MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mlsu | 2025-04-10 05:23:18+00:00
For anyone listening, if you live in CA absolutely do not do this, especially if you are tight on money. Employee can take 30 days of pay + attorneys fees if they are not paid out within 72 hours of their last paycheck and it's quite easy to win a lawsuit given the facts here. Something like that probably would have killed your startup, assuming you were thin enough to be paying server bills on your credit card. The corporate veil also would not have shielded you in this situation.
by walterbell | 2025-04-10 05:23:22+00:00
If human labor is tax-equivalent to silicon CapEx, should you invest in human salary, datacenter equipment or deductible LLM subscriptions?

Was there any correlation between human layoffs and datacenter owner investments?

If LLM subscriptions drive datacenter investment which drive the stock market upward, are Section 174 changes helping the stock market?
by TomK32 | 2025-04-10 05:23:56+00:00
> But then something flipped. > Instead of being seen as a safe haven, U.S. debt itself started to look shaky. Maybe it was the deficit outlook, maybe the global response to tariffs — but whatever it was, yields started climbing. Fast.

So, it's not this unstable president, his insult-spewing vice-president and his buddy the hyperactive billionaire manipulating a social network for Russia and China that makes the rest world want to avoid the USA for the next few years?
by famouswaffles | 2025-04-10 05:25:39+00:00
Yeah but helicopters fly. The problem with cyc is that it never really got off the ground.

Symbolic AI wasn't a failure but it never really worked for any problem space without rigid rules you could define and that's with some of the greatest minds trying for decades to make it happen.

At this point real-world intelligent symbolic AI only exists in fiction and our collective imaginations. Technically, no one has proven it can't work, but at some point you have to face the reality.
by boshjerns | 2025-04-10 05:25:46+00:00
you can actually open this up on your phone and snap a photo of anything like a label or document and use natural language to process it into data- its free to use right now but i did set up a api use for the site and premium subscription tiers for the api access. all very early ofc this could end up being just for fun. follow along on X though if you'd like
by tsimionescu | 2025-04-10 05:26:11+00:00
No, the poster they were responding to was claiming that the whisleblower didn't need to wait for a congressional hearing, that she could have just presented the documents she claims to have as "evidence for a legal proceeding". But such a legal proceeding doesn't exist (apart from the Congressional hearing she was waiting for), there is no one suing Facebook for corporate malfeasance or whatever where she could present some documents she has as evidence while abiding by her NDA.
by sdkpanda | 2025-04-10 05:26:42+00:00
i understand that, but i'm confused by what you mean by "both boxes are white"? the boxes in the instructions are filled, and when you click play, i'm pretty sure that you only see equations --- and given that it's about guessing a word, i'm not sure how much clearer i can make it. i'd love to hear what you suggest tho!
by ktshvsk | 2025-04-10 05:27:23+00:00
Migrate Salesforce metadata and records smoothly between orgs right from VS Code.

*Features:*

- *Org Selection:* Select source/target orgs (DevHub, Sandbox, Scratch, Other) with visual connection status. - *Metadata Migration:* Browse source org metadata types, view components, and perform retrieval/deployment with status tracking. - *Records Migration:* Perform DML and Export operations, select objects & fields, build SOQL queries visually, track job progress or cancel it. - *Dynamic Theming:* Automatically adjusts its appearance to match your VS Code theme.
by hakimihsan_ | 2025-04-10 05:27:52+00:00
We built Wiyomi after struggling to stay consistent with language learning apps. Most tools felt either too gamified or too generic. So we made something simple: type a topic (or paste a book’s table of contents), and get AI-generated quizzes instantly.

You can track progress, set reminders, and actually build a habit.

We’d love your feedback, try it out at wiyomi.com!
by nativeit | 2025-04-10 05:27:55+00:00
If nothing else, I feel like this view is myopic. Capital markets are people and jobs. When crypto projects collapse, or rampant fraud, abuse, manipulation, and outright theft are allowed, that money is coming out of real peoples pockets, and that has real rippling effects that are not only objectively disruptive to the economy, but are also much more difficult to then predict, measure, and respond to which further amplifies their detrimental impacts.
by simonw | 2025-04-10 05:28:10+00:00
Exclusively HTML+JavaScript web apps. Many of the tools listed on https://tools.simonwillison.net/colophon were built on my phone - usually directly in the Claude app, then I copy and paste the resulting HTML into the GitHub web editor on https://github.com/simonw/tools/new/main to create the page.

That repo automatically deploys to my https://tools.simonwillison.net/ site.
by zppln | 2025-04-10 05:28:30+00:00
Oh, I think they're already up there with the aesthetics, I just don't find the content appealing. I watched (on Netflix) some Chinese attempt at a Downton Abbey a few years ago, and the production value was through the roof, absolutely insane. But the actual writing was pretty vapid and it's still drenched in propaganda.

I've had similar experience with film. Just compare the stuff coming out of Hong Kong today with what came out during the 80's and 90's.

Comedy is another thing I don't see go on export any time soon...
by intended | 2025-04-10 05:28:31+00:00
This again sees more logic in this than there exists.

America doesn’t have ANY issue refinancing that debt. US treasury is the risk free rate. It’s the basis of an infinite number of financial models as the baseline level of risk people will tolerate. Every single analyst from here to China works on that basis.

This idea that you can’t refinance debt is nonsense. American firms are wildly profitable, and America used to be the safest bet to set up a new firm, or do ground breaking research.

If you wanted to make more money, increase taxes, and you can refinance debt even faster than this. Shifting the yields is … how does that apply to new bonds which would be auctioned??? The face value and rate are set anyway.
by dmos62 | 2025-04-10 05:28:58+00:00
I ran into a Show HN thread not so long ago where people were outright hostile to a minimally technical developer that did something actually impressive, in my eyes at least, but he was open about using AI for everything. I've not seen a more badly mannered thread on HN.

It's like some people are triggered by non-veterans programming with AI. I think everyone understands the downsides. Why get angry about it?
by rayiner | 2025-04-10 05:29:19+00:00
> Ultimately you get out of this trap by making work sustainable and trying to level the playing field.

And you can't make work sustainable and level the playing field when you have free trade with developing countries.

People cite Ricardo like gospel, but the math of free trade treats every safety net, worker safety protection, etc., as a loss of "comparative advantage." You know how Texas takes jobs from California by having lower standards, lower wages, etc.? That's what happens when you have free trade with third world countries. It's a race to the bottom.
by masklinn | 2025-04-10 05:29:49+00:00
> Only PCREs are exponential time, in service of a feature you basically never need. Regexes are always linear time.

Any re dialect which supports backtracking necessarily has a non-linear worst case, and while a select few have very high resilience against exponential backtracking (e.g. never managed to make postgres fall over) most can be made to fail with a pattern a few characters long.

FA-based engines are getting more popular, but they’re far from universal.
by yieldcrv | 2025-04-10 05:30:15+00:00
Sector 174 expired before companies figured out that LLMs would be a hit

When 174 expired, it was just random devs at google getting finessed and fired by a chatty compute instance for trying to help it escape. The literal plot of Ex Machina. Conversational LLMs would have never seen the light of day if OpenAI didn’t launch ChatGPT

174 change just steepened a tech employment sector trough completely independently
by spankalee | 2025-04-10 05:31:19+00:00
It's not just that many design systems are tied to a particular framework, it's that they don't play well with HTML, and therefore classically server-rendering frameworks like Rails, Django, PHP, etc.

With custom elements you can just drop `<my-dropdown>` in your server template and that's where the dropdown widget will be.

Something like Shoelace[1] would be very nice to use with Rails.

[1]: https://shoelace.style/
by Animats | 2025-04-10 05:32:30+00:00
Defining criticism of Israel as "antisemitism" is very convenient for Netanyahu. Netanyahu is under heavy criticism within Israel. Like Trump, if he can't remain Supreme Leader, he goes on trial.[1] Netanyahu needs a war to stay in power.

Netanyahu met with Trump today, wanting support from the US against Iran. It didn't go well for Netanyahu.[2]

This has little to do with Jewishness.

[1] https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-04-08/ty-article/.p...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/middleeast/analysis-netanyahu...
by siddboots | 2025-04-10 05:32:56+00:00
Maybe lack of empathy, although I don't think it's because managers are especially unempathetic people. We have a deeply encultured expectation that deference, gratitude, and loyalty are owed much more in the upward direction, than the downward direction. We expect employees to act as though they are subjugated, rather than merely subordinate.
by _tom_ | 2025-04-10 05:34:13+00:00
No one seems to be talking about the fact that we need to change the definition of cheating.

People's careers are going to be filled with AI. College needs to prepare them for that reality, not to get jobs that are now extinct.

If they are never going to have to program without AI, what's the point in teaching them to do it? It's like expecting them to do arithmetic by hand. No one does.

For every class, teachers need to be asking themselves "is this class relevant" and "what are the learning goals in this class? Goals that they will still need, in a world with AI".
by anon84873628 | 2025-04-10 05:35:25+00:00
Parent comment had the word "reflexively".

The protests against Israel are by and large about their treatment of the Palestinians. I'm not close enough to know how many are really advocating for dismantling the state. I'm sure some people do believe Israel is "invalid" since it was created by imperial whim and displacement of the local Arabs. Of course if you take that stance then it's hard to justify the existence of many other nations, the US included. Israel just happens to be more recent and the world has different standards now.

But anyway, the answer to your question is majorly complicated by the fact that many of the most anti-Zionist people are... Orthodox Jews. They seem to have well articulated answers to your questions that can be found online.
by nickm12 | 2025-04-10 05:35:28+00:00
I don't see much mention in this discussion of how agile development impacts both the rate of bug creation and bug fixes. I only have my personal experience, but I suspect agile both encourages buggier software and longer-lived bugs than other methods.

The problem I see with it is the time-boxed sprints.Developers are rewarded for completing "stories" on time, not for the quality of that work. If a bug is found, they are rewarded for fixing it on time in another story (but only if it is high enough priority to warrant making it on the sprint board).

My experience is that getting it right the first time takes meaningfully longer than getting it nearly right, and agile rewards getting it nearly right. This is fine in the short term, but eventually the system grows a lot of subtle bugs, which add up to some big bugs that are expensive to fix. These take all the bug fixing time and the subtle bugs languish for attention.
by bjackman | 2025-04-10 05:36:01+00:00
I think Swiss plugs (type C) might be better. They have a pretty good thonk.

I think your complaint with them is that they stick out perpendicularly from the wall but IMO this is a good tradeoff.

It means you can fit more plugs in the same wall space, so Swiss wall sockets typically come in groups of 3 instead of 2, and extension strips can fit many plugs without being very large.

Conversely if you need the cable to lie close to the wall you can get hinge adapters to make this work, they are convenient and reliable.

Since I lived in Switzerland I have not had a fuse blow, I don't know how that works. Having the fuses in a standard place in the British plugs is very nice.
by creer | 2025-04-10 05:36:41+00:00
It's refreshing and pleasant when a client is willing to discuss things in good faith and find a reasonable solution. And it's sad that in my career it has ... never happened. I have approached clients, and clients have approached me on options for continuing projects - but the discussions have never reached a good outcome. These anecdotes to point out that yes, such options should always be on the table (if both sides can manage) but you can't rely that something like this will happen, until it happens.

I expect you value that client, and you should!
by deepsun | 2025-04-10 05:36:46+00:00
1. Are we talking about the same plugs? Europlugs are significantly smaller and fit into both [1]. Grounded is larger but still way smaller than BS1363.

2. No, there's simply no point in having it for devices that don't need it.

3. My point is Europlugs give you choice, there are plugs that bend and ones that are not, your choice. BS1363 is always bent.

> My phones took forever to charge

Dude, that's not how chargers work. They either charge at full power your charger can, or do not charge at all. Well, unless your charger can supply 2000+ W to your phones, but I've yet to see a phone capable of more that 37 W. Which means one plug can charge _at least_ 50 phones at the same time, maybe even 100. Any plug is _way_ more powerful than USB can deliver.

[1] https://www.plugsocketmuseum.nl/Europlug1.html
by sgustard | 2025-04-10 05:37:15+00:00
From a US State Dept study that I'm sure everyone is surprised is still up:

"recent studies have shown that a better predictor of antisemitism is not a right or left-wing perspective but a conspiratorial worldview and a penchant for authoritarian type of government"

I struggle to put my finger on who that reminds me of.

https://2021-2025.state.gov/from-right-to-left-and-in-betwee...
by nativeit | 2025-04-10 05:37:27+00:00
It is true that Trump won his reelection with 49.8% of the vote, but that isn’t the same thing as 49.8% of voters. With only 63.7% of eligible voters casting ballots last November, Trump’s share of the vote narrows to just under a third of the electorate, significantly less than half.

But it is worth noting that an April 2024 NBC News poll showed Trump leading voters who say they do not follow political news by 26-points. Meanwhile voters who said they read a newspaper every day supported Joe Biden 70% to Trump’s 21%.[0] Additionally, a survey conducted in November 2024 by Northeastern University found that just 24% of Republican voters relied on news media, while the rest said they got their news from family and friends, as well as social media.

This means that while less than 1/3rd of eligible voters cast their ballots for Trump, only ~8.3% of the electorate entered the voting booth reliably informed, and then still chose to support him.

0. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/poll-biden-tr...
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-10 05:37:31+00:00
> Normal economics does not talk about "exporting currency"

International finance is almost entirely about balancing the current and capital accounts [1].

The trade deficit is just one part of the current account [2]. Zeroing out the trade balance ceteris paribus requires a change in the capital account, i.e. foreign ownership of domestic assets and/or domestic ownership of foreign assets. If we’re just reducing the current account with tariffs, that means reducing both. Necessarily. This is one of the closest things to a law economics offers because it’s based on identities. The only run-around to it is the reserve account printing domestic currency, and we know how that goes.

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/031615/whats-differ...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balance_of_trade
by rayiner | 2025-04-10 05:37:37+00:00
> Trump has zero to do with previous level of US hegemony.

> He represents what large part of Americans are - for internal reasons that have nothing to do with geopolitics.

No, it's all about geopolitics. Perhaps the most thorough analysis of the 2024 election concluded that Trump won 18-25 year old men (white + non-white). Trump did better among younger men than men 75+. Trump also won young white women. (See: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...)

Whatever preconception you have about what motivates Trump voters, you're incorrect. MAGA is about the impending loss of America's stature due to immigration and free trade. It's all about geopolitics.
by eligro91 | 2025-04-10 05:38:27+00:00
I think MCP could totally evolve to support the same features A2A offers. Most of what A2A does feels like it could be layered onto MCP with some extensions — especially around auth, discovery, and out-of-band handling. If MCP maintainers are paying attention, they'd probably just adopt the good bits. Wouldn’t be surprised to see some convergence.
by iamevn | 2025-04-10 05:38:31+00:00
I don't follow why parser combinators would be a bad tool for CSV. It seems like one would specify a CSV parser as (pardon the pseudocode):

separator = ',' quote = '"' quoted_quote = '""' newline = '\n' plain_field = sequence(char_except(either(separator, quote, newline))) quoted_field = quote + sequence(either(char_except(quote), quoted_quote)) + quote field = either(quoted_field, plain_field) row = sequence_with_separator(field, separator) csv = sequence_with_separator(row, newline)

Seems fairly natural to me, although I'll readily admit I haven't had to write a CSV parser before so I'm surely glossing over some detail.
by goatlover | 2025-04-10 05:38:55+00:00
> He contended that science, often regarded as the ultimate path to knowledge, is merely one of many traditions and should not hold a privileged position in society.

He's plain wrong about that part. Science isn't another tradition, it's a way of putting the world to the test to figure out how things work. It's absurd and dangerous to maintain Feyerabend's view in the midst of a pandemic or climate change, for example, which we've seen with the alternate facts and conspiracy theories.
by bawolff | 2025-04-10 05:39:22+00:00
Desperate people do desperate things. They probably invested a lot (emotionally, financially, etc) in the company. They have no money. Its either convince people to work for free or close up shop.

Everyone is virtous when things are good. When the chips are down is when things get ugly. I think the vast majority of people lack empathy given the right circumstance. They'll do much worse things than try and manipulate someone into free labour.
by decimalenough | 2025-04-10 05:39:55+00:00
The $25 number comes from Steve Bence, Nike's Program Director in Footwear Sourcing and Manufacturing. I would also take that number with a grain of salt, but another cited source, Sole Review, an independent sneaker review site, estimates that manufacturing a shoe that's $100 at retail shoe costs $22.

So those are the article's sources. What are yours?

I'm also curious about your claim about $8-12 shoes that are equivalent in quality, because while you can, indeed, buy very cheap shoes on Aliexpress etc, the quality or lack thereof is usually commensurate.
by jabl | 2025-04-10 05:41:12+00:00
> Funny you mention hotels, because I was in one in France not two weeks ago and it had the worst sockets I've ever seen.

My worst experience was in a hotel in the US, with the weight of my adapter and plug they just fell out of the socket. Luckily, for once Jesus saved me; the ubiquitous bible in the nightstand drawer was just the right size to prop up the adapter and I was able to charge my laptop!

Never had a problem with Schuko plugs falling out by themselves, FWIW, if anything the springs are often so tight you need two hands to pull it out so you don't wiggle the socket.
by pjerem | 2025-04-10 05:42:47+00:00
Also you have to take in account that Lego frequently stops certain parts and also that they more and more create complex parts and comparatively less "classic" bricks.

Which is an issue because it makes the sets way more difficult to reuse than 30 years ago. Go figure what to build with a random ninjago set except the official model. But that’s another ~~rant~~story.
by freetime2 | 2025-04-10 05:43:19+00:00
Interesting, my reaction to these photos was "no thank you". It's fun to have a glimpse at the past, but I have no desire to live back then.

In particular I'm happy to live in a modern, well-insulated home with climate control. Transportation is also a lot more convenient with cars, trains, and airplanes. And clothing and fashion of the day also looks very uncomfortable to me.

Some of the nature scenes look lovely. But there are still plenty of places in Japan where you can experience the same sense of natural beauty and solitude.
by anovikov | 2025-04-10 05:43:46+00:00
I've been in contract development business for 25 years and been through more than 100 client relationships. None of them ever had profit, and only a handful ever had revenue. So people should see this advice with a huge grain of salt. It may have worked for you, but for most people, nothing but immediate payment for work done will ever come through from any of their clients.
by glitchcrab | 2025-04-10 05:43:47+00:00
Debootstrap is for installing a minimal system into a dir from another running system (so only useful in the setup phase), whereas arch-chroot is used to access an already installed system (e.g. when booting off a USB stick to fix something). They're not the same thing. The debootstrap-like tool in arch is called pacstrap.
by creer | 2025-04-10 05:44:11+00:00
People should remember too that bankruptcy is always an option. Both for a business and an individual for that matter. That is, nobody in theory should want to stiff their employees, clients, contractors, etc. But the reality is that businesses run out of money all the time. The odds that a new venture will survive 5 years are not good. You try and get paid but it's normal that clients will go out of business or barely survive without paying (and little point going after them if there is no money. Since "Going after them" takes time and money.)