventually, sooner rather than later, both RAM and SSD will come soldered on, so the only thing you will be able to replace is the battery and the screen.

This is 173% fud. If it happens, it's because Framework is dead and there's some different company that bought their branding and just wants to use it for market segmentation. I definitely have to rate the chances that Framework has died as one of the risks of buying them, whereas I wouldn't concern myself with the risk of System76 dying, because a typical laptop lasts well past its warranty, but the point of Framework is indeed what happens in that post-warranty period.

I'm not a huge fan of Frameworks. I left a critical review on another comment. I'm not sure at all if they fit my needs, and having recently discovered the wonder of tailscale I'm now debating if my next computer will be a Framework vs a headless desktop + a dumb laptop. So even if a Framework doesn't fit my needs, they're still the only laptop that seems to. But your criticisms don't at all seem grounded enough.
It may reduce consumerism in the US and therefore be beneficial to the environment.
There is a somewhat small chance Donetsk-Luhanks escape in the next 5-10 years. Let's see.
Instance variables can't be constant propagated, can they? Different instances have different values.
I believe having a partner with directly opposing political views is unsustainable. Partners with adjacent political views may be manageable, or even preferable to a fully aligned one, but those with directly opposing views are a constant source of drama and tension in your life. Political views often reflect deeply held values and beliefs.
Stop. Hold on. You just heard a solid set of examples and logic on why the tariffs were bad for Brazil's consumers and your takeaway was that one brand that couldn't compete in the US moved to the sheltered manufacturing environment and that is good?

The policy is good for uncompetitive manufacturing - and so you are in support of it? Why is that less-competitive manufacturer from Philly who couldn't compete anywhere but Brazil more important than the people of that country?
Have a near 10 year old Librem (original 13"), works fine. But if it breaks I'm getting an old Thinkpad and putting coreboot on it.

Perhaps my usage is too light, no IDEs, no electron anything, no streaming, and few tabs because I shutdown the laptop instead of suspend it -- but I don't see what all the fuss is about needing to upgrade anything. 16gb of ram and an i5 is fine, even for the modern web, disable JavaScript and/or run ublock origin.

The new fangled ARM stuff ;) strikes me as essentially similar in character to smartphones: future e-waste with no possibility of repair. Choose wisely, choose x86 and modularity
"Personally I think it's a mistake but hot takes "they have no idea what's coming" are I believe naive."

They slapped 10pct tariffs on the Heard and McDonald islands. Literally uninhabited islands in Antarctica.
If there's no security model then who are you protecting from who?
Turning Unusable JSON into Fast Queries: Normalizing FDA Drug Data with DuckDB
The Pax Americana died during the first week of the Trump administration when he proceeded to turn on practically every single one of US' long standing allies and dissolve NATO for all intents and purposes. All the soft power disappeared right there.

Perhaps the world will be better for it in the end, but it's definitely a turning point. A new world order will emerge and America won't be at the helm.
Building up strategic industries is another reason.

Or, in America's case, arresting their decline.
Bootstrapped softphone to replace Skype in overseas calls
It's trade deficit divided by total exports divided by 2.
> Not retaliatory, reciprocal

Since we are diving into language semantics, these are _arbitrary_ tariffs that have been shat out via a "formula" which is being fed "how much stuff they sell us" as its input.

trump said "punish everyone who we spend more money with, barring our favourites" and they gave him a set of options. He chose the one he liked the best. No he didn't read any impact assessments, if they were made. He went by gut instinct.

Its just a punt. There is no greater game plan. its just a man making policy by vibe.

What makes them arbitrary? there is no really plan to test if they are going to work, or at what point they need to be adjusted. He will keep them until he sees something on twitter/truth social that makes him reconsider.
Like the author, I tend towards being a function that returns the opposite of what the other person believes, rather than having a fixed political opinion. Mostly I lack the confidence to claim that this way or that way is the Right Way To Do Things -- and I'm fascinated (and envious, and also appalled) by those who do.

But on this I differ:

>Seriously, come prove some core belief I have as wrong and you will quite literally make my week.

I don't think I believe this at all. It's certainly not true of myself -- I aspire to it, but my ego is much too fragile. I have spent much time and effort carefully checking the small set of core principles that I do feel justified in calling "correct", and the reason for that is precisely to avoid the unpleasant surprise of discovering that they are demonstrably wrong after all.
"Pay with digital dollar, and you don't have to pay tarifs". Problem solved. Demand for digital dollar will grow, but can also be used for normal dollar transactions. Therefore the USD will devalue, and gone is the national debt.

/s/digital dollar/bitcoin or trump coins or doge coins
tailnet lock seems way way less important for headscale than tailscale, given you personally control the headscale infra.
If exploitation of the "loophole" got to the point where it starts affecting trade balance then presumably the rate would be revised fairly quiclly.
It's even worse, into the calculation they only counted goods, not services (where the US typically runs a large trade surplus).
But I do care about privacy, and other people do too. And I can read between the lines, and never take PR for fact. What remains is that Mozilla is looking for new cash, and sees selling user data as a solution for that. They want to call it differently, they want us to think it's all OK, but it's not. It's still better than other browsers though.
"These specific parts from these companies from these countries receive 0% tariffs".
Not the best title if that’s your message
> They just slapped 44% on us (higher than on China).

Not true, China's is on top of its existing tariffs.
>Many other countries, including EU members and China, already apply tariffs and non-tariff barriers far in excess of what the US is applying now.

This has been persistently claimed but I have yet to see evidence on this. In most cases it's including VAT which doesn't make sense since local manufacturers pay that as well.
When this happens in Factorio, the game pauses, one player (the server?) saves the game and sends it to all other players who load the savefile and the game resumes when that's done. It's not a nice experience, but it's a lot better than "you can't play today, goodbye!"
Do you know how many taxes on many goods European Union has introduced? Was that "empire hubris" as well?
Yeah, and what if Lutnick doesn't care about making America better but just making money for himself? And his salary is not tied to his performance, but to his sycophancy?

It is not as if he is going to die of starvation because of tariffs. He has no skin in the game.
America got richer and outgrew the phase where tons of factory jobs made sense. It seems pretty clear to me that well-paying manufacturing job in developed countries were the product of a particular moment in time where poorer countries couldn't do it yet. Now they can. It was never going to last.
> If every American got voter ID tomorrow, republicans would simply invent a new issue to manufacture distrust in the system in order to suppress votes.

And?

I am sorry, you fear.... governing? Because that's what life is. You fix one issue, some other arises.

The issue is NOT complex, let's admit it... you just don't want to lose 'face'. You have hitched yourself to the no-ID bandwagon for so long it kills you to admit it was wrong.

Democrats are trying to pretend something is a civil rights issue which NO left-leaning politician the rest of the world considers it to be so. TRUST in the system is paramount, this why Trump is in the office, it seems american citizens trust him more than they trust democrats.

It's a governance/bureaucratic issue. But as the guest on Jon Stewart's podcast said[1], democrats just can't govern.

Any other person would think of it a 25-year plan and start NOW. Start small, start with the most democratic cities in democratic states, and start offering photo ID on the cheap, on the doorstep. Use all those taxes you collect for it. Then move on to other cities in the democratic state, then slowly move outward.

Maybe one day you will again hold the federal government and then you can use the learning from that to help implement it elsewhere... and even if red states don't implement, at least you will have started something good, and you will have something to PRESENT.

But don't mind me, I am just going to spend sometime just trying to understand how trump's tariffs affect us (29%!!!), I feel I will be facing some severe shortages soon.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi8IBAEpAd4
>Write about it in the repo discussions. Or make a repo fork, create a file in the _posts/ directory then submit a PR.

There are a few requirements on the about page (published schematics, firmware and a video demo):

https://diy-synths.snnkv.com/about/
Wow I guess that WEF quote was true but just within boundaries of USA.
Redundancies all the way down
how do you explain the current volume of transactions
> I can do nothing

The far right and Trump's biggest support is people acting helpless and spreading their dogma of helplessness. It's surreal to see how effective their propaganda is - this is right out of psyops playbooks. It's truly unmaerican to throw up your hands - nobody is going to do it for you, and anything is possible. That's part of freedom.
> Not to mention 29% tariffs on Norfolk Island. Who hasn’t exported anything to the U.S. in years.

Should have set that to 99% then eh?
Not that I disagree, but in this case that is really not the point of what I quoted.

The point is that often, before you reach some level of understanding, you can read the docs 5 times and not find the answers you are looking for, even though they are there! As soon as you reach the right level of understanding, then the docs are perfect!
Nope.

I do not say that experts have to be put in charge of people instead of doing what they're doing.

I rather say that experts should be in charge of what they are doing.
I think all French territories are part of the EU, but some other countries work differently. The prime example is St. Martin, where the French part is in the EU, but the Dutch isn't (yes that technically puts a EU border through the middle of the island, although there were no pass controls when I was last there.).
It's the technocratic or perhaps "enlightened centrist" tribe. There's similar vibe in the post, and even though there's some introspection about the author's own tribe, he doesn't seem to question whether his political thinking could be tribal.

It's indeed typical for this tribe to off-hand dismiss thinking that they deem somehow "ideological" without even really trying to figure out what the thinking is. Also a lot of self-congratulation, exceptionalism and motivated reasoning is exhibited, but these are typical features of any tribe.
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Is politics supposed to be about maximizing the government's money? We saw where that lead with businesses. I thought the government was there to do things that weren't good profit maximizers but made the world better.
He doesn't care about Tesla anymore. He's making some fat money out of AI, SpaceX is a money printing machine now that he's got the ear of Trump and he's spending almost all his daytime (and nightime) hours shitposting and boosting racists on twitter.
Welcome tomhow. I really appreciate the HN community and the efforts from the moderation team at helping to shape it into what it has become.
If people are paying a significant portion of their salaries, one-third or even half, towards rent, does it truly make sense to implement UBI? In my opinion, the answer is no. Instead, we should focus on establishing a Universal Basic Land: https://mertbulan.com/2025/03/02/we-need-universal-basic-lan...
So much for making America great again. It looks like they're doing the exact opposite.
>Another thing is that for years USA was in a sense donating European industry,

Sure and Europe is not at all donating to US arms industry or to US tech sector? Europe is pretty liberal about letting US dominate those domains inside the EU, without opposing that. Plus in geopolitics it simply follows the US, that's sort of been the deal.

Seems like this US leadership thinks it can both have its cake and eat it.
The defending theory for that is that it doesn't allow for loopholes by trading through tax exempt countries.

It's certainly an interesting strategy. Let's see how it plays out.
I mean, if in 80 years Tesla is called Cybertruck (the company set up to make Volkswagens was not called Volkswagen, and produced effectively zero civilian cars in its Nazi era), has been appropriated from its previous owners, who went to prison or worse, is a separate legal entity, and shares no principals with the original company, then you might have a point.

Ford is a closer comparison, but even there, Henry Ford was no longer really involved in the company when he went really publicly off the rails (he'd handed it over to his son by then). There's not much precedent for Tesla's situation, where the _current_ leadership is being publicly insane.
Excellent catalogue!
I don't think this is gonna happen until we're able to say no to stupid shit pushed on us.

When working as an electrical engineer I never had co-workers fighting me on whether I should do stuff that goes against building code. My building engineering friends never had a product manager say "trust me, we don't need this load bearing wall".

I know of engineers who did stupid shit at work and got their license revoked, and even some famous ones went to jail.

Of course there is the famous Steve Jobs story [1] where he forced Burrell Smith to do a stupid PCB and it didn't work, but Jobs was at least willing to accept that this was a test and would take the fall for the spent money.

[1] https://folklore.org/PC_Board_Esthetics.html
If you make everyone rely on each other, war hurts everyone more and is more likely to be avoided. If going to war doesn't cost you a supplier, war is more palatable.

Global trade reduces war
then everyone gets a free $10 Christmas card every year to say thanks for being a citizen, and at least you didn't crash the economy?
Great questions.

1. It is _both_ local and hosted. The client itself is fully offline-capable, including proper full-text search (single digit ms), writing drafts – anything you would expect an email client to do. The "hosted" bit is to ensure rapid synchronisation across multiple clients (ie your desktop and mobile).

2. Some metadata is hosted in pg to facilitate cross-platform synchronisation, as mentioned. This is encrypted at rest on a provider with SOC 2 Type I certification. Further symmetric encryption (AES-256) of sensitive columns is also done. We're well aware that security is the most important aspect of this product and is our primary focus.

3. We've not forked Thunderbird. Marco has been built from the ground up, both on the FE and BE, and has been a monumental task.

4. We have no immediate plans to add SMS/WhatsApp/RSS. If those interest you, you might have a look at Missive.

We understand that storing email metadata is potentially a turn-off to some, but is actually the key driver to an entirely new email experience. It means that a Marco client itself is virtually stateless (save for some lightweight metadata) and syncs instantly across N number of clients – it runs on web/OSX/Windows/Android/etc, and changes propagate between them instantly. New client setup happens via Marco in a proprietary way on the order of seconds and doesn't take hours to sync via IMAP.

We're building this for ourselves. Thunderbird is "alright". Apple Mail is "alright". Superhuman is decent, but ridiculously expensive and Google/Microsoft only. Missive is fairly decent (and also stores metadata), but is built for team collaboration, not individual use.
This is so embarrassing
All hail our new, most favourite overlord from the British Commonwealth on days ending in "y"!
So 53% on China in total, because the previous rate was 20%
I believe it depends on the state. I'm not positive but my therapist friends can only operate in certain states remotely.
"Real military allies."
Eurodollar is cyberpunk.
Don't you mean the petro dollar?(nevermind found Eurodollar instead of "euro dollar" now :) )
He. Was. Literally. Spewing. Russian. Propaganda. From. The. Whitehouse. When. Zelenskyy. Visited.
Does it involve the LDVS board that you solder to the main board? I'm looking for a good source and one that doesn't cause problems with the setting for brightness.
From memory, there was a patch that added a new-fangled option "internet" as well as LAN play. I remember the days of fiddling with port forwarding and then calling a friend over the telephone to read out my IP address for them to type in.
That's right, in a small city you can do it. Think Brno. But those small cities don't get to be truly dystopian in car-centric societies, either.

And no one is going to build public transport in them in US now - people all flock to megacities, these small places are all bleeding population, population there gets old, and tax sources are scarce.
This is Delfin S.à R.L's domain. If you go after their money, they will go after you.
I'm looking forward to going back to the days when political disagreements were more along the lines of 'I think __TAX__ should be x%, rather than x+y%'
That's exactly the point. The expectation is that techies stop being techies if want to have a career.

This is exactly why we can't innovate in Europe.