MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adra | 2025-04-30 20:29:05+00:00
The unemployment rate is what, 3%? Where are you going to find the millions of people needed to make the iPhone domestically? Immigration? Hah, that would be an interesting stance. Automation? It would work to fill some gaps, but even apple doesn't want to pay Chinese workers for tasks that machines can do today. Someone in their company decides on when they automate, and when they use elbow grease. They may be able to afford a lot of the capital outlay to greatly improve the productivity of their workers if effectively required to onshore, or they may just stop selling iPhones in the US for a few years if all cell phones become prohibitively expensive to own. If Apple can't make the economics work, I can't see who can.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-30 20:29:14+00:00
> It's like someone calling English "Anglaise" because that's how the French say it.

That is the case for some other languages, though. We call the language German rather than Deutsch because Germani was the Latin name for tribes in the area, for example.

Or native names get modified too -- in English we don't call it Espanish, just Spanish, even though it comes from español.

The names of languages in other languages tend to get modified in tons of different and random ways for lots of reasons. Is there really a reason to take offense at it?

It doesn't bother me that Italians call me an americano instead of an American. It's just a letter change. So why is it so bothersome that it's called Farsi rather than Parsi? Can't the change from "p" to "f" be seen as an interesting historical quirk, due to the fascinating effect of Arabic on European languages in the Middle Ages? At the same time that we got Arabic words like "algebra" and "alcohol"?
by cduzz | 2025-04-30 20:29:28+00:00
Balance trade? Trade isn't a single ledger that needs to be in balance.

If you read that article about Haas automation, they say that they import cast iron and PCBs, presumably they import some chips and use some domestic chips, they put these all together and sell machine tools (big machines used to make machines, the exact sort of thing that trump et all are banging on about needing to be made in the usa, which last I checked, Oxnard california counts as "USA").

Nobody in the USA makes cast iron in the volume needed by haas; nobody in the USA makes PCBs at the price point needed by haas. Nobody's going to be able to start domestic production of either now, because they'd need to import all the materials from elsewhere to make the cast iron foundry, and nobody's going to take the chance that their multi million dollar investment isn't going to be ruined by trump changing his mind in a month.

So whatever you think you're arguing for, the world's way more complex than you think it is. And this execution of whatever the plans are, has been so far beyond inept as to land in a different scale altogether.
by int_19h | 2025-04-30 20:29:33+00:00
In Soviet elections, most ballots had a single candidate - the one nominated by the local party committee. Typical example: https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:Ussr_...

(Sometimes you'd have the arrangement where there's token opposition that is similarly nominated, much like DPRK today.)

As for people going to vote, that was actually enforced. While there was no law about it, strictly speaking, not going to vote would likely earn you a reprimand at work.
by palmotea | 2025-04-30 20:29:56+00:00
> Jim: See, you're always saying there's something wrong with society, but maybe there's something's wrong with you.

That probably works as limited context joke, playing off of the saying "if you think everyone else is always the problem, then maybe you’re actually the problem," but it's not really something that generalizes. The relationship between individuals is a lot different than the relationship of society to the individual.

I don't think anyone can seriously claim that society doesn't have major problems, so any issues are actually individual ones. The people who claim that (and they exist), often are just gaslighting to deny a problem they don't want solved.
by streptomycin | 2025-04-30 20:30:16+00:00
It's not just getting a DUNS number. You also need to consent to having your home address (no PO box or virtual mailbox, needs to be a physical address for your "business") listed publicly on the DUNS website and on all your Google Play Store app pages.

Other app stores are similar, so probably it's some dumb government regulation.
by patrick4urcloud | 2025-04-30 20:30:26+00:00
In kexa policies all cloud properties are json like and mixeable. we can add all addon possible as we use typescript. kexa is based on cloud sdk so properties have same name as cloud provider. Your can easily add addon in typescript in kexa. If you'r wallmart you can create an addon for your on premise cash service mix with your backend in cloud provider and create visualisation in grafana. you can output to webhook , database and ollama (llm) maybe further ?
by gwerbret | 2025-04-30 20:30:30+00:00
> The alternative to divorce isn't perfect marriages, it is failed marriages that are inescapable.

I'm sure this has nothing to do with you, but by your comments in this thread, I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a friend on a bus one day. We were talking about the unfortunate tendency, in daytoday, of people to shuffle their elderly parents off to nursing homes, rather than to support said parents in some sort of independent living. A nearby passenger jumped into our conversation to argue that there are situations in which the nursing home situation is for the best. Although we agreed with him, he seemed to dislike the fundamental idea of caring for one's elderly parents at all, and subsequently became quite heated.
by Almondsetat | 2025-04-30 20:30:31+00:00
I really don't understand why they went with this podcast style. Sure, it makes an impression the first few times, great for a showcase or an announcement. The problem though is that it soon becomes pretty annoying, especially because the hosts go back and forth between knowing nothing and knowing everything about the topic. They should at least choose randomly which one does the explaining to whom.
by anigbrowl | 2025-04-30 20:30:54+00:00
But you didn't call them the 'democratic' party; I wouldn't have bothered to respond if you had, since I agree with many of your observations. Perhaps inadvertently, you referred to them as the 'democrat' party. This was what I was responding to, because it's a popular rhetorical trope of the right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(epithet)
by surgical_fire | 2025-04-30 20:31:10+00:00
> Also China is happily helping Russia fight a war in Europe

The US is also helping Russia in its efforts right now, it's important to underline this.

While China is more pragmatically washing their hands and keep trading with Russia, the US actually calls for Ukraine to just capitulate.

> I was just in France for two weeks, nobody I spoke to in my broken French really gives a shit outside of "man that guys sucks right?" The internet isn't day-to-day life. For some reason people think that political

1) I don't live in the internet. I barely have any online presence beyond this forum.

2) People are generally polite. I know people from the US, from very liberal to very MAGA. I try to be pleasant to them. And I don't fault them for their government, even the ones that obviously voted for the current president.

3) When I speak about generational damage to relationships, I am talking at the diplomacy level. Building a web of great allies was something that the US could do after the two world wars because the opportunity was there and they seized it. I think it will be very hard, on a diplomatic level, to repair that. This ship has already sailed.

> Sure ok - feel free to buy all the Chinese products that are made and shipped to your country from China.

Have been for a while. I don't see that as a huge problem. As I said, Europe consumers have a lot less appetite for consumption than the US ones. Partly for cultural reasons, partly because the US had the strength (yes, strength) of commandeering a huge trade deficit that actually benefits immensely its economy.

There are some industries that for strategic importance is good to have around, but I would see no benefit in bringing over manufacturing like textiles or cell phone assembly sweatshops. Those can stay in China no problem.

Protectionism is good only for what you need protectionism.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-30 20:32:12+00:00
It is not. The precedent is around ninety years old, but firmly within modern history. As Franklin Roosevelt attempted to enact his New Deal agenda, the so-called "Four Horsemen", often along with Justice Roberts and/or Chief Justice Hughes, repeatedly ruled against his alphabet agencies and sweeping social bills.

So, Roosevelt worked to find the necessary votes to pack the court. His "Judicial Procedures Reform Bill" was not so different from any of the other "judicial reforms" we've condemned when other strongmen around the world used them to strengthen their power. Politicians from Roosevelt's bloc spewed vitriol at the justices who were simply trying to do their jobs. In Iowa, effigies of the six justices who had opposed any of Roosevelt's actions were found hanged by nooses. Once Roosevelt secured political support and signaled his willingness to push for packing the court, the justices backed down and began ruling in his favor, repeatedly. Where months before it had struck down a New York minimum wage law, a nearly-identical law in Washington was deemed perfectly constitutional. The National Labor Relations Act was fine and dandy. Coal mining was suddenly interstate commerce after all. In fact, the Commerce Clause now covered everything; one clothing factory in Virginia was enough commerce to quality. Later, the court would rule that a man growing wheat for his own consumption was sufficient "commerce" to warrant near-limitless federal rule-making. After all, it meant he bought less wheat from someone else, so clearly it was within the feds' purview. Wickard v. Filburn stands as precedent today. The justices on that court kept their seats but gave up their power.

Now, another populist has shown up. One who has a different vision for the nation than that laid out by the neoliberal technocrats who have dominated American politics since Clinton. Trump has explicitly called out FDR's new deal coalition, the coalition emplaced by vaguely authoritarian means quite similar to those he is using, that was the underlying basis for politics for almost the past century. I don't care for Trump's vision much more than I care for Roosevelt's or Clinton's. But claiming that this is "unprecedented" only serves to point people away from the prior time in history when this happened, when we utterly failed to stop Roosevelt and remove his power. Perhaps learning from history is the better choice so this time we can do a better job of it.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-04-30 20:32:15+00:00
I'm not worried about the consumer aspect at all. It will be painful and maybe pull the wool off all the trumpets eyes, reveling his idiocy. But people are not going to be starving. Maybe starving for new clothes and iPhones like they get all the time.

I do worry though about embedded costs up the supply chain the depend on Chinese made things. The parts of parts that go into machines that are made domestically. I think that has potential to be the real knife in the back. Most things need all the pieces to work, and even though the machine is 90% made in USA, the last 10% that is a Chinese export is going to cause pain in all sorts o unexpected places.
by dimal | 2025-04-30 20:32:44+00:00
I agree with all of this and hope it comes to pass. I don’t see how it’s possible without drastically changing the capitalist values that underpin our society.

I think capitalism is the best way to structure an economy, but it’s a terrible way to structure a society. Nowadays, we use capitalist values as the benchmark for what matters in almost every context, and then we wonder why our society is a dystopia.
by ericmay | 2025-04-30 20:32:56+00:00
I believe we were talking about trade and tariffs, so the same problem that the EU would see in this context is that Chinese manufacturing is generally better and cheaper than what western nations currently do, so the EU will have to maintain current protectionist policies or enact further trade restrictions with China or risk losing jobs to cheaper and better products from China. Germany is going to protect its auto industry, for example.
by shivasaxena | 2025-04-30 20:33:04+00:00
This isn't confined just to senior developers. I have even encountered system architects who were clueless about Isolation levels. Some even confused "Consistency" in ACID with the "Consistency" in CAP.

Makes me sad, since I work mostly in retail and and encounter systems that are infested with race conditions and simila errors: things where these isolation levels would be of great help.

However it's mostly engineers at startups, I have a very high opinion of typical Oracel/MSSQL developers at BigCos who at least have their fundamentals right.
by mbrameld | 2025-04-30 20:33:05+00:00
> As much as the article tries to balance it out that the controllers should have done more it seems that ultimately the pilot flying was distracted and not following instructions from the instructor sitting next to them. It happened at least twice based on the captured recordings.

I'm a helicopter flight instructor, although I've never flown in the military. There are 5 magic words the instructor can, and I would argue is obligated to, use to fix the situation: "I have the flight controls"

Knowing they were 100 feet high and flying into the approach corridor with an aircraft on short final and not taking the controls is an enormous failure on the part of the instructor. The student was likely task-saturated and the instructor should have recognized that.
by Retric | 2025-04-30 20:33:26+00:00
> whatever it is beyond your control that makes it more difficult or impossible o afford what you once could.

For the US you are really describing income inequality. Most individuals got fucked over a few are doing wildly better than ever. On net the overall economic output has been going up overall and per person since the country was founded, it’s simply not ending up in regular people’s hands.

Don’t forget the inherent march of technology where indoor plumbing > radio > TV > AC > cable > internet > cellphones > smartphones have all slowly been assumed to be something most people can afford. Similarly the standards for education, healthcare, homes, etc are rising faster than inflation because the standards keep rising. People aren’t buying modest 1bathroom 2 bedroom homes like they used to so yes those mini mansions cost more.

> deflation

Inflation becomes the new nominal.

If everyone has 2x as much money and things cost 2x as much forever that’s not deflation that’s just the new normal. For prices to fall you’d either need more economic output or less money in the economy.

Of course the extra money wasn’t evenly distributed, but again that’s income inequality…
by dmurray | 2025-04-30 20:33:29+00:00
The question is self-answering as soon as you read the first two sentences though.

> Columbia...has an endowment of roughly $15bn. Mr Trump’s administration withheld a mere $400m in federal funding.

With the best investing in the world, that $15bn might throw off 1 billion a year in perpetuity. $400m (a year) is a very serious chunk of the university's budget.
by chickensong | 2025-04-30 20:33:31+00:00
This is the way. Here's a recipe to get the curious going:

- 1 cup (227g) sourdough starter, unfed/discard - 1 cup (113g) White Whole Wheat Flour or WW Pastry Flour - 1/2 teaspoon salt - 4 tablespoons (57g) butter, room temperature (or 50/50 butter/olive oil) - 2 tablespoons dried herbs, of your choice, optional - coarse salt for sprinkling on top

Mix well and knead briefly. Let sit out for 30min-6hrs. Roll out thinly, cut (deep score) into rectangles, prick w/fork, brush with water and sprinkle flaky salt on top. Bake @ 350 for 20-25 min
by listenallyall | 2025-04-30 20:33:33+00:00
> He told her he believed that air traffic control wanted them to turn left

This is an interesting sentence. In a very generous interpretation, the pilot (if she had survived) might claim that she wasn't directed to turn, just that the instructor believed ATC wanted her to turn, and thus she still needed to evaluate the situation and decide what to do. In other words, she might claim she didn’t defy an order, because being told an instructor "believes" something is different than being directed to do it.
by fnordpiglet | 2025-04-30 20:33:34+00:00
The senate is less the party of Trump as they have to win state wide elections and Trump barely beat Harris. They also tend to have longer tenures that spans presidents. While he is ascendant he can command loyalty, but once his ship is sinking the rats will abandon him faster in the senate than the house. The house takes care of itself with its relatively rapid turnover, making incumbents more likely to stick by him. There are a handful of sycophant senators that would have trouble distancing themselves too much, but they are also well known chameleons so I think no one would be surprised when they flip.

The real test will be the summer and fall as natural disasters and the accumulation of cuts and the trade war all converge into a crescendo of negativity.
by Lopsii | 2025-04-30 20:33:42+00:00
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by jen729w | 2025-04-30 20:35:36+00:00
None of the onboarding material actually works. I guess because it’s all based on Azure/Entra which changes so frequently.

So there’s videos, articles, VSC extensions, all to help you navigate this Byzantine structure. But they’re all just wrong.

Look I’m not a pro dev so YMMV. Kick the tyres for a few days and see if you can get it to do anything. I never could, and the experience was just no fun at all.

At least with web dev, that I’m also no good at, it can be fun. Teams was like pulling my own nails out.
by jll29 | 2025-04-30 20:35:40+00:00
It's a clever idea to keep track of the chunks in your own version of malloc(), like some others have proposed own flavors of allocators for other purposes - e.g. with sentinels at the beginning and end of buffers to detect overruns; but I'm not convinced it solves all cases of leaks.

The OP essentially models within the C program what the operating system/C runtime already does for the C program - that's why we don't _need_ to call free() if we don't want to, we can just leave main or call exit() and everything will be nicely cleaned up by the OS without taking extra measures (the ISO C standard and POSIX guarantee that).

> Even if no other references to the pointer exist in the program, the pointer has not leaked.

IMHO, this is a misunderstanding. I would still call this a memory leak, because the ordinary code (the actual code that requested the particular block) lost control of it. Furthermore, how do you realize whether a particular block in the list of allocated chunks can be freed or not? (And once you hypothetically added such a detection function, you're well on your way to implement what is called a mark-and-sweep garbage collector.)
by rayiner | 2025-04-30 20:36:04+00:00
> I do not imagine it is congruent with the law to simply fire all the staff and shut down USAID (or "merge" it into State).

The Fourth Circuit allowed the administration to proceed: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/appeals-court-usaid...

That is not a final word on the constitutionality of dissolving USAID, but it's an indication that the Court didn't believe plaintiffs had a high likelihood of success on the merits to justify the preliminary injunction.
by razster | 2025-04-30 20:36:08+00:00
Absolutely agree with you, we ran into the same issue. Our company actually tried using it for our software documentation and user onboarding, hoping it would be a helpful and engaging format. But the podcast-style delivery just didn’t fit our needs. It’s fine for a quick showcase or intro, but for ongoing support or business-oriented material, the format became distracting. If only they offered alternative styles—something more structured and professional—we might have stuck with it.
by bootsmann | 2025-04-30 20:36:52+00:00
> If some bureau or department fails to spend all of its budget, has the president somehow committed some treason-adjacent crime, or is that just thriftiness?

Yes, he has. It is not the presidents power to judge whether the money he spent in defiance of congress is sufficient, it is congress that holds this power. If congress thinks they should spend less, they can settle this by changing the budget. What would you say if the next democratic president simply refused to spend a single dollar assigned to ICE to "be thrifty"?
by echelon | 2025-04-30 20:37:08+00:00
Both Apple and Google need to be regulated. Their vice grip on app distribution, app defaults, search defaults, payments defaults, user credential saving defaults, messaging defaults, browser defaults, and then their brutal taxation of almost all web e-commerce and businesses is beyond the scale of whatever Standard Oil had.

You cannot do business on the Internet without paying the Apple and Google toll. They control all the points of ingress and egress, and they tax everything that moves.

It'd be bad enough if they were just charging money, but they also make you jump through hoops to design software their way, do unplanned upgrades to their cadence, prevent you from deploying emergency hot patches, prevent you from updating software dynamically, prevent you from knowing your own customer, etc. etc. etc.

And they're happy to sell your competitors ads to outrank you for your own trademark.

These companies need to lose their control over this. Web distributed apps must become the norm.

You can't tell me that with sandboxing, signature scanning, and some clever heuristics, that we can't make mobile completely safe for free and open distribution.