skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was literally in my top 10 favourite websites until the UK f'd it up ... actually, I haven't tried using it with a VPN
Vietnam and Israel already agreed to remove tariffs on USA imports. Thailand is opening negotiations today.

It’s simple - remove import duty from USA goods and the USA will remove tariffs. Reciprocal trade.
My elderly next door neighbor told me she voted for Trump because she thought that's what her (now passed away) husband would have wanted.
It's pretty complicated and case-by-case, and I'm no expert.

https://www.trade.gov/rules-origin-substantial-transformatio...
And as tech guys we always wonder if the world is a better place with AI Agents taking over. My guess is that even gpt-3 would have come up with a better solution than this.
I love this! I was about to start using Substack for a personal/professional blog and I was very concerned about the structure they "force" you into. I don't want to socialize in the way they want me to. I just want to write my stuff down, and perhaps help someone, but at the end, all I want is a place to share things with myself in a more elaborated way. Looking at it now!
To add to the comment: If you want to be the capital of an empire, you have to act like it—like Troy, Rome, or Constantinople—meaning you run deficits and play buyer of last resort. When you are no longer that, the empire has indeed collapsed.

Relate: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1998/08/18/t...
Yes this is the inherent tension some miss with "we can just tariff them".

If it's some dirty industry we outsourced 50 years ago, its probably work no one here wants to do, and is being done for $3/hr. What tariff rate will make comparable say.. $15/hr US labor work? None because even if they get rid of EPA and tariff to 1000%, those jobs are only coming back via 1 guy operating 10 robots.. not as 10 jobs.

And then for more advanced industries - look at how much trouble say Intel is having or how long it took TSMC to spin up an AZ fab. You need long lead times with low economic/political volatility in which to plan and implement these 5+ year projects.

Look at how slow moving automaker supply chains are, are they bringing back jobs for 2030 production if they have no idea what the world is going to look like then?

Oh and don't forget the PHD Trump sane washing explainers favorite fallback - hey it's all just a negotiating trick to get leverage. OK so then, again, what business leader is making investment decisions in that context?
China has goods and services, but don't underestimate the language barrier for services. Language is a barrier between EU member nations providing each other services, even though machine translation is OK between those languages and most of us learned one of the other nation's languages in school; The gap between Chinese and Latin-Germanic languages is much larger.

I'd give an example, but every time I have previously shown an example of machine translated Chinese to demonstrate that AI is bad at translating English into Chinese, the responses miss the point of the example — criticising the translation whose very errors are meant to demonstrate how bad current AI is.
Down 6% in premarket, will have to wait and see but likely wont help them much as tariffs will impact a significant amount of their products regardless.
I build a tool to share lists and colaborate with anyone on them
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CrisisGate
> Your view about art is just too constrained by an appeal to aesthetic beauty.

This gets repeated a lot, but the reality is to many people, including philosophers, artists and appreciators of both, aesthetic beauty is a fundamental property of art without which it cannot survive.

The fact that contemporary art circles handwave away that relevance while arrogantly mumbling "you're just miopic, ignorant and misguided, learn more" doesn't really change that fact.

From the outside, it just shows that you too have been co-opted into the cult. You're free to subscribe to that view, but you don't get to gatekeep the meaning of art, no matter how many members that cult may have.
You've fallen victim to GOP propaganda. They use 'Voter ID' as a reasonable sounding shorthand for a lot of policies that just make it harder to vote. The other responders highlighted many of them.
"no one wants to work anymore"

No one ever wanted to work, we just had to in order to pay the bills. Sometimes work can be gratifying, but most of the time it's just a slog and always has been.
Artificial Gravity 101
Some art-haters in the comments, so to defend this piece of contemporary art for a moment: one thing I love about it is a commitment to the long future of art, creativity, and civilization. What does it take to keep an instrument playing for six hundred years? To commit to that idea -- like the century-long projects of cathedral building in the middle ages, or the idea of planting trees you won't live to see mature -- is (to me) the awesome thing about the Halberstadt performance. All rendered in a medium (church organ) that has existed for an even longer time.

It's a pretty hopeful, optimistic view of the future in a time of high uncertainty, but also represents a positive argument: it's worth doing these things because they are interesting, weird, and fun, and because they represent a continuity with past and future people we will never meet.

Plus, you can already buy a ticket to the finale, so your distant descendants can go see it :)
Europeans have a lot of alternatives to American services, including building out their own.

What Europeans truly lack is the ability to defend itself without the U.S. They have the technical know how and can build the manufacturing capacity but that will take a decade at least.

Also, European financing is just not as strong.

However, with the U.S. voluntarily walking away from its role as the center of the world, this may not be a problem for too long.

Tech is the easiest service to replace considering American tech workers by insisting on WFH have already largely eliminated the geographical advantages American tech used to have.
There's considerably more aluminum oxides in the stratosphere from solid rocket motors than satellite reentires, and that's been going on since the 1970's. The 135 Space Shuttle launches burned 160 tons of aluminum powder, per launch, in their SRB's. (22 kilotons in total?) An Ariane 6 launch burns 55 or 110 tons (2 or 4 boosters).

The largest satellite payloads are 20 tons in a launch.

(Al2O3 isn't even the highest-impact ozone depletor within the space industry; that's chlorine. Also from solid rocket fuel).
Aren't there other oil-rich nations that essentially have UBI and could serve as a data point.
I'm giving an example, which to some degree was meant as an existence proof of a way to support an unpopular position without getting massive downvotes. "X is entirely good with no problems whatsoever" being replaced by "I think the benefits of X outweigh the costs, and here's some acknowledgement of the costs". I'm not trying to suggest only one possible way to do that, or only one pattern to follow. (This is one danger of using an object-level example.)
Hear, hear! This point is beautifully made by philosopher Roger Scruton in his "Why Beauty Matters"

https://vimeo.com/groups/832551/videos/549715999

Unfortunately I think too many people are still falling for that nonsense
I encourage everyone to contact their reps and demand a bill be advanced to return tariff authority to the Congress.

There are enough GOP reps opposed to tariffs to get a discharge petition.
I mean, I couldn't guarantee that we're all adults here... and it was more to make me feel better. Just because I'm allowed to do something doesn't mean I want to
It's likely not beneficial to them, for a couple reasons.

First of all, they can print Yuan. They want people to buy those pieces of paper for something of value. It doesn't do much good to have people send all that paper back in exchange for phones and tablets and stuff. Then they would've just got back some paper they printed in exchange for something that took time and resources to make.

No, they need something physical or at least valuable for that paper. Such as local labor. Then their own population can spend the paper internally, because it's in theory exchangeable for something external. When China buys stuff from the US, it spends dollars. Which it buys from the US not with Yuan, but with computer parts. It pays its own people Yuan to make the computer parts... but the Yuan is only valuable because the government holds dollars and euros to buy stuff that their citizens can then buy for Yuan.

This is why Trump's overall foreign policy and particulatly his tariffs scheme risks destroying America. If at some point enough countries decide that the USD is too unreliable, they may look for the next best paper to trade. That would be catastrophic for the US which may deserve it in any case, but it would be truly terrible if the alternative were a currency privately owned and manipulated by the leaders of a dictatorship. Perhaps the world isn't stupid enough to do that, but the size of China's economy compared to anything else would make it tempting.

I'll stipulate right now that if China were a democracy with civil rights and a fair legal system, I would have no problem with it taking over world trade from the US. But currently it's a repressive authoritarian state.
So you think you know Roger Penrose? Be prepared to be shocked
There's a big difference between money and power, though. A TSA agent can affect your life in a big way without the use of any money. That's power[0].

There's a big difference between money: voluntarily trading value for services and goods, some of which might negatively affect you, and power: trading nothing for direct control of aspects of your life.

[0] Not inappropriate power, or not in theory
> he will be importing a lot of parts for his cars.

How doesn’t need to make as many of them anymore, so that’s a saving.
Someone quoted this headline elsewhere, so I looked up the actual article[0].

It would have been hilarious back in 2001. It's... scarily prescient in 2025. Can satire be just too good?

[0]: https://theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-pea...
They may be compelled to do that; there's 1.3 million packages from Chinese retailers a day coming in through the Netherlands, but since they're all individual packages, they fall under a threshold for import taxes. There's now calls to drop that threshold so that people pay import taxes for small items as well, and / or to compel Temu and co to stop shipping individual packages but do it in bulk.
https://vatdesk.eu/en/import-export-and-vat/#:~:text=of%20VA...

>Yes, imports of goods are subject to VAT, with taxation taking place when the goods clear through customs.
Through one of such posts I found this blogpost - https://langfuse.com/blog/2024-12-langfuse-v3-infrastructure... which to me was very interesting. Maybe you should include it in your job description.
I have taught at least three people how to do simple repairs and upgrades on laptops.

Anyone that can read and use their brain can strip a laptop down to components and reassemble it.
I would imagine the incentives being aligned (SX can’t make full economic and cultural Starship ROI if there is a planetsized wall of debris they can’t fly through) means that there will be multiple independent overlapping checks both private and government for each launch mission to ensure that it doesn’t become worse.

SpaceX stands to lose just as much as the rest of us if they fuck this up, possibly more.
And here we created fake state-issued driver's licenses when I was in college.

(Wish I could find a photo of a giant, fake driver's license on foam core with a rectangle cut out for the person to stand behind when a photo was taken.)
This reminded me of this old quote from Hal Abelson:

"Underlying our approach to this subject is our conviction that "computer science" is not a science and that its significance has little to do with computers. The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change is the emergence of what might best be called procedural epistemology—the study of the structure of knowledge from an imperative point of view, as opposed to the more declarative point of view taken by classical mathematical subjects. Mathematics provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of "what is". Computation provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of "how to"."
Wow what a great idea. I wish this were a more common online social space format!
The problem is solvable by stopping people like Musk from putting 42,000 satellites in space.

Especially when the problem he is solving i.e. global access to internet is already solved just not to the level we would want it.

So as a society we have to ask what is more important: watching Netflix on a yacht or having the ability to someday explore the universe.
The idea the pickup trucks are wanted in Europe is hilarious.
On the one hand it defeated affirmative action repeatedly in one of the most left wing states, on the other proposition 13 created a class of landed gentry and permanently screwed the state’s tax base.
Apparently the flex on the 16 is bad enough that the pogo pin connector for the keyboard deck loses contact every time you pick the laptop up.
>Are you aware the article you link to technically critiques MTProto 1, including links to web archives of the MTProto 1 docs?

Yes, but surely you realize a competent cryptographer wouldn't have implemented a backdoor looking design in the first place?

>Telegram does in fact have E2EE available in the form of Secret Chats, so that's just an incorrect statement from you.

No it's 100% correct and you just made my point for me.

1. Secret chats are not used by default, meaning most of users don't even know about it.

2. Secret chats are not available for group chats, not even small ones that have reasonable expectation for privacy.

3. Secret chats are not available for desktop chats, so you can not really use them seamlessly. I've spent six hours in front of my computer today. My phone is 30cm from my left hand. And I absolutely can't be arsed to pick it up every time my friend would send me a secret chat. Telegram's backdoor works exactly this way. They know I'm lazy. They make it my fault. Whereas with Signal, I can just alt-tab into the chats and reply there.

When I said Telegram only has E2EE in internet debates, that means people like you who love to point out it's technically there, but who also fail to understand what it takes for such feature to be even used on a daily basis.

>facile language invented by the person who has the most to gain from its use.

I've been criticizing Telegram for over a decade now. You trying to make it sound like it's Moxie who's the devil pulling all the strings and making my arguments for me, makes you look like an astroturfer employed by Telegram: https://tsf.telegram.org/
US short term prices jump +9% according to the KITE model for International Trade Analysis when you take tariffs and counter-tariffs into account.
Unfortunately, no, as I've changed country of living year ago and still can not find way to good tea in new place. Also, I'm not sure, that recommendations from Europe is actual for you even if I have one.

But really best "black" tea of my life (and I spent most of my life in country with strong tea culture, where loose tea and teapots are still very popular, and not, it is not UK!) was bough at random tea factory in the middle of nowhere in Sri Lanka, packed in simple 1kg vacuum bags. No brand, no name, only date of picking (two days ago) and packing (today at the day of bought) :-)
You are right, but the problem with turning the EU into a real union is that it is very difficult and risky. The creation of new nations and new identities more often than not leads to violence - and they are often formed by war.

Yes, the EU is fragile, but I think trying to fix it that way would be worse.

I think 1) the rich democracies in Europe are unlikely to go to war with each other and 2) have good reason to unite against common threats so I think a military alliance is military alliance makes sense.

Yes, we already have NATO but the US is going to be ever more focused on China, and Russia is not the threat the Soviet union was so a new military alliance focused on Russia and securing the Atlantic (the latter in cooperation with the US) makes a lot of sense. Obviously different countries have different interests (the Atlantic is a lot more important to the UK than it is to most others) but also enough in common.
Sure, keep being uncurious and ignorant, it's all your choice, it's you who is missing out.

"Fake intellectuals" is just... Sad, devaluing whole bodies of work simply because you cannot understand them, instead of attempting to curiously explore that you prefer to use a thought-terminating cliché and embrace your ignorance as supreme... All the while you live during a time where all information and knowledge in the world is there for you to access for free.

It's just... Sad to live that way but ignorance is bliss since it's just so much easier to reject anything that challenges you.
But the end result should be a fully-specced design document. That might theoretically be recoverable from a complete program given a sufficiently powerful transformer.
When did discussing politics with your community become a bad thing? In fact that's the primary place you should talk politics, share new ideas and hone your views. If more people did this they wouldn't be getting radicalized by online bots.
Tips from a Senior React Developer
Ok, so better documentation about what was tried, why, how it failed so as to make obvious if it's viable to try again or not.

I can get behind that :)...
Then don't write it at all. The asterisk doesn't make it any better.
This is really exciting! What are the early performance gains looking like in nix compilation?
I think you may be misinterpreting “possible” here. I’m shocked that it’s possible to get funding and interest to make a 639 year piece happen. It is unclear if it will be possible to complete. I do not think it would be possible to make a 10,000 year piece happen.

As with all things, the contraption is not the hard part. It’s the supporting civilization, society, economic context, and will of generations of people.

Cage’s game here is to question the entire scaffolding of art, not the pigments of the paint.
Author thinks they are the lone person stuck in the middle between two tribes, but actually they are part of a third tribe that fallaciously believes that it is possible to write better policy, if only we took the time to study reality more and listen to more people and apply more reason etc. In short, Author distinguishes between the two established tribes (in which people make a very limited emotional engagement with the issues) and their tribe (in which people make a stronger emotional engagement). This is a fallacy because:

* It is not reasonable to expect most people to make strong emotional investments into voting choices that have little direct effect on their lives, and indeed we have a representative democracy rather than a direct democracy to recognize that reality
* Reality is far, far more complicated than can be summarized in journalism or articles; many researchers spend their entire careers attempting to learn deeply about *one* area, let alone many areas; much pertinent information is non-public. Policies that are effective in one community are completely counter-productive in another. Believing that you are The Exception and that you Know The Right Way To Run The Country because you "do your research" is the height of hubris.

People will seek out good leadership. People will switch leaders when their current leadership fails to make them happy. Good leaders defer to experts, each in their own domain, who may make imperfect decisions and other mistakes but nonetheless make well-intentioned efforts to improve over time and pass on their knowledge so that future generations can learn from their mistakes. All else is natural variance due to human imperfection.
This is 173% fud. If it happens, it's because Framework is dead

Take a look at the Framework desktop, it comes with soldered on RAM. Not because of any active decisions made by Framework, but simply because that's how that CPU ships. It literally didn't support RAM slots. I can only see this trend continuing. I don't doubt that Framework will be the last hold out in the fight against soldered on RAM and SSDs, but sooner or later if they want to keep shipping the latest CPUs, they probably won't have too much of a choice in the matter.
I tried the same about a month ago and was unable to get anywhere, probably due to being very new to the custom keyboard scene and having only a very vague understanding of how qmk/rmk/vial/keymaps fit together. Thanks for writing this up, I might give it another go now!
> doesn't usually come around twice.

There is a _2_ in WW2 :)

Sadly looking at history these "opportunities" come around quite regularly.
> It was a significant improvement that now many a silly mistake did result in an error message instead of in an erroneous answer. (And even this improvement wasn't universally appreciated: some people found error messages they couldn't ignore more annoying than wrong results, and, when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate "the ease of programming" with the ease of making undetected mistakes.)

If I didn't know who wrote this it would seem like a jab directly at people who dislike Rust.
What codec were you using for the audio data?
If you cannot comprehend the idea that work computers or phones can have software that is approved for one purpose, but not for others, then this discussion can't go anywhere.

If you work at a healthcare organization, you may have Slack, but that doesn't necessarily mean you can message people's PHI.

At a financial institution, you may have email, but that doesn't necessarily mean you can email PII.

At CIA, you may have Signal, but that doesn't mean you can discuss ongoing military operations in it.

I have already linked to policy that explicitly says non-public DoD information is not approved for Signal.

I find it literally not believable that you don't understand this concept, so I'll have to chalk this one up to motivated reasoning damaging your ability to interpret English.
I could tell and I really appreciate it. It's really helpful to see both the good and the bad.

Great work!
Exactly. I have friends that outright refuse to use secret chats because stickers are so important to them. They literally have said to my face "stickers > human right to privacy".
If this made any sense to begin with, then not excluding any region at all would make sense. Why leave some area which would become a theoretical middleman in trade just for purpose of tariff evasion? At least they'd be covered from the simple workarounds.
> when "more money for the rich" has always been the only consistent Republican policy.

You probably want to be more careful with how you phrase that. The Republican party passed the Civil Rights Act and ended slavery, among other things.

Those may not be the type of Republicans you are thinking of today, but they still had that little (R) next to their names.
> Or weak typing. How many languages thought that simplifying strings and integers and other types into "scalar", and making any operation between any operands meaningful, would simplify the language? Yet every single one ended up becoming a total mess instead.

Yet JavaScript and Python are the most widely used programming languages [1]. Which suggests your analysis is mistaken here.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/793628/worldwide-develop...