MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bruce511 | 2025-04-09 18:40:19+00:00
He gives people permission to be their worst selves.

When the president gets away with all sorts of crime. When he openly mocks people. When he indulges in racism. When he complains about being treated unfairly. When he lies. When he defrauds, or grifts, or flip-flops. When he's misogynitic. What's he saying is "you too can do these things and get away with it".

People like that. People like that there's no accountability for bad behavior.

Sure, we can talk about policy, or economy, or whatever (how's that working out?) But deep down the democrats ask us to be the best version of ourselves (or else) and Republicans delight in us being the worst.

Human nature being what it is, we end up here. Just remember folks, we voted for this.
by hkpack | 2025-04-09 18:40:36+00:00
The problem is not political bias, but disinformation.

Clumping everyone in one group is actually one of the goals of this: to get people tired of trying to figure out reality and to give up.

As obvious as it is - when you think everyone lies, liars will be the only ones who win. When you think that everyone is the same - the worst ones will win every time.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-09 18:40:49+00:00
The new office mate’s prank will be to switch your AI’s voice to a Kardashian, Fran Drescher, Pauly Shore...

Plus I am sure that LLM engines could command a premium by shrewdly licensing such talent as James Earl Jones, Majel Barrett, or Milla Jovovich?

But it seems like the current trend is novel/generic voices in order to avoid suits/fees and pioneer new territory. Isn‘t Siri‘s personality a recognizable celebrity by now?
by nonethewiser | 2025-04-09 18:41:15+00:00
You also cant actually legally own most Chinese stock. IE "internet" stocks. What you can buy is an instrument intended to track them. Its called a VIE.

That Alibaba stock you have? No, its a share from a seperate company setup in the Cayman Islands which should track the Alibaba stock. They are circumventing a Chinese law that makes foreign investment in Chinese companies illegal. It's a bad idea to own these.
by thuanao | 2025-04-09 18:41:18+00:00
Because he can, and because "owning the libs" is the whole modus operandi of the Republican Party that put him there. Seems obvious to me that the reason Trump uses tariffs is simply because that's the only tool available to him to exert his power.

Tariffs let him wave his dick around. Cutting taxes requires passing legislation. Raising other taxes requires passing legislation.
by xmprt | 2025-04-09 18:41:19+00:00
I don't think there's a good way to structure it in our current economic system. The only solutions I can't think of are more socialist or universal basic income. Essentially, if AI companies are going to profit off the creations of everyone in the world, they might as well pay higher taxes to cover for it. I'm sure that's an unpopular opinion but I also don't think it's fair to take an art style that a creator might spend an entire life perfecting and then commoditize it. Now the AI company gets paid a ton and the creator who made something super popular is out on the streets looking for a "real" job despite providing a lot of value to the world.
by tombert | 2025-04-09 18:41:40+00:00
At this point, I do wonder if long-dated (2-3 months) American-style Puts are a good idea.

The weirdness of this administration has created a lot of volatility. With American-style options you are allowed to exercise early, so if you think there's going to be a ton of ups and downs in the next few months, I wonder if this could be lucrative.

I might try this just as an experiment with one of the cheaper options.
by g42gregory | 2025-04-09 18:41:53+00:00
At first I was excited and looked at AI IDEs group. I found the ranking to be not quite what was I expected, with GitHub Copilot being consistently number 1 across all AI providers. I thought, well maybe they know something I don't. Good to know.

But then I looked at the Trustworthy News Sources group. Ok, moving on...
by Unearned5161 | 2025-04-09 18:41:57+00:00
I'm not settled on transcribed conversation being an adequate substitute for writing, but maybe it's better than nothing.

There's something irreplaceable about the absoluteness of words on paper and the decisions one has to do to write them out. Conversational speak is, almost by definition, more relaxed and casual. The bar is lower and as such, the bar for thoughts is lower, in order of ease of handwaving I think it goes: mental, speech, writing.

Furthermore there's the concept of editing which I'm unsure how it could be carried out in a conversational sense in graceful manner. Being able to revise words, delete, move around, can't be done with conversation unless you count "forget I said that, it's actually more like this..." as suitable.
by bboygravity | 2025-04-09 18:42:02+00:00
I don't get this reasoning. Without LLMs I would learn how to write sub-optimal code that is somewhat functional. With LLMs instantly see "how it's done" for my exact problem case which makes me learn way faster. On top of that it always makes dumb mistakes which forces you to actually understand what it's spitting out to get it to work properly. Again: that helps with learning.

The fact that you can ask it for a solution for exactly the context you're interested in is amazing and traditional learning doesn't come close in terms of efficiency IMO.
by scrubs | 2025-04-09 18:42:06+00:00
>How much do you trust your government with your money? Sowing or stirring up doubt or implicitly initiating a conspiracy means you don't have an argument for crypto.

Bitcoin can never be a Pix replacement. It's too damn slow, and others have pointed out, having to manage the entire transaction history is just stupid. (A end customer might not have to do serious book keeping on transaction history, but companies would.)

Pix works great for Brazil. That's what it was intended to do. And that's what it does. Case-closed.
by harikb | 2025-04-09 18:42:06+00:00
It may be possible for you (I am assuming you are > 20, mature adult). But the context is around teens in the prime of their learning. It is too hard to keep ChatGPT/Claude away from them. Social media is too addictive. Those TikTok/Reels/Shorts are addictive and never ending. We are doomed imho.

If education (schools) were to adopt a teaching-AI (one that will given them the solution, but at least ask a bunch of questions ), may be there is some hope.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-04-09 18:42:25+00:00
You will never convince any of his apologists that this is the case.

His first round with Canada back in February, and MAGA insisted "he won"

Then came back and tried the same thing again two months later. Same response from the Canadian side. Same slight backing off, reorganizing, but confusion, and nobody seems to actually know which tariffs apply and which do not.

It sounds now like 10% for the whole world, but still 25% steel and aluminum and other tariffs on Canada, the US's biggest trading partner and customer? How insane is that?

They're "flooding the zone" with confusion and chaos, and making money in the process. Anybody who wants to maintain power and influence and money has to get close to him, avoid criticizing him, and then they get the inside scoop.

It's mafia level crap.
Ask HN: Strategies or tools for embedding multiple file types?
by spruce_tips | 2025-04-09 18:42:30+00:00
I've worked a good bit with embedding strategies for RAG. But they've only been for documents that are identical in structure i.e. interview transcripts.

I'm curious how others have thought about handling embeddings for multiple file types (txt, pdf, image, docx, ppt, etc.)? Obviously, I could handle each file type individually and then build a flexible search layer on top, but I'm concerned about the level of maintenance required.

One idea I had was to build a translation layer of sorts that would take some arbitrary file type in, map it onto a standardized text schema, and embed that. For images (which are much less common in my dataset), I would use an LLM to describe the image and cast that text into my standard format. The standard format would allow me to simplify the chunking and embedding logic for each file type, and make the vector search layer a lot easier to maintain.

I know this won't be perfect, but I think it could solve most of what I'm trying to achieve.

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Curious what others think about this and what you have tried.

Cheers,

spruce_tips
by tucnak | 2025-04-09 18:42:46+00:00
When you say "buddies" what you really mean is "banks", "hedge funds" and "people to whom it was obvious that announced tariffs were bonkers". If you had the foresight and market sense, you could have made money, too. But you were scared, sold low, and now when it came back up, you suddenly found yourself at a loss (or the so-called "unrealised profit")

Don't blame the markets.
by AIPedant | 2025-04-09 18:42:59+00:00
Well, it's a good thing I didn't say "fundamentally unable to learn this"!

I said that learning visual reasoning from video is probably not enough: if you claim it is enough, you have to reconcile that with failures in Sora, Veo 2, etc. Veo 2's problems are especially serious since it was trained on an all-DeepMind-can-eat diet of YouTube videos. It seems like they need a stronger algorithm, not more Red Dead Redemption 2 footage.
by 9rx | 2025-04-09 18:42:59+00:00
Querying and ORM are very different concepts. Object-relation mapping is concerned with, as it literally asserts, mapping between relations (or, more likely in practice, tables – but they are similar enough for the sake of this discussion) and objects. Maybe you are confusing ORM with the active record pattern (popularized by ActiveRecord, the library) which combines query building and ORM into some kind of unified concept? ActiveRecord, the library, confusingly called itself ORM when it was released which may be the source of that.
by tastyface | 2025-04-09 18:43:57+00:00
I’m not sure why this comment was killed. Completely accurate assessment. Republicans are only “small government” until states try to do something they don’t like. (Support trans athletes or undocumented immigrants? Have fun getting all your federal funding pulled.) And the monarchy of the executive is something they’ve been eagerly proselytizing for years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_executive_theory
by c7b | 2025-04-09 18:44:13+00:00
We'd probably need more background to help you, eg, are you currently a student? In what country? Assuming you're in the US, there are still some interesting things the Fed does wrt to payments, eg Fedwire, but getting into anything public-sector-related will be difficult at the moment. You could check out DCI at MIT Media Lab [0], they have some interesting projects in this space (eg Hamilton). If you're in a different country, most central banks are currently looking at CBDCs in some way. Many central banks also employ nationals of other countries, so you can cast a wider net than looking at just one country. In the private sector, there are several companies and/or academic groups that have helped smaller central banks set up their own CBDCs already, eg Cambodia uses Hyperledger with the help of some Japanese groups [1]. Word is that Polygon is also active in that space, but I don't have any references otomh. Larger countries will do a lot of development in-house. They will likely get outside help from the likes of Accenture or IBM. These could be good destinations themselves, but only if you're happy to be be working on something else most likely.

[0] https://dci.mit.edu/ [1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/aepr.12464
by anzerarkin | 2025-04-09 18:44:19+00:00
I also made an app to fix my scrolling issue — it’s called EvoCat.

The idea came from wanting to combine the best parts of all the focus apps I used: scheduled block sessions like Opal, mindful breathing interruptions like One Sec, and some light gamification to make it feel less like punishment.

EvoCat is a small animated character (a cat-phone hybrid) that evolves as you stay focused. The longer you avoid distractions, the stronger it becomes — and the harder it gets to cancel your focus sessions. It turns screen time control into something a bit more playful, but still effective.

I currently have a beta available on iOS and I’m happy to share a TestFlight link if anyone wants to try it out. You can also check it out here: https://evocat.app

Would love feedback from fellow builders and focus-app nerds :)
by ty6853 | 2025-04-09 18:44:36+00:00
There is still a piece of truth to it. If I warehoused anything but dollars as a "fractional reserve", the first time the system fails (as the banking system has many times even under the federal reserve most notably in the great depression) I would be prosecuted for fraud/theft/ whatever they could come up with when I explained I had only lent out the inventory and I had hoped I would have enough around at any point in time to satisfy anyone withdrawing. People would be angry and the sentiment would be quite popular.

Before the federal reserve existed and banks did fractional reserve on their own, after a failure it would be quite common for them to be accused of being crooks. Even if what they were doing was basically the same as what the federal reserve does but done privately. The banks ultimately colluded in a secret meeting under assumed identities with legislators (on Jackyll Island) to just to cartelize the system to hedge that risk, and the vote was rammed through before the public knew of the meeting or could react (and later written this was done on purpose because they knew it was democratically unpopular and would fail under transparency).
by sleepyguy | 2025-04-09 18:45:03+00:00
Markets are celebrating. How long before they realize that the China tariffs will destroy the profits of companies like Walmart, Apple, Dollar Store, Harbor Freight, etc, and a 10% tax hike on consumers across the board on all other imports? We are still headed for a recession, and the destruction from the greatest deal maker who ever lived will be lasting.

Let's not forget everything else he's doing because there is nothing good in the plan.
by clodushid | 2025-04-09 18:45:06+00:00
US is the biggest consumer market, the most dynamic economy, and the wealthiest country in the world. No real world metric would ever implicate US as uninvestable. What this move is doing is making a few things very clear

1. US is decoupling full on from China. Any ally negotiating will have to show that they are not helping china to export, by putting up similar tariffs on China. Basically, declare your allegiance. And so far, no one has unexpectedly sided with China.

2. For the laggards who are waiting until the last seconds to move away from Chinese supply chain, trump is giving them more time but also telling them, hey it’s your last chance

3. Short squeeze for those who dare attack US economy

4. Navarros is the chief architect and his vision is aligned with trump to fully execute his plan. Just go read his book, he lays it all out
by skizm | 2025-04-09 18:45:13+00:00
Do we think FTX would have been prosecuted if Trump were in office? Note that if FTX were able to hide its fraud for a few more months, they would have been able to bounce back and then some. Not saying that makes it better or worse, but a few months of questionably legal delay tactics would probably go over fine these days (is my 2 cents).
by slashdev | 2025-04-09 18:45:54+00:00
On the contrary, I think he got everyone's attention and they're coming to the bargaining table willing to make a good deal for the US. It's exactly the tactics espoused in Art of the Deal.

I think there are two things at play here.

1) Narrow the gap between the wealthy and the rest: attempt to reduce the US public sector, backtrack on globalization, and enact policies to benefit the median American, not the mean American [1].

2) Prepare the US for possible conflict with China (maybe over Taiwan) and avoid supply chain disruption that would make Covid look mild.

I think both of these things are sensible positions to take.

When you look at it through this lens, it starts to have some logic to it. Again we can debate the merits and drawbacks of this strategy, but I think it's what is behind everything. Things like his stance on Panama start to fit into the picture when you look at it this way.

It is not the actions of someone stupid or insane.

[1] https://youtu.be/bzWrA6jRbTM?si=uwvgpg0RprDBPEeU&t=253
by dec0dedab0de | 2025-04-09 18:45:59+00:00
that is a silly argument. If you put up a billboard on someone else’s property without permission that would be illegal. If you drop a pamphlet on the ground in your own yard that is perfectly legal.

In your perfect billboard free world, would you also ban signs outside of a business saying what is on sale? what about signs outside a private residence?

What kinds of property would be allowed to display what kinds of sign?

I could see telling government agencies they cant rent billboard space out on the side of the road, but if someone puts a billboard on their roof or the edge of their property I think it would be gross to stop them.
by mindslight | 2025-04-09 18:46:11+00:00
You're taking it to the extreme whereas a 10% cost basis of a physical good sold to consumers isn't really that far off. If Dewalt claims one of their tools is worth "$200", yet it regularly sells for $100 still with enough margin for domestic distribution, "free shipping", no fault returns, branding/engineering cost of their domestic employees, etc, how much do you think they actually pay the Chinese factory? That's going to be the number written on a cargo manifest even without any shenanigans.
by jtwaleson | 2025-04-09 18:46:21+00:00
A bit off-topic, but I wonder when Cursor is going to see a massive price increase. I've tried Aider (granted, this was when GPT4 prices were still much higher) and spent $10 in one hour easily. Now I use cursor a LOT (100h focussed programming time per month) and mostly stay within my $20 monthly fee. I think they must be losing money on customers like me.
by RestlessMind | 2025-04-09 18:46:22+00:00
Is the CEO working at 4 companies in a transparent manner, approved by the boards of their companies? Then I don't see any problem.

If you want to work at 4 companies and your 4 managers don't have a problem with it, then go for it. Real problem arises when one lie about it and does it stealthily. Lying shouldn't be allowed, neither for CEOs nor for worker bees.
by me2too | 2025-04-09 18:46:23+00:00
This man's absurdity never ceases to amaze me. How can his supporters appreciate all this - constant - chaos?

Moreover, from the outside (European here), it looks like the US president can literally do whatever he wants without being subject to regulations or facing any consequences - pretty much like a dictatorship. No discussion, no parliament, no opposition taken into account. Crazy.
by tverbeure | 2025-04-09 18:46:43+00:00
> Regarding #1-- is it possible you have a drinking problem?

You don't have to be an alcoholic (I don't even drink) to agree that with OP that #1 is an arbitrary reduction of freedom. Especially when walking around with a gun is totally fine. Which one has a larger potential of killing somebody?

(And before you make some other ridiculous insinuation, we're talking here about walking, not driving.)
by nedimdauti | 2025-04-09 18:46:45+00:00
We joined the ParseMania.com waiting list yesterday and got early access. Honestly, it’s already making a real difference.

We’ve been using it to extract our employees’ receipts like gas and meals and now the data flows straight into our ERP. No more manual entry. No more back and forth.

It handles scanned documents, PDFs, even data from websites and turns it into clean structured data. Still in private beta but if you’ve got a real use case, I’d recommend getting on their list.
by gmd63 | 2025-04-09 18:46:47+00:00
So if you cozy up to the mad king, he'll tell you what he plans to do with appropriate notice. This is the least American tyrannical bullshit I've ever seen in this country, and nobody should be condoning it.

The most important thing that can be done for the prosperity of America right now is to put an end to the senseless fraud and nonsensical policy promoted by the snake oil salesman of the MAGA movement.
by ta1243 | 2025-04-09 18:47:02+00:00
> Instead, economic trust in the US--built up over decades--is being actively firebombed into the dirt by the new Republican regime.

I think that's an important thing to reiterate.

This isn't Trump. This isn't MAGA. This is the entire Republican Party apparatus that is allowing this to continue. The Republicans of the Nixon, Regan, Bush eras are long gone.
by wild_egg | 2025-04-09 18:47:13+00:00
Who said you were selling something?

My point is that the entire approach is architecturally far more complex than is suitable for the vast majority of projects. You have influence and people will make real world decisions to choose unnecessary complexity because of this article.

Why do 150 lines when 10 lines of PHP is functionally equivalent to the user? The user doesn't care about your execution model. They just want some information or to submit a form. Adopting an RSC-like technology makes development more complicated and take longer.

If you're building Figma or something then sure, go nuts with the complicated things. The tradeoff probably makes sense.

For the other 99% of us, this model just gets in the way.
by keybored | 2025-04-09 18:47:17+00:00
Most politics chatter is in-group therapy sessions. For SC libs under a Republican administration the analysis becomes: did the majority push the Republican button? And the analysis ends there.

For this therapeutic session there is no room for looking beyond the absolute surface of the issue, like you did.

But unfortunately these narratives don’t just get trotted out among apolitical libs. The political scientist Rachel Bitecofer had a social media meltdown when Trump won. And again the analysis was “who pushed the Republican button”.
by whilenot-dev | 2025-04-09 18:47:35+00:00
I think the latest GenAI/LLM bubble shows that tech (this hype kind of tech) doesn't want us to learn, to think or reason. It doesn't want to be seen as a mere tool anymore, it wants to drive under the appearance that it can reason on its own. We're in the process where tech just wants us to adapt to it.
by spacephysics | 2025-04-09 18:47:50+00:00
It brought a large number of countries to the negotiating table, and shows he’s willing to execute on threats of keeping tariffs high for an individual country.

Now is the ripe time, 90 days, to make a deal with the US and offer the best terms.

The whole point of Trump is to leverage uncertainty, make an unrealistically high water mark, then go down from there (to a point thats still very favorable)

This rationale can explain many actions he’s taken. Is it reckless? Risky? For sure. Does it work? It has in the past, let’s hope it does for the global financial system, for everyone’s sake.
by ndegruchy | 2025-04-09 18:47:53+00:00
Well, putting the idea of malvertising aside, I don't think this would even prevent it. An app 'layer' would be separate from the OS. Though they wouldn't be able to taint the OS, so that's a plus.

I don't agree with the idea of installing extra apps, especially to paying customers, but that's a separate discussion.
by louthy | 2025-04-09 18:48:02+00:00
Trump has now shown his hand. Even with the tariffs on China remaining, it’s clear that Trump will back down on any extreme positions he takes. So, expect the china tariffs to be backed off soon too (once he gets some concession that he can brandish as a win).

In 3 months, sell your positions, let him play his stupid games and re-buy once he backs down, because he will. Or just hold and ride it out.

10% sounds like where we’ll default to in the long-term because that was the ‘base rate’ for everybody anyway. He just wants to rattle his sabre, especially with China.

It’s quite pathetic, really, but weirdly I feel slightly more calm about the situation now that I realise he hasn’t got the bottle to follow through.