MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
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by dcow | 2025-04-09 21:57:22+00:00
I wish the discussion included the margins the fashion industry makes. In the labor sector, 10%-20% margin is respectable. But in the fashion and consumer goods sector at least 30% margins are expected. 80% margins are normal for “luxury” goods, which I’m sure is the bracket Nike falls into. I wish margins were included in the thread. It’s only true that everything increases in cost if you also have to keep the same margins.
Ask HN: Building AI notetaker for immigrant founders. What am I missing?
by hiddenest | 2025-04-09 21:57:39+00:00
Hi, I’m building Caret(caret.so), an AI meeting notetaker for immigrant founders. We help immigrant founders/startups to close more sales deals in the US. (Of course, you can just use it — confidently say it is way better than Granola, Otter, and so on)

Our product went viral in South Korea, we relocated to US and finding more customers. But I’m thinking about things like ‘Where are they?’, ‘What they really need?’ or ‘How can reach out more proactively?’, it makes me slow down. Could you give me some advice?

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The selling point we're pushing right now: 1/ Real-time transcription and timeline summary: If you're an immigrant, you'll know this: since English isn't your first language, you sometimes miss a few words and lose focus wondering what you missed. Caret provides real-time transcription of conversations and displays an easy-to-follow timeline summary. It’s also the only product in the industry offering real-time speaker diarization, clearly showing who said what.

2/ Support for multiple channels (online/offline): Doing business globally means using various communication channels like WeChat, Zalo, or Meta Workplace. However, traditional meeting bots can't transcribe conversations from channels they don't support. Caret captures all system audio, allowing seamless transcription across multiple online channels as well as offline conversations.

3/ Reduce your meeting prep time (Coming soon!): Preparing for meetings is incredibly time-consuming. Even with extensive question lists, you might miss important points because you're too focused on pitching your product. Caret will soon release features to significantly cut your meeting preparation time by retrieving past conversation histories and performing prospecting tasks automatically. During meetings, Caret will notify you to do critical follow-ups, such as scheduling future meetings or sending contracts, ensuring you never miss important actions.
by pfannkuchen | 2025-04-09 21:57:49+00:00
Okay I think I understand, thanks for explaining.

So basically the money a business uses to produce the next tranche of goods (so to speak) normally comes not from income from sales of the last tranche, but rather from external funding sources such as loans or capital injection from investors?

Is that really so common as to be universal and affect investor behavior like you suggest? Like for certain types of business, and especially for early stage businesses, I do expect this to be the case. But does it apply to the market broadly? Scary if so, since it seems like a destabilizing force.
by cyberax | 2025-04-09 21:58:04+00:00
That's a consequence of its attack style, it doesn't just strike the prey and then retreat, it actively subdues it and doesn't let go.

So there's an evolutionary pressure to make venom as fast acting as possible so that the prey has fewer chances to injure the snake before dying.

Black mamba in Africa is in a similar situation. It's an arboreal snake, so its toxic venom helps it to hold on to the prey.
by trhway | 2025-04-09 21:58:20+00:00
Keiko Fukuda, a judo trainer (10th degree black belt) in SF who died in 2013 aged 99 (she taught in her dojo in Noe Valley even into the last year of her life) was the student of the judo founder Kano Jigoro who opened his first judo school in 1882.
by huitzitziltzin | 2025-04-09 21:58:22+00:00
Of all the things which are never going to happen, I put universal basic income at the top of the list. Faster than light travel seems vastly more likely than universal basic income.

I don’t believe we can pay for it, nor do I believe that it’s remotely politically feasible.

Studies like this are perfectly nice but I can’t imagine they are actually designed to confidently predict the general equilibrium effects of rolling out UBI on an entire society. (The studies may not be designed with that in mind but it’s crucial.)
by ufmace | 2025-04-09 21:58:22+00:00
I don't really see the hyperbolic language about it. I've definitely worked some process-heavy corporate jobs where I could be perfectly satisfactorily productive as far as my management was concerned while only doing actual work like 20-30% of the time. Maybe I'm super smart or maybe they're just terrible at generating and assigning tasks, I don't know. Not my problem either way.

Especially in the WFH era where it's much easier to get away with it clean, I don't see anything all that wrong with working 2 or 3 such jobs at the same time. If all of them are happy, or at least not too terribly upset, with your performance, what's the harm. There's definitely been times in my life where I could see myself doing that just for the sake of being bored.
by MajimasEyepatch | 2025-04-09 21:58:27+00:00
That's not the simplest possible explanation. The simplest explanation is that he did this because he believes in it. Trump has been saying the exact same thing about tariffs since the 1980s—there's video of him talking to Larry King about it in 1987, using exactly the same phrasing and logic that he uses today.

Donald Trump fundamentally believes that everything in life is a zero-sum game, and moreover that everyone is as crooked as him: either you're screwing someone else or you're getting screwed. That's why he's so obsessed with trade deficits specifically, because to him, that negative sign screams "you're getting ripped off."

There are other benefits. By imposing the tariffs like this and wielding them through executive power, he can extort countries and corporations to give him what he wants in exchanging for releasing the hostages, so to speak. And I'm sure people in his orbit _also_ used this as a get-rich-quick scheme, because these people are all grifters. But that is all secondary to the fact that he has believed this for forty years and finally got a chance to do it.
by timewizard | 2025-04-09 21:58:34+00:00
> have been taught

As I said, and not to be flip, but "propaganda mouthpieces." The odd part about "social media" is that it actually instills a sense of reward in people when they uncritically repeat what they've been told like a Manchurian candidate. While at the same time being an outlet for their frustrations with the outcome of these same policies and ideals.

> live in the freest and generally most superlative country

Since the 1950s the government has been opening and reading peoples mail. We had the Church Committee and the House Select Committee on Assassinations. In this era people did not make the same mistake. This notion of the "freest" country honestly started after 2001. "They hate us because of our freedom," was a useful excuse to invade Afghanistan and Iraq.

> We were pretty "soft" (dislike the term) on the land borders and on immigration.

That depends on your perspective. The cold war certainly had an impact on some citizens of the world more than others. The 2001 trade center attack just moved the goalposts. Here we are moving them again.

> but it's how I feel about things right now.

That's the most valuable thing you could possibly do. Thank you.
by FredPret | 2025-04-09 21:58:51+00:00
Manufacturing machines are hard to invent, and harder to keep running right, and even harder to network together into an effective factory. You need skilled operators, technicians, and engineers to design and run a factory.

You also need to put down a big whack of capital upfront and will see a return years down the line, hopefully.

With low enough wages, it could easily be financially better to rent a big building in the third world and staff it with actual people.
by mercutio2 | 2025-04-09 21:59:00+00:00
I am normally all in favor of metonymy, it's perfectly fine and well understood style.

In the case of Trump-as-Mad-King tariffs, it sure would be nice if the world didn't conflate America, the historical land of twisting other nation's arms to reduce tariffs, with Trump and his fake-emergency tariffs.

I can understand if you do, and if America has permanently lost a lot of good will by electing this buffoon for you, I can hardly argue with you.

But still. In my mind, these are Trump's tariffs, not America's.

And specifically the idea that Trump's tariffs are reciprocal, that is even more "Trump is just a liar" than something any honest American would argue.
by ElevenLathe | 2025-04-09 21:59:54+00:00
Not to rehash this for the 1000th time, but I really don't understand this point of view. Why assume that everything before the Biden drop-out was unchangeable and ordained by God?

It is very clear that, long before the primary, Biden was not fit to run again, probably not even fit to stay in office. A functioning party would have gotten their senile standard-bearer to at least not run again, ideally even step down and let his VP take office and build a relationship with voters. Either way, they could have run a real primary and therefore chosen somebody that Democratic voters might actually have been excited about voting for in the general election. This may even have been Harris, but a version of Harris with a much better shot at winning because she'd spent an additional year or so campaigning.

Why is this an impossible set of events? If it isn't, why not lay the blame for this colossally bad fuckup at the feet of the Democratic leadership?
by jacobgkau | 2025-04-09 21:59:58+00:00
> secondhand books are generally outdated, undesirable, and/or damaged

Fiction books don't really become "outdated" to the point of being useless. That's only an argument for encyclopedias/technical manuals/etc.

> the shelves of library sales, churches, and ordinary thrift stores are overflowing.

I'm sure the same could be said about furniture, but I'd expect more luck finding interesting/quality second-hand furniture at a used furniture store than I would from a general dumping ground of miscellaneous used items.

For that matter, since you're asking about all brick-and-mortar book shops, I'd also expect better new furniture from a brick-and-mortar furniture shop than from a thrift shop. And while books may not require seeing them in person as much to know what they are, the act of discovering them for fun based on what happens to be there is (possibly) easier to understand than discovering a particular piece of furniture.
by rat87 | 2025-04-09 22:00:16+00:00
If the goal was to decouple from China then tarrifs would only be on China and we would encourage trade to move from China to other countries. The administrations actions have the opposite effect. It says the US is untrustworthy even to it's allies and maybe siding with China is not so bad. Note I don't like or trust the Chinese government and don't think other governments should try to get closer to them but Trump's actions make such moves much more likely
by pj_mukh | 2025-04-09 22:00:18+00:00
I think the nuance here is that the income in Universal Basic Income is a stand-in for "everyone's basic needs should be met". But income doesn't guarantee that, because prices go up and down for a variety of reasons.

What people actually want is Universal Basic Buying Power. I should be able to get a roof over my head, get food and an education. It sucks that it's this complicated but in terms of government policy sometimes UBI is cash handouts, other times it should be supply-side investments, and as the original commenter laid out, none of these research experiments are running that experiment.
by TheCleric | 2025-04-09 22:00:47+00:00
In my opinion? Of course it’s gambling. Where I would define gambling as wagering money on a predefined event for a predefined payout and little to no payout for the event not occurring. In regards to where they got into it with the CFTC (essentially being able to bet on elections) they pitched it as essentially the same as other forecast markets that are legal wherein you’d make the wager as a hedge against other financial hardships. Bet on the thing you don’t want to happen and either you’re happy it didn’t or you get paid if it does. Though in that way insurance is a bit like gambling.

This boils down, as far as I can tell, is the CFTC has preliminarily been told that its authority to exclude these kinds of contracts only apply to “gaming” and not “gambling” (where gaming involves being a participant in a game of stakes). So Kalshi is trying to say that essentially supersedes state laws. I doubt that will hold water in the long run, but you never know until a court rules.
by cwillu | 2025-04-09 22:01:19+00:00
> 1. tax on imports, 2. tax on whatever goods/services people in that > country pay/buy, you could keep just the 2 and have free trade with > other countries with zero tax.

That is completely ridiculous. Why would there a VAT on, say, domestically produced pasta on the grocery shelf, while the Italian import pasta right next to it has none?
by creer | 2025-04-09 22:01:25+00:00
US debt was mostly being bought because "safe". The US being seen as politically and economically stable and the center of the world. Right now that argument is much harder to make.

And meanwhile there is always a lot of US debt that needs to be rolled over (i.e. re-issued to a willing buyer.)

Except for the data point of today's 10-Year Treasury Auction which had a normal, usual result.
by queuebert | 2025-04-09 22:01:27+00:00
You would think, but Word has some serious efficiency problems that I can't explain. For one, it is an order of magnitude slower at simply performing word counts than tools like wc or awk. Besides that, the problem does not parallelize well, due to the long-range dependency of line breaks.

Zooming in a bit, Word also does not kern fonts as well as LaTeX, so it might be missing some logic there that would trickle down into more beautiful word spacing and text flow.
by pitpatagain | 2025-04-09 22:02:18+00:00
Obviously then your risks are lower, but even then not zero. A dear friend of mine went through stage 4 HPV related cancer after a long "monogamous" marriage. It turned out that it wasn't actually monogamous on the part of her (now ex) husband.

It's excessive to say literally everyone should get the vaccine: if you are especially low risk and don't want to bother, sure. But it's a very easy, safe vaccine. Most people engaging in some average amount of life-time serial monogamy (or with a partner who engaged in serial monogamy) would be better off just getting the vaccine than spending any mental energy on trying to figure out exactly the degree to which they need it.
by amiga386 | 2025-04-09 22:02:18+00:00
My experience has been that the second-hand bookshops have had thin times but nonetheless survive because of the internet. They tend to have a better selection compared to charity shops, i.e. not just cast-offs of holiday novels and celeb bios. Shout out to https://www.tillsbookshop.co.uk/ and https://www.armchairbooks.co.uk/

There has also been a growth in first-hand bookshops, especially specialists/curators (e.g. only selling sci-fi, only selling books by women, etc.) to distinguish themselves from the Waterstones and Blackwells of this world.
by Henchman21 | 2025-04-09 22:02:28+00:00
> secondhand books are generally outdated, undesirable, and/or damaged

This is an odd take, to me.

When I was still in school, I’d seek out texts with as many handwritten notes in them as I could find! That was an added value for sure and one only available second-hand.

Now that eBooks are a thing I use them almost exclusively for schlock-type books: mass market paperbacks for well known SciFi franchises, for example, are all eBooks now. I wouldn’t buy these any other way now, but when I did buy paperbacks they went right to secondhand. The value for those was that they were cheaper.

But for any other type of book, if I am buying it, its a classic book. Maybe it won some awards, maybe it is even out of print!

None of this feels like a waste to me in any way, and I will admit I do not read a lot by the standards of folks here.
by kashunstva | 2025-04-09 22:02:34+00:00
> they just threaten to revoke your passport which is also a lie

Insofar as the current regime has little or no respect for the rule of law, particularly due process, I can imagine them revoking someone's passport. The Secretary of State could certify that you have engaged in activities abroad that are opposed to U.S. foreign policy. On paper, the conditions for revocation are rather narrow. In practice with an adverse administration and a largely captured judicial branch, who knows? Either way, personally I don't care. No warrant - no looksies.
by wonger_ | 2025-04-09 22:02:53+00:00
Not OP, but seeing a therapist, journaling, breathing exercises, and spending time lingering outside (e.g. walking), helped me regulate emotions and access peaceful states. Anxiety is the source of lots of problems for me, including doomscrolling, and unmanaged thoughts and feelings are a big source of anxiety for me. So once I learned some techniques for tending to those thoughts and feelings (instead of ignoring them), everything got a bit better.

So I guess keep reading, keep breathing, find more techniques that help you, and consider finding a professional if you need more help.
by matt-p | 2025-04-09 22:03:04+00:00
I am aware. Of course, if you require a visa from us then it becomes politically impossible NOT to require a visa from you in return. We were very clear that we didn't want it at all.

Re the fish;

>But in an interview with POLITICO, the minister said EU member governments were unlikely to sign off on a security deal with the U.K. unless negotiations are also resolved on other “sensitive” issues, including access to British waters for European fishing fleets. A deal on fish would also help in “building trust” between London and Brussels, she added.(1)

It's just a combination of low turn out and a 52/48 marginal split, it does not mean we have a failure of democracy, that's a bit of a stretch.

(1) https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-eu-defense-pact-really-do...
by JetSpiegel | 2025-04-09 22:03:22+00:00
> The degree of thumbing the scales has to outweigh unpopularity of the incumbent.

Absolutely delusiomal nonsense. Trump lost an election by nearly 10 million votes and still complained about fraud. If he's in power, he will stop at nothing to make sure this fraud thing is the law of the land.

It will make Hunter's laptop seem quaint.
by robocat | 2025-04-09 22:03:30+00:00
Was the plan to incentivise Korea, China and Japan to work together? You know you've screwed up when bitter rivals decide to cooperate together.

Every government that has to do something undesirable to their citizens have been given something to blame: a beautiful excuse that will be milked relentlessly to the disadvantage of the US.

Businesses get screwed by flaky management - and now we get to see the US get screwed by its unreliable self-centered Prez.
by umeshunni | 2025-04-09 22:03:50+00:00
The reality is that most USians and EUians still have some 1990 view of what Asia and China is. Or they cope with some 'freedom' or 'slave labor' anecdotes.

My comment on another thread about how China is now a developed country was downvoted by some HNer who swallowed some Guardian anecdote: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43627315

Exponential growth is a hard concept to internalize.
by Symbiote | 2025-04-09 22:04:55+00:00
I bought a Warhammer set during Covid and was amazed at the detail, compared to the 1990s stuff I had as a kid.

I can't say what's more difficult to manufacture - millions of identical bricks that snap together, or a huge range of different, detailed designs which fit snugly together but don't lock.

Just the first thing on the home page: https://www.warhammer.com/en-GB/shop/Deathlords-Mortarchs-Ma...
by aeternum | 2025-04-09 22:04:55+00:00
DHS claims he admitted to having confidential info from Los Alamos that violated an NDA https://x.com/TriciaOhio/status/1902881013220385220

It also sounds like the guy was actively and openly trying to convince researchers to leave the US for France. May have even been the purpose of the trip.

Free speech is one thing, extending a visa to foreign individuals that are actively working against the country's interests is another. Few if any countries would grant visas knowing that intent.
by tomasol | 2025-04-09 22:05:16+00:00
Great questions. If you are fixing a bug in a workflow, which has running executions, there are two scenarios:

Either the fix does not break the determinism, meaning the the execution did not hit the fix yet. In this case the execution can be replayed and continue on the patched WASM component.

Otherwise, the execution replay causes "Non determinism detected" error. In this case you need to handle the situation manually. Since the execution log is in a sqlite file, you can select all execution affected by the bug and perform a custom cleanup. Also you can create a "forked" execution just by copying the execution log + child responses into a new execution, however there is no API for it yet.

> Can I update the workflow while it has running instances without interfering the running instances?

If you mean keep the in-progress executions on the old version of the code, you can do that by introducing a new version in the WIT file and/or change the new function name.
by metalman | 2025-04-09 22:05:20+00:00
the very serous problem is that so much of our world is built on constructs, such as the easter bunny, and money, both following internaly consistant(but arbitrary) rules, but having no natural indipendent reality with which to verify them from, so without any clear definition of what reality consists of, the fallback position for many people is to treat "new" information as a loyalty test, much of the current news is framed as a literal loyalty test, so?, what does anybody expect?
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-09 22:05:41+00:00
Possibly, but gosh would it be hard for me to care.

In unrelated news, access to a pure, unfiltered spring drives out local bottled-water sellers.

We are in an era where even manufacturing physical copies of books is incredibly cheap. I'm not going to stress about charity bookshops disrupting scarcity in that ecosystem any more than I'm going to worry about libraries or the Internet doing so.
by j-krieger | 2025-04-09 22:05:54+00:00
> If you read the introduction, it points out that this is not really a substitute for Dan's underlying talk (which is linked/embedded), but merely an addendum of notes for it. The talk is quite digestible imho.

Thanks, I must have skipped that part. It's hard for me to sit down watch 30 minutes of a video, so I like reading text more, but I will try to watch it tomorrow.