MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by firesteelrain | 2025-05-29 02:34:35+00:00
It was the FTC investigating grocery retailers in general creating higher prices to protect their profits while the retailers blamed COVID.

Separately, the “Federal Trade Commission sued PepsiCo on Friday, alleging that it has engaged in illegal price discrimination by giving unfair price advantages to one large retailer at the expense of other vendors and consumers.”

1. https://apnews.com/article/ftc-sues-pepsico-price-discrimina...
by Terr_ | 2025-05-29 02:35:03+00:00
Exactly. The same nonsense-logic for collecting these taxes could be abused to bypass Congress and give away zillions of taxpayer dollars to anybody (including his own companies) that go: "I just bought lots of Trumpcoin to be patriotic, and I ultra-promise not to do business with Iran or Venezuela or whatever."

Aside: I recommend the phrase "import taxes" over "tariffs", because a disturbingly large portion of my neighbors still don't seem to understand WTF the latter really is.
by bcoates | 2025-05-29 02:36:03+00:00
If you're already built around Redis I'd just keep using it, but if you're doing new development there's not so much a single drop in replacement as a substantially better alternative for any given feature (and not particularly any advantage to having all your data in the "same Redis instance"). That said, 90+% of the time the answer is probably "transactional SQL database" or "message queue"

For Kafka, the answer is probably an object store, a message queue, a specialized logging system, an ordinary transactional database table, or whatever mechanism your chosen analytics DB uses for bulk input (probably S3 or equivalent these days). Or maybe just a REST interface in front of a filesystem. Unless of course you truly need to interface with a Kafka consumer/producer in which case you’re stuck with it (the actual reason I've seen for every Kafka deployment I've personally witnessed in recent history)
by vlovich123 | 2025-05-29 02:36:07+00:00
> Maybe it will be some day wrong, but glad to know it still holds.

Why? The last time we got relativity and quantum mechanics which completely upended our standard of living and technological progress in the 20th century. Wouldn’t you be excited for finding out exactly how the current model is wrong and a better more accurate explanation for the workings of the universe?
by jmyeet | 2025-05-29 02:36:11+00:00
It's kind of amazing that the Stanndard Model, which by any objective measure has been a stunningly successful theory, can be both incredibly accurate and ludicrously inaccurate. The magnetic moment, which you mention, is an example of the latter, accurate to 8-10 significant digits. An example of the latter is the so-called "vacuum catastrophe" where QFT predicts the energy of a vacuum and is off... by 120 orders of magnitude.

Like no one really knows why we have three generations of particles and what that means or why they're so massive.

I only found out about hyperons [1] last year, where (at least) one down quark is replaced with a strange quark. And this matter has weird properties. IIRC the nuclei get smaller.

Many years ago I'd assumed it was only a matter of time until we make significant progress merging quantum mechanics and gravity but honestly, I'm starting to have doubts. The universe is under no obligation to make sense or give up its secrets. Just like in maths, some things may be unknowable.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperon
by 8note | 2025-05-29 02:36:27+00:00
not a downvoter, but a criticism is yhat BTC doesnt actually offer defenses agaisnt double spend, at least when you use it to buy something.

if the chain swaps a month from now and drops my bbq purchase, the bbq shop isnt getting their bbq back, even though i get my BTC back on the new chain. the ethereum fork for ethereum classic also doubled everyone's wallets, which i'd consider to be a double spend

The double spend protection is quite limited, so whats the big loss from lightning?
by maxerickson | 2025-05-29 02:37:34+00:00
“IEEPA does not authorize any of the worldwide, retaliatory, or trafficking tariff orders,” the panel of judges said in their order Wednesday.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/28/business/us-court-blocks-trum...

That seems to not agree with your "power Congress gave" characterization.
by Tor3 | 2025-05-29 02:39:37+00:00
Agreed about the signing.. that's useless. But at least for some shipments with value we have to show an ID (not just any ID - I always carry my passport though), back in my home country. Just signing is worthless, in particular when that implies trying to "write" something on a touch screen using your finger.

Here in Japan there's typically this little circle where you're supposed to stamp you hanko.. but I just sign my name, with a pen, whether the parcel is for me or for my wife. But at least the delivery guy will have me read the form to verify that it's actually for someone in the household.

Not that I would prefer the hanko.. that idiocy just have to go. I can see no safety in the system, it's just a made-up stamp after all. It has no place in a modern world. And it's on the way out, as far as I understand, but I still hear stories about people forgetting the hanko when they go to the bank, and despite having passports and other IDs they're denied service. And you need to bring that thing everywhere for contracts and the like.. and everything has to be done by physical presence.
by brailsafe | 2025-05-29 02:40:03+00:00
This is a somewhat wasteful one, but when I really really can't focus or make progress on untangling an issue or if I just want to fully understand a file, I will print out my code on paper and go through it with a red pen line by line. It's rare, but it works just like editing an essay. I notice things I wouldn't otherwise.
by jmyeet | 2025-05-29 02:40:14+00:00
It's not a "gotcha". It's just objective fact. There were no war resolutions for Korea and Vietnam.

If anything it demonstrates a more recent trend where the executive oversteps its authority to engage in military action and to bypass Congress.

As for conscription, this was enabled by Congress in WW2 by "selective service" [1]. The administration maintains the authority to draft male citizens of a certain age into the military without explicit Congressional approval.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conscription_in_the_United_Sta...
by hcknwscommenter | 2025-05-29 02:40:38+00:00
That is a fundamental misunderstanding of how the judicial, legislative, and executive branches are set forth in the constitution. The co-equal branches are supposed to check and balance each other. Merely making up a "story that sounds plausible" but is in fact "brain dead" should not be enough for the courts. That should be such an obviously losing argument that the executive is immediately injunction to cease while the court case proceeds and eventually definitively determined to be acting illegally.
by tomhow | 2025-05-29 02:40:39+00:00
> they just don't give a single fvck

Can we not do this on HN? We're not prudish about words like that, so if you're going to use the word, please just use it correctly.

We do have a guideline that asks not to fulminate, so please observe that, along with all the guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
by drekipus | 2025-05-29 02:41:22+00:00
I would actually love for something like this.

I thought about making my own version, one where I could upload photos and videos, so that I could cross-reference.

"Look here's aunty Mel with uncle Roy. This was back in 1992, so it must have been in Brisbane" etc.

I have a complicated family history; immigration, DoCS, siblings put up for adoption, step parents with their own family tree, etc.

I have managed to retain some original photographs and letters, and would love to store them somewhere and begin to cross-reference them, so that I could see all the photos relating to one person, etc.

I've almost thought about getting some open source Facebook clone and using that.

(Edit: by coincidence, I just got a renewal reminder for the domain I bought for this project, maybe I'll kick the can for another year)
by kelnos | 2025-05-29 02:43:42+00:00
Wow, that didn't make much sense to me until I read:

> President John Tyler was 63 when Lyon Gardiner Tyler was born; Lyon was 75 when Harrison entered the world.

John Tyler died when he was 71, when his son Lyon was only 8. Lyon died at 81, when his son Harrison was only 6. I know it's not that uncommon in general that people lose their parents at a relatively young age, but in this case their fathers essentially chose this path.

Seems Harrison had his kids when he was in his 30s... "tradition" broken, I guess. Good that he got to see his kids grow up.
by Aziell | 2025-05-29 02:47:28+00:00
I actually really like this idea. It’s genuinely convenient. The worst part of moving is updating your address everywhere, and even after doing it, you still worry something got missed. But after reading the details, I’m a bit hesitant. The idea of the code staying the same even if the address changes sounds great. But if it still relies on people manually updating their info, isn’t it pretty easy for things to go wrong if someone forgets?
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-05-29 02:48:47+00:00
Took a look. Beautiful UI and no doubt a great product cooking. But I fear the (current) demo video is a hindrance. The demo video sees a person arranging to go to a bar with friends. Make some calendar appointments, message back, nothing hard. It is a classic example of the "travel booking problem".

You're demoing a solution to a problem no one has, and doing it on a mac where a vanishingly small percentage of people even use messaging apps.

Why?

1. It's not more efficient.

On my phone I can do everything in the demo video faster and more precisely. I'll be done before the demo video finishes. Flicking between apps is a breeze, and there's copy-paste and share sheets to fling data around. Even tougher for you, I greatly enjoy the process - pick a bar and a time to hang out & ask friends what they reckon.

2. It sucks the joy out.

If you focus on this use case, you're up against literal joy. Joy of arranging things to do with your friends. Joy of having made that choice so everyone can have fun. Why would anyone suck the joy out of a social process like that so they can be done with it a few seconds faster - and even then, they'd only be done a few seconds faster if they're woefully inefficient, and one wrong move by the AI (which mind you is acting on pretty minimal instructions) undoes any efficiency gains and makes the whole experience quite grinding.

The tool is no doubt excellent - beautiful UI & a lot of care shown - u clearly care about what you're building, so I do hope it's great.
by arunabha | 2025-05-29 02:49:11+00:00
I'm really surprised to see this on the front page. Usually stories like this move off the front page in minutes. It's not because of flagging though. I had asked the question on a previous article which disappeared off the front page in minutes and Dang was kind enough to provide an explanation https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43487014

The relevant bit from his explanation was

"Mostly that's because this general topic (His You-Know-Whoness) is the most repetitive/indignant one that HN has experienced in recent months. We're trying to avoid that, not because of the specific topic, but because those qualities (repetition and indignation) are the opposite of what the site is for, and destroy what it is for."

So, contrary to popular perception, it's not the flag/downvote brigade which causes these stories to disappear off the front page.
by drekipus | 2025-05-29 02:49:54+00:00
Where are we at on community understanding of the JFK assassination?

In this post-truth society, I have no idea what other people are thinking.

The JFK file were released recently and heavily redacted ("for protection of interests of US allies"), but I believe enough information was not redacted that implicated Israel connections with Jack Rubystein, etc. and it seems obvious to me as an outsider that there were three bullets from two or three different angles.

But my knowledge is only from Australian high school history class and some recent commentary. I have no idea what the Americans think or what the diehard historians think about it.

Intrigue and plot continues!
by Tor3 | 2025-05-29 02:50:23+00:00
As some other comments mentioned, the way addresses are entered in web forms in Japan is not standardized. So autofill just doesn't work, a lot of the time. It may even seem correct, but then this particular site wants the address to be written differently.. half-width vs full-width characters, for example (and it can be way more complicated than that). It's so complicated to even enter your name that my Japanese wife couldn't get it right on a hotel's web form, whatever she tried. With her Japanese PC. Had to book by phone, in the end (and, as we weren't in Japan at the time, that was a costly phone call)
by 8note | 2025-05-29 02:50:32+00:00
properly, money laundering is:

1. a predicate crime - the illegal thing you did to make money 2. placement - getting that money into the financial system 2. layering - hiding the money in legitimate transactions 3. integration - getting the money out

it sounds like you do have the predicate crime though, in some form of illegal drug dealing, since you mention trying to interfere with the government. if you actually think its unconstitutional, you might consider getting caught, and bringing your case up to the supreme court so that it can be struck for being unconstitutional.
by protocolture | 2025-05-29 02:52:36+00:00
I worry about documentation in particular for hallucination. In this context the source of truth (the employee) is leaving the company, and leaving behind a document that will itself be seen as the new source of truth. Risk of hallucination or even transcription failures are usually low because you can always just go back to the source of truth, but thats not the case here.
by Moto7451 | 2025-05-29 02:52:41+00:00
The other terms that gets thrown around for this is “Workspace” and some sort of “Visitor”, “Guest”, or “Membership” relationship, or a “we create a copy and assign it to the new Organization” strategy. The past three places I’ve worked have done something akin to this. Usually after they guess about how Google Docs/Google Workspace functions based on observed behavior.
by serezeapp | 2025-05-29 02:53:14+00:00
Sereze Breathing App — an AI-powered, offline breathwork coach for iOS and Apple Watch.

Sereze guides personalized breathing techniques like Box Breathing, Yoga Nidra/NSDR, and Silent Meditation, tailored using your Apple Health data (HRV, HR, sleep). It works completely offline with no logins or server sync — just phone and your Apple Watch.

It tracks heart rhythm and variability in real time during sessions, then uses LLM/GenAI to offer personalized insights into your nervous system health, sleep recovery, and stress resilience. You can even ask it questions post-session and receive contextual responses.

Recent features include TTS-guided breath cues, REM/Deep/Core sleep stage breakdowns, and a silent mode for mindful journaling or meditative tracking.

Would love feedback or collaborations! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sereze/id6736566597
by aurizon | 2025-05-29 02:53:24+00:00
Almost all the surplus stores are gone. Those that owned their place in a depressed warehouse district lasted the longest. Then they based their existence on the USA tax code. If they made1,200,000 electric things = 100,000 a month = sell to meet orders. Orders drop and they had 20,000 left and parts for the next 100,000. At year's end they can write them off - but can not keep them as written down parts = mandatory third party selloff. Surplus dealers would buy them at 5-15% of cost and sell in want-ads in several weekly mailed papers. Electronic Buyers news (EBN) is one I recall. 10 tabloid pages of all stuff. In the late 80's the internet arrived and by 2005 all these tabloids were gone. Then when manufacturing went to Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan and China the sources all collapsed. In addition, surface mount and LSI as well as programmed chips, meant used boards became useless for most - few had the hot air chip pullers. I was a member of Hacklab in Toronto = hacklab.to = a hacker shop you pay by the month and they have all types of machine tools, solder/desolder, laser cutters, filament printers,programmers work stations etc, but most use good laptops, Apple, x86 and linux and assorted single board small like raspberrypi etc. Even they buy from Ali express or one of the parts shops online, like digikey.com Times have hanged. I used to buy from ASS. I went to the ASD show in Las Vegas every year. Still going, less electronic surplus, more sell off goods. https://asdonline.com/about/product-categories/
by pixl97 | 2025-05-29 02:54:22+00:00
>More likely we’re just going to max out around human levels of intelligence, and we may never find a higher level than that.

I've seen people state this before, but I don't think I've seen anyone make a scientific statement on why this could be the case. The human body has a rather tight power and cooling envelope itself. On top of that we'd have to ask how and why our neural algorithm somehow found the global maxima of intelligence when we can see that other animals can have higher local maxima of sensory processing.

Moreso machine intelligence has more exploration room to search the problem space of survival (aka Mickey7) that the death any attached sensoring/external network isn't the death of the AI itself. How does 'restore from backup' affect the evolution of intelligence?

Granted there are limits somewhere, and maybe those limits are just a few times what a human can do. Traversing the problem space in networks much larger than human sized capabilities might explode in time and memory complexity, or something weird like that.
by rayiner | 2025-05-29 02:54:43+00:00
> Surely there's a mechanism through the courts for someone to challenge illegal tariffs

What you're describing is the Marbury tail wagging the Article II dog. The focus of the Constitution is allocation of power. The focus isn't creating a system where courts micromanage how the other two branches of government exercise that power. Marbury therefore goes to great lengths to draw lines between an executive's "ministerial" actions, which courts can supervise, and those that involve "discretion," which courts cannot. Marbury thus says:

> [W]here the heads of departments are the political or confidential agents of the Executive, merely to execute the will of the President, or rather to act in cases in which the Executive possesses a constitutional or legal discretion, nothing can be more perfectly clear than that their acts are only politically examinable. But where a specific duty is assigned by law, and individual rights depend upon the performance of that duty, it seems equally clear that the individual who considers himself injured has a right to resort to the laws of his country for a remedy.

The Tariff Act provision here is a classic example of something that Congress has entrusted to the President's discretion. The statute says: "Whenever the President shall find as a fact that any foreign country places any burden or disadvantage upon the commerce of the United States by any of the unequal impositions or discriminations aforesaid..."

Insofar as the courts can properly review such actions, their rule is to determine whether the prerequisites for invoking the authority have been satisfied--namely, did the President make a finding? Here, the President did make a finding. At that point, the courts' jurisdiction gives way to the President's discretion. The courts don't get to decide whether the President's finding is correct, or even whether it makes sense. At that point, the act is "only politically examinable."
by Tor3 | 2025-05-29 02:55:04+00:00
That's true, and it would be much easier to remember, but then you lose the feature where you move to somewhere else but you still use the same code - which is also a function of this system (you just update your address once, in that public database). And everyone who already have your digital id will automatically get your new delivery address, unlike if they just have your zip+4+2.
by southp | 2025-05-29 02:56:44+00:00
What an amazing achievement. From the outcome, it sounds like all the hardwork has paid off. Congratulations :)

How have the users perceived the new version so far? Are there positive feedback? Any new complaints due to the parity issues? Or in general, how is your team measuring success of the UI? From the post, it sounds like the users have a way to provide feedback and your team has a way to engage with them, which is wonderful. So I'm curious to learn.
by pradn | 2025-05-29 02:57:39+00:00
On the data warehousing side, I think the story looks like this:

1) Cloud data warehouses like Redshift, Snowflake, and BigQuery proved to be quite good at handling very large datasets (petabytes) with very fast querying.

2) Customers of these proprietary solutions didn't want to be locked in. So many are drifting toward Iceberg tables on top of Parquet (columnar) data files.

Another "hidden" motive here is that Cloud object stores give you regional (multi-zonal) redundancy without having to pay extra inter-zonal fees. An OLTP database would likely have to pay this cost, as it likely won't be based purely on object stores - it'll need a fast durable medium (disk), if at least for the WAL or the hot pages. So here we see the topology of Cloud object stores being another reason forcing the split between OLTP and OLAP.

But how does this new world of open OLTP/OLAP technologies look like? Pretty complicated.

1) You'd probably run PostGres as your OLTP DB, as it's the default these days and scales quite well.

2) You'd set up an Iceberg/Parquet system for OLAP, probably on Cloud object stores.

3) Now you need to stream the changes from PostGres to Iceberg/Parquet. The canonical OSS way to do this is to set up a Kafka cluster with Kafka Connect. You use the Debezium CDC connector for Postgres to pull deltas, then write to Iceberg/Parquet using the Iceberg sink connector. This incurs extra compute, memory, network, and disk.

There's so many moving parts here. The ideal is likely a direct Postgres->Iceberg write flow built-into PostGres. The pg_mooncake this company is offering also adds DuckDB-based querying, but that's likely not necessary if you plan to use Iceberg-compatible querying engines anyway.

Ideally, you have one plugin for purely streaming PostGres writes to Iceberg with some defined lag. That would cut out the third bullet above.
by Spooky23 | 2025-05-29 02:58:18+00:00
The Trade Court disagrees.

"The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

...

To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes"
by hakfoo | 2025-05-29 02:58:33+00:00
Point 4 is solvable by selling a broad subscription rather than individual articles.

Streaming proves this. When people spend $10 per month on Netflix/Hulu/Crunchyroll they don't have to further ask "do I want to pay 7.5 cents for another episode" every 22 minutes. The math for who's getting paid how much for how many streams is entirely outside the customer's consideration, and the range is broad enough that it discourages one-and-done binging.

For individual content providers, you might need to form some sort of federated project. Media properties could organize through existing networks as an obvious framework ("all AP newspapers for $x per month") but we'd probably need new federations for online-first and less news-centric publishers.