skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree but see it as less dire. All of western culture is not ending; it will be absorbed into a more Asia-dominated culture in much he was Asian culture was subsumed into western for the past couple of hundred years.

And if Asian culture is better educated and more capable of progress, that’s a good thing. Certainly the US has announced loud and clear that this is the end of the line for us.
If a country decides that it is important to not be a net importer the method to achieve that proposed by Buffett in the article is infinitely better than the way Trump is going about it.

Essentially what Buffett suggests in the article is a cap and trade system on imports.

To import $X worth of goods the importer must have $X worth of ICs (import certificates), which consumes those ICs. ICs are created when exporters export, with each dollar of exports creating a dollars worth of ICs.

ICs are tradable so an exporter does not have to use the ICs created by their own exports. They can sell them to importers.

Note that under this system it is perfectly fine to have a trade deficit with any given country, as long as their are trade surpluses with other countries that balance it.

Trump wants trade with each country to be balanced (or a surplus).

Consider this hypothetical.

• Country A needs to import some natural resource. They import it from country B and use it to manufacture something.

• Country B doesn't need anything that A makes, but does need something from country C.

• Country C doesn't need anything from B, but imports the thing A is manufacturing.

If Trump were running country A he would view this as A getting ripped off by B. Under Trump logic B would be getting ripped off by C, and C would be getting ripped off by A, but he wouldn't care about the former and would probably by bragging about the later but not calling it a rip off.

One of the big reasons money was developed in the first place was so goods did not need to be balanced between each pair of traders.

Before money if a farmer had chickens and wanted a goat he had to find someone who wanted chickens and would trade a goat for it. If the only guy with goats he could find didn't want chickens but wanted a pig the farmer was out of luck, unless he could find someone who had a pig and wanted chickens. It can keep going...maybe pig guy wants a cow so now the guy with chickens also needs to find someone who will trade a cow for pigs.

Money made it so trades become money for goods instead of goods for goods. Chicken guy just needed to find someone with a goat for sale for money instead of finding someone with a goat who specifically needed chickens.

Same thing applies to trade between countries, and for some inexplicable reason Trump wants it to work like the old chickens for goat days.
Do you think it is ever going to be removed, or do the pros of having it outweigh the cons?
> You would struggle to buy a house if you worked at VW assembling cars.

Any source for that? What's the average VW salary , I'm assuming life long VW workers are actually pretty well compensated.

> Nothing close to what Americans are able to afford.

Americans are rich in small part due to true innovation (Google, Microsoft, biotech etc) and large part running endless deficits by having the world's reserve currency. Also America is the complete opposite of the government planned economy / state socialism you're proposing the Germans should do.
I think you do have the brain, but maybe you're framing it wrong! When you come across art that seems unapproachable or strange to you, the last question you should ask is "What did the artist mean by this?" Instead, first think "What does this make me feel?" The answer may often be nothing, but then in the spirit of curiosity follow it up with "What might others who love this art be responding to?"

Sometimes for me, I need to take myself out of trying to "solve" the art piece and be intentional about viewing it with a different, less literal mindset. It's still me doing the thinking, but it kind of short-circuits my normal interaction with the world.

Or maybe that's just a bunch of blowhard bullshit, I don't know, but it is what I do.
Congress would need a vet-proof majority to take the toys away now, which is essentially impossible in modern times. The only way this can be resolved in is if SCOTUS rules that the executive does not have the power to tariff like this, and Trump actually stops rather than just ignoring the court order.
I spent the last day using MCP and it kind of blew my mind
marketing >> engineering
"Nobody asked for it, and nobody wants it."

Whenever I read this I just lose all credibility for the author. As if millions of DAU having their problems solved are invisible to them.
Not just Microsoft. I remember iPlanet directory server... which got renamed to Sun Directory Server, SUN Java System Directory Server, Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition, Java One Directory Server, Oracle Java Directory Server...

I believe Oracle called everything back to iPlanet because customers never used the new names.
NextJS vs. TanStack
That would be an explanation if it was limited to regions with such restrictions. But Minecraft is popular even with kids who could run around outside and have lots of freedom.
Because "high trust" involving centralizing a huge amount of power tends to work really well until it suddenly fails catastrophically. Which it tends to do on a scale around a human lifetime, sometimes a bit shorter, sometimes a bit longer.
I don't think it's him just users flagging. But the leaders of YC are huge fanboys and live for his replies and retweets. It's pathetic and embarrassing
> While the majority of revenue of Microsoft is not Windows anymore

It’s hasn’t been for 25+ years (more than 50% of Microsoft existence).

1998 Revenue Breakdown
—————————————————————-
$7.04B Productivity Apps
$6.28B Windows
$4.72B OEM
$1.94B Consumer

https://www.microsoft.com/investor/reports/ar00/mdna.htm
Fire retardant itself is much more harmful than heavy metals in this context.

It essentially causes neurodegenerative diseases, especially if you inhale it.

This applies to unintuitive routes of exposure, like taking a hot shower on an Air Force base that used flame retardant in fire drills decades prior and breathing in the water suspended in air.
I find that Microsoft has the most beautiful/poetic names for some of their products (admittedly the older ones):

Windows

Word

Paint

Excel
It does, I just made a Windows 11 Pro 24H2 VM for testing (with the stock ISO) and used the "domain join" option to make a local account.
I'm glad we've moved from Intel Core Duo 2. It's like BMW introducing "The BMW Engine", with its next generation engine!
It’s all binaries. Who cares about names?
The one thing I'm missing is the brag page. Knowing GSAP I'd really like to see why it would be better. It doesn't have to be a fair comparison. Greensock can then say why they'd still be better.
But as we do have options it would be nice to see where they match and where they differ.
Bill Gates's mom and the chairman of IBM were on the executive committee of the same charity, the United Way.

from https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/11/obituaries/mary-gates-64-...

She was later appointed to the board of the United Way of America; in 1983, she became the first woman to lead it. Right Time, Right Place

Her tenure on the national board's executive committee is believed to have helped Microsoft, based in Seattle, at a crucial time. In 1980, she discussed with John R. Opel, a fellow committee member who was the chairman of the International Business Machines Corporation, the business that I.B.M. was doing with Microsoft.

Mr. Opel, by some accounts, mentioned Mrs. Gates to other I.B.M. executives. A few weeks later, I.B.M. took a chance by hiring Microsoft, then a small software firm, to develop an operating system for its first personal computer.
>People here know the difference or are easily able to understand it if they haven't been confronted with it.

No. They're trying to force a definition of open-source that does not exist to make it FOSS because FOSS people want everything to be FOSS so try to pressure people into it.

The definition is defined by dictionaries and it's different from what is said on here. Quite simply, they're wrong. They want it to mean one thing however the definition of the word by Oxford and Webster applies to what is done in that repo. It is open-source by the definition of the word by people who define and clarify words and not by FOSS devs who want everything to be FOSS. It is open-source! And the fact, people on here don't know that shows people on here don't know the difference.
> it seems to me that with only 600 accounts losing an average of ~$800 each

From the article:

> AustralianSuper, the country's largest fund managing A$365 billion for 3.5 million members, said that up to 600 member passwords had been stolen to access accounts and attempt fraud.

> Four AustralianSuper members had a combined A$500,000 drained from their balances and transferred to other accounts that did not belong to them, according to the source, who was not authorised to speak publicly about the matter.

It's not completely clear if 600 passwords were "stolen" but only four accounts had any money transferred, or if there are more accounts at that fund that had money transferred.

And that's just one fund.

> Rest Super, the default industry pension fund for retail workers, with A$93 billion of assets under management, said it suffered an attack that impacted around 20,000 accounts, or around 1% of its 2 million members.
'I didnt make the laws of nature, I just follow them' - Thucydides paraphrased

We all know which company/companies are the 'best'(aka worst for society) at marketing. Microsoft is just following their lead.

If they didn't adjust, they would go extinct... (Maybe not given their walled prison)
Any regular engineering positions rem-o-tely from Europe?
Sure they can, by being exposed one at a time, developing resistance to each.
Go read a book and grow some tomatoes.

May as well be bored about steam turbines or refrigeration.

This posts reeks of a worrying lack of agency.
Imagine if he was an essentially normal 15 year old, and caught breaking into a car instead of into a computer. And didn't spend a few years in college learning to coexist with society. He'd probably still be living in a concentration camp.
et le changement climatique..
Why is being empathetic a trait of a "great mind"? Wouldn't it also be possible that "great minds" don't consider things like empathy as useful? Looking back at human history, its usually people that aren't empathetic who end up being successful. At least in a way that people consider "successful". Humanity has long outlived the usefulness of empathy.
I admit, that was hyperbole based on a hazy recollection of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_of_Michael_Fay.

FWIW I’ve been to Singapore and had a great time, but I was careful to follow the many rules and signs. I especially liked the sign on the bus forbidding the opening of a durian fruit.
Thank you person. You have improved my day.
I mean, at least shouldn't we wait until Harrison Ford has passed?
Trump repeatedly says that a trade deficit is a subsidy that America is paying the country.

No one really understands why he'd say that. And no one has succeeded in talking him out of it. So we're now seeing global trade policy collapse based on this weird invention of his.
A broken implementation?
Why do people watch 37 seasons of Bold and Beatiful
That’s fair. For Microsoft, I think they trailblazed on how to be a global tech monopoly. The dotcom companies (ie Amazon, Google, etc) all followed those footprints to dominate.
Risk can never be zero, just like certainty can never be 100%.

There is a non-zero chance that the ineffable quantum foam will cause a mature hippopotamus to materialize above your bed tonight, and you’ll be crushed. It is incredibly, amazingly, limits-of-math unlikely. Still a non-zero risk.

Better to think of “no risk” as meaning “negligible risk”. But I’m with you that climate change is not a negligible risk; maybe way up in the 20% range IMO. And I wouldn’t be sleeping in my bed tonight if sudden hippos over beds were 20% risks.
Maybe when they introduce their version of Claude’s Computer Use [1] they’ll call it “Microsoft Windows Copilot”

Not to be confused with Microsoft Copilot, which is not to be confused with Microsoft 365 Copilot, which is not to be confused with Github Copilot…

[1] https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use

[2] https://copilot.microsoft.com

[3] https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/16/introducing-micr...

[4] https://github.com/features/copilot
It's hard to take refuge from it when you are working in the tech industry, I hear something about "let's try to use AI for this" at least twice a week for the past year at my work.

I do use LLMs for some specific tasks, they can be quite good at some stuff but the general hype of it by non-technical folks trying to fit it into every single use-case under the sun is absolutely tiring... Having to explain for the n-th time why what we are trying to do is not a good fit for AI™ is exhausting, not because I have to explain it again but because I know I will have to do it again next week, at least another couple of times.

AI is being viewed in this hype as almost literal magic, it can do anything, we just have to wish for AI to do it (whatever the fuck AI means by now, it's just an umbrella for magical thinking).

I'm tired, and definitely bored.
Now that you mention it those are good names
> ...right now it's centrally managed. it's just easier to build this way and use existing services. i use own apis, firebase and livekit.

Yeah, totally makes sense, centralized is easier. no hamr, no foul. :-)

> ...i'd LOVE to work on this full-time and live off of it, that's my end-goal.

Well, if/when you launch this, I'd be interested in paying you to manage the hosting of it. so, you jhave at least 1 willing potential customer!

> ... i wouldn't mind creating a self-hosted version...

Remember, how i want a self-hosted option? That still is true...but i likely would prefer to pay YOU to manage the hosting. In other words, I gladly pay devs/teams/orgs to manage hosted apps for me...but I always LIKE that they offer me a choicee to self-host something if/whenever I choose. Basically, if a company gives me the opportunity to leave them at any time...that in a way earns my trust, and that helps me want to pay them for their service...assuming their service is reliable, well-managed of course. So, yeah, self-hosted is the gold standard to live up to...but, don;t get it twisted: if you build in self-hosting AS WELL AS offer paid plans, i will def. pay you! Remember that, because there are TONS of people like me, who on principle want open source, self-hosted options, but who will gladly PAY for someone to manage said open source apps/services.

Again, cheers and kudos!
Why are you moving from Flutter?
> My main gripe with this is how do you charge users? They can just put the browser in offline mode and continue to use the app forever.

Charge users to buy the product. Don't charge users to use the product. I know it's a revolutionary way to think.

> Also it's very hard to follow up bugs or other errors if users are often offline.

Yes, so?

> I giess you can queue up errors being sent and so on but still.

Have you asked the user if they want those errors, which often contain private information, to be sent?

> Syncing means that you probably have to have a complicated logic, especially if the data you are seeing can be modified by others. How do you solve merge conflicts?

There's tens, if not hundreds, of solutions to sync. Why don't you take a look at one of the existing solutions?

> I really like offline first web apps

Really? It sounded like you wanted to charge users and didn't like the idea of users going offline. Kind've hypocritical to then say you like offline-first.

> more expensive to build I think.

Not at all. You should be building and deploying in containers. Containers can and should be 100% local first. You download the dependencies (`FROM` statements) and then disconnect from wifi. If you can't build after that then you're doing it wrong.

> For a startup it means more time before you can deploy your app

Not if you're doing it right.

> where I live there is pretty much fast internet everywhere

I'm happy for you! Unfortunately you seem to be the type of person who wants to reduce cost. That means remote workers. Remote workers often live where their internet is very sub-par and/or metered. Local-first (and especially offline-first) will help reduce cost even more.

> it kinda is solving an issue that very few customers will face

I assume you're in the USA. You shouldn't take the FCC's connectivity reports at face value especially after certain people have gutted the FCC's ability to provide reliable connectivity data. You also shouldn't assume that every customer around you has access to fast internet because, unfortunately, last-mile internet service providers have a tendency of monopolistically abusing their customers.

If you're not in the USA... well I'd still be willing to bet that you're wrong unless your customers are exclusively in an urban environment.
This appears to have reached the second-chance pool even though another submission of the same article generated ample discussion a couple days ago.

How Silica Gel Took Over the World - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43550556 - April 2025 (171 comment)
Most restaurants smuggle obscene amounts of butter and sugar into dishes to make them more delicious so you'll come back. It's not unreasonable to assume that every subcomponent of a recipe might have sugar added individually.

In packaged foods, there is a whole science of masking the sugar and fat content to make it more addictive without triggering your inbuilt satiety mechanisms [1]. This is what today's engagement optimisers did for money in the 50/60s.

You could argue that these "innovations" were precisely to subvert the intuition that visual appearance of food (and other natural sensors) can be relied on to assess their nutritional properties.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bliss_point_(food)#:~:text=T...
How AI is turning job interviews into a game of cheat-or-be-cheated
Must be awesome to use this software in a country that does not use the US Dollar as its currency :)
there are lean back technologies, and lean forwards technoloo
https://archive.is/WCYgP
From what I've been able to gather, a mix of jealousy for not being involved with institutions along with some form of Dunning Kruger effect thinking that the institutions have no merit or value (i.e. the individual thinks they could do better / have no need / are somehow subject to the outcomes of the institution).
Probably we should keep the distinction between "best hearts" and "best minds" but otherwise agreed, a good heart is preferable to a good mind.
I was thinking, the UK and EU should set extra taxes on US tech companies to offset the tariffs. don't even need to fix the amount - just tie it to whatever the tariffs are.
The oil companies also knew and lied about global warming for decades. They paid and continue to pay for as science to stall action. I am completely mystified how you can find them blameless for venal politicians and a populace that largely believes their lies.
> The ribosome is an attractive antibiotic target because bacteria don’t easily develop resistance to drugs targeting the structure, adds Lewis.

Sure they do, by the general mechanism of preventing the drug from entering the bacterium and/or pumping it back out. Bacteria have general mechanisms for removing molecules they don't need.

This molecule is a peptide, so one mechanism for developing resistance would be evolution of a specific protease. Bacteria already have enzymes for breaking peptide bonds.
The best song that starts off with that quote: https://youtu.be/UryTypo2qeU?si=CdTPe0ufnktLB_6i
“ I Should Be Allowed to Think” by They Might Be Giants
Change a couple words here and there and it’s talking about social media
I think the line b/w derivative work and new work might be different.

I mean if llms are trained on it ... and a lot of other things and then LLM can output the source code from a input ... then wouldn't it be open source / public domain
It only has been a "norm" for a few thousand years during the agricultural era for the poorest of the poor, who could neither obtain hunting privileges, afford to keep their own animals, had no access to food, work or communal programs, which provided them with some meat, or there were significant famines which made the culling of livestock necessary.

Beyond that I'd argue we should strive to minimize class-based access restrictions to food rather than artificaly enforce them.
From context, we can infer that "best minds" means "smart people who make new things." I feel it's fair to lament that, while these people could put their intelligence towards the betterment of everybody, they are often instead working on shit like ad tech.
I was working with deepseek to distill my thoughts on this and the best quote was " This resembles a lossy compression of software, where the "loss" is non-essential complexity.".

"literate programming meets LLMs"—where the goal isn’t just fewer lines, but denser meaning. If you’re experimenting with it, start small: try distilling a single function with GPT-4 + human review, and see if the result feels correct but simpler.
In other words LLM assisted code refactoring for compression and clarity is the way to resolve the argument between 'more' or 'less' code in general.
If people knew the kinds of things I did and said online in my youth I'd be cancelled too.

Kids do and say stupid things. Kids get into trouble.

This is especially true if you grew up with a keen interest in computers, programming and for some reason, gaming.
This isn't a sufficient explanation, because a good marketing team cares about naming things well and most engineering teams are terrible at it. Letting engineering name things is how OpenAI ended up stuck with ChatGPT as a name for their flagship product.
JavaScript Weekly Insights #20: Latest Frameworks, Tools and Trends
0. I want third-party advertising eliminated entirely and self-sdvertising advertising on one's own property more regulated than it currently is.
A guess:

They want to piggybank on existing branch of X so a feature tangentially related with it gets called X or X_y. Then X or X/X_y gets canned and you don't know what's what.
Dear SHL , Please truly open source this.
I personally wouldn't mind AGPL but would still much prefer MIT
Thanks.
That sort of breaks out as to personal values versus Overton window. It has been an extreme shift towards authoritarianism in the US -- to the point where case after case of folks with moral courage call it out despite where they stood even 10 years ago.
My teaching lab was for undergraduates who were etching oxide off of silicon wafers in a big old tub of hf. We’d have them wear a big thick apron and massive gloves; this is not an occasion requiring dexterity, and it’s one with a high potential for inadvertent splashes. We never had an exposure in the years I was there, although a grad student in a research lab got careless and took a cold, rusty shower.
I think you mean the Intel® Core™2 Duo.
> You know what I’m talking about, even though I’ve not mentioned it.

Many comments here assume the "it" means AI. Is that certain though? As in: is there a line that without doubt would point to AI?

In my view this text could just as well be about the iPhone (written 15 years ago and published today).

Perhaps this makes "it" even more boring; i.e. that when the process ends with one "it", it starts again with a new one.
I am not sure I like "Windows" as a name for an OS. :D
Launchd was one of the inspirations for systemd anyway