MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nine_k | 2025-04-30 14:04:13+00:00
These same workers, on the other hand, do enjoy the inexpensive consumer goods (clothes, electronics, home appliances, etc) produced in less expensive places like China or Bangladesh or Vietnam.

These countries also were lifted from poverty and into relative prosperity by this. It looked like a win-win, under a certain angle, back in the day; the US would turn into an innovative economy producing high-tech gear, doing high-grade R&D and engineering, and producing software, all the stuff the Bangladeshi or even Chinese were not supposed to be able to do comparably well. It just turned out that the engineering and development thrive next to the actual production capacity, and can be studied and learned. Now Chinese electronic engineering rivals that of the US, same for mechanical, shipbuilding, even aircraft / space and weapons.

A similar thing once happened to Japan, then to South Korea: they turned from postwar ruins and poverty into high-tech giants competing successfully with the US by exporting inexpensive, good-quality stuff to the US. But these are politically aligned with the US and the West in general; places like Bangladesh or Vietnam, not so much, and China expressly is not.
Show HN: I built a job board for impact-focused jobs in climate, health and more
by Nicogregori | 2025-04-30 14:04:43+00:00
Hi HN – I’m Nico, a PM working in climate tech. Over the past few years, I kept hearing from people who want to work in impactful fields — like sustainability, health, or education — but don’t know where to start.

At the same time, I’ve seen how hard it is for mission-driven startups to attract great, aligned candidates without getting buried on generalist job boards.

So I built Impakt (https://impakt.work) — a simple, curated job board for purpose-driven roles in climate, health, sustainability, and other areas of social impact. It’s designed to help motivated professionals find meaningful jobs, and to help mission-led companies stand out.

It’s just me building this right now — would love your thoughts:

- What would make this actually useful to you? - If you're hiring: what stops you from reaching mission-aligned candidates? - If you're job hunting: what frustrates you the most? - Any red flags or missed opportunities you spot?

Thanks in advance — your feedback really helps shape what this becomes!
by close04 | 2025-04-30 14:04:54+00:00
Maybe I did, maybe he made absolutely no mention of "enforcing censorship". Without reading his comment we'll never know. Let's do it together.

> This is the biggest Russian IT resource that contributes to the Russian economy and thus to the war effort.

> I unpublished everything there and asked to delete my account in Feb, 2022, just after the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine started

Habr contributes money to Russia and their war effort. OP (@sam_lowry_) was fine with this and implicitly Russia's lower scale invasion until 2022 when the full-fledged invasion of Ukraine started.
by throw310822 | 2025-04-30 14:05:22+00:00
Dockworkers, logistics, truck delivery drivers, warehouse workers, etc.

On the other hand, I guess it might be a great time for small shops and businesses that produce low to medium tech stuff- from crafts, clothing and furniture to electronics. Even if the country's going to suffer they should profit handsomely (which is not a bad thing per se).
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-04-30 14:06:25+00:00
Despite people knowing about the effectiveness of brushing teeth with fluoride toothpaste, there are benefits (less cavities in young people) to having a certain level of fluoride in the water. Presumably, not everyone is good at brushing their teeth, yet we can improve dental health by adding in some fluoride in those areas that have low or no fluoride naturally in their water supply.
by incomingpain | 2025-04-30 14:06:29+00:00
The autism epidemic in Cali that George WBush attempted to investigate is exactly what made silicon valley exist. Autism should not be viewed as a negative. In the new tech economy aspergers is a huge benefit.

https://www.cdc.gov/autism/data-research/autism-data-visuali...

Also interesting to note because of RFK jr context. Notice Georgia(56.9% vaccinated) and Tennesseeeseee(56.1% vaccinated) as hotspots for autism. While Kentucky isnt a hot spot and is 73.1% routine vaccinated. This is anti-correlative to vaccines causing autism.

My Poem(downvote me if it sucks):

Georgia stands at 56,

Tennessee just barely 56,

Yet Kentucky, in the heat,

Boasts 73 is no small feat.

If vaccines brought harm, the trend would show,

But higher rates see no such blow,

The vaccine myth falls flat,

No link from science, just fears.
by WorldMaker | 2025-04-30 14:06:38+00:00
I'm more concerned about the graph attributed to flatworldknowledge.lardbucket.org. I've lived on the internet long enough to know a shitposter when I see one and that's a whale of a URL that every fiber of my body says never to click. I know it is a logical fallacy to dismiss an entire argument simply by association with a crank, but that's my gut reaction to that post.
by _bin_ | 2025-04-30 14:07:08+00:00
This has always seemed blatantly unconstitutional, though, intentionally abused to create a chilling effect. It's not something I have or will say, but if "I want to kill Fred" isn't classed as a Virginia v. Black "true threat", the government has no legal basis for charging. Technically the statute isn't unconstitutional, it's just widely-abused.
by adamcharnock | 2025-04-30 14:07:33+00:00
Hey Sam! This is something that we [0] do! Drop me an email to adam@

We handle the issues the the sibling comment mentions. We do the migration to bare-metal, and then also provide DevOps engineering time as part of the package. We generally cost around 50% less than the cloud providers, core-for-core.

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by Loughla | 2025-04-30 14:07:54+00:00
I had a conversation with someone who I usually respect, and would say is an intelligent person. He's a trump supporter for the manufacturing support.

He said, "It's just not that hard to get these factories back to the states. We can get that done this month."

The amount of cognitive dissonance and just outright believing the lies is astounding.

Trump won't say that states need to build those factories. He'll tell governors that they're failures for not having done it already.
by 0xbadcafebee | 2025-04-30 14:07:57+00:00
It's fine to understand what the code is doing in a shallow way. But this leaves out a lot of important information. Information that isn't immediately obvious just by reading code, that can help you avoid problems and understand the system in-depth, without years of trial and error. Which is why they wrote a manual. You can also both read the code and the manual, but the manual will give you much more knowledge in a smaller amount of time.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-04-30 14:08:29+00:00
We're not moving away from that. We're just making the capitalism more crony. I understand you're trying to steelman, but the argument fundamentally does not make sense.

Trump's economic and immigration and foreign labor policies do not encourage anything that mitigates the disaster of demographic collapse. We're making ourselves even more sensitive by taking away all the safety nets our economy could fall back on.
by rbanffy | 2025-04-30 14:08:30+00:00
For me, it's the default and, therefore, the one I use. I miss xkill, but that's about it. The other day I was a bit annoyed when I ssh'd into my other laptop downstairs and an app I started there (don't remember what) started there instead of forwarding the window to my desktop. This is the feature I miss the most, and I'm sure it'll eventually get there.
by TrapLord_Rhodo | 2025-04-30 14:08:36+00:00
The creation of the trump coin is a signal to the crypto community that the SEC will stop going after crypto companies. I have read alot of people who ended up going into crypto and some even getting lucrative investment from Andreeson horowitz, lightspeed, etc etc. And then one day, they get a letter in the mail saying they are now a Politically Exposed Entity (PEE). Then all of their banks drop them, they can't get credit and they can't get loans. The SEC put out a letter saying "Come work with us", and when the founders tried, they would become a PEE instantly. There was no recourse with the SEC, and many smart people ended up completely losing their lives. The only way they could get back to 'real' life, was by trying to go into a different industry and 'avoid the eye' which was, who knows?

Now, as the trump + melania coin acting as a grift, instead of "alternative funding mechanism". I mean, you could already 'donate' directly to the president, and even get a tax writeoff for it. Atleast this way you'll have to pay capital gains. You could already pay $1m to get a audience with the president, how is this any different? Hunter Biden made multi-million dollar deals, and got paid 50k a month for a being on various boards... despite being a known drugie.

the "Top 200 holders" get a dinner with the president. Not saying it's better or worse, just saying it's pretty much the same thing that every president has had access to.

It's not that i entirely believe all of this, but i would like to provide some counter weight to all the comments that are all just parroting "Grift".
by card_zero | 2025-04-30 14:09:58+00:00
The quote is:

"And these are kids who will never pay taxes, they’ll never hold a job, they’ll never play baseball, they’ll never write a poem, they’ll never go out on a date. Many of them will never use a toilet unassisted." ... "Most cases now are severe. Twenty-five percent of the kids who are diagnosed with autism are nonverbal, non-toilet-trained, and have other stereotypical features."

Then pbs fact-checking is questioning the "twenty-five percent".

But he was talking about severe autism, and yet this seems to be morphing somehow into "RFK Jr says George Bernard Shaw didn't exist".
by geremiiah | 2025-04-30 14:09:59+00:00
> the current system does not work for most of the people

Bullshit. America is the richest country on earth. Your unemployment is remarkably low. Your disposable income is relatively high. And all the issues you complain about, like housing, are worse outside the US than in the US.

Moreover, a lot of the MAGA people are NOT working class struggling families. There are a lot of middle class middle aged low digit millionaires who are certainly not hurting for anything, but for some reason really love Trump.
by thehoff | 2025-04-30 14:10:02+00:00
I didn't mean we should keep importing to keep people busy. I'm sure that whatever was coming through those ports was ordered by a large number of companies/individuals.

Sure, if we were in a downturn it would slow but not come to a standstill.

From this article "Even during the COVID nonsense, the supply chain did not experience THIS kind of sudden shut down."
by api | 2025-04-30 14:10:22+00:00
Nobody is going to invest in a factory that's only profitable under this tariff regime because it's all based on Trump, who notoriously changes his mind or may die or get overridden after the midterms. What if Trump wakes up tomorrow and says "you know what? I had a man to man with Xi Xinpeng and now the trade war is off!"

I am not against repatriating manufacturing, but it's something that needs to be done with thought and strategy. This trade war is worse than Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal.
by amluto | 2025-04-30 14:10:30+00:00
> More, the speed of light puts a hard cap on how simultaneous you can be.

Special relativity does indeed have something to say about simultaneity.

> Wolfram Alpha reckons New York to London is 19ms in a vacuum, more using fibre.

And this is not, in any respect, a limit on simultaneity. If the endpoints are moving at very very very quickly relative to each other, then there are complications. Otherwise you measure that 19ms or so and deal with it.
by revel | 2025-04-30 14:11:10+00:00
I was a big enough believer in crypto to literally start a company in this space only to leave it completely disenchanted and deeply pessimistic about the direction of the industry. I felt that there were many real legal and regulatory challenges that governments just didn't want to deal with. No government wants to enable money laundering, black markets, corruption and terrorism; or so I thought!

Now we're in a situation that's so much worse than I ever imagined -- Trump coins are vehicles for naked bribery and corruption with a sprinkle of encryption on top. I was worried about black markets, Trump has literally been using his office to grant access to top holders of his scam coin.

This is a big lesson for everyone about why some degree of regulation is necessary.
by carlosjobim | 2025-04-30 14:12:38+00:00
I somewhat agree with you. But let's consider a normal supermarket (in almost any country in the world) 80% of the aisles are full of junk and literal poison: Sugared cereal, soda, low quality beer, hyper-processed snacks and cookies, frozen slop food, etc.

Then furthest in the back you have the fresh produce: Eggs, vegetables, meat and chicken, fish sometimes, dairy and bread. The good stuff.

Now look down the shopping carts of your fellow shoppers: Filled to the brim with big boxes of the most unhealthy sewage on offer. They are subsidizing your shopping for quality ingredients from near and far.

I think it's the same with other stores. The low quality junk that appeals to the average shopper is subsidizing the quality niche item that you need to buy.
by tomhow | 2025-04-30 14:13:11+00:00
Please don't comment like this on Hacker News, no matter who it's about. The guidelines contain these relevant lines:

Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

Please don't fulminate.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: to clarify further, in the context of the reply below -

The thing that's particularly bad about this comment is that it pours scorn on a group of people that is defined by their class and intellect, which is just the kind of sentiment we don't want to see on HN. By all means, criticize politicians and others in power. Let's not scapegoat people at the very bottom of the heap for all the ills of the world.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-30 14:13:14+00:00
The best case scenario is that governments make agreements to accept more US exports, the trade war ends, and in a couple years conventional wisdom remembers this entire episode as a cautionary tale about crazy policies countries sometimes pursue when their trade balance gets too out of whack.

Is that the most likely resolution? No, I don’t think so, I’m still holding most of my money out of the stock market. But doing lots of business with countries whose current government isn’t trustworthy isn’t an unheard of scenario.
by bossyTeacher | 2025-04-30 14:13:17+00:00
> * Finland is a gerontocracy and recent governments have made significant cuts to education and the general wellbeing of younger generations.

Politically, isn't this the ultimate fate of most developed nations? I haven't yet see an answer to this. How do you deal financially with this? The obvious answer is for people to be in charge of their own late stage health but is that possible for the average minimum wage worker?
by _mlbt | 2025-04-30 14:13:51+00:00
How did you feel about the Biden family’s blatant corruption? Do you really think that Hunter Biden was an amazing artist and brilliant corporate energy sector lawyer that is just falling on hard times now like the rest of us? It’s a weird coincidence that he can’t sell his paintings anymore now that his Dad isn’t politically relevant anymore.

Joe’s brother has also made a lot of money off of questionable government contracts.
by ChainOfFools | 2025-04-30 14:13:56+00:00
The fact that Bitcoin (and kin) turbocharges corruption, and its success is a direct result of doing so on a wide scale (the whole point is to undermine state power by dwpriving it of control over currency) is proof to the armchair economist Bitcoin supporters that it is "sound money" and things like facilitating a market for circulation of child porn at one end and open political grift at the other, are welcomed as signs that the *experiment" is working as intended in their winner-corrupts-all bitcoin maximalist worldview.

Its called kleptocurrency for good reason.

Those who support it on philosophical grounds will destruction on everyone else for the sake of their own gain, and should be viewed with all possible hostility as they constitute an intentional community of public enemies in the plainest possible sense.
by nine_k | 2025-04-30 14:13:57+00:00
Absolutely. A factory worker doing something that a Bangladeshi factory worker is doing (expertly but manually sewing garments or shoes) can only make comparably much to the Bangladeshi worker, and would need to survive in comparable conditions, unable to afford more.

Places like Bangladesh are experiencing the industrial revolution; to remember what it looked like in England, read some Dickens (or even K. Marx, haha); for the US, read some Mark Twain or Theodore Dreiser. It was bleak.

The paradise of 1950s, when a Ford factory worker could be the only breadwinner in a middle-class family, was only possible because most of the rest of the world was devastated by WWII, from which the US emerged relatively unscathed.
by ordinaryradical | 2025-04-30 14:14:14+00:00
Shouting over and over again, “This is normal” doesn’t make something morally acceptable.

If any of this is (arguably) normal we should tear down the systems that support these norms. They are bad norms. The solution is never, “Welp, people are corrupt, what can you do?” You start making changes in the legal system. Because if you don’t you’re giving the country away as though there were no other course of action.
by pcrh | 2025-04-30 14:14:18+00:00
Membrane-permeable trehalose 6-phosphate precursor spray increases wheat yields in field trials

>In economic terms, estimates of the final cost of synthesis of DMNB-T6P are set to be in the region $300 per ton, which equates to a few cents per hectare at current rates of application. If this stimulated yield by the average of 10.4% that we observed from field trials (wet and dry years at 10 DAA application), then the increase in global wheat yield average of 3.6 tons per hectare would be 0.37 tons per hectare (worth an extra $116 per hectare (wheat price in February 2023)); this amounts to $25.6 billion globally (221 million hectares grown in 2021). With further improvements in formulation and adjuvants, it may be possible to reduce application dose rate and/or exceed the yield improvements presented here.
by hn_acker | 2025-04-30 14:14:31+00:00
The second paragraph for those who think this post is not relevant due to its title:

> I believe this change could be significant. Recently, Section 5 was used to litigate against pharmacy benefit managers. It’s in the antitrust case against Amazon, another case against Corteva/Syngenta over exclusive dealing in seeds and chemicals, and it was the authority used to ban non-compete agreements. These cases, as well as every consent decree ever reached under Section 5, are now at risk.
How to get noticed by Garry Tan? I'm a 10 yr old AI founder
by agentsrihan | 2025-04-30 14:14:34+00:00
Hi YC founders and community,

I’m a 10-year-old elementary school student working on my first AI agent, and I’ll be launching it on May 14th at SaaStock in front of 1,500 SaaS founders and investors.

I recently learned about YC’s AI Startup School for grads and undergrads, and even though I’m much younger, I’d love the opportunity to join and learn.

I created a public video for Garry and the YC team, and shared it on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Does anyone have suggestions on how I can get noticed—or how I might reach Garry to watch the video and give me a chance?

I really appreciate any advice you can share.

Thank you! – Srihan
by toast0 | 2025-04-30 14:14:51+00:00
That's why I said, if it's easy. On some server stacks it's no big deal to have a connection open for an extra 30 seconds; others, you need to be done with requests asap, even abuse.

tcpdrop shouldn't self DOS though, it's using less resources. Even if other end does a retry, it will do it after a timeout; in the meantime, the other end has a socket state and you don't, that's a win.
by alexandrehtrb | 2025-04-30 14:15:20+00:00
The McDonalds in my city replaced human cashiers for touch screens and the experience is awful. The purchase flow feels like a maze, to make you add unnecessary items into your cart. And it takes 5 minutes to finish, while it took 30 seconds before, just talking to the cashier.

Also, it's disgusting to touch a screen that other people touched it before.
by palmotea | 2025-04-30 14:15:24+00:00
> But using plain English and the plain meanings of words: Trump is responsible.

Not exactly. Being so blunt and simplistic is politics, pure and simple. The D's don't like the R's, so their analysis always stops once they can blame an R (and vice-versa).

I think it's a much more interesting and fruitful question to ask "Who is responsible for Trump," rather than "What is Trump responsible for."

IMHO, the Trump phenomenon is in large part the expression of rejection of neoliberalism, which the pre-Trump political structure made unexpressable. The result is a seriously flawed man gaining power, and causing way more damage than was necessary.

> 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.

That's closer to what I'm getting at. However, what exactly is "this," though? Does it include deviation from a Wall Street-friendly stasis? Neoliberalism 'till death do us part?
by anonymars | 2025-04-30 14:15:25+00:00
Nope, just the monitor not going to sleep, cheerfully beaming the lock screen at full bore to an empty room. Sheer madness.

Some threads:

https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/alienware-de...

https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/alienware-de...

https://www.dell.com/community/en/conversations/alienware-de...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Alienware/comments/s8m4yx/alienware...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Alienware/comments/uon0kq/alienware...

Also worth noting that the helpless suggestions to "why, just turn the monitor off" would prevent the OLED maintenance from running (since that runs automatically when the monitor goes to sleep)
by rzwitserloot | 2025-04-30 14:15:30+00:00
That's judging a book by its cover territory.

You can do that: Life is too short to do a whole bunch of research just to check anything you hear, so you have to judge statements using known imprecise and dangerously oversimplified mechanisms such as 'well, this guy has been wrong so often, lets just assume also wrong here'. But _if_ you do that, you should know you're using really bad guidelines, and you should definitely NOT spread that around and start using it as a logical argument. You, personally, aren't going to bother checking the truth of a statement if it comes from a source you consider exceedingly dubious. Fine. But don't tell others it's a load of horsepuckey because X said it. At best, state that X's personal assurances it is true aren't worth anything.

The right move would be to not click it on HN and not comment on it. If you care enough to comment, why not just check the statements or argue based on them?