MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dralley | 2025-04-03 14:17:20+00:00
The "numbers" appear to:

* Punish Ecuador, who uses the US dollar, for being a "currency manipulator", which obviously makes zero sense

* Punish Lesotho, whose population is too poor to ever afford US goods, because they export a lot of resources that we use

* Punish countries like Columbia for being big coffee exporters where there is no hope of building up a domestic coffee industry because that's not how agriculture works

* Tariff an island inhabited only by Penguins

It's just dumb.
by kamaal | 2025-04-03 14:17:47+00:00
>> Foreign countries buy US dollars so they can trade with other people. That guarantees the deficit since they give us something in exchange for USD, which they do not then spend on goods we make.

This is called Triffin Dilemma- And in many lies at the core of the most basic question every power in history has faced.

That is- You can either be a Geo Economic Super power or a Geo political Super power, You can't be both at the same. You have to chose to be one. China seems to be chosing the former. USA chose to be the latter, but can't seem to be sure about its choices so far.
by MisterTea | 2025-04-03 14:17:58+00:00
You can, just not all at once.

And which plan 9 release and when? Ghostscript and Python were originally distributed with 9front which are both HUGE compared to the rest of the system. Remove those and its much, much smaller. Unsure if ghostscript was included in vanilla 9 from the labs. Python was included in 9front because it was necessary for mercurial. Once git9 arrived python was nuked from base and removed many lines of code. Ghostscript is next to go from base once pdffs is running (patches welcome.)
by nkrisc | 2025-04-03 14:18:10+00:00
I mostly meant that facetiously as now we're entering the linguistic quagmire of trying to pin down an exact origin for a language, and furthermore (depending on your chosen definition of "English") the language itself predates the current flag of England, so even that is open to debate regarding its appropriateness.

The moral is: don't try to draw boxes around languages.

All that said, I do understand why someone would want to use flags as shorthand for language. It's wrong, but it's useful.
by lr4444lr | 2025-04-03 14:18:10+00:00
There are some reasons that I think you probably know, which don't receive enough time and attention

1) Despite an appearance of being "left leaning" (according to polls of faculty political sentiment) they continue to gatekeep education behind prohibitively expensive tuition that is out of reach of lower economic strata without crippling debt, and have simultaneously struggled to produce graduates whose economic differential easily makes up for that expense and lost work time.

2) They enjoy a tax free status while receiving significant tax money despite many failing to grow their student bodies in tandem with the growth of the US population, leading to people questioning whether they deserve those benefits as institutions that serve the public.

3) There is a sentiment that basic literacy and numeracy of graduates has dropped over the last decades outside of a narrow area of studies, because of a shift to a model where students are customers buying a credential instead of getting an education.

(These are all interrelated, of course.)
by graemep | 2025-04-03 14:18:24+00:00
How is the index calculated?

I definitely disagree about the UK. We have nothing like the constitutional protections the US has.

The other country I know well, Sri Lanka, is fairly bad, but has got a lot better in recent years and that does not seem to be reflected in the change (I cannot see a history so maybe it got better and fell in the last year) and I find it hard to believe it is really just a few places away from the likes of Yemen or Belarus.
by yfontana | 2025-04-03 14:18:38+00:00
A while ago I worked on a system handling call records for a large telco. Call records were considered sensitive information at that company, and distributed only where definitely needed. I'm sure security wasn't bulletproof, but there were regular audits to check that employees and contractors didn't store records in places they weren't supposed to.

One of the main functions of the system that I worked on was to create various anonymous and/or aggregated versions of the data, which could be distributed and used more widely (for stuff like fraud detection, network provisioning, marketing...).
by duxup | 2025-04-03 14:18:41+00:00
I worked at a really old school company as my first job. Some folks talked about how hard the CEO and that team worked and so on. And they did put in a lot of hours, they really did.

On the other hand they had staff that catered to their work and their personal needs. The executive suite had a lounge and bar and storage for their personal stuff like their golf clubs... they flew first class when they traveled and stayed at the nicest places.

All strong contrasts to my windowless cube that was falling apart, basic travel ... is it any wonder why I'd rather not be there too much?
by blakesterz | 2025-04-03 14:18:50+00:00
Apparently the title of this story changed at The WSJ. That word "Cheat" seems wrong, while the old title makes more sense.

"How Hackers Stole Billions in Crypto to Keep North Korea’s Regime Afloat"

The archive link from the @Bostonian comment below has the original I guess: https://archive.is/1vkXG
by organsnyder | 2025-04-03 14:18:56+00:00
Yup, my T480 got upgraded to a Framework 13 after the T480's Thunderbolt port broke (known firmware issue that basically fried the chip). I loaned my T480 to someone about a year ago, and haven't bothered asking for it back.

Meanwhile, my T410 works great as a workbench computer.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-04-03 14:19:38+00:00
Well, it's equating mass (28g) which is the right way to represent data here.

Equating calories is far less useful since you aren't choosing between eating 100cal of raw bacon vs 100cal of cooked bacon.

And the question you're trying to ask is "what nutrients/calories do my 4 strips of bacon have?"
by ukd1 | 2025-04-03 14:19:45+00:00
I have few old thinkpads X220, X230, etc - outside of raw power, the two things that really suck are the speakers (they're truly trash), and the standard screen's performance with anything but trivial light around it.

Still, it's fast enough to use with linux, and the keyboard is a joy to use. Swappable batteries are fun, and useful.

However, I can't really use one outside of just nostalgia, or for tuning cars.
by Olreich | 2025-04-03 14:20:50+00:00
None of those listed jobs is actually unskilled labor. Driving a big truck around narrow roads is a skill most don’t have, doing it at speed and running up and down to actually move the heavy packages is a skill most don’t have. Assembling furniture is a skill most don’t have, especially with complex engineered wood products that will break if stressed wrong. Handymen is literally just a collection of skilled labor jobs rolled into one guy that can handle small home improvement projects like carpentry, masonry, plumbing, and electrical. These are specialized jobs that have wrongly been labeled “un-skilled” or “semi-skilled” as if knowledge work is the only skill of value…
by joshdickson | 2025-04-03 14:21:16+00:00
> or worse,use it as a primary source and become discouraged

I would hope these people download the free app so they can actually track their food, which has extensive tooling to track weight trends and expenditure changes over time :). But yes, you should be able to customize the assumptions, I just have about 100 more of these things to add and didn't want to wait longer to see feedback.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-03 14:21:17+00:00
I'd encourage everyone to go take a look at apnews, cnn, really pick your non-right-wing source website this morning. They're extremely consistent.

Then go look at Fox.

The top story when I checked a minute ago is about Congress resisting the tariffs with a highlighted quote about "disloyalty".

The six stories under that are largely weird culture-war stuff.

It's wild.
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-03 14:21:54+00:00
If there are no people there is no government to trade with, no customs, no regulations.

It takes a lot longer to set all of that up than it takes for Trump to just raise another tariff if that happens. So nobody would invest in that. It would only be a loophole for a week or so.

So why bother doing this pre-emptively (even if that was the reason)?
by pvg | 2025-04-03 14:21:57+00:00
This in itself has already seen endless discussion but you can jump around some of the mod comments:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

are often important info.

That's not really the purpose of HN though, no? Lots of places are great at delivering important info, HN is just some random forum.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-03 14:22:12+00:00
It's a trickle down effect for sure. Where indies suffer the most. You have games getting away with $70 price tags, but your indie game you spent 2+ years on better no cost more than 15-20 a pop and better have a 50% launch discount. You really can't sustain yourself even as a true solo dev in western countries (let alone if you need to commission/hire an artist/composer).

And when I say "sustain in western countries" I'm talking the bog bottom line of "us federal minimum wage", coming down to approx. $15k/year. That's 1000 copies of a $15 game that is probably upped to 1800 copies after valve and other's cuts. Even that paltry marker is hard just becsuse the market is so saturated (and not in a good way).

It's only gonna get worse as a generation that is raised on mobile games and game pass settle in. The idea of spending money upfront from a game may be lost entirely.

>I also wonder whether Nintendo's pricing does a better job of maintaining the integrity of the experiences they want to offer players.

That was indeed an explicit strategy of Nintendo. Keep a premium brand and a price thst reflects that. Sales are rare to maintain this idea of an evergreen title that is always selling.
Show HN: I built an AI that generates custom travel itineraries
by superproton | 2025-04-03 14:22:52+00:00
I got tired of spending hours planning trips—tabs everywhere, scattered notes, trying to piece together a decent itinerary. So I built a simple AI tool that does it for you.

You just pick a destination and set your preferences. It generates a full travel plan in seconds—hotels, restaurants, activities, even timing.

Would love feedback!
by fifilura | 2025-04-03 14:23:01+00:00
> What Europeans truly lack is the ability to defend itself without the U.S.

Pushing this message is disinformation that has been particularly successful part of the OrangeMan administration.

Europe can defend itself. Combined they have huge military resources and technological replacements for most of what the US can provide.

So - Europe can defend itself. But it prefers to use money, allies and Ukrainian soldiers lives to avoid having to.
by mathattack | 2025-04-03 14:23:13+00:00
I’ve seen many companies have this problem. They base hiring against planned revenue instead of current revenue. In a sense you have to - if you’re planning on growing 100% for several years on the back of new products and a big sales team you must hire in advance. It’s what the VC model is founded on. The downside is when you miss the revenue, you have to cut deep. And it’s usually worse because your hiring standards dropped in hyper growth.
by joshdickson | 2025-04-03 14:23:24+00:00
There is a large disclaimer that states, among other things, "We strive to ensure accuracy and quality using authoritative sources and AI-based validation; however, we make no guarantees regarding completeness, accuracy, or timeliness. Always confirm nutritional data independently when accuracy is critical." on every page on the website where that kind of in-depth data is available.
by mock-possum | 2025-04-03 14:23:41+00:00
I don’t get why it matters what currency people use - all currency is exchangeable, isn’t it? What does it matter if you buy something for dollars or pounds or euros or yen?

If I’m buying 1 barrel of oil for $100, does it matter whether I convert my USD into 150 of this currency or 50 of that currency, according to the current exchange rate, before I pay? I still get 1 barrel of oil, and the seller still received an equivalent to $100 in exchange?
by diggan | 2025-04-03 14:24:09+00:00
> Presumably if you as a founder are not driven by a desire to make money and your investors are, you 100% should be ousted

Presumably, the real world is a bit more nuanced than that.

There is no reason why you cannot run a company for different motivations than "get as rich as possible" while still accepting investments from people whose sole motivation is "get as rich as possible". While difficult, it is possible to align people even when they have different motivations.
by _bohm | 2025-04-03 14:24:21+00:00
While not about resentment towards universities specifically, I thought this article in The Baffler [1] did a good job of framing a dynamic that, I think, contributes to this phenomenon.

My interpretation: As the country has entered the post-industrial era, holding a college degree has increasingly become a table-stakes credential for entering the white collar labor force. The higher education system has struggled or failed to grow to meet increased demand for these credentials, which both drives up the cost and increases selectivity of higher-ed institutions. A lot of people get burned by this and become locked out of and, crucially, geographically separated from labor markets that now constitute the majority of US GDP. This split causes non degree holders to view degree holders as their class enemies, and the universities as the class gateway that divides them.

[1] https://thebaffler.com/latest/one-elite-two-elites-red-elite...
by ty6853 | 2025-04-03 14:24:28+00:00
For inexplicable reasons I was about the only one there with free reign of the hospital. They seemed so starved of guests and happy someone was there for good reasons that the hospital didn't stop me from walking around most the hallways, so I did. Small town hospital with few enough security that they all knew who I was.

There was so much bad data and propoganda coming in at the beginning thar ultimately the only thing I could depend on was what I personally investigated. I'm not using it to sign off on a research paper.
by yamihere | 2025-04-03 14:24:45+00:00
>> User-generated databases can be unreliable

>> Foods discovered via these searches are fed back into the database,

Aren’t LLMs also unreliable? How do you ensure the new content is from an authoritative, accurate source? How do you ensure the numbers that make it into the database are actually what the source provided?

According to the Methodology/About page

>> The LLM is tasked with creating complete nutritional values, explicitly explaining the rationale behind each value it generates. Outputs undergo rigorous validation steps,

Those rigorous validation steps were also created with LLMs, correct?

>> whose core innovations leveraged AI but didn’t explicitly market themselves as “AI products.”

Odd choice for an entirely AI based service. First thought I had after reading that was: must be because people don’t trust AI generated information. Seems disengenuous to minimize the AI aspect in marketing while this product only exists because of AI.

Great idea though, thanks for giving it a shot!
by macinjosh | 2025-04-03 14:25:16+00:00
All the gigabrains trying to be economists ITT don't understand this is a political move for Trump's base. It is not about what is technically best or the most logical according to the academics. It is an emotional decision more than anything. It stems from the working class in America being given cheap crap from Asia that barely works in exchange for shipping the good jobs overseas to the lowest bidder.

The working class has enough TVs, iPhones, and toys. We want secure housing, good education, healthy food, and an opportunity for promotion in life. Those things can only come with good jobs that are accessible to the whole working class, not just the well educated who make up most of the service economy.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-04-03 14:25:39+00:00
>Just look at workaholic societies like South Korea and Japan, societal pressures around earning money to support a family,

So, if we check the unemployed in Japan, they will be baby daddies to six or seven children? It's not workaholism.

>Education is in no way indoctrinating children into not wanting children.

You understand that this sounds like a lie not because I watch Fox News, but rather because I've had the kids come home telling me about how they were taught that the most important thing that they could do to lower their carbon footprint was to not have children, but that "adoption was just as good"? Granted, I'd agree that it's almost certainly not some official written policy somewhere, but the indoctrination is real and personally witnessed. And it's not just that, there are other examples.

>You are conflating education with the current economical system, which uses education to have a trained workforce to

If that were ever true, it hasn't been so since your grandparent's time. We don't need a workforce, not enough industry left to require it. Should I just ignore the fallacy where "education system" means whatever is most convenient for your argument rather than the government bureaucracy and social institution that always tends to have "education" either in the agency's name itself or in its official purpose?
by rtkwe | 2025-04-03 14:25:44+00:00
First we don't import any where near all of Uruguay's exports, in fact we're only about 8% of their actual exports which should tell you this isn't the reason we buy more from them than they do from us.

Next that's always going to be imbalanced because they produce goods cheaper and can't afford as much as the equivalent chunk of people in the US.
by gnabgib | 2025-04-03 14:26:01+00:00
Related:

Tell HN: Archive.is/ph/md/etc. is redirecting me to HTTPS:// rurtnews – com (30 points, 7 days ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43490423

Removepaywall.com Redirecting to RussiaToday (4 points, 6 days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43504057
by robertlagrant | 2025-04-03 14:26:06+00:00
> This is a decapitation strike (Timothy Snyder: Decapitation Strike -- https://archive.is/1xkxK) on America by our enemies

Decapitation Strike seems to be not a general principle that is applying here, but the title of a specific polemic against the Trump administration. Just mentioning for clarity, as it sounded like a general thing warned about in past times that's applicable here.
by marceldegraaf | 2025-04-03 14:26:10+00:00
DMA has not been used against EU tech companies because US tech companies are clearly the market leaders in the area the DMA is concerned with. The DMA exists to make sure that companies (from the EU, US, or elsewhere) comply with EU regulations regarding privacy, tracking, and consumer rights.

It's not a "tax" on US companies, it's just that US companies don't bother to comply with the regulations that apply in the EU, and thus get fined.
by atwrk | 2025-04-03 14:26:12+00:00
Here, US manufacturing output is up 50% since 2010: https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/USA/uni...

That it's relative share in GDP is down during that time means that other sectors were growing even faster (think Google, Netflix and so on, so services instead of things). That the service sector gains in relative importance is actually a sign of an advanced economy, every modern economy looks like that, not just the US.
by Groxx | 2025-04-03 14:26:12+00:00
I kinda both agree and disagree...

A screw or two definitely wouldn't have impeded the handful of times I've moved my 16's parts around, not even in the slightest, it's just not that frequent. And I don't usually carry other kinds of ports + wouldn't be able to have the screwdriver too, it's usually "I have them all" or "I have none" and then all I can realistically do is swap sides. I'd have zero complaints with some standard screws.

... but tool-less lowers the barrier to literally zero, which is pretty big when you need it. It's a very different mental-space: absolutely zero concern.

... and if they were smaller, they'd be incompatible, and it'd be harder to build custom ones due to even less internal space.
by Marsymars | 2025-04-03 14:26:35+00:00
What does he win? More paper? Less glibly - What does a short term tariff on the goods I’m buying from him do that isn’t already baked in to this “long run” scenario you’re envisioning? Say I mark up all the goods I buy from him and the result is that I have to spend more time making goods - why wouldn’t I just do without tariffs, benefit from as many goods as possible, and then start making more goods myself whenever my neighbour stops accepting my paper?
by moduspol | 2025-04-03 14:26:52+00:00
> I'm not just glomming on to everything one "tribe" or another stands for ... one group actually reflects everything I believe.

I don't think that's unreasonable, but if you're in the US, you should really re-evaluate if this is true just because there are several significant issues over which the parties have flipped over the past few decades (and more if you go back further).

Obviously you didn't specify a party, but as one example: In the 1990s, the left wing party was where the free speech absolutists were. If you were a big "free speech" enthusiast back then and you still are now, then great! If your views have changed, that's fine, too, but there should be alarm bells going off in your head that your views changed along with the tribe.
by tasuki | 2025-04-03 14:27:10+00:00
> I'm of the mindset that any time a company does layoffs, they should start from the top And work down.

I'm off the mindset that employment should be voluntary: both by the employer and the employee. It makes employers reluctant to hire if they know they can't get rid of people again.

(I'm a socialist at heart and think it'd be pretty nice for the government to take care of people who lost their jobs. Just tax the companies a little more!)
by CharlieDigital | 2025-04-03 14:27:28+00:00
> If we could snap our fingers and domestically produce most or all of our own products, would you not prefer that?

That's like saying "If we could snap our fingers and every state would have mild weather, abundant capital, and a highly talented workforce, would you not prefer that?"

Yeah, then every city could be like SF or LA or NYC.

But it's not even worth it as a thought exercise because it completely ignores reality. The reason I live in NJ and pay high taxes is because this is where the high paying jobs and good schools are. Cottontown, Alabama theoretically could be a financial capitol of the world and if you want to base your position on that, then you should probably re-examine your position.
by havblue | 2025-04-03 14:27:36+00:00
My personal strategies... 1. I try to be indirect on what I think and just describe why some people think one opinion versus another. So I try not to convince people. 2. I try to stick to "is this going to work?" Style arguments when I do state my opinion. I acknowledge when my preferred party does or says something I disagree with. 3. I avoid getting bogged down with "do you agree with x y z??" Controversies that may be anecdotal and I'm not opinionated or familiar with. So I try not to argue the outage of the day.

This generally keeps me from arguing with relatives and in-laws, and on this site. So usually I can discuss differences without things going crazy.