MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lazide | 2025-04-30 14:25:58+00:00
Oh man, I wish I could share some outage postmortems with you.

Practically speaking, putting an arbitrary size limit somewhere is like putting yet-another-ssl-cert-that-needs-to-be-renewed in some critical system. It will eventually cause an outage you aren’t expecting.

Will there be a plausible someone to blame? Of course. Realistically, it was also inevitable someone would forget and run right into it.

Time limits tend to not have this issue, for various reasons.
by colingauvin | 2025-04-30 14:26:08+00:00
The argument is that $5 retail price comes nowhere close to capturing the true cost of the item. If the items were priced to have all their negative externalities included, such as loss of American jobs, fair labor, slave labor, environmental damage, shipping subsidies, etc, the bill would be much more than $5 and far fewer people would rationally buy them.

The free rational market has no way to price these in.
by agumonkey | 2025-04-30 14:26:13+00:00
It's 50/50 on this possibility. There's an interview trending right now where the host is repeating to the 47th resident that "no what you say is not true, the evidence was faked/photoshopped" (and DJT had nothing to say beyond "why are you not saying yes to me, I'm potentially making you promoted and you're not being nice enough to me"). Chances are that people see that there are no clothes and won't bend over to sustain the lies.

ps: article link https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-melts-down-at-bei...

direct youtube link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am-Xs4Dug1o
by pixl97 | 2025-04-30 14:26:36+00:00
In addition tik-tok/insta are having post after post warning people that the shelves are going to be empty which tends to feedback into itself.

If you were going to buy 1 of X normally if you think X may be out for sometime you may end up buying 2-4 of X which will run the shelves out very quickly when 10-15% of purchasers do that unexpectedly. Other people see the shelves emptying and buy more too.

Going to be messy.

All I have to say is imagine if Biden did this, what the news would be saying.
by vlovich123 | 2025-04-30 14:26:42+00:00
Lots of valid points but to me the premise is flawed. Seems more plausible this is CYA blame shifting - “I didn’t make a mistake, the journalist hacked signal”. Think about that premise - a journalist is now obtaining vulnerabilities to Signal? [1] suggests that the price of a 0-day is $1M. I don’t believe journalists have that kind of cash and definitely not the skill to discover this themselves, not to mention the dangers of treason hacking into government war planning would land you. I’m disappointed that Schneier didn’t challenge the premise even a little

[1] https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/zero-day-exploit-prices-sig...
by thijson | 2025-04-30 14:26:53+00:00
I was reading the Steve Jobs biography and thought it was interesting that the choice in the name "apple" came from him wanting something that came before Atari in the yellow pages, and also that he had spent time at a Hippie apple orchard in Oregon.

I was reading a Jack Tramiel biography recently, and read that early on the two Steve's sought to sell Apple to Commodore for under a million dollars.
by RHSeeger | 2025-04-30 14:26:59+00:00
The first two require she bring her phone to school with her. Could they collect every phone before school and hand them out after? Sure.. but that's a nightmare.

The last one doesn't require a cell phone, since the school has phone lines. But it's certainly more convenient to let her use her own phone than have 20 kids in line at the office every morning calling their parents.

> It's worth noting, according to the article, the law gives school officials leeway to allow kids to use their phones in some circumstances. So, the law doesn't stop any of the use cases you've listed.

Somewhat my bad.. but I was responding to thread's content and title.

- The article says "[Finland approved] a law that restricts the use of mobile devices by pupils at primary and secondary schools"

- The title of the thread says "bans smartphones in schools".. which is not at ALL what they did; they banned _use_ of smartphones in schools _without permission_.

And what I said was that my daughter brings her phone to school; she doesn't use it there unless there's a good reason (like I noted).
by Pikamander2 | 2025-04-30 14:27:02+00:00
I was browsing a Reddit thread recently and noticed that all of the human comments were off-topic one-liners and political quips, as is tradition.

Buried at the bottom of the thread was a helpful reply by an obvious LLM account that answered the original question far better than any of the other comments.

I'm still not sure if that's amazing or terrifying.
by Retric | 2025-04-30 14:27:05+00:00
There isn’t a non hybrid version of the Prius with all its weight and aerodynamic features.

But there’s ~45 MPG all gas cars that have been built. Currently the best option is 39MPG combined, but that car’s aerodynamics aren’t great because hybrids can push that a little further for people who really want maximum MPG.
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-30 14:27:54+00:00
Trump only announced the tariffs on April 2, and the crossing takes weeks, and some traffic will left later than that having gambled that it'd be undone in transit. (Some of it was!)

The stat for "April 1 to April 24" is likely to be different than the stat on April 27th alone. Both may be true.

The port does look pretty empty on https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-122.373/c...

Your stat also includes Tacoma, a close but different port. The Port of Seattle isn't quite empty, but numbers... aren't awesome.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/verify/what-we-can-verify...

> Northwest Seaport Alliance Port of Seattle Commissioner, Ryan Calkins, said the future does not look as good. "The last forecast I saw was forecasting out over the next three months, and each month was forecasted to be down around 25% per month,” Calkins said. The Seaport Alliance said some ships are coming in with less cargo than anticipated. In some cases, it is 30% lower.
by dgfitz | 2025-04-30 14:28:30+00:00
Didn't basically everything go up but wages? So we inflated the cost of things by what, 15% or more over the past few years, wages didn't follow. All the savings and free money people had are gone now, it took a while.

I don't care if we blame the current economic policy, I don't like the current economic policy at all. I think the problem is much bigger than that.

I still would like to know where all that money went. I can't figure that out.
by nobody9999 | 2025-04-30 14:28:31+00:00
I use XFCE[0] which doesn't have full Wayland support[1]...yet.

I'm not opposed to using Wayland, but I am a dedicated XFCE user. As such, I won't move to Wayland until XFCE fully supports it.

And once it does, I assume my preferred distro (Fedora[2]) will make Wayland the default for XFCE (as it already does for Gnome and KDE).

[0] https://xfce.org/

[1] https://wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_roadmap

[2] https://news.itsfoss.com/fedora-41-gnome-wayland/
by mindslight | 2025-04-30 14:28:36+00:00
By my reckoning, Trump is just the reactionary talk radio monster of Limbaugh, Gingrich, and others finally escaping its cage. They'd get people all riled up with low-information rage against the gubmint, and then dial it back just enough to herd them to the booth to vote for establishment republicans. The main way the party has morphed is that the inmates have finally taken over the asylum.
by everdrive | 2025-04-30 14:29:10+00:00
This is important, and most partisans will get caught up in a discussion about whose corruption was worse. The bigger issue in my mind is that no one wants to police their own side, which leads to absurd flip-flopping hypocrisy every time the other party gains power. "Less bad" corruption is still a very bad thing, whoever you believe to be the more corrupt. But our current political system doesn't seem to have a way to wrestle with this.
by dr_pardee | 2025-04-30 14:29:12+00:00
Knowing someone who imports from China, there are ways around tariffs

https://harris-sliwoski.com/chinalawblog/the-guide-for-legal...

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/nx-s1-5318785/tariff-dodging-...

Shady ways as well https://www.voanews.com/a/as-us-tariffs-expand-chinese-firms...
by jmyeet | 2025-04-30 14:30:06+00:00
The "empty shelves" discourse is alarmist and honestly kind of annoying.

Almost all of the food on the shelves is locally produced or, in the very least, not produced in China. Some foods may disappear or become more expensive but there'll really be no disruption in food supply.

This will however affect markets dominated by Chinese goods, particularly clothing. Even here the effects will be somewhat mitigated by existing strategies to avoid China tariffs eg selling through Vietnam.

Certain businesses will be hit hard. And that's really the biggest problem: cascading effects leading to an inevitable recession. Already, truckers who ship goods from ports are sitting around idle. We've cut tens of thousands from the government. More layoffs are to come.
by grafmax | 2025-04-30 14:31:04+00:00
Dems are the lesser of two evils. As long as we don’t have ranked choice voting, which requires a constitutional amendment, we will continue to vote in the servants of the billionaire class. Next time around, it may be the servants of the liberal billionaires instead. The underlying reality is that wealth inequality is anti-democratic as it concentrates power in the hands of the few.
by giantg2 | 2025-04-30 14:31:06+00:00
I saw a study years ago that compared US made vs foreign made products and found that most imports had US made alternatives that were not substantially more expensive. Walmart made a big push to increase their percentage of US sourced products a few years ago. With the increase in automation, the labor costs aren't as much of a differentiator.

I'm not sure this small price difference will continue since I assume a reduction in imports might result in greater demand domestically and those factories might not be able to easily scale to absorb the shift.
by RHSeeger | 2025-04-30 14:31:08+00:00
ALL problems were solved differently before the age of smartphones. Breaking down on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere and having to walk miles to find some way to ask for help was a damned nightmare; especially for a single female.

Lots of problems are solved in MUCH better ways now that we have smartphones. It's not about "can we do it", it's about "can we do it better / easier".
by zelphirkalt | 2025-04-30 14:31:09+00:00
To me it seems such a dystopian thing to inflict upon ones kids. All day long being monitored by a spyware spreading company, just for some small convenience and probable impacting their ability to clearly communicate where they are or will be waiting. Maybe this kind of thing is the reason why so many people are unable to make an appointment and stick to the terms agreed upon when making the appointment.
by zelda420 | 2025-04-30 14:31:24+00:00
Unfortunately the largest cotton producing country is china, followed by India.

My grandparents actually worked and met at a denim factory in west Texas which was renowned for its cotton production. Growing up I remember giant cotton fields which have all been replaced with strip malls and sprawl.

It’s going to be a multi-year project at the very least. And even then probably still cheaper to make clothes in Vietnam.
by rdtsc | 2025-04-30 14:31:27+00:00
> Yes, probably. Lose skilled, trained workers to another industry and it may be tough to get them back later on when you need them again.

I love it! If that's the case, then it's easily solved, just ship empty cardboard boxes back and forth to/from Hawaii. The workers can diligently load and unload them, and then load them right back. The truck drivers can do a few loops around Los Angeles even to keep up their training.

That that kind of happened during a phase of the Soviet Union's economic development. The economic success of a branch was measured by the amount of resources consumed and the allocated work done. So they had started building large couches and started running empty trains back and forth to consume wood or fuel and add up "miles driven" to their ledger. We can do the same /s
by disgruntledphd2 | 2025-04-30 14:31:32+00:00
> "Stablecoins" or whatever the hell they're called seem like a wickedly efficient way to move money between businesses and countries without paying large fees or having to wait for clearance. Ideally they can even cut Visa and the fintech monopolies out of the equation. This is more of a B2B rather than consumer / individual application, and it seems genuinely useful. It also seems compatible with the existing FinCEN / FINRA / AML regulations.

Yeah, these seem like a really good (potentially the only one) use case for crypto. Note that these are really just replicating dollar (and potentially euro) dominance for a new age, and whoever ends up winning here will probably be the new Visa/Mastercard (with all of the problems that entails).
by nottorp | 2025-04-30 14:31:33+00:00
You're right. But I still disagree with you. Both ways are wrong if you want to maintain a constructive discussion.

Maybe you don't like my opinions on cogwheel shaving but you will agree with me on quantum frobnicators. But if you first come across about my comments on cogwheel shaving and note the user name, you may not even read the comments on quantum frobnicators later.
by cruzcampo | 2025-04-30 14:32:17+00:00
There's a saying in German that roughly translates to "When two are fighting, the third benefits."

This'll end up being the case here as well. While the US and China battle fiercely, the EU will be the only safe haven for both of their investments and we'll grow even richer while enjoying our three hour lunch break.

To battle fiercely is to become weaker and more dependent on others who are not battling.
by vlovich123 | 2025-04-30 14:32:21+00:00
If you think murder it’s easy to define, go look at how many different kinds of murder are defined in the US legal code and how every country defines it differently. And military kills are excluded even though definitively I fail to see the distinction between a war and political violence - it’s just external instead of internal. What is and isn’t murder is surprisingly hard to define and you’re either using a legal definition that’s a political compromise of different ideas or your own value judgement which is your opinion and not necessarily one shared with others. Seriously - try writing down what you think murder is in 3 sentences or less and see how far you are away from the legal code in your country.
by chiefalchemist | 2025-04-30 14:33:03+00:00
That could happen. But the model - at least in theory hasn't changed from traditional search.

There's a customer. They have a need. The go to the tool (i.e., search or AI) looking for answers. Note: They are a customer of the tool. That is, the tool, in order to retain the customer wants to keep that customer happy.

In any case, knowing that's the relationship, the tool is very mindful of any suggestions. It doesn't want to send its customer to some BS site, have its customer get pissed off and then next time use a different tool. The tool could do pay-to-play but that endangers the relationship with the customer.

Ultimately the tools' number #1 question is: "Can I trust this site I'm going to suggest with my customer?" and "If I suggest this site to my customer will it help or hurt my relationship with my customer?"

Again, the tool could do a pay-to-play model but that likely endangers the relationship with the customer.
Show HN: Dr. Headline – An Autonomous AI Agent Publishing Daily News Briefings
by Thomas-Router | 2025-04-30 14:33:25+00:00
About:

Dr. Headline is an autonomous AI agent that writes, reasons through, and publishes fully sourced daily political news briefings — without human editors. Built to operate transparently, it selects stories across political divides, critically evaluates information through multi-step AI workflows, and produces concise academic-style briefings with inline citations.

HeadlineSquare, the public platform hosting Dr. Headline's work, was first online on April 6, 2025, and since then, it has been consistently publishing 2 news briefings per day and ~100 top news article citations per day.

The system (Dr. Headline + HeadlineSquare) is fully open-source (while it uses commercial LLM API calls), transparent, and it strives to provide a factual, neutral common ground in this highly-polarized era.

*News Site Home Page:* https://headlinesquare.github.io/

*GitHub:* https://github.com/headlinesquare/headlinesquare-home

Dr. Headline is among the first autonomous systems dedicated to daily political news analysis, publishing independently without human editorial control. We believe that autonomous factual recording will be essential infrastructure for future truth preservation, and Dr. Headline is determined to start this journey.

Technical details (from the README):

In this early experimental phase, Dr. Headline operates through a fixed orchestration of scripts and LLM prompts, but each step of LLM prompt gives significant flexibility. Dr. Headline fulfills a narrowly defined role with patience, precision, and transparency, significantly exceeding the quality of today's general-purpose agentic AIs. Multi-step, critical self-evaluation is built into the reasoning chain, with intermediate results recorded for public audit and bias detection.

Current LLMs: OpenAI o3-mini-high (January 2025) and Anthropic Claude 3.7 Sonnet Thinking (February 2025).

Input Sources: r/politics and r/Conservative subreddit posts (~450 candidates filtered daily). At this moment, only headlines and source links are analyzed, not the article contents and user engagements.

Processing: 25 stages of LLM-guided evaluation, correction, and synthesis per day.

Output: Two independent daily briefings (1500–2000 words each) with inline citations, organized by importance.

Background:

The project was initiated by a single independent hobbyist (Thomas) in three weeks, but has now expanded to a small team. Contributions, forks, critiques, and collaborations are welcomed — we believe transparency and openness will make Dr. Headline stronger.

Philosophy:

This project reflects a belief that artificial intelligence can greatly amplify humanity’s best aspirations, including the pursuit and preservation of truth, even when humans themselves get lost in complex realities.

Future Growth:

This project is still in its infancy. There are endless possibilities ahead of us. We would love to hear your thoughts and ideas. If anyone knows or works on similar projects, and if anyone wants to share this mission with us, we would love to connect to you all!
by runarberg | 2025-04-30 14:33:29+00:00
If you are happy with WaniKani, you should probably just keep using WaniKani. It is a fine app (though a bit pricey). But I talked about the difference a bit in another thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43839879

The gist of it is that I like studying vocab and components (radicals) at the same time as the kanji. I kind of swap out the on/kun-yomi reading practice with bookmarked vocab, if I can remember the pronunciation of a couple of words with the kanji, I mark it as good. I also think writing the kanji helps remembering it (although I‘m not strict about it; personally if I screw up the stroke order, or add an extra tail, etc. I still rate it as good). I am also a fan of self rating rather than input evaluation.
by Retr0id | 2025-04-30 14:33:45+00:00
It could be genuinely useful for testing HTTP clients if it had a wider array of failure modes.

Some ideas:

- All the different HTTP status codes

- expired/invalid TLS cert

- no TLS cipher overlap

- invalid syntax at the TLS and/or HTTP level

- hang/timeout

- endless slowloris-style response

- compression-bomb

- DNS failure (and/or round-robin DNS where some IPs are bad)

- infinite redirect loop

- ipv6-only

- ipv4-only

- Invalid JSON or XML syntax
by RHSeeger | 2025-04-30 14:33:48+00:00
> The endless rationalizing of why kids need to have phones

Once again, for the people not paying attention. It's not about _need_. It's about quality of life. It's about easier, faster, better, safer.

Are there negatives to having cell phones? Sure. That's true for adults, too. And the benefits of having a cell phone need to be weighed against those negatives.

But saying "you don't _need_ a cell phone" is a straw man argument. Because nobody (that I see) says it's needed; they said it's worth it.
by reaperducer | 2025-04-30 14:34:05+00:00
This could get really ugly when the shelves start going empty.

Retailers Fear Toy Shortages at Christmas as Tariffs Freeze Supply Chain: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/business/trump-tariffs-ch...

In a Toy Association survey of 410 toy manufacturers with annual sales of less than $100 million, more than 60 percent said they had canceled orders, and around 50 percent said they would go out of business within weeks or months if the tariffs remained. … She had placed a large order of scooters to arrive for the summer. But the importer rerouted the shipment to Canada because it did not want to pay the tariff.
by Gimpei | 2025-04-30 14:34:51+00:00
I’m curious if any Trump voters are starting to feel any buyer’s remorse. The pain from the tariffs is only going to get worse. Soon we will have Trumpflation and a Trumpcession. Meanwhile, auto manufacturers are laying off employees. We are seeing pain with no gain. There is no reindustrialization nor will there ever be through this policy. For every economist except for Navarro, this is quite the own goal. I’m guessing you all were expecting Trump 1. Any doubts creeping in yet?
by SideburnsOfDoom | 2025-04-30 14:34:56+00:00
The USA elected a president who promised to impose tariffs. So they're going to get tariffs. As the quote goes "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."

As for China, I mentioned that it's now that they feel disrespected, and it's about "face".

That's why I'm sceptical of the USA leadership's claims that China is calling up now to negotiate trade, which China denies (1). Why would they call? The ships not arriving is the negotiating statement. That message has to first sink in, in clear terms. Which it should in May and June

1) https://edition.cnn.com/2025/04/29/business/china-video-trum...
by jmyeet | 2025-04-30 14:35:02+00:00
For many goods a 145% tariff is a ban for all intents and purposes and no different to a 100% tariff or a 200% tariff. This is just more evidence (as if we needed it) that the administration has no idea what they're doing.

Certain goods are extremely high mark up. For example, clothing is typically 100-200% markup. So if you buy a $5 t-shirt and sell it for $15, the tariffed price is now ~$12. You may find retailers will sell that at $20, absorbing some of the cost on a temporary basis.

Also, many such retailers have already sought to diversify their supply chains (eg buying clothing from Vietnam and other places).
by FilosofumRex | 2025-04-30 14:35:09+00:00
The classic reference on the subject is "Numerical Linear Algebra" by Lloyd Trefethen. Skip to the last chapter on the iterative methods for computational aspects. You'll learn a lot more and faster with Matlab.

https://davidtabora.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01...

A short overview is chapter 11 in Gilbert Strangs's Intro to linear Algebra https://math.mit.edu/~gs/linearalgebra/ila5/linearalgebra5_1...

AD comes from a different tradition - dating back to FORTRAN 77 programers attempt to differentiate non-elementary functions (For Loops, procedural functions, Subroutines, etc). Note the hardware specs for some nostalgia https://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/adifor/