MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by kaladin-jasnah | 2025-04-05 01:46:09+00:00
I feel as if alternative solutions are costly and can price out small businesses from messaging customers.

My local public library uses email to text to send messages about overdue books. While they don't develop their catalog system, I believe that using things like Twilio is costly, and I hope their upstream catalog provider isn't unduly burdened by this. I contract for a small company and we switched to email notifications exclusively since SMS was too expensive.

Maybe this says something about how SMS is the wrong platform to be using, but it looks like business WhatsApp messaging costs money too. I've never recieved spam over email to text.
by sebmellen | 2025-04-05 01:46:34+00:00
Not only “in a sense,” but also directly — many of the parent or grandparent LPs to US venture firms are foreign wealth funds, and US tech companies are (by way of our capital markets) held as an investment by many foreign nations (e.g. Norway’s sovereign wealth funds).

So we enrich foreign nations through our technology companies and capital markets. This is to the detriment of our domestic laborers, but it’s a great deal for our top ~30% “laptop class” that earn disproportionately well and have their savings stored in those same markets.
by simfree | 2025-04-05 01:47:07+00:00
Another one bites the dust.

MMS and email use the same protocol with minor differences under the hood.

Since the FCC abdicated their regulatory power over texting during the first Trump administration under Ajit Pai, T-Mobile, AT&T & Verizon Wireless formed a cartel called The Campaign Registry which has run amok extorting data and cash out of businesses just to be allowed to go through a slow approval process.

Nominally, this was to reduce spam texts, but the vast majority of spam texts are internal to the Mobile Network Operators these days.
by yojo | 2025-04-05 01:47:40+00:00
When he started with a limited set of tariffs on Canada/Mexico/China it sort of made sense as a bullying move. The administration at least had the bandwidth to conduct three sets of negotiations.

But it’s essentially impossible to negotiate 180 deals simultaneously. No way does Tunisia get even five minutes to pitch a deal - the simultaneous imposition of tariffs effectively DDOS’d the negotiation team.
by mathfailure | 2025-04-05 01:47:40+00:00
Exactly. Europe thinks it may join Ukraine in a war against Russia to actually win that war.

My point is that this is quite a reason why a nuke war may occur.

And if U.S. turns back away from Europe - Europe might 'sober up' and not seek the prolongation of a conflict. Non-nuke wars end somehow. One side usually loses, without such a loss - there would be no end for the war and more and more people would die. A bitter ending is better than endless bitterness.
by 999900000999 | 2025-04-05 01:47:43+00:00
>Did you read all of that? If not, good for you! Dumb as your television enjoying ass probably is, you're smarter than the genius adventure gamers who, in a truly inappropriate display of autism-level concentration, willingly played the birdbrained events described in that passage.

I laughed a bit too hard at this. Pure "follow my train of thought" puzzles aren't the most fun, and I think they fit best in the larger context of something like Uncharted. Just give me a skip button.
by soupfordummies | 2025-04-05 01:48:01+00:00
I'm taking a university course right now and one of the big textbook companies (McGraw-Hill, Macmillan, one of those) has an "AI Tutor" on their homework assignment.

It's somehow LESS helpful than just having a pointer to which part of the text to revisit.

It basically just restates the question/problem. Even worse than that is that it's an essentially STATIC note for each question yet it appears to be REAL-TIME GENERATED each time. I guess that could just be for appearances but it's just dumb all the way around really.
by Izkata | 2025-04-05 01:48:02+00:00
> * bring back manufacturing jobs - even if we reshore some manufacturing, it'll be at the cost of many more other jobs and that manufacturing will be highly automated. No capital appetite exists to do this. No CEO wants to do this. We don't have the infrastructure or supply chains for this.

Except it already started: https://www.investing.com/news/politics-news/investment-comm...
by LikeBeans | 2025-04-05 01:48:27+00:00
Often yes but sometimes they both go down. However bonds don't decline as fast. The actual strategy I follow is stock/bond/short-term. The short term is like a buffer currently invested in short term treasury fund. Think of it like a game. If stocks are low then sell bonds and when that is also low then use the short term investment to live on to wait out the market recovery. Also if you are retired like me you would tighten expenses when drawing from the short term during a downturn.
by neogodless | 2025-04-05 01:49:30+00:00
I don't know the machinations at the level of Trump, the billionaires, and the GOP senators and representatives. Depending on what's going on, those in congress will never do their job.

OR, if they just believed in Trump's influence on votes in "free and fair elections", they might eventually hit a breaking point. Because if they let this happen unchecked, they will be voted out, 100%. (Not to mention everyone they know will have lost money, many more jobless, hungry, etc.)

Being complicit in triggering a great depression while being an elected official cannot be good for your career long-term.
by anigbrowl | 2025-04-05 01:49:54+00:00
Brexit was pretty bad for the UK proportional to the size of their population/economy, and is still causing problems even though the initial dislocation is over. If you think it's a lesser crisis, you could just say that. I haven't done the numbers to make an exact comparison, but they both have the qualities of being being abrupt, severe, and self-inflicted.
by sebmellen | 2025-04-05 01:50:08+00:00
Let’s axiomatically presume that vertical integration (of your supply chain, manufacturing, software development, labor force, etc.) is the key to “innovation” in the abstract. You can see this starting to happen with BYD, the Chinese electric car company, for example.

With the above in mind, let’s say your goal as a country is to develop your industries so you can achieve broad vertical integration.

Soft economic assets (financial markets, legal structures, software, pharma, IP, etc.) are easier to bootstrap once you have hard economic assets assets (commodities, energy, manufacturing, transportation, logistics, etc.). If you lose your hard economic assets and only have soft ones, you are at a strategic disadvantage because your opponent (in this case China), can bootstrap their soft assets relatively quickly. By comparison, it will take you much longer to get your hard assets back (through the mythical process of “reshoring/reindustrialization”).

More in my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589566.
by giraffe_lady | 2025-04-05 01:50:19+00:00
Not "the shareholder class" but the actual super wealthy, those few thousand individuals at the top.

A way I have recently seen this put is that if you have a billion dollars another billion doesn't do that much for you in real terms. But if you're a billionaire who likes to sexually harass your child's nanny, you would much prefer she be desperate and precarious rather than economically secure or with a lot of other viable options. This is one crude example but the dynamic is in play in many other situations.

So idk, it's plausible to me that the class interests of the wealthy extend beyond mere wealth accumulation. I can imagine circumstances where they would be willing to give up some of their absolute wealth in exchange for greater relative wealth.
by skybrian | 2025-04-05 01:50:40+00:00
These foreign investments are mostly not currency. When a foreign country makes a lot of investments in the US, they could be buying stocks, bonds, or making direct investments - such as building US factories, as many foreign auto makers have done. Or buying entire companies - one of the big three US auto makers (Stellantis) is now foreign-owned.

Stable countries that have a lot of attractive investments will tend to have a large trade deficit, and the US is one of the more profitable places to invest. (Well, not so much at the moment.)
by ThrowawayR2 | 2025-04-05 01:51:05+00:00
Because it actually is, in no small part, the illiberal left's fault for going all out to emphasize identity instead of unity, dividing and polarizing the U.S. population.

The illiberal left must be held accountable for their role in the Democratic defeats of 2024, expelled and publicly repudiated, and then the Democratic Party can work on rebuilding trust with voters.
by Centigonal | 2025-04-05 01:51:08+00:00
Some stats from this video:

- The UK has one of the worst homelessness problems in Europe, with about 1 in 50 Londoners experiencing homelessness.

- The UK economy stagnated for 10 years following 2008, resulting in a "lost decade"

- The median disposable income in the UK was slightly lower than the US and Norway before the GFC by 6-8%, not it's 16-20% behind.

IDK if I'd call this a crisis, i.e. people aren't rioting in the streets. That said, this is not the direction you want to be moving in as a developed country. The trend of people in formerly dominant countries electing leaders who keep making stupid own goals (increasing economic inequality, Brexit, gutting the NHS, gutting US foreign aid, tariff-pocalypse) is very worrying.
by Jtsummers | 2025-04-05 01:51:23+00:00
They could be unconstitutional. The ability of Congress to delegate its authority to the President does have limits. If companies (the ones in a financial position to do this) sued, they'd have standing and could make their case. Whether it's successful or not would take a while to find out, and this is an instance where judges would likely leave the tariffs in place until the suit was settled in a court (before appeals) if the plaintiffs won.
by yummypaint | 2025-04-05 01:51:37+00:00
Modern search engines are yet another case of the tech world refusing to learn from other domains and dragging down everyone's quality of life as a result. People have been searching and organizing information long before computers. There is an entire field called library science.

Why is everyone so fixated on keywords for instance? They have their uses, but librarians and people who do research for a living also use subject headings. These are still human designated as far as I know.

People who are experts in an area often search directly by author. An actually useful tool would be something that cross-references advisor-advisee relationships, who was colleagues with who as a function of time, etc, and finds additional sources based on author networks. You maybe could do something like this for the web too, as I suspect a lot of high quality pages made by individuals are related by such interpersonal networks. A lot of spammy garbage sites probably have network relations to each other as well.
by pier25 | 2025-04-05 01:52:23+00:00
Tried it for a bit. Paid one month of the subscription.

The dashboard is incredibly clunky and at the time they didn't have SSL for db connections (not sure about now). A lot of stuff you need to know what you're doing like configuring tags for Traefik etc.

The deal breaker was it didn't have zero downtime deploys. Any pending request when you update an app is simply killed.

I was expecting something like Heroku or Vercel but this ain't it.

Ended up concluding that if I wanted to run/deploy apps on my own VPS I'd just use Kamal or Dokku. Both have zero downtime deploys, certbot, proxy, etc.
by kalkin | 2025-04-05 01:52:38+00:00
There's nothing in my comment to "exactly" in support of your point. If the US backs away from Europe it may be more likely to encourage Ukrainian surrender. Russia may be more likely to attack Poland. Germany may be more likely to develop its own nuclear deterrent. Or none of these things may happen. Extrapolating from tariffs to world peace demands a bit more than loose speculation at the continental level.
by walterbell | 2025-04-05 01:53:06+00:00
https://www.ft.com/content/96bc1b74-14dd-47ab-8bbd-1add97a2a...

> both leaders claim their approaches have helped them this week avoid what Trump calls “liberation day” tariffs.. Mexican officials on Thursday said the strategy had borne fruit and they would focus on getting an even better deal. Economy minister Marcelo Ebrard said: “It's a great achievement, I’d say, from the point of view of where we started not long ago that there would be no exemptions.” .. Mexico remains upbeat, with [President] Sheinbaum on Thursday trying to lure companies to invest in USMCA-compliant production in the country. “We think that with the dialogue we’ve established there are the conditions to have a better deal,” she said.
by ViktorRay | 2025-04-05 01:53:38+00:00
I know some economists during the second half of the 20th century had the exact opposite view of the Mercantilist philosophy.

For example Mercantilism says a country should maximize exports and minimize imports as much as possible.

Meanwhile Milton Friedman, one of the most prominent economists of the 20th century, said that a country that had large amounts of imports with minimal exports was a very successful country. The idea being that such a country was essentially buying things from other countries at minimal cost.

Edit: The following link quotes something he said regarding this:

https://fee.org/articles/milton-friedman-the-way-we-talk-abo...
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-05 01:54:34+00:00
> I am pretty sure that you will not see a negative correlation between tax and GDP, just look at that list.

The short-term correlation is between tax and GDP growth. Obviously if you set a lower tax rate in Greece it doesn't instantaneously become a rich country.

And the correlation exists at the level of taxes typically seen in first world countries. If you try to look at Zimbabwe or Ethiopia and ask why their low tax rates don't result in higher GDP, it's because they're not even providing a threshold level of basic government services. There is such a thing as too low, it's just not a thing typically observed in practice in Western countries. (To some extent the baseline is also an absolute dollar amount per capita rather than a tax rate; you could easily provide police and basic transportation infrastructure for 5% of US GDP but not 5% of Somali GDP.)

> And maybe the politicians and tax officers in Denmark are people that got there because they enjoyed free university education instead of getting it paid by their parents?

The typical causes of government inefficiency aren't the unavailability of qualified people, they're corruption and nepotism, or some other structural misfeature that exacerbates the principal-agent problem.

For example, the US constitutional structure envisioned a weak federal government with enumerated powers and constrained by a US Senate elected by the state legislatures with a personal incentive to inhibit federal overreach. Then the commerce clause was read so broadly as to de facto grant a general federal regulatory power and the 17th amendment caused Senators to be directly elected, leading to a massive expansion in federal power without otherwise changing the structure of the federal government. People elect their local dogcatcher and State Comptroller but the federal executive branch has only one elected official, the President of the United States.

The result is an excessive amount of regulatory capture and corruption, not because there are no qualified people available, but because there is a structural lack of accountability to the voters because the federal government wasn't originally intended to do most of what it currently does.
by zip1234 | 2025-04-05 01:54:40+00:00
I'm not even sure that it is to the detriment of our domestic laborers. It certainly makes domestic manufacturing less competitive, especially the lowest skill/barrier to entry manufacturing. However, the US manufactures a LOT still, there are loads of reasonably well paying jobs for lower skill worker. I will say that housing and healthcare costs are high in the US but those are not things that are imported.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-05 01:55:07+00:00
> created solely by Trump

Nitpick: No, the entire Republican party is at fault here.

They willfully ignored every warning, and attacked the people giving the warnings. They promoted him, protected him in two impeachments, eventually re-elected him, and actively confirmed his cabinet of sycophants instead of requiring some adults in the Oval Office. Then they took specific steps to block anyone from challenging his "national emergency" against our neighbors, by declaring that the rest of the year simply "doesn't count" for the 15 day timer in the original legislation. [0]

Some Republican legislators may have had hard-choices for securing their own re-elections, but they still chose this route.

[0] https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5189410-house-gop-democra...
by strictnein | 2025-04-05 01:55:25+00:00
Our daughter swallowed a quarter when she was two. My wife was driving and noticed that she had gone silent in her car seat, which as parents know can be a bad sign. Our 4 year old son then mentioned that she might have eaten a coin. She rushed her to the ER, which was thankfully close by. It wasn't completely blocking her windpipe but it was very close to doing so.

As a nice souvenir of the incident we do have a great full body x-ray of her with the coin centered right in the middle of her neck.
by biophysboy | 2025-04-05 01:55:27+00:00
To improve rust belt manufacturing, you would target competitors of industries in that area, not the whole global economy.

We imposed a 32% tariff on Taiwan. Simultaneously, we are making it more expensive to manufacture here in the states. We have 1/4 China's pop - why would we try to compete on raw output by ourselves, instead of strengthening ties w/ the world?

For many countries, there is nothing to negotiate since we already have free trade agreements with them. We may import a lot of goods, but we export a lot of services, like many developed nations do.

With regard to raising revenue, think of the tradeoffs. If demand is elastic (given our trade deficit, it has to be!), this will be a tax on many, many American businesses and consumers. Its just moving the taxes from income tax to a consumption tax. That's a worse deal for poorer/middle-class Americans.
by rendaw | 2025-04-05 01:55:46+00:00
This is awesome! Is there any support beyond the wrist, or how resistive is it when you press the buttons? Have you considered 2 hands too? Do you feel like you've maxed out the number of comfortably reachable keys? I guess you can't have keys off to the side since you can't move your hand relative to the keyboard. Does the thumb do anything currently?

I'm in this niche market too... although I don't really have an immediate use case beyond someday being more portable. Also had some issues with XR glasses and fov being reduced further by eye-glass distance.
by dave2299 | 2025-04-05 01:56:08+00:00
Squarespace is fantastic for early iterating. I started a company about 8 months ago bootstrapped, I’ve spent about 5k total. 12k revenue last mo w/ Squarespace site as front end. Using various things like Elfsight for some embedded widgets, Heyflow for embedded lead forms. I can change anything I need in 5 min. Not particularly technical background.
by ImprobableTruth | 2025-04-05 01:56:18+00:00
No, that's a different scenario. In the one I gave there's explicitly a dependency between requests. If you use gather, the network requests would be executed in parallel. If you have dependencies they're sequential by nature because later ones depend on values of former ones.

The 'trick' for CUDA is that you declare all this using buffers as inputs/outputs rather than values and that there's automatic ordering enforcement through CUDA's stream mechanism. Marrying that with the coroutine mechanism just doesn't really make sense.
by belden | 2025-04-05 01:58:13+00:00
Oh, yikes. I’ve come to rely on the email->sms gateway from AT&T. I’ve had they set up a s a forwarding address within my web mail for a few years now, and have filters which forward matching messages as SMS to my phone.

The formatting is often quite lousy but it’s enough to send me a nudge to check my email for a message from the library, a job I applied for, or whatever.

I wouldn’t have heard about this about it being posted here, so thank you!
by gpm | 2025-04-05 01:58:43+00:00
Far... far... worse. The Rwanda exile program at least had some concept of due process in both the UK and Rwanda. The Rwanada exile program was at least stopped when the courts told it to instead of trying to remain secret long enough to avoid the courts having a chance to forbid it, and then outright ignoring the court orders forbidding it when that failed.

Here the program is "ICE picks you up off the street, without telling anybody. Writes in some internal document that you're a foreign national member of a gang, without telling anybody or giving you a chance to challenge that. Ships you off to El Salvador's concentration camp, without telling anybody". To this date even the lawyers challenging the program don't actually know the name of everyone who was shipped to El Salvador.

Maybe somebody finds out, by looking at ICE publicity photos that you happen to be in the background of, maybe not. Maybe you are a member of the gang, maybe you're a US citizen whose never even heard of the gang. Doesn't matter, there was no chance to challenge ICEs decision. You weren't even informed of the decision, you were just put on a plane without being told why. And once you're there, even if somebody figures out that's where you are and challenges the decision on your behalf, the US has no authority to bring you back.
by sebmellen | 2025-04-05 01:59:00+00:00
It also depends on what you think people want. Do they want a vast array of cheap consumer goods and entertainment, or do they want more affordable basics, like housing, cars, and healthcare?

If you go by PPP alone, the US is already in second place [0].

PPP is a horrible metric, but I’m not sure GDP per capita is any better.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PP...
by tpetry | 2025-04-05 01:59:03+00:00
The problem is more that the companies want to keep their insane profit margin. They could produce in the US, pay workers more and sell for the same price.

But thats less revenue for the company. Less shareholder value. Less bonus for CEOs.

The problem is the hyper capitalism which we have for the past 50 years that every company needs more and more profits.
by Terr_ | 2025-04-05 01:59:03+00:00
Yes, just like I said: "which would ironically involve the same number of votes as keeping the law but slapping down Trump's particular usage of it."

Originally it wasn't veto-able (only needed a Concurrent Resolution of 50% in each house, no Presidential signature) but the Supreme Court ruled that part unconstitutional in the early 80s.
by nsonha | 2025-04-05 01:59:11+00:00
The context here is AI assisted engineering and you raised the point that non-engineering productivity is more important for engineers, which I think is absurd.

You can have 10x engineering productivity boost and still complete work in the same amount of time, because of communication and human factors. Maybe it's a problem, may be it's not. It's still a productivity gain that will make you work better nonetheless.
by bartread | 2025-04-05 01:59:22+00:00
Interesting. So when I tried the “Indiana Jones” prompt I got an image back that looked a lot like Indiana Jones but with a face much more similar to Nathan Drake. Whereas the predator prompt generated an image of the predator but, unlike the article, wearing his mask.

So there’s clearly some amount of random chance in there, but the trope is still very clear in the generated image, so it seems like you’re going to get an archetype.