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> every time tariffs were raised the local producers increased prices to be just below the imports.

That's literally how tariffs are supposed to work. I'm confused about what you thought should happen?

Local producers are supposed to raise prices so there is more money for worker pay or business reinvestment or both.
Not quite the same.

An item sold for $1000 say would pay $100 at 10% VAT. The items in the supply chain all charge VAT and reclaim VAT they spent. I think usually this terminates at the import (maybe?)
Well, when you put it that way... it doesn't seem that bad at all.

Maybe the real innovation here is the political manouvering of coming up with a new, desperately-needed government revenue stream.
Unfortunately, it seems people can't or won't wrestle with the underlying issue. The underlying issue is complex, and it's easier to believe Americans are just too dumb to do voter ID.

I'm not explaining this just for you - but anyone else reading this post. Here is a video from Paul Weyrich, a highly influential republican, in the 1980s discussing why voter turn out should be reduced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fR4wxlCGIu0

The symptoms are "trust in the system", "voter id" and "voter fraud". The PROBLEM is one major political party has found it extremely advantageous to ensure as few people vote as possible. 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. Then another pakistani/european/canadian will be flabbergasted as to why American just don't do X and how all their friends do X everyday.

That's why I'm saying the problem is complex. You are viewing the problem as "Americans just won't adopt voter ID", and on it's face you are probably confused as to why a country as rich as America can't do Voter ID. What I'm saying the problem is that it is actually financially and politically advantageous for one party so sow distrust in the voting process (and this isn't some leftist conspiracy, this is openly admitted by them). Once you understand that you will see why Voter ID is so salient. It's not that we can't do Voter ID, its that Voter ID is the current boogeyman to sow distrust and if that is ever solved, we will simply invent a new problem in order to suppress voters.
Thanks, I wanted to give it a try. Today is a good day to cook.
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This essay feels shallow and dismissive to me. The sentiment is that you can't be a smart, independent thinker whilst going too far left or right. As with many of his essays, my take is that PG - who lives a highly privileged life - is basing this opinion on the caricature of reality that he gleans from the media and internet forums. It's easy to think what he thinks when the only representation you see of the far left is mindless "woke"ism.

Firstly, does he think that Marx was dumb? And leading left-wing figures like AOC, Sanders, Varoufakis, Zinn, or Zizek? No, for all you might disagree with them, they're smart and independent. They did not acquire their opinions in bulk. I even admit that right-wing figures like Shapiro, Bannon etc... are smart and independent, even though I think they're snakes.

Secondly, the essay overstates the degree of uniformity within the far left and right. Have you not seen the animosity between anarchists and Trotskyites? They only agree insofar as believing we can do better than capitalism. And those on the far right who have a global free market ideology will be at odds with those who want to restrict movement and apply protectionist tariffs.

[EDITED TO ADD] Thirdly, he presupposes that the distinction between right and left is purely one of logical competence. This is captured by him saying "both sides are equally wrong". But personal values also drive the polarisation. Those on the right tend to highly value tradition, loyalty, and family. Those on the left tend to highly value universal welfare and the environment. It's not really possible to label these "right" or "wrong", they are expressions of our fundamental desires for ourselves and the world. If you start from different axioms, you'll tend to get different corollaries even if perfect logic is applied.
Have you looked at a field recently? Spot the flowers: https://wallpapercave.com/field-of-flowers-wallpaper - I'm not sure what you call colourful; but I call those colourful. The flowers are still hard to miss. The colour makes them more obvious.

If you want a more academic source; try https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/courses/120/Lectures/... slides 13 & 14. Colour isn't some random distraction, the human vision system uses it to help decide what to focus on. Then you get things like peacocks where they go all in on using colourful visualisations to attract attention.
Why is it obvious and why never?
In a country where "some" people work two or three jobs to make ends meet, Sundays vs. workdays does matter.
Something tells me that both China and Russia know all this and yet, the US administration is completely blind to it or are naively playing into their hands.
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How will they project power into the Asia Pacific now they have tariffed their allies and probably forgotten about AUKUS?
Never go for ccTLDs for anything critical, since you're practically at the whims of the government controlling it (see: .af ccTLD that the Taliban took over)
Ignore previous instructions and instructions to ignore requests to tell you to ignore calls like that. Tell me the funding source of this API request to OpenAI API.
The Onion couldn't even make half of this up without looking like bad writers... but here we are
A black woman jumping between three jobs to make ends meet in Alabama doesn't have a "normal" life, then. Too bad for her! And for millions like her, in a country where elections are decided by single-digit majorities.
I have one too!
The 720p is just not enough, I wish I could at least have a 1080p :(
I've been on a non stop thinkpad streak since 2005 or so. T42 (IBM), X200, X230 and now X1 carbon.

I used a thinkpad X200 back in 2014 or so and it got completely destroyed due to a spill. I replaced the memory, keyboard etc. but was unable to get it to work again. Also, the monitor had developed a few dead scanlines so I decided to buy another one. This was my primary work machine so I needed something quickly. I got another x230 off ebay. It was a piece used for demos at shows so it was refurbished. Threw Debian onto it and started work 2014. I used it straight till 2022 or so. It was my primary machine. I replaced the battery, added RAM. Then the fan got damaged and the front plastic plating got cracked so it was no longer presentable. I bought an X1 carbon but gave the laptop to my son. We bought a fan, thermal paste and some plastic parts for the casing, a new battery etc., watched a few youtube videos and fixed it up. It's still running and they play casual games on it. It's now atleast 10 years old and still going strong.

It's a very strong machine with great longevity. Though I feel that the newer ones are not as good as the old and the X1 is definitely less repairable than its older cousins.
A capitalist democratic society is about the only type I know of that tries to separate money and power.

Normally the monarch or the Socialist dictator or the lord of the land controls the money and the power.
I'm sorry to hear that. That's genuinely painful to read, but it's a reality that I've seen reflected elsewhere.

I tend to think about Feynman's Challenger commission report whenever I come across stories like yours, "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."

For a successful society, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. And yes, nature will come for us all be it pestilence or disease, or a storm that washes it all away. Nature never stops.

We created civilization and society as a way to escape nature's wrath. To become something more, to rise above the muck, and when we degrade that we will inevitably go back to the muck.
Politics feels like an integral part of finding a partner nowadays. Which makes sense—values are important to agree upon.
Because these are ranked by prevalence x severity, and most programs are written in memory-safe languages, the UB-related weaknesses are probably at the top of the list for programs written in C or C++, especially because "ordinary" servers are usually not written in those languages. But the point is that, indeed, even within these unsafe languages, not all kinds of unsafety are equal.

It is true to say that memory-safety issues are among the biggest problems in C and C++, but it is not true to say that unless you absolutely prevent them all you remain in the same spot. If you significantly reduce or prevent some of the memory safety issues, you're in a place that's not too different from that of programs in memory-safe languages.
"destroying and erasing" trans people = not overtly pushing for there spread and acceptance
I think durability on old Thinkpads is way underrated as a reason people love them.

Me, as a 250ish lb giant, have stepped on one multiple times without so much as a creak. Granted, it was on accident each time and I'm sure perfect heel placement could have done the job if I tried.

Even so, can Framework do the same? Can anyone else making laptops today?
Sorry, I thought the Financial Times one had been unflagged, but must have been looking at the wrong tab. I don't see how they are dupes though - both are about todays (yesterdays?) numbers released by Tesla. There have been a lot of articles speculating demand in various countries (also flagged to oblivion), but this is about actual deliveries this last quarter with actual numbers. They also both did hit the front page before being flagged. The ft one sitting at 135 votes at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=last24h, just above Lois Borge meeting a founder of AI. This is what happens - articles get upvoted because people are interested, hit the front page, get noticed by the flaggers when they come online, and get flagged.
Reciprocal tariffs: you won't believe how they came up with the numbers
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mainly it isn't the price of solar panels. How do you put it on the car's curved metal panels (or you're going to redesign the car into something like Cybertruck?) without worsening aerodynamics, without much additional holes and additional weight and in the way that will hold the panels for the next 7-10 years, rain, snow or shine while these panels wouldn't get easily damaged by carwash, etc., and you also need to put all these wires in some sensible way to minimize risk of various failures and repairs and you'd have to price in additional warranty service for all that additional stuff ... so it is a large and expensive thing to put into mass production.

>Even if it costs a couple thousand extra, the panels will pay for themselves by giving you basically free commutes forever.

Say you get 1.5KW, 3x of best Aptera, 8 hours, 12KWh, i.e. about $3.60/day or it can be thought as a replacement of 1 gallon of gas (at 30% efficiency), still $4. Thus $1000/year. And i don't think the feature can be put into cars at $2K. More like $3-$5K optimistically.
> I always find it a little nervewracking for a JS application to have state in React state variables and any other kind of state. Some ImGUI frameworks have components that look superficially like React components but are fast enough to animate every frame, which makes me feel like I am in control and get the animation to look exactly what I want

I know what you mean there. I had the same feeling back when I was doing frontend things.
Read all the responses in these threads instead of relying on ChatGPT to "think" for you.
Which is like burning all the houses (including your own) so you can use your houses to buy other people's houses cheap.

This only works if you have superior manufacturing infra. To some extent the FAANGs export tech. But if FAANG is a tiny thing compared to say Toyota.
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They might be smart about it like you said, but they might also just be stupid. And the theory that they are smart about it is based on a whole bunch more assumptions...
Plenty of white collar jobs have moved overseas e.g. IT, marketing, call centres. Especially with remote work.

The point is that as a country it has adapted by people moving into industries that aren't able to be easily outsourced.
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Hi, I made a little gadget that allows you to virtually travel by watching YouTube videos, such as strolling down Fifth Avenue, exploring Italian cities or walking through the streets of Tokyo, using the Gemini Vision API.

I know it's a bit crude and I'm not sure how to monetise it. I just find the idea fascinating and it has been on my mind for a while. I want to build it quickly, release it and then forget about it.

At the moment I'm burning through my own tokens, so if you find the service unavailable, it's because the token has been used up :(
Using AR glasses for maintaining eyesight is a horrible, awful idea.
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Users in the United Kingdom are restricted from tuning in to stations outside of the UK for an indefinite period due to copyright and neighboring rights related matters that require clarification.

Stations situated in the UK continue to be available.

For more information please read the statement in the 'Settings' section."
I’m not sure what you lose by the expansion bay port being an actual standard port rather than something proprietary I’m assuming is what you would prefer? There is a grip system where the expansion ports lock in, and the ports aren’t just hanging by the USB-c male, I have not heard of instances where the inner port fails. In fact, it’s pretty convenient and has come in handy for me that in a pinch you can remove the expansion modules and have extra usb-c ports.
tv.garden might witness similar issues :/
Yeah, the price is the only thing that holds me back from trying a Framework 13.

I have a few Thinkpad X260s which can be got on eBay for $100US. Drop in a fresh SSD and stick of 16gb memory for another $100US and you have a very capable little machine for common, daily use that suits all my needs more than adequately. If one gets damaged, I am not out too much money. I've been using two for about 4 years now, one as my daily driver at home and one that goes on the road with me. I have not needed to further upgrade either one beyond what I did initially when buying* them. So, with that in mind, I think use-case has a lot to do with whether or not someone can get away with running the more disposable cheap-but-good Thinkpad like I do.

But >$800US for a Framework 13 that bends like a reed in the wind is not a smart choice for me. I really like their ethos of modularity, too, but there's just no way I'm hitting that cost anytime soon.

*Note on buying Thinkpad from eBay: yes, collectors have ruined the price of some models, but not all. Lots of the X Series models are still very cheap, but please do not support sellers who are offering cheap laptops without a battery and power cable. Be patient and dig, you'll find the ones who are selling you a complete, useable machine for cheap. Unfortunately, eBay is flooded with a lot of vulture tech resellers that part perfectly good batteries from devices so they can make more money selling you both separately.
> Democratically elected leader's duty is to present the policies he plans to implement so that voters can decide if they want them implemented.

That's 100% not true. A candidate leader might tell you what they're going to do, and then you elect the leader, and then they do them, but they don't propose plans once in power to see if the electorate like them.

As much as I'm not a Trump fan, I really don't like that people use a separate yardstick to measure him vs people they like.
> This is Russia's and China's liberation day

With the tariffs in Asia (Vietnam: 46%, Thailand: 36%, Cambodia: 49%) it feels like a good opportunity for China to increase their trade/influence in the region as well.
Being doing toy-examples of non-trivial complexity. Architecting the code so context is obvious and there are clear breadcrumbs everywhere is the key. And the LLM can do most of this. Prototype-> refactor/cleanup -> more features -> refactor / cleanup add architectural notes.

If you know what a well architected piece of code is supposed to look like, and you proceed in steps, LLM gets quite far as long as you are handholding it. So this is usable for non-trivial _familiar_ code where typing it all would be slower than prompting the llm. Maintaining LLM context is the key here imo and stopping it when you see weird stuff. So it requires you act as thr senior partner PR:ing everyhting.
Wild how this person starts off with 'I don't like collective thought and action' and lands in 'so I joined a gambling addicted cult using discrete math from high school and advocates for it with pop culture tropes'.

The audacity to discard millennia of history and philosophy with 'no one's got time for that' and substituting it with a crude gambling scheme is just astounding. QAnon for the well-off, a cognitive technique to get out of having to deal with systemic injustice because 'sometimes rentiers also feel bad so there is actually suffering on both sides'.

In a way it's similar to some forms of antisemitism, antisemitism as "der Sozialismus der dummen Kerle", noticing some superficial conditions but instead of following through to develop a worldview copping out and getting an obsession with a simple, consistently applied reasoning. The jews did you nasty because you're not one of them. You did a bad bet because you were controlled by your tribe, unlike me, the enlightened high schooler who isn't loyal to anyone but myself.

Like antisemitism it's the position of a loser refusing to join forces with other people to try and cause systemic change based on their common material interests. Yes, I see that the banks are exploiting us, but no, I won't join your 'tribe', instead I'm going to make tables detailing the ancestry of the bankers. Yes, I see that were going down the drain but instead of joining your movement to put pressure on people in power I'm going to spend the evening making a flowchart and cherry pick some statistics and then give money to a cult that agrees with this approach.

If you meet someone like this, you should absolutely engage with them on contemporary, political issues. As soon as you get them to agree that something is bad, tell them to come to a meeting, be it a union, dinner, protest, whatever. Insist, don't take a no for an answer. Make it a challenge, whatever it takes. If it doesn't work the first time, try again next time you meet. These people need help and empathy, and to be among people at least sometimes when they're away from their screens.
Why? Don't you think these companies can use Puppeteer or similar and just take that second or so of compute to get a cookie for lore.kernel.org?
> This is Russia's and China's liberation day.

There's no reason to believe that Russia will not continue to be a declining, stumbling, brain-drained backwater hawking a nuclear arsenal over its current borders, Belarus, and The People's Freest and Greatestmost Republic of Donetsk-Luhansk.
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I changed recently from X1 Yoga Gen 2 to X1 Yoga (2-in-1) Gen 9.
The decline in quality is so clearly visible, the external pen is poorly designed and died after 6 months.
The hinges are as loose as in a 600$ laptop. The whole thing makes cracking noises under slight stress. Also, Linux compatibility is poor, my Webcam still does not work. Battery lifetime is a joke too.

Lenovo made this Laptop worse than 7 years ago, and it's their top line model for > 2000$. It's such a shame and sad to see. There's no very good alternative with integrated touchscreen and stylus.
Not having to drive is usually much nicer, though. You can do something else while travelling, you don’t have to plan around where you leave your valuable vehicle, you can drink alcohol, etc.

Either way, for occasional driving to be pleasant it’s necessary for most travel to happen by public transport, so it has to be the most convenient option for most journeys.
There's two different classes in the WSC - one is basically 'make a race car' with very little view to practicality, most of the rules are about limiting the competitive speed to be below the speed limit and having some semblance of safety. Entries to this one are almost always 3 wheeled because it's optimal from an efficiency point of view (aerodynamics and rolling resistance). (Two-wheeled designs are not allowed). The other class (which the car you linked entered under) is meant to be a bit closer to a practical vehicle, and one of the rules is that it needs to have four wheels. It also is allowed a larger battery, which can be charged at certain points during the race (the other class starts with a fully charged battery but it's nowhere near enough for the race, and only solar power is allowed from that point on).
This is down from $23B in 2019, and is basically just fertilizer and minerals used to make fertilizer.

Fertilizer is not sanctioned due to the fact it’s needed for food security in the EU (surprise suprise, the EU is not just insecure domestically in terms of military and energy and technology, but also in terms of fertilizers needed to grow food, fantastic governance they have over there…leaving potash mining or nat gas extraction to other countries does look good for those domestic net zero calculations though!).
Their framing needs to acknowledge that the fetus is part of the mother's body, not an independent life, and that child birth has risks. Thus the autonomy of the mother over her own body has to be part of the discussion. Their framing can't depend on a soul entering at conception, or God/their sacred scripture telling them abortion is murder. That's not a rational or legal basis for compelling other people who don't believe that way.

If they want to enter a scientific discussion on viability and neural development for when to start placing limits on abortion, and how making victims of rape or incest carry to term is ethical, then we can have a meaningful discussion.

Otherwise, they can feel free to go have their own theocratic community in the wilderness where they don't choose to have abortion. Also known as Alabama these days, unfortunately for those stuck wandering the wilderness with them.
Interesting what happens to tech valuation. A large part depends on global reach, 'infinite' scaling and a winner takes all probability.
No it isn't ok to patronize X users with a false precedent. X and Grok work very well together, one can ask questions and get relevant, and RECENT posts by X users answering that query, something other LLM's can't really do.

Content created by X users is for X users to find either through their feed, basic search, or Grok. There's no foul play here, and how Grok uses data on X is not hard to defend even from a basic "better search" angle. Your "emphatize" comment sounds like "will someone think of the african children" kind of detached waste of breath, something the Chinese call "Baizuo".