MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by drweevil | 2025-04-30 13:37:50+00:00
"A 40-year old Maryland man is facing decades in prison..."

I'm not trying to be a smart-ass here; but ever since the pandemic the financial press has been pearl-clutching about remote workers "double-dipping". Meanwhile, there is this guy getting paid obscene amounts to be the full-time CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, X, Grok, and moonlighting with DOGE with more conflicts of interests than a fox assigned to guard a hen-house. But he gets up at 4am or something, and the financial press is OK with that. You couldn't make this shit up.
by regnull | 2025-04-30 13:37:57+00:00
We are not talking about convicting them in a court of law. It's perfectly fine to refuse to deal with Russian companies because every ruble they pay in taxes goes to support the war. When the whole society (and yes, regular people too) are in favor of waging a war of their neighbor, refusing to deal with their companies should and must become the default way of action.
by card_zero | 2025-04-30 13:38:02+00:00
The Chinese are saying he has already blinked first.

> And it does appear that Trump has blinked first, last week hinting at a potential U-turn on tariffs, saying that the taxes he has so far imposed on Chinese imports would "come down substantially, but it won't be zero". Meanwhile, Chinese social media is back in action. "Trump has chickened out," was one of the top trending search topics on the Chinese social media platform Weibo after the US president softened his approach to tariffs.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpq7y8vl55yo
by eitally | 2025-04-30 13:38:18+00:00
Then this is a failure of the system in Germany, and does not reflect the experience of many American kids. Some, yes, but not all. Primarily, it's the "smart" kids who didn't have to work for good high school grades who have a bad time in university, not the kids in the fat part of the curve who more likely matriculated having already developed strong study skills. In my experience, at least, the biggest difference between high school and college is that high school teachers teach and homework is for reinforcement, whereas college professors expect self-learning to be the core method of pedagogy and their role is to reinforce and contextualize the topics. Switching from one mode to the other can be rough, no matter how innately intelligent a student is.
by DocTomoe | 2025-04-30 13:38:19+00:00
> kids needed phones because school shooters (which is a dumb argument.)

Considering the US is a country where two dozen cops stay out of a school with an active school shooter until they have run out of bullets ... yeah, it is. No-one wants to hear the local TV station run the dying screams of their children. Better not give them phones so they can call for help (or give the cops information, which would be pointless to begin with).
by wisty | 2025-04-30 13:38:40+00:00
So, like, learning to figure out what someone said, or say what they want in another language. Sounds a bit similar to translation. Saying it doesn't transfer can be claimed about anything. Talking 1:1 with a tutor isn't talking 1:1 with someone else, but it's a question of how much transfers.

Depends on the context whether it's a good task. Duo seems to aim for low friction and beginner level (A1 ish), high adherence / engagement. It's an app, they can't just say "read this text and think about it", feedback and assessment matter. They ab test like crazy, and have multiple task types, I'm guessing translation works in the real world for their purposes (low friction, app, beginner).

The received wisdom that translation bad comes from the pendulum swinging away from grammar translation.
by potato3732842 | 2025-04-30 13:39:08+00:00
Credit to prior on-shoring should go to Covid 19 and the Chinese government's heavy handed response to it, not any US policy or administration.

Talk to anyone in industry and they'll say "we on/near shored because Covid supply chain problems taught us a lesson" or something along those lines. Those investments were just starting to bear fruit in the past few years.

Edit: And before anyone tries to put words in my mouth, this is neither an endorsement of "Trumpenomics" nor a dispute of the prior commenter's statement about them.
by _1tem | 2025-04-30 13:39:53+00:00
Agreed that Volt/Mix is bad, but I haven't touched it since setting it up the first time. It doesn't bother me day-to-day.

I try to avoid hacking the framework or needing to know it's magic. The point of an opinionated framework is to just do things their way. This works for me 95% of the time. The few times I need to do something non-standard, I don't mind spending time hacking.

It sounds like you're building a lot of new projects in Laravel rather than maintaining a single one over the years.
by goodtakes | 2025-04-30 13:40:18+00:00
This is a good assessment. Fundamentally a Trump doesn't rise to power unless the road has been paved in weak, neoliberal policies. Clinton, Bush, Obama, Biden... all had roles in expanding class divides, weakening manufacturing, increasing executive branch power, failing to capture the hearts of the working class.

Yes, Trump is doing awful, aimless, cruel things, but he would be laughed out of power had the parties been serving any interest other than those of the wealthy.
by orbital-decay | 2025-04-30 13:40:20+00:00
The raw output of a transformer model is a list of logits, confidence scores for each token in its vocabulary. It's only deterministic in this sense (same input = same scores). But it can easily assign equal scores to 1 and 0 and zero to other tokens, and you'll have to sample it randomly to produce the result. Whether you consider it external or internal doesn't matter, transformers are inherently probabilistic by design. Randomness is all they produce. And typically they aren't trained with the case of temperature 0 and greedy sampling in mind.
by d1sxeyes | 2025-04-30 13:40:24+00:00
I wonder whether ChatGPT and the like use more en dashes in Finnish, and whether this is seen as a sign that someone is using an LLM?

In casual English, both em and en dashes are typically typed as a hyphen because this is what’s available readily on the keyboard. Do you have en dashes on a Finnish keyboard?
by zmgsabst | 2025-04-30 13:40:34+00:00
I think this depends on what you mean by “American economic interests”, ie top-line numbers or the economic future of individual Americans.

I genuinely believe that this will be a decade long struggle to generate a long-term benefit to the American nation (ie, the average person) via tariffs as a tool of class warfare and economic restructuring. If you read around MAGA forums, you’ll see this described as a “Mag7 problem, not a MAGA problem”.

But that may not be what you’re asking.
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-04-30 13:41:00+00:00
Yep, the empty ports reflect ships that set sail weeks ago. Expect slow / empty ports and effects of that to become more widespread in the USA in May.

Even if the situation was reversed tomorrow, ships cannot arrive until weeks later. I've seen "60 to 90 days" given, but I think this is time for the whole supply chain, not just port-to-port ship time.

And the situation won't reverse tomorrow. It's now at a place where neither US or Chinese leadership can change tactic without "losing face" badly.

This bad 2nd quarter is locked in. Likely much longer than that.
Show HN: Prettier Email Headers
by bjhess | 2025-04-30 13:42:20+00:00
Hi, I'm Barry and I wanted to share this little tool I put together to help us (https://goodenough.us/) better parse email headers as we build Jelly (https://letsjelly.com/).

We wanted an easier way to scan email headers when troubleshooting various issues that we run into with email handling. Email headers come into play when tracking who is involved in a conversation, tying conversations together, detecting spam, and more. Our eyes can get a little watery peering through raw email headers.

This tool accepts a paste of a raw email, then it shows headers and their values in a format that's easier on the eyes. Where possible, definitions are provided for each header. Most of these definitions (and their citations) were gathered by Chat GPT, with some editing by me. Corrections are welcomed!

And, yes, some vibe coding was involved in the creation of this tool.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-04-30 13:42:24+00:00
The difference between on- and near-shoring is pretty important, and I'm going to bet the trillion dollars in incentives played a far, far bigger role than the delta in people's resilience estimations between putting a factory in Mexico vs the United States.

Credit should go to all factors, but sorry it's foolish to think orchestration of a trillion dollars into exactly these sectors wouldn't play a huge role.
by twixfel | 2025-04-30 13:42:31+00:00
> the people who created the conditions for him are responsible

It's just a truism though isn't it? Everything in the past is responsible for what is the current state of things. You can say it but it has next to no meaning and is not interesting.

But using plain English and the plain meanings of words: Trump is responsible. You can blame Biden for not dropping out soon enough or whatever, but ultimately: what is happening now is on Trump.

What would perhaps be interesting is to discuss this objective failure of the American system. Far from the "greatest democracy in the world", the constitution is clearly quite, quite a shit one if it allows this to happen.
by Moto7451 | 2025-04-30 13:43:02+00:00
The strategy of the US has been Hegemony. Friendly foreign partners were intended to take over industries we did not want in our own backyards for political, diplomatic, economic, or environmental reasons. For a stint in college I was an International Relations major and this was 100 series education. At a basic level this is discussed as the “Pollution Haven Hypothesis.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollution_haven_hypothesis

A political/diplomatic example is rebuilding the Japanese Steel industry after WWII so they could regain self sufficiency. Until we decide to shoot ourselves in the foot hard enough we’ve had a consistent trading partner in high quality steel ever since.

The current “strategy” is painful because it has the weight of the past 60-70 years working against it.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-04-30 13:43:34+00:00
Nah, the US has gone through plenty of crazy social shifts without totally collapsing. Since the civil war, historically, difficulty tends to galvanize the US public (for better or worse). You'll have to do a better job explaining why this time is different, that isn't just "vibes". American culture is full of inherent contradictions in individual/social balance. The biggest one recently is identity politics, and the swing to and from this movement is indicative of how malleable the US relationship with individualism is.
by snthpy | 2025-04-30 13:43:51+00:00
Interesting discussion. How do you see BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) fitting into this picture?

I feel that something like BPMN should be the starting point becomes at it from the business person or business analyst's point of view and then us more developer types can fill in the missing pieces, rather than starting from the developer POV and trying to foist that on the less technical stakeholders.
by smckk | 2025-04-30 13:44:16+00:00
Social media is lipstick on a pig. There's verbal and physical abuse, exclusion, name-calling, stalking and all sorts of inhumane behaviour towards each other in real life. Social media just digitizes that and is a reflection of the ugly parts of the socializing aspect of human life.

The ~10% good that comes from keeping in touch with people, for example, is not really worth it especially for kids.

Whatever you do you are going to have to deal with the negative aspects of society in-person, and we've all kind of accepted that. Social media just doubles the problem.
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-30 13:44:38+00:00
My argument against any phones from school start to end is that socialization and interpersonal skills are also learned in school.

Having a distraction box at hand slows that process.

Grade school kids aren't tiny adults: they're actively building the pieces that make them into adults (self control, emotional regulation, empathy, cooperation, etc).

I don't trust Google or Apple to sacrifice profits, at scale, to support those goals.
by pietrushnic | 2025-04-30 13:44:46+00:00
Thanks for posting, 3mdeb Founder here. To some extent, it is known that Root of Trust provisioning tooling for ARM SoC vendors is problematic. Proprietary, closed source, with documentation available only in Chinese. We did that for many ARM SoCs, and as a result, we published some presentations https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43643136

I'm interested in your experience, which AMR SoC has the most Secure boot-friendly ecosystem?

The RISC-V ecosystem is also interesting. Recently, I was looking at Kendryte K230D.
by sillyreason | 2025-04-30 13:45:46+00:00
Why do you think the economy can't grow indefinitely? Living standards have skyrocketed in the last 200 years. Most people no longer die of appendicitis or dysentary in the USA. We have a/c now. And unlimited access to free information.

To your measure of food and work hours, here's 70 years of progress in less work buying more food-- https://cepr.net/publications/in-the-good-old-days-one-fourt...
by dgimla20 | 2025-04-30 13:46:20+00:00
It's selling a lifestyle change, and one which is "easy" and fun.

Once you're hooked in, they gamify everything to make you feel like you're doing well. There's the leaderboards, the daily streaks, the ba-ding every time you rearrange 7 word tiles into the only possible sentence that makes any sense.

Go and look at the Duolingo subreddit. When I looked a few years ago, it's just people showing off their 3000+ day streaks.

Anki is a better tool, but its not as polished. Duolingo hooks people with all the little gamified bits, the animations, and it's self-fulfilling popularity loop. Unfortunately being polished is genuinely an incredibly important feature for the majority of people.
by katrinarodri | 2025-04-30 13:47:15+00:00
I work in energy services for commercial real estate and built a free energy monitoring tool for residential use after hearing from friends that they wanted more ways to monitor their ConEdison meter readings.

It's free to use and requires connecting your ConEdison account to see real-time and historical electric usage. The tool includes an energy usage graph that you'd see in your ConEdison portal, but with additional insights like peak daily and weekly usage patterns, percentage of usage occurring in off-peak hours, and recommendations for lowering energy usage.
by parsimo2010 | 2025-04-30 13:47:37+00:00
> if the aim is to revitalize America's industrial base, the present strategy isn't working

The issue is that the aim clearly isn’t to revitalize the industrial base. If it were, then the tariffs wouldn’t be removed after negotiating with other countries. Since other countries can make deals to reduce the tariffs on their products, then it’s clear that the aim isn’t to get Americans to build things at home. The tariffs are clearly some kind of brinkmanship game to pressure other countries into making concessions.
by eitally | 2025-04-30 13:47:52+00:00
I would argue that, no matter what your perception is, school is much more than "sitting in a room for 8 hours". Sure, academic advancement can be accelerated massively through home schooling, self-study or tutoring -- and many families take advantage of this fact -- but most school districts offer all sorts of non-academic enrichment programming (even including things like elementary school recesses here) that you don't get otherwise and which result in more well-rounded socialization than you'd get without an intentional effort to augment homeschooling with the same.

Also, the sometimes dramatic gulf between private and public school academic rigor means that some private school students are essentially receiving an early college level education during their tween/teen years. This isn't necessarily bad, but it absolutely is more time consuming for most kids who aim for straight As and high test scores, and this in turn impacts their ability to pursue extracurricular activities with seriousness, and without impacting their health/wellbeing. The fact that many public school students are learning slowly means those same students can work outside of school, can pursue sports/arts/etc interests almost full-time, can be caretakers for family members in need, and have flexibility in their social lives.

Yes, it's unfair to paint with a broad brush but this is largely true if we're looking at the high achieving population (say, kids who might be expected to apply to Ivy League universities). No matter how suboptimal the pace of academic instruction is at public schools, it's important to recognize that kids are still developing into adults and it's not normal or fair to treat them as adults (from a brain development, psychological and relationship management POV).
by _1tem | 2025-04-30 13:47:56+00:00
> do you commit millions to building something that doesn't pay off until 5 years from now?

This is exactly the kind of short-termism that got us to where we are now. Why is it so hard to think on a 5-10 year timeline? This is country-level ADHD. Anything worth building requires long term investments. People in the past used to spend their life building cathedrals that they knew would never be finished in their lifetime, and now you're questioning whether it's worth investing in something that has an expected ROI in 5 years!
by matthewdgreen | 2025-04-30 13:48:03+00:00
The IRA added huge incentives towards factory construction in certain areas. Biden also maintained strategic tariffs on certain industries (as opposed to the blanket tariffs Trump is using.) I understand that people with specific political preferences would like to believe these incentives didn’t work, but there’s every reason to believe the simpler explanation: incentives like this do work. We should be learning from these results instead of denying them.
by bluGill | 2025-04-30 13:48:04+00:00
> Surely reading/writing are useful skills that most people did not have before school was mandatory.

Citation needed. I've heard it repeated a lot, but never by someone with actual historical credentials. It varied from society to society (and many societies were sexist so boys and girls would have different results). Likely most is correct, but also misleading as it appears many societies were very literate even among poor people.

From what I understand (recognize I'm not a historian!), Jewish boys have long had a right of passage of reading the bible in the local synagogue. Most languages are not that hard to learn the basic phonics of and thus read and write. You wouldn't be good, but you could do it.

Historians have told me that most of their references for is literate were from time/places where literate meant Latin. The common person know much Latin (despite going to mass in Latin), and couldn't read/write it. However they would have had more education in their local language which was never counted.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-04-30 13:48:19+00:00
The core actual problem is that there are good places to live, and finite land in those places.

The next step up "problem" is that the income curve has flattened greatly in the last 75 years. So there are many more high earners mixed in that they are carrying "regular home" prices up with them.

In 1967 lower/middle/upper class ratio was 36%/54%/10%

In 2019 lower/middle/upper class ratio was 25%/41%/34%

The middle class is shrinking because people are getting richer, not poorer. That's the part you never hear people say. Probably because they don't even know it and just assume everyone is broke.

I can only imagine now, after the pandemic money shower (not stimulus checks), that this effect is even greater. Hell upper class might actually be at parity with middle class now.

[1]https://i.postimg.cc/NjKLYpjF/ulc2on31apqc1.jpg
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-30 13:48:25+00:00
The article says the reason is a bit different - that the route they were practicing is (in theory) sensitive information.

> But the Black Hawk did not operate with the technology because of the confidentiality of the mission for which the crew was practicing. That is because ADS-B Out positions can be obtained by anyone with an internet connection, making the system a potential risk to national security.

Seems like leaving it in listen-only mode would be wise, though.
by skinner927 | 2025-04-30 13:48:31+00:00
What they’re getting at is not applying tax to the price is the standard consistent way to show price in the US. If you have a national ad campaign you wouldn’t be able to show the price with tax because every state and city has their own tax rate. So then, as a consumer, you’d have to guess if you’re looking at a national ad or regional that has tax applied. This also applies to products that have their price printed on the packaging for national distribution. Sure the price could have fine print that says if tax is included or not, but now there’s more than one way to display price — even in a store. See: https://xkcd.com/927
by sgarland | 2025-04-30 13:48:40+00:00
A company I was at had an internal blog where anyone could write an article, and others could comment on it. Zero requirement to do so, and it in no way factored into your rating. I think it was the result of a hackathon one year.

Anyway, I really enjoyed it, because I like technical writing. I found that if I wrote a deeply technical post, I’d get very few likes and comments – in fact, I even had a Staff Eng tell me I should more narrowly target the audience (you could tag groups as an intended audience; they’d only see the notification if they went to the blog, so it wasn’t intrusive) because most of engineering had no idea what I was talking about.

Then, I made a post about Kubecost (disclaimer: this was in its very early days, long before being acquired by IBM; I have no idea how it performs now, and this should not dissuade you from trying it if you want to) and how in my tests with it, its recommendations were a poor fit, and would have resulted in either minimal savings, or caused container performance issues. The post was still fairly technical, examining CPU throttling, discussing cgroups, etc. but the key difference was memes. People LOVED it.

I later repeated this experiment with something even more technical; IIRC it involved writing some tiny Python external library in C and accessing it with ctypes, and comparing stack vs. heap allocations. Except, I also included memes. Same result, slightly lessened from the FinOps one, but still far more likes and comments than I would expect for something so dry and utterly inapplicable to most people’s day-to-day job.

Like you, I find this trend upsetting, but I also don’t know how else to avoid it if you’re trying to reach a broader audience. Jensen, of course, is not, and I applaud them for their rigorous approach and pure writing.
by jvvw | 2025-04-30 13:48:57+00:00
Sorry I skimmed through a bit too quickly when I first looked - I do totally agree you know enough to be able to evaluate this stuff btw. Although pro players are better, I don't think what they do is that qualitatively different on the whole - at Masters you are going to know meta, you are going to be able to vibe guess and you are e.g. going to know some specific roads.
by ChrisMarshallNY | 2025-04-30 13:49:02+00:00
The other day, I had a bug I was trying to exorcise, and asked ChatGPT for ideas.

It gave me a couple, that didn't work.

Once I figured it it out and fixed it, I reported the fix in an (what I understand to be misguided) attempt to help it to learn alternatives, and it gave me this absolutely sickening gush about how damn cool I was, for finding and fixing the bug.

I felt like this: https://youtu.be/aczPDGC3f8U?si=QH3hrUXxuMUq8IEV&t=27