skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then again looking at the FAQ for Bitcraft, we have this:

"What engine does BitCraft use?
The BitCraft client is developed using the Unity game engine. For the server, we have developed a sophisticated distributed system called SpacetimeDB, which hosts the entirety of BitCraft’s server architecture. "

Correct me if wrong, but this suggests the physics engine is Unity's, and not something implemented in SpacetimeDB.
Offering only 5-to-1 odds that the United States will have a presidential election just shows what an insane place we're in right now.
> I've learned through this process that as long as you get the data modeling basically right, everything else can be fixed up as you proceed through

"basically right" is not the same as "actually right"

> Imagine you can do massive refactors just by asking the model a few questions, what does that unlock?

It unlocks the ability to take an established codebase that is presumably well understood by the people who wrote it and turn it instantly into a completely new codebase that no one understands and is basically impossible to work on

You sound like a junior developer who still thinks that the job is writing lines of code
Feels equally plausible that there would have been an across the board increase in tariffs just to look tough. There is no logical analysis of the current situation.
We don't hate the UK. We are just waiting (impatiently) for you to come to your senses.
Right. That's still a thing that happens in series-wired batteries.

Voltage depression of individual cells seems to correlate more with deep discharges of a battery (perhaps combined with differences in cell quality within that battery) than anything else.

And deep discharges were what people were deliberately doing to fend off the evil spirits of "memory effect" probably made the problem worse.
The creator matters because they are the key to understand the reason was created in the first place and under which circumstances. You get to learn about their other work, which might also be relevant to you, the limitations of the tool based on the problem is was designed to solve, and the broader ecosystem at the time of creation. For example, if you're a frontend developer it helps to know who Brendan Eich is, where he worked when he invented JavaScript, and what Netscape wanted to achieve with it. You would even learn a bit about the name of the language.

Similarly, it helps to know who maintains the code you depend on. Is there even a maintainer? What is the project roadmap? Is the tool backed by a company or otherwise funded? What is the company's mission?
Without those details, there is a supply chain risk, which could lead to potential vulnerabilies or future technical debt.
> what even is an AI data center

A data center that runs significant AI training or inference loads. Non AI data centers are fairly commodity. Google's non-AI efficiency is not much better than Amazon or anyone else. Google is much more efficient at running AI workloads than anyone else.
Yes, direct to consumer
Autonomy at Rivian
Seems they reversed course on that. Or, they don’t know what they’re doing.

> It's been a confusing day.

> As Verity said, it turns out Canada and Mexico are not getting a new 10 per cent tariff after all.

> The White House reversed its earlier announcement in a new statement just now. Here's the bottom line: No new developments for Canada and Mexico today.

> That means there are still worldwide 25 per cent tariffs on steel and aluminum, on some auto parts in North America, and on some goods traded within North America outside the rules of the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement on trade (CUSMA).

> The bottom line here: Trump is starting an economic war on China, and U.S. allies are all taking some friendly fire. But a large swath of Canadian trade is spared.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/livestory/trump-pauses-most-gl...
Thank you for this. This is actually quite marvelous.

Here is what I'm using for fish:

if type -q neovim
set -gx MANPAGER "nvim +Man!"
# abbr --add man --set-cursor "nvim \"+hide Man %\""
end

I can finally retire fisher and decors/fish-colored-man.
I recently visited China and even the people you'd expect to speak English (front desk at Western branded hotel, airline check-in, etc) either spoke zero English or really struggled. My shitty Mandarin got a workout.
I'm sorry, but I do not think I understand the idea why and how Studio Ghibli is being "ripped off" in this scenario.

As I've said, art styles are not considered copyrightable. You say I'm missing the point but I fail to see why. I've used lack of copyright protection as a reality check, a verifiable fact that can be used to determine the current consensus on the matter. Based on this lack of legal protection, I'm concluding that the societies have considered it's not something that needs to be protected, and thus that there is no "ripping off" in replicating a successful style. I have no doubts there are plenty of people who would think otherwise (and e.g. say that current state of copyright is not optimal - which can be very true), but they need to argue about copyright protections not technological accessibility. The latter merely exposes the former (by drastically lowering the cost barriers), but is not the root issue.

I also have doubts about your prediction of stagnation, particularly because you seem to ignore the demand side. People want novelty and originality, it was always the case and always will be (or at least for as long as human nature doesn't change). Things will change for sure (they always do), but I don't think a stagnation is a realistic scenario.
This is pure manipulation. It was engineered to just that from the start. Since it's America, no investigation will be done to look into who profited here - possibly billions off regular people who had margin calls. 3rd world country.
A maintainer of moment.js has moved on with an immutable rewrite called luxon.js. Highly recommended.

https://github.com/moment/luxon/blob/master/docs/why.md
“Working class” fishermen sold their rights years ago. same as “working class” farmers who sell a field for a couple of million quid
What did we do to our world.
Location: Europe

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I'm a full-stack developer with 7 years of experience in startups and small teams, focusing on solving real user problems and challenging ideas to ensure their viability. Here are the biggest projects I've worked on + a single feature that demonstrates my impact on product and/or technical chops :

Fanfest – fanfest.vip
Community engagement platform for soccer fans.
Built a browser-based live streaming engine that lets streamers broadcast directly from their browsers in both 16:9 and 9:16 at 1080p (and lower resolutions), with simultaneous streaming to YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, and X.com.

Pequity – pequity.com
Compensation management platform for mid-to-large organizations.
Built V2 for offer approval chains, reducing complexity and fixing HUGE performance issues. For example, in the worst case scenarion in V1 for a single request it would take 2 minutes to finish. In V2 it's 970ms.

Haekka – haekka.com
Security and compliance training integrated with workplace tools.
Developed a system for automatically assigning users training based on non-compliant events like exporting sensitive keys they did in AWS/Slack/Gmail.

Flox – flox.app
App facilitating social connections by helping friend groups meet.
Used Postgis to build an algorithm for auto check-in system for event attendance.
Nobody wants to be that rounding error.
A child doesn't always a mental "why" reasoning for their actions. Sometimes kids just behave in coarse playful ways, and those ways happen to be very useful for mental development.
I'm not sure it's entirely irrational to fail to predict what the government would eventually settle on, especially when said government was at least feigning interest in getting a better deal for fishermen...

Particularly not compared with some of the other Brexit vote rationales
Unless you train on twitch streamers. There seems to be an unspoken rule that any successful streamer has to move to LA. If you train on youtubers you get a surprising Mormon bias instead.

I would be surprised if the majority of the training data is licensed from the speakers.
A lot of people have jobs dependent on business as usual. You don't want to just fire the workers for a year.
> This kind of expenditure at any business or organization would be recognized as one of poor judgement

The purpose of a business is to generate a return on investment.

Are you suggesting that the purpose of a government is to generate a return on investment?

> We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
He doesn't have a money vault. He has almost zero cash holdings. If you tax him, then he will have to sell assets to pay for those taxes, which removes money from the economy as that money was being actively spent on his assets. The only situation when money supply changes is if someone has a literal mattress full of cash hidden away. Even if you just have money in a savings account, it acts as a fractional reserve for the banking system meaning that there is a net decrease in money supply when you give it to the government as banks can no longer use it as the backing for loans.
Once I was in the US and bought a pair of New Balance that were made in USA. I had the exact same model made in Vietnam or Indonesia.

The Asian made shoe of the same model out lasted the US shoe by a couple years. The US made started falling apart less than a year in.
I don't think it's that big of a threat, it'd be like saying that linux is a threat to macos/windows, it is, to a degree, but anthropic/oai/etc have their niches and those niches are people who don't want to set up models on their own metal. This is coming from a deepseek user, it is a threat to some use cases sure, but this is not an ai thing. A more cynical part of me thinks this is just for attention. This is (in his mind) revenge for the de-industrialization of the 80s)
This is where I don't follow Trump's logic. Trump and Musk were claiming that the US will push super high tariffs, that it will make the US rich, and hinting that it will maybe even be possible to suppress the income tax.
> Pix has not yet been used to crack down on the informal sector, but with sufficient motivation and some data analysis, it absolutely can be

It will. Every single Pix transaction is reported to the tax authorities. It's only a matter of time.
He only has political leverage over Congress. If they chose to act, they could stop him. Seems weird to kick off negotiations with them by inflicting damage on their constituents.
Starting salaries around $70-$80K, senior salaries around $140K-$160K and “architects” around $175K.

This is in the Atlanta market where I use to live before I started working remotely and moved. I got this email from a recruiter there. It’s about the same in most major non west coast markets

(Starting on page 26)
https://motionrecruitment.com/hubfs/TSG-25/Atlanta-IT-Salary...

Compare that to any of the BigTech or adjacent companies where entry level developers are getting return offers from their internships of $150K-$175K.
not just limits, but response times. I swear there's a Cron job or something that kicks in a 2300 pacific because Claude backs up right around then.
There’s no possible interpretation of the title where that makes sense.
Bessent said this was the strategy from the beginning.
Does knowingly blowing up a citizen with a drone count as denaturalization?
I am going to cite you in a decade. Already today ChatGPT is _far_ better than Google. Instead of finding a keyword optimized page for "frob language", I can get the objectively best sources for frob language and even find the best communities related to it. Zero frob ads, zero frob-optimized pages that are designed to trick google, etc.

Traditional search is dead, semantic search through AI is alive and well.

I can't yet count once AI misunderstood the meaning of my search while Google loves to make assumptions, rewrite my search query, and deliver the results that pay it the best which have the best ads (in my opinion as a lifetime user).

Lets not even mention how they willingly accept misleading ads atop the results which trick the majority of common users into downloading malware and adware on the regular.
I agree with the sentiment, but it matters very much how it's implemented. You would need to find a way to keep the money in your country, while also taxing more. It's actually very complicated, but yes, I agree with the notion.
> Instead of being seen as a safe haven, U.S. debt itself started to look shaky

There's also a more basic answer to why US debt got more expensive. There is no such thing as a "trade deficit". You cannot import something without exporting something else. That something else, in almost 100% of the situations, is dollars. What do you do with dollars, if there's nothing you want to buy? You buy debt. So, every trade deficit ultimately tends to export debt. We have long known that government debt is proportional to trade deficits.

The problem with tariffs, in this context, is that they are being used as a signal that we don't want to sell people dollars anymore, explicitly saying "no more trade deficits". In doing so we are choking off the supply of dollars used to buy debt (rather abruptly), so that US debt is chasing fewer dollars and has to give a bigger yield as a result.

What's worse, is that because we are signalling that the tariffs are meant to be permanent, and we're seeing reciprocal tariffs as a result. When that happens, it means that using dollars in the future will purchase fewer US goods, so the time discount of money has gone up too. Further driving up yields to make bonds attractive enough to sell.
Very interesting. I was surprised to get a relatively decent 40-60 FPS screwing around on the demo for a few minutes on my Pixel 9 in Fennec F-Droid. I am even more surprised that it performed better than an iPhone in any conditions, but who knows what exactly is playing into that.

Regarding AI coding assistance... Yeah, I imagine it would be great for someone who wants to start hundreds of small projects, because it's pretty cool what you can do in a few minutes, but it really doesn't take many days before you're much better off doing most things yourself. I guess this state of affairs is relatively good for our job security, but a real bummer from the "I want to harness the power of hundreds of digital junior devs to do my bidding" perspective. Still something I'd consider solidly useful and not just a load of hype though.

BTW, it seems a bit senseless to draw frames when there is no interaction since the geometry is static. Maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to stop drawing when there are no active interactions.
1. People will stop working if they don't need to and won't need to in future. This is obvious to anyone who has met people.

2. We obviously can't afford UBI. Most governments have severe deficits even without UBI. "Tax the rich! Then we'll be able to afford it!".. yes well that's orthogonal. Let me know when you figure out how to do that.

These studies are a waste of money.
Annoyed at how the guidance has changed on this over the years. At first it was just a narrow slice of 20 something women. Then girl teenagers. Then men and women under 30. Then under 40.

If it has an association with preventing cancers, not sure why they were so reluctant to immediately open up the patient pool.
The are a few republican judges that dont seem too keen on having their names attached to the demise of American empire
Relatively easy stuff like shoes can be made in a bunch of countries and that production will just move to whoever has the best tariff deal at the end of all of this.

More interesting will be stuff like electronic components. Most of the cheap versions are all made in China. More expensive versions can be sourced in Japan, Taiwan and Korea (likely to do tariff deals). I think we might be looking at the end of very cheap electronics for awhile.
I agree. I just ran "shutdown -h" and it turned off my computer.

I need to look into creating man pages again.

Command 'mandoc' not found, but can be installed with:
apt install mandoc

A universal convention would be nice. That whole stdout vs stderr business.

openbsd-cut -badoption | less

I didn't even consider -?. And -h can mean --how-many-different-things: Host, --human-readable, --poweroff (as I just discovered), open HTML documentation in a browser (just wow), and maybe Help, maybe not enough help, maybe too much help, maybe...
There's a reason the saying, "in America we have three coequal branches of government: the Supreme Court rules, the President crimes, and Congress is just for fun" has become popular since some time after his first inauguration.
10% only applies to countries that have not retaliated. I assume (dangerous in these times) that any retaliation will cause reinstatement of the previous rates.
The one-child policy didn't play as large a role as people in the West think. Chinese fertility rates had already fallen drastically before that policy.

(It was also not as absolute as people in the West think. There were exceptions for rural China and minorities.)
What’s really interesting about this is the broad support Google has drummed up among platforms.

So it’s actually looks like a strategic focus, rather than just announcement for interest, relevance or whatever
Vietnam is the next China, they're still behind but catching up fast.

Malaysia is handicapped by the resource curse (lots of oil) dysfunctional government and race politics that serve to drive out everybody who is not ethnically Malay.
Ok, but why would you tarrif friendly nations who you have a surplus with?

If you tarriff them 10% they'll tarriff you 10% which means your companies lose out more than theirs and you've also pissed off an ally?

Why?

I'm thinking about Australia, UK those kind of folks.
Static Basic Block Versionning Visualization
One of the biggest problems with mixing client and server code like this together is coupling which is one of the reasons that client-server architecture was created to avoid.
Sure, as I said they have a potential edge in service and people who frequently travel to new places. My point was just that it’s not a very big edge: most people are not traveling to new places all of the time and if there’s a big savings they’ll switch. That doesn’t mean that Uber is doomed, just that they’re not a Google/Facebook money printing machine where local competitors can pop up easily.
I'm not making any attempt at analysis, just casual speculation as to the reasoning behind other peoples' actions. You're mistaking my guess-work of others' analysis for my own.
I'm impressed.

A pound of chicken breast, a pound of apples, a third loaf of bread cost at least $7. And that's only 1500 kcal.
Hey, that's only 10lb a day, and I have a stressful job [sniff]
You're right. But as we see with TikTok, he loves to talk big but keep kicking thr can down the road instead of backing off. There will inevitably be more spats in the meantime (especially with the EU), but I wouldn't be surprised if he extends it more when July looms (assuming that congress bill is still struggling to pass).
On the other hand, the free options are better than ever. I've only used the free versions of ChatGPT, Claude, and ImageFX and have been impressed by how much you get without spending a dime. The only real limitation I regularly feel is not being able to upload something like a 1GB CSV file for analysis, but I guess that's a fair restriction for a free web tool.
VAT is basically just a fancy sales tax. You've got to get money for education, health and the like somehow.

HK and Singapore did have low tax and small government which probably helped them.
damage to himself you mean? he came with a knife to a gunfight…
Why does the market like this? Tariffs are in place and unpredictability is now the norm. Tomorrow something new crazy will come out and then the next day and the next day. Even if US markets like this right now, the long term damage has been done. Betting on the medium-long term seems questionable at best.
More Kim Jong-Il/Un than Julius Caesar.
You are assigning too much rationality to this group of people. The cruelty is the point, not some hare-brained scheme to push down yield or whatever.
They know what they are doing. The goal is decoupling from China. They raised tariffs on everyone to see which countries stood with US and which stood with China. Once each country has made their allegiance clear, they delay the deadline to give more time for negotiation. They likely want every ally to raise their tariffs on China to be very very high, to avoid any more transshipping from China.
Diet seems like the obvious one. Both in big picture sense like high fructose corn syrup vs sugar cane, but also on ingredients. EU bans a bunch of stuff the US does not. Presumably a couple of misses in there, but probably also some hits.

Applying that over an entire population for their entire life...a couple years diff sounds plausible
No shit, that's why I was calling you out for saying "I could vibecode a credible threat to any SaaS company"

No you can't, because the code is not a credible threat to any SaaS company. The business, sales, marketing and such is where they actually get their value
This seems to have been clarified to not be the case, as of 30m ago -- no change to Canada/Mexico:

>There’s no change to Canada and Mexico tariffs, indicating that their levies aren’t going down to the 10% baseline. Recall that Trump initially threatened a 25% surtax on each of them. That morphed over time to affect non-USMCA compliant goods -- and it’s not crystal-clear exactly what proportion of Canadian and Mexican shipments that then affects. Canadian energy products also got a smaller rate.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2025-04-08/trump-ta...
I don't think UBI will work. Once it's universal, it will be soaked up somewhere in the economy. I would bet on land/real estate.
Vanguard's target date funds have high fees compared to their other funds, but 0.08% instead of 0.03% doesn't actually matter.
more has to do with my time preference around money and whether i think i could get a better return on the market. that said, of course we are in a more precarious place than anytime in the 21st c - but still not very precarious democracy wise imo
> If I had any say in the EU right now, I'd look at ways to increase visa access for disaffected tech workers looking to leave the US turmoil.

We're lacking VC funding, not skilled tech workers. Increasing visas for tech workers without increasing the funding just lowers wages which are already low.
I think this would be expected though, no? Sure, there's flight to safety, but you're also reducing exports to the US, reducing the number of dollars flowing to foreign nationals, which reduces the demand for treasury bills, which an excess of dollars would often be used to buy to have an inflation-"proof" store for your dollars without currency risk. You would also expect devaluation of the dollar from tariffs / trade-war, which I would also expect to cause selling of t-bills in favor of local currencies
And that wont happen to the US?