MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jauntywundrkind | 2025-04-09 19:45:00+00:00
It'll be "fun" to see all the "negotiations" that happen with other countries, where they offer a crazy array of bribes / emoluments to WH insiders.

Which is perfectly fine, now that we have Executive Order 63, Pausing Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Enforcement to Further American Economic and National Security. This is no longer something the DOJ looks for or tracks, with AG Pam Bondi having to sign off on any potential investigations after a 180-day pause.

Trump also all but disbanded the DOJ Public Integrity Section, that watches for public corruption. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/justice-...
by weego | 2025-04-09 19:45:03+00:00
And that's how this will end up stagnating into nothing other than fractured enterprise "standards"

There is no evidence that (real AI) is even close to being solved, from a neuroscientific, algorithmic, computer science or engineering perspective. It's far more likely we're going down a dead-end path.

I'm now waiting for the rebrand when the ass falls out of AI investment, the same way it did when ML became passé.
by ryandvm | 2025-04-09 19:45:21+00:00
I think the "who cares?" was rhetorical. I suspect the commenter you're responding to is in the same place that am - politically exhausted and, for the time being, apathetic.

We didn't vote for any of this to happen. We voted for the adult. But the reality is that this country held fair elections and the population democratically elected someone that is a somewhat ambiguous melange of amoral, stupid, craven, venal, and selfish.

Many of us knew shit like this was going to happen and that it's going to be a very long 4 years. We are getting exactly what we collectively asked for.

I'll poke my head out for the 2026 elections and see if there's anything worth saving...
by ZeroGravitas | 2025-04-09 19:45:27+00:00
It's scary to think he's just not got a clue and doing whatever he thinks of in the moment isn't it?

I mean the guy who doesn't understand tariffs, at all, but has publicly loved tariffs for 40 years in charge of tariff policy. That's disturbing to contemplate head on.

Much better to invent some comforting fantasy of secret plots being carried out semi-competently to achieve nebulous but vaguely noble goals.
by benou | 2025-04-09 19:45:32+00:00
Here is an example of preparing a debian ARM image on x86 with debootstrap, qemu and chroot:

~# sudo apt install qemu-user-static debootstrap ~# mkdir /tmp/arm ~# debootstrap --foreign --arch=armhf buster /tmp/arm http://deb.debian.org/debian ~# cp /usr/bin/qemu-arm-static /tmp/arm/usr/bin/ ~# chroot /tmp/arm # from that point, you're running ARM! ~# /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage
by adrian_b | 2025-04-09 19:45:48+00:00
The substance in mushrooms (ergocalciferol) has a structure similar to the true vitamin D (cholecalciferol a.k.a. vitamin D3).

Nevertheless, it seems that it is not able to substitute vitamin D in all its functions. Therefore it is not advisable to count on it as a source of vitamin D.

There has been a company that has claimed that they have discovered a species of lichen that contains true vitamin D. Nevertheless, their advertising has seemed highly suspicious and it looked more like a scheme to separate naive vegans from their money.

Even if it were true, exploiting wild lichen would be much more unethical than eating the normal vitamin D3 supplements made from sheep wool. The reason is that wild lichens grow very slowly and exploiting a species for a food supplement would cause a very high risk of extinction for that species.

In any vertebrate animal, the liver is the part with the greatest content of vitamin D.
by audunw | 2025-04-09 19:45:56+00:00
On thing you have to consider is the scale at which these shoes are sold at each step. From the factory they're processed and shipped in giant containers. The overhead of handling each shoe is fairly small at that stage.

When it comes to the retailer, there's a huge increase in the amount of work and overhead for each shoe sold. And the labor cost for that work is much higher than on the Asian side of the supply chain. That's also where you get potential waste from returns and discarded inventory and such. The retailer also have their own marketing costs.

I don't find it strange at all that the retailer expects a 100% markup.
by jchw | 2025-04-09 19:46:10+00:00
Honestly that is probably the one big fault of Puyo Puyo: Puyo Puyo Tsu (and onward) has an obscenely challenging learning curve which will undoubtedly have one plateauing a lot. If you want to be able to make larger chains you need to learn how to build transitions. But if you want to build large chains in actual matches with an opponent who is good enough to watch your board, you also need to be able to build transitions safely and efficiently, which is why a lot of people do GTR as soon as possible. It took me a few years to get to a point where I felt basically just mediocre, and then I plateaued hard. To get better I'd undoubtedly need to hone my muscle memory for how to more efficiently use pieces and build more parts of the chain at once without breaking it or leaving myself vulnerable. I don't think I'll ever be all that great, but it was a lot of fun.
by mre | 2025-04-09 19:46:27+00:00
Author here. The site was down because I'm on Cloudflare's free plan, which gives me 100k requests/day. I couldn't care less if the site was up for HN, honestly, because traffic costs me money and caches work fine. FWIW, the site was on Github Pages before and it handles previous frontpage traffic fine. So I guess if there were any irony in it, it would be about changing a system that worked perfectly well before. My goal was to play with workers a bit and add some server-side features, which, of course, never materialized. I might migrate back to GH because that's where my other blog, corrode.dev, is and I don't need more than that.
by mindwok | 2025-04-09 19:46:29+00:00
The MCP announcement had me excited on day one. Compared to that, this is a miss for me. The capabilities it provides seem to be no more than a system prompt, which was already a mostly solved problem.

What “agents” need is not a protocol for operating, they need a protocol for discovery and addressability. How do I find someone’s agent? How do I talk to it and verify its identity? Once I’ve done that, it can just be a normal chat interface for all I care.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-09 19:46:32+00:00
> It's still 10% for everyone but China.

There's actually some confusion about that. They said they paused the global tariffs but didn't mention the Canada and Mexico tariffs.

If the 10% global tariff is in addition to the Canada and Mexico tariffs, the net tariff rate on those countries could be quite high. Combined with 125% tariffs on China and we would have very burdensome tariffs on 3 of our largest trading partners.

The rally is because Trump caved to pressure and is backtracking earlier claims that he wasn't going to change his policy.
Show HN: See what your Python app sends and receives over HTTP
by cle-b | 2025-04-09 19:46:53+00:00
Hi,

A few months ago, I shared a tool I built for personal use to easily trace HTTP client requests in any Python app. It links requests to the corresponding Python code and comes with a nice UI. By easily, I mean: no external dependencies, no setup, no superuser rights, and no code modifications — just do "pip install httpdbg" and then launch your code using the "pyhttpdbg" command. That’s it.

I received a lot of positive feedback — not just here, but also on social media, in podcasts, and beyond. So, thank you!

Since I last introduced httpdbg, I’ve made many improvements — based on both my own needs and suggestions from users. There’s now better support for pytest, unittest, and various UI enhancements to make it more adaptable to different use cases.

I’m sharing it with you again because I’ve finally reached what I consider to be version 1.0.0, thanks to a major new feature:

* The ability to trace incoming HTTP requests.

This feature has been available for about a month now, and I’d love to hear your feedback. Currently, there's advanced support for Flask and FastAPI, but it can also trace requests received by other HTTP servers.

This new feature started more as a personal challenge than a necessity, but if it turns out to be useful for anyone, I’ll be genuinely happy.

Hope you enjoy discovering (and using ) httpdbg!

cle

github: https://github.com/cle-b/httpdbg

docs: https://httpdbg.readthedocs.io

example of HTTP server traces: https://httpdbg.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pyhttpdbg/#endpoint

first show hn post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41650905
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-09 19:46:58+00:00
The Democrats chose Biden in the election. If a party's candidate cannot serve, there is a process to choose a new candidate, which is not a general party election. (https://www.vox.com/2016/9/12/12887632/if-presidential-nomin...).

There's a very good reason for this: those general elections cost states money. Money they have not budgeted to re-run a primary. In addition, in most states, the primary is framed in a legal process that does not allow for an "out-of-band" second election. It would, generally, have been illegal to re-run an election (at least using the physical voting apparatus of the myriad states) to choose an alternate when Biden dropped, which is why the party chooses via their own process.

And as far as I'm aware, that process was followed following Biden's announcement. I wouldn't accuse Republicans of being uneducated and naive if people didn't vote for Harris because "she never won a primary..." I'd accuse traditional Democrat voters of not knowing very much about the party they (nominally) tend to support. It'd be nice if civics weren't just something people's parents and grandparents did.

As for being an outsider... In 2024, I fail to see how voters would think a former President could be considered outside the system.
by layer8 | 2025-04-09 19:47:27+00:00
The 10% apparently also apply to Canada and Mexico now, which they didn’t before:

> In a strange turn of events, the president seems to have added another 10 percent tariff to Canada and Mexico. Asked earlier if the 10 percent tariff extended to those countries, Scott Bessent, the Treasury secretary, said that it did. And a White House official clarified for me just now that that was the case. Previously, Canada and Mexico had been exempted from this round of “reciprocal” tariffs, though they still faced a 25 percent tariff that the president imposed last month on many of their goods.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/08/business/trump-tarif...
by kowabungalow | 2025-04-09 19:47:37+00:00
The President of the US believing it wasn't was never sufficient to make it independent, but what is the opposing force if the President of the US believes it is part of China?

Whether he is an actual idiot or a selfish asshat (if those are even independent properties), China's calculus is influenced by the benefit of the US treating Taiwan as part of it.
by markus_zhang | 2025-04-09 19:47:57+00:00
I hope the elites of US are not thinking about moving shoe-making back to the US because it doesn't make sense.

I'm sure (I hope, actually) that some policymakers, or some researchers, have done some conclusive researches about -- give X years into the future, and let's see we do not want to disrupt the current social-economic reality too much (no revolution, no major wealth re-distribution, no world wars, etc.), which industries can we bring back, and into which state, and sell its products into which countries, realistically.
by iteratethis | 2025-04-09 19:48:16+00:00
To me (European), there is no strategy behind these tariffs other than Trump's thirst for a dominant display. Just to show that he can, that he has the cards.

He introduces a shocking measure and then wants to humiliate the affected by letting them beg for relief. Submission. In a speech yesterday he literally said that "countries are coming to kiss his ass" and he clearly took great joy in this validation of power.

What he forgets, and so does this article, is that due to the above tactics this isn't a USA vs China situation. It has become a USA vs everybody else situation.

And surely "everybody else" is working on alternatives.
by refulgentis | 2025-04-09 19:48:37+00:00
https://research.google/blog/the-google-brain-team-looking-b... is a good overview

I wasn't on Brain, but got obsessed with Kerminology of ML internally at Google because I wanted to know why leadership was so gung ho on it.

The general sense in the early days was these things can learn anything, and they'll replace fundamental units of computing. This thought process is best exhibited externally by ex. https://research.google/pubs/the-case-for-learned-index-stru...

It was also a different Google, the "3 different teams working on 3 different chips" bit reminds me of lore re: how many teams were working on Android wearables until upper management settled it.

FWIW it's a very, very, different company now. Back then it was more entrepreneurial. A better version of Wave-era, where things launch themselves. An MBA would find this top-down company in 2025 even better, I find it less - it's perfectly tuned to do what Apple or OpenAI did 6-12 months ago, but not to lead - almost certainly a better investment, but a worse version of an average workplace, because it hasn't developed antibodies against BSing. (disclaimer: worked on Android)
by hallh | 2025-04-09 19:48:54+00:00
The idea has potential, but needs polishing. When I read the tutorial, I thought that I had to guess the target number using completely unrelated values. Was a bit disappointed to see the "options" were obvious and not really optional, and the scales too limited. Seemed too easy. It would be more entertaining to guess the number of people currently in flight based on x number of full football stadiums, the avg number of eggs laid by y hens per month, etc.

A visual queue of reaching within the success range would do a lot too. Was a bit confused whether I was right or not after submitting the answer.
by sitkack | 2025-04-09 19:49:03+00:00
PSA, everyone should be getting the HPV vaccine, regardless of age and gender.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV_vaccine

https://www.mdanderson.org/publications/focused-on-health/wh...

https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/hpv/oropharyngeal-cancer.html
by windexh8er | 2025-04-09 19:49:07+00:00
Going to go out on a limb and say that you must use it in a vacuum. I only have used Windows over the last decade in VMs and have seen this often with Windows tooling and updates. A quick search on the topic will confirm a lot of end users have experienced this sloppy system maintenance by Microsoft. [0]

[0] https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/window...
by fragmede | 2025-04-09 19:49:22+00:00
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjJgfspg/ shows it all too well.

Except that people liked those jobs because they were doable for people who aren't bright enough to write code. If you're not the brightest tool in the toolbox, and not the most professional, and have a criminal record, you still need a job, and the trades are open for business. Amazon warehouses skill level, without the dystopia.

I'm sure I'll do fine, it's my friends who have been underemployed for decades that aren't as bright who don't have a career to speak of that feel helpless and disempowered. Some of them voted for him. I can't say I don't see where they're coming from.
by bluGill | 2025-04-09 19:49:27+00:00
If everyone who stayed home had voted for a third party that party would have won. Even if they split between two third parties, they would have sent a powerful message. Instead they made it clear they don't care. Now add in those who thought the major party was the only way to make a difference. BTW, if you votes for Harris you wouldn't have lost anything by voting third party and it would have sent a message to the Democrats.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-04-09 19:49:46+00:00
I've never been more excited to be a software engineer.

Fight with your org to keep the guardrails. Code coverage, tests, CI. Nothing merged without human review by someone other than yourself. AI commentary on the PR helps speed this along, but there must be accountability.

Now go have fun! If you're typing 100% the code, you are missing out!

Yesterday with Cursor and a roadmap of bullet point features, I wrote ~15,500 lines of code and deleted ~3,890 lines before lunch. I didn't blindly accept any code; I vetted everything. I read and approved every line of code - think of it like reviewing the code as it appears.

It was not perfect - but whose code is? It is my job to get it into shape once it's been generated.

For example. Occasionally it made duplicate components or classes or even files! To that: "hey, looks like there are two FrobWidget classes now, can you take a look?" and it refactored and combined them without disturbing my flow, updating all the call sites too.

When I said "can you make some tests?" it listed out bullet points of names for tests it thought relevant and generated multiple 250+ line test files while I sipped coffee. Because I'd seen the code go in, I could reason about how thorough it was being. At some point I'll ask it to add code coverage.

And this is only guiding one copy of Cursor - imagine a future in which models don't trip up. One engineer can lead a whole fleet.

We aren't paid for how much code we write; we never were. You can use this insane output multiplier to add so much value you make people gasp.
by tow21 | 2025-04-09 19:50:15+00:00
Much harder to enforce against services.

Physical goods you can hold until tariffs are paid.

Services are paid for by invoices between two corporate entities whose legal domicile may have nothing to do with the real country of origin of the services.

Lots of European SaaS providers invoice US customers from their US subsidiary - impossible to distinguish the transaction in order to put a tariff on it.
by bookofjoe | 2025-04-09 19:50:16+00:00
My watch of choice remains the OG Casio F-91W, unchanged since its June 1989 introduction (35+ years!)[1] and still available today for the very nice price of $16.88[2]. They recently added Pink, Blue, Clear, Gold, White, Grey, and Green versions.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Casio-F91W-1-Classic-Resin-Digital/dp...
by kinow | 2025-04-09 19:50:54+00:00
I am reading it right now and thought what would be the outcome of doing the same!

Bea being Donut's rival… sounds interesting. Depending how you interpret it, it's not entirely wrong?

Carl being enemy of Mordecai looks really wrong though.

As for Carl being an enemy of the System (I assume the AI), that's also debatable.

And if the friend of a friend rule applied here, I think Carl would be a friend of Ellie too, since Carl is a friend of Katia, and Ellie is a friend of Katia too. And they are all allies. Weird.
by famouswaffles | 2025-04-09 19:51:05+00:00
Global funding would never have been capped at $200M for LMs because they were obviously useful from the get go and only got more useful with more investment.

Forget CYC, Forget LLMs. We abandoned Symbolic-AI for Neural Networks in NLP long before the advent of the science-fiction esque transformer LLMs. That's how terrible they were.

It wasn't for a lack of trying either. NNs were the underdogs. Some of the greatest minds desparately wanted the symbolic approach to be a valid one and tried for literally decades, and while I wouldn't call it a 'failure', it just couldn't handle anything fuzzy without a rigidly defined problem space, which is kind of unfortunate seeing as that is the exact kind of intelligence that actually exists in the real world.
by mulmen | 2025-04-09 19:51:16+00:00
> Permanent damage has been done to our own faith in our country. Any pride I had in our values and democracy has slipped away, now that I know that they were illusions.

I understand this feeling but this quote has been helpful to me.

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it" - Mark Twain

This is a dark time for America. But we shouldn’t turn our backs. The next few years will be painful. As patriots we need to work toward making it better. Take care of your neighbors. Work toward seeing the change you want in the midterms. Demand accountability from your representatives.
by huijzer | 2025-04-09 19:51:16+00:00
According to a Google blog post from 2016 [1], use-cases were RankBrain to improve the relevancy of search results and Street View. Also they used it for AlphaGo. And from what I remember from my MSc thesis, they also probably were starting to use it for Translate. I can't find any TPU reference in the Attention is All You Need or BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding, but I have been fine-tuning BERT in a TPU at the time in okt 2018 [2]. If I remember correctly, the BERT example repository showed how to fit a model with a TPU inside a Colab. So I would guess that the natural language research was mostly not on TPU's around 2016-2018, but then moved over to TPU in production. I could be wrong though and dgacmu probably knows more.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/g...

[2]: https://github.com/rikhuijzer/improv/blob/master/runs/2018-1...
by matwood | 2025-04-09 19:51:57+00:00
> But then something flipped.

The bond market is always the adult in the room. The UK PM lasted like 44 days when the bond market pushed her out [1]. In this case, the flip was that all the chaos led to people leaving behind the USD completely. Trumps view of the US/World is ~30+ years out of date. There are other stable places to put money now where it used to only be USD.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/20/uk-prime-minister-liz-truss-...
by tim333 | 2025-04-09 19:52:10+00:00
There a lot to be said for ignoring other countries tariffs and just having free trade. Hong Kong and Singapore basically did that for decades and grew fast and became wealthy. Tariffs mostly hurt the countries introducing them.

There are some exceptions. Sudden changes can be painful if you built a factory to service some market and they block the sales all of a sudden. But a 10% across the board tariff may not make it worth retaliating.
by HPsquared | 2025-04-09 19:52:13+00:00
This kind of thing pops up now and again but the psychology is completely different to if basic income was actually universal and expected to continue in the long-term.

Of course people don't quit their jobs and careers because they are part of a small group enrolled in a 3-year scientific study. Human behaviour is non-linear.

The study doesn't cover the likely feedback effects on the broader economy that a universal rollout would have (increase in the money supply) or the broader socio-cultural changes that would likely accompany it.

In short: scale matters for this kind of thing. Some things just can't be tested ahead of time empirically.