MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by palmotea | 2025-04-03 06:30:53+00:00
>>> Americans have been hurt for 50 years

>> No they haven't. They've benefitted from it.

> Saying Americans haven’t been hurt they’ve benefited applies to white collar workers only - no change to jobs and cheaper goods.

And that's a big reason why Trump won: white collar workers, like the GP, lecturing blue collar workers, while being ignorant of their actual situation.
by arlort | 2025-04-03 06:31:27+00:00
Others pointed out that the tariff rate they are pointing to is actually just calculated based on trade imbalance. So the logic is that they have a number they want to get to and are throwing around terms that their constituents don't understand to make it sound reasonable

VAT is not a tariff, no one reasonable thinks it's a tariff but the US doesn't use the term VAT so enough people won't second guess it if trump says it's an tax on american goods
by dkh | 2025-04-03 06:31:32+00:00
It's both. It's a FAST channel being used by I think Pluto.TV and Roku to give them another "live 24/7" "channel" for their catalogs, but underneath is just looping playlist of YouTube content.

That's actually what a huge number of the channels on this site are, and I do wish they were labeled and filterable that way.
by saaaaaam | 2025-04-03 06:32:39+00:00
In the post-Hellenistic world yes, but I remember reading something about an aboriginal fire ritual that had been practised by indigenous people in Australia for something like 12000 years. I think there are also very long traditions of ritual practice in Native American peoples. Because these traditions were passed down orally or through generational practice they have gradually been lost which is sad.

I think there’s also a cave in the Middle East where there is evidence that it had been a ritual centre for 30000 years.

And you could probably make a relatively convincing argument that the ‘dying and rising god’ tradition that underpins Christian ritual is just a syncretic continuum going backwards from Jesus Christ to Dionysus to Osiris to Iah to moon deities - the moon being a ‘dying and rising’ entity, which itself underpins a wide tradition of fertility ritual.

So although it’s a stretch there is maybe some logic behind the statement!
by bigpeopleareold | 2025-04-03 06:33:13+00:00
I bought a few. Only one was decent and still use it. For one of them I had, it never calibrated correctly and I think it was surging the motherboard (backlight on my screen just stopped working one day, but the computer just would keep turning off with it, leading to a lot of 'hold the power button down to clear the capacitors') ... the other one just doesn't charge past 65% anymore. Maybe that's a calibration issue; it sat awhile.

I am going to look at another vendor. Maybe GreenCell?
by globular-toast | 2025-04-03 06:33:16+00:00
Sad but true. Most people don't do much with the things they own, even if they can. Cars get serviced when they are told to, by someone else. No modifications are done. It's a weird thing to me because you get the downsides of ownership (liability for servicing and repairs) but none of the upsides.

I wish more people took direct control over their lives. But many are just happy to not think and put up with whatever they get.
by askonomm | 2025-04-03 06:33:39+00:00
I stopped using any sort of AI once I started feeling my overall problem solving ability disappear (as in, from memory, intuitively, the one thing that makes me valuable in the job market), and I don't want to end up as some glorified copy-paste vessel. Not to mention, being a copy-paste vessel is only fun for manager-type people I figure. Reviewing code is the least fun part of my job, using AI to write code is essentially just spending all your days reviewing code. No thanks. I like to hammer my own nails, not watch some idiot who can't learn and has to be babysit at every turn try to hammer the nails.
by palmotea | 2025-04-03 06:34:37+00:00
> Americans have been hurt for 50 years … yes manufacturing going overseas was a huge change and many administrations didn’t do enough to help affected workers. Buuuuuut - placing tariffs on our allies that will likely lead to a recession makes no sense.

Yeah, some tariffs aren't a bad idea. But this plan? Just stupid, without any thought or strategy behind it.

The tariffs should be used more strategically to reorganize supply chains, not these blanket tariffs of low cost and high cost places. And probably ratchet them up slowly, to give time for production to move, instead of a big bang of putting them up everywhere.

So tariff China and Mexico, not Canada and Germany.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-04-03 06:34:51+00:00
>It's just that they also think the Republicans are beyond hope so there's no point attempting to make them feel guilty.

How could one ever hope to make them feel guilty about wanting different things than Democratic voters? They do not want to be your friends, or your neighbors, or any other relationship where they should feel guilty for their voting interests. You might as well ask yourself why you don't feel guilty for leaning Democrat.
by zerojames | 2025-04-03 06:35:03+00:00
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by dsign | 2025-04-03 06:35:29+00:00
I certainly don't understand enough of economics, but:

- If everything overnight costs 20% more for the American consumer, it equals 20% less disposable income and less purchasing power.

- US companies, even the few ones not directly affected by tariffs, are going to be hit by less demand, and that in the aggregate is going to affect the performance of all American companies.

- So, it makes sense to dump as much American stock (and perhaps other instruments) as rationally possible.

The rest of the world is also going to feel the shock, though at this point is unknowable to what extent, and it also depends on the policies governments outside USA enact. In Sweden for example, we react to imported USA inflation by increasing central bank rates and catapulting the country into recession, and I totally see that happening in the next few weeks. Even it does not, it is what the public expects, and already many may be reigning in on consumption and investment. And dumping American stocks like crazy.
by nl | 2025-04-03 06:36:08+00:00
Not the OP but here’s an example: https://www.reddit.com/r/stupidquestions/comments/1ghrsbq/co...

Basically you need very specific letters where your exact name and address must match but those are issued without checking. So if one uses your middle initial instead of your name then no ID for you until you get it reissued.

In Texas they have a shortage of staff issuing the ids too so there is a 3 month delay after you apply to find out what you did incorrectly https://www.statesman.com/story/opinion/columns/2024/08/19/t...
by zenolijo | 2025-04-03 06:36:53+00:00
> A professional can still replace almost any component of a modern laptop, with a few thousand $ of specialized tools, and the battery, the only component with a fixed lifetime, can be easily replaced at home.

Even if a professional can fix it, that expertise to be able to use those tools worth "a few thousand dollars" costs a lot too, likely pushing the price high enough that its worth thinking about buying a new device instead.

While the battery might be the only thing with a fixed lifetime, other components often also break. I was unlucky and owned a ThinkPad with one soldered on RAM module and one socketed slot to be able to upgrade the RAM, but that didn't help the day that the soldered on RAM died on me.
by lend000 | 2025-04-03 06:37:00+00:00
Is it really likely that an intelligent person like yourself could hold 95% intellectual alignment with one of the two lowest common denominators (largest pluralities) in a country on complex political topics? Consider how much each party's platform has changed in the last 20 years, and how much more they will change in the next 20. I would say it's more likely that someone like yourself is quite intelligent and creative and is instead unaware of those deeply ingrained tribal instincts.

Media in the US, especially now via incessant social media feeds, fuels this. It showers us with information showing how the "other side" is bad. So you can have a correct opinion that the other tribe is bad without any quantitative metrics to compare how bad it is compared to your tribe, which is also very bad.

Btw, regarding the basic personality traits thing. I found this paper very interesting [0]. Sort of refutes the "conservatives lack empathy and fear change" angle. On average, I suspect most liberals and conservatives have very similar averages across most personality traits and are mostly just a product of their environment.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34429211/#:~:text=Our%20meta...
by nabla9 | 2025-04-03 06:37:34+00:00
It's called Import Substitution.

Import Substitution: A Tried and Tested Policy for Failure https://www.kspp.edu.in/blog/import-substitution-a-tried-and...

>Import substitution is a policy by which the state aims to increase the consumption of goods that are made domestically by levying high tariffs on foreign goods. This gives an advantage to the domestic manufacturers as their goods will be cheaper and preferable in the market compared to foreign products. India adopted this model post-independence, and it continued till the 1991 reforms. Due to import substitution, the domestic producers captured the entire Indian market, but there was slow progress in technological advancements, and the quality of Indian products was inferior to the foreign manufactured ones. But after the reforms, the Indian market was opened to everyone, and the consumer got the best value for the price he paid. The Make in India policy of the present government is reminiscent of the pre-1991 inward-looking Indian state.

In the US it will be even worse. The US is already high-tech economy outsourcing low value-adding manufacturing to foreign countries while industries move towards higher value-adding products. After the tariffs, US manufacturing sector will sift to lower value-added, lower complexity products.
by sieszpak | 2025-04-03 06:37:36+00:00
I’m using Sonnet 3.7 now, previously used Sonnet 3.5, and I recommend it. If you know what you want to do, the work becomes pleasant and orders of magnitude faster. IMO, you need to learn how to code from scratch with LLMs. Remember—garbage in, garbage out. The Pareto principle also applies here: AI does 80% in the first shot.
by dkh | 2025-04-03 06:38:08+00:00
My guess is this was launched to get some attention or as some sort of proof-of-concept or whatever, and that it perhaps is not intended to be a sustainable platform, at least not in this form. And they probably assume if there's a problem, they'll just get a cease & desist notice and have to take the channel down (which is probably true).

Definitely has to be a bit of a #yolo project launch though. Other concerns as well including GDPR compliance
by atoav | 2025-04-03 06:38:12+00:00
I guess we Europeans have to get our stuff from elsewhere than a nation hostile to the world with an insane unpredictable leader. China may also be authoritarian, but at least they are stable.

The coolest thing to read are american takes that are like "hey this might be benefiting us for that obscure reason", totally ignoring the fact that you betrayed your allies. Land of fhe free my ass. The only ideology the US has is nihilistic greed paired with hyperindividualsm and transactionalism to the point where Americans think if someone else is getting a thing you are hurting.

If the US was a kid it wouldn't invite others over because it wants to eat the birthday cake alone. And then it shits on all the cakes at the bakery because it wants to be the only kid eating cakes. If that is the American idea of how to lead a great life the rest of the world is better of without it.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-04-03 06:38:18+00:00
You are answering your own question: companies collect VAT from consumers and pass it on to tax authorities.

Then, as the company is VAT-registered what it purchases is either VAT-free or VAT paid can be deducted from the amount of VAT collected from consumers (as you said).

Bottom line: companies do not pay VAT on their own purchases, they only pass on VAT collected from consumers.

Obviously companies do make actual payments to the tax authorities but the point is that these are not from their own funds, they only effectively act as tax collectors.
by bob1029 | 2025-04-03 06:38:40+00:00
The average level of work ethic in the areas I frequent has cratered over the last 6-7 years.

I can feel it happening to me as well. I used to get super anxious if I wasn't going to be able to respond to a work email within a few minutes. Basically chained myself to my desk at home M-F. Remember phone calls? Having to answer a ringing phone within 15 seconds or you could be perceived as delinquent? No one is responding quickly to anything anymore.

Keeping myself amped up 8 hours a day for vendors and customers who are 1000% asleep at the wheel is too much. I wait for meaningful work to accumulate now and work in bursts. This definitely contributes to the downward spiral, but I don't know what else to do. Human energy is finite. I'm willing to stick my neck out really far for really long if it seems like others are willing to do the same, but it doesn't feel like that kind of situation right now.
by trhway | 2025-04-03 06:38:55+00:00
>What amazes me is the timing: the midterms will hit while the bottom is still chugging along. I would think it unlikely they can secure an updraft from this to keep the house. What's the plan for that?

tax cut financed by the tariffs? Will buy/mislead a lot of voters when those checks would get sent mid next year.

Especially those voters who couldn't notice that all those countries having tariffs (and VAT) are worse economically than US in major part because US didn't until now have much tariffs to speak of.
by arlort | 2025-04-03 06:38:59+00:00
No, VAT is actually paid by companies (and also consumers of course), it's one of the subtle differences between VAT and sales tax.

The "thought experiment" you can make is the case of something not ending up being sold. In a VAT regime the manufacturer will have already paid the VAT on the inputs but since the customer hasn't paid the VAT on the finished product the manufacturer won't get their money back on the VAT they already paid (there might be other tax rebates or write offs, but that's a different matter)

In a sales tax regime the tax is only paid by the final consumer so if the manufacturer doesn't sell the product they are not out for any additional tax

Still doesn't change that neither of those are a tariff by any definition
by comrade1234 | 2025-04-03 06:39:03+00:00
It’s replaced google search for me when trying to look up a specific problem. I’d actually rather use google because the results from ai are too long and wordy and give too many answers/options, but something has happened to google that has made it useless. It started when they began putting reddit at the top of the results and it’s just getting worse over time.
by mfkhalil | 2025-04-03 06:39:10+00:00
I think in a lot of cases that's because the meta with LLMs right now is to "have them do things for you", which generally means that obfuscating what's actually happening behind the scenes can make them seem "smarter" to the average user. Also, engineers are used to full control over deterministic input-output pipelines, which is a framework they try to force on LLM applications that fails miserably for the reasons you've listed.

In my opinion, the best applications of LLM UX will have full clarity for the end user (something we're trying to do with MatterRank). The non-determinism should be something the user can control to get better results, not something the engineer has prompted that takes control away from the user.

Now, if the use case you're looking for is "give me results with x text", then yes I agree with you that LLMs are just getting in the way. But that's not always the case.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-04-03 06:39:38+00:00
I'm from a very poor Appalachian town. My only option to better my life was to get up and leave.

People from my hometown do talk about the good old days. People worked at union factories and my grandfather worked a well paying railroad job. My no-name town of 1000 people had a train station that made it possible to go to NYC. My grandpa got paid a handsome retirement from the railroad company. When he died, my grandmother was able to receive his benefits.

My hometown votes against building railways. The station has long crumbled. They vote against unions. The factories are long gone. They've voted against any sort of retirement benefits. The elderly are struggling and depending on churches handing out food.

Even if those factories come back, they'll be paid less than my ancestors did. They'll never have an affordable link to cities hours away. They'll never get the retirement benefits my ancestors had. And if you mention giving them these benefits, they yell and say they don't want them. The youth in my hometown who worked hard in school (we somehow had a decent school, all things considered) used their education as a ticket out. Now the people there are pissed and they're coming for education next.

These people don't want "the plant." They want to be young again, without understanding that their youth was great because my ancestors busted their asses to give us great opportunities. They squandered everything that was given to us.
by ImPostingOnHN | 2025-04-03 06:39:39+00:00
> as a general strategy in a persuasive essay you shouldn't include an argument with such a weak association, much less lead with it

I've never found that to be true, because most people recognize that the essay was once in which any of the points individually being correct would make for a persuasive essay. The addition of N examples only reinforces the point N times over.

Thus, any single argument being unconvincing to somebody isn't a huge issue, since all the points would have to be false for the essay to not ring true.

> curtailing the right to redress (the right to initiate the complaining suit) is problematic

That may be so (indeed, we see so in donald's ongoing efforts to limit others' right to redress), but imposing a higher standard for libel of public figures vs. private individuals isn't problematic.

> eventually someone will extend the curtailment to people with less power.

This strikes me as a slippery slope fallacy, and one that isn't very convincing in this case. The higher threshold for public figures than private individuals (which is the topic, not curtailment) already exists and has for a while, and the worst thing we've seen is the most public and powerful person in the world still trying to exploit libel law to attack political opponents. So the concern doesn't seem borne out in the data.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-04-03 06:39:43+00:00
>If the goal is not to eliminate the white race (which some left figures actually promoted as I see it from the outside, so why you even wonder?) then what does that change? Unnatural/unassimilated immigrantion is a real concern for those who value their cultural climate. What's wrong with having these concerns or values?

About 5 or 6 months ago, here on HN, there was a headline from a major/reputable news source that said the Canadian government wanted a population of 100 million (when they currently have 30ish million, and fertility rates that will see their population shrink instead of grow). Whether there are any racist designs on the white race or not, it's clear that governments consider all of us completely substitutable/expendable, and they will replace us (almost certainly regardless of our skin color, come to that). No one's trying to hide this, it isn't a secret. Very few are so dumb as to not realize that something's up. So whenever anyone tries to debunk the various conspiracy theories about X replacement it can only sound like lies.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-03 06:40:27+00:00
Conversely, it must take a truly wild level of indifference towards American politics to watch globalism go up in flames and cheer. Regardless of where you stand on the aisle or how old you are, surely you can't feel much hope for America's economy watching the Apple supply chain capsize. The economy isn't scripted by Seth McFarlane, America's automotive business and manufacturing bases aren't going to start hiring again overnight.

America has supported perpetual war in Palestine for decades and will continue to do so regardless of how globalism fares. There is not an informed citizen in America that will take this rhetoric seriously, we treat Tel Aviv like they're fighting WWIII but can't spare Maxar access to Ukraine during an active conflict.

You want to associate globalism with conflict so badly, but you just can't deny that America will wage war regardless. It's tragic.
by strofocles | 2025-04-03 06:40:29+00:00
I think the conclusions and the advice for new programmers is valid. The comparison with the FSD is not very relevant in my opinion but it may be, I just don't see it, as it is a very different kind of skill. I would separate the preference from the "objective truth" and your goals. I think as a technologist you need to keep using AI if not for any other reason then only to keep up with the progress of the technology and have a first hand experience. For projects that I mainly do to learn, I disable autocompletion (Cursor) and type every single character by hand. For some other projects where I am more interested in the end result I am allowing autocompletion and most of the time I read and make sure I understand the generated code.