MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by AuryGlenz | 2025-04-30 15:55:53+00:00
I'm not an economist, but I think the theory has merit. I don't think the execution does, if only because we almost certainly only have 4 years until the tariffs are mostly reversed. The complete lack of long-term planning is a major failure of out political system compared to places like China.

If I were Trump, I instead would have pushed congress to take away the power of tariffs back from the presidency and make something like the Fed to manage them instead, with some checks added in. I normally don't like unelected officials making policy like that but in this case I don't see what else would work. As we've seen, broad tariffs are very unpopular even if they might be necessary, and we'd need them to have the potential to stick around much longer for them to be effective.

That said, I'm willing to bet this will finally put the nail in the inflation coffin. Taking money away from consumers and "burning it" by returning it to the government is the best way to deal with inflation.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-04-30 15:56:30+00:00
Python had no multicore during the same period and that never prevented it from becoming successful. Plus, Ocaml always had descent solution for concurrent I/O. The absence of multicore is a complete red herring in why Ocaml isn't more successful.

Ocaml issue never was the syntax which is completely fine. The current syntax is actually a lot nicer that what Facebook proposed. Ocaml issue is not being a USA-born project nor having a significant marketing push in English.

Plus, Ocaml always was too far ahead of its time (including now with its effect system). First, you have the functional approach which was already very unfamiliar for most. Then, you have to add module level programming on top which is still very unfamiliar to most. Just look at this comment page and people thinking Ocaml is not fun to use or less interesting than Haskell, it's trully sad.

Multicore has added the extremely promising effect system but that's once again a step too far for most current developers.

In a lof of way, Ocaml is to programming language what the Pixies are to rock music. Everyone who felt deeply in love with it went on to write a language of their own. Some got really successful.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-30 15:56:36+00:00
>Of course the safety net could be a lot better and the GINI coefficient is awful, but there still has never been more wealth floating about the general population. When the people complaining loudest about their situation are having boat parades, driving $75K pickup trucks with aftermarket mods, and getting their news on 75" TVs, and their biggest complaint driving their vote is the price of eggs due to an avian flu pandemic, they are definitely comfortable.

This isn't reflective of the median reality for most people. Simply put, the strata divide is growing even though there is a lot of wealth in US society, it is spread incredibly unevenly.

The US isn't well prepared to handle a trade war, never mind that this trade war is really cover for a class war because big businesses felt labor made too many gains from late 2020 through early 2023
by exodust | 2025-04-30 15:56:37+00:00
Me: can dynamic content such as inventory feeds be included in wiki pages? *AI Assistant is typing* AI: Hmm, I couldn't find an answer to that. Can you rephrase your question or give me a bit more detail?

This is why I can't stand the idea of conversing with AI bots just to "browse" a company wiki. I mean how big are company wikis? Not big enough that simply browsing it yourself using regular content browsing or keyword searching can't surface what you need quickly and accurately.

And $790+ annually and still can't remove the "powered by Perfect wiki" logo! It takes $2390 before you're unsticking that sucker!
by gymbeaux | 2025-04-30 15:57:01+00:00
It’s optimistic of you to think we’ll have a Democratic anything for the foreseeable future. In 2016 we could say “well a lot of people are tired of the status quo” but after 2024… Nah, this what America wants. This is what the people who couldn’t bother to vote, voted for when they chose to stay home.
Ask HN: Intentional Typos in YouTube Video Captions?
by prmph | 2025-04-30 15:57:02+00:00
Noticed this weird trend where YouTube video thumbnails have captions with weird typos. It is clear that this is intentional, because the actual video title has no typos, and the video creators I watch are very unlikely to leave this to chance.

Is this playing to some weird human psychology thing, where content with misspelling feel more relatable? It's kind of bizarre to me.
by VladVladikoff | 2025-04-30 15:57:06+00:00
Now I’m wondering what the most efficient algorithm to obtain a mark of 100% in the least amount of attempts. Guessing one question per attempt seems inefficient. Perhaps guessing the whole exam as option A. Then submitting the whole exam as option B. And so on, at the start, could give you a count of how many As are correct. Then maybe some sort of binary sort through the rest of the options? You could submit the first 1/2 as A and the second 1/2 as B. Etc. hmmmm
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-04-30 15:57:10+00:00
Sure, but in that case, tariffs on finished goods are the way to go. You'll first recover the assembly business and then over time you could reshore more of the inputs.

But like, it's not the 1950s anymore, basically every product consists of parts from all over the world.

You can't unpick that in 90 days.
by aoeusnth1 | 2025-04-30 15:57:43+00:00
In principle, Math proofs are another relatively easy to verify problem. In the extreme case, you can express any math proof as a computer-verifiable formalism — no intelligence necessary. Step back one step, and you could have a relatively weak model translate a proof into verifiable formalism and then use a tool call to run the verification. Coming up with the proof is an expensive search process, while verifying it is more mechanical. Even if it is not completely trivial to make the proof computer-verifiable, it might still be a vastly easier task compared to finding the proof in the first place.
by eesmith | 2025-04-30 15:57:48+00:00
Point taken.

Please tell me where these minimum wage food preparation and serving-related workers are working then.

I can tell you don't live in California, where McDonalds pays a minimum of $20/hr.

I can tell you don't live in West Virginia, where McDonald's averages about $10/hr.

McDonalds isn't the only fast food place.
by afpx | 2025-04-30 15:57:54+00:00
Very true. I've found there's not much value in arguing or pointing out flaws anymore—it just leads into a rabbit hole. I used to do it, but over time realized they’re mostly operating from emotion, not logic.

It reminds me of that experiment where a part of the brain gets stimulated and the subject performs an involuntary action—then comes up with a logical explanation for why they did it, even though they didn’t choose it. I think that’s what’s happening with a lot of these Trump supporters. They're reacting to environmental triggers without really understanding why. It’s fair to say they’re being driven by something external—though then you have to ask, what’s driving that? Who's driving us?

In the end, they’re just human, like me or anyone else. We're all playing the Human game. No one’s really 'awake' or enlightened. After talking to enough people, I’m convinced most 'truth' is concocted, and no one’s actually in control. Truth lasts only as long as it’s useful.
by kingkongjaffa | 2025-04-30 15:58:16+00:00
> We think we're entering the age of disposable software, and AI app builders is where that shift comes to life.

This is a fascinating thought. I wonder if there's some disconnect between good design and the immediacy of building something that solves exactly the thing you need to solve at the time.

What I mean is, when you first build something, it probably does what users need, but there's always some rough edges. Frankly out of 10,000 throwaway apps built, I'm going to guess probably less than 10 have been built with good design and taste.

It's like the difference between a TODO MVP toy app to track tasks, vs something like Linear which is beautifully designed.

Both probably have their place I think.

For my work I'm not sure I want my tools to be so discardable personally. I want to use predictable, well designed tools that have had their rough edges sanded down through iteratively reducing the micro-frictions I have in my day to day job. Behind every great product experience there's usually someone obsessing over a specific pain point and motivated to make something great.

Toy throwaway apps can't replace human thinking time and experience using a tool over months and years.

For personal and one time problems, toy apps can absolutely get the job done, and most people are willing to overlook the rough edges.
by gh0stcat | 2025-04-30 15:58:52+00:00
This reminds me of Pinterest, a platform I used to love for finding art and inspirational content as an artist myself. Without ad blockers, I would say 1/3 to 1/2 of all “pins” or images are actually ads, some of which are the nefarious “shopping” ads which look just like images and when clicked, take you directly to the sellers site. With the ad blocker, it is full of weird holes that just make the page look terrible. It feels honestly terrible as a consumer to have the experience degraded this much, its like having a storefront and half of the items on display are actually garbage you need to toss aside. And unfortunately there isn’t an obvious better choice or option. Also don’t even get me started on the scammy ads that are ai generated images or just all of the pins that are ai generated slop…
by amitu | 2025-04-30 15:59:07+00:00
Edited: fix a typo and clarify public vs key pair.

Unlike ngrok, and they are a great product, I have used them for years, we are completely open source. Further we are peer to peer, so if you and the other party both want to communicate, you can do it without any dependency on a third party/company.

The last bit requires some explanation, but this is provided by iroh, this is not our innovation, we have simply used iroh and benefitted from it, you can read about their node discover process here [1], there is some initial reliance on a relay, which is currently run by them, and we hope to run our own relays in future.

Right now the way it works is `malai http 3000` listens over iroh, and creates a public private key pair, public part of the key is used as node identity, which we call id52 (52 char public key, default iroh public key representation are 64 char and not suitable for using as a subdomain).

Then on kulfi.site server, `malai http-bridge` runs, which starts an HTTP server, and any request that comes for `<id52>.kulfi.site` lands on this HTTP server, which then connects to `malai http` instance over iroh network using the id52[2]:

`malai http` gets the HTTP request payload, and makes a HTTP request to the port 3000 (on localhost), and sends the request, and then the return is returned back all the way from malai http to malai http-bridge to the client who made the original request.

We are currently running an instance of the `malai http-bridge` on `kulfi.site`, and you can run your own if you do not trust us for example, go ahead, we encourage it, not for trust, but so it keeps our bandwidth bills down.

But you do not have to use the http bridge, you can run `malai browse kulfi://<id52>`, and it will start a local http-bridge (it will run single target node as for localhost you can not use subdomains to extract the id52 from, which is why you have to pass it on CLI). `malai browse` opens a HTTP server on some random port, and opens your default browser with it, and rest works the same.

If you are curious, kulfi is the main project, we are creating a tauri powered web browser, which will directly speak iroh, and will not require the http bridge, the http request from browser will straight go over iroh network to the other side.

[1]: https://www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-global-node-discovery

[2]: https://www.iroh.computer/blog/iroh-dns
by rozab | 2025-04-30 15:59:09+00:00
For a long time the grid of videos on the homepage has been slightly misaligned. I imagine the different rows belong to different teams. This means you can't hover your mouse in the gaps between columns while you scroll to prevent videos autoplaying when moused over.

I find the autoplay so annoying because it hides the thumbnail which was carefully designed to communicate why I should click on the video and replaces it with, usually, a talking head or stock footage. Often the video gets inexplicably added to my watch history, and if I do choose to click on it I have to go back to the beginning because I missed the start of the audio
by robomartin | 2025-04-30 15:59:23+00:00
I am very much on the fence on this one. I can tell you, without a shadow of a doubt, based on having been in manufacturing across various industries for over thirty years, that the US and Europe have been on a path to loose nearly all manufacturing capacity within ten years, maybe twenty at best.

How do we compare the pain (and yes, some destruction) that we have to endure today against the devastation that is clearly in the horizon for both regions within a decade or two?

To be sure, what's going on today should have been done twenty to thirty years ago. Doing this today is far more difficult and painful.

I think Kevin O'Leary put it best: What we want a reasonably free markets. It isn't just about tariffs. It's about regulatory lockout, intellectual property and more.

For example, India imposes as much as a 110% tariff on US cars and trucks. The list of such actions --which also included non-tariff rules-based restrictions-- is long. From China imposing up to 25% on our cars, autos, chemicals and food to the EU, Canada, Mexico and others following suit. Brazil collected over $800 million in retaliatory tariffs blocking US pharmaceuticals, autos and textiles.

In other words, the relationship with hundreds of countries has been very one-sided for a long time. US industry needs to export to thrive, but if countries like Turkey impose 140% tariffs on our autos and trucks, markets are de-facto shut down.

How long can any country survive this kind of inequity?

So, yeah, this is a rough moment. I hope it is for the best. Everyone benefits from a more open and balanced market.

And then, of course, there's one of the elephants in the room: Intellectual property theft.

Going back to Kevin O'Learly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKkdor6_rw4

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=567065763062114

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGFWWqbDwuw

https://www.tmz.com/watch/kevin-o-leary-china-tariffs-04-09-...
by saithound | 2025-04-30 15:59:29+00:00
Levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce. Also, mandate schooling, mandate vaccinations, forbid polluting the environment, set clocks forward, and various other acts.

Governments exist so that we can coordinate doing things that individually we couldn't do or wouldn't wish to do. It's us.

The problem with the tariffs is not that they're decreed by the government that your fellow citizens elected, it's that they're counterproductive to the extent that they're causing a recession.
Show HN: Slowcialize – A calmer social media platform for deeper connection
by VardhanCeri | 2025-04-30 15:59:37+00:00
Social media promised connection. What we got was noise, performance, and endless scrolling. We wanted something quieter — a space that actually helps you stay in touch with people who matter.

So we built Slowcialize: no feeds, no likes, no performance. Just simple, reflective updates shared at your pace.

It's being piloted at our university in India, and 250+ people are already using it. Would love your thoughts on how we can improve it — thanks!
by jbaiter | 2025-04-30 15:59:46+00:00
It's funny, because I remember the early days of Jepsen, and it relied heavily on memes (the whole name is based on "call me maybe"/carly rae jepsen) and aphyr wasn't (and still isn't) shy about his colorful real life personality :-)

See for example https://aphyr.com/posts/282-call-me-maybe-postgres, which makes heavy uses of memes.
by mjburgess | 2025-04-30 15:59:50+00:00
Some weak evidence of why "exceptional abilities" is not a bad idea, even if gimmiky, is that performance "at the extreme" is highly correlated. So that the people who tend, eg., to be concert pianists, tend also to be very accomplished artists, and the like.

So if you're hitting (a verifiable) top 0-0.5% in some field, there's a reasonable bias towards assuming a high general competence.

I did once hit 0.5 percentile in a multinational PHP exam in my teenage years however I did have a second window open with an interpreter running for the most fringe questions. -- who knows what that means.
by InMice | 2025-04-30 15:59:55+00:00
Thank you for writing this post! I opened youtube a few days ago to this as well. On a 24" 1440p monitor its ridiculous. It's incomprehensible there's a UI/UX team that gets paid millions of dollars per year and the result is changes like this. Thank you again for writing this post. After searching it seems like they've been "testing" this in segments for a while now.

As a result I installed the "Control Panel for Youtube" chrome plugin and Im able to fix it back to 6 videos per row. I also found I could make shorts play in the traditional youtube player by default - which is an added relief.
by gymbeaux | 2025-04-30 16:00:17+00:00
I’m always hazy on how exactly that works. I know some bills require a supermajority (66) and I know filibuster can block some bills with fewer votes than that… but it doesn’t always work, because the 2017 tax reform bill was passed.

Also, I remember there being talk when the DINOs were voting with the Republicans of ending the filibuster…. So… I mean the current admin just ignores rules, why wouldn’t this be the Congress that ends the filibuster? This could be their one shot to implement the “Final Solution” (Project 2025).
by n4r9 | 2025-04-30 16:00:29+00:00
> Those developers had to be dragged into modern software development when they were certain it was a stupid waste of time.

But why do they have to fill out some paperwork? If the new technology is a genuine productivity boost and any sort of meaningful performance review is undertaken, then it will show up if they're performing sub-par compared to colleagues.

The real problem is that senior management are lazily passing down mandates in lieu of trusting middle management to do effective performance reviews. Just as it was with Return To Office.
by justsocrateasin | 2025-04-30 16:00:56+00:00
Private industries are not incentivized to pursue the same kind of research as the public sector. An excellent example of this is antibiotics (or antifungal drugs). Pharma companies do not put forth a large budget for research like this, because it isn't profitable. But, if we were to see a super bug crop up in the next 10 years (unfortunately this is not a crazy "if" due to trends in antibiotic resistance), then you would quickly see the public sector's research paying enormous dividends in terms of missed economic hardship. These economic benefits would not affect the private sector in the same way, because a pharma company would not see, let's say, $50b in profits from helping ease an equivalent $50b in economic hardship caused by hospital bills/suffering/lost productivity.

On top of this, let's just look at the current private sector and what they spend R&D dollars in: can you really say that $1b spent by Google, Meta, Amazon etc. actually ends up being better worthwhile than $1b spent by NASA? see this list of inventions NASA has inadvertently created: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/20-inventions-we-would...

In general, public sector research is already so strapped for cash. Their budgets are not large. Their salaries are lower than the private sector. I agree that public R&D spending is likely not at a "theoretical optimal level", but would you argue that private sector R&D spending is?
by qtoMPkuZe46ny | 2025-04-30 16:01:51+00:00
> The internet was just this place where nerdy people could go to post silly shit. What the hell happnened?

Right. The whole internet and the culture around it changed.

Early 4chan really was just stupid silly garbage. Did you know there's an archive of old 4chan posts from around 2006-2008?

https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/85525276 (sarah palin email "hack")

https://old.sage.moe/b/thread/9691632/ (just a random thread.)

https://old.sage.moe/_/articles/glossary/

Just ridiculously stupid, juvenile stuff. Being "edgy" on 4chan was often just copy-pasting the n-word or "JEWS" a thousand times. That feels really so tame to what goes on there now. Looking through this archive, it all feels so... disconnected from reality. It was all so fake and stupid.

These elite "hackers" were often just pwning people who reused passwords, and then posting gay porn on their MySpace. When Fox News did a report saying that "4chan are hackers on steroids. They can turn your computer into a bomb!", they all laughed because they knew they're not capable of that. And then Anonymous? I mean the V for Vendetta masks? So stupid lol.

It all changed as time went on. I remember seeing a tweet around 2015 that said something like "it's crazy how I can type something in this box that would destroy my life", except it wasn't a joke.
by parineum | 2025-04-30 16:01:54+00:00
> Stepping a level lower even, how, on Earth, could our system possibly have produced Harris, Vance and Trump as the options? Then you step a level lower than that, and even the challengers were like, DeSantis and Haley?

I guess you forgot about the corpse of Biden. Harris belongs in that "challengers" category except she had less support than DeSantis and Haley (from both Democrats and Republicans!). Harris has never received a vote in a presidential primary.

The Democratic party enabled Trump to win by not forcing a clearly incapable Biden out of the race earlier, allowing them to run an actual primary and then choosing a terrible candidate because they backed themselves into a corner with identity politics. Remember, the Democratic party was totally fine with Biden until he was forced in front of the American people and they got as good of a look at him as the party had.

That's how our system produces these horrible candidates. Each party acts in their own self-interest because they have a stranglehold over the electoral process.
by DontchaKnowit | 2025-04-30 16:01:55+00:00
I agree with you but learning grammer gives you a scaffolding to understand, and allows you to freely construct sentances even beyond what youve previously encountered.

Obviously knowing grammer isnt going ti get you all the way there, probably not even 10 percent, but its a much much sturdier foundation than "donde esta la biblioteca", etc
by 9rx | 2025-04-30 16:02:24+00:00
Beware of microbenchmarks, but at least on my machine under the specific circumstances I ran it under, the double loop algorithm is about two times faster than the hash map algorithm while n < 100. That might not mean much if you spend your days working with large datasets, but in my day-to-day datasets with 100 entires or less is the norm. Readability is subjective, but at least from a performance perspective it is a reasonable starting point unless you know upfront that you are going to be working with large datasets – but in that case the optimization isn't premature, is it?