skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is because you give someone who can do work, access to the client - they will instantly forget that they "came from collectivist culture" and flip out to work directly. So those who can work, don't get access to client. Those who get access to client, can't work.
This is why, for instance, academic materials are being banned from Mississippi libraries. God forbid the dirty rabble become educated and stand up for themselves.
I'm talking about cases be cause this is a these about 'the decline of the U.S. Machine Tool industry...'
Neither of those are "big problems." The US was going gangbusters, from an economic perspective.
> A LOT of people are far worse at interviewing than they think they are.

A LOT of interviews are one-sided bully sessions, so people don't jump through the hoops they are expected to.. especially in hazing-friendly cultures like the security and finance sectors
>The best candidates I've fielded have been Ukrainian, Russian and Chinese. These are countries well known for their tech sectors.

Out of curiosity, what tech sector does Ukraine have? I don't remember ever hearing of any large successful Ukrainian SW compony or unicorn.
Another remote employment fraud that is much more prevalent is "Overemployment". You will get an applicant that is very skilled and hits the interview out of the park. But then when hired they are working many jobs and just trying to steal as many paychecks as they can until you fire them. They keep their first jobs resume clean and they all check out.

There is a Reddit community with over 400k members to show how prevalent this is [1]. There's lots of tactics like not allowing mentions on LinkedIn so they can't be publicly mentioned and seen by other unsuspecting employers, and just maintaining plausible deniability about why they can't make an on camera meeting. It is technically not illegal so it is very lucrative and hard to detect.

https://www.reddit.com/r/overemployed/top/
The problem is food. Stop eating many carbs and no more tooth problems.

Trying to solve tooth rot with flouride is stupid because it misses the point: flouride doesn't help much: people still get tooth rot.

So basicaly if you flouridate water you get tooth rot + you ingest a neurotoxins.

Stop eating trash food and you won't get rotten teeth + no neurotoxin will be ingested!

People who will comment in the likes of "yeah but people won't change their diets": I agree, they won't. But I don't want to get neurotoxin put into my water because other people are fine with poisoning their children with trash food.
I think this should cover it.

https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk
This reminds me of SQL indentation “best practices” discussion [1]

I personally don’t find this particularly helpful but can see it helping some folks. You write enough dockerfiles, the formatting becomes irrelevant.

What pisses me off though is _inconsistency_. One code base uses "formatting practices 1b", then another code base uses "formatting practices 2x". Then the worst offender: a service owners that can’t make up their mind and each developer makes up their own "best practices".

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/272210/sql-statement-ind...
Can I add that outside of the political commentary because thats mainly the only reason this is on hackernews.

There are mounting challenges in climate tech - specifically in residential solar:
1. Residential solar has been under punishing economic headwinds. Tariffs (before this) against imported PV. The market has not been performing.
2. Many of the Public Utilities are making it very difficult for solar to work out financially for home owners - see CPUC in California changing the terms of NEM to the advantage of the Utilities as an example.
3. Energy storage in residential markets has ALWAYS been an insurance product/backup power and not a financially beneficial product. It is tough competition against generators etc
4. Utilities are wisening up and increasing their fees and reducing the benefits of on site power generation.
5. Residential solar has likely already found all the best home owners (ie lowest CAC) so are now pursuing harder to reach.
The Tool Poisoning attack seems like any other example of installing software you didn’t write yourself. There could be malicious instructions in any program.
It's a shame so many web versions of man pages are typeset with monospace fonts and barely any formatting. The mandoc-powered OpenBSD online man pages are great though: https://man.openbsd.org/acme-client

Still I also really like being able to read man pages in the terminal. Getting a bit familiar with less helps to make it convenient. I mostly use the search features (/ and ?) and half page scrolling (d an u).
I would think that you could be right, but it could also be the opposite.

Low demand in the US, means less sales to US, so they may try to make up for the loss of profit on the US market by increasing prices on other markets... So global price increase.

E.g. Apple likely to increase prices on iPhones world wide to make up for the loss in US.

This feels completely unpredictable.
I heard a former Solar City marketing person talk about it. He said when Tesla bought them back, Musk cancelled all of the marketing budget. Musks justification was that marketing was a waste of money and he could get more sales via a single free tweet.

He then proceeded to not tweet about that part of his business.
Speaking as someone who lives in his minivan because he is homeless, I’m hoping this will turn out to be a net zero for me. Since oil is going down, gas prices are going to be much lower, but I’m afraid food prices, which is my only commonly purchased thing, are going to be much higher.

I have purchased several things that I might need in the future including a new 200 watt solar panel and a bunch of extra parts for my van. (My old solar panel is dying.).The one thing I have left to buy is an alternator, and possibly a larger solar battery.

This is how everyone living in poverty should be investing right now.
Most? Maybe for large companies. I work with a lot of SMBs and half of them are happy to use the gateway built into their cable modem, and install no additional security whatsoever. While running OSs that are beyond end of life.
You might want to read the parent comment.
> Nice work blaming the victims and trying to push them into passive acceptance of what is done by perpetrators

I don't think the person you were responding to was necessarily blaming the victims.

S/he's just pointing out that China imposing tariffs are self-inflicted pain just like the US imposing tariffs--tariffs cause some amount of self-harm.

Even The Economist said the most 'rational' response from Europe was not to impose counter-tariffs, but simply continue on as best they could without them and let the majority of the pain fall on the US.

But The Economist (and the person you responded to) also acknowledge that there are other factors at play beyond economics (e.g., national pride).

National pride is part of what got Trump elected and it's something that China has to incorporate into its decision making.
I still use Google for everything; the difference is now I'm just unhappy with the results.
My guide to cut down screen time - have kids, play with them every day after work.
It doesn't make sense to suggest that AI has made human effort more valuable. Before, to do X, Y, or Z you needed human effort. Now, you can do X with AI. You just need human effort to do Y or Z. There is less demand for human effort. Why would that result in an increase in the price of human effort?

>Most people's purchasing power being reduced is a separate matter, more related to the eroding middle class and greedflation.

Greedflation, is that where companies suddenly remember to be greedy again after years of forgetting they're allowed to be greedy, which happens by random chance to coincide exactly with periods of expansionary monetary and fiscal policy?
The cooperate dystopia comes ever more into sight. Every interaction with the outside is on a budget. You can improve yourself (expensive, hard work) or you can spam your competitors with garbage, until they just cease to function.
Surely it matters who specifically they vote for? To influence that, one needs to get them on one's side, which is not helped by calling them dumb.
That won’t fix the fact that the macOS kernel can’t run 32-bit binaries.
You are correct that there is a lot of distaste for Europe within the MAGA base. Although it’s important to note most of the distaste is about subsidizing their defense so they can have welfare states at the expense of US taxpayers, and a distaste for EU leadership. A lot of MAGA are friendly with other populist movements in Europe.

Again, I don’t think it’s an either or, and I don’t believe this is a ploy. The desire to reduce commitments in Europe and to have long term changes in trade is genuine.

The core motivation of the base is simple: middle America wants their industrial jobs back.

The motivation of advisors like the people at Hoover, military strategists and other intelligent higher ups is to deal with the weaknesses (present and future) that both Covid and Ukraine made obvious.

These are in alignment.

And yes, the MAGA base desire for a return of manufacturing came before the understanding of strategic weakness. That doesn’t mean the strategic motivations are a cope: I don’t think it’s a coincidence the bureaucracy were only willing to go along with this after both Covid and Ukraine discredited a lot of previously held beliefs about the state of the global order and the need for a course correction.

It’s also important to note politics and “cope” are basically the same thing. Everything is compromise.
> A LOT of people are far worse at interviewing than they think they are.

This works both ways right? Would it be fair to say that interview processes don't differentiate good hires from bullshit artists? Feels like framing the problem differently might make it tractable.
It's a loss for everyone, which is why it's so baffling that Trump and the Republican party has decided to engage in economic warfare against not just China, but the whole world.
Not quite. Tariffs, at least existing ones, are not exclusively borne by the consumer.
.. for how many panels? In the UK, ten years ago, I got 3.68kW for the equivalent of $7k. A $50k installation sounds wildly unprofitable.

(permitting requirements kick in above 3.68kW, see nice chart at https://www.energynetworks.org/assets/images/Resource%20libr... which gives the rules for ANY size of power station)
No disagreement there. The best way to get honest information from people is NOT to really leverage the power balance over them and try to "catch" them in an interview. People also commonly mistake "the stuff I know" for "general intelligence," and so they incorrectly think that their interview questions really tell them very much about a candidate.
I'm having trouble understanding how 1 company paying 1 salary for 1 position makes money for the 8-12 people described in the process above.
Yes, you're correct. The man is travelling 150 mph and the top of the tire 300 mph, so the delta is only 150 mph.
Islam did start that way, and over the centuries it has been moderated by Muslims who proved themselves much better people than the founder.
Treasuries 'Fire Sale' Sends Long-Term Yields Soaring Worldwide
3. A long history of exaggeration and broken promises (and that is being charitable).
Here’s my hot take on a messy topic.

Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan began implementing Neo-conservative / Neo-liberal policies in the 80s. This shifted the UK and US economies to high margin things like pharma, finance, technology, and services. Those things stayed in the US. Everything was outsourced to developing countries.

It sounded great. Through free-trade, developing countries would improve their standard of living. Also, democratic countries didn't go to war with each other. So, this led to the conclusion that improved trade between wealthy nations and developing nations would lead to global harmony. Everyone's standards of living would increase, and we'd all be one happy globe.

The US kept trying to push democracy, often through force and by destabilizing governments. But, for some reason countries weren't adopting it. The reason was that academics and political leaders didn't account for the impact of culture. That is, a lot of countries didn't want democracy and free-trade.

A lot of areas of the US eventually got wiped out economically. But, for a long time, they didn't notice. Things stayed relatively stable for a few decades because prices kept falling from all of the incoming cheap goods. Meanwhile, they faced 'brain drain' - the next generation started getting college degrees and moving to the wealthy cities. Some areas became wealthy - the rest became poor.

The US became a powerhouse of tech, services, and finance. But, they didn't have enough skilled labor in the cities. So, the US opened the door to immigration. As GDP increased, salaries went up. People started flocking to the US both for high-end jobs and also low-end jobs to support all of the urban areas. The poor areas of the US became enraged - new immigrants had more money than them, and they had less.

Trump (and I assume the think tanks behind him) believes these tariffs are a last ditch attempt to fix the system. Otherwise, the US dissolves.
https://archive.is/cI3O2
Two can play that game

My hypothesis is that you are invested in the success of AI products somehow, financially or emotionally, and that leads you to be blind to their shortcomings

You keep using them whenever possible because you want them to be useful even though in reality their usefulness is really iffy
This could be solved by companies charging $1 to apply for a given position. Same as charging people a small amount to send emails. Turn the economics in your favor.

Undoubtedly there would be many who would say "I would never spend even one cent to apply for a job position". However, given that such positions tend to pay tens of dollars per hour, and given that a proper application takes at least a few minutes to fill out, I think this is economically unviable. And, of course, if I'm wrong and you now have thousands of applicants anyway, you then have a small fund to draw from for other recruiting activities like in-person interviews.
Is there some issue with writing your documentation in markdown and pandoc-ing it to the roff format? It's what I do for all my personal man pages and it works fine.
EV sales are increasing, it's just Tesla that is crashing.
Steam in a Crossover bottle is a similar experience. It would be neat to have built-in support from Valve.
It's ambiguous to the point where 'just get to work' can be seen as the action that the effective senior devs do:

They are not afraid to touch it.

They never say “that’s not for me”

Instead, they just start and learn.
parts of remote Eastern Europe have produced excellent techs for decades.. they seem to deny it now but JetBrainz is from there, which is hugely successful.
> When China was content to make stuff and not invade places things were fine

And "content to make stuff"? You mean back when they were underpaid workers doing low-complexity manufacturing and not actually competing with the U.S.?

> but now it's building up it's military and saying it will take back Taiwan things are more awkward.

Maybe it's building up its military because it keeps hearing things like "pivot to Asia" and "we need to prepare for war with China"—for about 8 years now.
If I were China, and knowing how the U.S. has violated international law by invading other countries (like Iraq), I’d be ramping up my military even more.

> not invade places

Which country did they invade?
It would get more expensive in the US, which means there's going to be less demand for it, which means the wholesale producer price is likely to fall due to oversupply.
It’s wild that this has to be a third party offering.

I wish projects would adopt/create their own formatters like go and rust.

The amount of time I have wasted discussing "best practices" with "senior" engineers is way too damn high.

In code bases such as go or rust, the discussion ends with the "the built in formatter and preferences is preferred"
> I can only assume it's focused on killing old school VPN products.

Given how goddamn terrible Cisco anyconnect is, I hope they succeed.
> Low demand in the US, means less sales to US, so they may try to make up for the loss of profit on the US market by increasing prices on other markets... So global price increase.

This is not how supply and demand works in a competitive market. If demand drops, supplier compete on price and it leads to a reduction in price. They don't up the price to try to "make up", they can't, because someone next door will accept the lower price to get rid of their supply.
The goal isn't to block all trade in favor of a purely domestic market. That would be stupid as now your manufacturing base is limited to the quantities of raw materials that can be produced locally and you're burning through non-renewable strategic assets just to float domestic day to day activities while simultaneously artificially limiting your available market for finished goods.

This is manufacturing economy 101 and how the US built and defended it's manufacturing base before the pivot to a "service" economy. China's trade strategy mirrors this, as is evidenced by the last 30-ish years of constant bitching by trade wonks and pundits.
You sure? The tariffs slapped on Vietnam say otherwise.
The admin really seems to want everything to be produced in the US. Recursively including all the parts.
For perishable goods, you cannot make up for loss of profit by increasing prices: storing goods has a cost, disposing of goods has a cost, and you have a window of a few months (a year at the outside for coffee) where these goods are viable. After that, your 100 tons of coffee is 100 tons of compost. You cannot produce “less coffee”: it’s already planted, and in some cases, harvested! You get what you get! So the rational act here is to have whatever customers you have left “dispose of” more of it for you: by lowering the price.
Yakult Lady
Feel free! I'm just a lone left wing lunatic trying to make common cause with the libs, but it's tough. Hopefully we can at least get together on trying to defeat Trumpism but unfortunately your attitude also persists in the Democratic party apparatus itself.
I really wish that Apple would just pony up cash to developers to get their wares ported to the new Apple Silicon chips.

I can play Fallout 3 and New Vegas on my M2 Pro MBP. I know that makes me a stereotypical Millennial, that I'm playing that and not the Fortmonth or whatever the kids are playing, but to me, the ability to do that really does cement that machine as the do-it-all machine. I can set up my workstation portably by having my MBP and my second screen on my iPad 10", do Python backend development easily, then kick back with Fallout at the end of the day. All with great battery life and cool running temps.

I'd love to have that capability formalized.
I say that as a Brazilian. I have no idea why one would trust a central institution specially on corruption ridden Brazil.
Oil falls because OPEC decided so. They want to punish Kazakhstan and Iraq for not supporting their efforts to control price. So then opened the tap.
In the case of the US, had voting been mandatory, victory of the voters courted would have been so ridiculously one sided that it would blow apart the idea that there are two actual opposing factions of equal desire of the will of the people. This has actually been acknowledged out loud by the current leader of the faction that is running the side that won.
Global demand is lower because US demand is lower, supply in the US is lower because prices are up.

Ends up making things cheaper globally but more expensive in the US.
> France, Ireland and Italy secured the removal of Bourbon whiskey from the list of targeted products, after Trump threatened that its inclusion would trigger counter-imposition of a 200% tariff on European alcohol.

Wild times.
I’m very sure. Check the news from the days after the tariffs.
Ask HN: Are you interested in a text only browser that runs JavaScript?
There’s much prior art (good overview here: https://sr.ht/~bptato/chawan/#neighbors), but I’m doing something different that wants to exist.

Curious as to response. Probably a few weeks off release yet but here’s a brief screencap: https://youtu.be/_Bs7BoQBoBA (Or if you prefer an asciinema: https://asciinema.org/a/9w6CMnaI9VxiykI1PgVWm4lsi )

Thoughts?

The context is it’s meant for constrained environments (ultra thin client, engine runs remotely or on same machine if you like; security constraints? Bandwidth constraints? Resource constraints? Content constraints?).

Personally, this is a project close to my heart because my first interactions with computers, and even the Internet was textbased back in the days of dialup and BBS systems. But for another reason in the modern era, I often have the feeling I just wanna get away from all the bullshit all the colors and images begging for my attention. I just want a quiet web that works. But I don’t like an extension knowing everything, and content scripts are fragile. For me, the medium of the terminal is actually a different message and distinct experience that I find valuable. And I think the Internet wants to see itself that way too.

So I’m building this whatever the response here. I also think maybe I can make a trendy thing as OCR is still a major problem and if AI’s can have a text based way to drive web content, maybe they’d like that. Not my main bag though, but I need to consider cash.

I have some other fun ideas for this too, that’s a real nod to the past; a more civilized age.
Man pages are nice to read but a pain in the ass to write (unless you're using modern tools that convert markdown/etc to the manpage, which honestly, you should be doing.)
[citation needed]

Every successful tariff that I've read about through history has been:

1) Targeted on a segment.

2) Accompanied by subsidies.

3) A plan for developing competence in the segment through education and training.

Sounds a lot more like the half measure than whatever this is.

You're right in that this is a big hammer though, but that's more often used for tearing things down rather than building.
How very steampunk. This is the worst plan ever.

AI data centers should be be powered by alternative energy and/or nuclear, period. Tying this enormous energy monster to fossil fuels would be a disaster.
Show HN: The most advanced transparently functioning computer
That's unfortunate, I really preferred Whisky to crossover purely for the UX, I would happily pay for a crossover license if i got to keep the whisky app itself, crossover's ui is archaic and ugly in comparison.
The AI magic behind Sphere's upcoming 'The Wizard of Oz'
>The second thing we see is that Asian manufacturing in Asia produces US jobs. You go to Footlocker to buy a pair of $100 shoes because you can afford them. This creates jobs for the Footlocker employees, Nike designers, marketing teams, and other US people throughout this chain.

In all fairness, most of those jobs would still exist if manufacturing was brought onshore. The fact that they were manufactured in Asia makes no difference here, except for perhaps the longshoremen that was included in "other US people."
Yes, but I'm not sure he fully took in the lesson. Did they really build a bunch of separate domain-specific ontologies? Or, given that it's one system, did they build a universal ontology that's just a big mess?

The lesson I take from the fact that universal ontologies are untenable is that human cognition isn't driven by ontology, so the quest to make a thinking thing out of pile of symbolic logic is one that has no guarantee of succeeding. I think Cyc's whole project is roughly similar to the Frankensteinian notion that if you just put together the right parts and provide a vital spark, you'll get a living being. It might work and it might not, but either way it's not science; it's sympathetic magic with the trapping of science.