MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by bakuninsbart | 2025-04-10 09:35:13+00:00
With the bounce back the Dow Jones lost 400 points. For comparison, the German DAX lost 900 points, but is only half the size. It is a reckless and probably counter-productive strategy, but I do think Trump will be able to extract short-term benefits from a number of countries. I just hope the EU will finally decrease reliance on the US going forward. Our extreme reliance on US tech and defense makes us easy marks.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-10 09:35:21+00:00
> never returns the principle

But it does! All the bonds pay out after X years, and everyone is completely fine with this.

> The UK has traditionally not been in a state of running up debts; they borrowed money for things like world wars then spent most of their time paying loans down. The US isn't behaving like a creditworthy country because they borrow to consume and they aren't attempting to shrink the debt.

You've not looked at the numbers, have you.
by mike_hearn | 2025-04-10 09:35:25+00:00
Is that always true? In France HSR stations are often like airports, way out of town and you have to get a taxi in/out of wherever you're going. And the rail network seems more exposed to mechanical breakdown in general. I don't have hard data but it feels to me like trains fail or get cancelled much more often than flights do, and when a flight does get cancelled it's usually due to some major failure that'd take out trains too (e.g. power failure).
by manawyrm | 2025-04-10 09:35:53+00:00
It's an AMD platform, so it's the native AMD HD Audio Controller (17h/19h/1ah), with a Realtek ALC245 codec behind it. I have no idea what other hardware is involved, presumably an external Class-D amplifier IC (but I don't know as there doesn't seem to be a datasheet for the ALC245 available).
by beloch | 2025-04-10 09:36:59+00:00
If you're upset with what Meta does in the U.S., consider that Meta's engagement algorithms played a key roll in driving the Rohingya massacre in Myanmar[1].

"Internal studies dating back to 2012 indicated that Meta knew its algorithms could result in serious real-world harms. In 2016, Meta’s own research clearly acknowledged that “our recommendation systems grow the problem” of extremism."

They knew there was a problem, but refused to act until Myanmar's government shut them down in 2014. After that, their response was half-hearted, inept, and actually made things worse[2].

Governments should not simply be paying attention to what users publish on Facebook, but also how Facebook's algorithms promote material to its users. Meta has demonstrated they will not take preventative action themselves. Meta needs to be carefully and extensively regulated by the government of any jurisdiction Facebook operates in.

It's easy to appreciate concerns that regulating social media could result in state propaganda or censorship. However, regimes likely to do this are probably already using other forms of control anyways. Taking Meta's remorselessly proft-seeking engagement algorithms out of the picture may be the lesser evil by a substantial margin.

[1]https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...

[2]https://www.lemonde.fr/en/pixels/article/2022/09/29/rohingya...
by fmxsh | 2025-04-10 09:37:14+00:00
I agree, and think I see the problem you point at. We don't have to include more groups because, if we do for the sake of including, we have to include all endless variations because there's always a new invented category feeling excluded, and they use it as a power game to ruin the fun for others (seriously). And then what about the argument every obscene category should be included, which by the way would proves the existence of common sense of opposing that....

But, this inquiry of mine had me sympathize more with the recent political trends, that I otherwise think go too far in certain ways. It sucks to not be made visible---or perhaps purposefully made invisible---in the society you live in.

In this case, hypothetically, if one of the men is openly of another orientation, would he be included in the deck? Would society accept that? No, his orientation should not be mentioned in the card, as his orientation has nothing to do with his occupation which is the focal point of the card, but would society even allow him to be featured to begin with, given he is of another orientation? (These are just suggested questions, I don't ask for answer to them).
by beeflet | 2025-04-10 09:37:20+00:00
It's not the choice of an american or chinese person but an american or chinese economy you're dependent on. An american or chinese country, an american or chinese government. The difference is that the chinese support eugenics, are throwing people in ethnic reeduction camps, operate an authoritarian system with extensive mass surveillance, and have plans to conquer taiwan (and the world). People are not equal because cultures are not equal. You might as well be dependent on the USSR or Nazi Germany, after all they're just people!

The sooner we get out of our nation state well of stability as a species? I don't know what dopey star trek fantasy land you are living in, but we are sooner going to destroy the world than join hands and all sing kumbaya. Especially if we allow some autocratic regimes to come to power.
by euroderf | 2025-04-10 09:38:16+00:00
> I should be able to get a roof over my head, get food and an education.

I have a theory that every nation with a natural advantage in some product range should make it available as a birthright.

For example, Finland's relative endowment/strength is forestry products and paper production. So every citizen should be able to claim a monthly allowance, at nominal charge or for free, of TP, paper towels, and writing paper / notebooks. Contracted by the government via a bid process.
by piokoch | 2025-04-10 09:38:33+00:00
The answer is in the American political system. First, USA is not a country, it is a union of states that are quite independent and at the dawn of the USA central government was avoiding enforcement of too much regulation, as states were very different - economically, socially, demographically, religiously, so it would be very risky to do something that might enrage one or several states.

Example. USA decided to change tariffs policy to help development of local industry at the times when USA didn't have its own, had to steal inventions from UK (see Slater the Traitor story). Those tariffs helped industrialization of the Northern states, but which hurt states that lived from agriculture production driven by almost free workforce and wanted as much free trade as possible to sell their products abroad. And, as we know, this caused a really bad war. BTW: the tale "to tariff or not to tariff" happens again and again in USA history, now we have another turn.

So there is historical reluctance to say for central government "ok, we will build a fast rail from Boston to Oregon, everyone on the way has to pay for it".

Secondly, USA is really, really decentralized on the counties level, this is again, historical thing. When American settlers where going West they couldn't count on central government to help them, so they knew that anything they spent, they have to earn, as a result, till today, there is no so much thinking about a "bigger picture", but mostly on the stuff which is just here. County X does not see much reason to pay for fast railway, or even letting it go through it, given the trains would not stop in that county, instead they will "have nasty, loud piece of steel" going through their land.

Thirdly, USA is big. Really big, it is way bigger and sparsely populated than France, so the viability of the railway is questionable. On shorter distances cars do their job, on longer flying makes more sense, as it does not require expensive infrastructure on the deserted and mostly empty territories.

There are areas in the USA that are more densely populated, mostly the East coast, so I can see fast rail from NY to Florida, but I don't see something like this in Montana, Idaho, Wyoming.

But how building this NY-Florida railway should be financed? Central budget? This would enrage other states, as for them this does not matter. Will NY, N/S Carolina, Virginia and Florida team up to do an investment? Is there any organizational structure in the USA that would provide a frame for such cooperation?

This is far from simple. People often say, "but this is working so great in Switzerland, Finland, France or Norway or even in China!" without looking on the specific political, economical, etc. aspects, that are incomparable to the USA.
by timewizard | 2025-04-10 09:38:36+00:00
> chain has exponential price increase at each step.

The amount of risk increases at each step.

That $24 in "discounts." Almost certainly some amount of that is "shrinkage." Storefronts are expensive in more ways than one.

You could take your monthly rent and costs and then divide by size of a product times the average hold time before sale. Each item has to pay this price plus whatever you want in profit to "earn" it's place in your store. That time multiplier gets worse at each step with an extra kick in the behind if you took those items on credit.

The manufacturer holds the product for almost no time. The retailer may hold it for months.
by close04 | 2025-04-10 09:39:29+00:00
You were lucky that you ran into the ideal case at every step (quality of people, trustworthiness, company performance, etc.), except for the initial invoice hiccup. Your experience is the very rare exception.

After being in your position repeatedly I learned that most cases are not this. Clients would just refuse to pay with reasoning that was sometimes legally solid even if clearly malicious. I ended up having to go to court again and again to get the invoices paid, which meant getting paid years late and with a haircut from unrecoverable court fees. Sometimes it wasn't even worth it to go to court just for a pyrrhic victory, or there was nothing left to go after.

I'm scratching my head now to remember a single case where the inability to pay was due to genuine impossibility followed by good will, rather than "because we can". They'd go to extreme lengths to not pay their debts, all the way to bankruptcy and usually reappearing a day later with a new name and a clean sheet.
by bob1029 | 2025-04-10 09:39:34+00:00
It's like those things, but I've never seen protobuf or gRPC used for APIs this extensive.

The tooling around these paths is also lackluster by comparison if you're using something like Visual Studio.

I'd rather fight XML namespaces and HTTP/1.1 transports than sort through the wreckage of what "best practices" has recently brought to bear - especially in terms of unattended complexity in large, legacy enterprises. Explaining to a small bank in Ohio that they're going to need to adjust all of their firewalls to accommodate some new protocols is a total nonstarter in my business.
by smcl | 2025-04-10 09:39:35+00:00
Obligatory plug for Sprache (https://github.com/sprache/Sprache) - a nice library I've been using whenever I've needed to create a little parser for something in C#. I'm not dogmatically opposed to using regexes, just for me they feel quite clunky for many tasks and tend to grow legs and become harder to understand.
by Kon5ole | 2025-04-10 09:39:59+00:00
I can't believe Nike spends 25 dollars on the actual making of the shoes, it just doesn't add up.

Nike sneakers regularly sell to consumers for ~25 dollars, in brick-and-mortar stores, in countries that have 20% VAT.

Naturally Nike wants to claim their shoes are as valuable as possible, and they can perhaps somewhat truthfully claim 25 dollars by including the cost of R&D, sponsorships and marketing etc in the cost of making the shoes.

Then they can spread the total cost of Nike operations creatively over models that sell 1 million units and others that sell only 50 000 units.

If shoes cost 5 dollars to make but you feel you need to pay Serena and Tiger 20 bucks per shoe to sell them, suddenly they "cost" 25 to "make".
by roenxi | 2025-04-10 09:40:02+00:00
If you follow that thought a little though it ends up in a world where people can't act on problems that they perceive; they have to identify the problem and whinge about it until someone else handles it.

As a veteran of arguing with people on the internet I speak with some experience on the topic of whinging about problems; that strategy is never going to get good results and is only worth following if you find entertainment from arguing with people. To get results in the real world the process needs to be the person who identifies problem sells the problem and the solution at the same time.
by grvdrm | 2025-04-10 09:40:10+00:00
I start with this explanation too.

In his interview yesterday he mentioned that he won his weekend golf tournament. Of course he did, otherwise it wouldn’t be newsworthy (still isn’t, but oh well).

Then he asked the reporter if she saw that he won. I think he asked twice.

I look at that simple interaction as the most accurate model of his behavior. Are people talking about me? Good. Why aren’t people talking about me? I need to do something to make sure they do. He may very well have actual intelligence but it doesn’t seem obvious that it is the catalyst of anything he does.
by mike_hearn | 2025-04-10 09:41:16+00:00
Which ticket do you mean? If you're thinking of an adult GA it's actually now ~$4,700/yr :(

But, an adult GA is a premium ticket. That buys you unlimited travel on the entire network for a year. Not many travel patterns need that. If you just buy tickets as you need them and especially combined with a Halbtax it's not so bad. Where the crossover between car ownership and using public transport for everything occurs is going to depend a lot on your specific travel patterns and what kind of car you compare to.
by ikurei | 2025-04-10 09:42:11+00:00
I just got auth working with JWT through total vibecoding, using Claude+RooCode. Other bits of the app I needed a couple of tries, but auth worked immediately. I guess these models have seen express + node + JWT a million times.

I don't have access to the precise prompt, but I told it something like "only implement basic authentication based on JWT, using just email + password.", then asked it to add a simple registration form, then the password reset flow... step by step, but with little guidance.

At every prompt I review the changes on git, and commit.
by jstanley | 2025-04-10 09:42:21+00:00
I found that when I tried to use Cursor for blogging I was totally infuriated by it. As happy as I am to have Cursor auto-complete my code all day long, the sensation of having Cursor try to put words into my mouth (or, worse, put thoughts into my head) was very unpleasant.

So I stopped trying to use Cursor for writing and went back to vim.

But I found the unpleasantness of the sensation very surprising! I love using Cursor for writing code, but for some reason, even though I am primarily a programmer, it's much more important to me that my words are a "true expression of my spirit" than that my code is. I couldn't quite figure out why.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-10 09:42:25+00:00
The thing is, Sakoku passim, you can't really prevent homogenization without entirely abandoning the 20th century (heck, 19th century!) travel revolution. You'd need a global ban on air travel, TV, and Internet.

The alternative is a sort of re-enactment/cosplay approach where people consciously try to keep local traditions and minority languages (e.g. Gaelic, Sami) alive.
by Sonnigeszeug | 2025-04-10 09:43:01+00:00
Right now USA is alianating everyone.

I'm in germany and i'm pissed. I will not go on holiday in USA and thinking proactivly how to boycot USA.

And i'm not even a company. A company wants stability, predictability and not chaos every 4 years. And this president is in office for only a few month.

Whatever strategy companys currently try to do is either sitting it out or starting to adjust. The adjustments might not just go back when USA is more stable again.
by fransje26 | 2025-04-10 09:43:51+00:00
> For instance, I'm not too concerned about my child's ability to write very legibly (most writing is done on computers), spell very well (spell check keeps us professional), reading a map to get around (GPS), etc

That sounds like setting-up your child for failure, to put it bluntly.

How do you want to express a thought clearly if you already fail at the stage of thinking about words clearly?

You start with a fuzzy understanding of words, which you delegated to a spellchecker, added to a fuzzy understanding of writing, which you've delegated to a computer, combined with a fuzzy memory, which you've delegated to a search engine, and you expect that not to impact your child's ability to create articulate thoughts and navigate them clearly?

To add irony to the situation, the physical navigation skills have, themselves, been delegated to a GPS..

Brains are like muscles, they atrophy when not used.

Reverse that course before it's too late, or suffer (and have someone else suffer) the consequences.
by rlpb | 2025-04-10 09:44:35+00:00
> The presence of fast trains between two cities, on the scale of <600km, is transformative, as it becomes more convenient to take a train than to fly

I haven't found this to be true for London to Brussels. Eurostar terminals seem to operate like airports and require check-in two hours in advance, with airport style security. So I don't save time, and for me, my regional airport is much easier to reach than the Eurostar terminal.

I can believe it works better for "normal" train travel within the Schengen area, but I wonder: what are the security requirements then, if any?
Show HN: 2d MMO game about zombies in development
by andreamonaco | 2025-04-10 09:46:33+00:00
I got this crazy idea of writing my own little 2d MMO game. Work has started, and I have a demo available.

Any number of players can move in the same little 2d map and shoot at each other until they die; they can shoot at zombies too.

I tested in a LAN, but it should work in any network. You can even start multiple clients locally if you don't have other people. Let me know how many people you manage to handle!

I will keep adding stuff to this game and will keep you updated.

Make any question down here! Software is GPL3+, assets are free too
by kowabungalow | 2025-04-10 09:47:29+00:00
I think you place too much emphasis on US spam.. It's had its day and anyone susceptible to it is heavily in crypto that existing holders go heavier if they have more money to allocate to it is still a fragmentation away from actual usage where normal funds and banks add small percentages in longterm funds as a precaution.

I.e. GameStop is all very impressive until you compare it to anything finance actually dumps money in by default.

If the pyramid is isolated it tops out somewhere a lot higher than now and then collapses for lack of a place to sell to next or an actual return.
by impossiblefork | 2025-04-10 09:48:22+00:00
I'm not sure how I feel about the details of the benchmark, but I think this is an important direction in which it would be nice if LLMs were improved.

At present they don't really understand either stories or even short character interactions. Microsoft Copilot can generate dialogue where characters who have never met before are suddenly addressing each other by name, so there's great room for improvement.
by rawling | 2025-04-10 09:48:39+00:00
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43638510 6 points|Jerry2|12 hours ago|5 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43631228 18 points|jhunter1016|22 hours ago|7 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43628776 17 points|molteanu|1 day ago|3 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43624468 15 points|helsinkiandrew|2 days ago|8 comments
by sunshowers | 2025-04-10 09:48:53+00:00
You said "demonstrated competence" in general, not Carmack or Abrash.

My own competence has repeatedly been questioned, even though I've consistently delivered results on the teams I've been on. My body of work is almost all public so feel free to verify yourself. It turns out that how much you're questioned has a lot to do with race and gender — basically every single highly skilled minority I know has been in this position.
by alec-c4 | 2025-04-10 09:48:54+00:00
Hey, Josef! I agree that Kamal is simple, but with capistrano I had no such problems I had with Kamal. I had a couple of conversations with devs from different communities and some of them stuck with Kamal configuration.

PS: Thanks a lot for your book, I've used it when I stuck with Kamal 1, it helped me a lot about a year ago (but there were some issues, not sure that I can remember details).
by mnky9800n | 2025-04-10 09:49:15+00:00
All of the road signs, news, etc. in Bretagne are written in both French and Breton. So it is simply not true that you should expect only french language in France. It is quite ironic that a country like USA that claims to be a "melting pot of the world" cannot handle the idea there are more than one language spoken inside of that country.
by grandempire | 2025-04-10 09:52:18+00:00
According to ChatGPT. < 4% of federal budgets goes to these things and about 16% of state budgets.

That was also generous and includes all transportation - not just roads.

So yeah, I’m thinking defending current tax level or tax increases using these examples is not in good faith. You’re picking only The most popular programs (do we like police now?) and ignoring the other 85%.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-10 09:52:36+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

The Great Chinese Famine was a famine that occurred between 1959 and 1961 in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It is widely regarded as the deadliest famine and one of the greatest man-made disasters in human history, with an estimated death toll due to starvation that ranges in the tens of millions (15 to 55 million).

That's 3% to 10% of China's population starved to death at the time.
by eagleislandsong | 2025-04-10 09:53:16+00:00
While it is true that Vance did not literally refer to all Chinese people as peasants, I do worry that such rhetoric will stoke the flames of racially motivated anti-Asian/anti-Chinese attacks.

I don't want to discuss whether he is genuinely racist; I think that's besides the point. Words can have a lot of impact, especially when uttered by a public figure in such a powerful position. I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the Vice President of the United States to carefully weigh the consequences of his words before speaking.
by huhkerrf | 2025-04-10 09:53:21+00:00
> when you take taxpayers money to function and provide services to them, you don't get to be fussy when they show up and ask that you speak their language.

Citizenship and residency have both benefits, but also obligations. GP moved to France without a good grasp of the local language.

Note: I'm importantly not talking about the native minority languages in France.
by mr_mitm | 2025-04-10 09:53:22+00:00
This was also my first thought, that for example if you interact with official bodies in Germany, there is definitely an expectation that you speak German, even though you'll be accommodated if you're lucky and the other person speaks English.

But then again, I noticed that in the last few years more and more offerings were in other languages, too. During covid, many announcements or the app paid for by the government supported multiple languages. There might not be a right to perform official duties in languages other than German, but more and more it's a possibility. Sibling comments found similar examples.

My point being: much of the western world seems to move towards openness, inclusiveness, and accessibility, whereas the US currently moves backwards, as exemplified by the OP.