MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rdtsc | 2025-04-30 14:35:11+00:00
> I think it was because of military egos and ranks, the warrant officer didn't force corrected the Captain.

I think they should prohibit such type of flights when ranks are reversed. Let's imagine he would have yanked the controls and avoided the crash. Now the Captain could have said "you're insubordinate and tanked my qualification flight, there will be a price to pay".
by snowwrestler | 2025-04-30 14:35:12+00:00
Very few and here is why. Making structural changes to an economy requires a lot of investment. But tariffs reduce investment in two ways:

1. Tariffs directly take money out of the coffers of private companies and move it into the government. Private companies therefore have less money to invest.

2. Tariffs are a tax on economic activity and therefore suppress it. This causes companies to want to hold more cash and invest more conservatively. Major changes take appetite for risk, which tariffs reduce.

In addition, the arbitrary, legally questionable way in which this particular set of tariffs has been imposed means they are not affecting long-term corporate planning. Instead most companies are seeking to just “wait them out” while issuing hollow press releases with big numbers they think the president wants to see.
by TrapLord_Rhodo | 2025-04-30 14:35:13+00:00
donations to affiliated NGOs (non-governmental organizations) are tax-deductible.

>Musk is also a "known druggie"; his ketamine habit is self-admitted, and he smoked pot on Rogan. (Briefly risking his contracts, even!)

Taking a microdose of ket under medical supervision, and taking a hit of weed which is legal in alot of states is not the same "Smoking crack every 15 minutes" as hunter said he did.

>Not in the slightest. There are legal limits on how much money you can give the President.

You aren't giving any money to the president here. It's a way for the president to provide utility to the coin. The coin has a vesting schedule, locking the coins so they can't be sold by the insiders.
by FinnLobsien | 2025-04-30 14:35:55+00:00
Yep! Though I guess that weirdly does get us back to some version of the 1960s/70s America these tariffs are supposed to revive: Where things were expensive (relative to buying power) but you bought them forever and might even know the people who made them.

If people will be happy to buy locally-made furniture for triple the price and having it last longer is a different question.
by _mlbt | 2025-04-30 14:37:01+00:00
Jared Kushner is just as much a “private citizen” as Hunter Biden is.

Hunter Biden blatantly and corruptly sold his father’s influence. There’s even evidence that Joe got his “10% for the big guy” on these dealings. It’s a massive disgusting scandal.

For the record I can’t stand when either side pulls this crap. The whole narrative that my side’s politicians are less corrupt than yours needs to end. They’re dividing us into tribes and playing us for fools while the political class robs us blind.
by eber | 2025-04-30 14:37:24+00:00
I looked for something like this yesterday, and came across this dashboard with trends for the Port of LA only: https://signal.portoptimizer.com/ which seems to be a port activity dashboard (demo with real data) for the port of LA via portoptimizer.com

You'll see the trends don't seem so bad yet, but they have a previous-12-weeks graph of current year vs previous year which will be interesting to follow
by HideousKojima | 2025-04-30 14:37:29+00:00
That's how "free trade" agreements have worked for decades too. Look at the specific categories Canada puts protective tariffs on despite our trade agreements with them (in particular their agricultural goods which have quotas after which massive tariffs are applied). Governments worldwide have been subsidizing and otherwise favoring specific companies and industries for as long as civilization has existed. I don't like it when Trump does it too, but I don't understand the people acting like this is somehow a new and unprecedented thing.
by lsy | 2025-04-30 14:37:31+00:00
The point is well-made that truly revolutionary technologies don't need top-down mandates to drive adoption, and it's certainly a bad sign for the AI industry that we are in this phase of the hype cycle. But it also seems likely that top-down mandates will create perverse incentives for product development around these technologies, preventing genuinely valuable use cases from emerging as people determine what does and doesn't work.

If everyone, to satisfy their CEO's emotional attachment to AI, is forced to type into a chat box to get dreck out and then massage it into something usable for their work, we'll see that ineffective mode persist longer, and probably miss out on better modes of interaction and more well-targeted use cases.
by Thomas-Router | 2025-04-30 14:37:35+00:00
Hi everyone — happy to answer any questions!

Just to add a technical note: Dr. Headline isn't just a wrapper for GPT calls. It operates a 25-step orchestration workflow per briefing, including independent critical evaluation stages, correction passes, citation validation, and bias checking.

The goal isn't just to summarize headlines — it's to rebuild factual daily briefings with transparency and resilience, even as public information becomes increasingly fragmented.

We'd love feedback on how to strengthen the system — or ideas on how autonomous public record-keeping could evolve in the next few months and years.
by rayiner | 2025-04-30 14:38:03+00:00
Stopping the flow of Chinese products, often made with child or forced labor, is a good thing: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-o.... Weren’t we upset about the Uyghurs five minutes ago?

Trade with China is bad. It means a race to the bottom with a foreign country that doesn’t have our labor protections or environmental laws, and whose “comparative advantage” is cheaper labor. This was a widely accepted belief among the left until recently: https://youtu.be/kHRZnz5oHsE?si=A3QViVdPHISAP6qI. It’s insane to give up on beliefs-especially when you’re right—because you’re mad the “wrong people” have finally come around to agreeing with you!

What would the tariffs be if you made them only high enough to offset China’s looser regulation and cheaper labor? The current tariffs probably are in the same ballpark.
by gosub100 | 2025-04-30 14:38:14+00:00
A compromise could be to close it for arrivals during certain hours, opening up one entire side of airspace (depending on the wind).

The pain could be mitigated somewhat by adding seating areas and more aircraft parking while using larger planes. For instance, fewer flights total, consisting of 737s and a320s and eliminating flights that previously used shorter commuter sized aircraft.
by DarkWiiPlayer | 2025-04-30 14:38:32+00:00
I'm pretty sure it's the opposite, and the rise in autism diagnoses is almost entirely people who overall function well in society and wouldn't have been diagnosed in the past.

So to me it would be very surprising if the ratio wasn't shifting away from serious cases of autism.

If that wasn't the case, and cases of actally disabling autism were on the rise, I'd think actual scientists would be trying to find the cause, yet all we ever hear from is conspiracy idiots trying to blame anything from vaccines to "the Jews" for autism.
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-30 14:39:03+00:00
> donations to affiliated NGOs (non-governmental organizations) are tax-deductible

Only if they're tax exempt NGOs. Which affiliated NGO do you propose?

> Taking a microdose of ket under medical supervision, and taking a hit of weed which is legal in alot of states is not the same "Smoking crack every 15 minutes" as hunter said he did.

(I'm… pretty doubtful Musk is actually microdosing.)

The Feds consider both crack cocaine and marijuana as a Schedule I drug; per the DEA, "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse". https://www.dea.gov/drug-information/drug-scheduling

> You aren't giving any money to the president here.

Per the article: "A Trump business entity owns 60 percent of World Liberty, according to the company’s website, and is entitled to 75 percent of certain revenue from coin sales, which could be converted into cash."
by vlovich123 | 2025-04-30 14:39:04+00:00
> Disliking Trump isn't license to spin supposition as factual reality.

Evaluating situations in a vacuum and sticking just to confirmed facts isn’t a hallmark of being considered and knowledgeable. One must also consider patterns of behavior and Trump pressuring Amazon to change a policy of both consistent with all of this. Facts in order of events:

* fact: News report that Amazon is going to show tariff impact on their Haul product

* fact: press secretary blasts Amazon in the news indicating she’s repeating a conversation she just had with Trump

* fact: Trump had a phone call with Bezos

* fact: Amazon puts out a clarifying statement they won’t be doing it.

* contradicting fact: Amazon claims they were never actually going to do it

* pattern: quid pro quo is how Trump operates. see the Ukraine call that got him an impeachment in the first term trying to pressure Ukraine to investigate Biden in exchange for weapons

* pattern: businesses and politicians being yes-men to Trump.

So facts + pattern = reasonable hypothesis of what happened. If you have contravening facts I’d love to hear them but you can’t just stick your fingers in your ear and pretend you have to have a confirmed fact before building a hypothesis of the likelihood of what happened.

It’s like trying to pretend Putin isn’t the one murdering dissident journalists or opposing politicians or trumping up fake charges.
by hellojesus | 2025-04-30 14:39:11+00:00
> January 6, and Trump's subsequent pardon of the rioters, cost you every last drop of the moral authority you need in order to say things like that.

I don't think Jan 6 was good in the slightest. Idiots idioting. But at least those idiots were idioting against federal property and not the property of private citizens - again, both are very bad and inexcusable in my book; I'm just clarifying why I didn't include Jan 6.
by FunkyDuckling | 2025-04-30 14:39:19+00:00
Sourdough doesn't need to be sour!

I think the main factor for this is how "mature" your starter is.

After feeding your starter it will expand, then collapse, then grow more sour. I generally time it so that my bread isn't as sour.

If I am baking soon -- larger leftover starter and smaller feed. if I am baking tomorrow -- tablespoon or so of starter with bigger feed to get my leaven.
by deanputney | 2025-04-30 14:39:22+00:00
Not sure why, but reasons.json is mostly duplicates (as many as 50!) of the same 25 responses: https://gist.github.com/deanputney/4143ca30f7823ce53d894d3ed...

It'd be easier to add new ones if they were in there a single time each. Maybe the duplication is meant to handle distribution?
by bilbo0s | 2025-04-30 14:39:27+00:00
It's surprising that we would actually vote for this of our own free will.

That's gotta be something historians will puzzle over for the next two hundred years. It's mind blowing that we did that.

Stepping a level lower even, how, on Earth, could our system possibly have produced Harris, Vance and Trump as the options? Then you step a level lower than that, and even the challengers were like, DeSantis and Haley?

It was corruption and ineptitude the entire way down. How could that have happened?
by Loughla | 2025-04-30 14:39:44+00:00
It's funny you say that, because we talked about literally that. No joke.

No, he does not and would not want to work in a shoe factory, but he remembers when he was 16 and his first job was actually in a local shoe factory. He said it was a terrible job, but taught him how to keep a job. And he appreciated being able to buy shoes that were made by people he knew. . . . "I want that opportunity for my grandson."

It doesn't have to make sense, it just has to exist in quantity.
by quickthrowman | 2025-04-30 14:39:52+00:00
It’s not possible without seizing the means of production. An electrical switchboard that can power a factory has a minimum 24 week lead time, probably more like 52 weeks.

In my local construction market everyone is already working. There’s no slack manpower, particularly in the skilled trades (mech, elec, plumbing)

The above also ignores the fact that nobody wants to lend capital for such projects, so the government will need to finance it.
by gabigrin | 2025-04-30 14:39:53+00:00
Thanks for trying Flowcode! sorry it didn't work for you.

The AI should have explained that local scripting isn't supported by Flowcode. Our copilot is under active development and has a lot of room for improvement.

Flowcode is built for cloud-based use cases - you can think of it as a "visual serverless" platform

Perhaps working directly with Flyde https://github.com/flydelabs/flyde + some AI assistant to build the custom nodes you'll need might work for that use case.
by andrepd | 2025-04-30 14:39:57+00:00
> Hilarious to say this

Really unnecessary snark, I'm trying to understand your position (unless you're just doing justice to your username!).

Two things:

1. You're not the only person in school. I sympathise that you understood the material quickly and wish you had been presented more advanced stuff (I do so too, it's a valid criticism!). But at least around me I noticed that most people were just barely catching it or even actively struggling. So yes, perhaps more "adept" students should be given more challenging material and students that struggle should be given more support so they're not left behind (interesting discussion to have; this has been touched on elsewhere in this thread), but it's important to realise that unless education is based around a 1:1 teacher–student ratio (unrealistic), this will always be a problem that is hard to work around.

2. You conveniently left out the parts where I mentioned subjects other than maths (I assume you studied maths in uni or an adjacent discipline). School is not just there to teach you whatever you end up needing in your academic or professional life when you're 18 years old. I'm glad I was forced to study history, and read literature, and learn a 2nd and 3rd language, and do physical exercise at least 2× a week, because while I might be curious and study science on my own I sure as shit wouldn't do any of these of my own volition as a kid.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-30 14:40:22+00:00
Yuuuup. About half of voters don't even understand how marginal income tax rates work, that is how little they know what's going on and how anything at all works in the mysterious and confusing world around them, and a lot more are barely better off than that. Worrying about gerrymandering et c. is nerd shit, most people don't know a thing about it. They're more likely to, literally, vote on whether general vibes are currently good or bad than to give any fucks about specific policies like that.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691169446/de...
by TZubiri | 2025-04-30 14:40:25+00:00
I think that Burger King has the best burger for the buck, cost benefit analysis. I have done serious numerical research, I am attaching said scientifically backed research that shows the numbers, Burger King has more meat, less fat, better vegetables, and less reports of food poisoning per Million burgers.

In summary McDonalds is better if you are looking for something quick or a main brand but Burger King is the best in terms of quality.
by mstaoru | 2025-04-30 14:40:25+00:00
I'm moving internationally (from China to EU) and the quote is 2.5-3x higher than 3 months ago. Sea freight seems to be inspected at a much higher rate, and they don't recommend it, and air freight is more expensive because of much lower volume overall. Not a good time to ship your stuff. And that's when you think "I'm far away from the US and the madness does not concern me"...
by agustechbro | 2025-04-30 14:40:28+00:00
Thats a feature not an annoyance. We need to keep Rust like it is to preserve its core value delivey: Robust software quality in exchange for development & compile time/pain, in other words: "the pain is moved from production to development" you can not have joy in both at the same time.

Not sure if Rust should be promoted to build games, i prefer it being pushed to build mission critical software.
by AtlasBarfed | 2025-04-30 14:40:51+00:00
People seem to think, including very disturbingly our secretary of the Treasury, the companies maintain huge warehouses of back stock.

That hasn't been the case since the mid-90s when the PC revolution started pushing out supply chain management software. If I recall correctly, Walmart was the innovator in this space in one of their key ways to gain economic advantage over other retailers was low back stock demand tracking

On top of that the '90s was when free trade agreements came into Vogue and the supply lines and outsourcing of manufacturing cranked up into high gear.

So as we saw with covid, any disruption to this a highly extended optimized supply chain results in massive disruption.

I can't see how any massive new tariffs isn't going to essentially be a covid level or worse disruption to this entire supply chain
by jmyeet | 2025-04-30 14:41:04+00:00
There are two things I want people to remember:

1. The administration has absolutely no idea what they're doing. Don't be tempted to think this is part of some grand plan. Don't believe any narrative about how short-term pain was intentional. There's borderline or actual panic in the administration, going so far as to sideline Peter Navarro to get Trump to back down [1]; and

2. All of this is happening so the wealthiest 1000 people, who already pay almost no taxes, can pay slightly less in taxes. They've already started the rhetoric about tax cuts for average people based on the 2017 tax cuts for people below the top bracket expiring this year. The cut in the top bracket and the corporate tax rate cuts were permanent. So another likely temporary tax cut will be sold while giving away trillions to the wealthiest people on the planet.

[1]: https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-tariff-pause-navar...
by smallnamespace | 2025-04-30 14:41:11+00:00
Those other models lack native mechanical sympathy with the hardware.

Let's be practical about it: the reason you might want to say map_tree is so it could potentially be optimized to run more quickly, e.g. via automatic parallelization.

But to even parallelize a tree read operation we'd have to pull in other threads, split work, we'd want metadata on each node (child counts), and at the end of the day within each worker you'd still have a serial execution order.

For map_tree to have practical benefit your language would need to make a ton of opinionated choices about trees and parallel programming. Feasible? Yes. Worth making it a basic primitive? Well, even LISPs don't offer map_tree, despite building the whole language on top of car/cdr.
by dspillett | 2025-04-30 14:41:18+00:00
> can make an easy case to the jury that it is a booby trap to defend against trespassers

I don't know of any online cases, but the law in many (most?) places certainly tends to look unfavourably on physical booby-traps. Even in the US states with full-on “stand your ground” legislation and the UK where common law allows for all “reasonable force” in self-defence, booby-traps are usually not considered self-defence or standing ground. Essentially if it can go off automatically rather than being actioned by a person in a defensive action, it isn't self-defence.

> Who […] is going to prosecute/sue the server owner?

Likely none of them. They might though take tit-for-tat action and pull that zipbomb repeatedly to eat your bandwidth, and they likely have more and much cheaper bandwidth than your little site. Best have some technical defences ready for that, as you aren't going to sue them either: they are probably running from a completely different legal jurisdiction and/or the attack will come from a botnet with little or no evidence trail wrt who kicked it off.
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by onurays | 2025-04-30 14:41:23+00:00
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Example prompt: "A cute baby dragon, cartoon style, colorful, isolate"

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I'd love your feedback — both positive and brutal.

Do you think it is a useful tool? If so, which features should I work on next? i.e. Unity extension?

Happy to answer anything about how I built it, the pipeline, or what's under the hood.
by andrewflnr | 2025-04-30 14:41:30+00:00
Yes, the formula is appallingly stupid. But it is a formula. If it was "vibes", do you think Trump would have anything to say about Lesotho at all? Or the Heard and McDonald islands? Maybe we're disagreeing on the term....

I just think we should be careful to use rigorously correct criticisms of the cheeto. There's still plenty to say.

Ed: thinking more, I think the best way it could still be vibes based is if they only evaluated the formula for China, said "looks good", and mass-applied it with no further thought.
by ChainOfFools | 2025-04-30 14:41:58+00:00
Intermodal freight drayage industry, which is largely comprised of a thousands of very small and ineffocoently run mom and pop nepo-companies run dependent upon an open tolerance of very scammy business tactics extending temporary surcharges indefinitely, milking covid business relief loans to the fullest extent possible) in order to survive, is going to experience a mass die-off if this tariff war lasts another 6 to 9 months.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-30 14:42:13+00:00
A lot of businesses now have to face that to survive, they need to increase their market share or profit margin by double-digit percentages when they probably don't have double-digit numbers there to begin with :\

And double-digit increases are what they have been working toward the whole time, they know how to do it, that's how they have managed to get by, even though they know it will takes years. These are great business operators, they know they'll make it if they persevere, they just don't know how many years.

And these were the businesses that were shrewdly operating successfully in the USA in difficult markets with slim margins, even if they were leaning to any extent on cheap foreign materials, labor, or even weighted more toward robust domestic commerce in general.

Prevailing in situations that "average" businessmen aren't quite up to.

How do you think the less-skilled operators are going to feel? They know who they are. Lots of times their businesses are totally dependent on the majority of Americans overall being "richer" than most. And in less than 100 days really, that's been brought into question more times than in any other previous decade. With things like over-taxing and currency exchange taking their toll at the same time commerce itself as a source of prosperity is receding, this is going to make them some of them the most nervous of all.

Trump has always been foolish with money, after his first term the US can no longer afford lots of things that were affordable under all previous presidents, you can't make this up.

When a recognized business-bozo-in-chief can remotely do more percentage damage in one day than a business owner can make up for in one year, might as well give up now, or at least take a sabbatical. Trump can't last forever, and anybody who replaces him may not be any wiser or less misguided, but at least would be more stable & trustworthy.
by gabigrin | 2025-04-30 14:42:16+00:00
Re: docs, 100%, it needs tons of improvement.

Error handling is a first-class citizen in Flyde, the visual programming language powering Flowcode. Any node has an "output pin" called "error" that will emit data if something goes wrong.

You can test this real quick in the playground - throw in a JS expression and write some gibberish and test your flow. Alternatively, use the HTTP node with a non-existent URL