MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by narrator | 2025-04-04 22:40:24+00:00
>It is also notable that Chinese competitiveness has only increased as they have engaged in decades of state economic planning and market barriers.

Meanwhile in California, the high-speed rail project is not going so well. There's some serious problems in the U.S bureaucracy, especially blue states. A recent extension of a rail line in San Francisco came in at $1 billion per mile. There are huge amounts of people dependent on the government running inefficiently, vastly overpaying and taking as long as possible to complete work. As we've seen with DOGE, as soon as someone starts to dig into all that, the whole establishment dependent on that inefficiency screams bloody murder. They seem to be adept at developing flywheels where the more money they spend, the worse the problems get, and that justifies spending more money. The $300 million a year homeless budget in San Francisco is a great example of that tendency. Somehow, that needs to get fixed if we want to compete at a world standard level.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-04-04 22:40:28+00:00
What kind of financing has Trump made available so that the average American company (companies of what 5-20 people) can setup multi-hundreds of millions of dollars mining operations, smelters, manufacturing plants? Because it's gonna be a stretch for the average 5-300 person factory around me to vertically integrate into a billion dollars of supply chain infra business.
by siliconc0w | 2025-04-04 22:40:32+00:00
The most credible arguments (IMO) are:

* National Security - we need to be able to make or trade for what we need in the case of war. Even non-tariff economists will give you this one but it can become a slippery slope. We need some capacity to make semiconductors, some steel/aluminum, pharmaceuticals, drones, etc.

* Tank the 10-year. If people pour into treasuries, the 10-year drops and we can refinance our debt a lot cheaper.

* Force a renegotiation of unfair trade agreements.

Weak arguments (IMO):

* bring back manufacturing jobs - even if we reshore some manufacturing, it'll be at the cost of many more other jobs and that manufacturing will be highly automated. No capital appetite exists to do this. No CEO wants to do this. We don't have the infrastructure or supply chains for this.

What is very difficult to defend is the implementation even if you agree with plan. No one outside the trump bubble can really defend the on-again-off-again, inconsistent communication, or board of imaginary numbers used for these. Some float "madman theory" as part of design on renegotiations but I don't think people will make deals with 'madmen' they can't trust and instead are much more likely to build coalitions against them.
by smusamashah | 2025-04-04 22:40:46+00:00
There is an app on Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.workSPACE.... which seems to generate fractals using something similar because the final effects looks lot like this video and it's not slow like computed fractals. I played with this app years ago and it feels very different.

Edit: Using some slow pinches you can put the image in a continously looping state like a time crystal.

Edit: someone made a shader that behaves exactly like Fraksl. https://www.shadertoy.com/view/43lfDn
by deepsquirrelnet | 2025-04-04 22:41:12+00:00
> Why couldn't this tariff strategy be implemented in a more calculated, predictable, slow way to give everyone time to adjust, at home and abroad. What's to gain from doing it this way over the one I mentioned ?

To me, the more concerning detail is that they don’t have any messaging about what their strategy is, except what appears to be guessing from various members of the administration — often which is mutually exclusive with other messaging.

The real risk of all that is people are going to sit on the cash they have, unwilling to make purchases when they can’t see the risk in their future.

My wife and I want to install new flooring, but that’s off the table for us right now, until we have a better idea where this is going.

^ those decisions are disastrous for the economy en masse
by the_snooze | 2025-04-04 22:41:29+00:00
I was a Biden voter, but he was a weak and deeply disappointing president who exercised awful judgment on multiple occasions: running for re-election at his advanced age, not sacking Lloyd Austin for either the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal or going on cancer leave without telling anyone, not taking the lead on ending the COVID emergency (Colorado's Jared Polis was ahead of the White House on that), having so little control over White House interns that they released open letters against official Biden Israel policy, failing to take inflation seriously, etc.

Republicans are awful, but Democrats don't seem to want to do any better than "at least we're not them." It shouldn't be any surprise that Trump has (had?) real appeal over feckless national Democrats.
by photon_rancher | 2025-04-04 22:42:38+00:00
Logitech makes them. Ergo k680 is sitting on my desk right now and has both cmd and option in the correct spots.

Wireless tho so you’ll have to get over that one. Not a lot of options with usbc wired - unless you look at the custom or boutique space most wired keyboards have permanent cables. Battery easily lasts a year.

It’s kinda a weird list of requirements imo - most mac users are exclusively on wireless options. And even the wired ones only have usbc if they’re mechanical with like a teensy or something. Not that you’re wrong to want it but its unusual.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-04 22:43:29+00:00
> Europeans are moving ahead with their own security plans because they realize, as a French minister put it, “We cannot leave the security of Europe in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every four years.”

Hell, I'm tired of leaving the security of the United States in the hands of voters in Wisconsin every four years too. The disproportionate representation in Congress has become downright farcical.

Simply redrawing imaginary around the greater New York City area would let you create 14 entire new states, all of with more people than the smallest state we already have. (Wyoming.) 14 more Senators, and a trickier-to-calculate larger number of House of Representatives.
by chongli | 2025-04-04 22:43:46+00:00
People don't strictly want to play games as much as they want to experience alternate realities

That’s a very sweeping statement to make about a very large number of unrelated people. I happen to be a gamer and your statement doesn’t describe my wishes or experiences very well at all!

I’d much rather play a game of NetHack than some new ultra-realistic PS5 game. I’m not the only one who feels this way. There a ton of other people like me. People who enjoy retro games, puzzle games, point and click adventure games, RPGs, strategy games, and countless other games that aren’t focused on immersive graphics or realistic simulations.
by steveBK123 | 2025-04-04 22:43:48+00:00
The crazy thing is I know otherwise intelligent people who voted for Trump, but make arguments in his defense that 75% sound like the most jaded #resistlib never trumper take, until he gets to the end.

Almost word for word this week was like- Trump is a conman, you can't believe half of what he says. Trump doesn't deliver half of what he promises. He isn't very smart, just cares about his own image and ego. He is addicted to doing substanceless deals and creating crises he can do these nothing deals to resolve. So DOGE isn't real, he isn't gonna cut spending, he's gonna continue growing deficit, he won't drain the swamp or build a wall or repeal Obamacare.

And the closer is "And given all that there's no way Trump crashes the economy".

I just do not get this cult. It's an addiction to "owning the libs" at all costs.
by rdlw | 2025-04-04 22:44:28+00:00
Interesting. I was using ChatGPT to try to come up with a possible reconstruction of the Ketef Hinnom scrolls (I don't know Ancient Hebrew at all), with some mixed results. I had to prompt it with things like "What do you think that 'YHWH' bit could mean?", and then it sort of caught on. Maybe I'll see if Claude can do better.

Your description of Old English is a bit odd. It's certainly very different from modern English, but it's its direct ancestor and both languages are Germanic.
by subsubzero | 2025-04-04 22:44:28+00:00
I think this is mostly accurate:

> The things that dominate middle class budgets: food, housing, medicine, education, are surprisingly local, and have become increasingly unaffordable in recent decades even as economic numbers have gone up.

Really you have to split goods into two categories, stuff that has no geographic ties(alot of these goods manufacture has been outsourced to asian countries and low wage countries) and stuff that is tied to a location, think Mexican tequila or Swiss watches.

The first category is more tied to the middle class and I could alot of the manufacturing coming back to the US due to cost. The second category cannot be made in the US and buyers will bear the brunt of the cost runups.

The stuff in the first category that is going to be hit hard with tariffs is by and large big ticket items like cars and electronics, and conversely the really cheap plastic junk that is ubiquitous at dollar stores. I think the days of 50 inch flat screens for a few hundred dollars are gone. In addition cars sold in the US(US made brands and not foreign companies) have alot of their supply chain in either mexico and canada but the middle class is not buying alot of newer cars - average age of a car is reaching the longest ever due to cars jumping in cost the past few years.

I see this really hurting high income americans alot more, new cars especially European luxury are going to be quite expensive, alot of expensive wines and liquor will jump in price, jewelry and luxury handbags will also be alot more expensive.
by abe_m | 2025-04-04 22:44:35+00:00
What what your time vs degradation? I see quite a few solar panels in my area showing up on Facebook Marketplace and other online classifieds that seem to be about 10 years old being sold for a "bigger system". But I'm curious if the real story is that straight forward? Are they significantly degraded? Did the controls or inverters fail, and the owner decided it wasn't worth the hastle? I don't know. The headline price seems attractive, but if they're only putting out 10% of name plate, not worth the effort to install.
by techpineapple | 2025-04-04 22:44:37+00:00
> The main issue I see is that in 3.5 or possible 1.5 years, a new president ( or laws passed through congress ) will just vacate all Trump executive orders, tariffs in included. So that $100 million you invested in a new factory that is 3/4 built? Sorry, tariffs are gone and now you are out $100 mil. Why would any corp assume that risk?

If I were to be as generous as possible, I might say that's why Trump is being so chaotic with the tariffs? If you turn everyone against us and no one is willing to trade with us, it may force people's hand to build locally and then 4 years from now, there's still no appetite to resume our normal trade patterns.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-04-04 22:45:06+00:00
> (Or, I suppose, a bunch of manufacturing could spring up in the US, superior to the rest of the world, giving us whole new export markets and pushing the Dow into six figures. Let's find out!)

Didn't we find out like a century ago with the Smooth-Hawley tariffs? Do we really have to test this again, and now in the sloppiest most haphazard way?
by watwut | 2025-04-04 22:45:09+00:00
Being pro-rational-tariffs and being pro massive tariffs that are calculated as ration of export deficit and originally used to damage former allies are two different thigns.

As in, I could buy tariffs as a strategic decision to help build own industry in some are ... but these are just not that. These were originally used in conjunction with annexation threats, then with lies and are deployed with no regards to own citizens.
by leereeves | 2025-04-04 22:45:13+00:00
> Trade deficit is effectively a migration of capital inflow, so tariffs should reduce not increase investments.

That seems backwards. A trade deficit (more goods coming into the country) should be balanced by a capital outflow (money leaving the country). We've sustained that for decades by printing more money and sending it around the world.

Some people think that's a good deal, because we get real stuff in exchange for money we create for nothing. But what will have left when other countries no longer want our money?

Edit: As the comment below points out, I should technically ask what happens when they no longer want U.S. government debt?
by lerno | 2025-04-04 22:45:18+00:00
It is possible to use a single-header library as part of C3 libraries or your project. However, it must be noted that this will inhibit the ability to cross compile, as the compilation of the header is outsourced to the natively installed C compiler.

For that reason it's not an option for the standard library, but can certainly be useful for programs and libraries.

For faults, they are usually defined with `faultdef` which allows you to define one or more faults:

faultdef SOMETHING_WENT_SIDEWAYS, BIG_OOPS;

Then you use them as if they were constants:

if (x > 0) return BIG_OOPS?;

If they are defined in another module, say "foo::bar::baz", then:

if (x > 0) return baz::BIG_OOPS?;

Using path shortening "foo::bar::baz::BIG_OOPS" would also be valid, but is not necessary nor recommended.
by yieldcrv | 2025-04-04 22:45:24+00:00
> Perhaps you can enlighten me what these enabling factors are?

Sure, yeah

So both parties accept campaign donations and quid pro quo for the support of Political Action Committees that support them.

Both parties are beneficiaries of a toothless Federal Election Committee enabling non-compliance with the stated regulations, with any remaining accountability existing upon shaky legal ground, completely nullified when in front of a court like with Citizens United. there might be enough consensus for a constitutional amendment though.

Both parties trade securities with material non public information that they can influence, representatives and constituents of any affiliation are not pleased with this. But it is a prisoner's dilemma in the legislative process, there might be enough consensus for a constitutional amendment though.

Presidents of both parties have leveraged the pardon power preemptively and at their discretion, unsettling constituents and representatives on all sides. Revealing a discomfort that is enabled by an archaic aspect of the constitution. Go for it, prioritize a campaign to amend that.

You see the common theme here is that you have to prioritize these causes, over simply being a powerless opposition party going to marches for things that will never gain consensus or that the current power in power will never be held accountable for.

The 17th amendment for directly electing our senators was done in a vacuum. And this likely broke many pillars of our constitution by not also addressing what the senators do, and how that chamber interfaces with the rest of the country. Being appointed likely wasn't better, just more cohesive with the rest of this constitution. Right now we see the folly and redundancy of the Presidential nomination and Senate confirmation process to federal agencies and other position. Should probably amend that too.
by hk1337 | 2025-04-04 22:45:36+00:00
I feel like you got lost in my example/rambling that I probably shouldn't have said like that.

If I am a user looking for some place to host my application, I do not care that one service can be self hosted. I have already made my decision that I am going to host it somewhere else, so I am not going self host the PaaS just to host my application myself.

It can still be self hostable, just put it in the developer documentation and not necessarily promoting it so much on the main page.
by claiir | 2025-04-04 22:45:42+00:00
In the long-term. Hence "innoculation"--a prick today to prevent a serious illness tomorrow.

In the grand scheme of things, the market movement we saw in response to these tariffs is dwarfed by the sustained market downturn throughout much of 2022. Fueled by persistent inflation concerns and the FED's aggressive interest rate hikes, the S&P 500 index shed approximately 25% from its peak in January 2022 to its low in October 2022, a far more significant and prolonged decline than a single day's reaction to tariff news.

We recovered from those. We will recover from the short-term effects of these tariffs as our economy begins to price in the risk of external dependency.
by saaaaaam | 2025-04-04 22:45:43+00:00
Trademarks can’t apply to characters, in themselves, no. A trademark can apply to a particular fixed representation but not the likeness, or ‘essence’ if you like. The essence of Indy is the whip, the hat, the grizzled demeanour, the dry humour, the archaeologist adventurer.

You can think of likeness as something that could be captured by hieroglyphics, or emoji - or a game of charades.

Think of Betty Boo or Wiley Coyote. You might not be able to close your eyes and picture them exactly but you can close your eyes and imagine the essence.

So in some jurisdictions if you register a broad representation - a likeness - you can protect that in law. In almost all jurisdictions if you photograph or draw something that literal snapshot is protected. But in many jurisdictions if I took a still from a scene of Indiana Jones (which WOULD be protected by copyright) and I described it to you and you were a great artist and drew the whip, the hat, the grizzled face, the safari vest, etc - there would be nothing to protect that likeness.

Trademarks are another thing entirely, and are things like logos, and the protection is more about commercial exploitation and preventing misleading us.

I could draw a cartoon logo of a man with a hat and a whip for my archaeological supplies shop. You could not take it and use it on your Chinese manufactured whips drop shipped via Amazon. But the owner of the Indiana Jones trademark- likeness rights, film copyright etc would be unlikely to be able to stop me using my logo until I start saying it is Indiana Jones, at which point they maybe invoke likeness rights.

There are at least three different rights classes here! It can be very confusing.
by archagon | 2025-04-04 22:46:28+00:00
Most collaborative text editors use CRDTs, OT, or a derivative nowadays. For the most part, the paradigm works fine: changes aren't just "randomly splatted" around the file but appear in their expected causal context. Strange things can happen when paragraphs are deleted or moved around, but this is more of a UI problem than an intrinsic limitation, and I'm not sure what alternative you're thinking of other than locking or throwing up a horrible "pick a version" dialog box.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-04 22:46:51+00:00
No LLM or other modern AI architecture I'm aware of is supposed to model the human brain. Even if they were, LLMs can add large numbers with the level of skill I'd expect from a 10 year old:

----

What's 494547645908151+7640745309351279642?

ChatGPT said: The sum of 494,547,645,908,151 and 7,640,745,309,351,279,642 is:

7,641,239,857,997,187,793

----

(7,641,239,856,997,187,793 is the correct answer)
by wonderwonder | 2025-04-04 22:46:55+00:00
I have a guess but not a solid one. The way they determined the rates on these tariffs makes no sense at all. I wish they would have just explained it instead of pushing back and insisting it was based on real existing tariff rates. They really dropped the ball on this implementation.

If I was to hazard that guess, they don't care about services, services are already a dominant US product, no one can beat us. Manufacturing is where we are weak so they went after that. They want manufacturing to come back to the US in case of a war with China over Taiwan. They also don't want counter tariffs on services as again that's our major export. What's really interesting and I could be wrong here is I dont think anyone else has actually hit the US with tariffs on those same services. Its a very calm trade war so far. But its early
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-04 22:47:01+00:00
It wouldn't be this steep if he wasn't trying as hard as he can to follow through on his promises of "his own brand" of prosperity, the only way he has ever known how, unfortunately that's when massive losses have always proven the most likely outcome.

Anyone else with a proper business background would have been able to negotiate international trade agreements more favorably, including overall increases in tariffs, and if there was going to be unavoidable downward pressure it would certainly be much less than this at this point.

Plus someone with actual useful deal-making experience would have been able to maintain stability on the way to a noticeable if not shocking upturn by now, there was a lot of low-hanging fruit left over after Biden.

Why not do something with that, rather than take it out on the American people? Just because all of them didn't vote for Trump, he can't bring himself to care about the country as a whole, or average citizens hardly at all. Much less legal residents.

If the only way to "sink the liberals" makes almost everyone else go down with the ship, so be it.
by stavros | 2025-04-04 22:47:29+00:00
We don't slaughter animals because we think they don't mind dying, we slaughter them because we've outsourced the mass killings to people who don't mind doing it, and a steak looks enough unlike a cow that we don't think that it used to be alive.

Basically, if we had to slaughter our own cows, I doubt we'd be eating as much meat.
by KennyBlanken | 2025-04-04 22:47:58+00:00
Reports are that Trump ignored all his advisors and did what he wanted so your point isn't relevant. I haven't heard a single analyst find sense in how tariff levels were set per country - someone did notice that it appeared a very simple formula had been applied, one that has no basis in economic theory.

Go open 10 year chats for the GDP, S&P 500, etc.

There was no problem with "level playing fields."

All of this is just one man who for forty years has been obsessed with how "we" are supposedly being "taken advantage of."

The economy overall was doing fine - intense economic stratification is a problem, but overall the country's economy was productive.

Man steps in, inheriting a growing economy doing just fine...and after months of uncertainty and upheaval, in two days erases a year's worth of economic growth.
by derriz | 2025-04-04 22:48:22+00:00
There is no economic argument for tariffs. There are mountains of theory and empirical historical evidence that they make countries poorer.

The motivation for these tariffs are not economic or financial.

They are being used by a narcissist as a tool to force others prostate themselves on front of him. Whether foreign leaders - who will have to "kiss the ring" pleading the case for their country to get relief - or domestic CEOs who will now have join a queue to plead with Trump for exemptions for their particular sector (like the auto business CEOs have).

We've already seen it with social media CEOs who queued up to offer him money and support, we're seeing it with law firms whose very existence he has threatened by EO forcing senior partners to not only bend to his will but to humiliate themselves in doing so and we seen university presidents do similar.

The tariff stuff is a continuation and escalation of that policy.

The cost is to America's reputation, international standing and economic well-being and will be borne for decades. The benefits are ephemeral - an ego massage for DJ Trump.