MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by TomK32 | 2025-04-03 05:45:46+00:00
There's nothing about fairness in trade and trade deficits/surplus. Trade is a competition after all. Free trade was what gave the German States an enormous boost and the Zollverein was a key element towards unification even though that was not the intention[0].

Have I missed the news cycle where Trump complained about the CCP committing genocide on the Tibetans and Uyghurs? How they force them into slave labor. Btw, the reading through the Wikipedia article on Penal labor in the United States make me wonder whether where the USA stands...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zollverein [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...
by crote | 2025-04-03 05:46:17+00:00
I would've probably agreed with this point 10 or 15 years ago. Someone saying "I would've liked universal healthcare, but lower taxes are more important to me" has an understandable position. I might not agree with their choice, but I can respect their decision.

However, these days the American political landscape looks a lot different. I understand having priorities, but if someone believes that a magical make-eggs-be-cheaper plan should have a higher priority than their friend (i.e., me) having basic human rights, why would I want to be friends with them? It doesn't matter if they personally agree with the politician's strip-their-friend-of-basic-rights plans or not, the fact that it isn't a priority to them at all says enough.
by themagician | 2025-04-03 05:46:35+00:00
No people, no supply chain, and no total lack of environmental regulations mean most manufacturing jobs are not coming back no matter what the tariffs are. It's not just one reason that the manufacturing jobs have left, but a conflation of reasons.

Unless… well, unless you eliminate the EPA, invade Canada and Greenland and take their raw materials, and make people so poor that they take up factory jobs again.
by n2d4 | 2025-04-03 05:47:13+00:00
The label "tariffs charged to the US" is just straight-up wrong, either due to incompetence or malice (likely to justify the high tariffs).

But basing the tariffs on import/export ratio makes sense if your goal is to be a net exporter with every country, as it discourages imports until that's the case. It's still somewhat arbitrary though; my guess is that the White House is pursuing that goal mostly for political, not economical reasons.
by watwut | 2025-04-03 05:47:55+00:00
I love how your analysis does not blame the perpetrators. And I think this is pervasive and one of root problems - Republicans and conservatives are not blamed for own lies nor plans nor decisions.

Instead, democrats are blamed for what Republicans do.

Yes, democrats should have been harder on republicans. But again, the same double standards would cause them to be blamed for "gaming the system".
by AlexeyBelov | 2025-04-03 05:49:10+00:00
I have! It's very rare that I see a comment being flagged unfairly. Sometimes it appears as unfair to me, but then I try to look from other angles in case it's just my bias.

Also, don't forget that it's mainly other users who flag, not moderators.

Also also, it's a bit ironic coming from a 3 months old account with already negative karma. I believe HN has a problem with users who create many new accounts and don't bother to understand "what is a good thoughtful comment" and change their behaviour.
by kristopolous | 2025-04-03 05:49:24+00:00
Every time i see the framework people at a conference i insist that they have to target the thinkpad users and not just the macbook people.

Just remind them if you see them. They'll eventually prioritize making it happen.

At every company I've worked for, tickets get promoted from the backlog if enough customers or would-be customers nag about it.
by mfkhalil | 2025-04-03 05:49:37+00:00
Yeah LLMs were the easiest way to get a proof of context running, but replacing it with a specialized distilled model/classifier should hopefully make it way quicker.

As for the results, it's tough because we've made the deliberate decision to have no control over the reranking. What that means is that if your criteria is "written by a woman", for instance, then any result that meets that will be ranked equally at the top. In all engines I've built for myself, I have a relevance criteria that's weighted relative to how much I care that the result is exactly what I'm looking for. It's probably important to make that clearer to the end user.
by lurk2 | 2025-04-03 05:49:42+00:00
> That the administration thinks they just just drag people into vans and ship them off to a foreign prison?

Can you point to a specific instance where this has occurred, and what laws you believe were broken? I'm not qualified to say if the El Salvador detention facilities are legal or not, but my understanding is that ICE has always had the authority to arrest illegal immigrants, and that a potential penalty for illegal entry is imprisonment.

See: 8 U.S. Code § 1325 - Improper entry by alien

> (a) Improper time or place; avoidance of examination or inspection; misrepresentation and concealment of facts

> Any alien who (1) enters or attempts to enter the United States at any time or place other than as designated by immigration officers, or (2) eludes examination or inspection by immigration officers, or (3) attempts to enter or obtains entry to the United States by a willfully false or misleading representation or the willful concealment of a material fact, shall, for the first commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both, and, for a subsequent commission of any such offense, be fined under title 18, or imprisoned not more than 2 years, or both.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325
by AnIrishDuck | 2025-04-03 05:49:57+00:00
The concept you are describing here is "tax incidence" [1].

Tariffs are taxes.

I'm sure lots of hours will be spent researching the incidences of these across many industries.

As you note, one major factor is the presence of substitutes, but there are several others.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_incidence
by lurk2 | 2025-04-03 05:52:07+00:00
> Sealioning is a type of trolling or harassment that consists of pursuing people with relentless requests for evidence, often tangential or previously addressed, while maintaining a pretense of civility and sincerity ("I'm just trying to have a debate"), and feigning ignorance of the subject matter.

Read the site guidelines. You are breaking several of them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by antoniomika | 2025-04-03 05:52:30+00:00
We’re actually using Unix sockets as the underlying transport layer for this. We’re also not using sshd, we custom wrote our own daemon that’s entire job is tunneling. If you’re curious about this, you can find the project here: https://github.com/antoniomika/sish

sish was actually my first foray into SSH apps. It was a lot of fun to write and pretty much implements tunnels with a routing system on top. It manages connectivity, routing, and reverse proxying all within user space. No namespaces required!

tuns can actually even tunnel UDP traffic over SSH, also entirely in user space. Docs for that can be found here: https://pico.sh/tuns#udp-tunneling
by gscott | 2025-04-03 05:52:32+00:00
I was reading an interesting article about tariffs put on foreign garlic or mushrooms can't remember which, rather than buying American companies just paid more for the foreign product and charged higher prices. The American makers of the product didn't sell more the company's just didn't care. Prices will go up Americans will buy less deflation will occur because they have to sell the product.
by Simorgh | 2025-04-03 05:53:32+00:00
I know it’s an aside but I’m so impressed with the quality of this (linked) page:

https://capsul.org/

The UX is exceptionally strong. It’s like you’re on a ‘real website’ — it’s quite enveloping in terms of its vibe, palette, ease of comprehension and the colour palette is so cool.

Definitely a tilt in favour of boldness with colour on web.
by shw1n | 2025-04-03 05:54:05+00:00
Ironically this seems like an example of the tribalism my essay is about -- I agree with his essay, but only partially agree with the graph

I think the hump could be slightly shifted left or right, but the points on the graph are the averages of an individual's entire collection of views

I don't believe an independent thinker would come up with a set of views that perfectly match the left or right's doctrine since at least some of those views are somewhat arbitrary -- in that sense I agree with him
by KingMob | 2025-04-03 05:54:17+00:00
Oh, the irony of saying "Understand China-US relations without understanding communism vs capitalism", which clearly betrays how little they understand historical Marxist communism, and how far away modern China is from it (not to mention how far it's moved since Maoism).

Not to mention there's a ton of work in psychology already covering much of what the author writes about.

The author sounds like a pseudo-intellectual who thinks they can logic their way to human understanding through first principles, instead of doing any real work to understand the literature. Sadly, this is real common on HN.
by jenadine | 2025-04-03 05:55:13+00:00
I'm a freelance selling software services. Some of my customers are in the US. Am I affected? These tariff don't impact software, right?

Different countries have different tariff. Is there room for arbitration? In which a 3rd party business from a country with low tariff would buy a product in one of the countries with high tariff and export that to the US, taking a small cut.
by kombine | 2025-04-03 05:55:30+00:00
I am daily driving ThinkPad T14s Gen3 AMD that I bought off Ebay a year ago. It was opened but new with warranty until 2026 and I only paid for 600 British pounds for it. It is not as repairable as their other models but it has a premium quality build, a modern CPU and full Linux compatibility. It is also the first generation of T14 when they returned 16:10 screens, this aspect ratio is a must for coding. ThinkPads are seriously underrated.
by jwr | 2025-04-03 05:56:34+00:00
The problem is with work ethics, not with jobs.

In Japan, it's impressive to see how people perform even the most menial jobs with dedication. It's the Yoda approach: do or do not. If you do a job, do it well. So, you will see people whose job is to stand in the rain and watch over a construction site exit making sure people in the sidewalk do not get run over by trucks exiting the site, doing their job with utter dedication. Even if it rains. Even if the job is crappy. I'm sure these people would rather have a different job — but as long as this is the one they have, they will sure as anything do it well!
by aiauthoritydev | 2025-04-03 05:56:58+00:00
I have followed writings of the many in this administration, seen their interviews etc. Anyone who thinks there is a "5D chess", "the plan" etc. is purely drinking cope here.

> cheap labor factories again isn't going to happen in 2025

It is not going to happen ever unless we plan to move people from better paying jobs in McDonalds and WellsFargo to China styled factories or we allow much higher immigration levels from South America.

Trump admin and his advisors genuinely believe that tariffs are good, that they will create factories and jobs within USA and enable white families to raise families on a single income. They think rest of the world's existence is a mistake, they hate Europe, China, India and South America. They don't know much about Africa and admire Russia.
by mneedham | 2025-04-03 05:57:14+00:00
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by xp84 | 2025-04-03 05:57:37+00:00
> It could in principle be restricted to residents, or go away entirely.

If the UK loses control of it, I'd put most of my betting money on Option 3: The new owners extort everyone with a .io domain for a rate proportional to the perceived value. In other words, $50K a year for a successful tech company, $1000 a year for the average joe who doesn't want to lose control of a domain tied to 1,000 accounts.
by nabla9 | 2025-04-03 05:57:47+00:00
>They want to repudiate foreign held debt, or devalue it, by revaluation of the USD

Devaluing dollar does not reduce debt measured in dollars. It only makes US debt less valuable to forefingers.

Devaluing dollar can work well only if foreign investments into US stop or reverse. "foreign investors at the end of last year owned 18% of U.S. stocks, according to Goldman Sachs" The trend has already reversed https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/foreign-demand-us-assets-... Killing foreign demand for US assets more permanently is possible but it means financial market crash.

What WILL happen is recession. Atlanta Fed GDPNow dropped from -2.8 to -3.7 percent in a week. https://www.atlantafed.org/cqer/research/gdpnow?date=2025-04...
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-04-03 05:58:00+00:00
> than what we currently have with large corporations

Let’s be clear: the current situation is that every trip I take is privately accessible information that is sold for pennies but otherwise difficult to access; critically, there is no obligation for the information to be shared. Yes, this is a far less palatable situation than if such data is simply and plainly public: the gatherers, in this case governments, would have an obligation to share it with the subjects of the data.

I’d personally prefer no data collection, but that’s just where my vote goes. Unfortunately, in this hypothetical my vote was the less popular one:

> If it's useful, and the citizens vote for it, why shouldn't cities collect this data?
by Llamamoe | 2025-04-03 05:58:21+00:00
Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome is extremely common, and extremely underdisgnosed both - most sleep studies only screen for sleep apnea, and most physicians aren't aware of the different ways in which UARS presents, even though it's fundamentally the same disorder, and often as or more severe.

Basically, if you have any difficulties breathing through your nose, recessed or very narrow jaws, tend to breathe through your mouth at night, and your sleep is disturbed, you're likely to have either OSA or UARS, the former more common in men, obese people, and the elderly, while UARS predominates in women and younger, thinner people.

The difference is basically in how your body reacts to the airway collapse- whether you keep sleeping until oxygen desaturation happens, or wakes up to re-establish airway patency. Long-term, the hypoxia does more damage, but in terms of immediate symptoms, the worse fragmentation is worse.
by zh3 | 2025-04-03 05:58:42+00:00
T42, T60, T62, T420, T520 (multiples of some around the house) here, ending at the point they changed the keyboard. All running linux, the T420 and T520 (with SSD's) are fine with modern browsers while the older ones can be slow on bloated sites. I imagine the RAM might be an issue with multiple electron apps though.

Only real maintenance is to use quality battery replacements (T420 lasts particularly well on batteries).
by matsemann | 2025-04-03 05:58:44+00:00
This article is a classic, 1500 Archers on a 28.8: Network Programming in Age of Empires and Beyond

https://www.gamedeveloper.com/programming/1500-archers-on-a-...

Edit: original where the pictures work https://web.archive.org/web/20180719170411/https://www.gamas...

> Rather than passing the status of each unit in the game, the expectation was to run the exact same simulation on each machine, passing each an identical set of commands that were issued by the users at the same time. The PCs would basically synchronize their game watches in best war-movie tradition, allow players to issue commands, and then execute in exactly the same way at the same time and have identical games.
by zzzeek | 2025-04-03 05:59:52+00:00
bit of an 11 dimensional chess answer. Senator Chris Murphy has a much better explanation, which is simply this is Trump's way of holding private industry hostage [1]. The tariffs will be incrementally removed as various private industries give him loyalty pledges just as he is doing with large law firms and universities. that's it! so simple.

[1] https://bsky.app/profile/chrismurphyct.bsky.social/post/3llu...
by porridgeraisin | 2025-04-03 06:00:12+00:00
No, this is the effect for the last 50 years' usual "I will have my high paid cushy job while some other country somewhere manufactures products for me, taking on all the negative effects. Only positive effects for me. Yes, you should use our currency and take part in our inflation. Or we'll invade you. We will print 6T USD[1] in 2 years and you need to absorb that along with us."

Thankfully, this is coming to an end soon. No tears anywhere.

I know a version of this is what happens in every human age, not singling anything out, but don't get onto the moral high ground of "I am just trying to ensure everyone is well paid".

[1] additionally, 80% of all US dollars added to the supply were added in the last 5 years.
by xp84 | 2025-04-03 06:01:34+00:00
This was the exact kind of trouble I used to have when I gave out @myname.com emails. It was super not worth it. It confused people all the time. I switched to a plain Gmail with nothing hard to spell, just a few letters and (sadly) numbers. (I waited like a decade before 'claiming' a Gmail address, so no decent versions of my name or anything professional remained without numbers.)

Also, Gmail actually blocks true spam, whereas nothing I tried on my shared-hosting server with SpamAssassin ever worked.

I don't have any love for Google, but I'll never go back to giving out a personal domain email for any reason.
by southernplaces7 | 2025-04-03 06:02:21+00:00
>how it is any less of a capitulation to the worse tendencies of human nature (hoarding resources for yourself, imposing destitution upon others to get them to do what you want, believing other people are worthless and lazy and that you alone have the wherewithal to be a true hard working human and thus you deserve the extra capital you extract).

These are almost perfect summaries of how communism was indeed applied by the powerful oligarchy of bureaucrats who ran it with an authoritarian, sometimes even totalitarian fist in the countries where it was the applied form of government.

As a summary of market economics, your breakdown is a grossly misguided caricature on the other hand. While there are exceptions and inefficiencies, most wealth in the market economies isn't created by hoarding anything after having taken it from others, it's instead created by cleverly using limited resources to deliver something to others who want to hand over their money inn exchange for the alternative value you provide, and also finding more capital-efficient ways of doing more of the same on a greater scale.

A market economy doesn't impose destitution on others or force them to do what it wants. The opposite is true, through price mechanisms and mutually advantageous trade, it reduce scarcity while slowly improving options. It has its many flaws, but far fewer of them than the extremely crude and often brutal parodies of the same that were the case under the communist systems (which essentially replicated markets for their subjects, but under a form of central planning that was terribly inefficient and truly subject to the legal whims of a small coterie of oligarchic leaders)

You draw an almost Leninesquely crude image of how markets work despite all their complexity in which you yourself are a participant and a beneficiary.
by brabel | 2025-04-03 06:02:27+00:00
That always seems to happen with this sort of protections. It's like when the government tries to incentivize people to buy electric cars by paying 25% of it (example from the climate bonus in Sweden, which was given for years), but what happens is that buyers actually end up paying just maybe 5% less as the car companies now can increase their prices and still sell the cars they produce while making more money.
by LordRatte | 2025-04-03 06:02:41+00:00
This article seems to be saying that religions are tribal by nature because it's made up of humans, and humans are tribal by nature -- ok fair enough. But the subtext I'm getting is that people in religions are less self-aware of it than the author or the people they admire.

People being more interested in comfortable beliefs rather than true beliefs has always been a concern throughout Biblical history. But that doesn't mean it never went unchallenged.

For instance, regardless of what you think of the Bible, it's interesting that Isaiah has the following to say to Judah (emphasis mine) because it shows an ever-present problem with human nature.

For they are a rebellious people, lying children, children unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord; *who say to the seers, “Do not see,” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us what is right; speak to us smooth things, prophesy illusions”*

And before someone responds with a de jure objection to say that "the instruction of the Lord" is not looking for truth, I just want to make it clear that that is out of the scope of my point. My point is that, de facto, in the context, a religious text is agreeing that it is bad to "tribe-up and truth-out."

Lastly, on a personal note, as a human Christian, I think I have the same biases to groupthink as any other person because I am human. But because Christianity has a reputation, I have found that throughout my life, I've had to work harder to really test (not validate) my beliefs because I am constantly being challenged and, ironically, often ended up more informed about both my beliefs and my interlocutors' beliefs.
by Buttons840 | 2025-04-03 06:03:19+00:00
If the US has a trade deficit, doesn't that mean the US is trading make-believe pieces of paper for real goods.

Like, if I scribble on a piece of paper and then trade you the piece of paper for an incredibly engineered brand new laptop, is that bad for me? Is this a sign of my weakness?

I know economics can be complicated, and probably "it depends", but why is a trade deficit bad? Why does the Trump administration want to eliminate trade deficits?