MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tinktank | 2025-04-04 22:49:04+00:00
To (1):

- Tariffs are not a lever, they distort risk tolerance.

- Tariffs are crude, they are like a huge hammer hitting everyone, including allies

- Tariffs cause loss of confidence and loss of credit

To (2):

- Blanket tariffs target allies; they're isolating us and we're creating blocks polarized to us and weaning themselves off our economic output.

- Tariffs only reduce dependency if there is internal capacity, of which there is none. We'll best case shift our dependency via third-party countries

- We're concentrating our risk on fewer countries where tariffs are lower

To (3):

- We're reducing our efficiency and increasing prices, job losses are coming, productivity will stagnate. We're reducing our agility and our headroom

- Historically, autarky has lead to stagnation.

The economic consensus against these tariffs is real. It's exceedingly likely the US will destroy its economy, alienate itself and isolate itself because of them :)
by AngryData | 2025-04-04 22:49:13+00:00
Im not sure I would even consider CoD realistic either unless you back to when it was primarily a single player game. It has good graphics that look like reality sure, but the guns don't handle anything like real guns would, the people don't move or operate like real people, and even the environments are cut down to impossibly small engagement areas. I would even say GTA is far more realistic than CoD.
by schoen | 2025-04-04 22:49:29+00:00
I'm also a vegan, but it doesn't seem likely to me that other species have languages similar to ours. I think people have already used ML to interpret cat and dog communications, and they got general emotions more than something like syntax.

It's complicated by the fact that other species' throats and mouths physically can't form many human language phonemes*, but even the use or recognition of human language by other great apes (and parrots) is very controversial, and they probably have cognition and sociality most similar to ours. But it's not clear that they can do much of what human language does.
by ssklash | 2025-04-04 22:49:47+00:00
So 1 country down, 193 to go? Threatening the entire world with a financial meltdown is not a bluff, or in any way a reasonable thing to do. It's tantamount to a declaration of war, and we'd get what we deserve if the rest of the world treated it that way.

Either way, the stature and role of the US internationally has been forever altered, and not positively.
by TrnsltLife | 2025-04-04 22:50:15+00:00
In Starcraft, the Terran Factory structure had the ability to Lift Off, fly around, and land somewhere else.

I think the obvious thing to do is for manufacturing companies to start strapping Space-X Starships to their factories. Then when the administration changes, or tariffs or taxes become more favorable in another country, they can just Lift Off and move them to the new location.

Alternatively, we could pursue a Waterworld future where all the factories float around in international waters.

All this churn is just an opportunity to think outside the box!
by lucyjojo | 2025-04-04 22:50:40+00:00
stuff from plastic/oil-derivated products in dollar stores.

cutlery, toothbrush, sponges, cleaning stuff, garbage bags, pen/glue/notebooks/glue (if you want your kids to go to school), basic self-care things (hairbands, razors etc., if you want a job), bandages and a score of health stuff, screen protectors (gotta make your phone last, that's how you get jobs), batteries. and then some toys for your kids to keep them busy because you will be working a lot...
by watwut | 2025-04-04 22:50:44+00:00
Solid blue collar people will pay most of it in form of more expensive cloth, food, cars ... everything. The poorer you are, the more you will feel it. If you are rich, prices going up by 20% are nothing. If you are middle class, it is annoying. If you are poor, it is disaster.

Plus, truly rich are getting lower taxes. Tariffs are partially meant to offset those looses.
by rcolyer | 2025-04-04 22:51:42+00:00
While there are many python environment management solutions, a problem that has vexed me for a while is conveniently making short scripts with portable shebang lines (the "#!/something" at the top of a script) that can find venv or conda environments for directly running them as executables. I created this runvenv program to try to solve this, with lines like "#!/usr/bin/env -S runvenv py313")

The singular purpose of runvenv is to go through a useful ordered search to find a named environment directory, and then run that python executable so that the python script ends up within the environment. Python detects where it is run from, so as long as the right one is executed, the rest of the environment is used properly.

This supports a bunch of approaches. For example, it works for making scripts with a named environment right in the same directory of the script, and then it will find that environment without activating anything, regardless of the current working directory, and even if the script is run from a symlink. It also supports a user level collection of venvs, and a system level collection of venvs. And if it can't find those, it goes through all of the places conda environments are typically found, and looks for a matching conda environment to use.

I've been using it a good bit since I wrote it, and I feel like it's one of those things that "just works". It has been a game changer for me in making little python scripts with a python environment dependency, since I can just drop the name of the environment in the shebang line, and it will "do the right thing", find it, and use it to run the python code.

There are a few other tools like "uv" and "pipx" that can handle shebang lines properly, within their own environment ecosystem. But this one works flexibly for shebangs with standard venvs project-level or shared, or with the conda environments I encounter regularly in data science. I put a bunch of usage examples in the README.

This "should" be cross-platform, as a good attempt was made, but I would appreciate some feedback on this from people trying it out, as platforms can be quite heterogeneous and there are surely some cases to account for.
by mhuffman | 2025-04-04 22:51:57+00:00
I don't normally get into this type of political debate but ...

>Should Israel be allowed to attack terrorist organizations in Palestine?

yes. I think actual terrorists should be eligible for being attacked anywhere. The real question you didn't ask is who gets to label what is and is not a terrorist? Black Panthers were considered terrorists in the US in the 60s and 70s but heros to the Black community now. In the US, again, our founding fathers were all considered terrorists by Britain.

>If so, is there an "acceptable" level of civilian casualties (collateral damage)?

The "acceptable" level of civilian casualties or collateral damage is zero. With the understanding that accidents happen, but all plans should be for zero.

>Does that level change if the terrorists intentionally use civilians as human shields

No. This routinely happens in the US over the years where criminals or even terrorists take hostages on a plane, bank, school, hospital, or other place with innocent people. We do not drop bombs on the building killing all the innocents to get at the evil-doers. Have you noticed that no country in the Western civilized world would even consider that? Modern military should be able to go in and do surgical strikes or a surrender. Hell, in the US, we have small towns with volunteer SWAT teams that do this routinely with basically 100% success rate.

I think the biggest problem, which is covered in most war-time conventions, is that you should treat civilians and innocent people the same as you would treat your own innocent civilians. This is somehow being argued that it does not apply in the middle East or Ukraine or Russia where people just remotely drop bombs and blame "human shields".

Not too long ago the US would be ashamed to admit it even did something like this, because it seems like incompetence or cowardice, but now we support it somehow?
by lerno | 2025-04-04 22:52:00+00:00
Destructors and Ownership implies RAII and all the design and architecture that are assumed with such things. This is far from C semantics, and so out of scope for C3.

Any RAII language will be considered a C++ competitor, not a C alternative. None of Zig, Odin, C3 or Hare has RAII.
by thyristan | 2025-04-04 22:52:44+00:00
There are different things here that you are glossing over and conflating.

Yes, there is a moral right and necessity for self-determination and self-defense for the Jews after the Holocaust. But there is no necessity or justification for that to happen in Palestine, especially when this means displacing and slaughtering the Palestinians who have lived there for quite a few centuries. And indeed Palestinians do have a moral right of self-determination and self-defense as well. So the essence of Zionism, which is the idea of taking over Palestine for a Jewish state, is deeply immoral because of that. And this immorality doesn't simply disappear because of the wrongs that were done to the Jews by non-Palestinians. And because of that, anti-Zionism is a moral imperative, because it aims to correct an immorality. Whereas antisemitism is something completely different.

> Anti-Zionism is antisemitic because it declares that no, it is preferable for Jews to continue to face the Holocaust and other attempts at their genocide than to concede their right to self defense as a people.

Which means that you think the only possible way to avoid a genocide of Jews and for Jews to defend themselves is to settle in Palestine? Nothing else would have done? Given that there were quite a few wars around the establishment of Israel which could have very well wiped Israel off the map that is quite a bold statement.

I rather think this idea of self-defense and self-determination of the Jewish people being only possible in Israel/Palestine is a religiously derived idea, nothing that has any basis in political and military facts or morals. It was just a "wouldn't it be nice to do this in Gods Promised Land?" kind of thing, current inhabitants be damned...
by michaelmarkell | 2025-04-04 22:53:20+00:00
If I were to guess, most (adult) humans could not add two 3 digit numbers together with 100% accuracy. Maybe 99%? Computers can already do 100%, so we should probably be trying to figure out how to use language to extract the numbers from stuff and send them off to computers to do the calculations. Especially because in the real world most numbers that matter are not just two digits addition
by kmatthews812 | 2025-04-04 22:53:34+00:00
Has anybody considered selling ad space on their Github READMEs for popular OSS packages?

Contributions are great, but I'd imagine more money would be generated for OSS devs if the contributors got something in return - namely highly targeted web traffic from a link on the README.

Personally, I'd like to buy a few links on READMEs to source more consulting work, but finding contact information and cold emailing repository owners is pretty difficult.

Thoughts?
by IMTDb | 2025-04-04 22:53:46+00:00
> The things that dominate middle class budgets: food [...] have become increasingly unaffordable in recent decades

I tried finding some number to corroborate your claims.

The proportion of food in the American budget has decreased from ~17% to ~13% between the 60's and now. In fact, it has decreased a lot for "at home food" and increased slightly for "dining out food"[1]. Food seems cheaper than ever - on average. The current price of a calorie sufficient diet is now roughly $0.44/day in the US [2] that sounds very low. Between the 60's and today; the average daily supply of calories per person has increased from ~3000 kcal to ~3800 kcal [3]. People eat more than ever - on average.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/chart-d... [2] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cost-calorie-sufficient-d... [3] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-per-capita-caloric-...

I really wanna believe you, but aren't you just looking at the past with rose tainted glasses. And if you are young; aren't you making up a past that doesn't even exist ?
by secabeen | 2025-04-04 22:53:59+00:00
A large fraction of families traveling value the kitchens (leftovers, kid breakfasts, not having to eat restaurant food for every meal, when all the kids want is Kraft Mac&Cheese, etc.) and the common living spaces (kids go to bed early). I hate traveling with my family and being stuck in a hotel room (or two!). When I'm traveling alone or with just adults, I can be out all day and only use my hotel room for sleeping, but with a diverse set of ages traveling, we often hang out in the living room while someone naps, or my kids will be done with touristing by 3pm and we need somewhere to be until dinnertime.

You see this in vacation destinations like Hawaii and Ski towns; there is a significant fraction of accommodations that are Condos, because you need a place to hang. AirBNB brought that to urban areas by sub-letting apartments, when hotel operators only provided maximally-dense sleeping-focused options; multi-bedroom hotel rooms with living rooms and kitchens largely did not exist in major city centers.
by baranul | 2025-04-04 22:54:02+00:00
Wikipedia and their processes are independent to any language. It means that if Odin or other languages were removed, they were likely judged as not meeting the standard or not popular enough. That the Odin language is so old (around 9 years), and still not on it, is indicative of it not being as popular as various people are hoping.

The use of negative catch phrases and envious put downs by competitors of Vlang has no bearing on the Wikipedia process. They will not care about any competition or politics among programming languages. The language either meets their standard and proves its case, that it should have a page, or not. Just like Zig, Nim, Rust, etc... have done.
by refulgentis | 2025-04-04 22:54:05+00:00
> "got defeated"

1.5 hours with Chollet on "LLMs won’t lead to AGI - $1,000,000 Prize to find true solution" -

Published June 2024, and by December, well...we can all agree there's an ARC AGI 2 now.

https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/francois-chollet
by avidiax | 2025-04-04 22:55:36+00:00
> A listing could look great online and receive a lot of bookings (so high LTV), but ultimately drive users away from the platform.

I am precisely this kind of churned customer. I have personally booked maybe 3 AirBNB stays, and stayed with family in them on other occasions. The units I pick are always well-reviewed.

But in the cities I've stayed in (LA, SF, Rome), the price is really no cheaper than a hotel, and the quality is extremely variable. You have to really carefully read those 5-star guest reviews to read between the lines.

And you feel pressured not to leave a negative review, as that would negatively impact your ability to book in the future, since the hosts (I have heard) can see your average review score.

My impression has been that AirBNB's customers are actually the hosts. You, the guest, are an expendable commodity. You will use AirBNB until you have a severe enough problem, and experience them siding with the host over you. Then you'll be churned permanently, and by force if you do a chargeback.

If I were going to disrupt AirBNB, I'd offer hosts a better percentage with the requirement that the experience is standardized and high-quality. There would be an in-unit noise & vibration sensor, reporting directly in the app. 24 hour check-in and check-out. A minimum set of amenities, minimum WiFi speed. The bedding would be standard. Cleaning fee standard. Every unit subject to a surprise multi-point inspection at least once per year. Essentially, make it no worse than an average hotel, and maybe some units as good or better than high end hotels.
by t0lo | 2025-04-04 22:55:47+00:00
I think it's about reducing the impact of outside market forces on the US, and increasing its sovereignty in the long term, and potentially laying the groundwork for a white ethnostate that doesn't rely on immigration. The globalised world is going to be crippled by climate change, mass climate immigration, demographic instability and food security.

This avoids the demographic and, depending on your perspective cultural challenges that are coming for many countries in the future, and lets America march to its own beat. America is setting up to be a fortress and a world unto itself in an unstable world. While a lot of countries will be going through these issues in the future America is doing its hard yards now.

Still years of economic misfortune ahead in the meantime.
by matt-p | 2025-04-04 22:55:59+00:00
Firstly I think it's a little impolite to frame a opensource project trying to find a sustainable funding model as "weird", whatever your concerns this is still much better than closed source.

I don't think the number of people who want to FTP stuff is very high anymore, we are all storing our code in git and therefore want to deploy on a commit or tag. We probably care about SSL, maybe we need to build our code before it can be deployed and so on.
by janalsncm | 2025-04-04 22:58:08+00:00
Artificial neural nets are pretty far from brains. We don’t use them because they are like brains, we use them because they can approximate arbitrary functions given sufficient data. In other words, they work.

For what it’s worth, people are also pretty bad at math compared to calculators. We are slow and error prone. That’s ok.

What I was (poorly) trying to say is that I don’t care if the neural net solves the problem if it can outsource it to a calculator. People do the same thing. What is important is reliably accomplishing the goal.
by bbkane | 2025-04-04 22:58:33+00:00
I love the freedom in a side project to write a thing, then rewrite it, then decide on a new requirement and rewrite it again. No deadlines, no stress, just incrementally experimenting until I'm happy.

At work they rely on me to deliver in a reasonable time, and move on to the next task. Once something is working, it generally isn't changed too much, even to improve it (obviously if it's really important to improve it we make time for that, but that doesn't happen so often)
by andrewflnr | 2025-04-04 22:58:35+00:00
Highlights:

> It was created by the game's producer, Steven Hill, after a puzzle designed by the game's lead designer, Jane Jensen, was cut due to budgetary reasons.

> It came as a result of a puzzle created by the game's designer, Jane Jensen, needing to be removed due to budget concerns.

What an incredibly classic, braindead tragedy.
by ty6853 | 2025-04-04 22:58:47+00:00
Money in this context is just a representation of value. You presume the money for foreign goods is leaving the USA when we import the goods, but that is actually not necessarily the case.

Make no mistake, these countries are getting something in return for the extra goods and services they give to us. It is not for free. One of the big things trade to China to make up this deficit is an investment in the US government (treasury notes) or assets. That is, they are taking the dollars they get and then parking it in the US as investment . The deficit is they're choosing us to invest in rather than themselves!

>The U.S. trade balance has been in a deficit position since the 1970s. This means that the total value of imported goods has been greater than the total value of exported goods. This means the U.S. is a “debtor” nation, running a merchandise trade deficit. However, the merchandise trade deficit refers only to imports and exports of goods and services. It shows that imports are greater than exports, hence the “deficit.” But, think about it for a minute, why does the world keep giving us goods, without getting goods from us in return? Is this a good deal or what? Well, clearly, this can’t be the whole story.

>What is happening is that the people from whom we buy goods abroad are taking our dollars investing in the U.S. economy. They may buy U.S. government debt (securities issued by the U.S. government to finance past federal budget deficits) or other assets in the U.S. For example, they may invest in U.S. companies.

https://www.csun.edu/sites/default/files/macro10_0.pdf
by comrade1234 | 2025-04-04 22:59:12+00:00
Pre-pandemic some cities/kantons here in Switzerland wanted to make public transportation free (we’re still recovering from running trains and transport essentially empty for a couple of years).

However the Swiss constitution says that people have to be charged a “reasonable” fee for public transportation. It was probably meant to make it so they can’t be overcharged. But it’s been also interpreted that there has to be a minimum charge - thus no free transport.
by mzs | 2025-04-04 22:59:32+00:00
This get really meta very fast, December last year: https://japantoday.com/category/entertainment/studio-ghibli-...

Did Karin or her children ever see a ¥ from this adaptation on robbers ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronja,_the_Robber%27s_Daughter...
by romaaeterna | 2025-04-04 22:59:43+00:00
Over the period since the 1960s, look at education, medicine, housing, not food.

For food prices, look at the most recent 5-year timescale, where price increases are reported to be on the order of 30% for American consumers. [1]

[1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/price-of-food
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by squeaky-clean | 2025-04-04 23:00:53+00:00
> my guy what i am able to read, which you are not, is the source and release notes. i do not need to read tweets and press releases because i know what these things actually are. here are the release notes

Those aren't the release notes for the native python thing being announced. CuTile has not been publicly released yet. Based on what the devs are saying on Twitter it probably won't be released before the SciPy 2025 conference in July.
by kmatthews812 | 2025-04-04 23:01:25+00:00
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by mhuffman | 2025-04-04 23:03:11+00:00
>The out-of-context clip isn't a referendum on her artistry; it's just bait for people who never engaged with her actual work.

I am not engaged with her actual work, but here is a not-out-of-context clip[0] of her live art from MOMA. Perhaps you could give more insight into the artistry ?

[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GMHl7bmlzw
by fuzztester | 2025-04-04 23:04:49+00:00
>This is maybe more striking when comparing against C which was already very old and battle tested in 1989 when it was standardized. If you pick any of these languages you're accepting an unknowable amount of churn.

C has plenty of issues too, even though it is very old, battle tested and standardized.

(How about all the UB in C, for example?)

That is why people are looking for C alternatives in the first place.

>It better be worth it.

It better be worth it for C too (and for C3; pun unintended but evaluated).