MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jiggawatts | 2025-04-04 23:04:52+00:00
Those statements are marketing and/or propaganda, and their logic don't match up to the actions that were taken:

- Both countries with trade surpluses and deficits were all tariffed -- therefore this is not about re-balancing trade.

- Inputs required for on-shoring were all tariffed -- therefore this isn't about bringing manufacturing on-shore.

- Both geopolitical rivals and allies were all tariffed -- therefore this isn't about defence. (Russia was specifically excluded!)

- Only "goods" were factored into the calculation, services were not, despite being the major US export, making this very unfair to countries that export goods and import services -- therefore this isn't about trade policy becoming more fair.

Etc...

Just yesterday I was debating the supposed benefits of the tariffs with a conservative friend of mine, and it was the same problem: They couldn't draw an arrow between "enact sweeping tariffs" and "... profit".

Every country for the history of the world that has enacted sweeping tariffs has suffered for it, every time.

Protectionism like this causes domestic industries to become inefficient because they don't have to compete on a level playing field against foreign products.

-- The Trump administration's answer to this is simply: "No it won't!", without any stated reason.

Blanket tariffs reduces the efficiency of on-shore businesses, because they are penalised for buying from more efficient foreign sources of inputs that can't be made locally. Here on HN people mentioned coffee, chocolate, olive oil, avocados, and other food products that require specific climates. Similar logic applies to many other inputs, such as industrial robots (Germany), lithography machines (Netherlands), rare earths (China), etc, etc...

-- The Trump administration's answer to this is simply: "No it won't!", without any stated reason.

The people behind this keep drawing a couple of circles and waving their hands while proclaiming that drawing the rest of the owl is easy.

Okay. Show me a drawing of the rest of the fucking owl.
by johannes1234321 | 2025-04-04 23:05:45+00:00
All nice and good, but Bill Gates decided he wants to have some fancy visual effects there. If you visit it with a JavaScript enabled graphicla browser (I haven't checked accisibility etc.) or read through some discussions here you will notice that functionality or such isn't purpose of the site. So yeah, for a company which wants to do business or something it isn't right, but that some retired dude doing something fun to him (of course he didn't implement it, but asked some agency)
by alephnerd | 2025-04-04 23:06:19+00:00
> So 1 country down, 193 to go

One of America's largest trading partners (6th largest import market) so there's that.

Furthermore, India is also working on announcing a Bilateral Trade Agreement with the US before the QUAD Summit in October (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-03/trump-pil...)

Other large countries also have delegations in the midst of negotiations already - like SK (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-03/south-kor...).

The EU has also started negotiating (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-04/eu-begins...)

And Canada and Mexico remain under NAFTA/USMCA.

Tl;dr - most of America's largest trading partners are in the midst of negotiations or exempt.
by huksley | 2025-04-04 23:06:20+00:00
Remember all those horror stories about ridiculous bills from public cloud providers? I also got $4.5k bill once for simple mistake on AWS.

So I decided to build Vercel for your own servers - DollarDeploy, which manages servers and deploys NextJS apps (without docker) and docker compose configs to your server. We don't have self hosted or open source but cloud version starts from $1/mo
by rtp4me | 2025-04-04 23:06:33+00:00
Thanks for this. To me, this makes more sense than some random "tariffs are bad" messaging on social media. Do you have a link to the video you mentioned above? I would like to learn more.

As an aside, for those who have 401(K) and IRA accounts in the US, the stock market plunge might be a great time to convert funds into ROTH accounts (lower taxes now, etc). At least there is a silver lining...
by llm_nerd | 2025-04-04 23:06:54+00:00
This isn't accurate.

He, being a guy quite literally facing prison time if he didn't win, promised untold riches for all Americans if he won. An era of prosperity. That everything would be nothing but greatness from a newly respected super power.

I mean...anyone with any reason knew it was outrageous nonsense, of the worst sort of political puffery. Basically a cliche of the worst political nonsense.

He and his supplicants started the "okay, maybe things will be bad for a while" weeks after his inauguration when it was blatantly obvious that it was all ridiculous lies. His supplicants are now talking about how Americans should feel empowered going without goods and luxuries.

That's the thing about liars. It's like with DOGE starting by getting the cult all excited about the imaginary $5000 cheque they would all get from all those easy savings, but after a few months, when it is blatantly obvious that the deficit has gone up (and thus far there have been exactly 0 cases of fraud found), there'll be a different tune. Same thing about his team of cybercriminal misfits who claim they're going to super rewrite everything -- anyone who has worked in this field long enough have had to endure incompetent clowns like that, and six months in we'll hear a list of "why the code they inherited was the worst code in the world, and..."
by jhanschoo | 2025-04-04 23:07:08+00:00
There's a common abuse of language that the ancestor comment uses, where we also use the names of colors for the wavelength of the pure light that we perceive them as; perhaps they could have been more specific about that. Hence because of this abuse of terminology we have words like infrared and ultraviolet to refer to spectra beyond human color perception, but are so called for their relation to the particular pure wavelengths that we perceive as red and violet.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-04 23:07:40+00:00
Hahaha--no. Such a devious long-term plan wouldn't be taxing specific US military bases or populations of penguins, for starters.

I see such a huge outpouring of energy being spent right now trying to develop mutually-incompatible 4D chess explanations for Trump taking a dump onto the chessboard, borne from different flavors of denial.

For some, it's because the first rule of Cult Club is that the cult-leader can't be fallible. For others, it's because they don't want to believe that stupidity sometimes wins.
by secabeen | 2025-04-04 23:08:15+00:00
> If I were going to disrupt AirBNB, I'd offer hosts a better percentage with the requirement that the experience is standardized and high-quality.

This is an interesting idea, but it puts the quality level way above what I want to pay for. Hotels are anti-septic and cold. I like staying in an apartment that feels like someone actually lives there. I don't mind a few dust-bunnies under the couch, nor a little dirt behind the toilet. It's even better when the kitchen is fully stocked, including a selection of non-perishable food (think cooking oil, salt, pepper, maybe a bag of ground coffee and a box of pasta.) Sure, the sheets and towels should be freshly laundered, but beyond that, I don't want much.

AirBNB allowed me to pay less to get a more human-feeling space. Hotels are like McDonalds, they are designed for the regular customer who wants to get that Hilton-feeling, regardless of if they are in Wichita or Cairo. I want to feel like I'm in Cairo, and if that means that I'm in a mud brick house with a single bathroom, no A/C, and no daily housekeeping that's great! AirBNB opened those worlds to us as travelers, in a way that hotel chains never did.
by kbelder | 2025-04-04 23:08:37+00:00
I don't think it has anything to do with being right wing -- Rand despised and was despised by much of the right wing -- but more to do with her traditionalist method of doing philosophy. I'd even call it Russian-influenced. I think Rand approached her philosophy from a literary perspective, and viewed her philosophy as a grand treatise that addressed every important aspect... an entire philosophical system. The overbearing rigidity and confidence sprung from this. It is very 19th-century in feel.

It is very different from a modern, more scientific approach, where we would view the system as a work in progress which would be refined over time. It would have been better for Rand to say about (for instance) free will, "it may function this way" or "we can make at least these statements about it", but I think Rand was not constitutionally able to couch her beliefs with qualifiers. It hurt her philosophical arguments, while at the same time perhaps made her a more interesting author.

I'm not an Objectivist, despite being sympathetic, because Rand created it and wouldn't agree that I was one. The reason is because I would tweak her philosophy. I'd incorporate some Bayesian probabilistic arguments into her metaphysics and epistemology, which she would despise. I'd modify her ethics with findings from game theory. I'd fold insights from cellular automata and chaos theory into her philosophy of consciousness. The broad swaths would be mostly the same, but it would no longer by Ayn Rand's Objectivism (tm).
by DavidVoid | 2025-04-04 23:08:44+00:00
IMO, the most important UX features for anchor links is that you should be able to send them to other people (and save them via bookmarks).

Say that you find yourself needing to check the "Control code table" section of the Wikipedia ASCII article from time to time (for some reason). Being able to bookmark that specific section[1] is much more convenient than having to always start from the top of the page[2] and then scroll down (or click some on some anchor link) to get where you actually want to go.

This thirty-five website doesn't seem to offer that functionality because it doesn't use #anchor-name URLs.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII#Control_code_table

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
by kylehotchkiss | 2025-04-04 23:09:04+00:00
Developing countries should absolutely get the standard set of antibiotics.

Formulas for "antibiotics of last resort" (I would consider a newly designed one in this category) should not be sent to Pharma companies of these countries, rather, the antibiotics should be pre-dosed and mailed over from a country who can maintain the integrity of the formula in a limited fashion to keep their effectiveness high so they can continue to serve patients years into the future.

It sucks, but we've watched antibiotics be abused so badly that babies are born into hospitals where they catch resistant infections nearly right after childbirth. I blame the antibiotics-for-every-cough medical practices common in some countries (I've seen this happen myself!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofbtepraOX4
by kragen | 2025-04-04 23:09:45+00:00
Interesting, I didn't know that! I didn't know him until the 90s, and didn't meet him in person until his CodeCon presentation.

What I was trying to express—perhaps poorly—is that maybe floating-point support would have been more effort than the entire Integer BASIC. (Incidentally, as I understand it, nobody has found a bug in Apple Integer BASIC yet, which makes it a nontrivial achievement from my point of view.)
by drivers99 | 2025-04-04 23:10:15+00:00
I thought I was having some deja vu. I had to keep checking the timestamps. The same person recommended the book 18 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43390896 and then a different person also recommended the author's YouTube channel. I also bought the book since then. I guess I better get started reading it now. :)
by fabbari | 2025-04-04 23:13:18+00:00
Not the op, but no - I don't see anything wrong with the scenario: the employer is making the call, and if they find the speech of the employee doesn't fit with their worldview they have all the rights to fire them.

Practical example: the employer is an LGBTQ+ friendly establishment, the employee is on social media saying that LGBTQ+ people are all deviants and will all burn in hell for their sins. I think the employer should have the freedom to fire the person, right?

Forcing the employer to keep the employee is the equivalent of compelled speech.

Edit: fixed - no joke - pronouns
by immibis | 2025-04-04 23:13:26+00:00
USB is something that is possible to understand, and apparently bit-bang at at least low speed 1.5Mbps. Probably full speed 12Mbps as well on a modern MCU. I don't understand it, but one can.

In that sense it's like SPI, or perhaps more like CAN or SD: when you don't understand it, you reach for someone else to have done it for you, but you can choose to understand it and once you understand it you can implement it.

If you're the slave you have tight timing requirements but you only have to respond with certain fixed bit patterns to certain other bit patterns. If you're the master, you can do more things concurrently because the slave won't notice a little jitter in how often you poll it, but you have the problem of dealing with a wider variety of slaves that can be connected.
by leereeves | 2025-04-04 23:13:36+00:00
#1. Total US food imports are about $200B. That's about 10% of US household spending on food, measured by supermarket plus restaurant sales ($800B + $1T).

#2. It's hard to know what's going on in Russia.

#3. High exports don't disprove GP's claim about "state economic planning and market barriers". In fact, they prove the success of those policies and help China maintain a $1T trade surplus, the very opposite of the US's situation.
by gricardo99 | 2025-04-04 23:15:07+00:00
My favorite Tcl story is a little side note about how Tcl could have been the language of the web[1]

the founding of Netscape occurred at the same time I was deciding where to go in industry when I left Berkeley in 1994. Jim Clarke and Marc Andreessen approached me about the possibility of my joining Netscape as a founder, but I eventually decided against it (they hadn't yet decided to do Web stuff when I talked with them). This is one of the biggest "what if" moments of my career. If I had gone to Netscape, I think there's a good chance that Tcl would have become the browser language instead of JavaScript and the world would be a different place! However, in retrospect I'm not sure that Tcl would actually be a better language for the Web than JavaScript, so maybe the right thing happened.

Too humble Dr. Ousterhout! It would have been a far better language.

1 - https://pldb.io/blog/JohnOusterhout.html
by mooreds | 2025-04-04 23:15:09+00:00
> I feel like an editor now, more than an engineer.

I have been using LLMs more and more and I think they are great for brainstorming and editing and getting to an 80% solution. But just like an editor needs to know the fundamentals of writing, you still need to know the fundamentals of software to be effective as an engineer.

Side note: I remember when I first came upon a really sophisticated system that made me feel more like an assembler than a developer. It was drupal in the late 2000s. I ran away from that as fast as I could, even though the money was good.
by brucehoult | 2025-04-04 23:15:35+00:00
The article goes through a long list of 8 pin chips but ignores the very popular $0.10 CH32V003, which has 2k RAM and 16k Flash running at 48 MHz and 1 CPI -- or the new CH570 (I have a dev board on the way) which is also $0.10 in SOIC8 but now runs at 100 MHz with 16k RAM and 256k flash and has USB and a 2.4 GHz packet radio.
by iamben | 2025-04-04 23:15:43+00:00
I feel this will resonate with a lot of us. For a lot of years I very much lost the love of the web I'd had since the mid 90s.

A couple of years ago I was lucky enough to have the time, space and money to enjoy side projects again. Music, art, coding for the love of making something with no other reason than doing. I stopped thinking anything had to be anything - it just was. I could do for the sake of doing and it was liberating.

I've been very happy about this, it's been a blessing mentally. And very productive. I've enjoyed time and space, and I appreciate (again!) how lucky I am to be here.
by dmitrygr | 2025-04-04 23:16:41+00:00
CH32V003 is not available on mouser.com or digikey.com

Googling for "CH570" produces results about tractors. Got a link?

EDIT: found info here: https://www.cnx-software.com/2025/04/02/10-cents-wch-ch570-c...

8-pin part lacks USB AND only has 3 I/O pins. It would be disqualified due to being too I/O-poor. Wasting 5 pins out of 8 is a joke!

As for the old one, CH32V003: 48MHz is slower than the STM's 150MHz, half the flash, 1/4 the RAM. It is still not the best option.

I did update the article with them, though :)
by boshalfoshal | 2025-04-04 23:16:42+00:00
I don't necessarily think you're wrong, and in general I do agree with you to an extent that this seems like self-centeted Computer Scientist/SWE hubris to think that automating programming is ~AGI.

HOWEVER there is a case to be made that software is an insanely powerful lever for many industries, especially AI. And if current AI gets good enough at software problems that it can improve its own infrastructure or even ideate new model architectures, then we would (in this hypothetical case), potentially reach an "intelligence explosion," which would (may) _actually_ yield a true, generalized intelligence.

So as a cynic, while I think the intermediary goal of many of these so-called-agi companies is just your usual SaaS automation slop because thats the easiest industry to disrupt and extract money from (and the people at these companies only really know how software works, as opposed to having knowledge of other things like chemistry, biology, etc), I also think that in theory, being a very fast and low cost programming agent is a bit more powerful than you think.
by trhway | 2025-04-04 23:17:35+00:00
>What's most disturbing isn't the personal drama but what this reveals about how Objectivism operates in practice. For a philosophy obsessed with reason and independence,

ideology. People pervert everything into ideology.

> its institutional guardians seem remarkably focused on excommunication, loyalty tests, and controlling access to primary sources. The gap between preaching individualism while demanding conformity has always been the movement's central contradiction.

that can be said about any ideology. Ideologies can be different yet those guardians and the gap between declaration and practice is always the same.
by sillywalk | 2025-04-04 23:17:44+00:00
> definitely not a mainframe.

Interestingly enough, as part of IBM's Eclipz Project - to share tech between their server lines - the POWER6 shared a lot of things with the z10 mainframe processor. To quote Wikipedia:

"The z10 processor was co-developed with and shares many design traits with the POWER6 processor, such as fabrication technology, logic design, execution unit, floating-point units, bus technology (GX bus) and pipeline design style, i.e., a high frequency, low latency, deep (14 stages in the z10), in-order pipeline. "
by screye | 2025-04-04 23:18:15+00:00
I disagree. Zombie-town is a valid insult for the state of certain SF neighborhoods.

Yes, opponents love exaggerating the geographical extent of this crisis. But, it is that dire in the worst hotspots. Unfortunately, these hotspots also happen to be high-foot-traffic commuter hubs and downtown locations. Compassionate methods should be the carrot to a much needed stick. The stick being - Punishment for crimes and involuntary hospitalization of those too far gone.

I would like to talk about the horrors of involuntary hospitalization. Which issues do you think will return ? What's worse than a life that's indistinguishable from zombie-hood on the streets of SF ?
by huevosabio | 2025-04-04 23:18:26+00:00
PMS as property managements software :).

And yes, I use Airbnb as a guest as well, but I gauge the risk of having a bad host into the decision making.

We also get all type of horror stories from guests that had a bad experience and found themselves trying to find a last minute place to stay.

The problem is that the Airbnb app heavily disincentivizes "professionalization". They have a small cartel of PMS providers that can actually hit their API. I can't build my own systems on top of their API, I have to go through a middle man or use the their crappy app.

Their app is so incredibly obtuse that it puzzles me how people shower Airbnb as a "great product design company". It's a beautiful app sure, but incredibly clunky. It's like a call center phone menu made into an art piece.
by rbizyrbiz | 2025-04-04 23:18:45+00:00
Ehh, big fat liberal, prob more Canada/EU but flex to go beyond (I can do citizenship either way, and willing to look at other places I might not be familiar with if they are even somewhat biz friendly)

Just wondering what the logistics are of moving the corporation over, not looking to start a big political discussion.

Thread title was from Joe Strummer thats all.
by m463 | 2025-04-04 23:18:55+00:00
This is so ridiculous and so true.

it's even worse because the searches and even sidebar checkboxes don't let you filter OUT things.

"dishwasher -smart" "lawnmower without wifi"

It reminds me of the article about supermarkets who periodically rearrange the entire store to bump sales (to the distress of customers)
by slg | 2025-04-04 23:19:06+00:00
>Are you arguing with me or the person I am replying to?

The way some people use the internet truly puzzle me. A username is on each comment. I made a comment, you replied, and I replied back. I wasn't arguing with myself. You took the time to reiterate your philosophy in more depth without even bothering to first take the literal second to check the usernames to clear up your confusion or pausing for a moment to actually engage with anything actually said in my last comment? I wasn't asking you for more details on your philosophy, I was asking you direct and specific questions on how this philosophy meshes with the complexities of the real world. I frankly don't know how to respond beyond just referring you back to the questions in my previous comment.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-04 23:19:50+00:00
>I don't see any advantage to involving Microsoft in the boot process.

Good point. Me neither, never have,

But if they're already there within the PC in some way or another, ideally they should gracefully be able to accomodate Linux under UEFI as easily as it still works when using BIOS.

>in effect you're proposing different boot paths, and different UI/UX depending on whether the system is Linux-only or dual boot Windows Linux.

Not proposing. Been living it for decades. It's only broken under UEFI.

Even on my average pure Windows machine, I normally have about 4 distinct boot paths for each OS using various instances of the NT6 bootloader. Not counting the option of whipping up an emergency boot floppy which can still be made for modern Windows use if all else failed.

Experience has shown, the more viable boot paths, and the fewer obstacles, the greater reliability.

>You seem to think Microsoft wants to be in the business of executing arbitrary and unsigned code

Nope, that's just how they started out and ended up outgrowing IBM. I remember it well, those days are long over.

Likewise, there should never have been any need for Linux to involve any Microsoft code or signing, like SecureBoot, in order to perform on the most secure new PC's without requiring any different default UEFI settings than Windows.