skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
New debt is only more expensive if you have to exchange something of value to obtain the USD to pay down the debt. But since the Fed can expand the money supply at will, it's essentially creating new USD out of thin air which can be used.

(This is how the US has been able to sustain such a large debt without any real consequences.)

What will happen though is that interest rates on T bills will rise, so yes, in that sense, it does eventually become "more expensive" to service new debt. But again it's in nominal dollar terms and so it's just a matter of issuing more dollars. The trick is to do this in a way that doesn't devalue the dollar thus triggering an inflationary cycle.
As I said, I never saw the FW16 except in pictures and everything I know about it was from the net. I might be wrong about some of the things I wrote.

So, does it really have a headphones jack or not?

My X60T headphones jack only recently started to cause troubles after many many years of use, but it was an easy fix: drill 3 tiny holes in the connector casing and push a needle through each one to bend the contacts tighter.
Manufacturing as a share of GDP is bound to fall. It is inevitably going the way of agriculture.

The US is in the envyable position of having developed a globally dominant service sector. Putting that at risk of retaliation by imposing tariffs on all imports, including the lowest margin stuff like screws and bolts is utter insanity.

https://www.ft.com/content/aee57e7f-62f1-4a57-a780-341475cd8...
A new form of immune memory: Macrophages can adapt to past infections
Does this have an API? Reason I ask, I would kill to have a dynamic recipe scanner that could plug into recipe databases (namely ones that can accurately scrape recipes from the web) and instantly give you a nutritional rundown of the ingredients, as well as any changes to the nutrition that could occur due to the cooking process. It would make tracking what I eat a breeze, and really give solid insight into the macros and micros I'm consuming.

Also, why the app focus? Having the main functionality exist in the Apple/Android store space rather than as a SaaS option seems like an interesting choice.
Yes: https://www.netbird.io/knowledge-hub/netbird-network-routes
Kuo: Apple Can Reduce Impact of Trump's Tariffs in Five Ways
#1 Per our Constitution, USA has minoritarian rule baked in.

There's many anti-democratic choke points: Electoral College for POTUS, Supreme Court, US Senate, gerrymandering effect on US House, long history of systemic disenfranchisement, etc. aka Vetocracy per Francis Fukuyama.

#2 ~6m Biden voters stayed home in 2024.

There's a sizeable cohort of infrequent voters and a huge cohort of non-voters who self disenfranchise. Due to nihilism (voting doesn't matter), both parties are the same, low motivation, whatever.

#3 Like most everywhere else, our information ecology is broken, fragmented.

The audience for "traditional" media's news is tiny, compared to social media. The Dems focus on "traditional" whereas GOP have successfully embraced "social". So for all the billions spent every presidential election (political advertising), most voters don't ever hear from Democrats.

Therefore, US voters are mostly unable to correlate policy positions with politic parties. So mass politics really comes down to marketing and vibes.

#4 Addressing these "legitamacy" issues (government by consent of the governed) is wicked hard when one of our two political parties has been utterly opposed to democracy and effective governance for decades.
Assuming citizens united isn't going anywhere (it's not, with the current SC), then yes.
You can usually also ask ICANN's CZDS service for a particular zone file, if you can give them a valid reason. But in this case, they don't seem to have the ai tld.
Perhaps worth noting some differences:

* https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare/wiki/Dropped-components
Anarchism is not just “no government”, but rather “no rulers”.

Leftist anarchists are acutely aware that power and capital accumulation go hand-in-hand.

Extreme libertarians are perfectly fine with the unfettered accumulation of capital and seemingly ignore that that results in unchecked power. Or they have faith that a “truly” free economy would somehow check itself before becoming effectively neo-feudalistic or dictatorial. As if the lion would fear the zebra.

Leftist-anarchists want to keep power to an absolute minimum. Usually relying on a combination of culture and group action to wield just enough power to prevent the growth of unchecked power in the hands of a few.

In my mind, culture is the key element. The capital-worshipping, me-versus-all culture we live in would fit quite well into extreme-libertarianism and then it would devolve into defacto rule by a few. (As seems to be happening anyways. Because, again, capital accumulates, protects itself and takes power where it can when no one is willing to or allowed to work together to stop it.)

Leftist-anarchism requires a more mature, selfless, introspective, cooperative culture. Anathema to the “United” States of America.
I probably failed to account for the differing backgrounds of HN commenters & the resulting overly-literal interpretation of sarcasm, to be fair to the downvoters. Of course the owners & managers should take responsibility for poor corporate performance.
> It's more likely to be related to culture and political structure than education is my guess. Unless, maybe, we want to use a different definition for education than just degree attainment. For example, Finland has lower attainment rates for bachelor degree equivalents than the US. This would seem to disprove your point.

The university educated are the top. Politics is not about the top few percent, it's about the masses. At this the US education system is really bad, especially in poorer areas.
To point 1, how does receiving, say, $1,000 a month remove hope and prevent bettering oneself? Anyone receiving UBI can still get a job to get additional money. Anyone already working is still receiving their salary. I would not stop trying to promote and make more money, let alone quit my job because I was receiving an extra grand a month. Just like suddenly not having to pay for healthcare and having that extra money in my pocket wouldn’t disincentivize me.

On point 2, the idea that UBI is parasitism and corporate handouts are not is ridiculous. UBI is basically the same as a stock dividend paid to shareholders, where everyone owns one “share” of the country, with all of its natural resources, infrastructure, trade, etc (something literally done in Alaska already with oil revenue). Taxes already go to things an individual will not personally use or directly benefit from, but the aggregate is a benefit to all. The highway system for example, where any individual strip of road may or may not “make more” than it costs, but the system of transit benefits everyone. Eliminating (relative) extreme poverty, and all of its criminal, health, productivity loss ills that come with it, while also reducing the massive cost to manage, check, and enforce means tested assistance is a net benefit.
LLMs produce deterministic results? Now, that's a big [citation needed]. Where can I find the specs?

Edit: This is assuming by "deterministic," you mean the same thing I said about programming language implementations being "controllable, reproducible, and well-defined." If you mean it produces random but same results for the same inputs, then you haven't made any meaningful points.
Germany.
The country was designed to be incredibly hard to takeover from the inside.

Central government is weak, even if AFD would takeover the chancellorship there are few measures that would immediately allow them to intervene in the federal states or „Länder“, much much less than in the US e.g. unless there is war there is no way to use the military to force compliance.

You would have to take over the country 17 times, and since the elections are not synchronised you would have to convince everybody all the time that this is good idea.

Individual German federal states could be taken over much easier, Thuringia probably will be the first in 2028.

The biggest weakness than is that the legal prosecution on German federal state level is under control of the executive and could be used to prosecute political adversaries.
But if this goes to far the remaining parts of the country could vote to takeover the executive if there was a breach of the constitution.
Why Genetic Medicine Never Arrived
Is this what you're moving on to now? That it can't be a nazi salute because he needs to salute someone, even though it is identical to hitler doing it on stage?

You didn't even back up your other points. You said it was propaganda and "persecution"!, but after a comparison video that anyone can see you back off those claims and gish gallop on to something else. Are you admitting that those are ridiculous?

You didn't give any evidence that they are true and just moved on to something more ridiculous and tried to combine it with an insult. It's amazing that you would bring up 'critical thinking' while never giving a shred of evidence to back up your claims.
An economic crisis will reduce tax income though, reducing the ability of government to pay even if the interest is lower
I'd like to add one that I don't know if it works because sometimes you have to but:

- Do not summarize the opposing point of view beyond the other person's statements.

That one always seems to be the start of a mess. Folks showing up with "I was told..." and so on and it's always some dishonest BS.
I see here in Munich 80k as max at well funded startups. Maybe it’s time to move to Netherlands then.
We've had plenty of wars since globalization came in post-WWII though. Its impossible to know what wars would have happened without it, and how much war may have been prevented due to trade rather than the threat of nuclear war, for example.
He's been trying to do that as well.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/world/europe/trump-ukrain...
"syncs" can mean so many different things
It absolutely helps, but this is about whether it's truly needed or not.

I think there's overwhelming evidence that it's not truly necessary.
Our tax now is worse than flat. Warren buffet brags about paying less % than his secretary.
Admittedly without knowing much about our dairy industry and supply management, isn't this flawed logic? If a 200% import tariff means Canadian dairy can also be sold at a higher cost, then it's still the consumers bearing the cost--they are being denied access to cheaper dairy altogether.
The US has a trade surplus with the UK, and the UK got a 10% tariff :-) Who's ripping off who?
I will not deny that. I'm not say that all companies are like this, but I am saying that it is not mandatory to live like this. I never have worked a crazy amount of hours even working for a WITCH and it was not an issue. The US does not give you balance by default, but I am saying that it is perfectly viable to avoid those kinds of companies. No one has to work 60 hours all the time. It won't cost you your career. It might cost you money. I will be the first to admit that I'm not a super high earner, but I have never struggled to pay my bills.
It's great when you make a general statement about somebody you are conversing with without really knowing their background.

As Dan notes himself, even scenarios which are simpler than this (moving a bridge, moving a building) are done much more rarely compared to similar requests in software. I did not accidentally use "modify something in a dimension that's really hard to modify in civil engineering" as an example — perhaps your response was a cocktail party response of someone not understanding either civil or software engineering?

IMHO, it is all about costs (which I start off with being small in software — comparatively): traditional engineering doing changes like these is extremely expensive and thus they don't (it's usually cheaper to demolish and rebuild).
What month was this then? Because there was a time when you were not even allowed to be with your wife at the hospital
A reneval for sysadmins and devops in EU for the next few years? :P
> Given the ever-growing number of 'sub-systems', I'm sure new ones have been created that I'm not aware of.

Found one, repartitioning:

* https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/syst...
Our diversity is not fragility. It makes things harder to arrange but it also keeps them fair. There is no chance of some president/party getting voted into office and making unilateral decisions that screw everybody. Like you know, the US. Or the UK with Brexit. In Europe the diversity keeps that from happening.

It also combats exceptionalism, that "Our nation is the greatest ever!" kinda stuff. Because in Europe we know we're not a nation but an alliance. That we need others to survive.

And remember that Finland didn't even bother joining NATO until Russia invaded Ukraine, if they thought it was so important to be together as a big bloc, this would have been the first step.

Ps: if the other countries in Europe didn't agree with Finland's smart decisions, how do you think these decisions would come to pass if Europe was one big country? Because the people wanting those would be in the minority. You would have very little input to the whole. And no chance to decide them yourself as you currently do.
> fascism and fascist ideologies

This is political dog-whistling. As Orwell pointed out almost eight decades ago: "The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies ‘something not desirable’."[1] and is now obviously only a dog-whistle for fellow ideologues. This does not belong on HN.

[1] https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwel...
> Nah I will rather my Democrat state focus on human welfare and giving people opportunities to progress in life

That sounds like it would be way easier if those people had id's...
To be fair, it’s important that we celebrate grilled cheese month while we can still afford bread and cheese.
Classifying aviation-related posts on Hacker News with SLMs
Explaining how a touchscreen works with a sausage [video]
A plan like that could backfire, as one of the primary things that the Fed looks at when setting interest rates is inflation. Increasing the costs of imports across the board will likely increase inflation, which would make a rate cut less likely.

But in general, I think this is too complicated. The simpler explanation for all this is the Executive branch is currently held by isolationist.
I'm objecting to his characterization that "they're barely even thinking about this." He makes it seem like they picked this formula out of a hat. But there is an ideological rationale to scaling tariffs up with the size of the trade deficit, as described in the article I linked.
> This is why in some European countries, that $1 item from China with free shipping can end up costing $10

This is what strikes me about these new tariffs... for all the concern about how it's going to impact the US economy (and I don't doubt it will), this is STILL far, far, less protectionism than literally every other country in the entire world. Donald Trump's justification for all this is that the U.S. is propping up the entire world economy to it's own detriment, and I'm not sure he's necessarily wrong here.
California produced 1.94 million gallons of olive oil in 2023. That same year the US used ~98.5 million gallons of olive oil. There just isn't enough space to produce that much olive oil in CA much less produce it profitably or in ways that wouldn't devastate the environment. And all that is ignoring that it takes around 10 years for an olive tree to get to consistent production.
No one exists alone in a society. People who ignored the overwhelming evidence of the pandemic’s severity were more likely to spread the disease to other people because of their poor judgement.
What is the time scale we are talking about when we talk about this change?
In my view IP laws in the digital age are basically a look into what would happen under western capitalism if we discovered any other effectively post-scarcity technology. We wouldn't be transported into Star Trek's universe, we would instead be jailed and beaten for using it.

Only the very wealthiest would be allowed to produce with it, they would form state backed cartels and we would be no better off for its invention.
> Those rigorous validation steps were also created with LLMs, correct?

Not really. I do explain in the methodology post how good o1-pro is at the task, but there was a lot of manual effort involved in coming to that conclusion with my own effort to review the LLM's reasoning, and even still, o1-pro is not perfect.
Certainly the answer to those questions is always "it depends."

If someone only cares about price, quantity, or some specific measure of quality certainly domestic production is limiting.

You'd want domestic production for other goals like self reliance, sustainability, or resilience.
More compact, but also more ambiguous. I suspect an exact specification what Dropbox does in natural language will not be substantially more compact compared to the code.
/s: that’s because we haven’t gone far enough. People use natural language to generate computer programs. Instead, they should directly run prompts.

“You are the graphics system, an entity that manages what is on the screen. You can receive requests from all programs to create and destroys “windows”, and further requests to draw text, lines, circles, etc. in a window created earlier. Items can be of any colour.

You also should send more click information to whomever created the window in which the user clicked the mouse.

There is one special program, the window manager, that can tell you what windows are displayed where on any of the monitors attached to the system”

and

“you are a tic-tac-toe program. There is a graphics system, an entity that manages what is on the screen. You can command it to create and destroys “windows”, and to draw text, lines, circles, etc. in a window created earlier. Items can be of any colour.

The graphics you draw should show a tic-tac-toe game, where users take turn by clicking the mouse. If a user wins the game, it should…

Add ads to the game, unless the user has a pay-per-click subscription”

That should be sufficient to get a game running…

To save it, you’d need another prompt:

”you are a file system, an entity that persists data to disk…”

You also will want

”you are a multi-tasking OS. You give multiple LLMs the idea that they have full control over a system’s CPU and memory. You…”

I look forward to seeing this next year in early April.
These 'meta optics' and 'meta surfaces' and 'meta grates' haven't replaced anything.
This list is so big and goes so much in the past...
100% I have been raving about this for as long as I remember. Most folk nod, but say "it could never happen here".
Given the large delta between what you've experienced and what I can find on my side, the only thing I can think is that your application has been handled outside of our standard process (perhaps directly with someone?) and/or that the SaaS we use to manage the process isn't surfacing you in search.

The code challenge linked has been used for the software engineer candidates long before I began at SerpApi and, in the spirit of transparency, candidates have been directed to make their submissions via a PR to the public repository since almost our earliest employees, e.g. Ilya's submission can be found here: https://github.com/serpapi/code-challenge/pull/6

Can you please forward the email chain(s) to me at david at serpapi.com so I can look into it? Even if you've withdrawn from the process, I would very much appreciate having a copy of these to see what's gone wrong.
Market-Wide Circuit Breakers FAQ [pdf]
The flaw I see is centered around this paragraph.

> How can rates come down? The present uncertainty around tariffs and a potential crisis could create conditions that pressure interest rates downward before those Treasury securities mature, by influencing Federal Reserve policy.

Rising prices due to tariffs won't pressure the Fed to lower interest rates. It will increase inflation and worries of inflation, which will actually pressure the Fed to RAISE interest rates. A slowing economy won't stop inflation... We are likely entering into a period of "stagflation". The way out last time was very high interest rates and short term economic hardship.
I can second this. Same story, been thumbing it for 25 years or so. I've also used it through some fairly painful ligament injury ('gamekeeper's thumb'), and if anything I think it helped with the recovery.

I remember someone telling me 20ish years ago that, as opposable thumbers, we have more nerves/muscles dedicated to each thumb than we do for the other 4 fingers combined. Not sure how true that is, but it stuck with me.
Elcom Wireless Trackball (M-RT1DRBK) works great while sitting on a couch. I haven't tried gaming with it unfortunately.
I think the bigger problem is the tribal ape brains have been programmed by history's most sophisticated propaganda engines 24/7.
>> Can't wait until Linux supports QuickBooks, SolidWorks, and the other software I need.

Well QuickBooks is moving everything online and their backend stuff looks like it can run on Linux. For CAD it looks like OnShape and not much else - FreeCAD just IMHO isn't up to par for commercial use yet.

I feel like Redhat or some other distro should have a small business variant that comes with some options for the common business stuff. Someone needs to flesh out finance, CRM, HR, inventory, purchasing, and payroll software or do a decent integration of FLOSS options. Maybe include some online services as options where the free stuff isn't there yet.
I got into bitcoin around 2011ish for some time. I was never a True Believer but I was a 'soft believer'. At the time, when people asked me if Bitcoin is the future I would always say "I think it or something like it will be very useful". Fast forward 10 years and there's been no actual use of crypto. No killer app. No disrupting the finance world. It seems to be used exclusively by smart people as a means of extracting wealth from people who don't understand it.
Yeah, I thought systemd relied very heavily on Linux-native things like cgroups.
Free to Use Alternative to Cursor, Claude Code, Cline etc.
Been working like hell on this one: a fully capable Agent, as good or better that Windsurf's Cascade or Cursor's agent - but can be used for free.

It can run as an MCP server, so you can use it for free with Claude Desktop, and it can still fully understand a code base, even a very large one. No API key or subscription required!

We did this by using a language server instead of RAG to analyze code.

Can also run it on Gemini, but you'll need an API key for that. With a new google cloud account you'll get 300$ as a gift that you can use on API credits. Local models work as well.

Check it out, super easy to run, GPL license.
Working around a case where the PostgreSQL planner is "not smart" (2021)
People don't like saying that they were wrong. Otherwise, we would have a world peace and prosperity.
From my post:

> [...] US does the same in other industries

As it happens, automotive regulation in Europe is far stricter than the US ones (emissions and pedestrian safety come to mind).
How can a "prosperous" nation sustainably consume more than it produces?
> What are the flaws in this thinking?

-> Treasuries are considered safe during such crisis.

Is that truly still the case? Does the world consider the US stable right now?

I am astonished at how effectively the administration has blown up every pillar upholding the US economy, short, medium, and long term. The damage done here is incalculable. In all of human history never has so much wealth been destroyed so quickly.
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