skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're talking about a subtly different thing. OP was simply saying "it's very possible to be a rational independent thinker and yet be non-centrist". What you're saying is "a lot of people I've met who are more left than me are impractical".

Relating to your point, I would add something based on my experience in the UK. In the last 30 years we've twice had a Labour leader elected. Both times campaigning as a hard-nosed centre-left pragmatist, and with some on the left echoing similar sentiments about compromise and pushing the needle.

Blair admittedly did some good stuff - Lords reform and minimum wage. But he also introduced and then tripled university fees, greatly expanded private initiatives in the public sector, and engaged in an activist interventionist foreign policy culminating in the invasion of Iraq. These are changes whose ill effects we're still reeling from as a country.

Starmer is looking to shape up very similarly, from his U-turns on private school charitable status, tuition fees and the two-child cap, to his reluctance to condemn the Gazan genocide and cuts to disability allowance.

Was it better to have these as prime minister Vs the conservative candidate? Yes, probably. Can they really be said to be pushing the needle? I doubt it.
I heard a great story from a colleague that worked in fashion development in the UK. There's a big push for "Made in the UK" clothing and consumers associate it with quality, but the items are lower quality, because the UK lost its garment manufacturing skills 50+ years ago. Meanwhile Asia has gained those skills, so if you buy clothes from China they are likely higher quality than you'd get here and cheaper.

This is not always the case, Italy still makes high quality leather goods, Portugal is still making good shirts and trousers etc, but for the most part as economies have moved away from manufacturing into services they have lost the skills and to force manufacturing to happen there means accepting higher priced, lower quality products.
Pretty sad to see. Although I have no significant proof to back my feelings, I sort of feel that the .NET ecosystem is still very corporate-minded and open source is not getting the love it deserves from the community. That is especially sad because modern C# and .NET are great tools for writing software.
> They benefitted from it so hard they voted for the exact opposite with eyes wide open. Twice.

People vote against their own interests constantly. This is literally evidence of that.
> Except for thee Dodge RAM, which can be converted to a tax efficient company car (crazy)

You can no longer do that since 1st of Jan 2025. The BPM discount for company cars was removed.
I can agree with parts of this article, but I believe it's missing a large part of the puzzle.

The author implicitly assumes that the constraints of our society are fixed and that it's therefore possible to determine which political systems are objectively better or worse. We should be doing that research (like astronomers trying to determine how the universe works) instead of religiously supporting ideological positions.

I fundamentally disagree with that assumption. I think we behave the way we do in large part due to the ideological principles we were raised with. This can be confirmed by observing various closed-off societies sometimes operating on principles that seem completely bonkers to most of us.

If you teach people capitalism/socialism, you build a capitalistic/socialistic system. It's impossible to live inside that system and objectively determine whether it's good or bad, let alone better or worse than other systems.

So in that context, I believe following an ideology is _not_ the opposite of thinking for yourself, as the author puts it. It is a conscious decision based on morality. You decide what your values are and you find a political option that aligns with them.

To be clear, that's still a very imperfect decision to make, many things can go wrong from that point on and I believe this is where the author is correct in many ways. We should reason about it constantly to make sure we're actually doing what we want to be doing and not just blindly repeating things.
Very good article.

The founder of generalagents even says that they want free humans from digital labor. I can’t stand these takes.
Leave my computer to me!
The First Open Movie Spoiler Database
From digging around a bit, typical AMS rates. 80-120k EUR.

Other's are welcome to correct me though, if it's off.
Well, why only consider just goods and not consider services? US is mostly exporting services while other countries are exporting goods.

Why not consider US prints dollars which are used for global trade? That means other countries are subsidizing US inflation and US economy.

Why not consider the massive investments other countries have made in the US economy when buying shares, bonds, securities?

What if they impose tarrifs on US financial and IT services? What if Amazon cloud and Netflix start costing 30% more?

What if they quit using dollars for trade?

What if they start selling US stock and securities? What if they start selling US dollars?
> Security patches and critical bug fixes will continue for a transition period.

They're not explicit for how long this "transition period" will be, it sounds like a year.

We've seen this before with IdentityServer, and many other examples where maintainers switched to a commercial license, leaving behind a wake of businesses who aren't willing to tie themselves to a commercial license and would rather turn a blind eye to dwindling support.

IdendityServer4 was promised security updates until Nov 2022. Here we are over 2 years later and it's still a popular package.

And that's a security-critical part of the application! Some people even still go back to the pre-AGPL version of iTextSharp for PDF writing, and that switch was 15+ years ago.
The code in particular - [pdf] https://www.gatesnotes.com/microsoft-original-source-code
Honestly I thought the billionaires would keep Trump in check as they want number to go up, so I bet on that. Hindsight is always 20/20 though :(
This may be true in your demographic (it is in mine) but as of 2015 there were 45 million driving licenses issued and at least 55 million adults.
Congratulations Tom. Great to see the antipodes represented on the HN team :)
Sounds like a kind of dumb thing to criticize, then. Picking the side of Martin Luther King Jr. on civil rights is…uh…kind of a difficult position to argue against.
> Pretty much everything he wrote was short, <20 pages, and so it's really easy to sit down and read one of his stories over a lunch break.

Yes, his writings are short, but man they are dense!

To anyone who cares, do this exercise: read short story by Borges, probably the shorter the better. Then go ahead say, next day, and try to write it down again in your own words. I tried a couple of times, and I ended with at least twice the number of pages. Amazing.
Let’s not forget Congress could assert its authority over tariffs at any time. This isn’t just the executive branch unilaterally creating the biggest, most regressive tax hike in our lifetimes, it’s a coordinated GOP operation.
You can have the most secure encryption and obfuscation, and it will be useless once they trick or intimidate you into giving up your passwords. The only way is to just not bring anything of importance. Get a separate phone or wipe your existing one of any sensitive things (password manager, personal/sensitive chats, chats or social media that may go against current administration's ideology[0], etc), you can restore things later

[0] https://newrepublic.com/post/192946/french-scientist-denied-...
Heard Island and McDonald Islands, two Australian territories inhabited only by penguins, get singled out for a 10% tariff.

Norfolk Island, an Australian community of 3000 with no exports to the US, gets its own 29% tariff. They're expecting a tourism boost from the publicity.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/donald-trump...
Actions speaker louder than words. It might not be their platform, but it's what they're doing. If you see your party taking action to strip away rights from LGBTQ groups, immigrants, women and you still support them, then I don't know what else to say.
I think you might be granting the administration too much benefit of the doubt. They aren't based on "tariffs + trade barriers", they're just based on trade deficit alone.

https://x.com/JamesSurowiecki/status/1907559189234196942

https://archive.ph/kRkRh
I mean it's also clear he doesn't understand them. The poster he posed with today has a column labelled "tarrifs charged to the USA".

The main feature of them was he discovered in his first term he could do them unilaterally without Congress, and his audience would just go along with it anyway.
VAT isn't a trade barrier.
This is a good take, but I think I can answer your question about the midterms. This is timed specifically for them. The drop we're seeing in markets right now isn't a pricing in of the tariffs, per se (at least, not yet), it's a pricing in of policy uncertainty that is going to lead to a near-term drop in investment.

However, because they are doing it so early, they will have time to recalibrate and bake in exemptions until the market / inflation is happy. Up to and including backing off of the policy entirely, if that ends up being necessary. As a political strategy, it is perfectly timed to allow Trump to "save the economy" from his own policies. This is true imo independently of what you may think about the policy as policy.

When it comes to the policy as such, recipirocal tariffs, conceptually, are designed to incentivize the overall global reduction in tariffs. So, as a headline, implementing "reciprocal tariffs" is actually favorable to free trade. However, there are some important details that they have fucked up, such as identifying tariffs with trade deficits in general, and in particular identifying them with trade deficits in goods only. That is really the component of the policy that doesn't make sense, and it is important.

Most likely, they will recalibrate and/or provide a lot of exemptions, particularly as the midterms approach. As a political tactic, I think it will work out fairly well, if they respond to the feedback appropriately - that's the big question though, and that uncertainty is the most significant reason for the market drop.
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When would you define as “before”? I’ve had a thinkpad on and off and I’d describe the quality as consistent.

People talking about old Lenovos being good quality are often talking about in the pre-IBM days which is far more likely to be nostalgia at this point.
Further below

>Patches and updates to v8 through at least the end of 2026. That's 1.75 years from now, giving developers plenty of runway to plan their migration to v9.
Basically, as a solo, you can only safely sleep/rest when the weather is calm (day or night). So, yeah, if the weather is rough, you don't sleep. That is why many solo sailors with YouTube vids look like shit the morning after an all-nighter!
you could showcase stories of shitty management :)
(Article starts off be asserting that they don't talk politics with friends then proceeds to describe how to talk politics with friends?)

Friends are people you should support and build up. You shouldn't try to make them feel bad by winning arguments with them. That said- a healthy society is only possible if individuals can exchange ideas about how to run things and then act collectively (aka "politics"). Sometimes people will have different interests and priorities, that lead to them having different ideas about stuff- most of the time this is totally fine.

This basically comes down to respect and communication skills- but for god's sake people- keep on talking about "politics"!
You're absolutely right. I did hear a few of those. And there was as
much shame as pride in the old stories.
Cursor's Path, from Hero to Zero
Skill loss works both ways. You might miss out on forming early skills in using llms effectively, and end up playing catch up in 3-5 years from now if LLMs mark all the skills you hold to be void.

It is also likely LLMs will change programming languages, we will probably move to more formal, type safe languages that the LLM can work with better. You might be good at your language but find the world shifts to a new one that everyone has to use LLMs to be effective for.
Yeah … talk to someone who worked in the 50s and 60s in Detroit.
Thanks for the clarification! Glad you can cater to both worlds.

For diagramming and even UI prototyping I keep getting back to plain old ascii drawings though. Asciiflow.com is fantastic. I just wish they had vim keybindings. It's also great to embed in .md too. Could mermaid generate ascii? It just seems easier to comprehend and doesn't need a separate renderer.
Yeah, with all the recent libraries going paid its looking pretty grim. Microsoft building their own version of many of the large libraries rather than just supporting them isn't helping either.
It's theater because the numbers in JIRA are, for the most part, pulled out of someone's ass, and then multiplied by various coefficients by managers along the chain (based on their pessimism and/or experience). Garbage in, garbage out.

So yes, this is theater, and it only makes someone happy for as long as they aren't aware (or can pretend to not be aware) how the sausage is made.
Which is in Borges words "a long allegory of insomnia" :)
Given everything recent I’d say competence in the WH is a stretch

The prez is literally holding up placards where half the numbers on it are mislabelled and they rest of the numbers are that mislabelled/misunderstood number divided by half

That sounds like garden variety incompetence to me not 5D chess
There is nothing wrong with it, that is your right.

Since the composition of the net is what it is a free speech culture protected people from being removed from platforms because of commercial interests. This protection has been removed because some people were too sensitive about the opinions of others and demanded their removal until more and more platforms gave in to those demands. This broke the prevailing culture and more and more views got removed. Plain and simple.

The conflict in the middle east is of no relevance here. Government already found a neat little trick and let commercial entities do their dirty work to remove non-sanctioned voices. Indirectly to not violate any laws. This has been abused by any political party already and in most other countries as well. Many just waited for a precedent that was promptly delivered.

> virally posting about their wish for an immediate cease-fire

How virally? Virally hateful? Yes, that pretty much qualifies for content removals as a direct consequence of these content controls.
I like this take a lot. I also think that America competing on manufacturing is obviously never going to happen.
Me too, I printed it and underlined it, I will try to memorize some of the concepts and the exposition, because this is a cristallization of what I vaguely feel about the abuse of LLM I am currently witnessing
It doesn't make sense because it is not a table of tariffs (including or excluding trade barriers) at all.

It is a table of the current trade deficit against each country as a ratio.
In professional tournament games a server is chosen that lies between the two players. For example, a Brazil-China match might be played in an EU server.

Given this, I suspect the server is used as a central source of truth between the clients where all game data goes through the server, with all the calculations still being done client-side.
https://x.com/yishan/status/1906592890845028405

This whole thread is gold. People just casually discussing why it is necessary for America to enslave the world AND it is beneficial for the world. The color revolutions were successful in other countries until the DeepState decided to bring that "social engineering technology" to home. Somehow people think they can contain such moral corruption just as plasma is contained using electromagnetic coils in fusion reactors.
Emulator maybe? It's a weird and intersting platform to target, but I suspect that it's because Go supports it, so it might not be to much hassle. On the other hand reading the article from yesterday regarding porting Tailscale, it might be more involved that I imagine.
For young engineers, it is a good thing to spend time implementing what you call "bad ideas". In the worst-case, they learn from their mistake and gain valuable insight into the pitfalls of such ideas. In the best case, you can have a technological breakthrough as someone finds a way to make such an idea work.

Of course, it's best that such learning happens before one has mandate to derail the whole project.
> infrastructure and professional norms around classical engineering disciplines just aren't there (yet) for developers.

I honestly doubt it will ever get there. Our profession pretty much materialized over night in comparison to other disciplines, and in a rapidly evolving environment, with a much broader application. Only so many bridges/dams/buildings are built in a given time frame and have such incredible capital costs, and human life costs if they get it wrong. It makes sense to carefully curate who and how those things get built. The vast majority of software on the other hand, unless it is for medical/construction/factory equipment that can kill people, is usually super low stakes. And with the democratization of programming in general, even your VBA-curious business analyst can do it in their spreadsheet. Sure I can do the pro se thing in court (and lose my life/freedom), read webmd and treat my own cancer (and die), build my own dam (and flood my neighborhood), but we gatekeep those professions because of the dire consequences of fucking it up. Until software more broadly has those kinds of consequences, there will be no licensure.
Didn't know that. I'm just a stupid EU sheep.

Incidentally, even Amazon US uses that facility. They charge me my local VAT plus some change ("exchange rate whatever" commission, something under 1%) and the package arrives in my hands via courier without any further interaction.

Even Mouser has set up a warehouse inside the EU in the past years. They went from a pain to order from to a pleasure.

Just to emphasise, this system has been set up for ages because you did need to pay VAT on imports anyway. Even without any special tariffs. And that means a visit to the post office in person.
The $5 trash can is made in China, which is receiving something on the order of a 50% tarriff.

And now that's 50c extra in taxes to the government for every other part of the supply chain consuming $5 trash cans as an expense.
White collar jobs will be destroyed by AI/AGI. But the US workforce consists of a large portion of white collar workers.

To replace the coming destruction of white collar jobs, manufacturing and industry jobs must be brought back, along with new resource collection initiatives (e.g. mining). They will be needed anyhow to build robots, drones, and other machines to compete with China and India, technologically and militarily.

Globalization will be effectively dead, remaining trust in the petrodollar will be destroyed, therefore so will Pax Americana. Expect more wars.
React is fine. Next.js is evil.
> no idea how to actually make money.

The money is all it's about to them - they don't even pay the developers so it is all pure profit
In canada, if you don't have an id, you can get someone who knows you (and has an id) to swear an oath you are who you say you are. You can also register at the same time you are voting.

Seems to work fine. I dont think we have ever had any issues with that system.
> They have both positive and negative consequences.

They have zero positive consequences for anyone but manufacturers.
They do way more than that. For example they won't allow you to have Foo-1 that depends on Qux-1 and Bar-1 that depends on Qux-2 where Qux-1 and Qux-2 are incompatible and can't be mixed within the same static library or assembly. But may allow it if mixing static-private Qux inside dynamic Foo and Bar and the dependency manager is aware of that.

A native submodule approach would fail at link time or runtime due to attempt to mix incompatible files in the same build run. Or, in some build systems, simply due to duplicate symbols.

That "just in a recursive way" addition hides a lot of important design decisions that separate having dependency manager vs. not having any.
> Please apply through the website above. All submissions are reviewed by a real person!

Then they're doing a terrible job. A few associates applied between 2-4mos ago each and never received anything beyond an acknowledgement of application.
> I run a B2B SaaS. Support costs is what eats you alive: in case of a complex B2B app anything below $40/month is unsustainable

I agree to an extent. But it largely depends on the complexity of your offering. If all you do is expose flat data through an API, you can maybe get away with an API Gateway x Lambda x DynamoDB combo, which would cost virtually nothing as the free tier is very generous.

Just my 2c.
Maybe if the US would clean up their production to what people actually want to buy it would help.

EU does not just randomly target US products. No EU company would be allowed to sell food with the same processes (GMO, prohibited additives, medication traces, ...)

The US is just running into these restrictions more than others because of their (lack of) health and safety standards being at odds with other markets.

So, if the tarrifs lead to the world actually being able to buy something produced in the US with the dollars they were forced to accept, something real besides war equipment and (stale) IP bits, the problem would sort itself.

At least the EU has discovered 'sovereignty', after ignoring it to the hilt for the last 55 years. Ringing up the concept even a year ago was at best met with a shrug and more often with a 'conspiracy theory' label. Sadly I don't even think they mean it, but I would be pleasantly surprised.