MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dylan604 | 2025-04-03 15:52:10+00:00
> It seems to be used exclusively by smart people as a means of extracting wealth from people who don't understand it.

How is that any different from other financial markets? A fool and his money are easily parted, while targeting desperate people with get rich quick schemes are also an easy play. The crypto/stocks/etc are just different tools to achieve the same result.
by ck425 | 2025-04-03 15:52:17+00:00
Best Software Engineering advice I ever heard was at a conference talk by a guy called Dan North: "Think of code like surgery".

Basically Surgery is a means to an end (patient gets better) and a useful tool for achieving that but it's also dangerous so only used when necessary. If other treatments can fix the problem you try them first. If surgery is required you only do the minimum required to treat the issue.

Code is similar. More code means more maintenance, more tech debt, slower deliverables in future and higher risk of dependencies no one understands. So when coding ask "Can I fix this without code?" because if yes it's often easier in the long run and "What's the bare minimum/simplest code I need to write to fix the issue?".
by cooper_ganglia | 2025-04-03 15:52:28+00:00
That actually checks out. If you take the median U.S. household income ($74,580) and factor in the effective tax rate (10.9%), eliminating federal income taxes would save the average household $8,167.50 per year. Subtract the $3,488.27 in extra costs from tariffs, and the net savings is still $4,679.23.

So yeah, if those numbers hold up, the median American household actually comes out ahead after everything is accounted for.
by wruza | 2025-04-03 15:52:30+00:00
Everyone can come up with technical ways to backup and wipe. The most interesting question is how you answer questions like "it's clearly wiped/burner, do you have backup accounts, sir, and how you're gonna restore and can we have these passwords?". Because everyone is a hacker hero until faced with the option to lie to border control and get called out either way.

Your worst enemy here is a thought that they are stupid and that you can confidently lie in a tight room, surrounded by police officers. Neither is true.
by Ukv | 2025-04-03 15:52:47+00:00
To my understanding, those paywall bypass sites used archive.today, and archive.today started redirecting them to RT based on referer header.

> The most likely explanation is “either a prankster, or that Russian hackers have actually compromised these sites,” said Matt Pearl, who previously worked at the National Security Council, and is now the director of the Strategic Technologies Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Seems more likely to me that the archive.today owner (supposedly "Denis Petrov") was either worried that explicitly advertising as a "paywall bypass" may attract legal attention/blocks, or just didn't want those services "freeloading" off his archive.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-03 15:52:51+00:00
The way its being framed in the public - and often in discussions even in this Hacker News comments section - is its an alternative to raising other taxes. Trump is selling it that way, along with simultaneous tax cuts he wants to either extend or implement, which goes to show the tariffs are not some way of addressing the national debt concerns either.

While nothing does, the actual discussion around it isn't allowing any room for non-tariff tax increases regardless.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-03 15:53:08+00:00
I too want to highlight this, since it's one of the cleanest case of blatant equivocation sneaking past people.

>> Just like in math, the rational is a subset of the real

That only works if you think Rationality ⊂ Reality the same way ℚ ⊂ ℝ — which is like saying Space-time ⊂ Archery because time flies like an arrow.

Wordplay is not an argument.
by 0x5f3759df-i | 2025-04-03 15:53:10+00:00
This is basic economics that the administration refuses to understand.

Trade allows you to consume beyond your nation’s manpower and resource constraints.

And it’s even stupider when you’re putting tariffs on raw materials like Canadian lumber. So not only do we need to magically find millions of workers to work in these new factories we also need to find a bunch of lumberjacks and start cutting down our own trees? We’re at 4% unemployment, who’s going to do this work?

We literally don’t have the people to make this work.
by unclad5968 | 2025-04-03 15:54:08+00:00
I have used this language for a few things (csv parsing and some simple personal cli tools). Other than the normal pre-1.0 issues it's great. I wish it had a tagged union type, but it looks like that's planned based on the github issue tracker.

It is a pretty big improvement on C without changing the ABI. Maybe not the improvements I would make if I was smart enough to make a compiler, but better than doing C which I also enjoy despite it's warts.
by vel0city | 2025-04-03 15:54:11+00:00
I don't mind not having an external battery now that these laptops can charge off USB-C. So many ways to get some kind of USB-C power source to connect to and get a bit more charge, and then that spare energy source is usable with pretty much all the rest of my electronics. Whereas before it was a big, proprietary battery that only worked with one device and needed to be connected to the laptop to charge some time later.

They're still pretty easy to find replacements for when they go bad.
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-03 15:54:14+00:00
Inflation is inflation.

The fact that we decided allow a massive tax increase by executive fiat is irrelevant. The fact that we’re risking a death spiral from decreased consumer demand via government imposed inflation is irrelevant.

You’re right in that the usual formula of turning the knobs on interest rates to ease economic challenges is unlikely to work. We may have to turn the knobs to prevent a total death spiral, however. Get ready for 16% mortgages.
by cloverich | 2025-04-03 15:55:24+00:00
The tax increase wouldnt be used to create better jobs, they would be used bolster social welfare and reduce the national debt, at the expense of wealth generation in the upper class.

The primary benefit of the approach is that the pre-tarrif economy is strong, health care, high prices, and very high SFH prices are the primary ways people are hurting. Modest taxes as noted above address 2/3 without upending the economy in the process.

Prices wont come down, but unlike the tarrif plan they also wont go up so... seems like a better option at least to my relatively uninformed brain.
by numeri | 2025-04-03 15:55:25+00:00
No, avoiding anything potentially negative is not what I'm saying. Your argument (that context always matters) leaves discourse and society highly susceptible to dog-whistles[1], by forcing all good-faith participants to interpret all communication in the most generous way possible. Bad-faith participants, on the other hand, are free to exploit that generosity.

By calling out and avoiding dog-whistles, even including accidental Nazi slogans (once pointed out), we reduce the impact of this attack on good-faith discussion and actual increase the level of openness and being up-front with our opinions.

One key difference between this and virtue signaling or thought policing is that it's the specific wording that is avoided, and not the underlying thoughts or opinions.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_whistle_(politics)
by sunny_90 | 2025-04-03 15:55:28+00:00
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by ty6853 | 2025-04-03 15:55:32+00:00
>>Why don't they just make the special interests pay their own multi-trillion dollar war bills instead of sabotaging US universities with surprise taxes?

>Either compare ideal tax structures with “no loopholes” (none of these exist in the real world) or compare actually-existing tax structures.

Hence I cannot compare your suggestion with the current system as it is apple to oranges because loopholes would exist.

My thesis is a flat tax would help to minimize the very loopholes you damn. The larger the tax code and the more it panders to particular interest, generally the more opportunity for 'loopholes.'
by boomskats | 2025-04-03 15:56:06+00:00
I love my x2100. It is the machine I keep coming back to, and find more reliable and enjoyable than any other I've owned (including ones that outperform it on linux, like my oled ryzen-based t14s).

I've been trying to rationalise why that's the case for years - whether it's the keyboard, the trackpoint, its ability to survive my casual brutality, some nostalgic emotional/romantic aspect, etc., but recently I've kinda Stopped Worrying and just unapologetically embraced it. I've been wandering around kubecon with it for the last couple of days and getting 9-10 hours per battery and it hasn't skipped a beat.

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by vessenes | 2025-04-03 15:56:07+00:00
A couple of comments. What’s not that interesting here is that adding search to an LLM increases accuracy — this is known, and largely implemented via RAG or other search pipelines which then stuff information into the context.

What might be interesting here is that they are thinking about taxonomic tool use-cases, and exploring training and therefore optimizing the utilization of them.

This to me is a proof of concept — an interesting one, but just a proof of concept. You can see from their example search that the model over-relied on search; it didn’t need to re-search three times to get the answer.

A next step that I think would be useful would be updating the reward function to penalize search; pressing the model to use search when it needs to and not before. This to me is a likely framework going forward where MCP tool costing matters, and would be really useful to have in the next gen of tool calling LLMs.

In the case of search we’d hopefully get a really useful signal and outcome for times the model is unsure — it would call a friend, and get good info! And for times it’s sure, we’d have taught it not to waste reward on that.
by kolanos | 2025-04-03 15:56:25+00:00
> Good faith negotiations with our allies and trading partners that creates a balance of trade and reduces wealth inequality in the west.

We can look at a 50+ year history of every major U.S. trade partner increasing their protectionist policies, largely targeting the U.S., while the U.S. allowed trade deficits to balloon out of control. I don't see evidence that this "good faith" approach you speak of has any viability at all. The global economy can't say with a straight face that it has been a fair trade partner with the United States. For the past 50+ years the U.S. market has been open for business for all global producers, but the same has been far from true for pretty much every major U.S. trade partner. You can't even operate a company in China without 50% Chinese ownership, for example. The global stance on trade has all but made this an inevitable outcome.
by tialaramex | 2025-04-03 15:56:27+00:00
Even the Americans, the State Department has (had?) people whose job is to help with nation building and they'd learned that if you copy-paste the US model you're basically just setting up a dictatorship in advance, the "President" will seize power, whoops.

It's impressive they got to forty odd Presidents with only one civil war so far, but it's just luck and it didn't last.
by gadflyinyoureye | 2025-04-03 15:56:40+00:00
Also you were outvoted because the Dems didn't have a reasonable alternative. Mrs Harris was incompetent. She was a poor public speaker, which further made her look incompetent given her previous role as a prosecutor. Further, the Dems didn't offer her as part of an open primary. They forced her on everyone.

The US presently suffers from future shock and stilted political process. We need more parties and better voting options both in the HR department and the mechanical process like ranked voting.

Since both parties benefit from the status quo, we shall see no change.
by gwalkerux | 2025-04-03 15:57:03+00:00
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by noahjk | 2025-04-03 15:57:19+00:00
Once I got over my fear of clicking their links, which I assumed would open a new page (but instead just expanded a pane in-line), I really enjoyed it. I’m very wary of opening new pages. (Also, I first tried to hold-click on the link to open in new tab, but it just behaved like regular text and highlighted, which led to a momentary confusion. I would have preferred a more obvious indication of what would happen when clicking, like a down chevron or something.)
by ryanckulp | 2025-04-03 15:57:24+00:00
ok back up - you claimed we used fake data. obviously you are referring to "John bought X, Y mins ago" notifications. the actual product.

for our homepage counter, this is not customers. this is notification count. with thousands of connected websites, each showing multiple notifications per page load, we quick racked up billions of notifications shown.

running `select count(*) from events` on every landing page load is untenable. instead, every N period we'd check on our avg daily notification count, then update the landing page JS to give users a sense of scale. this number was perpetually under-reporting our actual metrics.

for metrics that actually matter, like signups, customers etc, we created an Open API and read from those metrics on various landing pages: https://fomo.com/open https://docs.fomo.com/reference/fomo-open

and for the core product notifications, "John bought X, Y mins ago" we only allowed data from native integrations. if we saw someone pinging webhooks to us with fake data, we deleted their account. if someone asked for a CSV upload feature, we deleted their account. i cannot say the same for our competitors, who welcomed these use cases with open arms.

bottom line - you're a hater. you don't like Fomo (fine), so you're trying to sabotage the sale of another, completely unrelated product. think about where this bitterness comes from and do better next time.
Ask HN: Which, if any, AIs can code a correct solution to this puzzle?
by amichail | 2025-04-03 15:57:27+00:00
You are given an array of n x n integers.

The goal is to end up with an array in which all entries are equal.

Four kinds of moves are allowed:

(1) rotate a row

(2) rotate a column

(3) add 1 to all entries in a row

(4) add 1 to all entries in a column

Show the goal is achievable if and only if the sum of the numbers in the initial configuration is congruent to 0 mod n.

Also write a python program to solve the puzzle whenever it is possible to do so.
by WorldMaker | 2025-04-03 15:57:45+00:00
> overeducated c-suite

Arguably the modern MBA has gotten so insular, with many graduating with an MBA having only the barest modicum of humanities courses and the barest foot out of the door of a business college, that despite supposedly representing a higher University degree it seems increasingly fair to call it "undereducated". MBA programs got too deep into the business of selling as many MBAs as they could as quickly as they could they forgot to check their own curriculum for things like "perverse incentives" and "regulatory capture" and "tribalism".
by jancsika | 2025-04-03 15:57:51+00:00
> My favorite everyday olive oil comes from Tunisia. They now have a 38% tariff on them.

"Silver lining:" there's a good chance that oil was either rancid or doesn't pass basic quality tests for the "extra-virgin" part:

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/imported-olive-oil-quality-unre...

The COOC web site lists California olive oils that they've certified. Last time I checked California Gold Olive Oil was certified, and they even sell it in half and full gallons. That's just one I've tried and liked-- there are a bunch of others listed on the COOC web site. (Edit: there are probably certification trade associations for other countries/regions, COOC is just the one I'm familiar with.)
by lern_too_spel | 2025-04-03 15:57:58+00:00
Krugman's response:

> First, look at the whole piece. It was a thing for the Times magazine's 100th anniversary, written as if by someone looking back from 2098, so the point was to be fun and provocative, not to engage in careful forecasting; I mean, there are lines in there about St. Petersburg having more skyscrapers than New York, which was not a prediction, just a thought-provoker.

> But the main point is that I don't claim any special expertise in technology -- I almost never make technological forecasts, and the only reason there was stuff like that in the 98 piece was because the assignment required that I do that sort of thing. The issues about Bitcoin, however, are not technological! Everyone agrees that it's technically very sweet. But does it work as money? That's a very different kind of question.

https://www.businessinsider.com/paul-krugman-responds-to-int...
by Cyph0n | 2025-04-03 15:58:04+00:00
Many Spanish and Italian oil blends do indeed use (unprocessed) olive oil from Tunisia. This is a problem for Tunisia because we’re missing out on the meat of the profit margin generated by the final bottled product.

We have had recent successes with developing & selling our own bottled products directly - Terra Delyssa is one good example that has gained traction in the US market.
by mingus88 | 2025-04-03 15:58:38+00:00
I worked for a government contractor and this was common guidance over a decade ago if you are in any sensitive role

It is not hard to imagine a scenario where a foreign government might surreptitiously plant a rootkit on a lowly IT workers device as they transit customs, as a means to pivot for corporate or other espionage

It is much more common to phish the administrative staff for a firm to get network access but you would have to be a fool to ignore the vector of customs simply using direct physical access for a much more effective hack
by jamesgeck0 | 2025-04-03 15:58:57+00:00
> I wouldn't be surprised if Sony's next console has a cheap card reader to allow physical copies with a similar system.

Modern games often require a day one patch. Functionally it's not much different; you need to download a bunch of stuff to play the game on the disc. There have been a few instances where the publisher didn't even ship anything playable on the disc.
by firefax | 2025-04-03 15:58:58+00:00
To piggyback, there was a thread a while back about a python library that would generate QR code images.

Not just the thing where the QR code is blown up so large you can insert a corporate logo, but you'd feed it a source image and it would make the image itself into a QR code.

I thought I'd bookmarked it but cannot find it and searching around has only found me the type of QR code generator I detailed earlier in the post, which doesn't look like an actual raster image.

(Apparently it dealt better with logos and shapes than full on photos of people but was capable)
by johnisgood | 2025-04-03 15:58:59+00:00
When I read manual pages and see the so called "harmful" words, I am not impacted by them negatively because I am aware of the context. Why is this should not be taught? I understand what you are trying to say, but you even said it yourself, "accidental", so there was no intent either to begin with, let alone context in which it is embedded.

> thought policing is that it's the specific wording that is avoided, and not the underlying thoughts or opinions.

So we should avoid the wording / phrasing such as "killing children" in IT? It refers to well-known concepts, within a specific context. It is bad outside of IT, for sure, but not inside IT, it refers to ending processes (as you probably already know)
by svara | 2025-04-03 15:59:08+00:00
It's true that free trade is hugely beneficial to the US economy as a whole, particularly with the USD being the reserve currency.

The flow of goods is balanced by a flow of US dollars to other countries, which are ultimately cycled back into the US financial system - enabling budget deficits and an abundance of capital to invest in high growth industries.

The flip side of this is that it also drives inequality - the upside of this system is felt by the entrepreneurs, investors and high-skill employees in tech and finance, while the downside is concentrated with low-skill workers whose jobs are offshored to lower wage countries.

The obvious solution is not to hurt the economy as a whole, but rather for the government to lower the cost of high-quality education, build out social systems, and invest into onshoring select strategic industries by raising taxes at the high end.

As such, this administration's policies are foolish, but many on this very site would need to give up a little bit of their privilege to reduce the pain felt by many of their fellow citizens.

That is something that in the current American political climate seems a nearly impossible sell.
by davejohnclark | 2025-04-03 15:59:10+00:00
> The main source of "money printing" is banks making loan

Sounds like a similar mechanism as the UK. I'm not aware if the system is exactly the same or not.

It was apparently so poorly understood in the UK that the bank of England wrote a paper (Money creation the Modern Economy https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...) in 2014 to clarify where new money comes from. There's a good summary here https://positivemoney.org/uk-global/archive/proof-that-banks....

It's not something I was aware of until recently, but I was surprised that it was not more under the control of the government and central bank (in the UK, anyway, if it turns out it's different in the US).
by Yeul | 2025-04-03 15:59:17+00:00
I don't understand the nostalgia for manufacturing jobs. My mom worked in a factory putting pickles into glass bottles. It was not her dream job. I can still remember how she smelled after a shift. But it was the only employment she could find in that village.

Things got better when we moved after a few years and she shifted into a healthcare job. White collar if you will.