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The interesting thing with my side projects is that they are ever so close to being a full-on business, but they are slightly under the threshold where I could go all in (stay at home wife, three kids, American healthcare costs). So, it’s hard to think of them as “side” projects when in reality they’ve become a “side” business. It’s like I have no choice but to take them a bit seriously, though I do hope to find the time for a “love of the game” side project. Great post.
My lay understanding is that the US can’t have USD be the global reserve currency without running trade deficits. Countries need dollars because it’s what oil and other commodities are exchanged for. At some point, the only way to get dollars is by selling things to the US. If they turn around and buy an equal amount of things from the US, they wouldn’t have the dollars they need to buy things like oil.
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> Although why putting some of the largest rates on countries that almost don’t export while keeping some huge players at 10%, that I have no clue.

Israel got 17% but Iran got 10%.

> Madagascar and Falkland are strategically positioned, so maybe that’s the play?

1. LOL: there is no "play" here. Trade deficit = bad, so must be stopped.

2. Falkland is under the UK—like Diego Garcia—and so there is no new alliance to be formed.

BTW, Diego Garcia also got hit with tariffs, even though the only inhabitants are UK and US military personnel. There's a bunch of B-2s there right now:

* https://www.twz.com/air/b-2-spirits-amassed-on-diego-garcia-...

* https://newrepublic.com/post/193523/donald-trump-tariffs-us-...
That's not how applied math works. Sure, two variables may cancel out when set to specific values and multiplied or divided together... however that certainly does not mean that the variables are meaningless in the overall equation!
The article says that the tariffs will at $300 to the cost of making an iPhone.
It also notes, "the assembly labor that might cost $30 per phone in China could cost $300 in the U.S".
fun fact about florida is that thay are considered "red state" but they have more heatpumps per person and more percentage of fully electric homes then "eco" california. For obvious reasons but it is kinda funny...
How is V a fraud? Last time I checked, the compiler worked and I was able to write and run complex programs, although I did run into some bugs.
> This calculation assumes that persistent trade deficits are due to a combination of tariff and non-tariff factors that prevent trade from balancing

I love this sentence. It means literally nothing
Simple ones probably do. Because a small country has both less buyers and less sellers.

Consider the people of the world to be a graph. Each person is a vertex, between each pair of people is a directed edge indicating how much they bought/sold from the other person. Assume every edge is selected independently at random.

Consider a country to be a set of people. The average weight of the edges crossing in/out of the set (treating incoming edges as positive and outgoing edges as negative) will be zero no matter the size of the set.

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The bizarre part here is that they went from "models often assume this" to "it's something we should attempt to force to be true via taxes". Trying to force the world to fit your known to be incorrect model assumptions... doesn't make any sense as a policy.
I just replaced my XS Max (from 2018?) and the only reason I did is an elderly relative lost hers and I gave her my old one. 5.5 years is a good run, it could have been longer.
No, just like gas figures don't account for 100% overhead in rectification process.
Cloud seeding aims to increase precipitation, not to increase evaporation. It might actually reduce cloud cover overall, since precipitation causes moisture to fall out of the air.
A single family home is presumably owned by a single family that is actually living in that home. A large building with many apartments is owned by a wealthy landlord who is less likely to be living there. Of course the wealthy landlord should be taxed much more than the single family, that’s just common sense.

The problem is that the single family that can afford a whole house in a city, while less wealthy than the big landlord, is likely more wealthy than the tenants in the apartment building. Because the landlord is able to pass down the burden of the property tax to the tenants, the property tax becomes regressive.

There is no way to solve this problem by simply changing the rates around. If you lower the property tax on large buildings, it is not guaranteed to ease the burden on tenants. You will likely just end up increasing the profits for the landlords. A true solution requires a systemic change that taxes the landlord, but prevents that tax burden from being passed down to the tenants.
The tariffs aren't a "right-wing" position.

They're a Trump position.

They have no basis in principle, ideology, or logic.

They are purely something he wants because he misunderstands what they are and do, and thinks that they will punish other countries more than they will punish the US.
I just got a RAV4 Prime (a “plugin hybrid” or PHEV).

In EV mode, it has 40 or so miles of range. That’s high enough that I never need to use gas during the week, unless I go to the next city over. It’s also low enough that it can always fully charge overnight without a special circuit.

If I need to go further, it just becomes a RAV4 Hybrid (with better performance - aka HV mode). No long waits or searching for chargers needed.

Generally I put in maybe a half tank of gas ($15) once a month. Especially in the US, I really think PHEVs make much more sense than EVs. BYD seems to make some really nice ones, but we’re sadly hostile to them.
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Current account (export and import) deficits are offset by the capital account, which is trade in assets, including financial assets (or actual cash). The two balance each other out. You can run a deficit by borrowing or by selling assets, but you can’t do that forever.
>Additionally, the left is not in charge almost anywhere in the EU.

Basically an overwhelming majority of the countries + the commission?
IMHO there is one rule all countries should instantiate to ensure affordable housing: Residence duty. Ie. the obligation to have someone living in a unit whether this is the owner who occupies it or it is rented out.

To my knowledge it is only Norway and Denmark who has this as a formalized law.
Coolify does support zero downtime deployments, but the documentation isn't live yet: https://github.com/coollabsio/documentation-coolify/blob/640...

It uses docker stop once the new container is healthy with a 30 second timeout, which I believe lets existing connections drain out.
Can the EU promotw a biz model where the max charge is 0.99€ a month and the annual renewal defaults to negative, with limits on the number of reminder messages ? I'd sign up for those without too much worry about handing out my credit card info.
Sure, you can define "proper" and "idea" to the claim post-facto to change what's being claimed, but the point is we do have ideas without language, and converting into language is not creating the idea.
>I would be so pissed off if I were using a phone today from 10-20 years ago…

Phones today evolve at a glacial pace compared to the pace from 20 years ago. So it's a poor argument IMHO.

A flagships from 5 years ago (with a fresh battery) is just as usable today as it was when it came out. This wasn't the case 20 years ago.
People wouldn't use it, because Europe does censor speech. A German man was arrested for calling the vice chancellor an idiot, a British teen arrested for citing rap lyrics etc. The platform would be dead on arrival.
The administration absolutely does not care about Madagascar or those smaller countries. This is about the trade deficits with the EU, Japan, and China. The EU is a big, diversified economy and maintains basically a zero trade balance (small surplus relative to the economy). But applying an across the board principle obviously is politically easier.
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I don’t remember saying that or anything that remotely resembled that.
As the great Matt Levine said:

Well, yes. I just like that they made up the numbers to get an exact negative 1. Again, I am a financial columnist, and I have a patriotic appreciation for the US’s export industry of finance, and two of that industry’s most popular products are:

1) Sprinkling some Greek letters on your work to add visual interest, and

2) Making up parameters to solve for the result you want.

Even in this tariff announcement, you see the US leaning into its comparative advantage.
> Let ε<0 represent the elasticity of imports with respect

> The price elasticity of import demand, ε, was set at 4.
Since when do we wait for China to lead? It's such a ridiculous argument. "Why should we do anything when China bad?" Because we lead, that's why. We used to, anyway.
I would guess that pedos today are far less likely to commit sexual abuse given that the chances of being caught are high and the repercussions are extreme. In the past this was much less the case.
I'm not saying you're implying this, but I need to be the boring hall monitor to point out that while consensual submissive fantasies are extremely common there is none -- zero -- overlap with actual non-consensual sexual assault which I'd venture to say nobody (to within a rounding error of zero) finds appealing.

It's kind of like the difference between watching a scary movie or visiting a haunted house attraction vs. actually being chased by a brutal crazed murderer.
I disagree. The vast majority of emails I get don't trigger a notification, as I get over a hundred non-spam emails a day. These are high priority things, so that notification coming in through a higher priority notification process makes sense.
https://archive.md/t6OxK
Donald Trump is gods gift to China. Trump is serving the whole world to the Chinese on a platter.
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I feel like the groups bringing this lawsuit think that it will force changes that will make rentals cheaper, when it reality it'll probably be easier for the city to simply change the laws around residential property taxes to match what's there for rentals today.
https://archive.md/Or5SW
When I first started using Unix in school in the early 1980s, at least a third of the time was using nroff/troff, tbl and eqn. Maybe another 20% playing rogue. The rest was used to become a vi/ex advanced user, writing csh and awk scripts, and learning C.

The article mentions the "t" in troff, but doesn't mention that "roff" was short for "run off". I forget what the "n" was for.
Had to read it again as well but yeah, that's how I'd understand it too. So the "offset in block" tokens are still not the same tokens as for the "real" ASCII letters, but they are the same tokens for all "weird ascii-like Unicode blocks". So the model can aggregate the training data from all those blocks and automatically "generalize" to similar characters in other blocks (by learning to ignore the "block identifier" tokens) even ones that have very little or no training examples themselves.

Edit: So this means if you want to sanitize text before passing it to an LLM, you don't only have to consider standard Unicode BMP characters but also everything that mirrors those characters in a different block. And because models can do Cesar ciphers with small offsets, possibly even blocks where the characters don't line up completely but are shifted by a small number.

Maybe it would be better to run the sanitizer on the tokens or even the embedding vectors instead of the "raw" text.
Between the Penguin Tax and the wonky math, I maintain this entire thing was developed by LLM.

The only thing that gives me any pause is the wonky math is consistent.
The extreme majority of spam text messages I receive are not through email gateways. This will do nothing to reduce sms spam.
'The primary benefit of an EV is that you ~never need to stop and “refuel”'

I beg to differ: The primary benefit of an EV is that I am not handing over my hard-earned post-tax income for oil to countries that loath my way of life and my values.

Some decisions in life should transcend economics.
Thanks! Will give it a try, and report back.

edit: I'm still showing the latest release as from 2022, which I've already verified doesn't work.
> A true solution requires a systemic change that taxes the landlord, but prevents that tax burden from being passed down to the tenants.

We have a solution that does that. It's called rent control.
This is the „well to wheel“ efficiency of a BEV. It accounts for transmission losses, charging and powertrain losses.

As a point of reference, the well to wheel efficiency for gasoline is somewhere between 12-20%.
You’re missing a state of change.
California uses coal, natural gas, and nuclear primarily.
Nuclear efficiency is low at 33%.
Best case you‘re charging your car from a new natural gas plant that is a combined cycle design which can potentially have up to 60% efficacy.

So 60% efficiency, minus 9.2% transmission loss, Minus charging losses and then electric motor efficiency loses… verses directly consuming fuel and putting the power to the wheels.

Electric cars are much less efficient if you consider the entire stream. If you want to use the argument that the gasoline needs to be refined and transported. Well so does natural gas. Or coal, or nuclear fuel rods, or bio mass, etc etc.

I’m not saying electric cars aren’t good. But we should really force people to charge them with solar if we want peak efficiency to save the planet.

Generating plant efficiency source - https://www.pcienergysolutions.com/2023/04/17/power-plant-ef...

Electrical distribution loss in California 9.2% source - https://insideenergy.org/2015/11/06/lost-in-transmission-how...
Would this kind of security tool make sense for MCP servers?
I’ve been reading about some serious security issues in MCP implementations — things like command injection, SSRF, prompt injection via tool descriptions, and even cross-server “shadowing” attacks.

Got me thinking: should there be a dedicated tool to scan and audit MCP servers?

Rough idea: something that checks for misconfigurations, scans for common vulns (RCE, path traversal, etc.), flags suspicious tool definitions, and maybe even maps out agent context chains. More like a Burp Suite or Wireshark, but for MCP.

I grabbed scanmcp.com as a placeholder — not sure if I’ll build it yet. Just wondering if there’s actual demand or if anyone else is working on something similar.

Curious what others think — especially if you’re building with agents or looking at AI security stuff.
Interested in experiences switching back to VS Code from Cursor. I've recently (past couple weeks) been trying out copilot again on Vs code insiders, which has had agent mode for a while.

My perception is that it's caught up a lot. It still seems a bit slower to run agent, and slower to apply diffs. As the auto complete is a little worse. But it's no longer a no brainer to spend the extra on the cursor subscription.

For harder problems, I've also found myself reaching for long-context Gemini 2.5 pro using files-to-prompt, meaning I've been relying on copilot/cursor for less complex tasks
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Yeah, which is why I talked myself out of it.
Yeah the units cancel, that's the issue. The phrasing implies that after half a day it's received 85k terawatts which doesn't make any sense.

Power (kg m^2 / s^3) * Time (s) = Energy (kg m^2 / s^2)

Now from context it's obvious that what was meant is that Earth continually receives 170 terawatts from the sun. The phrasing is technically inaccurate, but it's a turn of phrase that works fine.
It's actually better to have a trade deficit. Let's say you are a king living in a castle. If you are importing grain from all the surrounding land, the peasants are doing all the hard labor. You have a trade deficit with the peasants and pay them with pieces of paper and goodwill (i.e. dollars). You get to enjoy your life in the castle and read books or whatever else you do in your spare time.
How come you sometimes see very dark, lonely clouds in blue skies?
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This calculation critically depends on a linearity assumption that doesn’t seem at all justified with the large tariff rate changes being thrown about

They just estimate the derivative of the import volume wrt the tariff rate, then solve a linear equation to set adjust the import rate to equal the export rate.

This also assumes the export rate is totally unaffected
Not sure why the downvotes, i agree too and seems obvious
> Interesting that you don't engage with the words at all, and lazily use insults.

Why should I? Your incoherence requires nothing more. There's nothing to say about the "Iron Law of Wokism". That's just mollycoddle you picked up from some trumptwaddle on YouTube somewhere.

You want to talk real politics, you're gonna have to smarten up, my dude.

> what kind of person you really are, since you've accrued quite a few internet points here on HN

Someone who gave his last fuck 20 years ago. Folks around here like that.
Oh dear, that does not sound very promising. Seems like the simulation results mentioned in this article might not be so outlandish, and rather a relevant potential worst-case scenario projection: https://www.quantamagazine.org/cloud-loss-could-add-8-degree...
The right wing shift will be short-lived, like all recent political swings. The constant is a lot of political volatility, and the effects of climate change are not going to help with that.

Unfortunately (or at least ironically) the best chance we have comes from China, which has managed to maintain an ironclad grip on its internal politics and also is actually decarbonizing. The question facing us is when governments realize we’re going to need large scale solar radiation management, and who will do it first.
We in Australia have a trade imbalance - we run a trade deficit to the U.S.

So the trade deficit is $19.99 billion.

Plug this into the formula and you get a negative tariff.

What am I missing?
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Show HN: Function of X, Y, T: Tiny, esoteric, postfix, canvas colouring language
If only they he use a fancy French word for what's essentially is "import taxes", I'm pretty sure the election results would have been very different.

To put that in Simpsons terms: "The Garage? Well oo la di da Mr. Frenchman."

https://youtu.be/JhbJnlIvfyc
> It makes sense if you consider how Chinese companies moved factories to Mexico after the first round of tariffs.

Which benefits Mexican workers and by osmosis the US: the richer MX is, the more likely they'll become consumerist, and the US companies tend to sell a lot of consumerist goods.

Further, in the case of war, all those physical factories that are ostensibly owned by the Chinese could be nationalized by Mexico as they'd probably be more interested in being friendly with their immediate neighbour. Ditto for Canada: why is the US putting tariffs there?

Also: USMCA is only a few years old. There were already some Chinese-owned factories in Mexico at the time of its signing (which Trump at the time called "the best trade deal ever".) The Chinese factories didn't seem to have been a problem then.
> if they intended to keep the product flowing into the US.

At which point, the product costs much more to US consumers.

I'm not sure there's a single other example in nature where select members of a species get special rewards for making everything harder for everyone else in their communities.
It should be, as most interpreted code uses a JIT native compiler at this point, which implies the branch prediction is native as well.

I would be happy to stand corrected if someone knows more about this, though!
It’s not necessarily undermined. Presuming the timeline is accurate: large orgs are hiring constantly and, if the person who commented is high enough in the org chart on whatever they consider to be their team, they may see a large number of hires.
Show HN: Meld RDP – A Fast, Portable Remote Desktop Manager (.rdp)
I built `Meld RDP`, a simple, lightweight, portable application for managing remote desktop (.rdp) connections.

Other connection managers I tried were too slow, overly complex, or not portable (there's something great about a utility you don't need to install)

If you're someone who needs to juggle a few RDP connections and just wants something that works, I hope you’ll find it useful... p.s. it works on my machine (TM).

A few notes:

- It includes binaries of [MsRdpEx](https://github.com/Devolutions/MsRdpEx) to edit and launch connections.

- It's free for personal use.

- For commercial use, I'm asking folks to either submit a PR or donate a few dollars to keep the project alive (details in the license).

- It's built with https://avaloniaui.net/ so it may be possible to get it working on Linux, though I have little experience there.

Would love to hear any feedback, ideas, or feature suggestions!

Thanks for checking it out!

https://github.com/meld-cp/MeldRDP
Explicitly aiming for low-carb makes sense because, even if you're trying, basically everything (here in the US) has added sugar in it. In a vacuum, carbs themselves aren't a problem as long as you're also getting lots of fat, protein, nutrients, etc.
> Why Trump's tariff chaos actually makes sense (big picture) [0]

The title is a little misleading. The video explains objectively the logic used for the tariffs mostly to first to create chaos. But, towards the end, it makes the argument that the current strategy also requires countries to have a high level of trust that the United States will uphold treaties and agreements for the current strategy to work. The end goal is to force countries to become vassals to the United States by pegging their currency to the dollar with the benefit that the United States will provide military protection. However, without the trust the United States will honor agreements this strategy will fall apart.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ts5wJ6OfzA
I like the use of watts/day instead of joules here because we have some intuition about watts. Earth must dissapate 170 exawatts per day of sunshine, in addition to letting off some amount of heat from the molten core.

(Life has evolved on the edge of a knife, at the narrow balance point between enormous energies that cancel out just so. I often think that at the beach, looking out across the ocean, marveling that the water is almost never sloshing around at any scale proportional to itself. It's up to us to educate those who don't understand positive feedback loops and the existential risk they present to any system in equilibrium.)
I don't think the advertisement companies (or rather, their lawyers) like to see it as consumer that pay for content by watching adds. Any transaction between a company and a consumer of monetary value need to be accounted and taxed, and advertisement based industries has an EU exception that explicitly states that content/products that has advertisement attached is not a transaction, since the viewer may watch 0 seconds, watch the whole add, or anything between, and thus there is no expectations of payment between a producer and consumer. There is also none of the usually consumer protection when dealing with such products.

The model that those companies deploy is that they give away, for free, the product, in the statistically prediction that enough people will happen to watch the ads in order to make it profitable. That is the deal.