MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rtkwe | 2025-04-30 14:42:25+00:00
Even if the future of the tariffs themselves were at all predictable many outlets are allergic to any connecting of dots. I saw an article from The Hill just yesterday that took the line that the RTO mandate for federal workers was an actual attempt to "improve productivity" at face value without an ounce of push back in an article about how poorly the RTO is going.

The big outlets are terrified to get on this admin's bad side because their current business wants to do a lot of mergers which have to be approved and the administration can tie those up for years on a whim so they're already lying down.
by dgfitz | 2025-04-30 14:42:39+00:00
I hear you, and that's a fair point. I just can't reconcile how trillions of dollars came into the economy and over the past few years there were mostly massive layoffs, poor-to-mediocre hiring, stagnant wages, and massive inflation. Where is all that money?

I really think this is a huge elephant in the room that seems to be ignored.
by no_time | 2025-04-30 14:43:21+00:00
Are 20ish days of paid vacation per employee per year really an insurmountable obstacle for a tech startup? I'm guessing this was just an example but a weird one nonetheless.

I always thought the biggest hurdle to overcome here in the EU is despite advancements with the schengen zone is branching out to other countries for business and talent is still much more difficult than a Bay Area company wanting to expand to Texas for example.
by unethical_ban | 2025-04-30 14:43:21+00:00
Quite the hostile comment.

The parent comment was more about submissions than comments, and it is in a sub thread that is already a tangent from the main topic: a wiki app on the teams store that was successful.

I feel the same way as parent, that the idea of keeping politics off HN made more sense when the US wasn't going through a "bloodless coup" to destroy it from within.

Is this comment a primer on ranked choice voting or ascendant fascism? No. Do I welcome those posts more now than before? Yes.
by deadbabe | 2025-04-30 14:43:23+00:00
Except you’re not free, you’re bound by the constraints of how much money you have, which isn’t much.

And traveling the world is a bit overrated. It’s cool to change scenery, but at the end of the day, you’re just doing the same work you always do, just in a different country. You’re just running away from the fact you have nothing worth settling down a bit for, no where to truly call home and invest in a local community, just a drifter chasing their next hit of stimulus. Eventually, you run out of truly novel places to go. You’re not giving back to a community and making your mark, you’re just leeching off the lifestyles built by people who chose to settle in one place. If everyone was a traveler, there wouldn’t be anything worth traveling to.
by pjmlp | 2025-04-30 14:43:29+00:00
Indeed, nowadays I feel myself a fool for having advocated for WinRT, it was one of the reasons why I returned back to Web and distributed systems, after spending four years back in Windows GUI development land.

And my advice now is for .NET devs, stay with Windows Forms or WPF, depending on which approach they favour.

For C++, I suggest the aging MFC if it has to be on the Visual Studio (still better out of the box experience than WinUI 3.0 for C++, and C++/WinRT is in maintenance anyway), but really Qt or C++ Builder are much better option.
by Arn_Thor | 2025-04-30 14:44:02+00:00
I think of a lot of my favorite space opera book series as optimistic. They're not depicting utopias or anything, but an imperfect world in the future that's nonetheless way beyond what we've achieved so far, and I reckon that's quite optimistic. This includes books by Peter F. Hamilton, Iain Banks, Alistair Raynolds.
by dsign | 2025-04-30 14:44:03+00:00
Slightly meta, when looking from outside, reading here feels like having your friends in the much-bigger-than-the-Titanic ship comment on it while the ship that was the emblem of the world sinks. The worst part of it is that every person outside of US watching this have a little demon sitting on their shoulder repeating, "They voted for him. A second time! You can't pity them." But I will say it anyway: stay strong.
by throw310822 | 2025-04-30 14:44:43+00:00
I didn't mean that this is going to be a net positive or even better than disastrous. I'm just saying that if you already have a small business in the US making stuff that was hard to sell locally given the cheaper competition from abroad, people will have no choice but come to you.

> Even domestic PCB manufacturers prices and lead times have shot up due to demand.

Exactly this, I bet those PCB manufacturers are quite happy. Some of their employees might get the idea of setting up a new business, too.
by zdragnar | 2025-04-30 14:44:51+00:00
Either a Democratic Congress or president would prevent such a bill from passing. Sales taxes are inherently flat, which to them means regressive.

The idea that we would give up progressive taxes is pretty antithetical to their platform, given how many campaign on raising taxes on high income earners.

Given how slow even a single-party-controlled Congress is, I sincerely doubt such a bill would ever see the light of day.
by karmakaze | 2025-04-30 14:44:51+00:00
> We also teach our models how to apply these principles by incorporating user signals like thumbs-up / thumbs-down feedback on ChatGPT responses.

I've never clicked thumbs up/thumbs down, only chosen between options when multiple responses were given. Even with that it was to much of a people-pleaser.

How could anyone have known that 'likes' can lead to problems? Oh yeah, Facebook.
by RHSeeger | 2025-04-30 14:45:40+00:00
> you job is NOT to bring something to school because she forgot it nor to drive her to school if the bus doesnt show up.

No, it's not my job. But it is my job as a parent to make her life easier where it makes sense (when it's not to impactful to my other responsibilities). And dropping off her computer so that she can participate in class does that (and makes her day in school more productive). And picking her up at the bus stop so she doesn't need to walk 5-10 minutes home, or 15-20 minutes to school... is a nice thing to do.

It seems like everyone in this thread against cell phones is arguing from the point of "well, you don't NEED this". It's not about need, it's about better.
by quesera | 2025-04-30 14:45:51+00:00
I appreciate this advice, but FWIW my tab habit is more a product of curiosity and time constraints, than any kind of compulsion or control issue. More of a "read-it-later-maybe" queue.

I'll open tabs for any possibly-interesting HN story, for example, and then come back later and read maybe 25% of them, often when the comment threads are still short, and almost always when only one hemisphere has had time to weigh in. Then I'll come back the next day and reload the page for new comments. Or I'll close the tab if the topic wasn't as interesting as I hoped, or if the comments are dominated by a boring tangent.

Periodicaly I sweep through the older tabs that I've never read. Some have expired in their currency. Some are reassessed for interestingness and dispatched quickly. Others are left for future sweeps.

It may not be neurotypical, but I don't think it's ADHD. :)

I should note: this is on my personal/non-sensitive browser profile. My primary work profile is usually fewer than 1000 tabs and is more actively-pruned, but generally reflects things that are still in current ongoing work. And my personal/sensitive profiles only contain a handful of tabs each, things like pending order invoices, etc.
by whatnow37373 | 2025-04-30 14:45:57+00:00
Abundance of sugar and fat triggers primal circuits which cause trouble if said sources are unnaturally abundant.

Social media follows a similar pattern but now with primal social and emotional circuits. It too causes troubles, but IMO even larger and more damaging than food.

I think this part of AI is going to be another iteration of this: taking a human drive, distilling it into its core and selling it.
by gwd | 2025-04-30 14:45:58+00:00
So I mean, I've only been reading the NT regularly for about 2 years; and in any case the source text itself is 2000 years old, and the quote itself will almost certainly have been a translation from a very different language (Aramaic into Greek). So it's certainly not impossible that those words are just the way you say that in that language.

That said:

- I have learned quite a number of languages at various levels, including French, Turkish, Mandarin, Cantonese, Koine Greek, German, and Japanese. I can have conversations in French and Mandarin, and I'm reading mid-length paragraphs in Koine Greek. So I've been exposed to a fair range of non-English idioms (as in definition 1, "natural mode of expression").

- If there were other examples of this particular idiom in the NT, the study method I use [1] is highly likely to have shown them to me; but I haven't seen other examples of it.

One thing about low-key idioms is that they're short and easy to say; e.g., the idiomatic way to say "quickly" in Mandarin is 马上, which literally means "on a horse". Nobody thinks about horses when they say that; but it's fast enough to go by quickly. When I read the words in Greek out loud, they're not quick -- it's long, and the rhythm of the words slow the phrase down.

Looking at the grammar and the context, in my judgement, I think it very unlikely to be simply be an idiomatic way to say, "Listen carefully"; I go into more detail in a sibling comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43837037

But hey, I could be wrong. :-)

[1] "Guided immersion" https://www.laleolanguage.com
by daveguy | 2025-04-30 14:46:06+00:00
Those are much much larger models, and they are proprietary. Those model providers just don't have the distilled versions identified and available.

Notice most of the models they are comparing with are 7B models. The exception is also an open weights model (Qwen-2.5-32B-RL-Zero). Even with 32B parameters the MiMo-7B outperforms it.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-04-30 14:46:19+00:00
My family is mostly Trump supporters and you might be glamorizing them.

Sadly, it's mostly just cult of personality which I figure you are graciously trying to avoid assuming.

Tariffs are the perfect example of this. Trump announces tariffs? Good, we need long-term investment in domestic production. Trump cancels them? Good, they are just a short-term negotiation tactic. Trump negotiates a trade deal? Good, now we get a better deal on imports from that country. Trump says tariffs are back on the table? Good, we need domestic production long-term.

There are no macro-level complex system ideals here. Pinning them down to one claim is like fighting jelly where on every strike it morphs into something else.
by Someone | 2025-04-30 14:46:31+00:00
> If you’re starting a business right now with the goal of selling to customers all over the world

If you do that now in the USA, there’s a fairly large risk that your exports will be taxed, and, with exports to the USA tanking, there’s excess production in the rest parts of the world, so prices will go down outside the USA, at least temporarily.

⇒ If you’re starting a business in the USA today, you should only aim for the domestic market.
by Rooster61 | 2025-04-30 14:46:40+00:00
Possibly, but most every source on the matter that I find seems to think it's quite low, and I think that tracks. Folks start off on Wayland, hit a snag installing insert_your_application_here, google and find that Wayland doesn't support XYZ due to design, and switch over to X11. It's pretty trivial to switch for most distros
by jghn | 2025-04-30 14:47:06+00:00
I both agree and have been worried that this is overly reductive.

As far as I can tell, literally nothing that I buy regularly is directly sourced from China. Or anywhere other than the US & neighboring countries. The vast majority of my groceries are locally sourced. And the vast majority of the rest come from expected regions, for instance San Marzano tomatoes from Italy. I do not regularly buy clothes, children's supplies, electronics, etc. Sure, I'll buy them once in a while but not with any regularity. My understanding is that the classic paper products famous from COVID shortages are made in the US.

So with that in mind what you say is 100% true, at least for me. But I'm not so sure. Who makes the containers that my local milk is put into? Who makes the cans that my canned goods are using? What meta-products are being consumed by the local industries, such as the ones making my TP? I have a feeling the answer is scarier than it'd seem on the surface. But I don't know.
by cjfd | 2025-04-30 14:47:16+00:00
So, a reasonable middle ground is what is needed. A country should not have so much outsourced that it is extremely vulnerable to supply chain problems. And a country should also not have so much local production that it is inefficient and poor. I think that tariffs have a role to play here but, obviously, they should not be ridiculous like the Trump tariffs. They should be a lot more predictable and if tariffs are adjusted they should change slowly over time to not cause economic disruptions.
by RHSeeger | 2025-04-30 14:47:34+00:00
> Also the linked article states that they will be allowed to use their phone when given circumstances require, which I think covers the cases you outlined

Yes. I was discussing things from the thread's title and the arguments in the thread that phones aren't useful at school. The actual action that Finland is taking (Children aren't allowed to use cellphones at school without permission, effectively) is reasonable. But it's also not what the title of this thread says.
by josefresco | 2025-04-30 14:47:48+00:00
According to Zillow $429K. Of course, what it's "worth" today vs. tomorrow is the issue here. It's the same condo with (seemingly) no improvements. The increase in value is 100% market driven. $429K could be $215K tomorrow.

As far as your "month to month" comment - I'm not a real estate investor. Just a guy, with a growing family who went to sell his house in 2008 and was told it was worth less than half of what I paid. It was a setback, we survived, we were fortunate.
by sam_lowry_ | 2025-04-30 14:48:15+00:00
> What's the benefit here (other than the usual nebulous 'because data protection and politics', that is)?

One of the few working privacy guarantees Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework (TDPF), relied on a U.S. watchdog called the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB). And Donald Trump defunded the PCLOB on January 28.

But even fully functioning TDPF was not without legal troubles.

> Where do you want to move previously cloud-based applications to?

A vast majority of migrations to the cloud that I am aware of were life-and-shift migrations. Putting software back in the locally hosted data centres is often quite feasible, as nothing gets rewritten, really.

> Who is going to maintain that non-cloud infrastructure?

It's the EU, mind you. People stick to jobs much longer than in US. From what I can see, there are still bright engineers inside organizations.

Also... it does not have to be non-cloud. Just non-US.

> How do you address and mitigate the risks involved (e.g., security, resilience)?

I guess that's very project-specific.

> That said, there are companies such as VMware that sell "local cloud" setups. Their customers seem like your likely customers

There is a whole "off Broadcom" movement since well over a year, and the winners are often EU companies.
by mrbluecoat | 2025-04-30 14:48:24+00:00
An admittedly superficial comment: what is your logo supposed to be? A mouse? Reminds me of that famous young/old optical illusion: https://www.braingle.com/brainteasers/26745/old-or-young-wom...

Great job on the tool, by the way. Anything to improve the security posture of companies is a good thing!
by vlovich123 | 2025-04-30 14:48:25+00:00
I’m not saying total weight doesn’t matter at all. I don’t know the weight of the AVP setup. And as you not properly balancing helped. Also remember that I note that you’re laterally imbalanced even when you fix the front/back issue.

But it’s obvious that total weight does matter (eg a 1 ton weight would crush your spine) but below some threshold it’s more about weight distribution and balance than total weight.
by nabla9 | 2025-04-30 14:48:26+00:00
Atlanta Fed has GDPNow forecasting model provides a "nowcast" of the official estimate.

It's currently -2.7 percent. https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow

It takes time for shipped products to stop arriving. First East Coast, then ships going trough Panama Canal stop coming to the East coast. Finally inner cities like Detroit and Chicago.

America will go to recession. Christmas orders will be sent soon and when they are canceled, those products are not produced in time for Christmas even if Trump reverses the course after 2-3 months. You can't move production into other countries in few months.
by Arn_Thor | 2025-04-30 14:48:33+00:00
We could, though. Absolutely. Literally feeding all the starving people in the world would cost a fraction of the world's surplus wealth, and a briefly disruptive but manageable readjustment of global logistics. The rest of it would be costly, but still totally doable at the cost of some inconvenience for the world's top 10%.

The problem isn't lack of solutions. It's lack of cooperation on every level from individuals to organizations to social groups to nations to transnational organizations.
by ge96 | 2025-04-30 14:48:37+00:00
tangent

I had a lazy fix for a down detection on my RPi server at home, it was pinging a domain I owned and if it couldn't hit that assumed it wasn't connected to a network/rebooted itself. I let the domain lapse and this RPi kept going down around 5 minutes... thought it was a power fault, then I remembered about that CRON job.
by mynameisvlad | 2025-04-30 14:49:03+00:00
Oh please, just because it can do (bad, sometimes horribly dangerous) turns doesn't mean that 99.9% of the time it's not just a glorified cruise control with lane centering.

I owned a Model 3 with FSD. I own a Mach-E with BlueCruise. They're equivalent for the majority of drives I've done.
by RHSeeger | 2025-04-30 14:49:15+00:00
1. I don't have a problem with my daughter owning a smartphone and using it reasonably.

2. I'm not buying my daughter a 2nd dumb phone to bring to school with her.

"Bring it but don't use it (or leave it in your locker)" is a reasonable answer to me (and is actually what Finland is doing).
by ysavir | 2025-04-30 14:49:21+00:00
I agree with your take on the purpose of schools and that smartphones contribute little.

But my concern is that actions like these teach students an additional lesson: That it's okay to coerce people into specific actions or forfeitures if it serves your purposes. Children and teens absorb a lot, and while they don't always absorb the contents of their lectures, they do typically absorb how they're treated and how that implies they can treat others.

The ultimate problem with education (at least in the US, can't speak for other countries) is that students are given very little motivation to participate in the educational process. Their participation is demanded and their disengagement is punished. There's little about the system that actually motivates and rewards their participation. If we really want students to spend less time on smartphones at schools, we should be looking at how we can restructure our approach to education so that students would actually feel encouraged to participate and ignore their smartphones.
by smallmancontrov | 2025-04-30 14:49:33+00:00
Nope. It was well understood that the American worker was on the chopping block back in the time of Triffin and even Keynes. "Win-win" was always a line sold by people who understood that it would actually be "win-lose" but who expected to be on the winning side (and generally were).

More recently, US capital owners for the last 20 years 100% understood that they were selling off the industrial capability of the USA to the CCP. It was their monetary gain but our problem, so they went forward with it.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-04-30 14:49:35+00:00
Yes, factories do not teleport.

Skilled and willing workers (except, ahem, Mexicans) don't grow on trees in a couple months.

Motivation for companies to pay real wages to Americans doesn't exist

Tariffs are a consumption tax that will probably be highly regressive.

Honestly, it seems like the Trump administration thinks he's they're just playing a game of civilization or some other 4x game and just needs to adjust the slider for a couple cities in order to enact broad-scale production changes.
by Thomas-Router | 2025-04-30 14:49:55+00:00
Wow, that's really cool! It feels a lot more mature than HeadlineSquare. Keep in touch!

At this moment, Dr. Headline only writes two news briefings per day, and they are not personalized. Every reader shares the same news. This is because Dr. Headline strives for a factual common ground for all readers. Readers can select what they want to read, but Dr. Headline's job is to provide a panoramic view of daily news landscape, organized dynamically, ranked by relative importance.

Another reason for the lack of personalization is that the cost of deep thinking of Dr. Headline is relatively high. At this moment, Dr. Headline uses about half a million LLM tokens every day, and the LLM API cost amounts to $10/day. In this way, it doesn't function like a personalized news aggregator, but more like a real news analyst that does serious work.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-30 14:50:02+00:00
> You have to (kindly and with curiosity) interrogate them a bunch to figure it all out.

The trickiest bit is navigating the, ah, information gap. If you don't listen to Mark Levin or watch Fox News, your interlocutor is going to teach you about a bunch of things going on that you had no clue about (and when you look up the stuff afterward, at least 90% of it's pure bullshit) and you're going to get blank stares or hostility if you bring up any of a wide swath of current events that you assume everyone knows about.

You've gotta just roll with what they say and not do much talking, basically. You mustn't act surprised or incredulous when they make claims about things going on that you're pretty sure aren't real, you mustn't present counter-examples, you mustn't keep pushing if you try to broach a topic you assume is neutral and widely understood and they start to bristle at it.
by gabigrin | 2025-04-30 14:50:21+00:00
Thank you!

I checked your project, loved the idea and implementation! Played with it a bit, was very slick. Going to read the paper soon. Congrats

PS1: A poster about Flyde, the visual-programming was accepted to VL/HCC 23 - https://conf.researchr.org/details/vlhcc-2023/vlhcc-2023-pos... PS2: We call our AI copilot "Flowpilot" as well :D
by kristopolous | 2025-04-30 14:50:27+00:00
One groups principles are hierarchy, control, and cruelty.

Arbitrary corrupt incompetency is what they're looking for.

Caring about other, having respect, being sensitive, these are all 'woke' things from the "great awakening" cult.

I want more affordable college and the people in charge want to send people like me to concentration camps through kangaroo courts. This is the difference.
by _1tem | 2025-04-30 14:50:30+00:00
AI doesn’t replace traditional jobs. Like most technological revolutions, it requires rethinking everything from first principles in order to actually work.

The real AI impact is happening at companies that have never hired anyone yet. You need to think: should this job even exist before hiring and design the processes at your company to achieve good-enough results with AI before even considering hiring anyone. I think Sam Altmans prediction of a billion-dollar-one-man-companies is spot on - you just need a single driver to coordinate AI agents.

Ironically I think YCs all-in bet on AI investments is precisely what will bring about its downfall - one of the first jobs to go will be tech venture capital because you only need VC money to hire.