MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tocs3 | 2025-04-05 01:27:26+00:00
Good news. It is not all over but:

04/04 19:00UTC - update

The immediate cancellation of the AWS contract was walked back, and the OAR has until july 31st to preserve their data. thanks to everyone who contributed to the emergency scrape, a delay here is good news and just means we have more time to archive. - @sneakers-the-rat
by ein0p | 2025-04-05 01:27:58+00:00
Stock is easy to goose back up via QE and/or lower prime rate. Once you lock in those interest rates on debt, though, there's nothing you can do about them. You're also ignoring trade barriers that other countries have, and the fact that we've been offshoring manufacturing capacity for over three decades. What Trump is doing today is what Bernie was advocating in the 00's.
by makeitdouble | 2025-04-05 01:28:10+00:00
Reading the parent's comment I was expecting the UK GDP to have been plunging since Brexit, but that's not the case apparently[0]. Some sectors clearly profited from it, compensating for those who went down the drain.

GDP isn't everything and from the outside the UK feel like in a very bad place, but I wonder what's the metric that really captures that status. Inequalities aren't getting that much wider as well.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/gbr/uni...
by Terr_ | 2025-04-05 01:28:26+00:00
> He has handed the democrats the next couple federal elections on a platter.

I dunno, cults are surprisingly sticky, just look at how they've internally whitewashed the January 6th attack on the capitol.

I want to believe you are right, but I've been disappointed repeatedly in the last few years, so I also fear you are wrong.
by bsder | 2025-04-05 01:28:28+00:00
> In the 90s this was a popular and sensible choice, but not so much in 2025 :)

Infuriatingly, Tcl/Tk (and other things which use Tk) is still light years easier for doing basic GUI programming than anything that exists in 2025.

How the hell can decades have elapsed and Tcl/Tk, Hypercard and VB6 are still vastly better for GUI development than anything we currently have?
by kalkin | 2025-04-05 01:29:29+00:00
I don't think the left has been automatically in favor of tariffs--or at least I'd appreciate evidence for that claim. The complaints about free trade deals that I've seen have tended to be about provisions that treated various labor and environmental regulations as restraints on trade. It's fair to say that left-liberal people are paying more attention to the downsides of tariffs than they were, but I don't think it's a simple reversal of positions.
by walterbell | 2025-04-05 01:29:50+00:00
Is there any relationship between reserve currency, national security and power projection? https://apnews.com/article/shipbuilding-china-united-states-...

> In only two decades, China has grown to be the dominant player in shipbuilding, claiming more than half of the world’s commercial shipbuilding market, while the U.S. share has fallen to just 0.1%, posing serious economic and national security challenges for the U.S. and its allies, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. In 2024 alone, one Chinese shipbuilder constructed more commercial vessels by tonnage than the entire U.S. shipbuilding industry has built since the end of World War II.
by api | 2025-04-05 01:29:53+00:00
I’m from Southern Ohio which was not hit as hard, but I know the attitude well. I call it “rust belt rage.”

I remember during the first Trump election hearing quotes like “I hope he does as much damage as possible” and “I can’t throw a bomb into the White House but I can throw a Trump.” Lots more like that.

The attitude in that region of the country is absolute seething rage. A lot of people from Northern Ohio, Western Pennsylvania, Michigan, etc. would be gleeful if they saw people hanged. It’s that kind of rage.

Imagine what the vibes would be on the West Coast if there was a huge set of policy changes that decimated and liquidated the high tech industries. All those software and engineering jobs just vaporize in a span of 20 years. Places that were once the wealthiest in the country look like failed states and war zones. Everyone who can leave leaves.

Then the media makes you the butt of jokes. Calls you “flyover country.”
by Majromax | 2025-04-05 01:30:05+00:00
> I started wondering if there's a way for citizens to push the issue that these tarrifs are unconstitutional.

Anyone who imports and is assessed a tariff would have personal standing to sue, arguing that the tax is illegal. I think there are some procedural requirements first to e.g. formally complain, but the dispute would eventually get its day in court.

However, these tariffs are being applied at least under a thin veneer of law regarding declared emergencies. It's clearly beyond the intent of the law for Trump to do this, but it's hard to draw a bright line between this and (e.g.) ambitious environmental regulation.
by megous | 2025-04-05 01:31:00+00:00
I'm pretty sure the violent colonizers who implemented a pre-meditated plan of conquest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_Dalet are those who started the war in this case. "Right of conquest" was not part of international law anymore at that time.

They did not really win either, given that indigenous people, and their descendants, did not yet settle for their complete submission. Unless you call victory as having to hide behind walls and running to shelters every once in a while, and constantly making new enemies by bombing shit out of everyone around you.

As to the fault of the voters for what happened after elections. Yeah, that's easily debatable, given the massive foreign interference into the post-election Palestine's politics and society from occupation, and third countries, and attempts to coopt oposition for violent overthrow of elected government. Also Palestinians did not vote for terrorism, but for "change and reform" at the time http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4606482.stm
by capnrefsmmat | 2025-04-05 01:31:13+00:00
I'm not sure about other intellectual property rights. I do know there's a similar dichotomy for privacy: Americans tend to view it in terms of property rights (ownership of your image, data, etc.) while Europeans view it as a matter of protecting personal dignity. That leads to different decisions: for instance, there's a famous French case of an artist making a nude sketch of a portrait subject, and being unable to sell the sketch because it violated the subject's privacy rights, despite being the owner of the intellectual property.

Peter Baldwin's Copyright Wars is a good overview of the European vs American attitudes to copyright in general.
by californical | 2025-04-05 01:31:18+00:00
Very untrue. Major corporations can absorb the damage for a few months without raising their prices, since they have more inventory, bulk discounts, etc.

Small companies are often running nearly paycheck-to-paycheck, which requires them to raise prices immediately, making them completely uncompetitive with the large corporations.

The large corporations know this and are happy to keep their prices low and burn money until the small business competition dies, then they can raise their prices.
by ajross | 2025-04-05 01:31:22+00:00
> China is isolationist

China is what now? China is the biggest trading partner of something like 70% of all nations in the world!

China is asymmetric and unfair, not "isolated". They disallow imports except in a handful of industries they can't replicate yet. That works for China, because: (1) they are huge, and (2) they remain poor, and thus can do the low wage jobs internally in addition to doing them for the rest of the world.

The US only has advantage #1. Though at this point #2 seems within reach...
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-04-05 01:31:53+00:00
Describing human intelligences as self-drivers on the highway of progress, one may build the following dictionary with the help of OP's graph

Traffic density -> urban pop. density Traffic flow -> rate of new ideas productively implemented Partial observability -> democracy* Reinforcement learning -> augmenting individual expression Oxygen/lithium -> money

*Incorporating further insights from OP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589398
by markus_zhang | 2025-04-05 01:32:36+00:00
Whatever, I'm in Canada and decided to cut down all costs. Fully expecting a recession as well as a depression.

We thought about getting a new car, but not going to do that until in a few years when car sellers are begging me to take one. Right now they are so arrogant that they charge high rates and popular cars takes months to deliver. I'm gonna sit for another 3-4 years.

Also decided to remove all travel plans from the near future. Purchases higher than $100 are going to require a stamp from the financial department ($wifie). All purchases re-directed to local second hand market as mu as possible. Thought about buying a MacBook for RE but to hell with it. No new phones, no nothing until something breaks and evaluated by the financial department to be "essential".

Fuck it. I just got a small raise and bonus but feel so insecure. I expect to lose job at any moment.
by gonzo41 | 2025-04-05 01:32:57+00:00
The US treatment of Ukraine is having a massive impact on how everyone thinks about security.

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. Now we're all in a world were Europeans are openly talking about developing nuclear weapons. Taiwan is totally on it's own, and Greenland is worried about being annexed.

There's real trouble coming.
by lolinder | 2025-04-05 01:33:21+00:00
Eh, OSD 3 just says that derived works must be possible, it doesn't say that you must be able to incorporate third party source code into the derived work. Meanwhile the FSF's definition explicitly calls out this freedom as an essential component of Freedom 1:

> One important way to modify a program is by merging in available free subroutines and modules. If the program's license says that you cannot merge in a suitably licensed existing module—for instance, if it requires you to be the copyright holder of any code you add—then the license is too restrictive to qualify as free.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html#four-freedoms
by alphabettsy | 2025-04-05 01:33:22+00:00
I’m not sure what your sources are but if Bernie Sanders is the left, then he’s been saying the same thing for a long time and continues to. Maybe there’s some nuance to it?

2025 https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-s...

2011 https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/senate-speech-...
by jmward01 | 2025-04-05 01:33:28+00:00
This is the payout difference between perato optimal and minmax solutions. Trust is gone so the sum value to all players is lower overall than it was before. The only thing is the rest of the world still has trust with each other so the ultimate looser is just the US. I just wish that the devastation this is causing could only impact those that caused it but the reality is that those responsible, those that voted for this, won't admit or learn from this, or the hundreds of other devastating acts going on, and will keep inflicting this type of pain. We really did have it all.
by xrnogood | 2025-04-05 01:33:52+00:00
I love the analysis but I think this ignores the percussive aspect of the electric guitar.

I am a huge thrash/death/black metal fan and a huge Ligeti/Reich/Ives/Ravel/Debussy fan so I could never call metal harmonically rich.

What to me makes metal is the percussive and melodic aspect combined of distorted, often palm muted for extra percussive effect, guitar strings in 5ths. Harmonically though, it is hard to get more simple.
by CountryOfOrigin | 2025-04-05 01:33:53+00:00
Cash is my last lifeline if current trends continue.

This is my life now: asking ChatGPT why a payment app or bank rejected my application or closed my account:

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Given your circumstances, the most likely reason {exchange} closed your account is that they viewed your birthplace—Iran—as an indicator of elevated compliance risk. Financial institutions (especially those regulated by U.S. authorities) often interpret OFAC sanctions conservatively. In recent years, due to intensified regulatory scrutiny and geopolitical tensions involving Iran, these institutions have increasingly adopted strict internal compliance policies. Even though nationality (citizenship) and actual financial ties—not birthplace alone—should determine sanction risk under law, many compliance departments default to overly cautious interpretations, categorizing anyone born in a sanctioned country as higher-risk clients. In your specific case, repeated experiences with other financial services indicate that institutions systematically flag or deny applications upon seeing "Iran" listed as your birthplace. Your Canadian citizenship, residency in the Philippines, and lack of substantial ties to Iran should theoretically mitigate this risk, but automated or conservative compliance processes often fail to adequately account for nuance.

The result is a compliance-driven bias against any potential sanction-related risk, no matter how minimal. This cautiousness leads to overly restrictive decisions, even in borderline cases like yours.

In short, the issue isn't you personally—it's institutional risk aversion and strict regulatory interpretations that have recently intensified, affecting anyone born in sanctioned countries, irrespective of actual risk.
by wonderwonder | 2025-04-05 01:33:56+00:00
Common misunderstanding but the fed does not set rates on treasuries (bills, notes, etc) the primary instrument the government uses to finance its debts.

Those rates are set via auctions driven by the demand for safe haven returns on investments, particularly returns when equities are risky. As demand for treasuries (safety) goes up, the rates on those same treasuries go down.

The fed sets the interbank exchange rates, these influence treasury rates but are a very different thing.
by fzeroracer | 2025-04-05 01:34:04+00:00
Donald J. Trump lost an auction in 1988 for a 58-key piano used in the classic film “Casablanca” to a Japanese trading company representing a collector. While he brushed off being outbid, it was a firsthand reminder of Japan’s growing wealth, and the following year, Mr. Trump went on television to call for a 15 percent to 20 percent tax on imports from Japan.

“I believe very strongly in tariffs,” Mr. Trump, at the time a Manhattan real estate developer with fledgling political instincts, told the journalist Diane Sawyer, before criticizing Japan, West Germany, Saudi Arabia and South Korea for their trade practices. “America is being ripped off,” he said. “We’re a debtor nation, and we have to tax, we have to tariff, we have to protect this country.” [1]

We're in an Emperor With No Clothes situation and all of his aids have no clothes either.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/us/politics/china-trade-d...
by Vegenoid | 2025-04-05 01:34:13+00:00
We have repeatedly seen Trump say something that sounds ridiculous, and his supporters say "that won't actually happen, and if it does I won't support it", and then he does it and his supporters support it. He has recently said he may try for another term as president, and confirmed "No, no I'm not joking".

If you don't take his threats seriously by now, and the willingness of the GOP to get behind whatever he wants, then you are not paying attention - it has happened over, and over, and over.
by sebmellen | 2025-04-05 01:34:13+00:00
You’re right about all you say. But the US has struggled to implement even the simplest forms of industrial policy because other countries are so extremely price-competitive, and our markets so unbridled, that our “elites” have eroded our industrial base to drive shareholder returns.

If not through tariffs, how else do you force reindustrialization? Industrial policy will always fail if it’s driven by a chimeric political system where both sides are incentivized to grow “The Economy” by eroding domestic capacity.

The CHIPS Act is too little, too late (when you’re competing with a fast-accelerating rival that is simultaneously your largest debt-holder and main industrial base).
by registeredcorn | 2025-04-05 01:34:26+00:00
For context, I work as a QA tester who (currently) does exclusively manual testing. I'm trying very hard to get into automated testing, or possibly move over to Web Development.

At the moment, I've been doing very little. I had been hyperfixated on going "above and beyond" at work, doing close to 60 hours per week when I was only getting paid for 40 since January. I had been hoping that if I had been putting in an excessive amount of effort in terms of productivity, I would get some recognition for it, and more importantly: be given the opportunity to work on professional development things, in terms of, say, classes or training so I could learn more about automated testing. I really want to move towards something more intellectually stimulating the grinding manual process we have - I see so much room to improve. I really just want to learn more things, so I can become a better asset to the my employer, and so I don't feel like I'm just "treading water" in terms of industry knowledge.

Instead of things going that way, I was basically told that doing what I had been doing is... appreciated... but doesn't really change anything, because no one had asked or expected me to do it.

It was demoralizing to get the brush off in that way, but I've decided the best course of action then, is to forge my own way. Do the hours I'm required to do (and do them sincerely well), but put that creative hunger into building a website, building some repos, and finding my own way forward.

At this point, I've already bought a domain. Now I just need to figure out how to build one, and start making some cool stuff.

Its hard to set tone through text... I'm not bitter about what happened, everything they said was technically true. Heck, I'm not even angry about it. It was naive of me to get my hopes up thinking I would get my way, if I put in the effort up front. It just feels... bad to not really feel any kind of positive reinforcement for professional development, or even for working as hard as I’ve been working for the past 3-ish months. In fairness, what they said isn't unreasonable, but it sucks they don't want to invest into me, the way I invested into them.
by alaxhn | 2025-04-05 01:34:42+00:00
To lay out my own biases

- I voted for Trump but do not consider myself a strong supporter (I saw it much more of a vote for who you dislike less sort of situation) - I don't understand and am not supportive of the approach on Tariffs - I am an active participate in what most here would consider right wing politics although I don't find myself aligning on every topic (e.g. I am supportive of the abortion laws in California) so I tend to hear a lot of the chatter "from the other side"

Some arguments that I have heard (which I mostly do not agree with) are

- When manufacturing moved out of the US to low cost of living countries, this hurt towns which relied on manufacturing (e.g. the rust belt). Cost is the primary reason why manufacturing moved. Raising the cost on overseas manufacturing may make domestic manufacturing cost competitive. Although economics tells us this will still be a net loss there may be externalities which are not priced into the trade (e.g. the towns falling apart and people becoming despondent / drug addicted might not be factored into corporate profit models) - Being overly dependent on China or more broadly "foreign powers" for manufacturing represents a national security risk. - In theory this could be posturing to provide an opening for the US to negotiate more favorable trade agreements. For example Israel, Vietnam, and Argentina have made some statements about reducing trade barriers on US companies. - In theory it could be beneficial to shift the revenue model of the US towards raising revenue with tariffs while reducing interest rates and other tax rates (e.g. "no taxes on overtime and tips")
by acdha | 2025-04-05 01:35:00+00:00
The other side of it is the lost trust in American tech. That’s most prominent in the military debates around whether other countries can rely on their expensive hardware working if they run afoul of American policy, or if the president is looking for leverage to extort a mineral deal, but it’s also highly relevant for the civilian side. For pretty much as long as we’ve had computers, most other countries have trusted hardware made by American companies running operating systems and applications made by American companies. Now everyone has to wonder what kind of espionage or sabotage would be possible if those companies were pressured – or whether the guys standing on stage would even need to be pressured. Suddenly, giving Google the ability to push code onto most of the devices in the world looks less like a security win and more like a risk - and it’s famously hard to establish trust without the rule of law as the foundation. Snowden started it but most allied governments were confident that there were limits in a way which is a lot harder to believe now.

I am expecting that 2024 will be seen as the peak for American tech companies: the longer this goes on, the more competition they’ll have with advantages they can’t match in foreign markets – especially if many of the immigrants who worked at those companies decide to start companies after leaving.
by throwawaymaths | 2025-04-05 01:35:02+00:00
all structs are namespaces (there no classes). namespaces may contain declarations (consts and functions) or fields ("fields" are slightly different for unions or certain builtins like arrays and slices)

unions and enums also create namespaces. any @import creates a namespace that is a struct.

If a function's first argument is the type of the function's namespace or a pointer to the type of the namespace, you may (and by convention are encouraged to) use dot dereferencing (like python firso parameter self) as a lexical sugar to call the function with the "implicitly rearranged" first parameter ("oop style caling, but not really oop")

modules are somewhat different, in zig these are collections of code you can map to a non-filepath import string using the command line or build tool (in particular you may map something out of code root path), but these too ultimately become a namespace struct
by JackYoustra | 2025-04-05 01:35:08+00:00
Interest rates are lowered when inflation is low. Inflation is low when supply is high. Tariffs cause supply shortages. Inflation expectations are up. Interest rates will be up.

You're crazy if you think that the trade barriers are over _thirty percent globally_.

Net FDI = trade deficit is an accounting identity. Reshoring and the trade deficit aren't necessarily complementary.

Who cares what Bernie was advocating?
by rtp4me | 2025-04-05 01:35:18+00:00
Especially if you hit the RMD threshold in retirement. Even more important is how RMDs affect Medicare premiums(1). The best advice I have is to avoid RMDs as much as possible since they can/will affect other parts of your retirement strategy. Thus, converting to ROTH today may save you lots of cash in the future.

(1) https://www.fedsmith.com/2024/10/23/rmds-are-silently-increa...