skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is it's economically illiterate. Trade deficits aren't bad in themselves - they can be a sign that you're getting a good deal. Consider the case where a country with low wages exports raw materials to the US, and doesn't buy back as much from the US. This is the situation for lots of poorer countries who are exporting cheap raw materials to the US, and the US gains from these situations. Trump's policy simply makes all these raw materials more expensive.

Another way of reducing trade deficits would be to make Americans so poor that they can't afford to buy things from overseas. Eliminating trade deficits in itself isn't a rational economic goal.

Having said that, American manufacurers on average will likely benefit (though maybe not if their raw materials are too much more expensive), but this benefit will only come at the cost of American consumers, who are denied cheaper options from overseas by the tariffs
> My understanding is that yes, the national debt is still increasing, although the administration is counting on tariff funds to supplement revenue. Would you agree?

Let me see if I am following. The tariffs are ostensibly about spurring domestic industry so that American companies can flourish and we don’t have to pay tariffs on imports of foreign goods in the long term. Is that right? If so, then long term, aren’t we hoping that the “tariff funds” are small? But they are simultaneously supposed to supplement revenue to pay down debt too?
I remember that movie and that scene. :)
Not really, if the whole world sinks into an economic depression then the percentages won’t matter much. What will matter is the starting position and whether the country’s economy has enough headroom to ride it out.

It doesn’t. Because of Brexit.
It is absurd but I also got tired of fighting it. I use a Microsoft account associated with an outlook.com address I never use for anything important to collect the local PC entitlements. After that, I create a local account and never touch the online one again.
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Because the writing has been on the wall that people are no longer going to pay for operating systems. That means that MS has to replace all that Windows revenue with services revenue. Apple has already done this in that their services revenue now account for $100B annually (https://www.statista.com/chart/14629/apple-services-revenue/) and MS doesn't have a hardware business to rely on as Apple does.

I'm sure MS sees a future where Windows is free and if you don't have an account, they can't monetize you at all. At that point, you are no longer a customer so there isn't much point in them continuing to support you.
I'm not waiting. I'm actively looking for evidence. I've looked for it, I've asked for it, the problem is only that neither you nor anyone else have any.

So it's actually like I said: You're willing to believe things without evidence.

You can take pride in that if you want, but don't call it deduction.
Problem is that in the past two decades university admins gave in to various deplatforming causes and enforced codes. If they had stood firm before, the arguments against them wouldn't be nearly as strong. Unfortunately, they didn't. So when they now use the "free speech" argument themselves it rings hollow.
The blue collar workers are fine with enduring a bit more pain for a few months or even years as this pans out. Specifically if the investment classes (who will be most harmed) suffer more. Long term goals are other countries lower their tariffs with the US, more US manufacturing, a temporarily devalued US dollar to more easily pay down the national debt, and a renegotiation of the terms by which the US provides military protection to other nations. People who already had little if anything to lose not being able to buy cheap foreign goods they weren't going to purchase anyways for a chance to see if this works out, while seeing the tech bros, academics, and investment bankers squirm, rage, and seethe? Though I'll get down voted into oblivion, the unmitigated despair and outrage on display in these comments just make my smile that much wider.
There are no stories about this outside the first month. The hospitals were initially ill equipped but were so well equipped after March/April that the giant boat they sent as a backup to New York was barely used.

Almost no healthy people died from COVID, most had co-morbidities and they should have been the only ones forced to vax and stay home.
The nerds have been talking about fixing trade deficits for decades. It keeps getting bigger. Time for the jocks to give it a try.
Everything changes. The America of 20 years ago is different from the America of today, and will be different in 20 years again (I have no idea how). Likewise for Europe (either individual countries or the EU). Will Argentina finally get of the constant ruin from decades of unchecked leftism and become a world power in 20 years - who knows. Some of the changes will be good and some bad. There are things to like and dislike about every option. So far I'm holding out hope that the US and Europe both overall remain good choices. 20 years ago I was expecting China to become a good choice, but now they are not. I didn't even think of Vietnam 20 years ago, but they have some good signs (I'm not sure if there are enough). There are a few countries in Africa that are doing good things even though the continent as a whole is a string of one bad thing after another.
Guess: Doom-preaching scientists often have vested interests in preserving very expensive, hard-to-replace satellites - say, Hubble. Journalists know that "more doom" => "more clicks". Nationalists and military folks love to talk smack about other nations' debris-spreading accidents and ASAT activities. And the whole canon and mindset of Kessler-ology was established before SpaceX made launch (of replacement satellites) anywhere near so quick and cheap as it would be now.
Have you considered your not their target demographic?
Notably none of Russia, Belorussia or North Korea.

Really starting to look like the US senior leadership is compromised
It exactly is. Neoliberalism is a mix of free market policies and government planning and intervention when that fails.

Oh, you didn't think neoliberalism was free-market libertarianism, did you? If it was that, it would be called that already.
Corals?
I agree, that's the ultimate Microsoft account bypass.
It complicated, but it's not overcomplicated. CC is not adequate for code and I belive that none of the code is GPL so your suggestion regarding AGPL is strange.
I just wish the platforms weren't beholden to the publishers. To a certain extent, pulling a game from Steam is like pulling it off the shelves at big box stores, but the difference is the games CAN'T find their way to resale shops; they're gone forever.

Story time: I was pretty upset when my original copy of GTA: Vice City was intentionally broken, then the "Definitive Edition" was released a short time later. Especially in the case of GTAIII, they removed the top-down camera so it's not a 1:1 flat upgrade. I find it quaint and fun to try and beat that game using the top-down camera of GTA1 and 2, so was rather disappointed.
Vaccines were a miracle. The state medical examiner converted one nearby university’s arena to a temporary morgue at one point in 2020. It’s mind boggling that people were and still are in denial about how bad it got before large parts of the population started getting vaccinated
It is not correct that an Asian business doing business with a Italian company first exchanges their currency to USD by selling the US goods then using that USD to complete the transaction.

I agree with you that the current situation in the world really benefits the US and the current policies seem to undermine that.
The intent of the consumer is clear, and Microsoft not only doesn't care but is actively removing our alternatives. If nothing else, this should be an option in "Pro," especially given that Enterprise is unobtainable for individuals.

Until they remedy this, Microsoft deserves some disdain. Even Apple gives us the choice with macOS.
I'm not saying "Do nothing", I'm saying "stop reading".

Just reading stuff on social media and tsk-tsking got us nowhere. We have to do more.
Yes, 100%. I believe that any new Python codebase should embrace typing as much as possible[1], and any JavaScript library should be TypeScript instead. A type system with holes like this is better than no type system.

[1] Unfortunately, many important 3rd party libraries aren't typed. I try to wrap them in type-safe modules or localise their use, but if your codebase is deeply dependent on them, this isn't always feasible.
You are spreading disinformation. The FBI investigations into Russia collusion were separate from Mueller's special counsel investigations, Mueller's work did not refer to the Steele Dossier at all.

https://www.acslaw.org/projects/the-presidential-investigati...

Mueller's key findings include

- Uncovering extensive criminal activity on the part of Trump associates

- that Russia engaged in extensive attacks on the US election system in 2016

- that there were numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump campaign

- that there were multiple episodes in which Trump engaged in deliberate obstruction during the investigation

If you are taking Trump's "no collusion, complete exoneration" at his word, understand that he was lying. The report literally used the phrase "does not exonerate", and the only reason Trump was not indicted was because of the DOJ policy that you can't indict a sitting president.
I use those keys heavily, and was hoping they'd fix it in the 16. Sadly, no. Their keyboard connector layout seems to make it difficult to have a keyboard with more rows, so having a layout with the bottom 3 arrow keys in a new row seems unlikely. But what about a touchpad module that has 3 (or 4) arrow keys on it?

Still, it's not a complete nonstarter for me, because the 16 does have that optional keypad. I could actually start using the numlock key again.
You're right about everything, including the note on logistics. But workplaces should not be modelled after battlefields, that's my point.
A boilerplate repo to deploy Haystack-based RAG in production
There are two kinds of "services". You have jobs that are in finance and software, which make good money, and you have jobs in cosmetology and fast food, which have terrible pay. The services that we export are the former.

Your high school grad (or high school dropout) isn't going to get one of those finance or software jobs. But they could get a factory job, if we can get those back.

So the best spin I could put on this is that the emphasis is on physical goods because that's where the people who are hurting in the current economy could find real work.

(Of course, if that were the case, the reasonable thing to do would be to explain that, instead of just acting like services didn't exist as something that is traded.)
I think people can aim to meet politically aligned people at non-political events/places. I met most of my friends in venues that "members of the opposite tribe" just don't frequent. And I feel like it goes for both sides.
We lost 6 million manufacturing jobs over the past decade.
Hmm, the headline here is quite different to the post.
GOG fixed Diablo 1 AND the janky expansion for modern computers, so they're alright in my book.
> Machine code, with its absence of almost any form of redundancy, was soon identified as a needlessly risky interface between man and machine. Partly in response to this recognition so-called "high-level programming languages" were developed, and, as time went by, we learned to a certain extent how to enhance the protection against silly mistakes. It was a significant improvement that now many a silly mistake did result in an error message instead of in an erroneous answer.

I feel that we’ve collectively jumped into programming with LLMs too quickly. I really liked how Rust has iterated on pointing out “silly mistakes” and made it much more clear what the fix should be. That’s a much more favorable development for me as a developer. I still have the context and understanding of the code I work on while the compiler points out obvious errors and their fixes. Using an LLM feels like a game of semi-intelligent guessing on the other hand. Rust’s compiler is the master teaching the apprentice. LLMs are the confident graduate correcting the master. I greatly prefer Rust’s approach and would like to see it evolved further if possible.
Also so far Riot's games don't require upfront purchases so that changes the equation a bit.
Malignant Narcissism

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/24/trump-nyt-ad...
Why is it stupid? They claim to be concerned with trade imbalances, and that those imbalances are a problem. Using those trade imbalances to calculate a tariff seems reasonable, assuming the concerns are right.

If tariffs are to be imposed, I'd at least rather be able to see how they were calculated and know it was done the same for every country.
I'm sure Canonical hasn't said their last word yet.
This is "both-sides-ism" of the worst sort. It's exactly the sort of navel-gazey pablum that gives technical people a bad name.

The author doesn't recognize that it's not "politics" today. Politics is disagreeing on how to fund road improvements. When one party wants to dismantle the state, remove protections for marginalized groups, disavow alliances, engage in absurd imperialism, and flagrantly disregard the rule of law, we're not talking about mere "politics" anymore.

This is "both-sides-ism" of the worst sort. And it gives one the impression that the author is fine being friends with people who hole absolutely horrible beliefs, as long as he doesn't have to know about them.
An honest question: why is this being downvoted? I thought that downvoting is meant to be used when someone is trolling or bringing the level of discussion down, not when you simply disagree with someone's point. I mean sure, it's stated a bit sarcastically, but my gosh if we're going to downvote every sarcastic comment, that would include a good portion of HN comments.
Authorities focused on "classic" terrorism when monitoring online content and propaganda and got completely blindsided by the take over of the media.

I find it particularly interesting how many popular US media people disseminate provably false Kremlin propaganda, as if someone flipped a switch.

Fascinating times.
Gabe Newell became a Microsoft millionaire decided to have a company who did things his way. Turns out he’s quite an ethical guy.
I purchased a steam deck when they first came out specifically to financially support Valve's Linux efforts and I haven't regretted that purchase for a second. In the past year I had a couple of days where my laptop was not working. I got out my steam deck, plugged it into my dock, and got back to work like nothing happened (after installing some software of course, like emacs). I've re-purchased games that I own on consoles just to get the PC versions to de-couple my games from hardware, so now I'll be able to run Flower on powerful beasts, portable handhelds, and computers that haven't been invented yet whereas before it was stuck on a loud aging ps3.

My only complaint is console exclusives like the nintendo games. I don't want to have to purchase Nintendo's universal turing machine just to be able to run their software when I already have a perfectly capable universal turing machine. It would just lead to more e-waste and wasted closet space.

Sure I can pirate and emulate the games, but I am an employed adult, I want to give you money for your games. Release your games on Steam so I can do that without burdening the world with more e-waste.
Yeah, when you wanna be evil, be evil to devs. They are stuck on two fronts and gamers are already pre-disposed to blame them for any problems anyway.

>If they were maintaining it through anticompetitive

Well we know they are now thanks to the lawsuits shedding light in the long known pricing parity clauses. Anyone asking "why isn't this game cheaper on Epic if take take a smaller cut" now has their answer. Without risking any dev's NDA.
Regardless of what his intentions might be which are all speculations as far as I'm concerned, he managed to convince Europe to rearm in 1 month, which is a net positive for Europe and America (assuming America still sees that as a positive) and a massive blow for Russia.
Unless we're talking about two different studies, saying you misinterpreted it is an understatement (https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-change-incre...)
Perhaps important, republicans from state lawmakers up to the VP are interested in repealing no fault divorce laws.
Ha! But seriously, it's written in Go, so probably.
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It's not off topic, as it's discussing moderation and the culture of the forum in a post about moderation & replying to someone discussing the culture, and I said nothing about upvotes. It is two strawmen without discussing any of the substance of my comments.
> But people still buy old C64, Amiga, Atari, IBM or Apple computers.

Not in meaningful numbers.
> I could say the same about the period of peace in the USA which is only from 1865

You can't really compare a period of 160 years to a period of 80, especially given that there's war in Europe once again so the streak is already broken.

80 years is actually shorter than the gap between the Napoleonic wars and WW1 (~100 years), and only represents one generation that lived and died without a local war. On the other hand, 160 years out of 249 is 64% of the existence of the US spent in one continuous period of no widespread local conflict, and represents 5 generations that were born and died without any war on their doorstep. How is that an exception?
There are rumors about an Xbox handheld
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2656008/leak-more-evidence-o...
Discussing politics was fine up until John stewart era.

His comedy is about playing an out of context short clip, make funny face, cheap insult, and laugh track.

But how that plays out in political discussions is that 1 side wont have discussions and just repeats cheap insults. Which results in Trump getting into power.

Better yet, this 1 side who cant discuss politics then constantly hides away. Leaving their viewpoint unexpressed and further losing position.
Miniclips perhaps?
No, but *++d = *++s; does.
Your model assumes the solutions aren't shared.

They are.

Hacker News readers tend to grotesquely underestimate the organization of the underworld, since they aren't in it and aren't generally affected by it. But the underworld is large and organized and very well funded. I'm sure you're operating on a mental model where everyone who sets out to scrape Wikimedia is some random hacker off on their own, sitting down to write a web scraper from scratch having never done it before and not being good at, and being just gobsmacked by the first anti-scraping tech they find, frantically searching online for how to bypass it and coming up with nothing.

That's not how the world works. Look around you, after all; you can already see the evidence of how untrue this is even in the garbage you find for yourself. You can see it in your spams, which never have problems finding hacked systems to put their forged login pages on. That's because the people sending the spam aren't hacking the systems themselves... they use a Hacked System As A Service provider. And I am not saying that sarcastically... that's exactly what they are. APIs and all. Bad actors do not sit down with a fresh college grad and a copy of Python for Dummies to write crawlers in the general case. (Some do, but honestly they're not the worrying ones.) They get Black Web Scraping As A Service, which is a company that can and does pay people full time to figure out how to get around blocks and limits, and when you see people asking questions about how to do that online, you're not seeing the pros. The pros don't ask those questions on Stack Exchange. They just consult their fellow employees, like any other business, because it's a business.

You could probably mentally model the collection of businesses I'm referring to as at least as large as Microsoft or Google, and generally staffed by people as intelligent.

It in fact does need to be a nearly 100% solution, because any crack will be found, exploited, and not merely "shared" but bought and sold freely, in a market that incentivizes people with big payouts to find the exploits.

I really wish people would understand this, the security defense team in the world is grotesquely understaffed and mismanaged collectively because people still think they're going up against some stereotypical sweaty guy in a basement who might get bored and wander away from hacking your site if he discovers women, rather than funded professionals attacking and spamming and infiltrating and getting paid large amounts of money to do it.
What’s the actual tariffs other countries are charging the US then?
My bad for double posting, but they are probably referring to [this one](https://www.worldweatherattribution.org/climate-change-incre...), which says the exact opposite.
“…AI will enable us to trump Russia’s nuclear threats with a new first-strike capability.”

Could someone elaborate on that please? Is it about that AI capable nuclear weapons will be able to guide themselves without live reconnaissance data?
What are the ideas on AI nuclear weapons?
Can't wait until Linux supports QuickBooks, SolidWorks, and the other software I need.

(Maybe I need to clarify that this isn't sarcasm? If I could run QuickBooks and SolidWorks on Linux, I would be switching several dozen PCs to Linux)
It's crazy that, according to people like you, we've always been doing merit-based hiring and still the computer workforce is disproportionately white and male. Nothing fishy there at all.
Could be a fun family project to hack the Switch
A programming language implementation produces results that are controllable, reproducible, and well-defined. An LLM has none of those properties, which makes the comparison moot.

Having an LLM make up underspecified details willy-nilly, or worse, ignore clear instructions is very different from programming languages "handling a lot of low-level stuff."
Yes. So advertising gets more expensive when targeting EU users. The users don't care, so there wouldn't be much public backlash. And the advertisers will either cut back / relocate their ad spendings or raise their marketing budget.
True, it keeps wealth circulating domestically, fostering local economic activity. However, drawbacks of this system are higher costs for consumers and inefficiencies in production, so it needs to be balanced.