MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by runako | 2025-04-03 14:27:38+00:00
Let's leave aside for a moment the notion that there are any significant number of US manufacturers making stuff for 0% margins.

So you suggest that increasing the tariff allows the US maker to increase their margin. We're not talking about them reducing input costs (in fact, the opposite in many cases), so the only way you could mean for them to increase their margin is by raising price. And to get the full benefit, you suggest they raise their price to match the price of the imports. And yes, this is what will happen, US makers will increase their prices because their low-cost competition is gone.

So you're now kind of agreeing with the poster you initially disagreed with.

(Of course, for many goods there are no US factories here and no reasonable ability to make the goods here at prices that would make sense, even accounting for high tariff barriers. So in those cases, consumers will just pay more for the same goods.)
by weberer | 2025-04-03 14:27:56+00:00
>Whereas in a country like the US, it means missing several days of work, driving potentially hundreds of kilometers

Where did you hear this? When I lived in Pennsylvania, it was really easy to get a state ID. Just go into the DMV, show them your documents, pay the fee ($42 now), and you have your ID within the hour. They had centers all around the city, and they're open on Saturdays. Personally, I think this is an extremely weird hill for Democrats to want to die on. Most independent and swing voters think its a reasonable requirement.
by bell-cot | 2025-04-03 14:28:14+00:00
There's a highly emotional Right-Left culture war going on in America. Many of our "flagship" universities conspicuously sided with the Left - at least on most of the "litmus test" issues. And where universities didn't do that, the Right found it advantageous to talk up the association & outrage anyway.

Any decent History Prof. could have explained to the U's that openly taking one side in long-term cultural wars was not a viable long-term strategy.

(Or, maybe that's why so many universities cut their History Dept's so brutally? Though "just shoot inconvenient messengers" is also not a viable long-term strategy.)
by acc_297 | 2025-04-03 14:28:25+00:00
There is a certain Bitcoin evangelist who will preach the gospel of a self governing currency that via a system of rules will automatically validate transactions between trust-less parties in a decentralized manner over a globe-spanning internet protocol but then complain when that same system does not prevent them from accidentally sending the entire contents of their "wallet" to an address in North Korea.

The system does not represent ownership the system only tracks of the validity of transactions and if the North Korean government proposes a valid transaction of your BTC or ETH to an address they control and a mining-node includes that transaction in a block which a majority of the network accepts then those assets are no longer yours they belong to North Korea.

The properties of the crypto-asset ecosystem which allow it to be ungoverned also make it ungovernable.
by packetlost | 2025-04-03 14:28:33+00:00
Elasticsearch is a pretty bad choice for what really needs to be an embedded database. There are other FTS engines out there of varying quality that would be better suited to this particular case. Off the top of my head, Meillisearch and sqlite3's FTS5 would both be highly embed-able but have other tradeoffs (such as storage overhead).
Show HN: Benchi – A benchmarking tool written in Go
by lmazgon | 2025-04-03 14:28:37+00:00
Benchi is a CLI tool for running benchmarks and collecting metrics. It's using Docker Compose to orchestrate the infrastructure and tools being benchmarked, making it repeatable and runnable on different machines. It allows you to run the same benchmark for different tools and compare the collected results.

The repository contains a simple example. For a more elaborate example see how we use Benchi to compare data pipelines running on Conduit and Kafka Connect, two data streaming tools (still work in progress): https://github.com/ConduitIO/streaming-benchmarks
by I_Nidhi | 2025-04-03 14:28:43+00:00
The thing is if someone prepared for an interview and cracked the job, they have to be good at it. I have realised that it's often our perception of them which makes them bad at the their jobs. Similar to how we usually blame motivation when the actual problem is clarity of role or job. If we believe in the motive behind it and have clarity of our role in it, motivation does not remain an issue.

We make the jobs bad by not being able to properly share the incentive behind it, what good it brings and to whom. Most of the time people don't want to work because they don't see the ROI in it.
by rimunroe | 2025-04-03 14:29:05+00:00
> Small town hospital

And you generalized this to the world as a whole? I admit I don’t have a citation for this, but I’d be shocked if small towns didn’t have markedly slower spread rates than cities. I feel like this was brought up frequently during the pandemic.

> There was so much bad data and propoganda coming in at the beginning thar ultimately the only thing I could depend on was what I personally investigated.

How and which things did you decide were propaganda and bad data?
by agentultra | 2025-04-03 14:29:15+00:00
I still primarily use Thinkpads for all these reasons. One incident with fluids and a $3k Apple machine is e-waste. I had young kids, it was inevitable.

Instead, refurbished Thinkpads are still coming off leases. Available for a 250-700 refurbished. Bench repairable. I keep good backups. If something incredible happens and I can’t fix it I can get a new one same day and be back on my feet.

And I like the aesthetic. They’re built to be durable. The chassis has fluid channels. The parts are replaceable. They’re black, unassuming, and utilitarian.

It is getting harder to keep the latest versions of some distros running on them. Software continues to expand like a gas and developers don’t seem to run their stuff on anything but the latest spec hardware. But there are distros out there where folks take care to keep things minimal and fast.

These are still powerful machines. Not editing 4K video on them. But they’re dang useful for coding, writing, and day to day things I do.
by patcon | 2025-04-03 14:29:23+00:00
Judgement aside, I've gotta respect the humane way this org does layoffs. There's some slags in here about founder being "sociopath", but I'm just seeing a really humane founder with maybe some control issues.

Trump, who betrays everyone for personal benefit, there's a sociopath. Mullenwag's just got some personality vices that served him as underdog, and didn't adapt to when he gained power
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-03 14:29:25+00:00
Ehh, sounds like it wasn't your genre or mood, not that you "need adult games That respect your brain". Do you expect Cuphead to have this rich lore or to recreate the feeling of playing a Fleischmen-era cartoon?

Tastes will be different and I can respect that. But I feel there's no worse kind of criticism than one that is berating a game for something it was never targeting to do in thr first place. Why lambast a Mario game for it's lack of deep characterization instead of saying "I prefer a story-heavy game" and picking up the Last of Us?
by macinjosh | 2025-04-03 14:29:31+00:00
No it doesn't. Trump's whole issue here isn't making more money for the federal government. His issue is that the American economy no longer works for you if you are a blue collar worker.

The services we export are performed largely by white collar, college educated people. A good number of whom are here on H1-B visas. What service can an unemployed factory worker export to Vietnam? We have to end globalization of industry or wealth inequality will just continue to spiral.
by dang | 2025-04-03 14:29:33+00:00
Please don't take this thread or any HN thread into even more of a political flamewar hell. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: it looks like your account has been using HN primarily for political battle. That's a line at which we ban accounts, regardless of what your politics are or aren't. See https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme... for past explanations.

If you'd please revert to using HN as intended, we'd appreciate it.
by cs702 | 2025-04-03 14:30:17+00:00
Three things:

1. On the face of it, this looks horrible. I won't rehash the many arguments against it here, though. This page is already chock-full of those arguments.

2. Robot labor could make ultra-low-cost manufacturing possible in the US, to the point that many things become cheaper to make locally than to ship from abroad, tariffs or or no tariffs.

3. If any major country/region negotiates lower tariffs by fully opening its market to US products, every other country/region will be forced to do the same, expanding free trade everywhere.
by nkozyra | 2025-04-03 14:30:23+00:00
We are a consumer nation because we are more prosperous than our peers. It's the same reason you buy your food at a grocery store.

Generally, the clamoring for domestic production comes down to: 1. Employment. But because we are more prosperous, our employment is aimed elsewhere. We have jobs for people that are less dangerous, less manual, and better paid.

2. A fear that without domestic production, we're at a strategic or military disadvantage. But it's not that we _can't_ produce in an emergency, we can and have historically (see: oil in the 1970s). What protects us most is hegemony, which is threatened by things like across-the-board trade wars.

3. Nostalgia for the good ol days. Look, if you want to work in a factory, we have lots of them here, still. Nobody will stop you from putting on the hard hat. But in all likelihood you have a less stressful, less dangerous, and better-paying job today.

There really isn't an argument for this. Our trade was - as all trade is - mutually beneficial. Right now we're pushing the glass to the edge of the table when it was perfectly fine where it was.

One other important note: there are things we literally cannot produce domestically due to lack of natural availability (food products, certain textiles)
by acdha | 2025-04-03 14:30:33+00:00
I think that’s part of what I find so frustrating about this. There’s an alternate history where we’d have a national effort to invest in domestic industry, especially outside of a few areas which are doing well, but that just wouldn’t look anything like this.

A good example I saw was living in New Haven years back, where they were struggling to build businesses around the Yale community. There’s a ton of unused industrial area, especially as you go east, but they didn’t have the right combination of funding environment, local workforce, and infrastructure so in practice everyone went to NYC or Boston, or SF, and the state of Connecticut kept losing out.

Fixing that would be huge, but tariffs won’t do it unless you also invest in those other things and also something like antitrust protection so the key decisions aren’t made by a handful of gigantic companies.
by yojo | 2025-04-03 14:30:41+00:00
Having a trade surplus doesn’t mean you’re cheating.

If I make products better/cheaper than you, I’m going to sell more to you than you are to me.

Ditto if I have some valuable resource you need that represents a large share of my economy. The fact that you need my germanium more than I do doesn’t mean I’m ripping you off.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-03 14:31:33+00:00
>It incentivizes businesses (including foreign companies) to set up manufacturing units in India.

That type of protective policy works for India in incentivizing manufacturers to come build locally because Indian labor is still dirt cheap and the government will work with you to give you what you need without the pesky nimbyism, environmentalism, etc getting in the way of factories. US is not in the same case.
by chriskanan | 2025-04-03 14:31:39+00:00
Given that all other major countries, including China, are heavily investing in AI, it is essential for the USA to invest in this space, otherwise the USA would be at a severe competitive disadvantage in just about every category.

As an AI expert, though, I have a very pro-AI view, but I think its impact on the job market will be far more severe than many others. I'm actually teaching a lecture on that topic, grounded by data, next week. The real question to me is how the economic benefits of AI will be distributed among the populace and that requires both shifts in thinking in terms of economics, culture, government, and society. I predict a lot of societal unrest until those latter aspects are sorted out.
by dmix | 2025-04-03 14:31:43+00:00
People are also getting way too caught up in the math and numbers. They think WH calculated the percentages through incompetence but the 25% tariffs weren't based on anything very real either. The entire goal is not carefully calculated trade equality, it's mafia style intimidation to get some easy concessions as quickly as possible from everybody... before the economy crashes too hard. Spamming tariffs to see what sticks. The math is just a plausible justification for something they would have done anyway.

It's bully tactics.

For ex see Canada's fentynal importation issue, which was something invented to justify a natsec emergency legally. The numbers don't have to be real, just plausibly deniable.
by giantg2 | 2025-04-03 14:32:26+00:00
I don't want a cost of living increase either. However, this raise the question of what the real cost is. The prices might be cheaper, but is that only because we're exploiting poorer people in markets with fewer worker protections and fewer environmental protections? Is it just because I'm greedy and I'm not willing to pay someone a liveable wage here or go without whatever it is? I'm not sure, but it makes for an interesting thought experiment.
by pdimitar | 2025-04-03 14:32:29+00:00
Can you explain why this is wise? I'd say most execs leaving is usually a net positive. You are framing it as a tragedy and I am just not seeing it.

From where I am standing, leeches that are only there for fat bonuses left. Where's the loss?

And the measure you described also doesn't follow. Bad times always end and then you have a worse product. Will the execs pick up the new tech work?
by rafaelmn | 2025-04-03 14:32:39+00:00
>EU are not the ones who allied themselves with Russia

Need I remind you that Angela Merkel set the stage for all these Russia moves by building german "green transition" on Russian "green gas" ?

From what I'm seeing in Trump moves he doesn't care about Ukraine or Russia much other than showing his supporters how he ended the war that "Biden let happen" according to him. And the minerals deal to show he got their money back that Biden was giving away for free. Not really seeing any Russia alliance other than not buying into the Ukraines vision for the outcome of the war.
by iteria | 2025-04-03 14:32:52+00:00
> The crucial question is what is "politics"? Are personalities politics? No. Are parties? No. Are inflammatory issues about race, sex or gender or political correctness or immigration? No!

What an easy answer when you not part of the disadvantaged demographic. Some problems apply almost exclusively to a single demographic. Not asking the cultural questions is like thinking that segregation was perfectly okay because everyone had access to everything you'd need. Just not in the small space.

Urban problems are not rural problems even when they look like the same problem. Why there is a food desert in Nowhere, SomeState is not going to be anything like the reason there is a good desert in Urbanville, Somestate. So while everyone definitely deserves the ability to acquire food pretending that subgroups don't exist means you can't actually solve their struggle. If you apply a blanket solution it doesn't help everyone.

It is beyond disingenuous to pretend that different kinds of people don't feel the impact of culture and regulation differently and in ways they either can't themselves or can't at all change. To take that stance, shows that one is on the default demographic that is always considered before anyone else.
by dcchambers | 2025-04-03 14:33:02+00:00
My personal opinion is less complicated: they're pulling the economic levers they have in a way that they can use to enrich the top 0.1% even more. The richest of the rich got very wealthy during COVID (economic fallout, buying up lots of stocks at a discount then the biggest stock market bull run we've ever seen) and they want to make it happen again.
by nonrandomstring | 2025-04-03 14:33:03+00:00
There's always good news and a silver lining. We've been saying for years that BigTech is the cybersecurity threat. Working toward European cloud migration has been like pulling teeth as so many companies felt locked-in to insecure US products. In just two months Trump has done more to motivate abandonment of Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta products than any hackers or criminals in the past 25 years.
by kergonath | 2025-04-03 14:33:06+00:00
For context: the French and the German have been alternatively at war and allies since the times of Clovis and Charlemagne, a millenium before Bismark made modern Germany a thing (in occupied Versailles, in what was perfectly calibrated to be a complete French humiliation). And the Poles were on the wrong side of brutal occupation and a genocide during WWII. So both countries would have good reasons to be very skeptical of a powerful Germany.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-03 14:33:22+00:00
Aren't you cherry picking to make a point though? Certainly there are impacts on other countries though, and they're likely aligned (in theory) with their stated concern that countries are leveraging trade deficits to take advantage of the US.

> Tariff an island inhabited only by Penguins

This would be a great sound bite, but its also entirely useless. If the only inhabitants are penguins then a tariff on paper means nothing, they just avoided having to write one-off exceptions.
Show HN: OnCallManager – Simple on-call management tool for small/medium teams
by finedev | 2025-04-03 14:33:46+00:00
After years of dealing with bloated and overpriced on-call scheduling tools, I finally decided to build something lightweight and focused — OnCallManager.app. It’s a clean, no-frills way to create, and manage on-call rotations for small teams.

Features: - Weekly visual schedule - Easy switching using override just in case. - Google calendar integration - (Upcoming) AI agents for oncall issues. (summary, auto-reply and etc)
by fadedsignal | 2025-04-03 14:33:51+00:00
That sucks. I remember buying my XPS when the new version released and tried to install Linux (Fedora). Nvidia driver issues, CPU E/P core issues, and many more. It literally took 2 years to get stable. Recently, Nvidia released a new version of the driver. Guess what happened? PC doesn't wake up from sleep anymore. I'm not even mentioning the so-called 8-hour battery life.
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-03 14:34:01+00:00
> Nuclear is a bragging tool, but only useful in real war if things are going bad enough that you decide to end the world.

No, it's a deterrent. This is why it's so important that the systems are in place and functional. So they can actually be used, to make sure they never have to.

A deterrent is not like a bragging tool at all.
by TaurenHunter | 2025-04-03 14:34:17+00:00
I don't see anyone mentioning that the United States needs to manage its massive national debt, currently in the trillions, by issuing Treasury securities. These securities mature at varying intervals and require continuous "rolling" or refinancing to pay off old debt with new borrowing.

Significant rollovers are expected from April through September 2025, with additional short-term maturities due by June.

Higher interest rates significantly complicate US' ability to refinance. The cost of servicing this debt — paying interest rather than reducing principal — is already a major budget item, surpassing Medicare, approaching Defense and Social Security levels.

If rates don't come down soon it locks in higher costs for years. The country is at risk of a debt spiral.

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.

Treasuries are considered safe during such crisis. Increased demand for Treasuries pushes their prices up and yields down, effectively lowering interest rates.

What are the flaws in this thinking?
by quuxplusone | 2025-04-03 14:34:25+00:00
As I understand it, yeah, there's a way to ask the .ai nameserver for its entire "zone" (the mapping from domain names to... everything else). That's a "zone transfer" a.k.a. "AXFR" request, which you can make by first locating a nameserver that knows about .ai:

$ dig NS ai.

Now you have the names of .ai's nameservers, and the glue records for some of them:

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION: v0n3.nic.ai. 107 IN A 199.115.155.1 v0n3.nic.ai. 107 IN AAAA 2001:500:a3::1 v0n0.nic.ai. 7 IN A 199.115.152.1

Now you ask that nameserver for a zone transfer:

$ dig AXFR ai. @199.115.155.1

...And it quickly says "no, not to you; I don't know you and so I'm not going to spend the bandwidth to tell you all that."

; <<>> DiG 9.18.30-0ubuntu0.22.04.2-Ubuntu <<>> AXFR ai. @199.115.155.1 ;; global options: +cmd ; Transfer failed.

But hey, that's how you'd ask. Now, if you were on the nameserver's whitelist, you'd see the whole zone, and the answer to the blog's puzzle would be somewhere in there. (But note that the answer is also at the end of TFA; you don't have to solve it yourself if you don't want to.)

I wouldn't use the words "API access" to describe "permission to make AXFR requests," but yeah, it's the same general idea: if you're not on the list, you can't do the thing.

More than I care to know about AXFR: https://cr.yp.to/djbdns/axfr-notes.html
by whywhywhywhy | 2025-04-03 14:34:25+00:00
You don't need data from actual professionals, tools can be trained from the finished product that can make more of the finished product. We know this from AI use in writing, images, voice and video.

Ultimately an "AI Ableton" isn't going to look like Ableton, it'll be a simple multitrack editor with a cursor style chat on the side.
by rchaud | 2025-04-03 14:34:35+00:00
This is the equivalent of the "mentally ill lone wolf" rationales given for American mass shootings.

What possible difference would a psychological test make when an pre-existing felony conviction is not enough to keep him from voting, but also to actually sit as head of state?

What is happening in America simply doesn't happen without broad-based, implicit, systemic support at all the important decision-making junctures. In 2017, several of the highest-profile executive orders were slapped down in court within days. In 2025, the government is not even pretending to abide by court rulings on their EOs, and are detaining people without charge and revoking their visas without due process.
by xwiz | 2025-04-03 14:34:47+00:00
This opens an interesting possibility for a purely symbol-based legal code. This would probably improve clarity when it came to legal phrases that overlap common English, and you could avoid ambiguity when it came to language constructs, like in this case[1], where some drivers were losing overtime pay because of a comma in the overtime law.

[1] https://cases.justia.com/federal/appellate-courts/ca1/16-190...