skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Countries that actually tried to keep manufacturing beyond its usefulness typically punch beneath their weight, such as the case of Germany.

Can you explain to me how Germany is punching below their weight?

Like, I personally think that having manufacturing in multiple places is good for resiliency reasons at the very least.

> The US lost manufacturing because it was heavily automated and those jobs don't pay really well. They are great for poor countries, because working in a factory sweatshop is better than plowing fields in rural areas, but advanced economies eventually grow beyond that.

This is a complete myth. The US lost manufacturing because capital controls were removed, and capital went looking for new margins. Like, all of Microsoft's English customer service and technical documentation were in Ireland in the 90's. Is that because Irish people have comparative advantage in these fields? No, it's because wages were super super low compared to the US. We used to have a bunch of clothing factories too, because we were cheap.

Fundamentally, stuff actually needs to be made if you want a modern society. You can outsource that to cheaper countries/Asia for a while, but it's not gonna end well. Like, a large proportion of the population are not cut out to be tech or finance professionals, and if you outsource all the factories that they could have worked at, then they'll get really depressed and angry and vote for Brexit/Trump/Le Pen/AfD.

And given that most of the rich west are democracies, you can't just pretend these people don't exist.
The hopeful path is to knock down the made up national emergency via the courts.

Right now there are suits in the courts to declare that fentanyl crossing from Canada is not a national emergency. That's a tough case because there is no definition for national emergency, so the court will likely defer to the president's definition. However if Congress says it isn't a national emergency then the courts have the option to defer to Congress's decision rather than the president's. And once the national emergency declaration is gone, Trump needs Congress's support to pass tariffs.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43580289

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43580906
I had this in my comment but deleted it, maybe you were responding to it, but in case you didn't see it: I found multiplayer browser games to be a good example of a hard project that LLMs help a lot with so that you can focus on the rewarding part.

LLMs can one-shot pretty good server-authority + client-prediction + rollback netcode, something I've probably spent weeks of my life trying to build and mostly failing. And they can get a basic frontend 'proof' working. And once you verify that the networked MVP works, you can focus on the game.

But the cool thing about multiplayer games is that they can be really small in scope because all of the fun comes from mechanics + playing with other people. They can be spaceships shooting at each other in a single room or some multiplayer twist on a dumbed down classic game. And that's just so much more feasible than building a whole game that's expected to entertain you as a single player.
England is a has-been society because 1) they are old and have more vacation. You've got less people working less hours. REAL GDP per work hour is up >50% since the early 80s - what people seem to think of as some golden era - and is more than double since the 60s, another golden era according to others - even real GDP PPP adjusted, you're still >50% since the 60s.

2) They decided they wanted to punish hard workers and productive investment and aggressively reward capitalists that "park money" in non-productive assets (like real estate).

England could easily reverse these decisions and aggressively reward hard work and investment in productive assets, open the doors to intellectuals, and the hard, smart working people and investment would come pouring in.

But, they'll never do that, because boomers.

The problem with England is the problem elsewhere. The amount your society needs to improve to let ~1% more people not work every year for ~30 years is incredible. The entire west has done it. But the benefits are going almost exclusively to the retiree class.

In the not too far future, if trends continue <50% of adults will be working with very high standards of living. This is absolutely UNHEARD of. At the same time, you'll see basically no benefit at all for the people who actually do the work.

This doesn't seem like the best way to distribute productivity gains to society, but it's the way we've chosen, and as long as old people have a say, you better bet they're gonna vote for the status quo or even bigger pension payouts in the future.
It's worse in a framework, in the framework you need to know the oddities of the language as well as how the framework manages them.
This is only true where it is distinguishable that the end result is made with care and love rather than indiscriminate copying. Which is why attribution is essential. No one realistically could tell a ring was hand crafted or mass produced if there wasn't some tell. Some people may say the "tell" is a kind of intuitive nebulous concept of the "soul" of the animation.. but I feel we are quickly approaching the point where this is no longer obvious.

As an aside, my partner detests the things I 3d print unless they have a very specific purpose, even when they are random semi artistic pieces I'm tinkering with (and I typically agree, they are junk). She loves the first thing i ever printed her though, a triceratops model, despite being randomly downloaded.

Anything made with intent from one individual to another will have some level of sentimental value, but I don't feel like making a ghibli image with AI specifically tailored to a friends tastes would have quite as much value as leveraging your own talent to do it yourself.

On the flip side, I do believe that "doing it yourself" has less value than it used to. It's a very sad reality and in my opinion a strong argument against blind "progress". We gain the ability to mass produce art but lose the ability to perceive it as art?
Is comprehending the plot of a movie theft if I can summarize it afterwards? What if I am able to hum a song pretty well after listening to it twenty times?

Now, what if I get the highest fidelity speakers and the highest fidelity microphone I can and play that song in my home. Then I use a deep learned denoiser to clean the signal and isolate the song’s true audio. Is this theft?

The answer does not matter. The genie is out of the bottle.

There’s no company like Napster to crucify anymore when high quality denoising models are already prior art and can be grown in a freaking Jupyter notebook.
If the language needs a linter to keep otherwise-competent developers from introducing potentially maddening bugs into the codebase, it's weird.

JS was developed in a hurry and has been extended into doing things it was never meant to do, and it shows.
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Look around, bro. Hard assets get more expensive and return on those assets don’t decline. Thats why studio apartments are $1200/mo in Buffalo, NY. Lol

People with money pretty readily deploy that money into investments that beat inflation.
As a manager the way I approach rules with my reports is I always tell them to understand the "chesterton's fence" behind any rule. I looks at rules like business logic in code, the "logic" was added there for a reason but there are often edge cases where that logic does not apply. I don't tell my reports to either break or follow any particular rule, but to understand why that rule is there before they decide if they need to either follow or break it.

And from personal experience i find that when you give people that level of autonomy, they will almost always approach what I told them about rule breaking in good faith.
Things felt pretty tame by the end of the first term, almost like the structure of the existing system kept things at bay. It feels very much so like influence from abroad is heavily affecting the current course.
It’s probably the main reason Tories got obliterated the last election. After it came out we had 1m net immigration (up from prior 500k which had already 2x’d the normal 250k net).
Change of plans: we are going to release o3 and o4-mini after all
> I expected a repeat of his first term

Even when the candidate speaks of people not having to vote again in the future, if they just vote for him this last time?

I mean, I'm not even in the US and probably missed a lot of stuff that happened during the election. But no one around here is surprised about what's happening now, surely most of the US population was that aware too?
Epic CEO calls Apple and Google 'gangster-style' businesses needing competition
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> I certainly don't need planes, war stuff nor ships and machinery.

So you would be happy for the Russians, the Chinese etc. to be able to overfly the UK and send ships into UK waters at will?

You want all the factories using American made machinery, or American inputs to close?
As an American, I categorically refuse to believe Britain is anything but Harry Potter without magic.
political compass generator?
SQL is a relational algebra language which, unlike imperative languages, is compiled into an execution plan depending on the existence of indexes, table sizes, data types, etc. The reason you should love it is that you don't need to know the details when the data model is set up well. And DBMSs also have commands to view the execution plan, should it have otherwise been slow, such that you know what to do to improve it. It's really not that complicated once you learn how it works.
If you were to really measure speed improvement of notepad vs a tricked out IDE, it's probably not much. The problem would be the annoyance caused to an engineer who has to manually type out everything.

No, coding speed is really not the bottleneck to software engineer productivity.
Earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43580289
How many marketing professionals do you know that work for non-profit providers of goods and services? I'm sure they exist, but I imagine not many.
Nobody is increasing anything.

When China applies tariffs against the US, the result is that China imports the goods it needs from other countries. For example, now that US soy is prohibitively expensive for Chinese importers, they can buy from Brazil (who China is not applying the same tariffs against).

In the case of the US, the US importers cannot switch to anyone else, since it decided to go full trade war against every single country.
I agree without argument. I have also thoroughly enjoyed the animatronic dead Presidents at Disney World.
The administration admitted that they deported a legal resident to a fucking concentration camp in El Salvador! How is this something we’re like “oh but the illiberal left!” This is literally Stalinism!
Since n300's came out, they have publicly shared their roadmap, so I've been waiting for next-generation hardware ever since. They have also announced p300 yesterday (that would put two Blackhole chips on one card, akin to what n300 did before)

So that would put a p300 unit at 64 GB GDDR6 and 1 TB/s bandwidth. Very competitive, considering that Tenstorrent is now the only vendor to offer scale-out at reasonable price point. Whoever figures out how to make it work with Corundum[1] for unlimited K/V cache offloading is going to make a lot of money: as agents spend more time executing tool-code, and de-coupled from chats, the individual jobs will take more and more time, so scheduling will become more important. How do you manage TB's of K/V cache concurrently?

People complaining about bandwidth are not seeing the bigger picture. Probably because they're unaware NVMe-oF exists, and never kept up with modern network topologies, because hyperscaler Kool-Aid doesn't include it.

[1] https://github.com/corundum/corundum
> Are you saying it's normal or acceptable to have your expectations be that a "convicted criminal" is automatically a bad person?

I believe what the parent comment is trying to say is: someone who committed crimes in the past has evinced a lack of respect for the law, and is therefore more likely to commit crimes in the future than someone with a history of law-abiding.

"Bad person" is a value judgement, which is besides the point.
Marriage linked to higher dementia risk in older adults, 18-year study finds
Not quite endlessly (unless you mod it to heck), but it does go deep.
What benefit did the British people - or the British state - get out of this at any point? Jardine Matheson didn't exactly pay many taxes at the time or employ many people in the UK.
It only protects against people who aren't specifically targeting you. I am confident because I've had people target a site of mine.
$9 trillion of government debt is maturing over the next year. That's around 25% of the US debt.

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-treasury-plays-cat-mou...
OpenAI will eventually have competition for GPT 4o image generation.

They'll eventually have open source competition too. And then none of this will matter.

OmniGen is a good start, just woefully undertrained.

The VAR paper is open, from ByteDance, and supposedly the architecture this is based on.

Black Forest Labs isn't going to sit on their laurels. Their entire product offering just became worthless and lost traction. They're going to have to answer this.

I'd put $50 on ByteDance releases an open source version of this in three months.
"The Real Anthony Fauci,” a book full of baseless claims about Anthony Fauci, an immunologist who became the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in 1984 and whose life and identity had been shaped by his research into H.I.V."

I like how they snuck this in here. Fauci was terrible for the aids community. Back in the 80s and 90s, his name was on protest signs.

His refusal to put any money into HIV/AIDS research beyond a vaccine, meant that we didn't get things like PREP until decades later.
no, nyanpasu64's comment extended the discussion to general bot detection
Hey, cool that you're working on this problem :)

Some feedback: I'd love some simple usage examples. I'm a newbie to the space of i18n, and your documentation goes from the installation (simple enough) to a fairly fat boilerplate to put in my app.js, without communicating how the actual workflow will actually look like.

Maybe I'm not your target audience, tho...
This is the informative take these days. You know what was way, way worse than colonialism? Everything that came before colonialism.
You missed https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
I really don't know, unfortunately. It seems important that we go beyond merely maintaining people in a state of being not dead, and enable them to feel young as well. This may cure a certain entrenched resentfulness. It will not, however, prevent people from being asshats or provide a mechanism by which they will eventually go away. Perhaps the concept of limited terms in power would be made more general to fields outside politics.
Northern Ireland has done much better over the past decade IIRC, with more government spending and investment per head than the rest of the UK. I visited last year and felt the difference was immediately noticeable.
In that case the solution would be a floating silver price. Was this some kind of currency peg breaking? Ironic really.
It's not meant as an analogy for this case, so don't worry about it too much. My only point in bringing it up is an example of evidence for prior governments being more than willing to use funding as a lever to influence the policy of institutions they are not directly responsible for. I don't believe it was to be 1:1 to make that point, as indeed it is not.
That's not a weird edge case at all. Adding oil to food is one of the most common ways to add calories (intentionally or not).

A salad wouldn't even be the hardest case to detect, since raw vegetables don't soak up as much oil as other kinds of food.
I agree completely but the thing I also find puzzling sometimes is how the public discourse seems to have forgotten about the rampant misinformation that's been going on for the last several years. Basically huge numbers of people have been lied to for a long time.

It's almost as if the scope of the corruption and incompetence is so extensive that there isn't enough time to reflect on the misinformation process that everyone was so focused on for so long.

Obviously not everyone succumbed to it but even today the coverage in major outlets is completely distorted. Media just accept what the administration is saying as if it still has some kind of verdicality by virtue of power, a historically unprecedented example of the fallacy of appeal to authority. People constantly arguing that the Trump administration won't actually do this or that, that it's all a bluff, and so forth, are similarly misleading.

The discussions about mandates is bizarre to me for this reason, not just because of the tiny magnitude and minority nature of the electoral win, but because Trump and his administration vehemently denied doing exactly what they are currently doing. They dismissed it as insane paranoid ramblings of a deficient left. It's not just that they are failing to keep an electoral promise, they are doing the exact things they denied that they would do, and criticized their opponents for claiming they would do.

I guess I bring this up because it seems to me a lot of people have basically been lied to. Being a victim has its own shame and reluctance but it seems like a more tractable — and accurate in many cases — way to engage with some people than them being wrong.
This was not a fair assumption that many commentators had warned against. It was clear from Project 2025 that he was going to remove career public servants who resisted his worst impulses in the first term, replacing them instead with loyalists.
>Not being a vegetarian in 2025 is just completely unreasonable.

Last time I checked humans are omnivores, not herbivores.

I don't want to get ill, acquire some physical weaknesses because there are unreasonable people on the internet.
> My rule has always been that once a shell script gets too complex, it's time to rewrite it in real language

Is Powershell a real language? Because it is a shell script too.

I think you meant to say "data types" and "data structures"?
Well technically it wouldn’t be piracy once copyright banished. It’d be remixing, appropriation, derivative, etc., all legal.

So make copyright like patents. That’s what a lot of the copyleft movement has been arguing for forever. Make a copyright holder demonstrate their idea is unique, manifests into a tangible output, and if so protect the creator for a limited time. Everyone is free to use the work in their own provided they pay royalties at a reasonable rate for the duration of the patent.

But the status quo now with basically perpetual copyright controlled by large media conglomerates 100% stifles culture and is a net negative on society. It’s not the right to copy that needs defending, it’s the first right of a briefly protected enterprise, a reward to the creator, that needs to be protected. Copyright is like trying to cure a cough by sewing someone’s mouth shut.
I love this response, and I agree 100% with your suggestion, but, isn't it obvious? They didn't want to pay for high quality information. Instead, they needed to wade through rubbish "unpaid"/"free" search results. Or in their own words: "Spent an hour battling shitty seoed crap sites in google search".
Instead of learning a rule and then memorizing exceptions to it, you could just learn a rule with no exceptions.
The discussion on here has lowered to reddit levels of yuck. But I digress- happy trails!
Yes it is quite literally a cult. It has all the key characteristics including but not limited to the ones you mention.
A number of electric vehicle, battery factories are being canceled
Its happened before to any company that focuses too hard on short term profits and gets too comfortable.

Motorola
GE
Boeing

The list goes on…
We could get that without a hierarchical categorization of code, though?

Makes me wonder what it would look like if you gave "topics" to code as you wrote it. Where would you put some topics? And how many would you have that are part of several topics?
That’s exactly the point. We drive cars with visual input alone and have so many crashes, injuries and deaths every day.
I've been in the Identity business for 17-years, and never knew Akamai had an identity offering.
Total sidenode but "Gates Notes" has to be one of the most exotic personal blogs I've ever seen. At this point would you even consider this a personal blog?