MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sriram_malhar | 2025-04-05 06:20:41+00:00
<snark> In America, trying to nail the top criminal is failing </snark>

Snark aside, you are right. Bankruptcy protection is a really big factor.

There are many other factors about America that work.

1. An obsessive urge to be new and differentiate oneself from the past, be it music or cars or tech. There aren't other countries that commonly say "this is sooo last year".

2. An entrepreneurial mindset. Looking at the patents from the early 20th century, we discover people with little formal education who were creating products for the mass market as well as for industry. That said, I think that the

3. College profs and new grads who create products.

I feel that the information economy has skewed everything. The ease of creating apps (in contrast to a physical product), combined with ridiculous Silicon Valley VC money has narrowed the vision of what it means to do a startup. Perhaps I am wrong; maybe it is my HN bias.
by BrenBarn | 2025-04-05 06:21:04+00:00
> If I were going to disrupt AirBNB, I'd offer hosts a better percentage with the requirement that the experience is standardized and high-quality.

I've noticed more and more apartment rentals appearing on booking.com. I haven't used any of them but I wonder what the tradeoffs are. My impression is overall booking.com is more guest-friendly as their userbase has grown from people staying at hotels, who expect stuff like being able to cancel and complain about cleanliness.
by copula4 | 2025-04-05 06:21:05+00:00
Welcome, I hope you have a good time. You don't hear about Kazakhstan here every day, and rarely in a positive light.

If anyone else comes to Kazakhstan and wants to see "the real country", I'd humbly suggest looking outside the two largest cities because they're the only places that have seen any development over the past three decades. My city hasn't changed at all since the end of the 1980s, you look at the photographs from that era and the only difference you see are significantly increased numbers of cars. That's pretty typical.

If you ever wonder why some people have a nostalgia for the Soviet Union — that's why, all significant infrastructure was built back then and hasn't been touched since. The Chinese have been pouring some money into infrastructure for the past few years (mostly power plants and railroads), but the volume is incomparable with ye olde days since they are doing it across the globe and don't have infinite money.

Some of our "patriots" become aggressive when you mention this, so you might want to keep it in mind.

A commenter down below called us "a third-world country", and while that's silly (pretty much only because we're "second world" by definition), it's only fair.
by ggm | 2025-04-05 06:21:21+00:00
Somebody or bodies are backgrounding. Leaking, in other words. Plus, comments from diplomats of the affected economies.

I don't personally read very much "why" in this piece. It's much more "this is just what he wants to do and doesn't give a shit about the effect in the short term"

There are many "why" reasons. They're transactional as always. End British NHS and chlorine chicken issues. End Australian beef, steel and aluminium issues. End the rotten trade imbalance with Norfolk Island.
by hgomersall | 2025-04-05 06:21:46+00:00
Really? Does she not say that explicitly?

"It is our duty to look after ourselves and then also to help look after our neighbour and life is a reciprocal business and people have got the entitlements too much in mind without the obligations, because there is no such thing as an entitlement unless someone has first met an obligation [...]"

She certainly puts the framing as individualistic, but I think she very much understood the obligations are a necessary part of the system.
by hello_computer | 2025-04-05 06:21:59+00:00
The global economy is a complex system. Far more complex than software. All of the nerds will adjust their pocket protectors and spew their dubious word-salad (for or against), but the fact of the matter is that nobody truly knows what the nth-order effects will be until they happen.

AEI is just another church of Austrian economics--still burning incense for the ghost of Milton Friedman. If you told any of them, "Tariffs, or your mother dies in her sleep tonight.", they would reply in chorus, "Oh well, that's why I keep a picture to remember her by." If any of these people actually knew what they were talking about, they would be fabulously wealthy hedgies like Dalio or Simons, rather than "think-tank" shills.
by Tadpole9181 | 2025-04-05 06:22:03+00:00
To be clear, this is going to have to pass the house. Then, Trump will veto it. Then, the senate will need 16 Republican senators (30% of the party) to vote against it. And it's still a toss-up if Trump will even obey it or if he'll executively order customs to continue the Tariffs.

So unless Republicans suddenly grow a spine, which is unlikely given their current strategy is "hide the stock ticket on Fox news" and pretend glorious leader is a genius, this is a token effort that will do nothing.

And even if the tariffs are revoked, we've destroyed our reputation. You think countries will want to continue on like nothing happened after this? The only thing that might stop the impending collapse of the US economy as 180 nations divest from the empire we built is if we were to impeach and convict Trump immediately and set an example that this economic chaos will not be tolerated; that allies are not fair game to bully.

But, honestly, I think that ship has already sailed. It needed to happen immediately, not after a week of testing the waters.
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-05 06:22:43+00:00
It's coming from the people who buy the exported goods.

This would mean, of course, that the people who happen to work for an export-oriented factory become much more wealthy than most people in Lesotho. So you might reasonably wonder whether it's better to make twice as many workers half as wealthy. Labor advocates believe the answer is no: paying some people genuinely good wages both creates and encourages further development, while paying a larger number of people "good enough" wages encourages poor countries to race to the bottom competing for the lowest standard of "good enough".
by BrenBarn | 2025-04-05 06:24:29+00:00
An interesting distinction is between staying at a listing vs booking it. I booked an AirBnB in Texas for the eclipse last year. The booking was made months ahead of time. Minutes before I left for the airport, the host canceled with no communication and didn't respond to messages. I got a refund, but I wasn't able to leave a review because the stay hadn't begun.

I had only used AirBnB once or twice before and was leery of it, but after this experience I'm unlikely to use it again. The inability to review the host in such a situation is pretty much a dealbreaker. (Note that I want to review the host --- not the property, but the person who decided to cancel the booking at the last minute.)
by elihu | 2025-04-05 06:24:57+00:00
I came across this article[1] the other day, after reading about the US sending people to a prison in El Salvador and wondering what we actually know about the place.

An incongruity that I didn't notice at the time but realized a bit later is that the prison is called "The Center for Terrorism Confinement" and it has a capacity of 40,000 people. Why would El Salvador or any country need a terrorist detention facility that holds 40,000 people?

According to wikipedia, El Salvador has a population of about 6 million.

The United States famously kept people accused of terrorism charges at Guantanamo Bay, and 780 prisoners have been kept there over the last couple decades since GWB established the prison. There are currently 15.

Presumably there are a lot more people who would fit the description "domestic terrorist" being held in jails in mainland US, but certainly not 40,000 of them.

Presumably president Bukele's administration is using it as a detention facility for regular criminals as well, but it wouldn't be surprising if there's a lot of people there that shouldn't be in jail in the first place.

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/17/americas/el-salvador-prison-t...
by CapricornNoble | 2025-04-05 06:25:00+00:00
> All the US had to do was supply it's old weapons to Ukraine whilst replenishing it's stock (creating jobs in America) and things would have been fine.

Well, no, it's not fine, partly because we can't replenish our stocks fast enough. Ukraine is consuming nearly the entire planet's production capacity of Patriot missiles, eating enough of our ATACMS stockpile that it makes Combatant Commanders nervous, and more. To say nothing of the argument "supply Ukraine for as long as it takes, even if that means indefinitely" never made any sense; actions taken without a clear, achievable end goal in mind are just a waste of resources.

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/d...

https://www.bruegel.org/analysis/us-defence-industrial-base-...
by keiferski | 2025-04-05 06:25:43+00:00
Hah, I think I've mentioned Deleuze a few times on HN over the years.

The early internet definitely was a smooth space and the 90s cyberpunk mood really echoes a lot of Deleuze. Nick Land, the CCRU, and similar thinkers were very influenced by D&G. Great reading, if a bit sad now looking back.

I'm not sure how the Earth itself would be deterritorialized, though, as I feel like you'd need to undo basically everything from property rights to the Westphalian concept of a state. Seems unlikely to me, barring anarchy/apocalypse or some kind of AI god that confiscates all land and enforces a ban on property ownership. Perhaps if the northern European model of free range, open access to lands could be extended over more area.
by rramadass | 2025-04-05 06:25:49+00:00
AoE is not meant for people who are starting from zero. Pair it with some other "popular electronics" kind of books and it will start making better sense. One recommendation is Practical Electronics for Inventors by Paul Scherz and Simon Monk. For theory see Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits by Anant Agarwal and Jeffrey Lang.
by imartin2k | 2025-04-05 06:26:10+00:00
The markets, while often right after a while, can be a bit slow. I remember the weeks in February/March 2020. The writing about the upcoming global pandemic was on the wall, yet I had enough time to calmly sell all my stocks during the week before everything came crashing down.

Same slowness with the reaction to Deepseek recently.
by noosphr | 2025-04-05 06:26:12+00:00
It's not about the generation, it's about verification.

Changing my tests from the strings I was interested in to four or more letter common words _did_ improve the ability of reasoning LLMs to get the right answer, at the cost of the context exploding to thousands of tokens.

Unfortunately I can't tell you by how much because the couple of dozen tests I did after reading your post ate my $50 I keep in an account for these types of things.

The following question ate through 8k thinking tokens to get the right answer in Claude3.7 Sonnet Extended:

---

Given the following grammar:

<start> ::= <path> <path> ::= Rome <path> | Paris <path> | London <path> | end_path <routes> <routes> ::= <path> | end_route <company> <company> ::= end_company | <path>

Is the following sentence valid:

Rome Paris Rome end_path Rome London end_path end_company

---

Incidentally it got the right answer no less than 4 times in the thinking token stream. I'd not seen this model act like this before.
by amjoshuamichael | 2025-04-05 06:26:15+00:00
Original author here. I've been reading this website for years. Imagine my shock when I saw my own article on the front page! I'm glad people are enjoying it.

Quick fact about the way the interactivity is done, all of the code for it is in this blogpost.js file: https://aaaa.sh/creatures/blogpost.js, which is only about 100 lines long. Each block has a list of scripts that it pulls from like so:

<div class="code-example" scripts="grid-sm 2d-vector-gfx-lib draw-grid full-algo-intro feather-canvas-edges"></div>

and then there's a set of script tags with those ids. I figured it was a nice solution!
by lenerdenator | 2025-04-05 06:26:19+00:00
Gotta have a hook. Look at how he did in the Upper Midwest in '24 vs. '20. That was through appealing to the manufacturing base. There are elements of that bloc that have wanted tariffs for decades.

If you lay off people to send the stock price up, you are the enemy. If you do it to "protect American manufacturing", you're a hero.

Well, to a very niche part of the voting public, but it's enough.
Novel Logic-Enhanced LLM for Improved Symbolic Reasoning
by N3Xxus_6 | 2025-04-05 06:27:49+00:00
I’m experimenting with a novel approach that integrates symbolic logic directly into a transformer’s attention mechanism. By using a custom spaCy-based logic parser, I generate a “logic mask” that guides the self-attention layers to focus on logical constructs. In preliminary tests with a fine-tuned LLaMA 3 8B model, this method has shown promising improvements on symbolic reasoning tasks (e.g., achieving around 62% on the FOLIO dataset). I’m eager to hear thoughts and suggestions from the community on further refining this approach. Also please note I don’t have a PhD nor masters in machine learning. Happy to take any criticism good or bad. :)

https://marqcodes.com/logicEnhanced.html
by Brethren81 | 2025-04-05 06:29:45+00:00
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I am interested in switching from my current role as a QA Tester to a job as a junior Web Developer.

My day-to-day covers:

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4. Filing bug reports during tests

5. Effective communication with: devs, clients, and end users on an ongoing basis

6. Attend and prese at: stand ups, demos, sprints, etc.

I have worked in QA for 3 years, and more broadly in IT for 14 years. In that time I have done everything from building networks in rugged environments, to help desk, to enterprise patch management, to cybersecurity, to ITAM.
by yieldcrv | 2025-04-05 06:30:45+00:00
In my case I haven't soured on travel but I have gotten busier.

I’ve narrowed down where I like to live and do that, after having seen what other developed nations have to offer. (There are parts of the developing world I could enjoy but I don’t see myself prioritizing them when I get back into the extended travel circuit.)

I can slum it purely for the social aspect, and then pamper myself at a Four Seasons tier place on the weekend - subsidized largely by credit card rewards points. Nice places are inherently not nearly as social as nice hostels. But I can also fly a paramour in, du jour.

As long as my health stays great my 30s have been a god-tier version of my 20s and I can see my 40s going that way as well. My 20s was mired by chasing rites of passages and learning I didn't like or want that. Doing the power couple thing with a fellow corporate climber, moving in, etc. Classically, I’m fine with the most aimless anti-intellectual and visually attractive partners as soon as I had the option. “Wife changing money” is what they colloquially say.

Film festivals, music festivals, retreats, the “socialite circuit”, living other places for a couple of months… the allure of that hasn't gone away, for me. In the mean time, life is just speeding by working and saving again, staying entertained in my chosen city, until I actually do something entrepreneurial again.
by atom058 | 2025-04-05 06:30:52+00:00
We visited a manufacturing / assembly plats for industrial vehicles in Sweden during the autumn. Everything was spotless, bright, and almost silent. All the tools were neatly organised in overhead ergonomic hangers, reducing the stress on the workers. It looked like a great place to work, nor akin to an office than a dirty grimy workshop.

On the other hand, I visited a Canadian plant and the difference was stark. There was hardly any lighting, the floor was black with dirt, and the noise was unbearable. This was a small supplier about 10 years ago, so take it with a pinch of salt.

There is interesting effects from group dynamics and having a sense of purpose that can help people reintegrate into society. But the work environment has to be prioritised to make it easier on the workers. If the work place looks and acts like a prison camp, you are not going to get those benefits.

The point is that clean factories do exist, and manufacturing can be a good place to work. But it needs some work to make it so.
by abraxas | 2025-04-05 06:31:27+00:00
At this point he gives no fucks about what anyone thinks because the plan is to consolidate the oligarchic power to its maximum, russia style. Winning the hearts and minds is not and never was a part of his plan. And the sad thing is that they will probably succeed.

I have no idea why you Americans are so naive about someone who staged a putsch to give up power voluntarily now that he's got it. You will be a russia style full on kleptocracy by the time he's done with you. And then his heirs will lord over you for generations (unless one of them fucks something up). Godspeed.
by eagleislandsong | 2025-04-05 06:31:35+00:00
> giving blunt responses (like China just did and put tariffs on everything)

It's incorrect to describe their response as "blunt". As someone who follows mainland Chinese media I can assure you that their policymakers have thoroughly prepared themselves for years. They even foresaw in 2021, after Biden took office, that Trump would become President again, unless he was assassinated. (Yes, they foresaw the assassination attempts as well; and no, they did not orchestrate these attempts -- if they did, Trump would be dead already.)

The Chinese have much more foresight than you seemingly give them credit for, unless I'm misinterpreting your words (in which case I apologise). On the other hand, European leaders have been extremely geopolitically infantile.
by Uzmanali | 2025-04-05 06:32:10+00:00
I feel the same way!

I also have a small startup, and making posts for social media is very hard for me. I use Canva too, but it takes so long, and I don’t enjoy doing it. I like it when people see my posts, but I don’t like the work of making them.

Your tool sounds really helpful. I like that it learns from your website and makes the pictures and words for you. That saves a lot of time!

I have some questions: What kind of people use it the most? Small shops? Coaches? Builders? And can I connect it to tools like Notion or Trello to plan my work better?

It’s so cool how you took something hard and turned it into something that helps people. I want to try MarketyAI soon!
by AuryGlenz | 2025-04-05 06:32:23+00:00
Any time one party focuses their attention on one thing, the other will generally greatly oppose it.

Republicans weren't the antivaxxers - that was largely hippie type democrats - prior to 2020, and weren't really even until the government mandates, just to give one example. Hell, it isn't even an idea but look what happened to Elon Musk. Liberals loved him until he started publicly sharing some conservative ideas, which made them waffle a bit, and now they absolutely loathe him.

This is going to sound like peak HN head-up-own-assery, but I've come to realize that 90% of the population has basically no capacity for nuance, at least politically.
by zuminator | 2025-04-05 06:32:38+00:00
If the shirt costs $10 in labor, and the pre-tariff wholesale price is also $10, how does the manufacturer make a profit? Surely the wholesale price would at least include some markup for profit? So like $10 labor + $3 markup (per employee-day) + $10 tariff ($23) contrasted with $15 labor + $3 markup + $4 tariff ($22), in your scenario.

But now you see that the low wage manufacturer has a third option, $10 labor + $1 markup + 10 tariff ($21), which would maintain their competitive advantage and in this scenario only cut their daily per employee profit by $2, as opposed to the $5 hit they would suffer by raising their employee wages to $15 day from $10.
by CapricornNoble | 2025-04-05 06:33:04+00:00
> 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?

Now you understand why the Black Panthers arose: the black community realized that it needed to arm itself to protect against the oppressive power of the state. It could be argued that modern infringements on the Second Amendment are largely a reaction of the government in response to a minority community resisting law enforcement tyranny.

I can't even count how many times I've read anti-2A arguments on HN...people laughed at the idea that people should need to arm themselves against their own government. Well......now everyone can see how quickly state power can turn malevolent, and why the Right to Bear Arms matters.
by Paradigma11 | 2025-04-05 06:33:22+00:00
I disagree on Russia. If that tariff madness goes on for more than a few months Russia is dead. Russia's economy is already completely unsustainable and on the brink. Brent is currently traded at 66USD and if oil prices fall a bit more and stay there that's it for Russia.

It will be fascinating to see what is going to happen with that purely mercenary army recruited from the poor when the money is worth nothing any more.
by copula4 | 2025-04-05 06:34:58+00:00
The answer is boring — massive corruption: the country has been making very good money by selling oil and gas to the West (along with some other things like uranium and coal), but most of it goes to vanity projects like building out Astana (hiring famous - and thus expensive - architects from around the world) and buying luxury real estate for the ruling elite in places like London and Dubai.

There's also the brain drain: since 1991, there's been a massive emigration to Russia of all places, which has slowed down a bit since 2022, but it's still going on — we have a negative migration balance with them. That in itself is quite telling.
by justonceokay | 2025-04-05 06:35:37+00:00
Maybe. I’m 35 now and any time I participate in any kind of catered tourism it turns my stomach. Maybe I was just spoiled on it by reading ‘A Supposedly Fun Thing I’ll Never Do Again’. Maybe I’ve worked too many service jobs. But regardless, I just can’t put out of my mind how little business I have being there other than that I have some cash to burn. Paying for hospitality is about as appealing as paying for sex. In my mind if I don’t have a single friend who can host me in a city, I just don’t have a reason to go.

Then again I already live in a beautiful place and I’ve always been great at being a tourist in my own city. Ask me again in 10 years and maybe I’ll have your outlook.
by AuryGlenz | 2025-04-05 06:35:55+00:00
Native American genocide - the same thing happened everywhere, for all of history, except we at least gave them reservations instead of killing literally everyone. The transatlantic slave trade - one country among many involved. Chattel slavery - also the country that fought itself to end it.

I could easily go on.

You're looking at the world with very..uh, anti red white and blue glasses.
by ciconia | 2025-04-05 06:37:08+00:00
There's a similar idea about energy transitions: ostensibly human kind has transitioned from wood to coal to petrol to nuclear etc. Given time we'll have transitioned to renewables for all our energy needs...

In fact what happened is those energy sources kept being piled on top of one another. Today we consume more wood coal and fossils than ever before. [1]

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitutio...