MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-04-03 16:06:46+00:00
My background is very similar. Grew up in a small, poor mountain town that once boomed with industry but today is crumbling to dust as the population becomes increasingly elderly and young people either leave for greener pastures or abuse substances in order to escape their reality and succumb to addiction.

The industry that once fueled the town is long gone and isn’t ever coming back, and as you say even if a new industry moved in the jobs it’d open up would be so grueling and abusive that it wouldn’t be a net improvement to anybody’s lives, thanks to all the worker protections stripped away over the years.

It’s not enough to “just” make jobs available. They need to be good jobs with proper protections and support that allow people to thrive.
by arrosenberg | 2025-04-03 16:06:52+00:00
We negotiated those deals, we aren’t the victims. Now we don’t like how a deal turned out so instead of renegotiating we are throwing a temper tantrum like we weren’t the ones who suggested it in the first place. It’s embarrassing to be represented like that, and it won’t work! We will wind up weaker than we started, I hope they prove me wrong.
by myrmidon | 2025-04-03 16:06:53+00:00
Do you honestly believe that there are significant numbers of US citizens lining up to take up low-margin manufacturing work as is currently done in China or elsewhere?

Chinese manufacturing workers live on a $25k/y income ($15k without adjusting for purchasing parity!). Do you beliefe that raising prices on goods by 30%ish is enough to make those jobs attractive to US citizens?

What sectors would you suggest primarily sourcing domestic manufacturing workers from, and would you agree that just doing that is going to lead to further cost increase for the average consumer?

In my view, the current tariff approach is a rather naive attempt at improving national self-sufficiency at the cost of the average citizen, and the administrations explicit statements and goals make this pretty clear-- shifting government income from taxes to tariffs is a very obvious losing move for the vast majority of people that spend most of their income.

US economy right now is heavily biased towards providing services and high-tech goods because that is the most valuable use of its citizens according to market dynamics. Managing the economy in a "I know better than the market way" certainly did not work out for the soviets...

Sometimes I feel that people construct elaborate theories of how Trumps policies will end up beneficial for the average citizen, despite clear, explicit descriptions of how that is not the goal and historical precedent of acting directly against working-class interests (i.e. raising estate tax exemptions above literal 1%er-thresholds).
by mikestew | 2025-04-03 16:07:42+00:00
“I came up with the idea of putting my little knights to sleep. I separated their legs and jaws from their abdomens, and then put them back in place with the help of thin wires. This way I could dress the beetles in costumes, knee-high boots, and put swords in their hands.”

Impressive stop-motion photography, especially for 1912. If the title didn’t grab you, give it 60 seconds of your time.
by slt2021 | 2025-04-03 16:07:43+00:00
if what you mean by anti-democracy, is government oppression, then the left and right both use this equally.

there is only one continuum: liberty from government oppression, or lack thereof.

I hope you don't seriously consider the oligopoly of two parties and small circle of connected elites, dependent on financial backing from ultra high net worth oligarchs, corporations, special lobbying groups - a democracy. This is not democracy, it is plutocracy (the power of capital/rich)
by andreygrehov | 2025-04-03 16:08:13+00:00
US does produce olive oil, particularly in states like California, Arizona, Texas, Georgia, Florida, Oregon, and Hawaii. So you do have a few options:

1. Support local producers. There are high-quality olive oils made right here in the US that might surprise you. 2. Work with Tunisia manufacturers to move their production to the US 3. If you don't want to support local producers, pay extra and enjoy your Tunisia olive oil as much as you want 4. If politics is the real issue for you, move to Tunisia, there is no "orange man" there

That said, refusing to support local production out of principle isn’t really a solution.
by csmpltn | 2025-04-03 16:08:17+00:00
US sales tax is *significantly* lower than VAT, varies by state (allowing for all kinds of loopholes), and applies to fewer categories of products and services sold. No point arguing this, VAT is a protectionist and anti-competitive tax and the US has a right to challenge it.

Why are you arguing this point? It’s de-facto cheaper and easier for European companies to compete in the American markets, than the other way around.
by 4k93n2 | 2025-04-03 16:08:23+00:00
or even just keeping the ports on a separate PCB would be a help so you dont have to replace the whole motherboard when the usb port breaks

i bought maybe 5 differnet thinkpads over the years and never had an issue with the old charging port. with the last usb-c thinkpad i got i had to buy 2 new chargers and both of those i repaired a few times as well. the connector just wiggles around too much and the cables are also too rigid so when it gets snagged on something the connector ends up bending in the port before the cable bends.

in the end i just got rid of it before the actual port on the motherboard got completely damaged
by SauciestGNU | 2025-04-03 16:08:41+00:00
First we're not allowed to call the detention camps "concentration camps" because there aren't ovens, now we can't call them "disappearances" because they're not getting thrown out of helicopters. Forget that people are getting shipped to a foreign torture slave camp from which nobody has been released with, and with no due process.

I think this language policing may be because people don't want to allow opposition to these things, rather than out of honor for the dead. The way to honor the dead is to prevent the circumstances of their deaths from happening again.

Which is exactly why we must stand up against the disappearances, the camps, the collaborators, the secret police.
by shuluster | 2025-04-03 16:08:52+00:00
Loop | loop.com | Engineering | On-site San Francisco, CA, Chicago, IL

Loop is on a mission to unlock profits trapped in the supply chain (https://www.loop.com/article/unlock-profit-trapped-in-your-s...) and lower costs for consumers. Bad data and inefficient workflows create friction that limits working capital and raises costs for every supply chain stakeholder.

Loop’s modern transportation cost management platform uses our domain-driven AI to harness the complexity of supply chain data and documentation. We improve transportation spend visibility so companies can control their costs and power profit. That is why industry leaders like J.P. Morgan Chase, ABB, Estee Lauder, Olipop, Dot Foods, Tyson Foods, Great Dane, Emerge, and Loadsmart, work with Loop.

WSJ piece on Loop - on.wsj.com/3PE357W

1. Raised $100m+ from JPM GEP, Founders Fund, 8VC, Susa Ventures, Flexport, Index, and Expa.

2. 45+ paying enterprise customers with multiple-year contracts; 70+ customers in the pipeline.

3. High-caliber team of engineers and operators from Google, Scale AI, Flexport, Uber, Rakuten, Square, Meta, Stanford, Brown, Princeton, and Yale.

4. 7+ years cash runway

Fullstack Engineer San Francisco - https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/loop/jobs/4102236004

AI Engineer San Francisco - https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/loop/jobs/5391540004

Other roles at https://www.loop.com/company/careers
by gedy | 2025-04-03 16:08:53+00:00
And I say this with all sincerity: I'm also disappointed in my friends continually voting for Democratic candidates after Obama, as it's clear the DNC will do nothing as long as they can rely on these votes. They put up losing and awful candidates while supposedly our democracy depends on it.

If I were to cut them off as friends for being part of the problem, that sounds unreasonable right?
by egypturnash | 2025-04-03 16:09:00+00:00
Historical reasons.

This is a MUD, which stands for "multiple user dungeon"; what's more useful is that it's based on a form of game called a "text adventure". Once upon a time back in the eighties these were some of the biggest sellers of the game industry! They would present a small world to explore, often a mostly-abandoned one because that's easier to do. You'd wander around, map the world (usually on paper, by hand! [1]), and discover creatures, characters, and items sitting around it, waiting for you to interact with them.

A lot of them were in the form of exploring some kind of dungeon; D&D was popular among nerds, and "what if the computer did all the record-keeping" was a popular thing to explore. Which explains why this is a "multiple-user dungeon" even if nothing in it is described as dank, underground rooms full of monsters and treasures.

Directions are given as compass directions because that's the very first text adventure did ("Colossal Caves"), and nobody ever found anything better - a few games tried forwards/left/right/back but it was very confusing to keep track of which way you were pointing.

In practice a lot of muds really ended up more like chat servers with a sense of place; instead of being in a "channel" with other people, you're in a "room", which might have a "bulletin board" on it for less-ephemeral discussions than the general chatter among players. There might be monsters to fight and puzzles to solve somewhere off in the map but nobody engaged with them. Instead they just hang out and chat, and roleplay.

1: something like this: https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/52c9d908e4b0e8... - except probably with a lot more erasures and corrections.
by palata | 2025-04-03 16:09:13+00:00
Yeah sorry, I answered to the wrong comment :-).

But still, I have this feeling that many people who would be competent to own their domain just don't do it. And they could give an email to their family, too. And help friends setup theirs.

I'm not completely sure that the issue is "it's too hard". To me, it's like password managers. Sure, it's too hard for some people. But most people just can't be arsed to use a password manager, though they would be totally competent.

"It's too hard" is, in my experience, often an excuse to be lazy.
by sitkack | 2025-04-03 16:09:19+00:00
I am not. If we continue to sit on our hands talk down about "most people" aren't interested in XYZ, we are the problem.

Armchair dipshits like to slag on Louis Rossmann, but did lead repair sessions where he would teach people how to do hot air pcb rework. Dude walks the talk and empowers people.

You are missing my point.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-04-03 16:09:32+00:00
I’m neither an epidemiologist nor a statistician (just a mathematician pretending to be a coder and/or butterfly), but I do not believe there are no mathematical tools to mitigate the statistical impact of comorbidities and accidental misreporting.

To contextualize this: my position is “weak signals are possible even with noisy data”; I read your response as “but the data is really noisy,” which, sure, agreed; the user I was responding to seems closer to the solipsistic position “there is effectively no data at all.”
by Henchman21 | 2025-04-03 16:09:32+00:00
> We should mostly make in the country the industrial products we consume.

You state this as fact that we should all agree on. Why should we do this? Why not rely on our allies and friends to do what they do well, while we continue to do what we do well? Is trade not the basis of peace? If we stand alone, we must ask why we must.
by SlightlyLeftPad | 2025-04-03 16:09:38+00:00
I’ve mentioned this on HN before and I agree. Going backwards will not result in the US going upwards, doing the things that made the US successful until are not the same things that will make the US successful in the future.

Many factory blue collar jobs left the US two decades ago and most of those aren’t coming back yet somehow Trump is infatuated with this idea too.
by jerf | 2025-04-03 16:09:45+00:00
I don't have any personal experience running Switch games on the Steam Deck, but I do have experience trying to use the Switch Pro controllers. I think they may work fine for some people now, but I have never been able to have them have a stable wireless connection. But when the connection was established, the accelerometers worked fine. (I gave up and just bought some XBox controllers.)

I'm sure the emulators accept the Steam Deck's own accelerometer inputs for when you're in a non-detached mode, and tilting the screen to aim.

The super-mega-motion control games might not work, but part of what I mean by "works better" is that the Steam Deck can generally emulate with more power than the Switch itself, e.g., you can get a Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom setup with a better framerate than the switch itself, so, depends on what you want more. I don't have a lot of motion control games.
by seanw444 | 2025-04-03 16:09:45+00:00
> It wasn’t that long ago that Republicans staunchly opposed tariffs. Now? They’re all in.

Which Republicans are we talking? The old guard that held leadership positions for decades, making the decisions while most of the public weren't invested? Or the new guard that hijacked the Republican party after the population started getting invested after recent events?

Every "conservative" I know is in favor of protectionism, and tariffs are a strong manifestation of that. Don't conflate the get-what-you-get leadership, and the disenfranchised voterbase for having been the same people.
by PartiallyTyped | 2025-04-03 16:09:48+00:00
If that’s what they mean it’s because they have been played like a fiddle.

If I were to offer lunches for kids in an impoverished community that happens to be predominantly X race, the sensationalists will say “RACE” “DISCRIMINATION”, while the program is simply addressing one region.

Now the funny thing is that the Democratic Party has repeatedly pushed for universally free lunches to take any potential concerns over race out of the picture and the republic party keeps voting those down.
by jdcasale | 2025-04-03 16:10:41+00:00
"If you asked a junior developer to refactor a rust program to be more idiomatic, how long would you expect that to take? Would you expect the work to compile on the first try?"

The purpose of giving that task to a junior dev isn't to get the task done, it's to teach them -- I will almost always be at least an order order of magnitude faster than a junior for any given task. I don't expect juniors to be similarly productive to me, I expect them to learn.

The parent comment also referred to a 'competent pair programmer', not a junior dev.

My point was that for the tasks that I wanted to use the LLM, frequently there was no amount of specificity that could help the model solve it -- I tried for a long time, and generally if the task wasn't obvious to me, the model generally could not solve it. I'd end up in a game of trying to do nondeterministic/fuzzy programming in English instead of just writing some code to solve the problem.

Again I agree that there is significant value here, because there is a ton of SWE work that is technically trivial, boring, and just eats up time. It's also super helpful as a natural-language info-lookup interface.
by xxX6hacke9rXxx | 2025-04-03 16:10:59+00:00
I did not misread. He used `undervalued` which implies that there is a difference between quality of the product and its price. Slapping on 38% tax to Tunisian olive will undermine this value proposition without improving the producer or the consumers product experience. If anything the relative price (due to the repetitively high tariffs on Tunisia vs Italy) will ruin the value to price ratio that attracts GP to the Tunisian olive oil.

Moreover, his use of the word 'happily' suggests he is not aware of the negative consequences for both the Tunisian exporter, who may have to lower prices or even reduce product quality standards to compete with the now relatively similar-priced Italian olive oil, and the American consumer, who ends up paying more without any improvement in value.

Why would someone be happy with a price increase if it is not helping the producers of the good (which his comment implies he is sympathetic to) or adding any value?
by soupfordummies | 2025-04-03 16:11:19+00:00
I've heard this dismissal a good bit often ("that's just a nothing word that means 'bad thing I don't like' ") but that's really just not true.

It has been consistently defined through the decades, especially during the 20th century. Here's one common example you can find from the 1983 American Heritage Dictionary and it sounds pretty familiar:

"A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."
by earksiinni | 2025-04-03 16:11:34+00:00
> After seven years in San Diego, my wife and I have decided to uproot our family and move to the Bay Area. While there were many factors (a new job opportunity, family), a significant reason was finding a community of truth-seeking people.

Funny. The lack of truth-seeking and truth-telling is one of the chief reasons I moved away from the Bay Area.
by joshdickson | 2025-04-03 16:11:54+00:00
Both products show a 1 cup (41g) and 160 calorie serving size to me?

OpenNutrition: https://www.opennutrition.app/search/honey-bunches-of-oats-h...

Via Manufacturer: https://www.honeybunchesofoats.com/product/honey-bunches-of-...

If you wouldn't mind DM'ing me the barcode you're looking at that would be helpful to understand what the nature of the discrepancy is.
by ComposedPattern | 2025-04-03 16:12:07+00:00
I think there should be a new rule that any time someone writes an article bragging about how he's† a badass independent thinker just like Paul Graham and Eliezer Yudkowsky, he must in the same article identify his major disagreements with Paul Graham and Elizer Yudkowsky. Because to me the authors of these articles seem exactly as tribal as mainstream political and religious groups, they just care about different things. Yeah, I shouldn't be able to guess your views on sex from your views on taxes, but I also shouldn't be able to guess your views on wokeness from your views on AI safety. Yet I can make both predictions with about equal accuracy.

† I have yet to see an article like this written by a woman.
by wrs | 2025-04-03 16:12:20+00:00
Maybe, but all of those are context-dependent and can operate at high levels of abstraction. The beholder needs to be able to recognize them to appreciate them. A Rothko or Pollock has those things, but that doesn’t make them automatically appreciated. Assuming you’re from a western culture, listen to some Thai classical music and see how obvious the beauty is to you.
by krapht | 2025-04-03 16:12:24+00:00
I agree that the US bears significant responsibility for the ~5% civilian deaths in Iraq. These were through:

1) Direct combat fatalities (~15% of casualties)

2) Failing to stabilize Iraq post-invasion

3) Enabling conditions for prolonged conflict

However, attributing all excess deaths solely to the US oversimplifies the role of insurgent groups, regional actors, and preexisting sectarian tensions. The invasion’s destabilizing effects created a chain reaction with shared accountability.

Furthermore, calling it murder is disingenuous. Murder requires both premeditation and deliberate intent.
by graeme | 2025-04-03 16:12:27+00:00
If the profits went back to Apple HQ directly they would serve to raise the share price and allow stock buybacks and stock based compensation for employees. Same as they do now.

You may not like a tech company succeeding at exports and having a rising share price, but that is distinct from the overall point which is that properly considered these are US exports obscured by the US tax code which incentivizes profits abroad.
by l0new0lf-G | 2025-04-03 16:12:32+00:00
Very good and insightful article, but suffers from a weakness: it implies that the problem can be solved by everyone just buying from the ones whose workers are doing the job well.

This is not the case. The evidence that the "free market" does not "regulate itself" (at least not in favor of the many) since the 2008 recession is beyond refutation: we need pro-worker governments stepping in.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-03 16:12:39+00:00
Consumers will pull back, if not right away it will show up with 18 months, though early indications suggest they already are to brace for the price increases as most were already trying to simply get ahead of the last few years of inflation to begin with.

Businesses are already cutting back. My employer has already talked about the impact, I know other people who are saying the same thing. Lots of things going into freeze or slowing down. It will take a minute for this to get through the economy but it absolutely will.

I don’t think this is highly uncertain territory, history has clear examples of what will happen if in doubt. Generally, it’s not good for most, especially consumers or those who have any reliance on foreign material or goods, which nowadays is most businesses and consumers, and the US won’t be able to magically fill that in.

This will result in a recession
by kcb | 2025-04-03 16:12:56+00:00
Another, problem I have is they usually miss the small team/use case in a large organization. Vendors expect us to pay large org pricing, when there's no way we can justify it for a project if it's size. I've used Mass Transit because it has some useful features but it's not the core of our messaging or whatever so in the end the all or nothing pricing model means it will just end up getting ripped out.
Show HN: Yet Another Speed Dial – a better new tab page
by conceptualspace | 2025-04-03 16:13:23+00:00
I last post this back in 2021 when I started development -- nothing like google enforcing all extensions to migrate to manifest v3 to refactor the whole codebase for b̶e̶t̶t̶e̶r̶ ̶e̶f̶f̶i̶c̶i̶e̶n̶c̶y̶,̶ ̶p̶r̶i̶v̶a̶c̶y̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ ̶s̶e̶c̶u̶r̶i̶t̶y̶ no reason!

All jokes aside, if you're looking for a fast, open source new tab page that gives you instant access to all your bookmarks in a visually organized way, please check it out!

Compared to other speed dials, YASD:

- automatically fetches thumbnails using the open graph standard

- makes use of native bookmarks under the hood so your data is not locked into the extension

- supports sorting, searching, and folders

- contains no ads, trackers, premium subscriptions. it aims to do one thing and do it well

- available for Brave, Chrome, Edge and Firefox (including Android)

What should be added next? Would love to hear your thoughts!

https://github.com/conceptualspace/yet-another-speed-dial
by mlhpdx | 2025-04-03 16:13:31+00:00
Disclosure: I'm building https://proxylity.com, but I'm seeking to understand here, not to promote it.

The fixed cost per region seems like a barrier to experimenters and large development teams alike. It's not much in the grand scheme, but enough to prohibit an individual from standing something up on a whim and leaving it around. Likewise, for large development teams having a stack for every developer would be costly. In each case I'm not talking about "production" workload, but the semi-idle stacks that run for long periods, are critical, need to reflect the production setup, and don't generate revenue.

Your LBs are quick to deploy, which is super important for fluid CI/CD experience but they miss the mark without being usage based.

Do others see this the same way?
by MrMcCall | 2025-04-03 16:13:44+00:00
It's true, because all the upper levels of ALL large media organizations have been infiltrated by big-moneyed conservatives.

CNN and NBC weren't always as bad as they are now, but their descent has been obvious and dramatic.

Some of them still employ democrats to some minimal extent, such as Jamelle Bouie at the NYT, but that's merely subterfuge, lest their bent be glaringly obvious.

If someone can name a large organization that is an exception to my first paragraph, I would be happy to learn of them.