MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by macspoofing | 2025-04-09 19:35:57+00:00
>From the beginning, I’ve believed the executive branch's real goal was to push down the yield on the 10-year Treasury

You're making it seem that there's a plan ... but what if this is just regular incompetence coupled with capricious behavior from a chaos agent?

I'm watching various officials give interviews and all of them are non-committal as it pertains to expectations. Why? Because none of them actually know!!! Trump has arbitrarily and capriciously changed "the plan" many times.
by cartoonbear | 2025-04-09 19:36:02+00:00
15 years UX researcher on product and in agencies here.

Honestly I think for this role the interview should be more a gut check on personality and expectations, after you’ve seen their work and read their case studies.

That said I’d go for a deep dive on the work product from their portfolio that is most analogous to the problems your team is solving.

The best lead/senior designers I’ve worked with share some traits you should look for.

1. They are flexible, not prima donnas— but they DO have standards they’re willing to stand up for.

2. They can fluently explain WHY they made their choices, and recognize and articulate trade-offs.

3. They understand enough about research methodology to be able to internalize research results in their work product.

4. They understand development enough to know what not to do, and when to push the devs to try harder to implement.

5. They’re very quick on the uptake, and can understand the BUSINESS problem at hand, not just the visual or interaction or information problem.

6. They are clear, grammatical, concise writers. Lest you think this is irrelevant, keep in mind it’s often the UXD writing the micro copy. 7. They fully understand design systems, tokens, atomic designs and are HIGHLY organized.

In our world of UIs and complex product interactions, design systems and tokens, it’s much less important that a designer be concerned with aesthetics. The roles of wireframes (typically what I have done in the past as a UXR/generalist) is merging with the design skill. (Personally I think that trend ought to go the other way, but it is what it is.)
by dang | 2025-04-09 19:36:18+00:00
We've moved the comments to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43630208, which has the article this one points to, as well as a title that isn't misleading and linkbait. (But I haven't merged the comments that only make sense in the current context.)

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by philjohn | 2025-04-09 19:36:18+00:00
If you want to have a close-up look at wristwatch movements, including Rolex's, I enjoy Wristwatch Revival on YouTube[1]

He's a gifted amateur, and it looks like a very soothing hobby (until you manage to lose one of the springs).

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/WristwatchRevival
by chrisco255 | 2025-04-09 19:36:19+00:00
Tesla's factories have a ton of automation, but the factory here in Austin employs 22K+ people. Automation will no doubt increase, but that just means the value humans provide is higher level and managing, maintaining, and redesigning the assembly lines as market demands and product categories shift. Datacenters are nothing like factories.

Meanwhile, if it ever gets to the point that automation has truly replaced humans, why not have the machines here at home? There's no good argument against it and plenty of arguments for it.
by lawlessone | 2025-04-09 19:36:22+00:00
Bit of a related shower thought here.. but solutions that require NVidias high end hardware are always going to be the solutions NVidia promotes right?

If hypothetically someone figured out some magical algorithm to do ray tracing at RTX levels of performance on a CPU, it would severely hurt them right? (Hurt them in terms of GPU market, probably a non issue now AI most of their market.)
by hnburnsy | 2025-04-09 19:36:37+00:00
The thread was kind of hand wavy over the "$24* discount" for Footlocker? From the linked article...

>Footlocker’s purchase price (read footnote #3) for every sale of $100 shows up as $66 in their financial reports, and not $50. In plain terms, Footlocker sells its merchandise for a 24% discount on the average.

So $100 was never the sale price, just some made up, hoped for number that only appears on the shoe box, and not on anyone's financial statements. Really this should be Footlocker makes $6 on selling a $66 sneaker, for a margin of ~9%.

BTW, both Footlocker and Dick's have gross margins ~30% but Dick's has an operating margin around 12% while FL is 1-2%. Clearly FL is an inferior retailer.

And the linked article does cover Nike selling directly...

>And what happens if brands skip the retailers and operate their own stores? adidas and Nike already have their own shops, but direct-to-customer retail comes with its set of challenges. Brands will incur costs otherwise absent in the wholesale business model; spends like leasing+manpower+operational costs, store set-up and periodic re-modelling cost, the entire risk of inventory, and costs associated with warehousing and distribution. That’s only at the store level, there will be additional off-site resources needed in the back-end to support retail operations. The brands will make some extra margin selling out of their own stores, but the best case scenario will be an additional 10%, which is slightly above what a highly evolved retailer like Footlocker makes annually after taxes.

I would argue that a great deal of selling today is direct, no stores involved at all.
by tomnipotent | 2025-04-09 19:36:45+00:00
Can you point to a single example of CF doing this to a legitimate entity that wasn't obviously abusing their plan? Every time this comes up it's always some shady website that's getting the limited treatment.

And it's not "unlimited bandwidth", it's "unlimited bandwidth with restrictions". That's an important and critical distinction. I'm not sure I understand the position that somehow CF needs to subsidize every customer.
by slibhb | 2025-04-09 19:36:52+00:00
> Bottom line: If you're Vit D deficient then it may be a good idea to supplement a little Vit D which is cheap, easy and extremely low risk (Note: nothing is ever zero risk across a large enough population but supplementing a small amount of Vit D is about as safe as these things ever get).

Too much vitamin D can cause pretty serious symptoms, including neurological symptoms. This condition has been getting more common since so many people are supplementing.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-09 19:37:36+00:00
Well, I'm not a professional gamedev, nor did I ever do much multiplayer code, but:

1) AFAIR, the ECS patterns family[0] originally came from MMORPG world, and boiled down to designing your game state to work well with relational databases;

2) Around 6 years ago, while toying with yet another (see [0]) take on ECS for a simple game, and wondering how to query stuff efficiently, it dawned on me that the code I'm writing is basically implementing spacial indices and other such concepts from relational DB world. At that point, I thought to myself, "why continue wasting time Greenspunning[1] a database for the internal state, when I could use a real one?", and followed by "you know what I really need next? An in-memory SQLite database to store all my runtime game state!".

I didn't get very far with my experiment due to constraints of adult life, but I did prove that I can build a basic Roguelike skeleton (2D tile map, entities, walls, collisions) while storing all state in SQLite, and have it run at 60 FPS with half of the frame time to spare for other things, on moderately powerful machine (as of 6 years ago), all without too much optimization (Common Lisp with FFI bindings to libsqlite3 + a simple RLU cache in front of queries).

So it's not at all a stupid idea, IMO :). I would test it further if I had the time.

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[0] - The term means different things to different people. I've seen at least three distinct gamedev design patterns claiming the name ECS for themselves, all conceptually incompatible with each other. More, if you also consider "whatever Unity/Unreal/Godot/... calls ECS".
by cameldrv | 2025-04-09 19:38:09+00:00
Well yes, it's complicated. That's part of what I meant by the "media environment." In the post-war period, broadcast media was mostly dominant, but it was both regulated and subject to the fairness doctrine, but also limited. There were only a few channels per metro area. News was only on an hour or two per day, and it wasn't that popular, so it lost money, but it was required by law as public interest programming in order to retain the FCC broadcast license.

The lower production costs, higher reach, and nonexistent regulation of wide bandwidth cable TV created the space for Fox, and then also to a lesser extent, MSNBC.

In my opinion, the distorted information propagated by these outlets had a synergistic effect with the changes in the emphasis of the educational system in the late 80s-early 90s to deemphasize honesty as a core American value.
by Pxtl | 2025-04-09 19:38:55+00:00
Also note that they could also impeach Trump at any time. The sort of crimes that justify impeachment are pretty easily demonstrable at this point so all they need are the votes. They'll have just under half in the House and Senate from the Democrats, so they only need a handful of Rs in the House and (the hard part) a bit over 1/3rd of the Rs in the Senate.

So if they can find like 20 R senators who realize that they no longer support a Mad King, they're all set.
by alphazard | 2025-04-09 19:39:00+00:00
I think people are going to interpret "Don't Guess" in a way that is totally impractical and not what the best programmers do.

You should have a strong sense of the model that a tool or library presents to you as the consumer. And you should use that model to "guess" about the behavior of the tool. You should choose tools that are coherent, so that your guesses are more accurate than not, and avoid using libraries/tools with many special cases that make it hard to "guess" what they do.

The best programmers do not double check the docs or implementation for every function that they call. They are good at writing tests that check lots of their assumptions at once, and they are good at choosing tools that let them guess reliably, and avoiding tools that cause them to guess incorrectly.

Leverage in programming comes from the things you don't have to understand and the code you don't have to read in order to accomplish a goal.
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-09 19:39:04+00:00
If we’re deficient then it may well mean that our bodies aren’t being accorded the usual natural opportunities to manufacture it!

Therefore a deficiency here is an indicator of sedentary, indoor, face-in-a-screen lifestyles that risk all sorts of poor health conditions.

The solution to D deficiency is to manufacture it by touching grass, enjoying sunlight (unprotected!!!) and exercising—not in a gym—but in that extremely large room, lit by a bright, warm lamp that’s 93 million miles away.
by mindslight | 2025-04-09 19:39:11+00:00
> So how much subsidy did Musk receive for SpaceX? (The answer is $0.)

Wut? SpaceX's largest customer is the government. If you're just looking to play semantic games where that revenue isn't a "subsidy" then I don't see how it's possible to have a conversation.

You also didn't address the other point, which is especially salient given that Musk has now spent a chunk of his concentrated wealth lobbying to gain significant control of the government that gives him funding. But I guess revolving doors, corruption, and grift is just normalized good behavior in 2025 as long as the person is wearing the right color hat?
by pugio | 2025-04-09 19:39:13+00:00
I've used AI for one of the best studying experiences I've had in a long time:

1. Dump the whole textbook into Gemini, along with various syllabi/learning goals.

2. (Carefully) Prompt it to create Anki flashcards to meet each goal.

3. Use Anki (duh).

4. Dump the day's flashcards into a ChatGPT session, turn on voice mode, and ask it to quiz me.

Then I can go about my day answering questions. The best part is that if I don't understand something, or am having a hard time retaining some information, I can immediately ask it to explain - I can start a whole side tangent conversation deepening my understanding of the knowledge unit in the card, and then go right back to quizzing on the next card when I'm ready.

It feels like a learning superpower.
by grayhatter | 2025-04-09 19:39:18+00:00
> we can only go to war with the equipment we have and will struggle to produce any more equipment in a short period of time. No more uniforms, no more tanks, no more drones, no more missiles, no more artillery shells, no more medicine, etc, because all the materials for those things are largely sourced from Asia, which would now under a blockade.

So if instead all of these weren't sourced from exclusively Asia, and were sourced from many different countries, including domestically, there wouldn't be a problem?

Also, is your assertion really that US military would be at a near term disadvantage, if exports from Asia stopped? That's a wild take.

> They would probably blockade Japan and other countries as well to keep them from exporting to the US, because that's the smart thing to do

You're the first person to try to convince me that it would be smart for China to start a world war with the US and it's allies over Taiwan.

Needless to say, I disagree that it would be smart, I disagree that china would be willing and likely to do it, and disagree they could do it if they actually tried.
by harrall | 2025-04-09 19:39:27+00:00
I don’t think specialization is a bad thing but the friends I know that only know their subject seem to… how do I put this… struggle at life and everything a lot more.

And even at work, the coworkers that don’t have a lot of general knowledge seem to work a lot harder and get less done because it takes them so much longer to figure things out.

So I don’t know… is avoiding the work of learning worth it to struggle at life more?
by NickC25 | 2025-04-09 19:40:04+00:00
I grew up in a town slightly north of Manhattan often known for being the bastion of the Hedge Fund industry. IYKYK.

Donald Trump once owned a home in that town. He didn't hold on to it for very long, as Donald Trump was the butt of every joke those same financiers and their kids told growing up in the 90s and early 2000s. He realized that in the world of UHNW people, wealth is quiet and wealth also knows who's for real, and who isn't.

Turns out, a loudmouth who wears makeup and bankrupted 2 casinos isn't really wealth. Donald Trump was ran out of town because it was clear quickly that he was nothing more than a cartoon character.
by sitkack | 2025-04-09 19:40:08+00:00
> The nondelegation doctrine is rooted in certain separation of powers principles.1 In limiting Congress’s power to delegate, the *nondelegation doctrine exists primarily to prevent Congress from ceding its legislative power to other entities* not vested with legislative authority under the Constitution. As interpreted by the Court, the doctrine seeks to ensure that legislative decisions are made through a bicameral legislative process by the elected Members of Congress or governmental officials subject to constitutional accountability.2 Reserving the legislative power for a bicameral Congress was "intended to erect enduring checks on each Branch and to protect the people from the improvident exercise of power by mandating certain prescribed steps."

https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S1-5-1/A...

Any democrats with working brain stems and genitals should be taking this to supreme court.
by 827a | 2025-04-09 19:40:22+00:00
1. If you're upfront with it, and everyone involved has signed off on it, it isn't ethically wrong. Its not the overemployment that's the problem; its the deceit. I've seen this happen multiple times, including once myself. Communicate, set boundaries, be a professional. It isn't common to be fired for asking if working a second job is within the bounds of your first job's employment. On the other hand, if you're already working the second job, and you inform them about it; that's deceit.

2. I'm not aware of anyone who is the CEO of 4 companies; well, except Mr Musk, but don't you dare say for a second that no one is batting an eye at that. Most CEOs I know barely have enough time for one company; and obviously the performance of Musk's companies recently suggests he's in the same boat.

3. The original poster pretty clearly inferred that, in these situations, generally speaking these workers are not meeting performance expectations.
by eestrada | 2025-04-09 19:40:31+00:00
I tried AI code completion via Amazon Q. I quickly turned it off; half the suggestions were noise that took more time to review than actually writing it myself.

The one good use I have found is using it to tighten up my writing in design documents. I tend to use too many words to describe things. I use an LLM as a type of prose compressor on my documents. I need to re-read it afterward and make minor corrections, but it still saves me time since summarising my own writing takes much more time and energy.

That is the only net win I've had with LLMs so far.
by mmooss | 2025-04-09 19:40:34+00:00
> The wealthiest economies now are those of China and US.

China is not, unless you just add up the large number of people and their bank accounts (those who have any savings). Per capita, the "countries that largely operate without protectionism or colonialism have become the wealthiest in the history of the world, without any real competition.", as I said.

> both used colonialism and protectionism

Could you give examples? I mean, they used some, but not substantially. Unless you mean the distant past.

Note how this discussion is framed - for countries. I'm concerned with, and I think we should be concerned with, people.

> The further we look in history, the more we see most powerful economies practicing both colonialism and protectionism.

If you look at history, we are overwhelmingly nomadic hunter-gathers with stone tools - ~190,000 of 200,000 years of Homo sapiens. We are well beyond that history, and the history you name. Our economies far outstrip those empires, as well as our freedom and human rights and the benefit our economies provide to those outside aristrocracy.

Why do you keep trying to go backward to a relatively poor, oppressive time.
by bangaladore | 2025-04-09 19:40:38+00:00
My honest opinion is I have no clue what's going on. To some extent it is because traditionally you wouldn't consider this a game like Worlde, other than the fact you presumably release a new setup for each day.

To some extent, the idea could be improved by always including all factors by default and only allowing sliders to be changed. Or allow me to use less factors.

The biggest issue is I have no clue what happened when I clicked guess. Going back I see the reference estimate, but frankly its unclear what that even means (again average person is uninformed). I want something to clearly tell me how close I got, and maybe what percentile I'm in for users who have played today. It's simply not addicting in the way that the other recent Worlde like games are meant to be.

Other nitpicks:

The example popup does not help me understand anything

Its not apparent why the sliders have an initial value nor what the significance is
by drdaeman | 2025-04-09 19:40:46+00:00
Can you please explain how did you jump to this conclusion?

I fail to see how artistic expression would cease to be a thing and how people will stop liking novelty. And as long as those are a thing, original styles will also be a thing.

If anything, making the entry barriers lower would result in more original styles, as art is [at least] frequently an evolutionary process, where existing ideas meet novel ones and mix in interesting ways. And even for the entirely novel (from-scratch, if that's a thing) ideas will still keep appearing - if someone thinks of something, they're still free to express themselves, as it was always the case. I cannot think of why people would stop painting with brushes, fingers or anything else.

Art exists because of human nature. Nothing changes in this regard.
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-09 19:40:59+00:00
Carlson, in contrast to Stewart, is probably one of the better examples of the strength of freedom of the press in the United States.

Where Stewart has and does continue to work successfully with several mainstream media channels, Carlson is so dislikable he can only be heard because he founded his own podcast. Truly, it is a great country that has the laws protecting that man's right to keep being heard.
by nsteel | 2025-04-09 19:42:08+00:00
Wouldn't a 3d torus network have horrible performance with 9,216 nodes? And really horrible latency? I'd have assumed traditional spine-leaf would do better. But I must be wrong as they're claiming their latency is great here. Of course, they provide zero actual evidence of that.

And I'll echo, what even is an AI data center, because we're still none the wiser.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-09 19:43:57+00:00
For a concrete example, the law Trump is abusing--where some smuggled fentanyl constitutes National Emergency that lets him invent a tax on Americans--states that any motion in the House to terminate the "emergency" must be given a vote within 15 days or less.

But last month, the Republican majority in the House voted (party-line) to declare that calendar-days for the rest of the year just... don't actually count as time passing, for no particular reason.

That's active complicity.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/house-republicans-block-con...

https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolutio...
by bbatha | 2025-04-09 19:43:58+00:00
> ok to do things like issue trump token by setting regulations

That would make sense if the Trump admin were actually regulating crypto but they're tearing that up as well.[1] Why would Trump regulate his own scam coins? Finally regulation isn't a magic wand that stops behavior, it stops it with the threat of punishment after the event. So no this doesn't make sense.

1: https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5170036-trump-sec-cryp...
by SoftTalker | 2025-04-09 19:44:11+00:00
I think in your scenario that B and C would drop their margin percentage because the tax does not represent anything that will increase their costs in handling the product. E.g. B would sell to C for $30 and C would sell retail for $50, making the same profit in dollar terms. If they don't, a competitor will, because a consumer will prefer the $50 price to the $80 price.
by peeters | 2025-04-09 19:44:19+00:00
"Extraordinary", such as a fictional fentanyl emergency at the northern border (despite the fact that a trivial amount of fentanyl enters the U.S. from Canada, and more enters Canada from the U.S.).

Of course, you have Congress to keep the President in check that these are real emergencies. Which is why the House will definitely be bringing S.J.Res. 37 to the floor, right? Because it's their sworn duty to act as a check on executive power, right?

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/119-2025/s160
by cogman10 | 2025-04-09 19:44:43+00:00
Gotta be honest, I think it's more likely that Trump just has a strange fixation on tariffs. I don't really think there was a whole lot of planning around them other than "I want them".

How he's deployed them and spoken/written about them makes me think he thinks it's a good way to strong arm countries and he wanted to strong arm everyone.