MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by lenerdenator | 2025-04-03 15:34:26+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.

No one is mentioning this because no one cares, least of all the guy who just signed massive tariffs.

What you're describing is the end result of 30-ish years of Republicans implementing "Read my lips: no new taxes" and this country refusing to have to a mature conversation about revenues. Also, over that period, wages remained stagnant, meaning more people look to the government for assistance, which then costs money in the form of deficit spending. The numerous expensive wars didn't help, either.

There's no good fix to this other than some serious revenue raising through taxes on people who can afford it. Of course, those people are of the opinion that they're entitled to net worths that measure as a significant portion of a trillion dollars, and will simply push the costs onto consumers in order to maintain share prices since that's what most of the net worth sits in.

You have to break those people of that idea. Talk of interest rates, Treasury securities, Federal Reserve policy, it's all just noise. The money going in must be a larger portion of the money going out, and significantly burdening the average American with more tax debt isn't going to solve the problem before causing social upheaval.
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-04-03 15:34:34+00:00
According to monetarist theory these two things are one and the same.

The main source of "money printing" is banks making loans. And this is what the Fed targets when it raises interest rates.

I'm not quite sure whether tariffs really do lead to inflation. It depends on how consumers and companies respond to higher prices of imported goods and to the general sense of uncertainty.
by alexvitkov | 2025-04-03 15:35:28+00:00
Computers do what you tell them to, not what you want them to. This is naturally infuriating, as when a computer doesn't do what you want, it means you've failed to express your vague idea in concrete terms.

LLMs in the most general case do neither what you tell them, nor what you want them to. This, surprisingly, can be less infuriating, as now it feels like you have another actor to blame - even though an LLM is still mostly deterministic, and you can get a pretty good idea of what quality of response you can expect for a given prompt.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-04-03 15:35:35+00:00
The censorship really annoys me. I would've happily paid for the definitive edition (even though I already own the game), but I'm not willing to support a rerelease which changes stuff about the original game like that. If the devs want to make sure their new content is politically correct then fine, but changing the original content isn't cool.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-03 15:35:41+00:00
He's one economist from a very conservative line of thinking.

As a counter example, Thomas Piketty argues at length that taxation and wealth redistribution remain an effective way to bolster a societies resilience and lessen wealth inequality - which is still a very real issue in the world, and arguably one that the US shows can have very real negative consequences for letting it go unaddressed.

As for demand and inflating prices, yeah, domestic products may be more attractive, but the economy is huge, and much of it does not have a domestic allegory. The other issue here is the tax is on all imports, not only manufactured goods, which means raw materials - which often have to be sourced elsewhere - make manufacturing more expensive even domestically
by michaeld123 | 2025-04-03 15:35:43+00:00
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by ty6853 | 2025-04-03 15:36:02+00:00
My contention was never so much experts making recommendations based on projections built on weak evidence, but rather experts issuing orders on these wildly false projections that imprisoned and fined people for something as simple as dancing on a sidewalk in protest.

Experts should be free to advise the public. Thankfully the health director issuing the order that jailed and charged this man with a felony had to resign in disgrace.

https://archive.is/KhIQx
by geerlingguy | 2025-04-03 15:36:18+00:00
I saw this post come through via RSS (that's still how I consume most relevant information in my life... sadly some people nowadays have no RSS feeds for their posts, but that's a different discussion).

I've experienced something similar, with LinkedIn often edging out Twitter and Mastodon—though Bluesky fares a little better for my content, in terms of getting good conversations started on most platforms.

The annoying thing is, Bluesky and Twitter especially don't seem to be conducive to good conversational replies (especially since they get so disjointed). Mastodon is a little better there sometimes, but so few people (comparatively) are on that platform a lot of conversations languish.

Blogs with comments and forums are still the best for actually thoughtful conversation, with back and forth... but so many communities break off into Discord nowadays, it's hard to have anything as centralized for conversation/thoughts.
by ablob | 2025-04-03 15:36:23+00:00
I think what's meant is that you need to be open to changing your opinion and manner of approach to things. To stay with the analogy: when you "remake" your bed and it ends up the same, chances are that you didn't try to improve on its design.

By turning on Fox sometimes (provided it's not your main source) you might already not fall into the category of people not trying to remake their bed.
by thewebguyd | 2025-04-03 15:36:54+00:00
HN has always hated anything out of Redmond, both justified and not. There's good reasons for it, the halloween documents and the EEE era are not easily forgotten so I sympathize somewhat, but not all corps are treated equally here. Google and Apple will regularly get a pass for doing the same stuff Microsoft did or does.

Outside of the SV bubble .NET will continue to be one of the most productive platforms to work within, and is continuing to grow in market share. Hardly a failure.

That being said, I do see the meaning behind where OP is coming from. There is a certain, shall we say, enterprise, culture around .NET (much like Java) that hasn't caught up yet, or hasn't fully embraced the new world of open source from Microsoft.
by horsawlarway | 2025-04-03 15:36:59+00:00
So does the US??? Ex - we've been placing tariffs on solar/ev parts for many years now to drive investment in those industries (And this is hardly the only place we've done this).

Targeted tariffs to protect and strengthen specific industries are fine - especially if done slowly and while supporting those industries internally to make sure that they aren't disrupted, and that they can actually capitalize on the space provided by a tariff.

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This policy is not fucking that. It's just a backdoor tax on everyone, with zero planning and support internally to bring those industries back.

Simple terms for your simple comment:

A morbidly obese guy slowly exercising is great.

A morbidly obese guy getting dropped into a marathon with no prep is a recipe for a heart attack.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-03 15:37:17+00:00
This seems like another case of the web development industry (in general) "fixing" "problems" that aren't really serious problems. I don't know of any user who would be confused by simply being at the bottom of a web page. I didn't look at the code, but my guess is it's a lot of Javascript spending cycles on my machine to solve a non-problem.

I suppose the article author disclosed right away that it's "overegineered" so maybe the post is more of a joke or exercise in absurdity? Nobody would really spend time doing this for a real project, right? RIGHT?
by throwway120385 | 2025-04-03 15:38:08+00:00
The whole "decide that maybe you don't need olive oil that much" thing is what's going to crush the economy in the US. The problem is that demand does not shift to alternative supplies elastically. It takes years and sometimes decades to build an alternate supply chain for some industries. So what you're saying is that an entire generation of children in the US are going to have to grow up materially worse off than their parents and grandparents. And that's assuming that a bunch of businesses magically start overnight to fill the enormous gaps caused by a lack of access to international supply chains. If you look at other countries such as in South America or for example Italy where there are huge protective tariffs, the industries you expected to magically appear didn't. Instead people just have less and work less.

So your dichotomy applies, but it's not some magical ratchet out of globalization unless there's a corresponding push on the federal or state level to build competitive domestic industries to replace the international supply chains we've been cut off from.
by vuln | 2025-04-03 15:38:17+00:00
Regulations kill any and all profit on physical goods made in the US. It was more important to lift China out of poverty (Communism), kill a whole class worth of jobs and enact regulations to stifle any innovation because it’s okay if China pollutes, just not the US. It’s okay to buy goods from mega polluter China shipped on boats running on crude oil, instead of supporting Americans and American companies.
by atomicnature | 2025-04-03 15:38:50+00:00
LLMs are usually used to describe goals or to provide feedback (correction or encouragement) towards its implementation.

Programming is about iteratively expressing a path towards satisfying said goals.

What LLMs are doing now is converting "requirements" into "formalizations".

I don't think Djikstra is wrong in saying - that performing programming in plain-language is a pretty weird idea.

We want to concretize ideas in formalisms. But that's not what any human (including Djikstra) starts with... you start with some sort of goal, some sort of need and requirements.

LLMs merely reduce the time/effort required to go from goals -> formalism.

TLDR: Requirements != Implementation
by aaronbaugher | 2025-04-03 15:38:55+00:00
Those were good wars, though, apparently, since they bolstered US dominance and the spread of a certain flavor of "liberal democracy" based on progressive politics and consumerism.

I could have sworn they were bad wars when they were happening ("No blood for oil"?), but opinions on that seem to have shifted all of a sudden for some reason.
by greybox | 2025-04-03 15:38:59+00:00
One unintended benefit of this move might be reducing greenhouse gas emissions from global shipping ... if US consumers are consuming more US made products, the supply chain for those projects will have gotten significantly shorter in nautical miles.

I'm hesitant credit President Trump with this too soon though, after all, his motto is "drill drill drill", but It's going to be interesting to see what happens.
by TehCorwiz | 2025-04-03 15:39:11+00:00
There are factors that affect the education pipeline as well. Representation can make it appear as if some groups aren't welcome. Read about the Scully effect to see how simple representation (in fiction no less!) changed the number of women who grew up watching the X-Files who chose a field of science. Harassment during education has caused candidates to change majors. I've seen this one happen IRL to a friend. She ended up pursuing her software dev career independently of a college degree because the environment was so toxic.

The problem isn't just hiring, but helping hiring will help with the other two by addressing those cultural problems.
by numeri | 2025-04-03 15:39:36+00:00
It was the term invented by the architects of the Holocaust, and I disagree that "eh, context matters".

Setting all moral arguments aside, it's important to know that similar phrases can work as dog-whistles to signal belonging to radical groups, and as such can easily give people the wrong impression about you as an author.

If I were to see a blog post titled "Work will set you free"[1] written by a peer, prospective employee/employer, colleague, etc., it would immediately set off alarm bells in my mind – even if the content of the post is a completely innocent discussion of the uplifting benefits of buckling down on one's workload. At best, it implies lack of awareness – at worst, it implies some extremely hateful beliefs and desires.

[1]: Written above the entrance to the Nazi concentration camps as a false promise encouraging prisoners often destined for death to work hard in forced labor.
by gligierko | 2025-04-03 15:39:53+00:00
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by moolcool | 2025-04-03 15:40:17+00:00
Even definitions there are extremely hazy. "The most good for the most people".

Define "good". Happiness? Economic prosperity? Community? And over what time span?

Define "most". Percentage of people served? Number of people served?

Define "people". Are you counting citizens? Immigrants? Foreigners? Prisoners? People in the future?

You know the joke in the sciences about how everything distills down to mathematics? I would argue that we just as often distill down to philosophy. You have to reckon with a lot of questions which a stats degree can't help you much with.
by hulitu | 2025-04-03 15:40:20+00:00
> The reality of professional standards is we can't control what people feel or happens to them but we sure can put a good faith effort in to try and make the experience as neutral as possible.

You should use some Microsoft or Google products. They "sure can put a good faith effort in to try and make the experience as" crappy and masochistic as possible, while siphoning all your data.

And yes, avoid people without humor, especially the serious types.
by ck2 | 2025-04-03 15:40:41+00:00
The F-35 jet will cost over $1.5 Trillion, doesn't work and won't be used

Cancel it and stop making everyone's daily life absolute hell by doubling the prices of groceries, car payments, etc. every month

National Debt is not a problem for a country that will be around for 1000+ years unless you know of something that is going to greatly shorten that.

There are nearly 1,000 BILLIONAIRES in the US, the debt is their problem, they can pay more taxes until it's down to a number you like.
by b8 | 2025-04-03 15:41:22+00:00
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by exoverito | 2025-04-03 15:41:31+00:00
Everyone likes to use fascist to smear their political opponents, yet I'm not seeing a lot of evidence that the "anti-fascists" are any different. They support mass censorship, state propaganda, political violence, forever war, discrimination, debanking, lawfare, lockdowns, and ironically even infringement of bodily autonomy through unconstitutional vaccine mandates.
by teleforce | 2025-04-03 15:41:38+00:00
> thanks to the carefully, or at least consciously designed formal symbolisms that we owe to people like Vieta, Descartes, Leibniz, and (later) Boole.

Please check this talk on the contributions of these mentioned people for the complementary form of deterministic AI (machine intelligence) namely logic, optimization and constraint programming in a seminal lecture by John Hooker [1].

I have got the feeling that if we combine the stochastic nature of LLM based NLP with the deterministic nature of feature structure trchnique based NLP (e.g. CUE), guided by logic, optimization and constraint programming we probably can solve intuitive automation or at least perform proper automation (or automatic computing as Dijkstra put it).

Apparently Yann LeCun also recently proposing optimization based AI namely inference through optimization, or objective driven AI in addition to data-driven AI [2].

Fun facts, you can see Donald Knuth asking questions towards the end of the JH's lecture presentation.

[1] Logic, Optimization, and Constraint Programming: A Fruitful Collaboration - John Hooker - CMU (2023) [video]:

https://www.youtube.com/live/TknN8fCQvRk

[2] Mathematical Obstacles on the Way to Human-Level AI - Yann LeCun - Meta - AMS Josiah Willard Gibbs Lecture at the 2025 Joint Mathematics Meetings (2025) [video]:

https://youtu.be/ETZfkkv6V7Y
by no_wizard | 2025-04-03 15:41:45+00:00
>I'm not quite sure whether tariffs really do lead to inflation. It depends on how consumers and companies respond to higher prices of imported goods and to the general sense of uncertainty.

They won't absorb the new costs. That has not happened in the history of capitalism as far as I am aware. Higher costs will inevitably equate to higher prices without an offset somewhere.

Investors don't like unpredictability, which Trump has already shown to be very unpredictable in regards to tariffs (the whole on again off again stance changes for example).

Higher prices also lead to less buying activity. History has proven this out too.
by nonethewiser | 2025-04-03 15:41:54+00:00
>It is really silly to say that because an LLM gave a similar approach a single time and someone took a screencap of it without full context, that Elon and Trump are sitting in the whitehouse asking Grok what to.

A similar approach to a close-ended question.

The original screenshot doesnt show the prompt. The one reproducing it asks for a tariff policy to eliminate trade deficits with a 10% minimum. Umm... hello? There is only one answer to that. The greater value between 10% and a rate based on the deficit. Of course the Trump policy and all 4 LLM answers agree. The answer is determined by the question.

Its like accusing little Timmy of cheating on his math homework because he said 2+2=4 and -- GASP -- so do all the LLMs!
by rtkwe | 2025-04-03 15:42:12+00:00
Not 50 times larger which is what it would need to be to supply the current domestic consumption. California only produced 1.94 million gallons of olive oil in 2023, that same year the US used ~98.5 million gallons of olive oil.

Even if we could snap our fingers and create the orchards out of thin air there's not enough land and water to grow 50x our current production. Then where's the worker population coming from? They're also trying to drive overall immigration to essentially zero.
by culopatin | 2025-04-03 15:42:45+00:00
People as in the general population were not doing it, just us weirdos.

I funded my early career years by doing IT for home users of all sorts of expertise and budget and I feel like I got a decent gauge at what the average user did during the replaceable hardware era.

The people in the middle class and below would end up with such a shit device out of the gate (those 400-600usd laptops at the time, lower outside of the us), that by the time they started complaining about slowness, the upgradeable things did not make a difference. 1 to 2gb ram with a shit Celeron? Hardly worth the money. Bottom shelf Core2duos, overheating, cracking hinges, etc.

Not to mention that even then not all laptops were very standard in the way they were built. Taking one apart could be very time consuming and they would pay by the hour for me to do it, so after labor it was above what the device was worth and it would only buy them a few months of time at most. You do that once and you realize next time you’ll get a desktop.

The richer people would just get MacBooks and only call me for software stuff.

Companies had thinkpads and once purchased would never go out the standarized build. Just swap them when out of warranty, or at the time most would actually work at a desk with a desktop and leave work at work.
by setr | 2025-04-03 15:42:49+00:00
So when you say “sanitize user input”, you meant “store unsanitized/unvalidated user input in the local DB, and then sanitize it on sync to the central server”? You’ll need a hook into the syncing process to do that.

Perhaps something like “a layer of backend APIs to guarantee data integrity and security”?

This is a sync between a local database (read: on the user’s machine) and a central one (read: on your fancy server). The whole point of introducing a local database is to make database writes happen locally… on the frontend. everything related to the app, including database writes, is happening on the user’s machine. The only time you have a backend that you actually own and control is on database sync between local and central.
by nytesky | 2025-04-03 15:42:50+00:00
Well, I actually like to have my own domain for things where I have purchased something and have ownership, like my Amazon Kindle account. It is tied to my Gmail account and then Gmail decides I am sketchy for some reason I lose access. It’s probably a little easier to maintain my Domain, and there are legal mechanisms to restore it if it is taken away for any reason other than nonpayment.
by Justsignedup | 2025-04-03 15:43:10+00:00
Tarrifs are a tool that must be applied strategically. You typically announce tarrifs years in advance so business can shift their logistics and build out manufacturing where you want it. However a daily change in tariffs only creates a chaos that the economy cannot simply respond to fast enough.

A new steel mill won't magically appear in the middle of the US within a month.