MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by woooooo | 2025-04-09 23:25:38+00:00
If we're going full Mao, we'd be remiss if we didn't note that their plan for industry during the cultural revolution was "the proletariat will own small smelting operations next to their house". It checks out ideologically, workers controlling the means of production.. it just didn't work in reality.

Reminds me a lot of the thought process around having more manufacturing in the US by slapping tariffs around.
by nkrisc | 2025-04-09 23:25:50+00:00
> So how do I answer my child when he asks "Why should I learn to do X if I can just ask an LLM and it will do it better than me"

1. You won’t always have an LLM. It’s the same reason I still have at least my wife’s phone number memorized.

2. So you can learn to do it better. See point 1.

I wasn’t allowed to use calculators in first and second grade when memorizing multiplication tables, even though a calculator could have finished the exercise faster than me. But I use that knowledge to this day, every day, and often I don’t have a calculator (my phone) handy.

It’s what I tell my kids.
by gerdesj | 2025-04-09 23:26:54+00:00
System Rescue used to be Gentoo based and then switched to Arch. You can install both Arch and Gentoo with SR and obviously you can install Arch with a Gentoo install CD and vice versa.

SR also has some rather handy SAM database editing facilities. Mount Windows at /mnt and then enable and reset the Administrator password. Jolly handy for getting super duper user access on a Windows box.

Its been a while since I installed Gentoo but you can probably quite easily add more stuff to your Gentoo install CD. I don't know if Gentoo have added a script to do all the bind mounts but "arch-chroot /bin/bash" is very convenient. I used to forget about /sys.
by ForOldHack | 2025-04-09 23:27:06+00:00
Well, Since I am close to a Shoe Palace, I just walked in and talked to the sales man. He likes selling New Balance, and the price ranges from $34 to $167, and the $167 is a discount of 33%. I talked to him long enough that the assistant manager came over, and both of the really were ashamed at shoes made in Vietnam, and Cambodia, they got it, and I told them that

https://allamerican.org/investigation/new-balance/
by izacus | 2025-04-09 23:27:42+00:00
It doesn't matter who coherent the output is - the students will paste it anyway, then fail the assignment (and you need to deal with grading it) and then complain to parents and school board that you're incompetent because you're failing the majority of the class.

Your post is based in a misguided idea that students actually care about some basic quality of their work.
by dclowd9901 | 2025-04-09 23:27:47+00:00
There's lots of different kinds of art, some of it more commercially viable than others. Consider 3D designers selling print models, people like myself who are interested in restoring old cars or other endeavors that are artistically rewarding and aren't just painting or sculpting. Hell, people seem to do pretty well currently as content creators on YouTube.

My point is immediately jumping to the idea everyone's going to be pumping out shitty paintings and music that no one will want is lacking in imagination.
by ctrlp | 2025-04-09 23:28:36+00:00
The T-bill strategy wasn't a secret. Why they walked it back could also be attributed to bringing trade partners to heel at a point of maximum leverage. Or a lack of resolve in leadership. Or messaging and opportunism.

Will it pay off? Who knows. If it does, it will go down as one of the greatest gambits in modern history. If not, perhaps the end of dollar hegemony? End of the Global American Empire? Or nothing at all?
by rcarr | 2025-04-09 23:29:10+00:00
I'm not an economist but I believe this is only the case so long as USD is the global reserve currency. If that ceases to be the case, the Fed has a lot less power to print money and inflate debt away. I believe this is the case Ray Dalio has been making for some time now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xguam0TKMw8
by CharlieDigital | 2025-04-09 23:29:21+00:00
He has asked to not reveal it and not likely to reveal it. I asked him about it because I think the press would be insane, but it's a niche B2B SaaS and he doesn't want the "made with AI" branding to hurt the image of the product from a customer perspective. Second concern is people trying to hack it in case the LLM took shortcuts on security.

But I can say that as a 20yr+ eng. and having worked with him on a prior startup, I'm super, super impressed how far he got by himself in under 4 months. Basically a full-blown industry specific CRM with Stripe integration, OCR from mobile web app, desktop web app, marketplace. He himself is concerned that it's the end of SaaS as he thinks anyone can build these things now, but I think there's still a bit of a chasm when it comes to some ancillary pieces like databases.
by dmoy | 2025-04-09 23:29:54+00:00
Lego is pure IP (both from LEGO itself, and then e.g. Disney or whoever is behind the theme of a given set). If you get sets designed in China and made at the same factories that make Lego bricks, they're like 1/3 the cost. If you get sets designed in not-China but obviously ripped off ("Star World" sets that are 1:1 copies of Star Wars legos), also in the same factories, it's like 1/10 the cost.

The manufacturing isn't easy, sure, but it's more or less a solved problem and not at all reflected in the cost.

So when GP says priced like Lego, they just mean that - priced based on something completely different from the cost of materials, manufacturing, etc.
by dventimi | 2025-04-09 23:30:34+00:00
This is what the neo-liberal economic program has been doing all my life. "Free-trade" and globalization just mean that companies deploy lobbyists to DC and state houses to write legislation that picks winners and losers, erect barriers for some and tear them down for others, and concentrate wealth in the hands of a tiny few while spreading enough of it around to the professional managerial class and petit-bourgeoisie to keep the whole machine running. Blue-collar workers were put in direct competition with low wage workers overseas while white-collar workers were protected from foreign competition, unionization declined under constant attack, and middle-class wages stagnated while coastal and urban elites pulled away. Middle-class people were mollified, however, by rising living standards courtesy of cheap goods delivered by long supply chains connecting far-flung places with big box stores that landed right on the outskirts of their little towns, by the good graces of their hardworking counterparts toiling away in those far-flung places, and by large trade surpluses and easy money. And, it did have social consequences: the withering of small town life, the atomization of community, and the working-class revolts of the last 20 years as the machine started to sputter.

It's important to note that it doesn't have to be this way. This isn't the natural order of things. There IS no "natural order of things." This is a choice. You're free to like that choice if it suits you, but nobody is obliged to like it, and if you don't there is a tried-and-true program for forcing other choices: organize, unionize, and galvanize.
by josephg | 2025-04-09 23:30:41+00:00
Which word will I pick next in this sentence? Is it deterministic? I probably wouldn’t respond the same way if I wrote this comment in a different mood, or at a different time of day.

What I say is clearly not deterministic for you. You don’t know which word will come next. You have a probability distribution but that’s it. Banana.

I caught a plane yesterday. I knew there would be a plane (since I booked it) and I knew where it would go. Well, except it wasn’t certain. The flight could have been delayed or cancelled. I guess I knew there would be a plane with 90% certainty. I knew the plane would actually fly to my destination with a 98% certainty or something. (There could have been a malfunction midair). But the probability I made it home on time rose significantly when I saw the flight listed, on time, at the airport.

Who I sat next to was far less certain - I ended up sitting next to a 30 year old electrician with a sore neck.

My point is that there is so much reasoning we do all the time that is probabilistic in nature. We don’t even think about it. Other people in this thread are even talking about chairs breaking when you sit on them - every time you sit on a chair there’s a probability calculation you do to decide if the chair is safe, and will support your weight. This is all automatic.

Simple “fuzzy logic” isn’t enough because so many probabilities change as a result of other events. (If the plane is listed on the departures board, the prediction goes up!). All this needs to be modelled by our brains to reason in the world. And we make these calculations constantly with our subconscious. When you walk down the street, you notice who looks dangerous, who is likely to try and interact with you, and all sorts of things.

I think that expert systems - even with some fuzzy logic - are a bad approach because systems never capture all of this reasoning. It’s everywhere all the time. I’m typing on my phone. What is the chance I miss a letter? What is the chance autocorrect fixes each mistake I make? And so on, constantly and forever. Examples are everywhere.
by wongarsu | 2025-04-09 23:32:32+00:00
If it's a round thing it might well disappear. Even with full understanding that things don't cease to exist when they leave your field of view, "where do things end up if I drop them" is a pretty big field to experiment with. Youtube is full of videos of adults doing the same, just from more extreme heights or other unusual scenarios (since as adults we have a solid grasp of the simpler scenarios)
by tomasol | 2025-04-09 23:33:17+00:00
> I was referring to the workflows, that is, writing the workflows in managed languages, not the activities.

Ah understood. I have no plans supporting native workflow executors.

> Out of curiosity, are you working full-time on this?

Yes, currently I work on it full time.

> I'm working part-time on the same problem, looking to go full time soon, and it's interesting to see how the same ideas are popping up somewhat independently across different projects :)

Nice website! I also see the ideas of determinism, replayability etc more and more.

> let me know if you're interested in chatting!

Sure, my email is visible in the Git commit history.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-04-09 23:35:00+00:00
The Supreme Court, in a 5-4 shadow docket decision, just enabled the Trump administration to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act -- a law that requires a declared war or an "invasion or predatory incursion...by a foreign nation or government." So I wouldn't get too excited about the idea that they're going to make a big stand on tariffs.
by tdeck | 2025-04-09 23:36:15+00:00
> I wonder if a typical children 3d pen, or the likes - ie. dispensing quickly curing plastic thread, etc. - can be used to quickly hand-draw touch-accessible picture/graph on any surface really (or even in 3d as it is intended)

Yes, there are a number of ways to make accessible graphics and this is one of them, although I don't see educators using it as often. Here's a study I read about blind people using a 3D pen to make drawings themselves (you can get it on SciHub if you're curious): https://doi.org/10.1177/0145482X20954759

> A cheap 3d printer can probably be used when more complicated picture and/or several copies of it have to be done

Actually educators of blind folks are making great use of 3D printing for tactile models. This site has a lot of great links if you're interested in the topic: https://printdisability.org/about-us/accessible-graphics/3d-...

> running 3d pen as the printing head instead of the standard thermoplastic head would allow to increase the speed while decreasing precision

I doubt very much that this would work. 3D printing pens may have a wider nozzle, but they extrude more slowly and I'd imagine they also have much lower thermal output than a 3D printer because 3D pen users must frequently pause to reposition or make decisions. Essentially a 3D pen is just a very cheap, cut-down 3D printer hotend. However, you can always put a wider nozzle into an ordinary printer, and you can print on paper if you're really constrained by speed and don't want to lay down a base plate.
by probably_wrong | 2025-04-09 23:36:56+00:00
I don't think that Trump himself is competent, but I'm not be so sure about the people around him. The effort it took to put him above the law was at least a decade in the making, so clearly someone knows what they're doing.

I don't think it's a coincidence, for instance, that Steve Banon's strategy of "flooding the zone" looks exactly as the type of chaos currently coming from the White House.
by cavisne | 2025-04-09 23:38:33+00:00
These complex 4D chess strategies never really pan out. Maybe someone in the administration thinks that was the goal but not Trump.

During the campaign Trump said he wanted 10 percent tariffs on the world and 60 percent tariffs on China. After all the noise we are now at… 10 percent tariffs with the world and 125 percent tariffs on China (pending negotiation with China).
by monocasa | 2025-04-09 23:38:53+00:00
This is not achievable.

There isn't enough rewritable microcode to do this even as a super slow hack.

And even if all of the microcode were rewritable, ucode is kind of a fallback pathway on modern x86 cores with the fast path being hardwired decode for x86 instructions.

And even if that weren't the case the microcode decode and jump is itself hardwired for x86 instruction formats.

And even if that weren't the case the microops are very non-RISC being 2 address, etc.
by nearbuy | 2025-04-09 23:39:18+00:00
How would it work?

Say an American multinational like Microsoft provides some SaaS. They have a division in Europe where their developers help make their products. They have offices, customer support, servers, etc. in Europe. Do they pay a partial tariff based on what fraction of the development of their software happened in the US? What if they sell the rights to the European version of their software to their European division?
by subsubzero | 2025-04-09 23:39:26+00:00
I see what you are getting at but I have to disagree with alot of what you are saying.

> the US will find itself in the same position the UK is in now

The US and UK are totally different animals at the height of their "empire". The UK currently has little land and alot of it is devoid of minerals(sans coal). They achieved most of their might subjecting other countries and extracting resources from their colonies. Once the colonies and the rest of the world objected the British empire began to crumble as the colonies broke off from the UK.

Contrast that with the US which if it were to jettison its "colonies" (Puerto Rico, Samoa etc) you would see very little drop in GDP. The US has vast swaths of land which is excellent for farming, energy extraction and contains valuable minerals. It has widespread and diverse populations with wildly different ecologies and climates. In addition to a huge amount of resources it has a kings ransom of some of the best universities in the world(stanford, harvard, MIT, etc) and a highly educated society with living standards just below some small asian and european countries. The US also has a peerless military (we need hypersonic weapons however) and many aircraft carriers and nukes as well as world renown special forces groups. And lastly of the top largest 100 companies in the world, 65% are US based and this despite the US only having 4.2% of the worlds population, looking at GDP per country is almost comical as the US has 30T compared to the next largest economy China(19.5T), 3rd place is Germany at 4.9T.
by jeffbee | 2025-04-09 23:39:28+00:00
Becoming a doctor in America requires studying 1 semester of statistics which can have been satisfied by a passing score on an AP statistics exam in high school, years before entering practices. The only thing you know about an MD is they got a C or better in biology and organic chemistry at some point, then tolerated years of abuse to get admitted to the guild. There is really no reason at all to believe that a typical MD knows how to interpret medical literature better or even as well as you can.
by tdeck | 2025-04-09 23:39:34+00:00
I'm curious what you had because swell touch paper doesn't exactly behave that way, it's thermally activated and the areas you drew on need to be heated up before they will swell.

There are sponges that come compressed flat (e.g. soldering iron sponges) and it looks like they sell larger sheets of them for some purpose as well: https://www.dickblick.com/items/hygloss-sponge-ums-pkg-of-4-...
by arunabha | 2025-04-09 23:39:45+00:00
I am beginning to wonder if there is an actual plan behind these moves beyond creating uncertainty in trading partner's minds.

The stated goal of the administration is to 'reindustrialize' the US by manufacturing more of the goods consumed within the US itself. To get to that goal, tariff barriers are just one part of the story. For tariffs to be effective towards getting to the strategic goal, they need to be coupled with sound industrial policy and a long term execution framework. The three legs of the stool, so to say.

So far, there has been no mention of the other two legs. There is currently no serious bill proposed that aims to apply the required industrial policy and all of these tariffs being imposed under executive orders mean that instability in tariff rates and application is pretty much guaranteed. The very opposite of the stable, long term approach that is needed.

Without the other parts, there is a very high chance that the US will bear the brunt of the short term damage, but with none of the long term benefits.
by danparsonson | 2025-04-09 23:39:55+00:00
The directors getting paid doesn't make a charity for-profit - that's dependent on what they do with the remaining money after paying salaries. For-profit businesses distribute surplus (i.e. profit) to shareholders.

It's a common complaint that donations should not be used to pay salaries, but the important question should be how much leverage those paid staff can extract out your donation. Skilled people usually don't want to work for free, but they can magnify a donation by reaching more potential donors via advertising, more appealing shops, etc.
by dingaling | 2025-04-09 23:40:44+00:00
In the UK, charity shops got savvy to this and now do their own 'mining'. Valuable items go to HQ to list on eBay for a lucrative price, the remaining dross goes onto the shop shelves.

There are some exceptions to this such as specialist charity bookshops which keep the stock locally, but do make sure to price match with the going rate online.

Few diamonds to be found in the rough nowadays.
by elcritch | 2025-04-09 23:41:16+00:00
I sort of view that list as table stakes for a well rounded capable person.. Well barring the invasion bit. Then again, being familiar with guns and or other forms of self defense is valuable.

I think most farmers would be somewhat capable on most of that list. Equations for farm production. Programming tractor equipment. Setting bones. Giving and taking orders. Building houses and barns.

Building a single story building isn’t that difficult, but time consuming. Especially nowadays with YouTube videos and pre-planned plans.
by sitkack | 2025-04-09 23:42:30+00:00
Second part of the PSA, one should keep prophylactic antiviral medication on hand incase you get exposed to someone with HSV. With 60% of the population positive for HSV, everyone should have an antiviral on hand. acyclovir, famciclovir and valaciclovir

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK525787/
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-09 23:42:48+00:00
> If it has an association with preventing cancers, not sure why they were so reluctant to immediately open up the patient pool.

Multiple reasons.

The first one is basic ethics. Similar on how you should do rolling upgrades of your SaaS software to catch errors before everything goes down, you got to do the same with vaccines. For there, go for the target group with the highest risk and highest potential of averting damage - and for the HPV vaccine, mid-20 women are the best such group: young enough that they might be lucky and not exposed yet, old enough to fall out of the scope of the usual ethics bureaucracy that (rightfully) comes with doing experimental research involving minors, and not so old that they definitely got exposed and making the effort moot. Then it got rolled out to teenage girls as it was proven safe, and eventually to men as well because we can be asymptomatic carriers (as we are for a lot of STDs).

Obviously if you got the speed of Covid vaccines in mind as a comparison, the HSV vaccine appears slow in rollout speed - but please do not forget, the Covid vaccines went through very speedy trials. We were extremely lucky it worked out the way it did.

The second one is availability. Again, unless it's Covid where everything went into full production power in a matter of months, production has to be ramped up carefully, matching rollout strategies - it doesn't make sense to have a mismatch into either direction.

And the third one is time. With Covid, it was easy to prove effectiveness: the people that got the shot got Covid at waaaay lower rates than the control population (and the risks of side effect were way less than the risk of severe Covid). But with something like HPV that can have years if not decades worth of time between exposure and symptoms, it becomes harder to reasonably judge effectiveness and safety.
by roenxi | 2025-04-09 23:43:17+00:00
The domestic bondholders would pay the inflation tax and are all wealthy enough to have savings, ie, they are also taxpayers. They're not getting out of this no matter what happens; they're going to lose out.

The question is really do the bondholders directly eat the losses (20% foreigners) or US consumers and their tax base eats them (potentially ~0% foreigners although inflation is so complicated in practice it is hard to tell). It'd be pretty easy to handle the situation by a standard default and probably better for the voting base. The risk of the politicians breaking that way is obviously present.

It is risk, it doesn't even have to be likely. It is just the question of "will the bondholder get all the money they're promised?" and the answer can obviously be no. The US can't afford to repay their bonds, purposefully triggering vast inflation would be quite damaging to the US political class and there is a chance they decide not to. It isn't a negligible chance.
by mosura | 2025-04-09 23:45:17+00:00
These often repeated notions about Jazelle make little sense.

J2ME code for Jazelle based feature phones (with appropriate VMs) was noticeably faster than otherwise, to the point Android raw Java performance did not catch up for a really long time. If you have loads of RAM to JIT later then . . . good, but that didn’t arrive for years after the fact.
by andai | 2025-04-09 23:45:34+00:00
I use Insight Timer. The daily streak feature helped me finally make it a habit, after half assing it for many years.

When starting it can be helpful to use guided meditations. There's a bunch in that app (mostly free), and on YouTube of course.

I like Shinzen Young's videos and audiobooks, he takes a very grounded, "technical" approach to this stuff.

My main "lessons learned":

- Do it every day, even if just a few minutes. Makes a huge difference.

- Make awareness broad. This takes practice, it's like a muscle. I made the mistake of making it narrow like a laser, which is much harder, less stable, and less useful! i.e. learn to hold 2, then 3 objects in mind "at the same time". e.g. the breath, and the birds outside, and the "sense of space" of the room.

The classic meditation object is the breath. In my case, that brought up a lot of emotional pain. It's fine to use other objects in that case (though eventually you can learn to integrate / heal the emotions too), e.g. focus on sounds or anything "grounding".