skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it depends on your company rather than saying "most". If you are in a software company (i.e. you sell the software you write), then your value is the unique IP you create from writing code. In that case, hopefully a larger portion of your day is coding.

edit: When I say coding, I don't mean plumbing code, I mean something that is actually a unique invention.
The list of countries lists Taiwan separately from China, but also lists Heard Island separately from Australia.

Also includes British Indian Ocean Territory. The only people who live there are on a US military base on Diego Garcia.
My experience may not be representative, but I think it's very uncommon to outright ask "who did you vote for" in the US. It's more common (although many people still find it impolite or inappropriate in many situations) for someone to bring up an issue that is important to them and that strongly suggests a preference for one of our two viable political parties.
The last thing I want is a search engine where I have to create an account to use it.
That's a great point. I checked into this, and if and when the profits are repatriated they indeed only show up in the capital account, not the current account.

However, in practice even if not repatriated those exports show up in the us economy. Profits raise the share price, which allows stock grants at higher values, effectively a wage as one example.

I wonder how big an effect this phenomenon you highlight has. Must be a fairly large overstatement of the US trade deficit.
Australia is not famous for openness to immigration; people overseas are more likely to know about Pauline Hanson and the prison camps in Nauru.
Devaluing the dollar makes paying national debt more expensive
Yeah that's fair, "doesn't know what we want" might have been oversimplifying. Better phrasing would have been that there is a very hard limit on the context you're able to give when using a search engine. It's mainly keywords, and then maybe some tricks like `site:` or quotes.
So strange to take VAT into account when it's not discriminating between local or import. By that logic the US has a 5-10% tariff on everything too since we have sales tax in like 47 states.
You don't have to create an account
You're doing yourself a disservice by creating a false dichotomy of "things that are okay to discuss" (tax brackets, zoning) and "things that aren't" (tariffs, manditory genital inspections), when it's very unlikely that anyone will have the exact same bifurcation point as you.

And, I have to say, I thought it was pretty amusing that you appear to treat someone discussing tariffs with the same severity as someone discussing mandatory genital inspections.
Much like economies don't work like a household budget, they also don't work on "no pain no gain". Economic pain only causes bad things.

https://eml.berkeley.edu/~enakamura/papers/plucking.pdf
Feels like the mathematical version of "just because you can doesn't mean you should."
Start by reading some Robert Frost.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43476154
T14 Gen 5 AMD is perhaps the current best you can go for with non-soldered RAM.
rooting out bad actors is most effectively done by proper education to keep them from becoming bad actors in the first place. any other approach in rooting out bad actors risks judgement errors and should only be applied in the most egregious of cases. and even there the approach should be: "look, you may mean well, but your actions hurt to many people, and therefore we must reject your approach and tell you to stop"
A lot of this is due to the failure of the American political system: there is simply no room for a third party. A lot of people don't want to vote for "their" party, it's merely a strategic vote in an attempt to keep the worse of two evil out of power.

If you vote for a third-party candidate, you might just as well not have voted at all. The parties will only genuinely start caring about policy when that gets fixed, and voters will only start looking into politics when there is more than one option on their side of the aisle.
I'm not voxl, but I do want to point out that he didn't declare anyone evil. He declared an action evil (the action of voting for Donald Trump).

That's an important distinction to me because I believe people can change and start choosing better actions.

But, a whole lot of people haven't changed, still support Trump, and until that changes, those people are dangerous.

And sure, we can empathize with the reasons that got them to do that, but it doesn't follow that we should just pretend what they did was okay, especially is they continue to do harmful things.
> I would think it unlikely they can secure an updraft from this to keep the house. What's the plan for that?

Clearly they will "secure the vote". Massive voter disenfranchisement is already taking place, it will go to the next level.
You got this random internet stranger
The company can absolutely be wrong in their idea of how to make money, no doubt. But it's still what motivates them.

I've stepped out of my lane to make money for the company, even when explicitly told not to, but the making money part meant they overlooked my transgressions. I figured they would, as businessmen really like making money.

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If you refuse a mandatory RTO order, you may be replaced with a less productive employee. But from a company standpoint, allowing you to violate it means others will demand it, and it may be a net loss for the company to keep you.
You want even more bad writing? Why?!
As someone who spent an immeasurable amount of time on AOE 2 online multiplayer, it has been a steadily refreshing experiencing the rise of AOE2 DE over the recent years.
The game not only received updates that brought in the total civilization count to 50+, but also a ton of visual enhancements and improvements in the overall gameplay and performance.

This is nothing short of stunning to see new developments happening for these games, especially in the open-source community.
I disagree with you. According to your definition of best developer, is one with a skill for persuade manager enough for building complex we apps and services? A developer is hired to write code and they achieve business goals by writing code and building software. Writing code is the skill they have and that is why they are hired.
I’ve never heard of a thinkpad without a replaceable ssd.
So there's a cross encoder of some kind which accepts a prompt for how to score?
Curtis Yarvin?
How is getting ticketed for speeding "being a victim of government oppression"?

By "bias inherent to the training dataset and enforcement algorithm", are you talking about anything other than "areas with more sensors"? These aren't exactly LLMs; it's kind of like saying vending machines might be biased because there are more of them in certain areas.

The areas where there are more of them will indeed be the areas where speeding rules get more strongly enforced (eg. school zones), so if you don't want cars speeding through your neighbourhood, you'd want to have better coverage. The areas with no enforcement would be the neighbourhoods being discriminated against, so is your view that it's better to have speed cameras nowhere?

As for due process, that seems entirely unrelated but if anything this puts you in a better spot. If you are a victim of false positive, the recording is right there, you download it from the web portal, review whether it was really a false positive or not, and if so, take it to court to dispute the charge. You don't have to he-said-she-said with a police officer who might, if they were feeling especially vindictive, plant some evidence on you during the traffic stop.
> aren't their employees on food stamps at some ridiculously high rate?

Welfare like food stamps is a subsidy /against/ Walmart, not for it. You are supporting the employees by paying for their food, which means they can negotiate for higher wages, which means Walmart pays them more.

An example of the other kind would be literal wage subsidies, which are sometimes paid so companies will hire mentally disabled people.
Someone figured out that the new tariffs are just our trade deficit with that country divided by the country's exports. I think more and more we see lots of evidence they don't know what they're doing.
> If a company can purchase the same clothing from Chinese, Vietnamese, or Mexican vendors, a tax on China only could make the Chinese vendors lower the price or risk losing the business.

This example implies producers are already in competition with one another, so it's unlikely that any of them can lower the price much. On the other hand, if some producers leave the market due to the tariffs, then there's less competition overall and the other producers can charge more.
I can talk for hours of non-political things.
And I’m not talking about sports or similar things.
Credit to @ziftface — I should’ve included more examples in the original post. MatterRank is useful when you want results with specific qualitative traits that go beyond keyword matching. You can ask for stuff like “written by a woman,” “mentions these specific lines from a movie,” or “talks about X/Y/Z but avoids A/B.” Since it reads the full content, not just metadata or SEO signals, it lets you be a lot more precise in ways that traditional search engines just don’t support.
Ordinary search indices don't contain the entire target site, while LLM-style so called AI does consume it all. I would guess some of these crawlers are subcontractors rather than "AI" companies, i.e. they compete on having the most complete and fresh dataset you could rent for "training".

Whenever the market decides the Internet is too full of slop to be usable for "training" the one that has the most copies of the pre-"AI" Internet wins. Some of the traffic is likely "AI" "tool use", i.e. bot scraping as part of running some LLM, i.e. "AI" "research".

The big scraping bots have gone from stupid to ruthless. Previously it was irritating that some of them got stuck traversing cyclical link paths on your site or on-the-fly generated pages, now it's like your silly family blog suddenly got very popular for no good reason and it puts a lot of load on the tiny amount of hardware it's served from.
Reading this from my t420s, it's only 11yrs old.
What you're describing is what Nassim Taleb calls "tawkers." People like economists, journalists, pundits, etc. who talk big but don't have any skin in the game for being wrong or irrelevant (time is a great example). Since there is no feedback loop to punish bad or irrelevant takes, they can continue tawking for a long time.

When I have similarly strong opinions, I do act on it because I enjoy seeing how right or wrong I was. Markets are a harsh, expensive teacher. You either learn a trick or two about uncertainty, overconfidence, humility, etc, or you run out of money.

I think you're better at it than you're letting on even if you decided to not play. You already understand the properties of the game.
I just saw the future. It was not in America
If you asked a junior developer to refactor a rust program to be more idiomatic, how long would you expect that to take? Would you expect the work to compile on the first try?

I love Cline and Copilot. If you carefully specify your task, provide context for uncommon APIs, and keep the scope limited, then the results are often very good. It’s code completion for whole classes and methods or whole utility scripts for common use cases.

Refactoring to taste may be under specified.
A war is not an essential requirement for invocation of AEA. Read the statute.

(The steel-man for your case would be on TdA being tied to a foreign government, not that it is not a war--an invasion or predatory incursion is enough. We will soon see how SCOTUS rules on that.)
at some point is it even the same laptop? I don't think the original laptop has a better chance of surviving
> It also puts republicans in a choke hold to force the tax cut legislation through, because the fallout of tariffs with no tax cuts would be a death knell for the party.

I mean, they could vote down the "emergency" Trump is using in order to obtain the authority to enact these tariffs instead, and that would be so much less work. But of course they won't go against their Dear Leader.
To go down in history as this great figure who increased American territory and the power of the executive branch while making America this economic giant that doesn't depend on the global economy, because he thinks economic policies still work like they did in the 19th century.
My reading comprehension is enough to see an argument destitute of substance.

For there to be a threat there should be evidence of a threat. Your aspersions, which you are so keen on casting against anyone who doesn't share your views, are not evidence of anything but hyperbole and irrational panic.

If you cannot name a single person who is a natural born citizen that has been deported or has been threatened with deportation - or even anyone in power who has mused for a second upon deporting natural born citizens, via this legal change - then you have nothing.

If someone can show that the legal change you're warning about does not have the consequences you claim, e.g. all of Europe, then you have nothing.

You should get used to answering questions, it'll help you sharpen up your argument, that's why I ask simple questions[1]. Now, *please desist from your blatant and explicit rudeness*.

[1] https://www.britannica.com/topic/Socratic-method
What happened after I launched my first paid product?
* BitMEX the company and its founders received a Presidential pardon in the past week. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/trump-pardon-bitmex-crypto-e...

* Several Consumer Protection Safety Board lawsuits were withdrawn in February: https://apnews.com/article/cfpb-drops-capital-one-rocket-law...

* New York Mayor Eric Adams's corruption case was dismissed in an apparent quid-pro-quo. White House official Thomas Howan asserted that he had an agreement with Adams on the morning news show Fox and Friends. Evidence indicated Adams accepted a hundred thousand dollars in benefits and bribes in exchange for helping the Turkish government certify a building permit. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/trumps-b...
How is netbird? Is it more stable than tailscale/headscale? How is your performance while streaming a video?
That was a rainy day argument for not caring too much about debt. But what's happening now is we're raiding our savings account to pay for bath salts. No, it was not "the plan all along".
Funny that this is the exact calculation that ChatGPT suggests. Seems like another genius Musk idea. Madagascar definitely deserves 47% tariffs on US imports.

https://xcancel.com/krishnanrohit/status/1907587352157106292
There’s nothing out there that matches the bold business look and feel of old thinkpads, my personal favorite being the x61. These machines are so well-built and beautiful, and I respect and understand the decision to try and keep them running.
But I would respect a restomod more =)
You seem to be one of those people who thinks it's ok to tear things down that they don't like, regardless of who gets hurt.

I wish your type of thinking didn't exist. The world would be a much better place.
Now, no. In a few months, yes.

People know the "NFT style", and when people see any sort of image like that, they instantly think "annoying crypto scammer."

There's now the "AI image" style, which people are becoming more aware of. And people associate that with scammers, very confused old people, weird porn, and the right.

Most of the ghiblified stuff is from AI/cryptobros and right wing movements (with heavy overlap on those groups). People possess pattern recognition and will become aware of the pattern each time they see these images.
As soon as Malaysia gets anywhere near a significant capacity of semiconductor manufacturing they’ll also get increased tariffs. Or, the the tariffs will end and it will return to Taiwan.

Stability is necessary for any big shifts to be worth taking.
The weighted average of the new U.S. tariffs will be 29% it seems.

Maybe they know the consequences, but to give you a idea... it was 1.5% before. The new ones will be equivalent to Brazilian tariffs in 1989 before opening the economy (31%, data from World Bank).

Now, Brazilian tariffs, which have one if the most closed economies, by weighted average, is 7%.

China, have 2.2%.

The United States will be an autarchy, similar to how LaTam was in the 70's, when tried this exact idea. The tariffs being as high instantly, will impact the economy, later, the country will probably grow, which is what they expect, but this is not a productive grow. Because your new factories now are not competing with external products, so your productivity go down, this means real income will also go down.

So yeah, some people at best (if is not a robot doing the job) will have a job in a factory, but on what he will be able to spend with his wage won't make it worth even for this person.
> constructive discussion is hard without mutual respect

Yes, indeed.
Are you going to Sealion this ?
Obligatory "I can't even order Framework in my country" post.

But I can get as many Thinkpads as I want.
i'd love to see it being real (someday)
I see how the tariff numbers may have been calculated. But why is it done that way? What is the rationale behind such a calculation? Is this a way to balance the existing trade deficits? How does it work?

Would appreciate you (or anybody else) shed some light on the economics of the thing.
I actually did these a while ago. Courses taught me a lot and have recommended it to friends since. Very grateful for the course team for making everything public :)
bingo. i have nothing to add, just chiming in to let you know theres others out there who are at the point of not reading about it any longer. if the people who are in a position to do something about it arent doing anything about it, then reading more about it is as useful as watching porn.
Yes the T30's nipple was a bit strange.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/dctaft/413198278/

I quite like the cup style trackpoint even if it tended to leave a small circle on the screen.

That particular laptop died in middle age due to motherboard hardware defects.
> Kill people's savings, might happen.

It doesn't work because it's basically illegal to be poor in America, or rather to live like a poor person in a developing country. Because of theories about gentrification and such we just banned everything like SROs, company dorms, etc.

It worked for a little while in the 2000s because earlier flight from cities had left a lot of empty housing open to gentrify, but none of that is left.

There's a few classes of people left like supercommuters and people who live in RVs in the Amazon warehouse parking lot, but not going to run a big factory like that.
Using an LLM isn’t the worst way to rank, but it’s pretty darn slow. The speed could be improved a lot by just distilling into deep neural nets though.

The results for me were fairly high quality and moderately relevant but I think they could be improved as well.

You get pretty far by just blocking low quality blogspam and Medium, which would be a lot faster and could even be done on the frontend with a chrome plugin.
The context was that he gave a nazi salute twice. I'm linking literal video of the event side by side with nazis and hitler doing the exact motion. This isn't propaganda, it is reality that you can witness for yourself.
> Immigration policies are way stricter now

Do you have any evidence of that? Have there been changes in legislation, specific directives issued?

> some countries are issuing warnings for people traveling to the US

In the case of Germany, it was emphasized that the change was not a travel warning, but instead a travel advisory [0]. Here are a few advisories from Canada, accessed 2025-04-02:

Germany: Exercise a high degree of caution in Germany due to the threat of terrorism.
https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/germany

France: Exercise a high degree of caution in France due to the elevated threat of terrorism.
https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/france

Italy: Exercise a high degree of caution in Italy due to the threat of terrorism.
https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/italy

The State Department has a similar advisory on traveling to the UK:

> Country Summary: Terrorist groups continue plotting possible attacks in the United Kingdom. Terrorists may attack with little or no warning, targeting tourist locations, transportation hubs, markets/shopping malls, local government facilities, hotels, clubs, restaurants, places of worship, parks, major sporting and cultural events, educational institutions, airports, and other public areas. There is also a risk of isolated violence by dissident groups in Northern Ireland, focused primarily on police and military targets.

I will look at anything specific you have on hand that you feel merits attention, but I know that in the case of the German advisory, it was just updated to reflect that possessing a visa was not a guarantee of entry. So far as I know this did not come about as a result of change in policy. While the Trump administration has done a lot of chest-thumping on immigration, I haven't seen any indication that these sorts of refusals and detentions are unprecedented; they just seem to be receiving more media attention. In this instance, there were three high profile cases of Germans being refused entry and / or detained, which resulted in the advisory.

[0]: https://www.newsweek.com/germany-issues-travel-warning-us-20... ("But they also stressed that this change does not count as an official travel warning.")
Handyman might be better analogue. And fixing should be either change some parts inside the toilet bowl or swap whole thing. What a software engineer would do is teardown bathroom with half a building and build a new annex with squat toilet...
Elon proved this with the Wisconsin Supreme Court vote.

He will likely dangle hundreds of millions in front of voters across the US to buy their vote without any repercussions.

And then make that money back through the insider dealings that prioritise SpaceX et al.
I enjoy debating politics in the way that others enjoy playing chess or a friendly game of bowling. But when the other party gets wrapped around the axle, I don't debate with them anymore. Unfortunately, most seem to be in the latter camp.
I would be soooooo happy if my fire insurance paid out 900k. I would rebuilt it myself for $100k and retire!
If they hold the midterms...
Cholo was open world 3D in 1986:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholo_(video_game)
Exempting chips alone doesn't make sense. Does Intel have to pay 20% on ASML lithography machines or more on Japanese ones? Meanwhile TSMC can fab chips in Taiwan and export to the US without tariffs.
The only scenario where I believe people might directly ask "Who did you vote for?" is screening for dating. I don't know exactly how common it is, but I've heard multiple anecdotes about that being asked on dating apps or first dates, because they're not interested in dating someone who voted for Trump.

Prior to Trump it wasn't really a thing, because both parties were still following the law and maintaining a functioning democracy, so people could date across party lines and just agree-to-disagree about taxes or whatever.
Unlike Pascal's Wager, those who take Kerrick's Wager (and it seems a good one) each contribute minutely to the probability of the outcome under consideration.
I reimplemented Mastra workflows with my own durable functions and I regret it
I reimplemented Mastra’s agentic workflows with durable functions in Convex, and it was the wrong decision. Learn about three common integration strategies (reimplementation, API wrapping, and “blessed” plugin paths), along with my learnings along the way and reflections on what I’d do differently next time.
TL;DR: Do less, do it smarter, and prototype faster.