skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But a person used to be able to graduate high school and get a job that could support a house with a yard, a car, a non-working spouse and children.

> How do we get that level of prosperity back?

The issue is that this is a false premise. The house sucked. Only 1/3rd of American families had a single car at the time, and the cars sucked. We can go on and on about everything else. Not to mention the social environment at the time sucked.

That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to do something about the issues Americans face. But tariffs with a shifting set of sanewashed justifications are just Not It.
All* the people lamenting the current administration are scared of or want to ban firearms... whoops!

Now, imagine if those people had gotten their way, and how much easier it would be for the administration to do some of the things people claim it wants to do (e.g. gulags).

*Broad generalization
Native English speakers don't know how to use commas, so they throw them anywhere they want to have a pause.
The same scan found a large goiter which led to surgical removal of a malignant thyroid tumor. So I have mixed feelings.
It's difficult but necessary to bring manufacturing back due to defense logistical reasons.

We build about 100 SM-6 missiles a year. How long does this last against a peer? 12 hours?

I don't know if tariffs are the best way to do this but some manufacturing must come back one way or another.
America doesn't underestimate it, its president does.
Eh, maybe then it’s not that deep and I just need better friends :)
This view is too trivial. You could also stimulate manufacturing by promising tariffs increasing over the next X years, while not taxing the imported building materials and machines for longer. Or you could use tariffs to both break trade and make the environment too expensive and uncertain to invest in large construction - and delay the process by a few extra years.
Sorry for the late reply. The Manager Tools podcast definitely talks about both sides of feedback. Everything they teach is predicated on building strong relationships, through weekly 1x1s, and starting off with positive feedback only after multiple months of conducting 1x1s.
My problem is the number of steps and hoops to do something that used to be very fast. I feel like this is the opposite of what us engineers are supposed to offer our users. I get it is very secure, but I don't think this is a good compromise. Login should not be a chore. I should be minimally aware of it and still safe. That's my ideal experience.
The state of the art is literally a half century beyond where american manufacturing was when it died. Anecdotally according to older family members who had those old manufacturing jobs, they were working at companies doing stuff like bending a steel rod at the end and then shipping it off to a sub contractor. This was not glamorous work. Most of them got into it because you don’t need to speak english to bend a pipe in a factory. And they did everything in their power to ensure the next generation would not have to work those sorts of jobs.
> our citizens as third worlders performing manual labor like we were oxen.

Lord man... there's a whole mass of humanity who don't want to fart in an office chair all day, or lay around collecting the dole.
An abdominal CT found a goiter?
sounds like they know how to use commas, then
Well you have to put context around what is being made more efficient.

Reducing headcount reduces labor costs and can be a form of financial efficiency. Reducing headcount also usually reduces the sheer number of people involved in any project, much like a small startup can move drastically quicker than a large, established org.

That said, there goal here doesn't seem to be clear as to what is being made efficient and they definitely aren't reducing the budget or size of government (outside of literal headcount, most people complain instead of red tape and regulations).
The free market (which I think people also include in capitalism) would correctly predict labour intensive jobs would be outsourced. This is very much a feature (comparative advantage), not a bug. I realized a lot of supposedly free market people don't even know the basics of it. Politically the free market has become an identity associated with national greatness and a sense of control of ones destiny. The dominant feeling seems to be if you have a free market, you will win everything (which is actually opposite from the truth).
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There can be big differences in radiation doses depending on the type of CT scanner used. Some radiology practices advertise low-dosage scanners [1]. So, if you need a CT scan you can ask for the dosage and find a practice that has a low-dosage scanner.

[1] See, e.g., https://zwangerpesiri.com/services/ct/ (no affiliation; just an example).
> There are plenty of people saying these tariffs will not work.

Work to do what?

> But a person used to be able to graduate high school and get a job that could support a house with a yard, a car, a non-working spouse and children.

Why do you think this has anything to do with tariffs or manufacturing?

> How do we get that level of prosperity back?

Better pay for the jobs people actually work. Reducing inequality by preventing the richest 0.1% from capturing all the massive gains in wealth the US has seen over the past few decades. Removing regulations that prevent the country from building housing and therefore driving up housing costs. Switching to a healthcare model in nearly any of the comparable developed countries almost all of which deliver better healthcare at half the cost. Not expecting everyone to be able to live a completely unsustainable suburban life. Having the government support children's upbringing by paying for high quality education, instituting rules and regulations that require mandatory paid maternity/paternity leave, etc.

Lost of poorer countries manage to do this and more just fine. The US is far richer than most of those countries.

Very little of this has to do with manufacturing jobs falling from 18mm to 13mm.
Depends on how evaluate what is valuable. E.g. here in europe a lot of people think subsidising local agriculture is not valuable and we should just import cheaper food. On the other hand, a lot of people agree that food security is kinda valuable by itself. And want similar security in more fields. In that sense yes, doing „low tech“ is valuable in the long run.
Why would you incentivize foreign companies to do that, when you want American companies to build factories in US?
Well, even a better argument to bring those factories to the US. Why not develop the know-how on manufacturing and improve automation in the US rather have China lead there.
I think it's difficult to label "majority" culture when most things are split 50/50.

Counter-culture feels like it requires at least an 80/20 or so.
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I am strongly reminded of my own governments (Sweden) attempts to introduce diversity programs into the school system, only to have each attempt ending in the court system that then finds the programs as discriminatory. In a few examples where they then went and tried to circumvent the anti-discriminatory laws, those attempts tend to favor the wrong demographic and get canceled shortly after. The very concept of favoring or hindering one demographic over an other in terms of grades or admissions are incompatible with the European Convention on Human Rights, which is the basis for those laws. It is somewhat understandable why politicians tries to work around laws that protect human rights, but the rulings of the courts are not surprising in the least. For now it seems that most those initiatives has died off with fewer attempts to challenge the courts on this issue.

Strong fundamental laws such as the European Convention on Human Rights exist for a good reason. It prevents political winds from undermining the very pillars that society is built on. It also forces those that want to create exceptions to design their ideas in general form, which has some nice side effects of illuminating contradictions and false premises. If political demonstration on university grounds are disrupting education, then it doesn't matter what political message they are shouting. Either you allow it all, or none of it. If you want to give women higher admission credits in programs where they are a minority, you got to give men higher admission credits in programs where they are a minority. If the consequences of such general rules are not fitting the political winds then the default is return back to the foundation that is human rights.
I guess we’re already hitting four letter words, was there a supernova “butt” last year?
I am genuinely curious as to what your point is. Not saying it's wrong, but a succinct summary might be useful.
Speed scope is awesome.

Ive been thinking about using speed scope as a reference to make a native viewer like that.

Sampling profilers (like perf) are just so much easier to use than source markup ones. Just feel like the tooling around perf is bad and that speedscope is part of the solution.
You didn't explain exactly why we need that physical connection. You just broadly complained. Every one of your statements could be refuted by globalists saying its perfectly fine for foreigners to perform our manual labor for us instead.
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IMHO, with the Big Tech boom winding down, what is more valuable for us to do? Manufacturing could prepare us for the next wave, whatever that might be.
How it worked was well documented last year.

It was taking screenshots and storing them locally - the (justified) anger about it was that anyone with physical access to your machine (eg an abusive spouse) could see what you had been doing, and it was to be turned on by default.
4chan janitors aren't victims of anything no matter what happens to them.
Apparently PeerTube can do 10s delay to hundreds (not thousands) of viewers.
My kid needed an abdominal ultrasound in the ER, but the ultrasonographer had gone home for the night. They did a CT instead, despite my concerns. CT missed the problem, which festered for several more years before being discovered during our next ER visit … on an ultrasound.
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Americans also have more free time and disposable income because of that decision, among others. Why would you want them to struggle more?
I think it's a complicated equation and there may be room for some strategic tariffs, de-regulation, anti-dumping, competing more on manufacturing etc. But the time you're talking about? Almost the entire world's industrial capacity was decimated other than the US.
I don't think it's useless. Anyone that has been involved in any online communities that value privacy/anonymity have likely experienced a friend disappearing.

I distinctly remember reading a friend's writings and sending them a number of emails and not receiving a response. Only to find out months later they killed themself.

Processing all of that is kinda strange. Looking back at the emails, the timestamps, etc. I wish I had known sooner.
Once again, want to point out how this is simply American leadership not wanting to accept their loss and move on. For the first time in the history they're not being perceived as the "global leader", and that's not acceptable from their POV. Now it's just freaking out and hoping that some extreme policy changes will change the course. From my personal experience, most people act this way when they're in distress and can't think ahead because of all the externalities.
False dichotomy. An alternate position is to do it in a measured, planned way, not under duress as the economy tanks and international relations are soured.
Nonpaywall link:
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Why would that be better? Comparative advantage is real.
America is not a country, it's a continent. I know, Canada will be a province, and soon Panama of course, but in the meanwhile, it's a continent, not a country.
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I bought Outer Wilds based on recommendations like yours and I found it kind of boring. The world is mostly empty and the repetitiveness wore me down. I didn't finish it.

It's a great looking game though and the first hour or two I had a blast.
The people you need to be watching are the ones who have given up on ever having anything material.
The problem with using this as an analogy is that the commas attach to the interjection "well," not to the words "rich" or "richer." Remove the "well" and you should remove all the punctuation around it.

"I'm getting fed up of making the rich... richer" might be grammatically ok in informal text, but a comma is definitely wrong.
The idea that everyone can just do knowledge work is pretty unrealistic, to put it mildly.
Typically, one doesn't jump from "senior in specialized field that you're experienced in" to "senior in specialized field you're not experienced in".

Like, you wouldn't expect someone who's an assistant manager at McDonald's to finish their law degree and start a new job as senior partner at the law firm.

You have to start over as a junior engineer. Because you are starting over
>The only jobs that will come from bringing manufacturing back to the states will be in automation, robotics, AI, and roles to support those things.

You're saying it like it's a bad thing.

Wouldn't it be better we have automation in the west, instead of sweat shops in the east?
Hypnospace outlaw and neocities, both even less known lol
> with cargo you praise the absences: there’s no gotchas, no footguns, no lore you have to learn in anger, no weirdness, no environment variables

Suppose the author doesn't use build.rs, which appears to have been composed of the listed things almost entirely.
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Yeah, and it's not even necessarily a problem with the product itself. Sometimes I do want something cheap and disposable. The problem is that you have roughly zero information about the retailer, and manufacturer, and anyone in between. If one product listing gets bad reviews, someone can spin up 5 more listings with slightly different metadata. It's effectively a Sybil attack against the reputation system of the market.
Second amendment jurisprudence says otherwise. Billions of dollars spent on litigating three commas.
Bodybuilding.com's misc board was essentially the same sort of raunchy teen hangout as /b/, sans the porn. It wasn't anything goes, but a lot did, and of course you were dealing with the kinds of meatheads (said lovingly) who would happen upon bb.com in the first place.
Sure, but phpMyAdmin has a long history of major security holes. It's existence on a server tends to be a red flag.
A genuine question, presuming no correct answer: what is to be done about it? China is reportedly on track to run more than 50% of global manufacturing by 2030, if the World Bank is correct. What would you do to act against this? Is doing nothing acceptable?
after 50 years of de-industrialization in US, it's a sad fact that US can no longer produce most of those items, yes it's totally gone. It will take a few decades to rebuild, if possible at all. For now, whatever those junks are at Amazon, there are not many options to procure them elsewhere.
China could say less restricted American internet is racist, because we tolerate content they do not. Like 4chan tolerates what Reddit does not. Would it be a fallacy to say people who chose to escape Chinese censorship online are racists? Maybe it’s a matter of degree or something?
Do you mean this is the point of a carefully planned, deliberated, executed, and announced tariff rollout, or do you mean that's the whole point of tariffs as they are currently being implemented in the United States?
There are “close” and “open” styles of comma usage. “Open” has been ascendant for the last few decades (it began to rise in the early 20th century, but wasn’t firmly dominant until later). It’s less precise and expressive, but “cleaner”.

Source: Garner’s.
>The vast majority of humans have better things to do with their life than figure out how to secure their personal network.

One might hope this to be the case, but there are mountains of evidence to the contrary.

>I'm not saying they are too stupid to figure out how

Never fear. I'm here to say it so that you don't have to. Most are too stupid.
My biggest issue with rust after two years is just as you highlight: the mod/crate divide is bad!

I want it to be easier to have more crates. The overhead of converting a module tree into a new crate is high. Modules get to have hierarchy, but crates end up being flat. Some of this is a direct result of the flat crate namespace.

A lot of the toil ends up coming from the need to muck with toml files and the fact that rust-analyzer can’t do it for me. I want to have refactoring tools to turn module trees into crates easily.

I feel like when I want to do that, I have to play this game of copying files then playing whack-a-mole until I get all the dependencies right. I wish dependencies were expressed in the code files themselves a la go. I think go did a really nice job with the packaging and dependency structure. It’s what I miss most.
Yup, this happened at my midsize software company too

Meanwhile no one actually building software that I have been talking to is using these tools seriously for anything that they will admit to, anyways

More and more when I see people who are strongly pro-AI code and "vibe coding" I find they are either formerly devs that moved into management and don't write much code anymore, or people who have almost no dev experience at all and are absolutely not qualified to comment on the value of the code generation abilities of LLMs

When I talk to people whose job is majority about writing code, they aren't using AI tools much. Except the occasional junior dev who doesn't have much of a clue

These tools have some value, maybe. But it's nowhere near the hype would suggest
The relations between Taiwan and the US have nothing to do with "democracy". First it was about anti-communism, when the Chinese government fled there and the mainland was taken over by the communists. Now it is about anti-communism and "China containment". The fact that Taiwan transitioned to democracy in the 1980s is just convenient to feed the public that this is indeed about "democracy", "freedom", the usual.

As a historical point, the US never had a problem with Taiwan being handed back to China at the end of WWII, since it is what happened. Again, this is all just a tool against the communists and then against China's increasing power as a whole.
I'm not American, but I feel like you're missrepresenting the current situation.

The reality is that a lot of the pro Palestine "activist" would be classified as a criminal if they did what they're doing today... 20+ yrs ago.

I mean I totally agree with the sentiment, you're just not going to convince anyone with examples like this article - which I bet most MAGA supporters would consider a "job well done" situation.
That's not a "generation", that is a "portrait" (a characterization).
I agree with your general sentiment.

When Github first showed up, I really liked it that (unlike on e.g. SourceForge) the username is right in the project's URL, it suggested that someone's accountable for the project. But there's no such thing as "accountability" when you're relying on unpaid volunteer work, made available for free to the general public - the "NO WARRANTY" is spelled in all caps, right there in the license.

So how do you know if you can trust the code you're running? You use your own judgement.
Frankly, I think the speed at which Trump is going might doom him, and thus save people like you.

I just don't think his pace of destruction is sustainable. He will soon, unavoidably, be faced with an angry mob. Not angry about freedom of speech or rule of law, probably, but inflation, recession and (lack of) leadership in crisis. He is brewing a cocktail of enormous discontent at a breakneck pace, and doesn't show the leadership or even interest to deal with it, never mind any external shock.

Communism in Poland fell, ultimately, over the price of meat.
> I'm surprised that the administration didn't understand this.

Why would you assume they don't understand? Every time they're questioned about the tariffs the narrative shifts. We have a trade deficit, we're getting ripped off, we want to bring back domestic manufacturing jobs, we'll automate them with robotics and AI, we're playing hardball to negotiate a better trade deal and get rid of fentanyl, it's a matter of national security, an economic emergency, the dollar is overvalued.

You cannot trust a word from them. If you want to understand why they're doing something you must look only at incentives and outcomes. My current analysis is that there's some internal conflict, but the overall push for tariffs comes from a desire to crash the economy and use the downturn to consolidate wealth and power.