MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by commandlinefan | 2025-04-03 14:40:13+00:00
> This is why in some European countries, that $1 item from China with free shipping can end up costing $10

This is what strikes me about these new tariffs... for all the concern about how it's going to impact the US economy (and I don't doubt it will), this is STILL far, far, less protectionism than literally every other country in the entire world. Donald Trump's justification for all this is that the U.S. is propping up the entire world economy to it's own detriment, and I'm not sure he's necessarily wrong here.
by rtkwe | 2025-04-03 14:40:22+00:00
California produced 1.94 million gallons of olive oil in 2023. That same year the US used ~98.5 million gallons of olive oil. There just isn't enough space to produce that much olive oil in CA much less produce it profitably or in ways that wouldn't devastate the environment. And all that is ignoring that it takes around 10 years for an olive tree to get to consistent production.
by captainbland | 2025-04-03 14:40:45+00:00
In my view IP laws in the digital age are basically a look into what would happen under western capitalism if we discovered any other effectively post-scarcity technology. We wouldn't be transported into Star Trek's universe, we would instead be jailed and beaten for using it.

Only the very wealthiest would be allowed to produce with it, they would form state backed cartels and we would be no better off for its invention.
by joshdickson | 2025-04-03 14:40:46+00:00
> Those rigorous validation steps were also created with LLMs, correct?

Not really. I do explain in the methodology post how good o1-pro is at the task, but there was a lot of manual effort involved in coming to that conclusion with my own effort to review the LLM's reasoning, and even still, o1-pro is not perfect.
by Someone | 2025-04-03 14:41:02+00:00
/s: that’s because we haven’t gone far enough. People use natural language to generate computer programs. Instead, they should directly run prompts.

“You are the graphics system, an entity that manages what is on the screen. You can receive requests from all programs to create and destroys “windows”, and further requests to draw text, lines, circles, etc. in a window created earlier. Items can be of any colour.

You also should send more click information to whomever created the window in which the user clicked the mouse.

There is one special program, the window manager, that can tell you what windows are displayed where on any of the monitors attached to the system”

and

“you are a tic-tac-toe program. There is a graphics system, an entity that manages what is on the screen. You can command it to create and destroys “windows”, and to draw text, lines, circles, etc. in a window created earlier. Items can be of any colour.

The graphics you draw should show a tic-tac-toe game, where users take turn by clicking the mouse. If a user wins the game, it should…

Add ads to the game, unless the user has a pay-per-click subscription”

That should be sufficient to get a game running…

To save it, you’d need another prompt:

”you are a file system, an entity that persists data to disk…”

You also will want

”you are a multi-tasking OS. You give multiple LLMs the idea that they have full control over a system’s CPU and memory. You…”

I look forward to seeing this next year in early April.
by davidsojevic | 2025-04-03 14:41:16+00:00
Given the large delta between what you've experienced and what I can find on my side, the only thing I can think is that your application has been handled outside of our standard process (perhaps directly with someone?) and/or that the SaaS we use to manage the process isn't surfacing you in search.

The code challenge linked has been used for the software engineer candidates long before I began at SerpApi and, in the spirit of transparency, candidates have been directed to make their submissions via a PR to the public repository since almost our earliest employees, e.g. Ilya's submission can be found here: https://github.com/serpapi/code-challenge/pull/6

Can you please forward the email chain(s) to me at david at serpapi.com so I can look into it? Even if you've withdrawn from the process, I would very much appreciate having a copy of these to see what's gone wrong.
by rthomas6 | 2025-04-03 14:41:25+00:00
The flaw I see is centered around this paragraph.

> How can rates come down? The present uncertainty around tariffs and a potential crisis could create conditions that pressure interest rates downward before those Treasury securities mature, by influencing Federal Reserve policy.

Rising prices due to tariffs won't pressure the Fed to lower interest rates. It will increase inflation and worries of inflation, which will actually pressure the Fed to RAISE interest rates. A slowing economy won't stop inflation... We are likely entering into a period of "stagflation". The way out last time was very high interest rates and short term economic hardship.
by boomskats | 2025-04-03 14:41:37+00:00
I can second this. Same story, been thumbing it for 25 years or so. I've also used it through some fairly painful ligament injury ('gamekeeper's thumb'), and if anything I think it helped with the recovery.

I remember someone telling me 20ish years ago that, as opposable thumbers, we have more nerves/muscles dedicated to each thumb than we do for the other 4 fingers combined. Not sure how true that is, but it stuck with me.
by phkahler | 2025-04-03 14:41:42+00:00
>> Can't wait until Linux supports QuickBooks, SolidWorks, and the other software I need.

Well QuickBooks is moving everything online and their backend stuff looks like it can run on Linux. For CAD it looks like OnShape and not much else - FreeCAD just IMHO isn't up to par for commercial use yet.

I feel like Redhat or some other distro should have a small business variant that comes with some options for the common business stuff. Someone needs to flesh out finance, CRM, HR, inventory, purchasing, and payroll software or do a decent integration of FLOSS options. Maybe include some online services as options where the free stuff isn't there yet.
by thinkingtoilet | 2025-04-03 14:41:42+00:00
I got into bitcoin around 2011ish for some time. I was never a True Believer but I was a 'soft believer'. At the time, when people asked me if Bitcoin is the future I would always say "I think it or something like it will be very useful". Fast forward 10 years and there's been no actual use of crypto. No killer app. No disrupting the finance world. It seems to be used exclusively by smart people as a means of extracting wealth from people who don't understand it.
by MischaPanch | 2025-04-03 14:41:57+00:00
Been working like hell on this one: a fully capable Agent, as good or better that Windsurf's Cascade or Cursor's agent - but can be used for free.

It can run as an MCP server, so you can use it for free with Claude Desktop, and it can still fully understand a code base, even a very large one. No API key or subscription required!

We did this by using a language server instead of RAG to analyze code.

Can also run it on Gemini, but you'll need an API key for that. With a new google cloud account you'll get 300$ as a gift that you can use on API credits. Local models work as well.

Check it out, super easy to run, GPL license.
by throw__away7391 | 2025-04-03 14:42:29+00:00
> What are the flaws in this thinking?

-> Treasuries are considered safe during such crisis.

Is that truly still the case? Does the world consider the US stable right now?

I am astonished at how effectively the administration has blown up every pillar upholding the US economy, short, medium, and long term. The damage done here is incalculable. In all of human history never has so much wealth been destroyed so quickly.
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by disambiguation | 2025-04-03 14:42:55+00:00
The political and ideological divide speaks for itself, but on behalf of the common folk universities have been failing their core mission - to provide the people with a quality education. The inversion and disconnect between the cost of tuition and economic outcomes is stunning. Too many kids who don't know better are pressured into pursuing higher education and taking on massive debt, only to graduate without any job prospects or reasonable hopes of paying off their loans. The salt in the wounds is that universities are flush with cash, yet its spent on anything and everything except for the welfare of the students.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-03 14:42:56+00:00
But then, whom are you dissing? Whom is GP dissing? Because it's really unclear. On the one hand, "rational people" keep their views even as they drift apart from a wider "rationalist movement". On the other hand, it's the rationalist communities - the movement - that's much more likely to actually know something "about the foundations of economics or political science". On the grasping hand, such communities can and do get stuck missing forest for the trees.

But then on the slapping hand, approximately all criticism of rationalism (particularly LessWrong-associated) I've seen on HN and elsewhere, involves either heresay and lies, or just a legion of strawmen like "zomg Roko's basilisk" or GP's own "arguments" like:

> Nobody likes a technocrat, because a technocrat would let a kid who fell down a well die there, since the cost of rescuing them could technically save the lives of 3 others someplace else

It's hard to even address something that's just plain bullshit, so in the end, I'm still leaning towards giving rationalists the benefit of doubt. Strange as some conclusions of some people may sometimes be, they at least try to argue it with reason, and not strawmen and ideological rally cries.

EDIT: and then there's:

> They often re-hash arguments which have been had and settled like 200 years ago

Well, somebody has to. It's important for the same reason reproducibility in science is important.

I'd be wary of assuming any complex argument has been "settled like 200 years ago". When people say this, they just mean "shut up and accept the uninformed, simplistic opinion". In a sense, this is even worse than blindly following religious dogma, as with organized religions, the core dogmas are actually designed by smart people to achieve some purpose (ill-minded or not); cutting people off with "settled like 200 years ago" is just telling them to accept whatever's the cheapest, worst-quality belief currently on sale on the "marketplace of ideas".
by mock-possum | 2025-04-03 14:43:24+00:00
> The crucial question is what is "politics"? … Are inflammatory issues about race, sex or gender or political correctness or immigration? No!

When people talk about privilege, this is it - being able to dictate which issues are ‘politics,’ and being able to dismiss my rights as ‘not politics.’

Do I have a right to work? To live? To own property? To marry the one I love? To have sex with the people I’m attracted to? To raise a child with my partner? To choose my own identity and to live my own life?

A white cishet man takes all those rights for granted - why shouldn’t I? Why should my struggle to obtain those same rights be dismissed as ‘inflammatory issues about sex or gender or political correctness’ and therefore ‘not politics?’

Are you married? Would you like to be? Do you ever worry about how you’ll be treated when you go to work, or make a purchase at the store? What’s it like to go grocery shopping, or car shopping, or touring places to live? What’s it like apply to and interview for jobs? Does you boss look like you? How do your parents feel about you? How do your neighbors greet you when they see you? What’s your relationship like with your landlord?

You’re really telling me that none of that is worth ‘politicking’ over?

that attitude is exactly why things are not going well right now - because we are pretending that of we look away, equality and justice will take care of itself.
by jmathai | 2025-04-03 14:43:47+00:00
Quality of life has been going down for most Americans over the past few decades. It's harder to buy a house, raise a family, etc. on a modest income. Increasing cost of goods has outpaced wage increases but there are probably other factors at play too.

Americans lived in a world where all you needed was a decent job and you could have a good life - defined by what I said above. That's not the case anymore and they're upset about it - they're looking for someone or something to blame.

The republican party chose to blame immigrants and the democrats chose to blame lack of DEI. This fractured the citizens into two camps who can seemingly find no middle ground anymore.

Meanwhile, the wealth gap continues to increase and the middle class is shrinking. But neither political party can run on a platform of reducing spending AND higher taxes on wealth. They'd lose their funding sources - so they're stuck with immigrants and DEI.

Meanwhile, Trump sees an opportunity to extract wealth from the working class by reducing government spending and diverting those savings to corporations and the wealthy. Moderate Americans feel a bit powerless given how quickly our long standing legal and government structures seem to be deteriorating.
by abvdasker | 2025-04-03 14:43:49+00:00
If the Trump admin's goal were to reduce the national debt it would make way more sense to use fiscal policy (increase taxes) rather than some roundabout way to force the Fed's hand on monetary policy. The tariffs do basically function as a massive regressive tax increase in the form of a sales tax, but that comes with truly immense risks on the demand side of the economy. Guess what happens to tax revenue during a recession.
by reef_sh | 2025-04-03 14:43:50+00:00
You do realize that "gay man", "transvestite", "drag queen", and "trans woman" are all different things right?

None of them implies the others. And using any term besides trans woman would be disingenuous, as trans people existed before before 1969, with that exact nomenclature already existing. Just because the letters might not have been attached to an "LGBT" title, neither T or Q are new. Only their increased acceptance and knowledge is.

And deleting references to those is, as you can see, seen as an obvious attempt to walk back on that public perception and acceptance.

While ( as often is ) a very summarized version of the history can be found on the wikipedia page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgender_history , the sources should lead you to more detailed info, if you do care about learning about the historical accuracy.
by nabla9 | 2025-04-03 14:44:06+00:00
KITE Insta-analysis (Kiel Institute Trade Policy Evaluation) shows US short term projection is:

real output -1.92% price index +9.16% exports -24.52%

No other country suffers nearly as much from trade war that Trump started. They have each other to trade with. The US is in trade war with everyone except Russia and Vatican.
by ixtli | 2025-04-03 14:44:08+00:00
instead of writing this exact thing i found the first comment from the bottom which said it for me. these people are coping. articles like this read to me as a person good at writing long form whos trying to convince themselves their cowardice and inflated self image-driven decision not to curate their social circles is actually ok and not horribly damaging to our society.
by ratorx | 2025-04-03 14:44:12+00:00
Let’s say that all of the ambiguities are automatically resolved in a reasonable way.

This is still not enough to let 2 different computers running two different LLMs to produce compatible code right? And no guarantee of compatibility as you refine it more etc. And if you get into the business of specifying the format/protocol, suddenly you have made it much less concise.

So as long as you run the prompt exactly once, it will work, but not necessarily the second time in a compatible way.
by kouteiheika | 2025-04-03 14:44:15+00:00
Last time I tried it I encountered both showstopper bugs (it was completely obviously broken) and subtle correctness bugs (it looked like it was working, but since I'm paranoid I have unit tests for everything and numerically the errors were too big compared to what you'd get with eager attention or Flash Attention), and it was too slow for my taste compared to Flash Attention so I just dropped it. And I wasn't even doing anything super exotic with it.

Maybe it's better now, but I'd still consider using FlexAttention without a corresponding unit test checking its accuracy against an equivalent eager implementation completely irresponsible.
by ajsicnckckxnx | 2025-04-03 14:44:18+00:00
Politics is simply figuring out who’s on your team. It’s why our current billionaires are so big on immigration and divisive rhetoric. Small groups have used this tactic for thousands of years to rule over larger groups.

In a good society you would know and have a favorable view of our wealthiest (kings in all but name) people. They wouldn’t be afraid and hide their wealth (Bezos, musk, etc are not the top) because there wouldn’t be an immoral wealth gap.
by Adverblessly | 2025-04-03 14:44:23+00:00
> My impression is that the general quality of games on steam is sub par the quality of, eg., Zelda.

My impression is that the general quality of games on the Switch (or Switch 2 or eShop) is sub par the quality of, e.g. Zelda. This is obviously because Zelda is a landmark title and it doesn't make sense to compare it with "the general quality" of games on Steam. It would make more sense to compare it with the quality of other landmark titles on Steam e.g. Baldur's Gate 3.

You can compare the general quality of games on Steam (which includes games like "Hentai Waifu 5") with the general quality of games on Switch (which includes games like "Hentai Waifu 5"), though I'm not sure it is that interesting of a comparison, since no one buys the "average" game but what they consider to be the best games on the platform.

I'd suspect that any attempt at an "objective" comparison (obviously, an impossible task) would land in favour of Steam simply because it has basically all of (core) gaming for most of history on it. Though obviously such an "objective" comparison would be meaningless for something like this where literally your subjective opinion should matter the most for your choice.
by roxolotl | 2025-04-03 14:44:27+00:00
That potential end state isn’t possible is the point of my initial comment. It is as infeasible as the weather to control where natural resources are located.

Lets talk plastics. Plastic needs oil. We’re the largest oil producer in the world now. But we still import oil! Why? Because the oil we produce isn’t entirely the right kind for everything we do with it.

An end state where the US is an island cannot exist without massive shifts in production and consumption habits.

Maybe you’re saying though that shift should happen and that end state is good?
by kjkjadksj | 2025-04-03 14:44:39+00:00
I think tribalism is being thought of as a pejorative when it isn’t. It merely is a phenomenon. What you describe above about yourself is pure tribalism of how you identify with the liberal tribe and could never even picture yourself as a member of other tribe. This is no different to me than a rabbi or priest talking about the tenets of their faith and how that leaves them no option but to be a member of that religion due to the moral underpinnings of those tenets that they believe in.

Tribal politics happen when we take these various tribes in our society and essentially blind them to their biases to the point where they can’t imagine at all why someone would even be in that other tribe. A complete loss of critical thinking ability emerges once it becomes us and them and not some of us and others of us, one species, no tribes, many ideas.

Do you actually believe all liberals are good and can do no evil? Do you actually believe all conservatives are cartoonishly evil idiots? I’d hope you could see the nuance but your description makes it seem like there is one way but the highway. And the reflexive counter argument from the liberals is “but racism” but then again, explain the phenomenon of the black or latino Trump supporter? Clearly there is more nuance going on in what is sensible to people than what we can gleam out of the black and white painted descriptions from the thought leaders in our tribe.
by soulofmischief | 2025-04-03 14:45:09+00:00
I'd recommend learning how transformers work, and the concept of temperature. I don't think I need to cite information that is broadly and readily available, but here:

https://medium.com/google-cloud/is-a-zero-temperature-determ...

I also qualified the requirement of needing the same hardware, due to FP shenanigans. I could further clarify that you need the same stack (pytorch, tensorflow, etc)
by techpineapple | 2025-04-03 14:45:16+00:00
I think my answer to this question would be no? The food example is specific, all food can't be grown here, but for other products that aren't commodities, I want different cultures competing to build the best products i.e. cars, and I want other cultures innovating things that maybe their culture is optimized for (video games, electronics in Japan, in the 1980's?). There are some interesting questions recently about how maybe globalization have turned luxuries into commodities (i.e. all cars look the same) but I think my point still stands.
by poincaredisk | 2025-04-03 14:45:58+00:00
Tariffs on services may also be less popular with the citizens. It's not obvious that the locally produced fridge is only cheaper because of tariffs. It will be more obvious that everyone non-EU based pays more. It will also be harder to control (how will EU extract tariffs for payments I do to companies with no EU presence?)

But I don't how much about it, maybe these are already solved problems. After all VAT already exists and faces similar challenges.
by rtkwe | 2025-04-03 14:46:07+00:00
Exactly and even if it does work to reshore factories (which will take years and we'll just ignore the question of where all the workers for these factories will come from, and that the goods needed for making those factories are also being tariffed) they'll only be competitive in a protected market so they're only really producing for the US market which will be stunted because costs would have inflated through the roof!
by erikerikson | 2025-04-03 14:46:31+00:00
It is a reference to Magic The Gathering. Blue decks are known for wildly changing the rules of the game. Black decks are known for interacting with death and the graveyard which is where cards go after they are used.

A paraphrasing of the GP without using magic terminology is to say that they are playing by the rules in an unexpected way using unexpected combinations and sequences. More briefly "playing by the rules as written".