skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some Americans may wish the US had better relative industrial capabilities, but that isn't what this is about.

This is a direct effect of electing a president who deeply, firmly believes that having a trade deficit means we're getting "ripped off", and who has succeeded in dismantling most of the checks and balances around this sort of thing.

There's no 4d chess here. Trump has been both serious and literal about tariffs his entire career.
Interesting times intensifies ^2
Birth of a National Immigration Policy
Rate limited. Looks like cloudflare wasn't enough which is crazy since it has 100k requests
Single ownership and memory not being flat are separate points.

And I guess I'm imprecise saying pointers where I mean borrowed values, but my point is that a borrow is just a pointer with additional type checking. More formally: C pointers are a complete but unsound formal system, whereas Rust borrows are sound but incomplete. And every time I get in a fight with the borrow checker, it's because I'm doing something unsound, not because the system is incomplete.
Why does the site have CSS then?
Currently it's 2025 - in the early 2000s when most of the sources you linked come from there wasn't even Facebook let alone pornhub. The ones reporting on more recent times seen to have consensus that factors in reporting, especially covid, make it difficult to come to any conclusion. So a fair point of discussion that seems to be a far cry from "common knowledge". I don't know what you're aiming for but it's hard to take it in good faith really.
I used Whisky with M1 and M3 Macbooks. It certainly helped me run games much faster than a $300 Windows laptop ever could.
But what at the polls when Americans can no longer buy lots of cheap crap online and have to go to work in a factory...

All great in principle, but we humans aren't actually principled beyond fanciful proclamations that we are, and are in fact a mere step or two above a dog growling when you touch its bowl.
> threatens American national security

Which is itself ideological, being based on a theory of conflict. The giving up of those capabilities was a result of times of peace.
I feel like the first rule of nudity is that you also have to be naked or it’s weird. C’mon website, we’re waiting.
to be honest as a LaTeX user on a very beefy CPU I regularly have 30s+ of build times for larger documents. I doubt Word users would want that. A simple 3 page letter without any graphics is a couple seconds already.
Whisky is now officially on the rocks…
People ask me - "but can we just distribute it because everything in one basket makes me uneasy"

Yeah distributing state among 10 nodes, totally easy, fine, good.
People have been talking that talk my entire lifetime. Nobody has done shit, because nobody wants to hurt their next quarterly profits. We just had a pandemic that was likely caused by China for which we had to buy PPE from China because we can’t make it.

The best time for rebuilding our industrial capabilities in an orderly way was the 1990s. The second best time is now.
"Losing power" in this context looks like Republicans in Congress not voting in lockstep to back Trump. It's hard to make a Reichstag fire out of that. (I mean, Trump could yell at his base that "They're not backing me 100%! That's treason!", but that boils down to "I am the state", and I suspect that at least some of his base won't buy it. I don't see, short of a real shooting civil war, how he can turn this into consolidating power.)
but "they'll do anything, sir! .. Anything..."
> the conversation is supposed to be about cryptocurrency technology,

> but you're talking about the gross financial companies that operate in cryptocurrency as if they ARE cryptocurrency.

That's because the middlemen are inevitable and they work the way they do for a reason—governments won't let them work any other way.

Cryptocurrency is a technological solution for a human problem, and you can't analyze the impact of the technology divorced from the human reality without losing so much resolution as to make your analysis meaningless.
Trump said a million contradictory things on the campaign trail. Even the smartest businessmen who donated money to him didn't think this was coming. After his election, the market didn't expect it at all either.

If you look at polls and read interviews, the #1 reason voters gave for voting for Trump was that he was a businessman who would lower inflation after Biden had raised it. Now he's doing the polar opposite. This is not what Trump supporters voted for.
And without making the rest of the world pissed
That sure won't make it easier to apply for full remote jobs...
Yes. Sorry. I was actually just googling this and realised this same anecdote is in cited the intro to the Deep Learning book by Goodfellow et al. Their write-up is hopefully clearer:

"For example, Cyc failed to understand a story
about a person named Fred shaving in the morning (Linde, 1992). Its inference
engine detected an inconsistency in the story: it knew that people do not have electrical parts, but because Fred was holding an electric razor, it believed the entity “FredWhileShaving” contained electrical parts. It therefore asked whether
Fred was still a person while he was shaving"

https://www.deeplearningbook.org/contents/intro.html

The (Linde, 1992) citation is they give is the 4th episode of a TV series - presumably the one I saw as a kid!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Machine_That_Changed_the...

And of course it's on YouTube:

https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxRcsHT-s1iZ-VRWFRXA-qg4kjTYe-a6j...
Title talks about screentime, but article only focuses on mobile phones and doom scrolling.
I was surprised to see the recommendation of max 2h screen time per day for an adult at the bottom. The link leads to a page not mentioning this though.

I spend already ~5h staring at screens for work.
At home my biggest screen time is watching videos on TV.
I don't think I ever doom-scrolled on my phone. I do read lots of news articles on it though.
Article seems to not be addressing people like me.
> America's tariff move under Trump is a symptom of mass psychosis.

Mass? It's a symptom of one man. (Yeah, a bunch of others voted for him. You can label that "mass psychosis" if you want. The tariff whiplash is not driven by those people, though.)
I've used NextDNS.io in the past and setup schedules to block the reddit domain during work hours.

The problem that I found is that sometimes it's not just a place of procrastination but the place you want to search for a useful answer to your question.
Tesla was pushing solar pretty hard for a time a long time ago. My memories actually line up with the charts here.

Then they kind of just... stopped talking about it at all? In retrospect it was kind of a quiet sea change for the company as a whole.
Wow, I was looking for my emails. I remember going to HOPE in 1994 at the Hotel Pennsylvania in NYC. Among all the talks I remember Eric Hughes' talk on cryptography. Talks of working with banking and others to bring cryptography and anonymous transactions to fruition almost 2 decades before the Satoshi paper and blockchain. I attended several 2600 meetings at the food court in the Citicorp building before then. Amazing times! There was also a talk at HOPE on controlling the world with your parallel port. This launched me into doing controls for animatronic and window display circuits - the Christmas windows at Saks and Lord & Taylor later in the 90s. Red boxing with tape recorders at payphones and then Radio Shack came out with an affordable speed dialer. Simply replace a crystal on the circuit and program 1,2,3, or 4 quarter tones on it, and voila, free calls from payphones. I wrote a simple OTP in C back then. I'll have to wade through this. I don't think I posted on this group, but I was teaching myself cryptography at the time. I bought a hardcover of Applied Cryptography by Bruce Schneier around 1995/96...I grew up at the poverty line in the late 60s in Brooklyn, and hacking and the potential of computers and programming enthused me and instilled a sense in me that I could not only be a part of the larger world outside of my parochial surroundings, but possibly be a creator of change in it for the good of the world at large.
Yeah, this seems like a fair turnaround for the folks who've been wasting applicants' time for decades.
I've ignored it because it's advertised :) What's your experience with it?
Globalists failed to take into account the anger that employment dislocation would generate.

'The labor market will reallocate to productive jobs' doesn't take into account the experience of having ones income security disappear as an industry is shipped overseas, then having to retrain into a new field.

And the US largely didn't fund that, at least in a meaningful, at scale, don't-piss-people-off way.

Those at the top reaped the benefits of free trade; those at the bottom suffered the pain.

Trump (the character) was voted in on the basis of that anger, something the Democrats never seemed to understand.

It'll be curious what the reaction is to serious economic pain in the midterms.
It feels like the headline needs to specify that these are actual reciprocal, tit-for-tat tariffs exactly matching (some of!) the tariffs that the USA applied on China.

Since Trump started calling his made up numbers reciprocal it muddies the waters.
fucking smooth scrolling on my thinkpad holy fuck
Ask HN: Ways to Automatically Scan and Extract Business Cards Information?
I have hundreds if not thousands of business cards. I have been looking for something like a Scanner with Automatic Feeder where I could put dozens of cards and it will scan them. And then somehow extract and manage that information. I have seen a lot of Camera and Card apps but those are too manual and labour intensive. Wondering if anyone on HN has any solutions.
what about that does not make sense for you?...
Bond-market convulsions look dangerous
if you were to make it with Unity, would it have taken more of your time?
I would love it if was possible to download the rendered chart, ideally headless. In peak traffic I would prefer to switch to a pre-rendered version, have the pre-rendered version available encase of an error (i.e. data retrieval), or for users not using JS.

After the most minimal Google-foo, I see echarts-python [1] which has not been updated in 9 years. pyecharts [2] is looking pretty well maintained though.

Years ago I tried my hand at writing a simple bar/line plotting filter for Pandoc that embeds itself into documents via an SVG in a URI [3]. If HN is permitting, you can past links like so [4]. I think writing a stand-alone tool to display the data you are interested in is a good idea for anybody.

[1] https://github.com/yufeiminds/echarts-python

[2] https://github.com/pyecharts/pyecharts/blob/master/README.en...

[3] https://gitlab.com/danbarry16/pandoc-highlight-filter/-/blob...

[4] (removed link as it was too long for the comments section)
The link mentions: "Health experts say screen time at home should be limited to two hours or less a day" -- https://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/educational/wecan/reduce-sc...

Maybe doomscrolling is reading too many news for you? Or do you think it's not too excessive?
That carbon we're spewing into the atmosphere was once part of the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.

Similarly, life forms are responsible for removing it, producing oxygen etc. The planet has gone through multiple mass extinctions, ice ages etc, it has changed much more significantly and over short time periods before.

That's not to say we shouldn't be reducing emissions and trying to reduce our impact. I just don't like this argument that seems to me like it's based on trying to guilt people - "The earth was fine until we ruined it!", it's bullshit. The earth is a planet, we do not have the capability of destroying it. We can change it so we and many other life forms can't live here any more but it will still be a planet and there will most likely still be some form of life here for millions of years to come.

The problem is we are shitting where we sleep, we are ruining our own home. If we take it too far, which we may already have done, we won't be able to live here any more, at least not in the way and scale we currently are. And we're certainly not living anywhere else any time soon either, so that means we screwed ourselves.

And when we're gone I personally don't care whether there's still dolphins or whatever. Life comes and goes. That's life. Everything will end, the sun will die and so will the universe. The only question is when.

Why anyone would care about what happens after we're gone is beyond me. What we need to prioritize is self preservation. And we rely on the current ecosystem so if we ruin it we ruin ourselves. But from the resulting apocalypse new life will form, which couldn't have existed without it. The earth will be fine, we might not be.
Not parent, but yes. 100% yes. It loads quickly, has great content density, lacks tons of JavaScript that tanks performance on slower machines, reminds me of the older, better times. For the same reason, many people still prefer the old Reddit UI compared to the new UI.
The low quality of modern libraries is something that REALLY shocks me.

The library space has become competitive, and people are running them as business. The goal is not to be correct or even good, but to be a "first mover" and selling tutorials, books, Github sponsorships, Patreon subscriptions...

It's bad not only in terms of security, but also in terms of developer experience.

I am constantly amazed at how little documentation things have, at how many BASIC cases they don't cover (let alone edge cases) and how many security holes those libraries have, and the number of dependencies just keeps getting bigger and bigger.

Another issue is that newer developers are being taught just the newfangled library and have zero experience with the foundations. The number of React devs who don't know how to use HTML forms without a library is nuts.
Just bought a new house in the burbs. Want to get solar. I assumed Tesla was a good company to get them through.

Does anyone have (a non-political) opinion on Tesla Solar? And/or how I should think about getting panels (and battery) installed at my house?
Moment.js is one of those libraries to avoid; the bloat....
It's probably that ls in the other shell is the builtin instead of the binary, when strace runs ls -U it does run the binary and not the shell builtin. tcsh must also delegate to the binary instead of a builtin, or their builtin is faster.
Well, to be fair, solar installations and EV sales have been surging, just not from Tesla.
My coworkers and I have been discussing how to prepare our company for tariffs since last November. I didn't realize that we were smarter than then smartest businessmen. Perhaps that is no great feat.

Trump promised his voters "vengeance"; that is what they voted for.
Quality-of-Life in Tetris Games
That's definitely two different sets of clashing memes being mixed there.
Right wing - cheering on Oil and Tesla.
Left wing - cheering on Teslas demise and Solar.
Scrolling is fine for me. Maybe the animated header?
>It’s not China’s fault

There is an element in that the US protects Taiwan. When China was content to make stuff and not invade places things were fine but now it's building up it's military and saying it will take back Taiwan things are more awkward. It's bad for the US in a war situation with China if all their stuff is imported from China.
OP falls into this category
i was hooked and almost made it into the top 10. consider gamifying the ranking system. displaying a player's ranking and score compared to others at the end of each round, instead of requiring them to search for it, could be a really compelling feature. excellent work!
> Kind of interesting that we should now rejoice of EV and solar panel numbers dropping.

Maybe I missed it in the article but why should we rejoice that EV and solar panel numbers are dropping?

Isn't that a bad thing?
Only 3% of Chinas GDP is exports to the US. I don’t think they’re going to hurt anywhere near as much

https://www.ig.com/en/news-and-trade-ideas/US-China-trade-wa...
These pay phones let you say goodbye to someone "before it's too late"
That’s not what is happening though. Solar panels are being installed at an exponential rate, and EVs are growing relatively fast.

People are just happy that consumers are choosing other alternatives instead of supporting certain billionaire. The Tesla solar roof has always seemed like an inefficient use of resources too.
> Once hired, an impostor can install malware to demand a ransom from a company, or steal its customer data, trade secrets or funds.

I'm getting whiplash from how quickly this article jumps to conclusions. Most corporate cybersecurity is quite strong. Why is this the very first conclusion they come to? Not even that the fake profiles collect a salary, just.. "virus!!!"
I played horizon zero dawn on my M2 Air. It ran in 1080p and better than on my old PC on 720p (i5 4570, gtx 960). I had to plug it in and follow the wiki though. There's a regedit change to do for some cpu frequency thing, otherwise the games runs in slow motion - not slowly as in low framerate, the framerate is good, it's just time passing slowly.
Having just recently beaten the Gold stake on Balatro, this is right up my alley. I like that there are leaderboards so I can set goals for myself to attain. Will you come up with a mascot like Jimbo if you gain traction? How much Balatro did you play yourself?
I have personal no experience to give, but I thought this was a good video when I watched in a while ago,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJeSWbR6W04
Man pages are great, man readers are the problem
I’m convinced that reading about stupid people doing stupid things will make me stupid. So I don’t bother.
TSMC should call the bluff. They arent exporting anything to US. Apple, Nvidia, AMD and Intel are. Those four are over 50% of TSMC output and their clients will pay tariffs, whats more there is nowhere else to go but TSMC for those four.
"US expected a big travel year, but overseas visitors — angered by Trump — are heading elsewhere": https://apnews.com/article/tourism-us-travel-trump-visitors-... (apnews.com/article/tourism-us-travel-trump-visitors-international-14c31b490fd382d09ad5cae625ddc937)
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Xul would've had the same issues.
Apart from the questionable economics of single family home roof solar. Having an integrated PV roof just makes things worse. It couples function of the roof to the PV function. With normal panels on top of a normal roof, one actually protects the roof and prolongs its life as it protect the roof below from UV, weather and heat.
I can believe it. The loudest voices (All in podcast, Musk + Andreessen in particular) have been revealing themselves to be clueless for a long time every time they discuss politics.
The article notes they think Tesla should be about to find customers for solar easily, so asked, what's going on? And that a high point for them was installing 100 megawatts -- which struck me as small.

Some quick googling and clicking result #1 (risky, I know) showed this [1] claiming that 2024 was the second record-breaking solar installation year in a row. And that 50 gigawatts had been installed in the US.

That makes me think:

* Isn't Tesla Solar's max 100Mw number rather, well, tiny? A small drop? Why, for a company like Tesla?

* The article's exactly right. They _should_ be able to find more customers.

Does anyone have more insight? Does this part of the company have a good reputation?

[1] https://seia.org/research-resources/us-solar-market-insight/
This is trivially google-able.

Well, I guess I might as well play ChatGPT :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BitKeeper

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git

https://sandeep.ramgolam.com/blog/linus-torvalds-talks-about... -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
I think it is a fairly common trait of bad programmers to design a system based on completely unrealistic operating conditions (like multiple orders of magnitude of extra traffic).

Now that they've gotten the hug of death they'll probably plan for it next time.
Dubai / UAE is about the largest per capita inflow of high net worth individuals, and even on an absolute basis has one of the highest immigration inflow of high net worth individuals.

Yes if you are poor as dirt and can just take your life savings of <$10k (probably 99% of humanity) on an airplane if you need to use it in another country, you can do so no problem and you do not care, the idea of a crypto OTC desk likely does not even occur to you. It is still solving the same problem, but by being small enough that no one cares.

The data pretty well speaks for itself. Humanity with money cares a lot about escaping capital controls. This is inviolable, the more the banking system handicaps itself the more capital flows into less regulated products.
China's J-36 Tailless Fighter Zips over Road on Landing
Which Android apps for limiting screen time does the HN crowd recommend? Is there one that doesn't sell your data or request network access? (Ideally of course the app would be open-source but I'm not getting my hopes up.)

I've been wanting to try Digital Wellbeing but it looks like it's still not available for non-Google devices. Or at least it's shown as "not compatible" when accessing the Play Store from GrapheneOS.
Exactly, cheap buggy shovelware has always been available to gamers. They just choose not to buy it because they know the experience will be sht since no one spent any time polishing it from a POC to a product.

AI generates code that's harder for humans to understand so that polishing process is takes longer and is even more costly when you have AI shtting out code at breakneck speed.
Exactly. Core industrial capabilities is what things like Biden's CHIPS act were about. Those are targeted tariffs combined with domestic incentives.

What Trump doing is not that. It's tariffs on everything, without any distinction on whether something is important for our national security or not.
It doesn't seem to matter if someone went to university. I have had to unpick crap code from uni grads and self taught. Experience may be the only true reliable tell, and I don't mean jobs held I mean world experience on projects.

There are also different types of self taught, and different types of uni grad. You have people who love code, have a passion for learning, and that's driven them to gain a lot of experience. Then you have those who needed to make a living, and haven't really stretched beyond their wheelhouse so lack a lot of diverse experience. Both are totally fine and capable of some work, but you would have better luck with novel work from an experienced passionate coder. Uni trained or not.
Using Workers is now what Cloudflare recommends by default, with "Static Assets" to host all the static content for your website. Pages, as I understand, is already built on the Workers platform, so it's all just simplifying the DX for Cloudflare's platform and giving more options to choose what rendering strategy you use for your website.
Tesla panels and total price after installation is too high to be competitive- only the Powerwall enthusiasts buy panels+powerwalls from tesla.
Other panels are so cheap these days and EG4 makes excellent power storage options.