MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nonameiguess | 2025-04-09 18:58:03+00:00
"All of YouTube" brings the same problem as training on all of the text on the Internet. Much of that text is not factual, which is why RLHF and various other fine-tuning efforts need to happen in addition to just reading all the text on the Internet. All videos on YouTube are not unedited footage of the real world faithfully reproducing the same physics you'd get by watching the real world instead of YouTube.

As for object permanence, I don't know jack about animal cognitive development, but it seems important that all animals are themselves also objects. Whether or not they can see at all, they can feel their bodies and sense in some way or other its relation to the larger world of other objects. They know they don't blink in and out of existence or teleport, which seems like it would create a strong bias toward believing nothing else can do that, either. The same holds true with physics. As physical objects existing in the physical world, we are ourselves subject to physics and learn a model that is largely correct within the realm of energy densities and speeds we can directly experience. If we had to learn physics entirely from watching videos, I'm afraid Roadrunner cartoons and Fast and the Furious movies would muddy the waters a bit.
by danabramov | 2025-04-09 18:58:11+00:00
The execution model enables more powerful composition (reusable components whose functionality spans both client and server) which hopefully helps people make things people want faster (the story of our industry). Sam gave this argument a wonderful treatment in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CN9RCzznZc, I don’t think I can make as compelling a case in a comment. But he fully represents my viewpoint on why. If you’re genuinely interested then do check it out.
by hervature | 2025-04-09 18:58:50+00:00
Exercising early only makes sense in some pathological examples that do occur but practically never happen. In general, very loosely, a put is worth something for the hedge plus the amount you could get for exercising it right now. Thus, if you want to exercise it right now, you just sell it and get the hedge premium.

Also, the current VIX is the same as January of 2020. If you believe the current state of the world is less certain than the outbreak of a global pandemic, I have some options to sell you.
by evanelias | 2025-04-09 18:59:18+00:00
Legally, any enhanced version would need to remain FOSS anyway. It appears to be an AGPL-licensed project with 60+ contributors and no CLA, so the codebase has 60+ different copyright holders.

Monetization of a GPL or AGPL project generally involves a CLA so that the creator can offer closed-source and/or SaaS enhancements while still accepting third-party contributions. Without a CLA, the project creator would be violating the copyright license that was granted by the third-party code contributors. He/she doesn't own their code and cannot relicense it in a way that violates the AGPL.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-04-09 18:59:44+00:00
I think he's well aware that the reasons he is giving for his actions make no sense. That doesn't mean he doesn't have a plan, he's just lying about it.

As for the actions themselves, they're pretty much his standard operating procedure:

> I think I can get away with bullying these people, so I will

When he talks about the existing agreements being unfair, he means that we have leverage that we're not using. The proposed tariffs are proportional to the trade deficit because the trade deficit is a reasonable proxy for how invested that country is in its economic relations with the US. You can extort more from somebody who is heavily invested, and less from somebody who is lightly invested. It's a classic protection racket, just on a sliding scale.

He's trying to look ignorant because it's at least a better look than showing the malice that actually drives him.
by astral_drama | 2025-04-09 19:00:24+00:00
He does all the above!

He owns his own social media stock (DJT), where he post this morning "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT" to his followers. Attracting more to his social media company.

He has a meme coin in cryptoland, and now via tariff manipulation, he can guide select people to place big bets on the largest derivatives market.
by mmooss | 2025-04-09 19:01:08+00:00
> The US has done quite well

Some do extremely well, many don't do well at all.

> with a mostly free market.

We both know there are massive social programs, and the market is unfree in many ways - powerful participants often make markets very non-free for others, and of course some are highly regulated to the point of distortion.

I actually favor using the free market whenever possible, most importantly because of the first word - people should be free to do as they like in business too, as much as possible - and because it works very well for the great majority of things.

I think we need freer markets - open to all competitors. Extreme capitalism is destroying the free market because capitalists are driving out competition. It's become capitalistism - an economy allocating things for the capitalists, not for capital.
by dralley | 2025-04-09 19:01:19+00:00
>Despite the media tantrum the market only dropped back to early 2025 levels at the most.

A) This is obviously wrong if you spend even 5 seconds looking it up, unless you misspelled "2024"

B) You can't just ignore that they spent several days telling financial journalists it was just a negotiating tactic and leading them to believe this might be peeled back quickly.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-09 19:01:43+00:00
> think of the investors!

The stock market is a barometer for future predictions.

Stocks going down meant we were on track for everyone to have reduced buying power, which would impact company's bottom lines, which would make them less valuable.

Trying to see this as class warfare between investors and average people is missing the point.

Furthermore: Stocks are up, but yields did not drop. If this holds, it's still not good for the average person. Expect mortgage and auto rates to go up, combined with that 25% tariff on autos that wasn't delayed.
by SkyeCA | 2025-04-09 19:02:31+00:00
>I'm more focused on upping my cash reserves and bracing myself for a recession.

I'm doing the same because I'm legitimately in fear of both economic troubles and/or losing my job as a result of all this uncertainty.

I have cut my personal spending to nearly zero aside from essentials and have been hoarding my money. It's the only sensible option when planning for one's future becomes impossible.
by compumike | 2025-04-09 19:02:32+00:00
Is it just the historical legacy of international trade that tariffs apply only to physical goods, but not to something like software-as-a-service subscriptions, digital media, or intellectual property?

As the latter categories are more representative of US exports, it would surely be an interesting escalation if other countries were to start including them in their “retaliatory” tariffs.
by mcphage | 2025-04-09 19:02:53+00:00
> Quite a lot. Look back at the size of the teams working on language models at IBM, Microsoft, Google, etc, and think about all the decades of language model research going back to Shannon and quantifying the entropy of English.

I wonder at what point the money spent on LLMs matched the $200 million that was ultimately spent on CYC.

> Funnily enough, the more grandiose use-cases of LMs actually were envisioned all the way back at the beginning!

Oh, I know—but those grandiose use cases still have yet to materialize, despite the time and money spent. But the smaller scale use cases have borne fruit.

> there's an incredible science fiction story you've never heard of which takes language models, quite literally, as the route to a Singularity, from 1943. You really have to read it to believe it: "Fifty Million Monkeys", Jones 1943

Thanks, I'll read that.

> If you read the whole OP, which I acknowledge is quite a time investment, I think Yuxi makes a good case for why Lenat culturally aimed for the 'boil the ocean' approach and how they refused to do more incremental small easily-benchmarked applications as distractions and encouraging deeply flawed paradigms and how they could maintain it for so long.

I read it for a chunk, but yeah, not the whole way.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-09 19:03:13+00:00
If this pattern holds (high tariffs on China, low tariffs everywhere else) there will be a booming industry of pass-through "factories" that receive shipments from China and then re-sell them as having come from Vietnam or some other intermediary country.

This exact thing happens frequently at scale. When countries put export controls in place on shipments to Russia recently, they had a sudden spike in exports to a number of countries known to re-ship products into Russia.
by const_cast | 2025-04-09 19:03:21+00:00
> Well, yes. However, the impact of that on the ride cost is exaggerated.

Yeah, because they’re losing the money. Meaning YOU’RE not paying it, it’s being lost.

Keep in mind this is also with:

- uber not providing the capital for their rides. Taxi companies buy taxis, uber says you buy it.

- vastly underpaying their work force.

- skirting employment laws with gig work

- relying on tips! The ride cost doesn’t include tips, despite that being a huge portion of wages!
by Animats | 2025-04-09 19:04:12+00:00
Possibly because lawsuits challenging the power of the President to impose tariffs under the Emergency Economic Powers Act are underway.[1] GOP support for Congress taking back control of tariffs is building.[2] At some point, Congress or the courts will take his toys away.

[1] https://www.newsweek.com/trump-tariffs-hit-lawsuit-group-his...

[2] https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5236142-congress-tariff-...
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-09 19:04:15+00:00
Pre-orders in a lot of businesses have been paused because with the tariffs volatile, stores can't guarantee they won't lose their shirts if they promise product to customers that is later unaffordable to sell (or cannot be sold at that agreed-upon pricepoint).

China is also likely to continue selling off US treasuries; even if that wasn't an immediate way to disrupt the American economy by itself, it's a sound idea if their trust in the stability of the US as a sovereign nation has gone down. China is also, historically, the second-largest buyer and holder of US T-bills; if that changes, it will have consequences in terms of America's deficit.
by NoImmatureAdHom | 2025-04-09 19:04:53+00:00
I gave the example of the U.K., a dystopian privacy violator. The U.K. is in Europe.

The entirety of Europe would not come close to making a majority of countries. Even if I grant you the "entirety of Europe", I bet I'm still right that most (i.e., more than half) of countries reserve the right to search your device at the border, and will compel you to give the password.

For instances where the authorities wish to suspect you of a crime, looks like France was prepared to compel you to give a password in 2022: https://www.fairtrials.org/articles/news/french-court-rules-...

EU-wide, 2024: https://www.politico.eu/article/police-can-access-mobile-pho...

In the U.S., I believe you are covered by your 5th Amendment self-incrimination protections. I have some recollection that there are situations where authorities will compel you, like if you're not the one being accused of the crime.
Show HN: My Chrome Extension: Scheduled Eye Exercises for Developers
by trofa13 | 2025-04-09 19:05:04+00:00
A couple of months ago I've started experiencing dry eyes and worsening eyesight, especially towards the evenings. I remembered a site from the past that I used to use to take breaks and relax my eyes.

The site was unfortunately no longer working, so I decided to revive it using the Web Archive and build a Chrome Extension to remind myself every hour.

My eyes do feel better now, but of course, this isn't a panacea, and it definitely would not help everyone.

These are just exercises, after all.
by pera | 2025-04-09 19:05:40+00:00
- April 7th: Spread rumours of a 90 days tariff pause which immediately triggers a market really, then claim it was "fake new", markets go down

- April 9th: "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT", then 4 hours later announce a 90 days tariff reduction, markets jump nearly 10%

This level of market manipulation orchestrated directly by a head of state is something you only see in totalitarian states.

The US is moving into a very serious situation. These people won't ever voluntarily leave the Oval Office.
by nineplay | 2025-04-09 19:05:55+00:00
I think the media continues to sane-wash him. The AP news headline of his recent meeting with Mark Rutte was

"NATO secretary-general tells Trump he’s motivating alliance members to spend more on defense"

It doesn't say anything about Greenland. It should have because Trump continued to push it:

""We've been dealing with Denmark, we've been dealing with Greenland, and we have to do it. We really need it for national security. I think that's why NATO might have to get involved in a way, because we really need Greenland for national security. It's very important," Trump said."

From Reuters, which seems to be doing a moderately better job.

"Trump wants to control Greenland" along with "Trump threatens to annex Canada" should be at the top of every headline because its complete insanity. No one voted for this, no one wants this, if Biden had said it or Obama had said it or any president had said it at any time every they would have become a laughing stock and every politician and voter would have risen up against them.

But it gets swept under the rug, in the same way all his insanity gets swept under the rug. Where were the headlines when he openly admired Arnold Palmer's penis? Nowhere, instead we got "Trump attacks Harris on immigration".

I've got my explanations but they all make me sound like a raving conspiracy theorist. Nevertheless, its my only explanation. This is what happens when its us vs. the billionaires. They can always outspend, and everyone really only cares about the bottom line.
by arrrg | 2025-04-09 19:05:56+00:00
It’s worse than that. Everything leading up to this and this reversion right now is a perfect demonstration that the current US administration cannot be trusted and behaves in irrational ways. You cannot expect consistency and enduring policies. It’s all fickle and capricious. How are you supposed to do any planning with this?

This is all so obviously dumb and I’m frankly astounded by so many people (especially here on HN) playing devils advocate or, I don’t know, honestly believing that this all makes sense.

Even if you agree with the stated (also somewhat incoherent, by the way) goals why do you think this implementation can achieve any of that?
by const_cast | 2025-04-09 19:05:56+00:00
It’s unpopular because conservatives hate it when you tell them what their representatives are doing. Again, they’re allergic to accountability!

To this day, millions deny the impact of project 2025. Like it’s some made up liberal strawman.

Guys, half the writers are in his cabinet. He’s following it to a tee. I don’t think we could’ve asked for a more perfect establishment Republican if we tried.

They’re not some little guys dismantling the system. They ARE the system.
by ryzvonusef | 2025-04-09 19:06:17+00:00
On the one hand, this entire exercise has been (and continues to be) batship insane

....Otoh this is good in a meta sense, tells about the level of resilience of the capitalist system, I think we should treat this entire fiasco as one of those controlled forest fire sort of things.

Like...anytime someone tries to mention JIT or other corporate 'efficiency' nonsense, we can refer to these sort of shenanigans and shut them down.
by acdha | 2025-04-09 19:06:23+00:00
You’ve been repeating that a lot but as many people have corrected you, they’re nothing like this broad or high: only 1%, and that’s balanced by the EU’s trade deficit on services since we don’t make things like good cars for Europe but they buy a lot of software, entertainment, etc.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...
by nabla9 | 2025-04-09 19:06:37+00:00
>more work still needs to be done to determine which specific aspects of European social systems − whether health care delivery, education access, retirement security or tax policies − most effectively protect health regardless of personal wealth.

Hypothesis.

Rich in the US healthcare system suffer from overtreatment. Medical ads are allowed, marketing drugs and treatments to people who don't need them is a health risk. In the US doctors have much stronger incentives to overtreat. They can be sued much easier for not treating or giving medicines the patient wants, if something happens.
by phkahler | 2025-04-09 19:06:39+00:00
I've always wondered why the supply chain has exponential price increase at each step. The example given (guessed at) is the factory produces the shoe for $12.5 and sells it to Nike for $25. Nike then sells it to Footlocker for $50 and they then sell to a customer for $100. Everyone expects to mark up their costs by about 100 percent. Why is that the case? Even if we say the markup isn't 100 percent, why is it a percentage of cost at all? If the shoe factory can make $12 then why can't Nike and Footlocker both make $12 and retail the shoe for $50?

I'm not saying things should be different, just wondering why it is the way it is. If Footlocker was also selling some cheapo shoe for $50 presumably they do the same amount of work to bring that to the store. Are they only paying $25 for those? Why does it cost half for them to handle a cheaper shoe?
by solid_fuel | 2025-04-09 19:06:42+00:00
If they voted for Republicans, they did in fact vote for this. It doesn’t need to be like this, congress and specifically the Republican majority which controls it can act to reclaim the power of tariffs from the president _at any time_.

All of this chaos is specifically because they have chosen to be complicit instead of opposing the president. If you want the madness to stop, call your representatives. Speak to your family and ask them to do the same.
by taeric | 2025-04-09 19:06:55+00:00
GNU trying with info pages was largely hampered by the fragmented UNIX world of the day? I seem to recall various UNIX controllers were far more active in standards and such than they seem to be today. Specifically, I don't think any one company had the dominance that would be needed to drive a large migration.

Not that I'm certain that company exists today. There does seem to have been more consolidation than we had back then.
by bigbadfeline | 2025-04-09 19:06:57+00:00
Scott Bessent > "I think it's unfortunate that the Chinese actually don't want to come and negotiate, because they are the worst offenders in the international trading system"

Why are the Chinese labeled "offenders"? What court found them guilty beyond reasonable doubt? By what law? They do what everybody else does, except their game is more beneficial, not only for them but for everyone trading with them, otherwise they wouldn't be trading with them.

"The international trading system" consists of trade agreements overseen by the WTO. The Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) at the WTO is supposed to judge in case of disagreements. No such case has been lodged at the DSB, no judgements have been issued. Using an exception clause to impose tariffs does not make anyone an offender - no rules are broken, no judgment is passed.

The really disturbing part of all this is that both parties and the media prefer to repeat the narrative of the administration while hiding the simple fact that China didn't brake any trade rules - their way of doing business haven't changed at all since the time Wall Street was raging about outsourcing to China as the best thing after sliced bread.
by hn_acker | 2025-04-09 19:07:13+00:00
Some context from a related article [1] by Cory Doctorow, who is an EFF Special Advisor, about why EFF's successfully proving standing in the DOGE/OPM lawsuits is a big deal:

> Ironically, it's when governments violate our rights on a mass scale that standing is hardest to prove. Our Jewel case, over NSA spying, foundered because the US government argued that we couldn't prove our clients had been swept up by NSA surveillance because the details of that surveillance were officially still secret, even though Snowden had disclosed their working a decade earlier, and our client Mark Klein (RIP) had come forward with documents on illegal mass NSA spying in 2006!:

> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/effs-flagship-jewel-v-...

(I am not affiliated with the EFF. "Our" refers to the EFF.)

[1] EFF's lawsuit against DOGE will go forward - https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/09/cases-and-controversy/
by dralley | 2025-04-09 19:07:22+00:00
It's awfully hard to find any content on CNN or MSNBC that approaches the total shamelessness which Fox displays on a regular basis.

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1895597181945725304

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1905778768511406175

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1909744238621020262

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1909717088241172661
by louthy | 2025-04-09 19:07:23+00:00
I think that’s a fair comment. The only reason why I was not entirely convinced that that would be the case is that tariffs seem to be one of the positions that Trump was truly ideologically bound to.

I couldn’t tell whether he would really go through with this or not. Now it’s clear he has no bottle at all. So weirdly is more of a comfort.
by linguae | 2025-04-09 19:07:27+00:00
This reckless way of negotiating has a cost: our trustworthiness. The more recklessness Trump does, the more other nations will strongly consider naming some other currency the global reserve currency, such as the euro, the yuan, or something else, maybe even something new.

This isn't 1946 when the United States was heads-and-shoulders the most prosperous nation on earth, with most other developed countries having to rebuild. Other regions such as the European Union, China, and the bloc of East Asian democracies (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) also have strong, competitive economies with a high standard of living for many of their residents. If they got together, it's possible that they could move to some alternative to the US dollar should they wish, and with Trump's bullying, this might just be the push.
by infamia | 2025-04-09 19:08:15+00:00
> No, it is not. There's no way to send the incremental results of typing in a search box, for instance, to the server with HTML alone - you need to use Javascript.

Hypermedia applications use javascript (e.g., htmx - the original subject), so I'm not sure why you're hung up on that.

> And then you're still paying the latency penalty, because you don't know what the user's full search term is going to be until they press enter, and any autocomplete is going to have to make a full round trip with each incremental keystroke.

You just send the request on keydown. It's going to take about ~50-75ms or so for your user's finger to traverse into the up position. Considering anything under ~100-150ms feels instantaneous, that's plenty of time to return a response.

> As someone building web applications - no, they really aren't.

We were originally talking about "normal" (js) web applications (e.g. react, angular, etc.)., most of these apps have all the traits I mentioned earlier. We all have used these pigs that take forever on first load, cause high cpu utilization, and are often janky.

> My webapps sip power and compute and are low-latency while still being very poorly optimized.

And now you have subtlely moved the goals posts to only consider the web apps you're building, in place of "normal" js webapps you originally compared against htmx. I saw you do the same thing in another thread on this story. I have no further interest in engaging in that sort of discussion.