MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by odyssey7 | 2025-04-09 23:08:38+00:00
You're not wrong about ethical considerations, but the CDC operates socially and politically as well.

Back when the vaccine was new, an objection from some parents was that the vaccine might be viewed as a license or permission for their daughters to be promiscuous. There was a substantial headwind.

The public wasn't yet generally aware that HPV could cause head, neck, and anal cancers in men. If a doctor approached a parent back in 2010 and said they wanted to vaccinate their son against head, neck, and anal cancer, that advice wouldn't have been heeded in many cases, and would have cost the CDC some amount of its standing with the public.

When you hear something from the CDC, there's a decent possibility that it's a blend of medical advice that's been compromised with some value judgements that haven't been expressed to the listener.
by lossolo | 2025-04-09 23:08:51+00:00
Yeah, that seems accurate.

"Alarm inside the Treasury Department over signs of distress in the US government bond market played a key role President Donald Trump’s decision to hit pause on his “reciprocal” tariff regime, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent raised those concerns directly to Trump in their meeting that preceded the announcement, underscoring the concerns shared by White House economic officials who had briefed the president on the accelerating selloff in the US Treasury market earlier in the day.

The market turmoil has rattled administration officials and market participants because it’s the exact opposite of what historically occurs in moments of global economic crisis or volatility. US Treasuries are considered the safest corner of the market. It’s the place investors across the globe flee toward with the assurance that the dominant US role in the global financial system will ensure asset safety.

But at the same moment Trump’s tariffs were causing foreign leaders to question the durability of longstanding US security and economic alliances, the rapid selloff of safe-haven assets raised concern that financial markets have similar concerns.

Trump acknowledged he’d been watching the bond market, telling reporters after the announcement the market is “very tricky.”

A spike in yields in the 10-year benchmark was of particular concern for Treasury officials. When the yields rise, US consumers face higher costs on things like mortgage rates for homes and financing costs for businesses."

https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-tariffs-cnn-tow...
by decimalenough | 2025-04-09 23:09:25+00:00
This was the case when I jumped through those hoops in 2019, but it's much more straightforward now. Passport, phone number (doesn't have to Chinese) plus credit/debit card unlocks up to RMB 50,000/mo, with no fees for transactions under RMB 200.

https://www.china-briefing.com/news/wechat-enables-foreigner...
by toss1 | 2025-04-09 23:10:51+00:00
>>went from productive work (someone paying them to do it) to unproductive work.

Umm, that is literally wrong, by your own definition.

>>work something different and still make revenue close to what they earned on their job by selling art.

I.e., they went from an employer paying them to do work to a variety of clients/customers paying them to do different work of nearly the same value.

OFC, if everyone did it, the price of art might decline. Or demand might go up. Or both, or neither. We don't know. But either way, the example subject did NOT convert from productive to unproductive work.
by jcmfernandes | 2025-04-09 23:11:49+00:00
> An activity must encapsulate something much higher level than a single IO operation. So something like "Configure BGP on a router", "Start a VM" etc. It needs to be able to handle retries and thus be idempotent.

I was referring to the workflows, that is, writing the workflows in managed languages, not the activities.

Out of curiosity, are you working full-time on this? I'm working part-time on the same problem, looking to go full time soon, and it's interesting to see how the same ideas are popping up somewhat independently across different projects :) let me know if you're interested in chatting!
by somat | 2025-04-09 23:12:17+00:00
one of the more underrated features of them little pcengines apu-2 router boards was that they used coreboot. I never needed to build my own firmware, but I made sure I could, and slept a lot better knowing that I could maintain it my self if needed.

Still a bit bummed that pcengines closed their doors, By far my favorite computer vendor. I miss their little routers and am still looking for a good alternative.
by dylan604 | 2025-04-09 23:12:30+00:00
> For instance, I'm not too concerned about my child's ability to write very legibly (most writing is done on computers), spell very well (spell check keeps us professional), reading a map to get around (GPS), etc

I don't know. I really feel like the auto-correct features are out to get me. So many times I want to say "in" yet it gets corrected to "on", or vice-versa. I also feel like it does the same to me with they're/their/there. Over the past several iOS/macOS updates, I feel like I've either gotten dumber and no longer do english gooder, or I'm getting tagged by predictive text nonsense.
by js2 | 2025-04-09 23:12:33+00:00
Vaccine recommendations are based on more than just safety. Efficacy, cost, availability, and prioritization are also considerations.

> Compared with the benefit of the existing HPV vaccination program for adolescents and young adults through age 26 years, the additional benefit of vaccinating people age 27 through 45 years would be minimal.

> Given abundant evidence for safety of HPV vaccines, undesirable anticipated effects are minimal. Also, anticipated population-level benefits are minimal for vaccinating adults over age 26 years. In this scenario, other considerations including cost-effectiveness play an important role in guiding policy-making.

https://www.cdc.gov/acip/evidence-to-recommendations/HPV-adu...

Elsewhere:

> There’s not a safety issue past age 45. We just aren’t sure how much the vaccine will help men and women who are past that age, because so many of us have acquired HPV by that point, and because it takes many years for cancer to develop after acquiring the virus. However, as the average life expectancy increases, it may benefit the population to increase the age limit for HPV vaccination as well.

https://www.mskcc.org/news/think-you-re-too-old-get-hpv-vacc...
by mywittyname | 2025-04-09 23:13:34+00:00
> Ten years ago they used to be fantastic for obscure finds because it seemed people had not caught on, but these days they tend to be subpar, which is probably a major edge the non charitable enterprises have exploited.

Not sure about UK, but in the USA, people have discovered that there's profit in mining thrift stores for quality products and reselling them. Usually online, but also in antique malls*. There are a quite a few apps that make it easy to look up something by picture and see what it's worth.

* not sure what Brits would call this - it's like brick and mortar ebay. Merchants rent out cubicles that they fill with random stuff, and customers check out at a common till when they are done.
by acbart | 2025-04-09 23:13:47+00:00
Incorrect. Fundamentals must be taught in order to provide the context for the more challenging open-ended activities. Memorization is the base of knowledge, a starting point. Cheating (whether through an LLM or hiring someone or whatever) skips the journey. You can't just take them through the exciting routes, sometimes they have to go through the boring tedious repetitive stuff because that's how human brains learn. Learning is, literally, a stressful process on the brain. Students try to avoid it, but that's not good for them. At least in the introductory core classes.
by vector_spaces | 2025-04-09 23:14:24+00:00
Maybe you mentioned it in your demo and I missed it, but how does this differ pasting the log messages to ChatGPT / Claude / another LLM? Is it mainly that yours can iterate over a large logfile without blowing up the context window?

Does it suffer from the same issue as other LLMs, where it will always identify potential optimizations or improvements even if none are truly needed?
by hammock | 2025-04-09 23:14:27+00:00
>something flipped.

China dumped 500B in treasuries and the basis trade blew up is what happened

Tariff deals were still going to happen regardless. The pause is a stop gap for the basis trade (20+x levered), of which an uncontrolled unwinding threatens the entire financial system. Fed already had a bailout facility ready as a plan B. Too big to fail and all that
by protocolture | 2025-04-09 23:14:29+00:00
Just checked, I like to visit "Elizabeths" when I go to sydney, they have a nice cosy store and a great selection.

They apparently have a website, and 2 other stores. I had no idea.

Certainly doesn't appear to be a business in decline.

And considering that being a bookshop in Sydney they compete with some absolute giants I am quite impressed tbh.
by raducu | 2025-04-09 23:14:31+00:00
> Universal Basic Buying Power. I should be able to get a roof over my head, get food and an education. It sucks that it's this complicated but in terms of government policy sometimes UBI is cash handouts, other times it should be supply-side investments,

I think AI could make UBI + moving to a lower cost of living much more appealing if it solves education and healthcare. The housing is solved for by market forces.

First tier, high cost of living should be for high earners, singles or childless people, they should pay more taxes while second tier areas should offer UBI, and should generally subsidise people having children and augment the kind of high grade services first tier locations have, especially education and healthcare with AI. Or at least that's 90% of the reason me and many people I know don't move to smaller towns
by usatie | 2025-04-09 23:14:58+00:00
Thank you for sharing this perspective — really insightful. I’ve been reading up on Groq’s architecture and was under the impression that their chips dedicate a significant portion of die area to on-chip SRAM (around 220MiB per chip, if I recall correctly), which struck me as quite generous compared to typical accelerators.

From die shots and materials I’ve seen, it even looks like ~40% of the die might be allocated to memory [1]. Given that, I’m curious about your point on “not enough die for memory” — is it a matter of absolute capacity still being insufficient for current model sizes, or more about the area-bandwidth tradeoff being unbalanced for inference workloads? Or perhaps something else entirely?

I’d love to understand this design tension more deeply, especially from someone with a high-level view of real-world deployments. Thanks again.

[1] Think Fast: A Tensor Streaming Processor (TSP) for Accelerating Deep Learning Workloads — Fig. 5. Die photo of 14nm ASIC implementation of the Groq TSP. https://groq.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/2020-Isca.pdf
by ninetyninenine | 2025-04-09 23:15:33+00:00
It's true.

It's changing though. Wu Kong Black myth and even the top grossing film of last year was chinese animation. See the comments under the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsiAYjyiIBM. The film was apparently incredible.

The core culture of China is actually foundational to much of Asia. The stuff you see coming out of Japan and Korea is surface level aesthetics built on top of this foundation. You're probably thinking Nintendo, KPop and anime.

Once China makes the aesthetics just as good as other parts of Asia I can see China becoming a cultural power house. Even the mythology surrounding China historically in terms of say one thing like Wuxia is better than anything out of Korea, Japan or the west in my opinion.

Really in the end people are more attracted to the aesthetic presentation of everything. Japan does this really well while China has always been unskilled, crude and rough on the edges. But this is changing at a nearly breakneck pace.
by aylmao | 2025-04-09 23:16:20+00:00
+1, exactly. Focusing too much in the money makes you forget about the power. At a national leadership level, there isn't much power in having a local Warhammer industry, fishing is much more strategic.

In broad terms, this is related to the error the USA made. Manufacturing in China was a very profitable deal for the USA. A lot of companies view labour first and foremost as expense, wealth as as the goal, and power in wealth— so it's not surprising as a whole the industry opted to "contract out" labour across the globe.

A lot of power lays in labour though. Money doesn't produce, invent, move, feed, etc— money is only good if someone will take it at the amounts you have it to do that specific labour you need for you.
by nixpulvis | 2025-04-09 23:17:17+00:00
You claim using AI tools doesn't dumb you down, but it very well could and is. Take the calculator for example, I'm overly dependent on it. I'm slower to perform arithmetic than I would have been without it. But knowing how to use one allows me to do more complex math more quickly. So I'm "dumber" in one way and "smarter" in others. AI could be the same... except our education system doesn't seem ready for it. We still learn arithmetic, even if we later rely in tools to do it. Right now teachers don't know how to teach so that AI doesn't trivialize things.

You need to know how to do things so you know when the AI is lying to you.
by Zigurd | 2025-04-09 23:18:27+00:00
Of course, relative to starting a land war in Europe "...if Putin hadn't invaded Ukraine, I don't think Europeans would particularly care..."

That's proportionate. Equally, though, I'm sure they would be pleased to find Russia wanting to join a rules based order. Bolsonaro was just recently found to be plotting to kill his political rival in Brazil. What should we who are not Brazilians do about that?
by lgessler | 2025-04-09 23:19:58+00:00
I'm a professor at an R1 university teaching mostly graduate-level courses with substantive Python programming components.

On the one hand, I've caught some students red handed (ChatGPT generated their exact solution and they were utterly unable to explain the advanced Python that was in their solution) and had to award them 0s for assignments, which was heartbreaking. On the other, I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of my students are not using AI to generate wholesale their submissions for programming assignments--or at least, if they're doing so, they're putting in enough work to make it hard for me to tell, which is still something I'd count as work which gets them to think about code.

There is the more difficult matter, however, of using AI to work through small-scale problems, debug, or explain. On the view that it's kind of analogous to using StackOverflow, this semester I tried a generative AI policy where I give a high-level directive: you may use LLMs to debug or critique your code, but not to write new code. My motivation was that students are going to be using this tech anyway, so I might as well ask them to do it in a way that's as constructive for their learning process as possible. (And I explained exactly this motivation when introducing the policy, hoping that they would be invested enough in their own learning process to hear me.) While I still do end up getting code turned in that is "student-grade" enough that I'm fairly sure an LLM couldn't have generated it directly, I do wonder what the reality of how they really use these models is. And even if they followed the policy perfectly, it's unclear to me whether the learning experience was degraded by always having an easy and correct answer to any problem just a browser tab away.

Looking to the future, I admit I'm still a bit of an AI doomer when it comes to what it's going to do to the median person's cognitive faculties. The most able LLM users engage with them in a way that enhances rather than diminishes their unaided mind. But from what I've seen, the more average user tends to want to outsource thinking to the LLM in order to expend as little mental energy as possible. Will AI be so good in 10 years that most people won't need to really understand code with their unaided mind anymore? Maybe, I don't know. But in the short term I know it's very important, and I don't see how students can develop that skill if they're using LLMs as a constant crutch. I've often wondered if this is like what happened when writing was introduced, and capacity for memorization diminished as it became no longer necessary to memorize epic poetry and so on.

I typically have term projects as the centerpiece of the student's grade in my courses, but next year I think I'm going to start administering in-person midterms, as I fear that students might never internalize fundamentals otherwise.
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-04-09 23:20:07+00:00
This is a bit harsh: the USA didn't devalue labor in general, just manufacturing. They hired software engineers from all over the world, along with a lot of higher value engineering and product development jobs. The error the USA made was in pushing the workforce up the value chain faster than everyone could handle, and a lot of Americans got left behind.

China is moving up the value chain also, they are being forced to by their demographics, and they are investing heavily in the change ATM (just like they started investing heavily in green energy 10 years ago) so I don't think they will make the same mistake as the Americans are making right now.
by jrmg | 2025-04-09 23:21:07+00:00
It can of course vary considerably by store, and I’ll happily spend time in both but, generally:

Second hand bookshops are curated actively - like, they’ll only stock desirable books. They’re owned and run, usually, by people who love books. The staff tend to be knowledgeable.

Charity book shops are much less curated - to the extent that some just stock whatever is donated (which, of course, is largely made up of books people don’t want), so they tend to have a large collection of random books of not as high quality. They’re run by volunteers - which generally means enthusiastic staff, but it does not mean knowledge about books.
by isaacremuant | 2025-04-09 23:21:28+00:00
Read a constitution and tell me where it states that the goal is to redisteibut wealth. I've read significant parts of the constitution of my country and it absolutely does not state that.

The goal of the government is not stated as such. It's not "the social contract".

But hey, your phrase sounded confident so you have that going for you.
by dimitri-vs | 2025-04-09 23:21:45+00:00
o1-pro (and high limit Deep Research) is technically the $200/mon offering. 4.5 is kind of a dud IMO, even in creative uses. That said gemini-2.5-pro is nearly as good if not better than o1-pro and now that Gemini has a Deep Research equivalent I'm finding it hard to justify the $200/mon sub.
by monkeyfun | 2025-04-09 23:23:02+00:00
It's especially such a farce because what do they expect? If trump said the sky is green and the ocean is red, you'd find scores of these useless faux-intellectuals trying to "prove" the truth, and each data point of evidence would simply be met with various forms of "no it isn't! The sky is green! The ocean is red!"

In their world, any "evidence" to the contrary must be manipulated or misinterpreted, because as we all know the sky is green, the ocean is -- oh, he said it's yellow now? And the sky is red? Hah, of course! We knew it all along, it was the plan, stupid!

And meanwhile...

Most of the democrats' tiny minds struggle to operate outside of a context of rigid rules and procedures. A context of arguing a point and getting at least some degree of fair debate in return.

But this is another age of populism. It doesn't matter what you argue, on either side. Debate transforms, serving only to transmit your message to your side, ideally while inspiring them and demoralizing the enemy. It matters that you seem confident and powerful while you say whatever you're saying. It matters that you seem invincible and indefatigable.

Their world won't be back for quite some time, assuming something at all like it sticks around. They'll keep operating like robots, not understanding why an excellent diss or crude mockery matters more than 1000 additional volumes of "proof" about something in contention.
by colechristensen | 2025-04-09 23:23:12+00:00
>I don't know how companies can do any planning.

They can't. They're saying it out loud updating their guidance.

In polite terms, on earnings calls you're going to hear "we don't know what the fuck to predict".

Follow Bloomberg and you'll hear bank CEOs saying the same thing about the markets, they have no idea what to predict or how to price anything. Right now the line is that America looks like an emerging market with unpredictable wild swings based on policy changes. That is going to drive everyone away from the US, industries, customers, and trade partners.
by keepamovin | 2025-04-09 23:23:59+00:00
Sounds like a sage take (where do I study economics?), but why do people doubt the meaning is as straightforward as the messaging: during campaigning trump said he would rectify the unfair tariffs, and in the lead-up and since election he has talked lovingly about tariffs, with the goal being (as almost everything trump) domestic fortification through jobs, industry, and generating revenue from those who have abused the US largesse to enrich themselves - and now balk at a just correction.

I think there is a backdrop/larger picture (probably nuanced and multifaceted levers against all other parties negotiating), but the main I think is to shake up the global economic landscape to make it easier to improve it. Reset.

I see a lot of complex takes on here that require quite a lot of sophisticated theories...and while I enjoy the complexity and the perspectives (and - wish I had studied economics to really grok them), I think it's really just as simple as they say. And what they say they're doing makes sense.

Maybe the truth is no one really knows what will happen, and so it's a bold move but we'll see. But I believe they're doing what they think is right for America to strengthen the country, just as they say - not some 3 degree removed chess strategy, just simple.
by ahaucnx | 2025-04-09 23:24:10+00:00
Can we stop with MBA bashing?

I feel it degrades a whole group of people to a specific stereotype that might or might not be true.

How about lawyers, PhDs, political science majors, etc.

Let’s look at the humans and their character, not titles.

By the way, I have an MBA too and feel completely misjudged with statements like that.
by curt15 | 2025-04-09 23:25:11+00:00
>In remarks to a hearing convened by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Wynn-Williams alleged that Meta executives worked vigorously to “win favor” with leaders in Beijing to build an $18 billion business in China.

Has Hawley demonstrated similar interest about Elon's business dealings in China? Elon owes much of his net worth to the CCP's Shanghai factory.
by Keegs12 | 2025-04-09 23:25:16+00:00
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