MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by toss1 | 2025-04-30 13:13:30+00:00
There is a reason high tariffs are only implemented after very long, multi-generational intervals, e.g., 1820s, 1890s, 1930s, 2020s.

The consequences are so bad that everyone who remembers the disasters brought on by high tariffs must be dead for anyone to think it is a good idea.

So, even if the purported goals are good, even achieving them will be outweighed by the disaster.

Plus, companies in countries protected by high tariffs inevitably become globally uncompetitive.

Edit, add: Even worse, most high tariff schemes have distinguished between placing the high tariffs on only finished goods and exempting the raw materials or components from the tariffs. This administration makes almost no such distinctions, just sprays tariffs everything, so harms US manufacturers as well. The only exemptions are the ones who pay tribute (e.g., sponsoring inauguration, etc.), so it is almost more of an extortion scheme than a tariff plan. A particularly bad example was revealed as the Japanese delegation came to negotiate, asked what concessions the US wanted, and could get no straight answer [0]. It seems the US group just expects the tariffed nations to supplicate and bring adequate gifts, not make adjustments according to a master plan. Very strong indication there is no plan, which is the worst possible case.

So, while I completely agree with the concept of looking for a silver lining, I'm not seeing any...

[0] https://petapixel.com/2025/04/21/japan-cant-get-an-answer-on...
by ivan_gammel | 2025-04-30 13:14:02+00:00
I am certainly well aware of that. However this proves nothing and my question still stands. Not every company founded by Russians on Cyprus is a money-laundering or a war-funding enterprise. Tax optimization - yes, everyone does that. Friendly jurisdiction - yes, and now more than ever, if you are Russian, you want to do business but stay away from Russian government. A lot of people actually moved to Cyprus because they were opposing the war.

Is there any specific evidence that Habr supports the war? This is not a rhetoric question, I expect the answer and I'm fine if the answer is yes.
by kennethologist | 2025-04-30 13:14:05+00:00
Meta announced several key updates to enhance building with Llama and strengthen the open-source ecosystem:

1. Llama API Preview: Launched a limited preview of the Llama API, a developer platform simplifying Llama application development with easy API key creation, playgrounds, SDKs, and tools for fine-tuning and evaluation. It emphasizes model portability and privacy.

2. Fast Inference Collaborations: Announced collaborations with Cerebras and Groq to offer developers access to faster Llama model inference speeds via the Llama API.

3. Expanded Llama Stack Integrations: Revealed new and expanded Llama Stack integrations with partners like NVIDIA, IBM, Red Hat, and Dell Technologies to make deploying Llama applications easier for enterprises.

4. New Llama Protection Tools & Program: Released new open-source security tools including Llama Guard 4, LlamaFirewall, and Llama Prompt Guard 2, updated CyberSecEval 4, and announced the Llama Defenders Program for partners to help evaluate system security.

5. Llama Impact Grant Recipients: Announced the 10 international recipients of the second Llama Impact Grants, awarding over $1.5 million USD to support projects using Llama for transformative change.

Overall, the announcements emphasize making Llama more accessible, easier to build with, faster, more secure, and supporting its diverse open-source community.
by acdha | 2025-04-30 13:14:59+00:00
People are interested because Drive Pilot is L3 while FSD is L2. People are naturally more interested in the more advanced systems, but that would include FSD if Tesla can improve it to perform closer to the way it’s been marketed. Exaggerating the capabilities for over a decade juiced their share price but it also gave them a reputation for failing to deliver which is going to need hard data to shake: putting their money on the line would be one way to do that.
by tossandthrow | 2025-04-30 13:15:19+00:00
Risk tends to build up and be released in different ways every time.

It is right that it is not likely a credit crisis that will be the trigger next time.

But it could be hyperinflation - which would de-facto crash the housing market.

Right now the PE value for the housing market is really high, and it is not likely to continue up forever.
by devsda | 2025-04-30 13:15:30+00:00
> Is that harder to do these days, or has the HN news appetite shifted?

The popular keywords for some time have been AI, Trump, Russia, Ukraine.

As these are hot topics, the "Hacker" part of HN has taken a noticeable backseat. There are still interesting submissions but they don't reach the front page that often.

For example, there's a huge thread on this very post about the source site because of its supposed origins.
by bunderbunder | 2025-04-30 13:15:33+00:00
Meanwhile they somehow don't see wealthy and powerful people using their political connections to enrich themselves by garnering favorable treatment from powerful government officials as an essential part of how things worked in the USSR.

The problem with the saying "those who forget history are doomed to repeat it" is that a lot of people haven't forgotten history; they simply never learned it in the first place.
by jcranmer | 2025-04-30 13:15:52+00:00
The goods are not there. Shipping volumes from China to the US are down I think by 40% right now, and shipping companies are outright canceling berthing in US ports right now due to the low shipping flows.

We're about 1 or 2 months right now from some goods not being available in the US at any price. If people lost their mind over that happening during COVID, well, this is going to be just as bad.
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by _bin_ | 2025-04-30 13:16:51+00:00
Hi, studying economics :)

The issue is that labor productivity (level of tech) in American mfg hasn't broadly increased at the rate we'd need to manufacture many things at reasonable prices for the American consumer. This makes Baumol's cost disease a huge issue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baumol_effect You can see this manifest in healthcare as one of the most egregious examples; the top cause of margin pressure for hospitals is labor: https://www.hfma.org/press-releases/health-systems-near-thei....

While we can still manufacture things that require comparatively high levels of skill, technology, and capex, it's never again (absent a depression greatly outstripping the 1930s) going to be profitable to pay American workers to make t-shirts rather than Bangladeshis.

There's a good argument to be made that a combination of outsourcing and illegal labor caused problems by suppressing investment in tech and automation for thirty years plus, and there are certain things we probably should make here. But ultimately the stuff we actually need to manufacture are things core to sustaining life and the military. Medical supplies, weapons, food, oil, metals, chemicals, etc.

We can, with time and good industrial policy, bring back some manufacturing. That would be a case of short-term pain for long-term benefit. But even then, that's true only insofar as we give people a shot to actually buy American. Moonshot investments in roboticization and industrial automation for a few years would really make this easier, along with using the huge amount of post-HS education dollars we spend to focus on training skilled engineers to implement this sort of thing, along with things like skilled machinists. But these tariffs don't really give American companies a shot.

We cannot, with any reasonably-good outcome, bring back manufacturing jobs. That midwest factory worker is never going to be paid $30/hour plus pension/retirement contributions, good medical, etc. to make regular, el cheapo consumer goods.
by bilbo0s | 2025-04-30 13:17:12+00:00
Yeah.

I got news for you, most women my mother's age out here in flyover country also don't use X. So even if everyone on X knows of Grok's existence, which they don't, it wouldn't move the needle at all on a lot of these mass market segments. Because X is not used by the mass market. It's a tech bro political jihadi wannabe influencer hell hole of a digital ghetto.
by odie88 | 2025-04-30 13:17:16+00:00
This is how I’ve been using Gemini and it’s the first time I’m really seeing consistent value.

I’ll get a context into a solid place with as much information as I can about a project. Usually getting up to 100k tokens.

Then I ask it to give me a summary I can use in a fresh chat, that will maintain the current context. This lets me reclaim space, bring responsiveness back to sane levels, have a baseline chat I use to spin up branches for marketing, design (it’s pretty helpful at trouble shooting Substance Designer graphs), etc.

I’ve found myself going into sub branches from there… like a marketing context that pushes branches into different marketing channels.
by atmanactive | 2025-04-30 13:17:23+00:00
Yes, this functionality should be in addition to printable version.

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Now, about data storage, you have two options:

1.) store data on your server (not recommended) and hand out the ticket* to the user to use in a URL. Pros: can open the same project on any device. Cons: someone would have to pay for storage, would have to fend off abuse or introduce data expiry, and so on (huge hassle).

2.) store data in user browser's local storage (recommended) and hand out the ticket to the user to use in a URL. Pros: your server has to store no data. Cons: once created, the flashcard player can only be used on that one browser/device. No big deal, if needed on another device, the user can start the data-ingestion flow again from that other device and thus get another ticket* and run the playback of the same flashcard set on another device.

*ticket would be just a random string that would identify the dataset and would be a query parameter in the URL. It would be up to the user to bookmark that URL and give it a sane name.

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Now, to answer your questions:

> 1.) the main need is to have a link you can prepare in advance and revisit anytime, so you can review flashcards fullscreen, one by one, from any device (like a phone or tablet)?

Yes. A phone, a tablet, a TV, an e-ink panel, a raspberry Pi device... any device that has a decent enough browser. That's why the flashcard page itself has to be as simple as possible. Maybe a set title, the card number out of total number, and that's it. The only possible interaction should be a click anywhere on the screen.

> 2.) would you use it as your main way to study, or more as a casual daily reinforcement tool?

Casual daily reinforcement tool.

Thanks.
by afpx | 2025-04-30 13:17:44+00:00
Honestly, I sense that they believe it's all part of the game. And, if everyone else is doing it, why should they be at a disadvantage? I'm guessing here, though.

If you really want answers, best thing to do is hang out in an area dominated by Trump supporters for a few weeks. Talking to them has changed my perspective on a lot of things. I don't agree with a lot of what they say, but I understand them now. They often aren't great at articulating their thoughts. They think in terms of macro-level complex systems. I shouldn't say 'think' - more like they intuit. They feel something is wrong, and they don't necessarily know why. You have to (kindly and with curiosity) interrogate them a bunch to figure it all out.

I follow a bunch of them on X, and they seem outraged by some of what Trump is doing, particularly the pro-war stance. Hence the low poll numbers?

[Sorry I really geek out on anthropology and understanding cultures.]
by watwut | 2025-04-30 13:17:59+00:00
> How do you show the final price to someone when dining in and carrying out food have different tax rates?

I show two prices. Or, I show price for food and then price for packing separately. This is not a difficult problem at all.

>ow do you put the final price on an ad that will be broadcast over a large area or distributed in a newspaper that goes to same, with different tax rates in different parts of the area?

Are we now in some kind of completely different hypothetical example that is neither online shopping nor "prices in the store" we discussed before?
by acdha | 2025-04-30 13:18:55+00:00
Tire noise is still quite substantial - use the NIOSH noise meter app on your phone to compare the sound levels on a city block when an EV goes by compared to just bikes and people – and there’s a growing body of evidence that noise levels correlate with worse health and sleep for residents. EVs help, but it’s only partial.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11297122/
by corytheboyd | 2025-04-30 13:19:08+00:00
> […] push these tool-use mandates without actually quantifying the impact LLM tools have on productivity

The way I have seen this “measured” is by asking (demanding) people to pull some “time saved” number out of their ass. That number is then taken as fact, without question. So the measurable productivity gains are all based on coerced people making things up, omitting instances of the LLM tools slowing things down. It’s a house of cards, and it’s going to fall after a few more months of empty promises without results. “You claimed 300% more productivity, but delivered the same amount of work, and took on this massive AI bill. What the fuck are you doing?”

LLMs are cool, but they aren’t magic. This shit is exhausting, just skip to the part where you fire a bunch a software engineers, because that’s clearly what you actually want to do :/
by pc86 | 2025-04-30 13:20:29+00:00
It should be pretty obvious to anyone who's spent more than about 45 seconds thinking about it that you can gather good information about a potential enemy by watching how they train. For military and intelligence operations you want layered security, and you don't want to make intelligence-gathering operations against you any easier than you need to. So it makes perfect sense at least up to the moment of this crash that if you're operating military training flights in an area with a lot of foreign assets that you'd disable a feature that literally broadcasts where you are with telemetry once per second.

This mindset isn't conspiracy and framing it as such makes you sound like you have no idea what you're talking about.

> They have anti air weapons in embassies?

It'd honestly be pretty surprising if they didn't, but this is also why when countries officially go to war with each other the embassies are typically evacuated and/or evicted.

> Either way it's not worth 64 lives

Not a single person here or elsewhere is claiming otherwise.
by wpietri | 2025-04-30 13:20:32+00:00
Paranoia?

People generally don't like you messing with their stuff. They especially don't like it when you add sketchy-looking electronics to things that are expensive and can burn their property down.

If you want to take a swing at it, I'm not stopping you. But after 30 years having landlords, plus having family and friends who are landlords, I think I have a pretty good sense of what can upset a landlord. Maybe yours will be super chill. Me, I'd rather go the radio route.
by 9rx | 2025-04-30 13:20:59+00:00
> In the end the root problem is that both the EU and US suffer from having one currency for wildly different markets, which is causing a lot of issues.

What's the problem? Money is just debt. Having confidence that you can call the debt at a later date is the only property that is of true concern with currency. As long as you have the confidence, it theoretically doesn't really matter which currency you use as your IOU.

Perhaps you are suggesting that those particular currencies are losing confidence? You could especially make that case about the USD right now, methinks. But if each state/city/rural area in the USA, for example, had its own currency, would they really garner any more confidence? They are still subject to most of the same whims that is giving the USD its current look.

> "Inflation" is the _only_ tool other than stonk market indices that's being used by politicians, media and central banks

Aside from the media, which I think is a fair point – it likes the headline grabbing attention metrics, that's not really true. You are right that a primary objective of a central bank is to keep the currency stable so that people remain confident in it, so it may seem like it disproportionately focuses on the value of the currency, but that's kind of its job. But they aren't even looking at a single inflation measure. If I recall correctly, the US uses around 30 different measures of inflation internally.

> to judge "how is the economy?" and derive consequences, but as shown it's much too coarse of a hammer.

Thing is, the national economy doesn't really matter that much to your every day life, does it? As long as your local economy is strong, who cares (I mean in a self-serving way, not taking pity on those affected) if people on the other side of the country are struggling? While countries do vary, typically the nation is only concerned with big picture things like keeping confidence in the currency. The actual economic issues are for local governments to sort out.

Hence the old adage of the municipal government being the most important. And municipal governments should be looking at things like cost of living indices for their region. If they aren't, it is time for some tar and feathering.
by LastTrain | 2025-04-30 13:21:00+00:00
Go find a graph of housing prices 1963 to current, you will see that the events leading up to and including 2008 did nothing to help or hinder housing affordability in the long run. We are due a 2008 style correction but that will not make housing affordable either. The real problem is that household income stopped outpacing home prices in the 1970s.
by potato3732842 | 2025-04-30 13:21:25+00:00
>There is a reason high tariffs are only implemented after very long, multi-generational intervals, e.g., 1820s, 1890s, 1930s, 2020s.

You need to read more history. The link between tariffs, or any specific federal policy, and how a time period looks to the next generations is iffy at best and probably not really correlated much or at all.

The 1820s-40s were looked upon by following generations the way many look at the 1950s today. From the POV of the mid to late 1800s it was seen as uncomplicated and peaceful because the tension and strife leading up to the civil war and the cultural messiness that followed had yet to build. From the POV of the industrial economy of the late 1800s and early 1900s it was seen the same way but with a heavier emphasis on cleanliness and purity because even if you were nominally poorer and subject to more chance of starvation living and working on a farm you owned was arguably nicer than a tenement and factory you didn't.

The 1890s on through the 1920s were also looked upon fondly by subsequent generations as a time of massive progress. Mechanical power via fossil fuels and steam became the norm, railroads were everywhere, factories sprung up, all manner of goods and services formerly reserved for the wealthy became the domain of the everyman.

Obviously the 1930s don't get looked fondly upon and the jury is still out on the 2020s.
by koolba | 2025-04-30 13:21:31+00:00
> Before you wave this off as a “both sides are just as bad” issue, consider that the reason Amazon started down the path of displaying tariffs is likely due to a long-standing company value of putting the customer first. It makes sense that, as customers, we would want to see the impact of tariffs on our purchasing decisions. We would also want to see how much the sales tax is and how much the shipping cost is.

If they actually cared what consumers think, at some point over the past 35 years they would have added country of origin to product pages. Much simpler and higher impact. Does not require any recalculations or interpretations of local profit margin vs import value. Yet they've explicitly chosen never to add it.

Is that in the interests of the consumer?

> The problem for the Administration, however, is that they’ve been telling the American people the tariffs are not a tax on consumers, but rather a tax on foreign countries. This is a lie.

It is a tax on foreign countries. Some portion of it gets passed on to consumers who chose to purchase imported products. But it's not 100% of the tariff amount. And if there is local competition for the good, it may be 0% of the amount. Unless you're doing direct China to consumer sales (i.e. Temu style), you're not going to be able to come up with a perfect figure for these things either.

> So we have a situation where the administration is intimidating Amazon into going against its own values so that it doesn’t expose the lie the Administration is still telling the American people.

Ha! I agree that we have an administration that is leveraging the bully pulpit quite effectively. I see no change in Amazon's values here. They value money.

> I agree with you that Amazon‘s decision to bend to the administrations demand is just business. There are millions of dollars in military cloud infrastructure contracts that could be rescinded as retribution. And we see that the justice department is used by the president in ways that are far outside the norm.

> But do you believe this administration is acting like any we’ve seen in living memory?

No, I think they're effectively using the tools at their disposal to bring about the change that was promised during the years leading up to the 2024 election. None of this is a shock to anybody that was paying attention. And honestly none of this, at least so far, is particularly out of the norm for what's possible with executive authority. The speed of change is likely a bit much for the faint-hearted, but it's not unexpected either. The man ran on a platform of restructuring trade and 145% tarriffs on China is one piece of that puzzle.
by af78 | 2025-04-30 13:21:43+00:00
Famous, I don't know, but one example comes to mind:

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/americas/2022/06/16/the-braz... The Brazilian Candidate: The Studious Cover Identity of an Alleged Russian Spy

Maybe also Pablo González Yagüe aka Pavel Alekseyevich Rubtsov.