MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by liamwire | 2025-04-05 00:44:51+00:00
While I agree with your sentiment, I think a useful mental model thinks of business bros/MBAs et. al. as natural consequences of growth-at-all-costs capitalism. By our economy’s very nature there’s demand for more every quarter, with substantial money riding on that more occurring on time and as expected. So there’s of course then demand for the services of professionals specialising in more. One can still dislike them of course, as one might the police as an institution, for example, but I don’t find it useful to hate them as people. Ultimately most of us are drawn by incalculable circumstance and survival pressures into happenstance careers, and alienating other humans doesn’t do anything to progress a cause.

Before posting this I feel it’s worth clarifying I didn’t take you to say you do hate them as people, please excuse the ramble.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-05 00:44:56+00:00
I don't think many people have actually contemplated what absence of law, defined as rules that apply to rich and powerful people too, is like.

In a world with law, there are restriction on what society's most powerful can and can't do, because there are police officers, detectives, lawyers, and judges, who all work together to make sure there are consequences for crimes.

In a world without law, the only restriction on what someone with a lot of money or power can do is what they can get away with. We flirted with this territory by subjecting the rich to a very different justice system than the poor, but we are now solidly in the territory of no limits to rich people's power so long as they don't threaten other rich people.

We are now in the realm of having to consider not what is allowed to be done, but what can be done. We can no longer ask what is legal to do, only what is possible to do. It is possible for several men to ambush a person, put them in a car, put them in chains, and send them to a black site without due process. That is a thing that can physically happen in reality. That is a thing that has happened in other countries. Locking political opponents in mental institutions is a thing that can happen. While it seems unlikely that it will happen here, "intellectuals," those with the capability of challenging those in power, have been rounded up and forced to dig their own graves. Babies have been smashed against trees. That is a thing that has happened in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge at the killing fields. That is a thing that is possible to happen. Forced labor camps are a thing that can and has happened. Mass famine as a result of disastrous government policy is a thing that can and has happened. Extermination of humans based on genetic traits is a thing that can happen.

There is no magical power that prevents these things from happening. These things happen because people make decisions to act or not act. Individuals choose to passively let bad things happen rather than put themselves at risk to say no.

Who would stop that abduction from happening with force? What if the men doing that are police officers? What if they go after your family the day after?

The constitution is just a piece of paper. Law is just an idea. For it to have any effect on physical reality, it requires someone to take actions on its behalf. Nothing on a piece of paper forces a president to follow a law. Human beings who believe in something enforce, or don't enforce, the law.

What kind of person will you be if the unthinkable starts happening?
by nradov | 2025-04-05 00:46:15+00:00
That is such an unrealistic and out of touch comment that I barely know where to begin. The USA (and its allies) killed millions of enemy civilians in WWII. This was not an accident; military leaders knew exactly what they were doing and were proud of it. Strategic bombing campaigns leveled cities. Submarine forces sank unarmed merchant vessels with all hands. This was considered acceptable to win the war. Should we now hold other countries to a different standard?

Hamas is a terrorist organization. There can be no possible debate about that point.

Real life is not like what you see in the movies. Modern militaries are in no way able to consistently do surgical strikes with no collateral damage. That is magical thinking.

Your comparison with civilian law enforcement is so specious that I suspect you're not even commenting in good faith. There no "volunteer SWAT teams", that's not a real thing (the officers on those teams do volunteer for the duty but they get paid). SWAT teams aren't tasked with fighting their way through hundreds of terrorists to capture a suspect; they're generally up against no more than a few criminals armed with small arms. And it's unfortunately fairly common for law enforcement to accidentally shoot innocent bystanders or hostages.

It's cheap easy to criticize and claim the moral high ground when you don't have to make hard choices or deal with the consequences. Again I'm not attempting to justify war crimes but the decisions get a lot messier when you step away from your computer and operate in the real world.
by jandrese | 2025-04-05 00:46:22+00:00
The argument is basically that because the deportees had no due process to be deported that no due process can bring them back. The Trump administration claims that they are gang members, but provided no evidence to support this claim, and then refused to work with any members of the judicial system attempting to provide oversight. In any other administration this would be a scandal that rocks the media for months and ends with the resignation of several top officials. For the Trump administration it was Tuesday.
by bsder | 2025-04-05 00:47:54+00:00
From where are you getting LBJ quoting? Even a cursory Google only coughs up Sam Rayburn.

I actually have to look for LBJ using it in "Remarks at an Airport Rally in Wilmington, Delaware".

Wikiquote seems to have the validated references.

While Rayburn may be the first to use this quote in a recorded way, I can certainly believe that it is much older than Rayburn.
by AngryData | 2025-04-05 00:48:26+00:00
What kind of consent? On an individual basis? Because the assholes won't pay putting more burden on those who do while the assholes use the further power/capital disparity to corrupt society in their favor. Governmentally we have many times, every time a new government is formed, and there is always the option of the people tearing it all down when it stops doing what it is suppose to when all the other alternatives are made impossible.

Also every society that concentrates power into a larger government through taxation will inevitably invade and destroy or subjugate those who decided they wanted the smallest bare minimum of community support and collective services that leaves them vulnerable.
by strken | 2025-04-05 00:50:47+00:00
No, I'm not going to disagree with your empty statement; there's nothing there to even take a stance on. The problem with your original position is that there are real differences between A) getting deported for saying there are too many civilian casualties in Gaza, B) materially supporting Hamas, C) getting fired because you have a secret twitter account where you're overtly racist, and D) refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding then getting sued and becoming a media spectacle.

Your argument can be used to support consequences for every single one of these scenarios because it's just "maybe when a bad thing happens it was deserved". Sure, yeah, sometimes people deserve things and sometimes they don't, but pointing this out is a useless addition to a conversation.
by fabbari | 2025-04-05 00:51:45+00:00
I think some of the AI demos are kind of comedy gems.

I have seen the Apple Intelligence presentation a while ago and in the span of five minutes they had someone asking the assistant to expand a one liner into an e-mail and then someone receiving a long e-mail and asking the AI to summarize it.

We spun GPUs to expand, then spun them again to summarize. Gold.
by lenerdenator | 2025-04-05 00:53:58+00:00
I was looking at used cars on Carmax about two or three weeks ago. I looked again today. They're another $1-2k.

This is the shareholder/political class trying to eat their cake and have it too. Pay people a stagnant wage for 40 years while taking most of the surplus value and dedicating it to equities, then pretend to do something about it, but in a way that passes the buck to the people who have been making a stagnant wage so that the wealthy don't incur actual losses.

Share prices will be brought back up through layoffs.
by fulladder | 2025-04-05 00:54:42+00:00
Not going to comment on the politics, but I'd point out that recession odds on Kalshi are currently 64% and 58% on Polymarket [1,2]. In other words, recession in 2025 is more likely than not -- though far from guaranteed.

My thought relevant to HN is that either way this is likely to decimate venture capital and startups, at least in the short run. Venture capital funds come from limited partners like pensions and endowments, and the professionals I know are all shifting away from growth stocks and into value, international and bonds. VC is already in a drought (except for AI) and now my guess is that it's going to get worse. So many VCs I know have started only in the last 15 years, so they have never seen a real recession like 2009 while working in venture.

[1] https://kalshi.com/markets/kxrecssnber/recession

[2] https://polymarket.com/event/us-recession-in-2025
by mattfrommars | 2025-04-05 00:54:45+00:00
I'm just curious for folks who have read through the material OP suggested as well as, the book linked in this HN thread, are your guys primary motivation to understand and fill in that curiosity part of your head vs making a career out of this?

Is it reasonable to think that if one grinds to the book suggested here and background in web/dev SWE, one can break into ML/AI role?
by milesrout | 2025-04-05 00:55:29+00:00
The powers under the Act don't specify a standard of proof required. It just says:

>all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies. The President is authorized in any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed on the part of the United States, toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject and in what cases, and upon what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any other regulations which are found necessary in the premises and for the public safety.

Nothing there about the President needing to prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt. Presumably he would need to prove the particular facts, in habeus corpus proceedings, should they be brought, only on the balance of probabilities?
by f33d5173 | 2025-04-05 00:55:50+00:00
The middle and working class are the ones who would be paying signficantly more for shoes in this scheme. A minute fraction of them having jobs making shoes instead of the jobs they would have otherwise wouldn't balance things out.

I also take issue with the trend of describing low paying jobs as "slave labor". Absolutely nobody in vietnam is heralding these tariffs, since they don't look forward to working even worse paying jobs as a result. Free trade benefits everyone except for abstruse dilettantes online.
by jarym | 2025-04-05 00:56:09+00:00
It is interesting that tech (Nasdaq) is the hardest hit here. The real engine of US exports for recent decades and likely to be a casualty as other countries plan their trade-war retaliation.

And that's not even taking into consideration what might happen in the domestic market should there be a real recession - consumers will cut down their consumption and that'll filter back to lower corporate earnings.

In previous economic stumbles, US exports abroad were able to buffer domestic weakness. Probably not anymore...
by beloch | 2025-04-05 00:56:15+00:00
This is an inherently political subject, but I would appreciate a dispassionate argument explaining how this could be even remotely good for the U.S.'s economy in a way that is light on MAGA ideology and doesn't simply claim the overwhelming majority of economists are dumb. I'm simply not seeing even a glimmer of a possible upside right now. I see even less possibility of an upside for those of us North of the border or pretty much anywhere else on the globe.
by AngryData | 2025-04-05 00:56:39+00:00
The chemistry isn't that hard to produce oil from basically nothing of value, but the energy costs aren't trivial, and that means we don't need a 1:1 energy replacement from fossil fuel sources to solar panels, we need more like a 10x increase in global energy production to replace fossil fuels with solar for example.

The only really feasible way to produce that much electricity renewably by this point in time or even within the next 20+ years has been nuclear energy, which the world largely turned their backs on the last few decades and left us in an even bigger hole to fill.
by lreeves | 2025-04-05 00:57:06+00:00
You know the craziest thing about watching this as an outsider in Canada is that we as a nation are losing one reliable trading partner (and obviously losing an ally but that's another conversation). Germany - losing a trade partner. Japan? And so on. But the US has lost 180 reliable trading partners. You're already seeing in the first week burgeoning trade alliances between nations who wouldn't have cooperated before, and the amount of resentment against America from this is going to take a generation to heal.

Of course I'm sure some people would claim this is 4D chess or what not but.. sometimes the person doing something crazy is just crazy at the end of the day.
by bee_rider | 2025-04-05 00:58:15+00:00
Sure, it’s easy to say “there are bigger problems.” There are always bigger problems.

But, there are like 50 years worth of Fortran numerical codes out there, lots of them just use RCIs… if I want to try CUDA in some existing library, I guess I will need the vector back before I can go back into the RCI.
by shanemhansen | 2025-04-05 00:58:48+00:00
I think Tcl as it was back then especially would have been a terrible DOM manipulation choice. I love the language but the hacks frameworks like openacs used to use to imitate basic stuff like a list of database records are among the ugliest upvar/up level hacks I've seen.

But that being said it's an incredibly adaptable language and I have zero doubt it could have been adapted to make DOM manipulation ergonomic.
by csense | 2025-04-05 00:59:54+00:00
So honest question: A bunch of people who currently own stock are deciding they'd rather have cash instead -- that much is obvious.

But what exactly are they doing with the cash?

Don't want to hold onto it, everyone says devaluation and inflation is coming.

Bitcoin and gold are kinda flat. I expected them to shoot up as uncertainty hedges. What gives?
by registeredcorn | 2025-04-05 01:00:22+00:00
I can't speak for every platform but when I was working with frequent photo posts, most in-camera or post-editing metadata was stripped out on instagram and facebook. Some smaller sites like Gab didn't seem to mess with it as much, but the bulk did. I wouldn't be surprised if all of the other big ones did, too.

It was incredibly disheartening to have no recourse to attribute my own work, other than to smear some gross watermark on it. The automatic removal of that metadata, along with AI image generation, are some of the reasons why I gave up on the hobby entirely.

It's incredibly hard and stressful to derive any sort of pleasure or interest from something when the second it's exposed to the internet, any sense of humanity you tried to attach to it is stripped away, burned, and commercialized for the monetary benefit of some ethereal financier. It's the sound of an invisible vacuum cleaner, whisking away any sense of joy or life you wanted to share with the world for common love; the death of sharing. For-pay hugs.
by cavisne | 2025-04-05 01:01:37+00:00
In the presentation they said eventually kernels can share SIMT (PTX) and TileIR but not at launch. It seems pretty mysterious why they don't just emit PTX, I would guess they are either taking the opportunity to clean things up for ML tensorcore workloads or there is some HW specific features coming that they only want to enable through TileIR.
by globnomulous | 2025-04-05 01:02:46+00:00
?siht ekil kool rewsna eht diD

Edit: realized just now that my summary of the 'test' failed to specify the request fully: the letters need to be reversed, too. Maybe I'm just bad with AI tools, because I didn't even get a response that 'this like looked' (i.e. reversed the order of the words).
by fulladder | 2025-04-05 01:02:58+00:00
The belief of Trump and his allies is that the last 40 years of free trade has been extremely favorable to college educated "elites" and extremely unfavorable to the working class. They see foreign trade as having hollowed out American manufacturing, and therefore they see the shutting down foreign trade as a way to reverse this decline. While they are aware that doing so will hurt college educated professionals, they don't care because they feel those people have had it too good for too long.
by some_furry | 2025-04-05 01:03:03+00:00
If I had $1000 in cash, and inflation hits 10%, the purchasing power is equivalent to (1000 / 1.1 = ~$909) in 2026.

If I had the same $1000 in stock, and it lost 11% of its value in 2 days, I might worry about it being worth close to $0 by the end of the month.
by thomassmith65 | 2025-04-05 01:03:50+00:00
I support putting tariffs on foreign nations (a) to the degree a nation 'undercuts' America by exploiting foreign workers, and (b) providing the tariffs be gradually introduced so as not to cause mayhem.

Those two stipulations would preserve America's reputation as a good global citizen, and would promote better conditions in the USA and the world.

The Trump tariffs meet neither of those stipulations.
by ViktorRay | 2025-04-05 01:04:05+00:00
In the long run it could lead to more fair trade deals.

Today’s episode of Newshour at the BBC World Service had a conversation between a BBC journalist and a German CDU politician where they talked about how the tariffs on cars from Germany entering America has historically been lower than the tariffs on cars from America entering Germany. The CDU politician was telling the BBC that he hoped maybe a resolution for all of this would be both America and Europe lowering their tariffs to zero.

That was the hope of that politician in the long run though. In the short run the politician was in a sad mood because he felt things economically are going to be bad for everybody.
by walterbell | 2025-04-05 01:04:18+00:00
2024 paper (40 pages) by Stephen Miran, current chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, which has influenced tariff policy, https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/rese...

The root of the economic imbalances lies in persistent dollar overvaluation that prevents the balancing of international trade, and this overvaluation is driven by inelastic demand for reserve assets. As global GDP grows, it becomes increasingly burdensome for the United States to finance the provision of reserve assets and the defense umbrella, as the manufacturing and tradeable sectors bear the brunt of the costs... Tariffs provide revenue, and if offset by currency adjustments, present minimal inflationary or otherwise adverse side effects.. Finally, I discuss a variety of financial market consequences of these policy tools, and possible sequencing.

blog review/opinion, https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/trumps-liberation-day-an...

> One of the core tenets of the document is the deliberate devaluation of the US dollar in order to make US exports favorable again.. a country which holds the world’s reserve currency faces a significant dilemma.. to keep its currency as reserve status—and reap all the geopolitical benefits this creates—the country must hamstring its own economic output by running a huge trade deficit, which means the country imports far more than it exports, which hurts—or in the case of the US, kills—domestic manufacturing.

>... if a French person buys a $50K Ford truck and imports it to France, that’s $50K USD that leaves France and goes back to the US, lowering France’s dollar holdings. If an American buys a $50K French Peugeot to import it to the US, he sends his $50K USD to France, which increases its dollar holdings.. to maintain the dollar’s reserve status.. US dollars are constantly flooding the world.. running a massive trade deficit where imports of foreign goods (outflow of USD) far outweigh exports of domestic goods (inflow of USD).
by fredro | 2025-04-05 01:04:33+00:00
I feel this in a side project way but also in a hobby project way.

Blissful Zen is a great way to put it.

Story: My mother had 2 of her 3 dogs die on the same day. We buried them in the backyard as we have many little friends before them. This was the first time I dug the graves (my dad had always beared that -- but he passed away last year).

The grave soil was very clay rich. I had recently seen a video on how to reclaim natural clay. It was very rewarding to turn the natural clay into workable clay.

But the real challenge -- how to fire it? I saw guys using charcoal and bricks in their driveway but that can't get hot enough.

So the real Zen has been building an electric kiln from scratch. It is a simple-ish problem with a whole lot of simplish steps. Perfect to keep my mind occupied when it needs to be. I have also learned an amazing amount (about clay, pottery, kilns, Arduino/ESP32, thermocouples, resistance wire, refractory cement, insulation, electrical code, weird soldering techniques, and many more).

First fire will be tomorrow.
by kragen | 2025-04-05 01:05:12+00:00
I feel like you could support hot-plug, discovery, and bit errors with a protocol orders of magnitude simpler than USB, something you could bitbang on an ATTiny45. (And without Neywiny's list: 'bit ordering, half-duplex, the 4 modes, chip select to first clock setup times, bits per word, "strobing" nCS between words.' Those incompatibilities are mostly just people taking shortcuts.) And, unless you're talking about USB-C PD, which isn't involved here, the power-supply question isn't really related to the software complexity; it's just a question of making the power and ground traces on the USB-A plug (and the corresponding parts of other connectors) longer than the data traces so they make contact first.

You couldn't make it quite as simple as (a given flavor of) SPI, but something close to I²C should be feasible.
by ehaveman | 2025-04-05 01:05:12+00:00
this resonates.

"consumption-to-creation ratio" are words i've never put to that positive feeling of choosing to code over watching another TV show or the negative feeling of the alternative choice.

recently i feel like vibe coding is a cheat code in this respect - i can code while watching TV... and a few times the output of the vibe coding exercise was interesting enough to switch to full attention coding.
by colkassad | 2025-04-05 01:05:13+00:00
I've setup a test website for my father's business. We own the domain which was bought separately and we just point it to the servers for our WordPress plan (I didn't want to be bothered with self-hosting). The main reason to go with WordPress was setting up WooCommerce to start selling some stuff online to augment the main business. I can't say I enjoy the experience of getting the look and feel right, and it hasn't really changed in twenty years. It's as enjoyable as formatting a Word document.