MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by brookst | 2025-04-03 12:54:37+00:00
There is no “logic” that any two country pairs should have an equal trade balance.

“Belief” or “dogma” or even “idea” would work, but there’s no logic in that claim.

There’s not even a policy goal. If the intent is to convert the US from a net importer to neutral or even a net exporter, it means our cost of production needs to be about average. Which means our populace’s quality of life needs to be about average; wealthy countries are more expensive to produce in. Mix in the supposed interest in economic and social liberty, and you’ve got a country trying to destroy its own wealth in the name of controlling what its freedom-loving citizens buy

There is no logic here. It’s drunk monkeys all the way down.
by giantg2 | 2025-04-03 12:54:55+00:00
A third party has never had enough support to really be viable. Nor have we had multiple alternative parties with viable support. Right now it's all or nothing. If you had multiple new options with nuanced positions (even just filling the quadrants of social/fiscal conservative/liberal), then people could have real options. I admit this is unlikely under the current structure. However, it could take shape with structural changes to the voting process. Yes, even with some of its negatives, ranked choice might be one possible road to multiple mainstream parties.
by the_gipsy | 2025-04-03 12:54:58+00:00
> I think the wealthy elite who are siding with Trump are charting a plan to return the US to the same kind of domestically-focused economy

You're delusional, if you think there is any kind of plan going on here. Nobody knew any plan beyond "tariffs" and ideas about invasions coming out of thin air. The tariff numbers are a complete joke.

No, there is no grand scheme, hidden behind an act of absolute incompetence. It's just a short-term money/power grab for the already rich. An attempt to turn the world's "hyperpower" as you put it, into a second-world oligarchy. This may end up in total disaster, that is, a thirld-world oligarchy, if you look at China. But it's hard to actually look at China from the West.
by coffeefirst | 2025-04-03 12:54:58+00:00
Yes. These are College Freshman Essay economics, where you know just enough to declare it's time to go bold and are still stupid enough to believe it will work.

It's not that there's no strategy, it's that it was designed by reckless amateurs who haven't done the reading, haven't consulted with anyone that understands all the trade-offs, and have an uncapped appetite for risk.

The TV version works out perfectly, since the writers control the ending.
by SkipperCat | 2025-04-03 12:55:20+00:00
Fair point, but America is getting rid of the parts of government that provide stability across the country and world. I don't see any major changes to the US war machine.

Shutting down USAID, cutting education, health benefits and dismantling the checks on executive power do nothing to curb what criticize. These actions actually destabilize and only give greater chance that what you dislike becomes more prevalent.
by xeroc | 2025-04-03 12:55:30+00:00
Hey,

I am Fabian and made my PhD in communications engineering - hence, an engineering approach to the entire project: just get things done.

In the last 10 years, I have been pretty close to the entire blockchain ecosystem (as long as it was humanly possible to follow it all). In that time, I have witness all sorts of cash grabs, from forks, to ICOs, NFTs and Memecoins.

What opened my eyes was pump.fun. A memecoin project that simply allows people to create a token for a meme (yea, literally, a picture) and have it traded. Ignoring all the drama and scams, the interesting part is that a lot of people are willing to put a lot of money behind something that is (in my view) essentially worthless.

Switching context, I always wanted to find a way to make Open Source Software stronger. Either by coding myself (bunch of open source repos in my github) or by contributing to other code. I love the idea of being able to fix code that doesn't do exactly as I needed it.

A year ago or so, i came up with the desire to help Open source developers monetize their code. After lots of long evenings and nights, it occurred to me that the easiest approach with the least drama is similar to what pump.fun really does:

* create a token per github repo * have people entertain themselves by trading engagement token (that's how i call them) * earn revenue for the developer by trading fees.

Pump.fun made 300Mio in just 6 months - again - by offering to trade memes, crazy. Isn't it?!

Anyways, after tons of architectural changes and testing, I've reached a status where people can actually test tokenizing their github repos.

That's my story .. at least a bit of it :D
by glenstein | 2025-04-03 12:55:37+00:00
It truly is, and it's the culmination of a long history of development to get to this point. Back in, I want to say 2016 or so, we had Steam Machines, which were a series of hardware partnerships with various vendors for a console-style form factor of essentially PC hardware running on the first version of Steam OS.

It was an incredible idea, but at the time rather frustratingly, I think some people came down with what I like to call The Verge Syndrome, which is to judge things on whether or not they're an overnight success, and otherwise deemed failures. So, according to some people, the fact that there were fewer Steam Machines than PlayStations in the world meant that the project as a whole was a failure.

And so the Steam Machine was not successful (by that metric at least), but it got the ball rolling on increasing sophistication in developing the Linux ecosystem and the understanding of hardware that culminated in the Steam Deck, which is a triumphant rebalancing of the PC gaming universe, away from dependence on Windows. But try telling that to someone in 2016.

I'm happy to sing the praises of Valve, but I think a particular distinguishing virtue they're holding on to is being willing to play the long game and not giving up in the absence of overnight success.
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-03 12:55:44+00:00
> My only hope is that this is part of some grand bargain where other countries reduce theirs on US goods and things reach a more balanced equilibrium.

The thing is that we don't. That 39% Trump claims Europe is levying on US goods? It doesn't exist. I've heard they include VAT in this which makes no sense because it applies to all goods including those made locally. That is not a trade tariff. It's just internal taxation.

However I've also heard they calculated it with the trade deficit (which in itself makes no sense, it's not a tariff) but in the case of the EU that makes even less sense as Trump always quotes the deficit on goods, but ignores the deficit on services (eg IT) which is highly in favour of the US.

Also when I hear people say "they don't buy American cars in Europe", we do have American brands like Ford and Tesla. Ford just sell smaller models designed for our market here. Those big SUVs and pickups are not suitable for our traffic or environment.
Tell HN: Email client shortwave removing sidebar for "future AI features"
by jFriedensreich | 2025-04-03 12:56:13+00:00
Shortwave, the (up until now) most promising email client with DNA from the still unsurpassed and dearly missed google inbox, just removed the industry standard sidebar that shows email labels like inbox or archive with counts. When questioned about the disturbing move, the company answered this was necessary as the space was needed for "upcoming AI features". Has everyone now completely lost their minds? Are we approaching the NFT phase of AI products?
by aceartanonymous | 2025-04-03 12:56:27+00:00
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About the full stack developer position. We are a no asshole company. If you think you know everything, no need to apply. We would prefer applications with experience in TYPO3 but if you can display in your interview that you can code in a language of your choice then apply.

You should have C1 German language knowledge. We talk to each other and with our clients and via email in German. On the other hand we code in English so you should have a good knowledge of English as well. A German working permit would also be a requirement.

We have nice perks such as bonuses when the year went well. We have a company outing every year. Christmas celebration is also a standard. You will receive a laptop with the operating system of your choice and the option to do limited home office.

Check out our website at https://www.aceart.de/ and send your applications to kontakt@aceart.de with a mention of hacker news aceartanonymous.
by refurb | 2025-04-03 12:56:35+00:00
Vietnam does manipulate its currency. It’s not something that hasn’t been widely discussed for the past decade or more.

And if you artificially keep your exchange rate 10% higher, that’s an effective 10% tariff on US imports.

I have no idea if the tariffs will work but I don’t fault a country for saying “we’re matching the tariffs you apply to our exports”
by troupo | 2025-04-03 12:56:36+00:00
> Yes, the type of drama does include the range you're describing

When your "certain type of drama" covers every genre under the sun, and you pretend that Dexter and Justice League are somehow the dame type of genre, excuse me for bot taking your words seriously.

> I don't know what comedies you're watching, but it's not the case.

Whatever comes across my radar.

BTW it's also quite telling how in your classification there's "certain type of drama" (90% of genres apparently) that is susceptible to the sludge, and then comedies and reality shows (the only two you could come up with that are not. Even though comedies, especially movies, are often just as drab and gray as every other genre)
by EthanHeilman | 2025-04-03 12:57:17+00:00
I believe this poster is viewing this statement by another Hn poster as official confirmation that US foreign policy has been driven a single mission of subjugating other countries. I disagree with this view.

The US is powerful on the international stage because the US is not an empire. US global power is based on the US being a mostly fair dealer. This is extraordinarily rare in world history and extremely powerful because it transforms a zero sum international competition game into a game where most countries are invested in the success of most of other countries.

Most of human history follows the logic of "The further off from England the nearer is to France" and that is why most of human history is soaked in blood.

Until this year, Europe didn't worry about war with the US. This meant that Europe didn't have to consider the risks that trading with the US or buying US weapons would weaken them relative to the US in a future conflict.

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Melians: "And how pray, could it turn out as good for us to serve as for you to rule?"

Athenians: "Because you would have the advantage of submitting before suffering the worst, and we should gain by not destroying you."

Melians: "So [that] you would not consent to our being neutral, friends instead of enemies, but allies of neither side?"

Athenians: "No; for your hostility cannot so much hurt us as your friendship will be an argument to our subjects of our weakness and your enmity of our power."
by Xunjin | 2025-04-03 12:57:50+00:00
That's why the public should demand their politicians to choose a better path for them and not fall for “we need to destroy the enemy”. When you close your eyes to your country's foreign “misbehaviours” (put it lightly) don't feel shocked when that comes back to you.

When you dismantle a government, which does include judiciary/legislative powers, who is gonna counterweight the executive branch?
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-03 12:57:54+00:00
That was related to payment via Monero/XMR/...

The problem is, if you want some "proof of money"/"proof of stake", site operators set that up on their own which is a ton of work and people will not want to set up payments for their favourite porn site AND the government can trace back people from payments to site visits, or site operators contract a major vendor (similar to Stripe, Paypal, ...) who handles it and can then trivially be subpoena-ed for records.
by acquacow | 2025-04-03 12:58:09+00:00
I just finished completely rebuilding a 2008 and 2010 macbook pro. The older ones are quite serviceable. This round, the speaker surrounds had cracked causing buzzing audio or no audio. I managed to ebay brand new speaker replacements and got them installed. I cleaned everything and re-pasted the CPU/GPU while I was in there as well. They are on El Capitan and High Sierra, but can be patched to be upgraded to Mojave if I wish. Currently running a LTS version of Firefox as my browser.
by INTPenis | 2025-04-03 12:58:44+00:00
You can run steam games offline on a regular PC.

But I think you're trying to make a point about Steam DRM.

Someone once said; there are two DRMs that everyone loves, Apple and Steam.

And I have to say it's true. I am normally not a proponent of DRM, I've been pirating since TURBO 250 tapes on c64, but I do love Steam. I love it for what Gabe has done for us gamers on Linux.

In my opinion he deserves 30%.
by roenxi | 2025-04-03 12:58:54+00:00
The technical terms for the first few in that list are sexism, ageism and racism. While it is true people do that, it is considered a bad idea because it doesn't capture reality in a productive and meaningful way. And doesn't seem relevant to keiferski's comment.

The aim should be that people have to voluntarily associate with their tribe. It might be the hermit tribe where all the hermits sign up to be alone together.
by lolinder | 2025-04-03 12:58:59+00:00
In this case, the "our revenue continues to grow" is not transparency, it's deliberately obfuscating the increase in expenses that led to layoffs being necessary. Not mentioned is the insanely expensive legal battle that they launched with WP Engine, which is already a massive drain on resources and a huge financial risk given how strong WP Engine's case is.

"Our revenue continues to grow" doesn't matter if unnecessary expenses outstrip it.
Show HN: Visualizing AD data for security with Python and Obsidian
by jackson12t | 2025-04-03 12:59:09+00:00
I put this tool together a few years back, and just recently got around to making it robust enough to share: https://github.com/pangolinsec/shihtzu

It parses ldapsearch or dsquery output and writes markdown files with some extra logic added in so you can visualize nested memberships when you open the folder with Obsidian and use the graph view--it's kind of like a very low-powered Bloodhound (https://github.com/SpecterOps/BloodHound) in that sense, but it is also much quieter. It also parses `useraccountcontrol` and some of the logon-relevant attributes in AD to automatically tag accounts that are particularly interesting or uninteresting to attackers.

Some core features: - Parses LDAP attributes from text files into structured Obsidian markdown - Intelligently categorizes objects as Users, Groups, or Computers - Automatically identifies administrators and administrative privileges - Detects potentially risky account configurations (stale accounts, low logon counts) - Creates Obsidian links between related objects to enable network visualization - Processes UserAccountControl (UAC) values with explanations - Converts Windows timestamps to human-readable format - Smart append mode that only adds new data to existing files - Tagging for easy filtering and searching in Obsidian

It's not novel, but it's been quite useful for me in a few situations.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-04-03 12:59:16+00:00
Maybe obvious to others, but on MacOS I had to `brew install telnet` since it was not installed by default and then `telnet flame.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au 4242`.

In the 90's I thought it would make for a wild scene in a (cyberpunk?) story where the protagonist agrees to meet up with a possible informant in a MUD bar. The two apparently idly chatting possibly state secrets while fights between fighters and magic users break out around them.
by kjuulh | 2025-04-03 12:59:20+00:00
I feel the pain, I had so much trouble setting up QMK to my handwired keyboard. I had to give up on VIA and VIAL and just config my keys in text.

It basically took the same amount of time 3d printing my case, soldering it (Dactyl Manuform) etc. As it did configuring it. Massive pain, and quite unclear documentation on how to actually set up a handwired keyboard. Next time will be smoother, and I probably should document what I did ;) I honestly, felt like a rookie programmer over again, good fun, but super challenging.
by forrestthewoods | 2025-04-03 12:59:37+00:00
They have an implicit most favored nation clause which is by definition anti-competitive.

Valve takes 30%. You can’t, in practice, sell your game on Steam and on another store at a lower price. That’s anticompetitive.

Downvote me if you want. But I recommend reading the transcripts from the Wolfire Games antitrust lawsuit against Valve before you do! They’re not a good look for Valve to say the least.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-03 13:00:29+00:00
Why are you so certain that these tariff plans were still being decided by Trump the day before? He sure likes to put on that front publicly, but I'm less clear on how we'd know whether that's him playing games or an actual representation of the reality of how his cabinet is operating.

If one does want to impose a large block of tariffs, it does seem reasonable that you would want to keep details quiet until the entire package is announced. You wouldn't want other countries responding early
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-03 13:00:48+00:00
>How do you qualify them as a monopoly?

If you're a game dev, small or big it doesn't matter, and your game isn't on Steam, it might as well not exist. The sales and exposure of a game on Steam dwarf all other alternate PC storefronts. Even Ubisoft caved in and released their games on Steam.

Monopoly doesn't mean being the only game in town, you can have 100 other competitors, but if your competitors have <10% market share and you have >90% then you're basically a monopoly.
by Symbiote | 2025-04-03 13:01:03+00:00
Fulfilment doesn't have to go through eBay for this.

If I sell a package on eBay.de to a buyer in the UK, I get a customs tracking number to show eBay has collected the required UK VAT. That goes in the form when buying the delivery label and completing the customs (export) declaration.

The EU prepared for years setting this up. It meant all the national post offices updating their systems, and integrating the private parcel delivery companies. It was planned before Covid, then delayed because of the concern for possible disruption.

The USA seems not to have done this planning, and certainly hasn't allowed the months it will take to prepare for it. At least they may have some of the other half of the system, having set that up for exports to the EU/UK.
by Retr0id | 2025-04-03 13:01:08+00:00
Yes, got mine a few years back from taobao (I no longer remember specific details). IIRC the brightness control Just Worked however the chip in charge of that seems to have failed at some point and now I'm stuck at 100% brightness (I no longer daily-drive this thinkpad so I haven't bothered fixing it properly). Unsure if it's down to a design fault with the mod board or I just got unlucky.
by os2warpman | 2025-04-03 13:01:33+00:00
> Education worked to an extent; most will not devolve into dumb fucks.

Your inequality symbols are backwards.

There are not fewer than 1 million cops in the US there are more than 1 million.

There are indeed fewer than 700,000 politicians but I'm going to assume you meant to say "more than 700k". The majority of those persons are local representatives who have little authority beyond determining what days trash collection occurs and whether a specific plot of land can be zoned residential, commercial, or industrial.

Remember, the alligator always wants to eat the larger number.
by danso | 2025-04-03 13:01:35+00:00
Sounds like the Switch 2 might be a bit more powerful and similarly priced to the 3-year-old Deck. But even if Switch’s hardware feature set was substantially better, Steam’s much cheaper (and more expansive) library is still the killer feature. I don’t think the Switch 1’s Zelda launch title has ever been discounted lower than $40 despite being 8 years old. On Steam, virtually every top title will be 50% within 2 years, if not 1.
by sneak | 2025-04-03 13:01:48+00:00
It’s just a different layer of abstraction. The chips on your SSD in your thinkpad are also soldered without any easy way to replace them save for replacing the whole SSD. Same for your RAM.

Now in a modern laptop it’s the top case or bottom case or board; the robot-made factory parts are bigger integrated components of the system. All you care about is your data anyway, the repairability of the system as a whole by swapping out components at home (admittedly a large culture in the PC world, as silly as it is these days when all you’re doing is connecting a robot factory gpu to a robot factory cpu and choosing a PSU and RAM (also made in robot factories)) isn’t that important.

I hope one day that computing gets so small and light and dense and integrated that I can’t replace any single components without a robot factory and/or microscope. I want a solid microscopically integrated slab (which is what my iPad Pro is basically approaching).
by ziddoap | 2025-04-03 13:02:05+00:00
>If you're a game dev, small or big it doesn't matter, and your game isn't on Steam, it might as well not exist

That's an exaggeration.

World of Warcraft, COD, League of Legends, all exist just fine. For brand new games, The Bazaar is doing very well and they're using their own launcher.

(Slightly off-topic, but The Bazaar is really good, for anyone who likes card-based auto-battler games! Highly recommend.)
by yyyk | 2025-04-03 13:02:09+00:00
The admin's think is that any negative trade balance is 'exploiting' the US. Logically, the opposite would mean US is exploiting others. So the only 'proper' balance is zero, which requires managed trade. An obvious impossibility in this age. There are ways to rebalance, they require time and patience and thought (the latter seems most lacking).
by nopakos | 2025-04-03 13:02:25+00:00
> What still baffles me is how people act like this was some kind of thoughtful decision

Maybe it's the "Why not inject disinfectant to beat covid" [1] for the economy. But this time nobody around him said no. (note: added around him)

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52407177
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-03 13:03:00+00:00
Those games are the exceptions that prove the rule. There's some major gaming franchises out there that basically have their own gravity field at this point and can drive people to different storefronts(Fortnite, Minecraft, etc), but outside of those games, forget it, if your new game isn't a AAAA blockbuster and isn't on Steam, most people won't really carea bout it.
Solve the hCaptcha challenge with multimodal large language model
by echosec | 2025-04-03 13:03:02+00:00
hCaptcha Challenger harnesses the spatial chain-of-thought (SCoT) reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to construct an agentic workflow framework. This architecture empowers autonomous agents to perform zero-shot adaptation on diverse spatial-visual tasks through dynamic problem-solving workflows, eliminating the requirement for task-specific fine-tuning or additional training parameters.