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My day job is soul destroying chasing down JIRA tickets, hours long cross time zone coordination calls, tedious documentation writing, and 10% of the time, if I’m lucky, a little bit of code.
It affords my family a great lifestyle, but to preserve my sanity, I have to have little side projects.
In the last three months I have:
- Built a beastly water cooled SFF (small form factor) desktop PC in the FormD T1 case (9950X3D, RTX 4090).

- Really went hard into learning NixOS and nix to manage my environments across nixOS servers and Linux/Windows/macOS development machines

- Built a personal project to replace my usage of healthchecks.io with my own single executable Rust API server with embedded admin UI (learning React/Vite)

- Completely rebuilt my home network from scratch, redoing wiring, improving WiFi coverage with new APs, maxing out home network performance

- Switched to zed.dev with embedded Claude 3.5 Sonnet to speed up my learning and get me unblocked when working on something unfamiliar
The freedom to over engineer the shit out of something, is the outlet I need to be calm about having to compromise a lot in my day job!
Let's say you want to bring back semiconductor manufacturing. It seems counterproductive to start with immediate blanket tariffs that include the machines necessary to fabricate semiconductors, where no domestic alternatives exist. Yet that's exactly what's happening. Previous policies would have used long lists of exemptions, carefully crafted tariff schedules, and other policies to try and minimize collateral damage. These tariffs do not.
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Are these tariffs even popular in the US?
Not just that, having more housing makes it possible for even more companies to move in. Apple/Google/Meta are great but they are trillion dollar companies and can afford to pay top dollar. There are many others who would like to. I believe adding more housing would induce a ton of demand.
There is no "the app". There are 100s of sellers, and each of them has different processes. Some sell smart cards at the ticket windows, most have apps, and some have both. Only the price and the basic rules of validity are nationwide. Some offer extra regional perks.
> Microsoft has always been company that is very good at building software compared their competition at the time.

I have never, ever heard that. (Edit: Name such software today.)

> Their office productivity software, for example, is what made Windows popular (Windows is useless without apps).

Completely false. Windows was already a monopoly, and the US government successfully sued Microsoft for using their Windows monopoly to leverage sales for Office. They told manufacturers: If you want Windows (which was essential) for the computer, you must pay for an Office license too.

Where do you get this stuff or why are you posting it?
The author of the article seems to accept "appeal to authority" he just wishes it was more critically refined to a point that it might somehow be justifiable.

The OP is expressing dismay at this obviously compromised position. There is no purportment or strawmen that I can detect.
How the electric car almost became the norm, more than a century ago
>Chollet, a French computer scientist and one of the industry’s sharpest skeptics

I feel like this description really buries the lede on Chollet's expertise. (For those who don't know, he's the creator of and lead contributor[0] to Keras)

[0]https://github.com/keras-team/keras/graphs/contributors
I don't know if this will answer your question, but the last episode of the Planet Money podcast addressed tariffs:

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/1242229719/planet-money-the-c...

IMO, tariffs are bad for the economy, but could be great for workers and the middle class. Regardless, implementing them this was is absolutely nuts.

China got our manufacturing because they didn't care about pollution. Now, they've developed cleaner industrial methods and built out fantastic infrastructure (e.g. massive industrial complexes right next to shipping ports). Meanwhile, we did nothing and we're a good ten to twenty years behind assuming perfect infrastructure development starting today with tariffs that are immediately in effect.

Combine that with the fact that infrastructure development in the US costs many multiples more than other developed nations, and you have a recipe for complete failure.
> That requires some initial assumptions that simply aren't true.

There are certainly assumptions, but those assumptions are reasonable in nearly every possibly scenario the US has ever encountered.

> Tariffs can and do serve a vital role to protect a country from one with lower standards of living

Protect how? Protect them from lower priced goods? Sorry, but this "idea" originates from mercantilist thought and has been thoroughly dismantled and discredited. Even when one country is less wealthy and less productive, both countries benefit from expanded trade. This is Comparative Advantage...literally Econ 101.

Economics is a social science and has a lot of problems with things being claimed as settled science when they aren't, but this is actually one of them. You'd have a hard time finding any living economist, liberal or conservative, who would agree with you.

> (eg taken to an extreme, consider trade between county A where slavery is illegal and country B where it isn't)

I would hope that in this extreme, we wouldn't use tariffs as a tool, but rather full trade embargo. Because it stops being an economic argument, but rather a human rights argument.

Regardless, reducing or eliminating trade with nations that accept slavery would be a reduction in economic output. It would just be one with a price that we should be willing to pay.

I'd love to see any sort of human rights justification for Tariffs against Canada though.
> Chinese people would understand that tough times are because Americans elected an idiot.

Traditionally, countries get pretty unhappy with their own leadership when the economy gets bad...

There's not a lot of room for nuanced political attribution at population scale.
You are absolutely correct, though it is interesting how your framing almost makes it sound like the Chinese workers are to blame instead of the 1% who are paying them
I also think the cannibalization model is clever. The baseline model is however a bit underwhelming,
as bookings can be misleading by themselves - you have cancellations, impressions,
and so forth. For example if you only look at bookings in next 365 days, new listings will be penalized. But as you said no model is perfect :-)
There is no big difference between TCL and other languages like Python in this respect. Yes, TCL stores everything as a string, but it also assigns a type when the data is used. If you need a defined type, you can use structures; there are even classes/objects available as packages.
Most high school hackers and nerds don't become good professional coders.
Humans in general, even writers, are deficient at spelling. This is the reason we need spellcheckers.
You do realize this "debt" is denominated in the currency that the US itself controls, and can create and destroy at will, right? You cannot analyze this with the logic of household finances. The debt owed to bond holders is our and other countries continuing to buy into the American system. And the "debt" owed to other government agencies (including the Fed) is nothing more than a political martingale, to support the Republicans' kayfabe "fiscal responsibility" of the past forty years, where they sabotaged investments in our society so they could give away the wealth to banksters instead.
I don't mean it as discouragement but, at least for me, I would choose Heroku or Netlify because I don't want to self host it. I want someone else to manage all those bits for me.

It's good experience building the app though and good to have alternatives available.
Not really. Take an iPhone. The component costs are around $500 while the assembly costs are probably about $30-$50.
I've always been kind of meh on Yoko breaking up the Beatles. I was in junior high when it all went down, so for me there wasn't much info to be had to think one way or another. These artists live their lives like they want, as do I, so it is what it is. (sorry)

However, I missed not having new music from them sorely!
AM radio was the main medium and the Beatles were on a lot, which I loved. In a parallel universe, great bands, which I get to choose, will be prevented from fighting and hating each other until I've had enough time loving their music, which they will continue to drop, until an acceptable retirement age. There.
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Yea, same for me. This article sent me down a rabbit hole of playing a few of 'em online: https://playclassic.games/games/point-n-click-adventure-dos-...
It's not filling in the blanks that's impressive, it's meaningfully combining them all into an objectively unique narrative, building upon those blanks at length.

Definitions are always up for debate on instrumental grounds, but I'm dubious of any definition of "creative" that excludes truly unique yet meaningful artifacts. The only thing past that is ineffable stuff, which is inherently not very helpful for scientific discussion.
I don't mean proficient, I mean elite, exceptional, legendary.
In the 1980s we also downloaded software from TV
This thread literally meets the definition of self-promotion. So no, don't think the characterization is unfair.

If your programming language had a different name, then I would agree, but it doesn't. Many will assume that C3 is the next iteration of C2 and that it's outdated, despite the fact that C2 is still in development.
I think it's fascinating that his impossible benchmark got defeated, but because the Keras guy doesn't like LLMs, it is possible to mishear algorithmic distaste as saying people shipping this are "lazy" and "hype maxing."
Ahh, perfect. That's exactly the context I needed to piece this together. Thanks so much. I wans't aware of any of those factor.
Just took some trillions to be printed across the world to be ingested by financial markets to get into it. No biggie.
It doesn't matter what his approval rating is as long as republicans that "don't approve of him" still show up at the polls. Which they do.

Because they will insist that "I don't like the guy" right before they participate in a "Trump vs generic democrat" poll where they vote for Trump.
In fairness, not all businessmen have multiple bankruptcies, two impeachements, and 34 felony convictions.
It can be that easy, but you are gambling. If the market turns for whatever reason, then all your positions go near to zero.

They’re options, they can go all the way to zero, not “near to zero” (which is what happens to the majority of options contracts regardless). That said, with options you leverage a lot more shares than buying outright, so the risk can be smaller. And if OP has any sense, they’ve unloaded those positions already and made some serious bank.
Be gready when others are fearful, glad to see everyone on this thread is the greatest hedge fund manager of all time selling and shorting, happy days
Agreed and its not just "prices will be higher".
You can pretty reasonably expect goods shortages as the entire global economy tries to re-adjust supply chains to more tariff friendly domiciles.

Of course everyone will be doing so at the same time, competing for the same finite factor capacity.

For example - If your Nike right now for example, you might be winding down Vietnam production volume and trying to spin up more volume in existing country footprints, while also trying to find new factories there as well. And then those suppliers will be looking for new suppliers for shoestrings and metal eyelets and 100 other things. And those suppliers will be searching for new suppliers of cotton, polyester, steel, cardboard, etc.

There is zero chance this happens without cost AND disruption! So things can get worse before they get worse!
Bad reviews are often moderated away and refund requests are stonewalled (and few people know about chargebacks so that isn't factored in). It is easier for the platform to acquire guests than hosts, so the platform takes the side of hosts.

Edit: at least that was the situation a couple of years ago. A host below now reports that the situation has changed and they take the side of the guests; however, either way it's open to abuse no matter which side they take.

The issue is that in a marketplace where both sides can be dishonest, the only way to ensure quality is to do spot checks by trusted actors (aka company employees) where the penalties for failing such a check are dissuasive enough that it becomes more profitable to play by the rules.

This is similar to how law enforcement is supposed to operate - the reason the penalty for theft (for example) is more than merely returning the stolen items is that since law enforcement can't observe everyone all at once, the penalty needs to be enough of a deterrent to make the bad behavior unprofitable overall, to discourage it even in cases where law enforcement isn't there to witness it and enforce said law.
The steel man argument is:

1. Bring jobs back on-shore. Lots of US companies shut down factories over the last several decades and shipped jobs to Mexico and other countries. The UAW supports the tariffs.

https://uaw.org/tariffs-mark-beginning-of-victory-for-autowo...

2. Bring manufacturing back on-shore. If we have to fight a war, we need a strong manufacturing base (see #1). If it's a war with China, or with a country where China decides not to sell to us, we wouldn't have the manufacturing base to supply the war effort.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2lTMdlWDuk

3. These are mostly reciprocal tariffs. The countries that were are putting tariffs on already have tariffs on our goods.

4. Additional treasury income.

5. Combat unfair practices like dumping.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/28/business/china-goods-exports-...
I am in the minority here. These tariffs are fairly reasonable. Here's why:

(1) The state has a compelling interest in regulating market risk tolerance. When the FED sets the risk-free interest rate, it controls the price of risk, and thereby the risk of the entire market. It is often advisable to temper the risk-eager market for long-term stability.

(2) Likewise, when the POTUS enacts tariffs, it is similarly setting the market's risk tolerance--namely against the risks concomitant of economic dependency on foreign nations.

(3) This will inoculate the economy against external supply chain shocks (at the extreme: war) by reducing our liability. It's not just consumers who are price-sensitive; given goods within a class will not be affected equally, natural price advantages will emerge, shifting demand and consumption as all levels of economy begin to price-in these tariffs.

The "economic consensus" against these tariffs just isn't real? It's exceedingly likely that the US likely will be better off because of them :)
The things that dominate middle class budgets: food, housing, medicine, education, are surprisingly local, and have become increasingly unaffordable in recent decades even as economic numbers have gone up.

The question that really matters to most people is, "What will these tariffs do to the prices of these things that actually matter?" And that it actually rather hard to predict.

The economists who claim that tariffs will harm normal Americans were also the economists who claimed that sanctions would destroy the Russian economy. They had the opposite effect, for reasons that still remain somewhat unclear. It may be that global trade makes certain classes of society very very wealthy, while not necessarily being such a positive for the middle class.

It is also notable that Chinese competitiveness has only increased as they have engaged in decades of state economic planning and market barriers. The economists who have told us since Reagan that this is inefficient and stupid might be ... wrong.
Dropbox server side reference implementation, S3 compatible object storage as the backend.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43304165
Being able to run an enterprise well (and there's plenty of evidence to the contrary) is no guarantee of being able to direct an entire economy.
I think the real reason is more insidious. The purpose is to raise more tax revenue from the middle and lower classes so they can fund a massive tax cut for the billionaire class.
This is a great question. For me, the steelman argument is the following: Without trade barriers, the local production economy is disadvantaged. Local companies have to comply with things like environmental and labor law regulations, making it more expensive to produce things. Other countries may not have these regulations. Therefore, by institution these rules without tariffs, the net effect is a reduction of environmental and social standards, as manufacturers move to locations where they do not exist.

A strong version of the policy would thus involve directly tying tariffs to environmental and labor laws of the producing country, thus equalizing the field with the local companies. Not only would this allow for fair international competition, it would also economically incentivise the global development of good standards.
Calling Francois Chollet just "A Man" in the title (or "The Man" in the actual article as of writing) is crazy work, he's been deeply involved in ML for ages including creating Keras.
This metric will be irrelevant shortly. Better to start looking at weekly, monthly, annual declines. No doubt it will soon make this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stock_market_crashes_a...
Ref. manufacturing, any serious-scale company is not going to commit to a decade-long (or more) plan to building factories in the US with this sort of uncertainty; I'm sure a few will pay lip-service to the current POTUS but what CEO is going to commit to the long-term in a country in turmoil?

And even when this is past, those same CEO's - and their successors - will think long and hard about committing to any long-term investment in the US.
Yes, you can short a total US market ETF. Or just exit the market and be prepared to enter when the floor is hit (impossible, unless you have outsider knowledge).
> You can have a hacker mindset and be totally against open source. They are orthogonal qualities.

You can write that, but I don't see it. FOSS is built for hacking, designed to empower and enable hacking. Proprietary closed-source software prevents it.
My User Agent goes around the paywall easily.
If the cost of labor plummets I wonder if it will accelerate the timeline for AI, automation, and robotics.

I gave this a shot at home a month ago by cutting my kids off from toys online and getting them a 3D printer. They have already printed more toys than the cost of the printer. The only problem is that the printer was manufactured in China.
No.

The uncertainty of what will happen 2-3 weeks or 2-3 months (or 2-3 years) from now is causing a lot of people to react very negatively to this, regardless of their personal politics.
The market was/is hyper inflated like 2001. It usually takes several things to finally force a correction.
A proper businessman might be good. But a sleazy "You want to buy a watch?" kind of "businessman" like the one we have now?
Germany is the largest industrial power after the US and China. What on earth do you mean "punching below its weight"?
I have kids. When I get a moment alone, I find that's a perfect opportunity to do some high quality listening without interruption.
this fits the supposition -- since LLMs can be fed patterns of nonsense and learn to reply in those patterns, LLMs are not intelligent.

YNews corollary : since posters cannot resist making new swathes of Look At This LLM Output, the open nature of tech boards is doomed in some ways (?)
Thanks - mine too.
If the best possible version of this policy were smart, it would be coupled with boosting science and education, and improving conditions for the working class, including health care. It would also include governing in good faith.
How is it “highly biased”?
That's your perspective. The federal government is not interested. Tourist regions are interested, but of course they usually do not cooperate with others, so every one invents their own thing. So you end up what Germans call a ticket jungle.
It wasn't up for debate with the last 12 presidents...
Here is my feedback after spending 15 mins on your docs.

Nice work on the lite mode, open source, logging, dx interface.

You may want to replace Hello world examples with real world scenarios.

The workflows that involve multiple steps tasks, dag in your terminology - the code simply isn't intuitive.

You now have to get into the hatchets mindset, patterns, terminology.
Eg: the random number example is riddled with too many. How many of the logos on your homepage did you have to write code for? Be honest.

Knowing to program should be 90% enough. Eg for js:

// send("hi", user => user.signed_up_today)
// .waitFor("7d")
// .send("upgrade", user => !user.upgraded)

Just made this up, but something like this is more readable. (PS:would love to be proved wrong by an implementation of exactly the above example here in the comments). The whole point of being smart is for your team at hatchet to absorb difficulty at the benefit of an easy interface that looks simple and magic. Your 5 line examples has types to learn, functions to learn, arguments to know, 5-10 kinds of things to learn. It showed little effort to make it easy for customers.

An engineering post on what's under the hood makes sense. But customers really don't care about your cloud infra flexes in a post introducing your company pitching the product. It's just koolaid.

Same with complete rewrite so early. I'm glad you are open to change. But the workflow market today with so many options, i don't belive this is the last rewrite or pivot to come.

The DAGs itself aren't very readable. You are better off switching to something like react flow that lets you nocode edit as well.

Focus on automation journeys that are common. Like cookbooks. And allow folks to just import them or change some configurations. like drip marketing, renewals, expired cards, forgot password handlers, shortlink creators, maybe pdf merging, turning a bunch of saved links to a daily blog post, etc

How does a workflow replace a saas they are paying $99 for. That's powerful.

Tough to serialize a worflow to json . Or atleast didn't see it. this makes it easy to have workflows as code, create nocode editors in your own roadmap. You want people to hop from 1 company to another taking their hatchet workflows with them

Good luck, and sorry for coming off as rude. It's just a space I am very passionate about.
To be fair, much of the coding community is highly educated - especially in the top companies, which generally hire from top schools - and therefore likely to be privileged.
I think in the pandemic everyone knew it would end at some point, just not when.

With Trump… he's already talking about a third term, despite the constitution.
Another more apt saying in this case: don't catch a falling knife...
Kernighan & Ritchie deserve company
$300 is somewhat inflated estimate - for example, the breadboard's price is estimated as $4-$9 but I usually buy breadboards at $1.5 each (well, there is a warning that they might be worse quality but I am not used to expensive breadboards so don't notice any issues and I don't care if they are slightly different shade of white).