MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by siffin | 2025-04-03 15:20:02+00:00
Surely we must rid ourselves from a story with any finality, as it stands, we reach for something, but we've no idea what.

For most people, a better life is a life where their children are healthy, nourished, well-educated and living in peace (technology be damned). More importantly, for most people, a better life for themselves is one of extremely little, basic food, peace, community, movement.

All those children grow up to find what makes them happy is less, not more. We all know it. It's the intangibles, not the material. It's the people, our pets, the sun shining and a bird singing.

The end isn't worth the means, maybe instead of looking for some quant to see it all, we could just see ourselves and move forward slowly with what we know to be good and true, without falling on our face trying to punch a baby.
by TaurenHunter | 2025-04-03 15:20:10+00:00
Perhaps, we are mixing 2 things:

1) Economic/Monetary Inflation, which is an increase in the money supply in an economy driven by government or central bank ("print money").

2) Price Inflation, which is an increase in the general price level of goods and services that people typically notice at the groceries or gas and usually derives from monetary inflation, but can also be due to the new tariffs.

Is the Fed going to do the same confusion and use 2 to justify higher rates for longer?

I think they shouldn't unless they're being disingenuous and politically motivated (push just enough to make the entire Trump mandate an unending crisis until Democrats get back in power).
Ask HN: Interviewing at this point feels unfair due to cheaters. What now?
by volkk | 2025-04-03 15:20:20+00:00
How do you all feel about interviewing and being compared against people that are straight up cheating with the rise of these tools that are hidden during screensharing?

I don't even want to interview anymore until I know a company does theirs in-person now. People have always been cheaters/liars to begin with, but now it's doubly worse with this new tool that blew up on twitter. It's extremely unfair for me to study my ass off only to be in a pool full of people who didn't do it fairly. Anyone else feeling this way?
by generalizations | 2025-04-03 15:20:25+00:00
Why isn't CC-by-NC-ND adequate for code? Kinda makes sense IMO and the summary looks useful?

> CC-BY-NC-ND is a type of Creative Commons license that allows others to use a work non-commercially, but they cannot modify it or create derivative works. This means the original work can be shared, but it must remain unchanged and cannot be used for commercial purposes.

Notwithstanding it's only applied to the data in this case, it sure looks like a useful license for code.
by elias_t | 2025-04-03 15:20:35+00:00
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by unbalancedevh | 2025-04-03 15:20:42+00:00
> It's statements like this that make me question the intellectual honesty of people. It doesn't take much thinking to understand it, right?

It isn't a matter of intellectual honesty. People who think assault rifles should be banned don't necessarily believe that you shouldn't be able to protect yourself. (It doesn't take much thinking to understand that, right?)

The issues are much more complicated and intertwined than people are willing to deal with, making it easy to fall back on a couple simple ideas like "don't kill unborn life" and "let me have an AR-15 to protect myself." But when you start digging into the ramifications of unwanted children, the social programs required to support them, the impact on the parents, etc.; and what it means to let every tom/dick/harry own and carry whatever weapon they want, even if there's a background check and mandatory training; you get into details for which there is no clear best, or even good, solution. We do have reality to deal with.

People only have so much energy to spend on understanding issues that don't affect them personally, and different people are affected by different issues. So of course there will be wide gaps between perspectives and how those perspectives are expressed. That doesn't mean anyone is being intellectually dishonest.
by awayto | 2025-04-03 15:20:54+00:00
I dabbled with this kind of issue in my docs and ended up using JavaScript's Intersection Observer [0]. It's not a perfect solution [1], but I think it worked well enough [2]. It just identifies when the element comes on screen and then marks it as active however you please. I do appreciate the depth the article went into though!

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Intersectio... [1] https://github.com/keybittech/awayto-v3/blob/main/landing/la... [2] https://awayto.dev/docs/0.3.0/
by tomxor | 2025-04-03 15:21:07+00:00
It's a stupid question, the whole point of this article is to point out it's not in our control. Sure it's technically in our control but in reality most of us don't seem interested in filling all the necessary jobs to run our own society. We tried it, everything started falling apart, and we fell back on immigration again.

A better question would be, would you be willing to become a lorry driver or a cleaner etc to reduce immigration. Then vote with a job application, you'd get a totally different result that reflects economic reality. If you don't work by choice you don't get a vote (beggers can't be choosers), if you have a fancy job you have a choice you probably won't take. If pensioners don't like it they should complain to their grandkids to go be lorry drivers.

If you frame the Moon as a villain and ask if we should remove it, of course people will say yes. Doesn't make it any less nonsensical though.
by TehCorwiz | 2025-04-03 15:21:11+00:00
Tax corporations and the wealthy since they receive the majority of the benefits. They benefit from a trained healthy workforce, social safety nets, infrastructure like roads and electricity and water. They benefit form the US dollar being the reserve currency for most of the world. I literally cannot list all the ways these two groups benefit in a real tangible outsized way than any other individual.

Trump wants to eliminate all federal taxes. That's NOT going to reduce the deficit. The current republican spending bill includes a 4.5T tax cut to the wealthy and businesses, while cutting only 2T in spending from entitlements WE PAY INTO SEPARATE FROM TAXES. I am entitled to the money that me and my employer pay into Social Security, it's an investment, not a tax.

Let's stop taking from working people who are quickly falling further and further into poverty and start taking from the people who literally own everything!
by jonathanstrange | 2025-04-03 15:21:57+00:00
No offense, but this is a silly argument. Companies in country X tend to develop their products in conformance with country X. Of course, products developed in the EU will conform with EU law. By the same token, I would be surprised if US companies habitually developed products that don't conform with US law.

> It's not that they "don't bother", it's that they understand complying with the regulation to cost them more than the fine.

This means that the fines are not high enough and don't fulfill their purpose. That's an argument for the thesis that the EU is handling fines of violators in a too lax fashion, not the opposite. This has also been the impression of many EU citizens, and it seems to be the reason why so many huge US corporations keep violating EU customer protection rules again and again.

But the reality is also that US companies that violated those rules basically have no EU competition because the EU has an abysmal market in certain tech domains. There simply are no viable EU equivalents to Apple, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.
by hnthrow90348765 | 2025-04-03 15:22:07+00:00
No one will want to do lower income jobs while the cost of living is high and continues to rise. Wear and tear on the body is also not compensated, not to mention healthcare being expensive. Meanwhile, I do CRUD apps and work remotely 20/hours a week with no bodily harm (on the contrary, I have time to work out and make bad posts on HN)

No one in their right mind is going to choose manufacturing over what I have if they can do both, and most people could honestly learn to do CRUD apps. Even if my salary were to go down by 5-10% yoy due to people moving in, I'm still in a better position for the other reasons mentioned. I'd have to be below manufacturing and blue collar wages to get me to switch.

The only sensible explanation is that they're trying to force people to have to take these jobs by crashing the globalized parts of the economy because they are obviously better than starving and dying homeless.

All this assuming that Trump isn't just intentionally trying to destroy the country.
by EGreg | 2025-04-03 15:22:27+00:00
I remember implementing the same thing in our framework like a decade ago, but eventually taking it out. We wanted to use it for caching data between tabs, so as not to hit the server again per tab:

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform/blob/main/platform/plugins/...

It had the concept of a “main frame” that they would route all requests to the server through.

I remember now — I did it not so much for tabs as for our solution of having tons of little iframes on a page: https://qbix.com/ecosystem
by noahpfichter | 2025-04-03 15:22:34+00:00
Seems pretty wild to me that their definition of "AI expert" is "authors and presenters at 21 AI-related conferences held in 2023 or 2024... The list included conferences focused on technical AI research; social science about AI; the representativeness and ethics of AI; the business of AI; and the specific applications of AI in health care, finance and government."
by bodiekane | 2025-04-03 15:22:36+00:00
> people who own mines, oil wells, farms, etc.

Huge swaths of midwestern farmers will go bankrupt if tariffs are imposed. Subsidies and exemptions are being specifically added to prevent the complete collapse of multiple red state economies due to the harm from the tariffs.

Even things like oil and mines aren't guaranteed safe, because of complexities around where refineries are, loss of export market, or weakness of dollar offsetting any nominal gains when looking at actual purchasing power.
by donohoe | 2025-04-03 15:22:45+00:00
Are we surprised? If anyone watched the presidential debates VP Kamala Harris told us about this.

From September 2024:

"What Goldman Sachs has said is that Donald Trump's plan would make the economy worse. Mine would strengthen the economy. What the Wharton School has said is Donald Trump's plan would actually explode the deficit. Sixteen Nobel laureates have described his economic plan as something that would increase inflation and by the middle of next year would invite a recession."

Emphasis on that last line:

would increase inflation and by the middle of next year would invite a recession.

btw the US Congress can stop this anytime they want.
by cxr | 2025-04-03 15:22:58+00:00
Because most working web developers actually have no idea how to write JS; they follow what is presented (perpetuated) as industry standard practice, but in a React-and-NPM world, "industry standard practice" means bad practices.

Previously:

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24218967>

<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33794755>
by gibibit | 2025-04-03 15:23:59+00:00
Interestingly the Macbook trackpad does not have physical buttons. It uses haptic feedback to simulate the feeling of a "click", but in reality there is no button which could be interrupted by dust.

I did have a Macbook trackpad fail in a similar way, where the "button" seemed to intermittently fail to click. It turned out my battery was swelling (see /r/spicypillows) and this impacted the trackpad operation.

On topic, I took the Macbook with swollen battery in to the Apple Store and they had to replace the entire keyboard+battery assembly as a unit because the battery was not replaceable.
by reverendsteveii | 2025-04-03 15:24:04+00:00
Took a minute to find things that are in the DB, but once I did this is pretty slick. If I can join the endless queue of feature requests, the ability to scale the portion size and update the nutrition facts would be great. I've been tracking my macros daily for about 18 months and for me to hit my protein and stay under my calories I do a lot of what I call speculative food tracking. Sitting on the couch, thinking about a snack, if I go into the kitchen without a plan I'm gonna eat a lot of unintentional things but if I can go "okay, I have about 300 calories to spare and I'm short 40g protein today, so I can put 5 oz chicken breast on a 60 calorie wheat pita with some hot sauce for (calorie) free flavor and I'll win today".

Also IDK where AI is wrt automated scraping but I've had some success feeding recipes into AI and getting the nutrition facts out. The ability to plop a URL in and get a scraped recipe with a name and nutrition facts would be immense.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-04-03 15:24:05+00:00
MacBooks haven’t had mechanical trackpads in over a decade now — they’re solid glass with really good haptics to make it feel like they move, so I doubt what you’re experiencing with yours is a mechanical jam. It’s more likely that the haptic motor is malfunctioning occasionally or there’s something that’s causing the process in charge of haptics to stall.
by onlyrealcuzzo | 2025-04-03 15:24:12+00:00
Obviously - if you are doing things that are legal - you have no need for Crypto.

Now, I think some crypto people will argue that there are many good and ethical things you could do which are illegal that you now can do with crypto.

However, all none of those things are happening. All that is happening is speculation and unethical crime.
by ccorcos | 2025-04-03 15:24:45+00:00
Thomas Sowell makes a good argument that the government does a terrible job at redistributing wealth to lift the poor, based on their track record. And so taxing the rich more doesnt actually solve that problem — it just makes politicians and their friends richer.

Also when talking about tariffs reducing demand and inflating prices, I think it’s important to note that’s partly true. It doesn’t raise prices of domestic goods and actually increases demand for domestic goods.
by mandmandam | 2025-04-03 15:24:53+00:00
When you say "the economy", do you mean "rich people's yachts"? ...

"Trying to address inequality makes us all poorer" - wow.

If you really believe that's true, at least say why, or bring a source (other than Ayn Rand please lol). What's the mistake you believe people are making? Because just declaring something like that is like saying, we can't address unsafe driving because it will make people drive worse. It's clinically absurd.

Here's what I think - economists don't talk about inequality because of the three reasons discussed here [0]. It's not in their models, and it's not in their class interest.

> What can we do that won't backfire?

Tax the wealthy. No it's not easy. Yes it can be done. Yes it has worked in the past.

0 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CivlU8hJVwc&embeds_referring...
by djmips | 2025-04-03 15:25:08+00:00
There was one cashier who also bagged at a local supermarket who was the mythical 10x bagger. I'm not joking when I say they were a virtuoso at scanning and bagging and I would always line up in their line just to witness it again and anyway that line moved incredibly fast. It's fascinating that even mundane activities can be executed with speed and beauty.

They've graduated college so I guess I'll never see that again.
by cf100clunk | 2025-04-03 15:25:15+00:00
> Always felt like Debian was stuck between “all in” or “go without”

Debian can be configured at installation to go ''all in'' with systemd or ''go without'' if you prefer. The latter option pretty well mooted the purpose of the Devuan spinoff. In the Bullseye version it is possible to change a running system from using systemd to sysvinit or OpenRC.

I agree about seeing how Debian reacts to how InitWare develops from alpha.
by arrosenberg | 2025-04-03 15:25:22+00:00
> I think they shouldn't unless they're being disingenuous and politically motivated (push just enough to make the entire Trump mandate an unending crisis until Democrats get back in power).

They've been saying since the Biden administration they are going to keep raising rates. If the Trump regime's choices drive us into an unending crisis, bailing him out with rate cuts would be the politically motivated choice. Continuing to raise rates is just sticking to principles.
by jimmydorry | 2025-04-03 15:25:23+00:00
You may want to re-read GP's comment because they did not indicate whether they cared if the 38% went to the government or the farmer. Reading their comment as written, they simply said they would happily pay the tariff to continue enjoying Tunisian olive oil. It's "crazy" of you to imply they don't understand how a tariff works when you're the one mis-reading what they wrote.
by kortex | 2025-04-03 15:25:27+00:00
> But we still import oil! Why? Because the oil we produce isn’t entirely the right kind for everything we do with it.

Just wanted to elaborate a bit on this. Oil is a fantastic example for "why international trade good?" Oil is weird in that it is a fungible commodity (one barrel here is the same as one barrel there), but at the same time, functionality it's not. Each oil formation has different geology and chemistry. There are light sweet crudes, sour crudes, heavy crudes, and so on [1], and refineries (which are massive capital investments with specialized work forces) are typically tooled out to only process one type or family of types of crude oil products.

One paradox of the USA crude industry is that nearly 70% of U.S. refining capacity runs most efficiently with heavier crude, but our shale crude is lighter. Thus, 90% of crude oil imports into the United States are heavier than U.S.-produced shale crude [2]. So even if we had perfect supply/demand of crude within the USA, we would not be able to run our refineries efficiently without a massive overhaul. They have been built under decades of the assumption of a high degree of free international trade.

And these companies will be loathe to invest in retooling if they believe that the tariffs will just be rolled back in four years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_crude_oil_products

[2] https://www.afpm.org/newsroom/blog/whats-difference-between-...
by protimewaster | 2025-04-03 15:25:38+00:00
That's true, but it's definitely not the case that nobody has accused Valve of being anticompetitive. They have a variety of plausibly anticompetitive practices and accusations.

It's also possible that some gamers did actually get money from Valve via arbitration, so they could've been found to have acted in an anticompetitive way, separately from the lawsuit. I've not been able to find anyone specifically saying that they did the arbitration, though.
by Retric | 2025-04-03 15:26:28+00:00
That was my point, though I may not have been clear.

Most people do get better over time, but for those who don’t (or LLM’s) it’s just a question of if their current skills are a net benefit.

I do expect future AI to improve. My expectation is it’s going to be a long slow slog just like with self driving cars etc, but novel approaches regularly turn extremely difficult problems into seemingly trivial exercises.
by IMTDb | 2025-04-03 15:26:28+00:00
The orange man is saying: "Looks like you are sending a lot of $$$ to those olive oil farmers in Tunisia. With my tariffs you now have two choices at your disposal: either you keep buying their Olive oil but then you are going to have to give me $$$ as well to pay for our national debt. You are going to buy less of it; and help your country in the process. Alternatively, you can decide that maybe you don't need olive oil all that much. We have this amazing product called 'corn oil' which is produced locally and is now comparatively less expensive, buy that instead and support your local farmer. Choice is yours".

Maybe you don't like either of these choices; but at the same time; saying "I believe that having cheap access to product produced halfway across the globe is a god given right to American people; how dare you imposing me to make such a choice" is part of the reason why we need 13 earth to sustain the modern US lifestyle.

I am really not a Trump supporter at all. But at the same time the gradual reduction of tariffs has been a key factor of increasing global trade; which in turn is a key component of the increase of CO2 emissions. Finding a way to dampen a bit the international component and making sure that locally sourced products and services are not affected seems not that bad.
by volkk | 2025-04-03 15:26:39+00:00
i had a feeling someone would say "there's always been cheaters." i've been working in the industry for a long time, i'm certainly aware. but there's a difference between going out of your way to cheat when it wasn't that easy before mixed with a booming job market knowing you'd have like 15 interviews lined up, and what is happening today where the market is decimated, filled with utmost desperation, combined with tools that make it dead simple at the click of a button. it's a complete mess
by fidotron | 2025-04-03 15:26:59+00:00
I mean the accuracy with which it's locating the bounds. What is extra curious is it obviously supports rotated cubes, yet it often doesn't use them when it should, leading to overstating the bounds, as if it's over enthusiastically trying to put things aligned to some inferred axis.

This is obviously an attempt at the general case to apply cubes to anything, but what is disappointing is the performance on boxy objects is lower than I've seen on private NNs used for AR and CV for years (ironically enough on iPads), using just rgb and no depth.

I half think the exercise here was to establish if transformers were the way to go for this, and on the strength of that the answer would be probably not.
by mrtksn | 2025-04-03 15:27:19+00:00
JD Vance had a nice speech about globalisation lately, he describes how globalisation made the rest of the world advanced and rich: https://x.com/OopsGuess/status/1902396228404674853

So if people were trying to make the world a better place congratulations they succeeded. JD Vance uses a bit different framing(!).

Anyway, back to your question, IMHO the problem in thinking here is that it implies that there must be "They" and "Us". You can't just get prosperous as a humanity, it needs to be a subgroup like "Americans" or "Germans" that do amazing things and they are very unsatisfied that Chinese and Indians got advanced and no longer do the shitty jobs. When they say globalism has failed us, they mean we thought that Vietnamese will keep making our shoes but now they are making cars too.

Essentially the core of the problem(or ideal) is nationalism and borders associated with it, preventing of people move around and pursue happiness.

A group of people like the generations of Americans who pioneered many technologies and sciences built a world, then other group of people(mostly their offsprings or people who caught up thanks to proximity to the ground zero) operated within that world and made some choices and transformed the world into something else. Now, they are unhappy with the current state and propose teaming up around something like religion/attitudes around genders etc. If you subscribe to the idea that people should team around these things and if you think that you won't be suffering that much and you don't care that some people might suffer a lot, then yes the current actions actually makes sense.