MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by snowwrestler | 2025-07-23 02:23:57+00:00
> The tariffs are paid by the foreign producers, not consumers.

The tariffs are being paid by domestic companies, not foreign producers. There is literally no way for a foreign producer to pay a U.S. tariff as the tariff is charged to the importer before the good is released by Customs.

The impacts of the tariffs are domestic. If consumer prices are not increased, then profits, investment, or expenses (including salary, benefits, etc) will be decreased. The money has to come from somewhere inside the U.S.

This is the entire point of a tariff, historically and as expressed by this administration. It is not to source foreign tax revenue, it is to create intentional domestic pain as a means toward implementing a top-down industrial policy. “Make it here or I will hurt you” is the overt message from the President.
by kjellsbells | 2025-07-23 02:24:06+00:00
The telco operators really need to ask themselves how it is that in over 30 years of attempting to expose the telco network to developers, not one single attempt has succeeded.

- IN - the "intelligent network"

- AIN - the advanced intelligent network

- SIP/SDP app servers

- JAIN app servers

- 4G SCEF (service capability exposure)

- 5G NEF (network exposure)

- 5G AF (application function)

- CAMARA

I've probably omitted half a dozen more.

My diagnosis is that the telcos have nothing that developers want and plenty that they don't want. For example, no one is crying out for low level access to the 5G network slicing function and they're definitely not in a hurry to tie their ability to make money to whether they can integrate with some telco's billing system.

Often times a telco will throw up a slide that has, say, a picture of a robot or car using some nifty feature of the 5G network -predictable latency, say- and suggest that developers could use the network for these types of applications. Do you imagine that a FANUC or a Tesla would seriously tie their fortunes to whether some AT&T person would let them get a few bytes across the network? Practically, no way.

There is a demand from developers for telco services, but it is at the level of making API calls to send SMS or make calls. Twilio made good money out of it while the telcos were not looking, or perhaps less charitably, while they were so tied up in whether this SIP header or Diameter PDU should be allowed into their hallowed network that they didnt realize that the world had passed them by.
by missedthecue | 2025-07-23 02:24:20+00:00
It will probably have to look something like western Europe with massive across the board tax increases. I make $60k a year in the USA and my tax rates are about 12%, with no VAT. They'd probably need to look more like France, where a $60k income is hit with a 42% effective tax (adjusted for progressive rates) before 20% VAT is paid at the store.
by alephnerd | 2025-07-23 02:24:25+00:00
For every failed attempt like Wisconsin, you have equally successful industrial policies like Arizona and Texas in semiconductors. They are also Republican states like WI, but had better managed industrial policy teams.

A lot of the investments listed by OP were also thanks to CHIPS and IRA, but the tariffs have acted as the stick to force the Capex realized from CHIPS and IRA remains in the US.

Even China has been leveraging a similar strategy to force it's own manufacturers like BYD and CATL or foreign manufacturers like Foxconn to keep bleeding edge manufacturing within China by using a mix of export controls and revoking passports of Chinese nationals abroad.

> TSMC’s

That was Foxconn, not TSMC.

Also, Foxconn is an assembler, not a high value manufacturer.
by hn_throwaway_99 | 2025-07-23 02:24:33+00:00
> but because of spectacularly poor judgment by people who fundamentally don't understand software development or basic operational security.

> Replit has nothing to apologize for

I completely disagree. Replit is at the forefront of the "build apps with AI" movement - they actively market themselves to non-coders, and the title on their homepage is literally "Turn your ideas into apps".

So it would be bit rich of them to market these tools, which happen to fail spectacularly at inopportune times, and then blame their users for not being experienced with secure code deployment practices.

I do agree we're in a bubble, and the fundamental limitations of these kinds of tools is starting to become more apparent to the public at large (not just software engineers), but that doesn't mean that we should let those at the forefront of blowing this bubble off the hook.
by komali2 | 2025-07-23 02:24:53+00:00
If they wanted to make an argument about economic exploitation of workers by capitalist institutions, they would have done so. Instead, once great replacement was brought it up, they began defending it as real. For them, and many, it's about race.

I'm with you - corporations absolutely exploit cheap labor at the expense of all else, including their "home nation" (a concept alien to corporations; corporations are money go up algorithms, nothing more). That corporations will pillage other countries for cheap labor is baked in to the fundament of capitalism and was often written about as something we'll need to figure out when we get to late-stage capitalism if we want to continue doing this system.

Let's not confuse racists as our ideological allies, though they may indeed be class allies that have unfortunately chosen a false reactionary explanation for the degradation of their country and comfort. Not just any false reactionary explanation, the oldest one in the book, so rote and cliche I'm honestly surprised people still fall for it. "It's not the billionaires that control the means of production and all aspects of society that are making your life worse, it's uh.. uh... the Je - oh we can't do that one anymore? The Bla- oh wait that's not allowed anymore either? The INDIANS and MEXICANS!!"
by canucker2016 | 2025-07-23 02:26:05+00:00
Building 16 & 17 had the same problem.

After working late, I decided to cut through building 17. I had to wash my hands so I went to the men's washroom, assuming the same layout in 17 as in 16.

Hmmm... They painted the washroom walls pink for some reason.

Oh. They've got a condom dispenser in the washroom?!

Ooooh NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. That's NOT a condom dispenser!

I looked around wildly for any indications besides the dispenser of which washroom I was in. Quickly scrambled for the exit and looked at the door on my way out to discover that building 17 did NOT have the same exact layout as building 16.

Mental note etched in my brain forever...
by wkat4242 | 2025-07-23 02:26:52+00:00
Well yes tons of people are running them but they're all pretty well off.

I don't have 10-20k$ to spend on this stuff. Which is about the minimum to run a 480B model, with huge quantisation. And pretty slow because for that price all you get is an old Xeon with a lot of memory or some old nvidia datacenter cards. If you want a good setup it will cost a lot more.

So small models it is. Sure, the bigger models are better but because the improvements come so fast it means I'm only 6 months to a year behind the big ones at any time. Is that worth 20k? For me no.
by TheAlchemist | 2025-07-23 02:29:29+00:00
"It can do everything that any customer support agent at that company could do.".

Not at all - on the rare occasions I needed to reach customer support, AI infuriated me most of the time actually. One trick to trigger it to switch to a human is to start insulting it (read it somewhere on HN I think, and it did work in my case).
by RickJWagner | 2025-07-23 02:29:50+00:00
You can’t tax the rich enough to pay off the debt. They already pay the overwhelming majority of taxes.

One company alone— Berkshire Hathaway— paid almost $27 Billion in taxes for 2024. That’s about 5% of all corporate taxes paid.

To really make money, you have to tax a bunch of smaller fish, not a handful of bigger fish. You need big numbers.

That’s politically unpalatable, especially for Republicans. ( Though Democrats seem to have no appetite for it either. )

In the past, Republicans would cut taxes ( popular ) while not spending as much ( unpopular ). Democrats would not cut taxes ( unpopular ) while spending more ( popular ).

Sadly, today both parties are acting like undisciplined parents. Everybody wants to give out the treats ( spend big ) while nobody wants to earn the paycheck ( raise the taxes ). It’s a bipartisan formula for disaster.
by kstrauser | 2025-07-23 02:30:33+00:00
That's solving a different, and far easier, problem.

I'm perfectly happy setting up my Git repos on a fileserver I have to access via SSH. That's easy enough. It works fine. But it falls down when I want to share my code with my buddy, and now I have to make a user for him. Or suppose I want some code to be world-readable because it's not sensitive and I want to clone it onto VMs that I don't want to configure to SSH into my dev server. Or I want to put a sensitive repo behind some kind of authorization, and I want full read-write access to it, but I only want my pal to have read-only access.

You can do all these things yourself using standard Unix tools. I've done it. It's possible, but wow, it's way more of a pain in the neck than just installing Forgejo and saying "put repo A behind authentication, make repo B publicly read-only, and grant my clumsy friend read-only access to repo B (but allow him to open a PR if he wants to make a change to it)". Those are all real-world things I want to do, and Forgejo and friends are way easier to configure correctly than Unix permissions and a handful of SSH pub keys.
by ActorNightly | 2025-07-23 02:31:15+00:00
Lol its not whataboutism. You can't do this thing where you just throw in fallacies at something randomly do discredit.

Whataboutism is when you justify the wrongdoing of X by pointing out that Y is also wrong and nothing is being done about it.

Im simply pointing out that if your outrage about Palestine is genocide, then you should be outraged about the other genocides. You can either agree, or you can further narrow down your position on why specifically Palestine conflict is the one you chose to place your outrage on, and not others.
by const_cast | 2025-07-23 02:31:24+00:00
Very very few people, in practice, write vanilla CSS. They use libraries and frameworks often, like Bootstrap. Sure, that might be "vanilla CSS", but you didn't write it, presumably because you didn't want to.

Look, after a certain point we have to call a spade a spade and acknowledge that CSS is just too cumbersome, too awkward, and too complicated for most developers and companies. How much CSS do you see that seems to be read-only? People just... tack on to the end of the style sheet, right?

The promise of re-usability is great, but is it actually happening? IME, no.
by ocdtrekkie | 2025-07-23 02:31:31+00:00
I feel like this comment ignores the fact that right now all of them are effectively tied to Google, and that supporting DANE if Google doesn't is currently pointless, so obviously no one would until the status quo changes.

Ultimately the problem is that currently "security best practice" as it's commonly discussed, says what we're doing now is a good idea. It's not, and until we change the understanding on that, nobody's going to feel motivated to do better.

Password rotation used to be considered a gold standard strategy for security, until people realized not only did it make everything harder, it also encouraged people to choose less secure passwords and was largely self-defeating.

If I told you we could improve a 90-day password rotation policy by making it change every week, you'd rightly call me crazy, but for some inconceivable reason (monopoly, perverse incentives, appeal to an authority run by idiots, name your choice), people act like decreasing certificate lifetime is somehow going to make the web safer.
by gibybo | 2025-07-23 02:32:00+00:00
Yes, and you would almost certainly want to automate it with a filter wheel that changes the filters for you on a schedule. However, a key advantage of a mono camera is that you don't have to limit yourself to RGB filters. You can use some other set of filters better suited for the object you are capturing and map them back to RGB in software. This is most commonly done with narrowband filters for Hydrogen, Sulfur and Oxygen which allow you to see more detail in many deep space objects and cut out most of the light pollution that would otherwise get in your way.
by benjiro | 2025-07-23 02:32:10+00:00
Ignoring its biggest advantage vs mdraid, or zfs raid:

The ability to sleep all / individual HDDs:

* only keep awake the drives that your actually read data from * only keep awake the drive that your write data too + n parity drives

For home users, that is a TON of energy saving. And no, your "poor" HDDs are not going to suffer from spinning up a few times per day.

You can spin up/down a HDD 10x per day, for 100 years before you come even close to the manufactures (lowest) hdd limits. Let alone if you have 4+ drives and have a bit of data spreading, or combined with unraids nvme/ssd caching layer.

So unlike mdraid or zfs where its a all or nothing situation, unraid / snapraid gives you a ton of energy saving.

And i understand the US folks here do not care when they pay maybe 6 to 12 cent / kwh, but the rest of the world has electricity prices in the 30 to 50 cent / kwh, and it stacks up very fast when you are using < 1watt vs 5/7Watt per HDD/24/7...
by asgraham | 2025-07-23 02:33:14+00:00
I can’t find any complete numbers (most prevalent factors after smoking would be environmental, and therefore underreported, especially when as hard to detect as radon), but national health agencies tend to put the Radon section second, after Smoking [1,2]. An uncited figure on a Hopkins webpage suggests 30% of non-smoking lung cancer cases are caused by Radon [3]. Among the well-known environmental factors (asbestos, secondhand smoke), it seems to be about equal for risk increase [4]. Given that asbestos and secondhand smoke are on the decline, it stands to reason that radon will tend toward being the top cause, barring a rise in prevalence of one of the disease risk factors (asthma, pneumonia, HIV, tuberculosis).

Of course this is all moot because vaping will be revealed to be the current #1 cause of lung cancer in the coming decades, by a long shot. No citation necessary.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/lung-cancer/risk-factors/index.html

[2] https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/lung-cancer/causes/

[3] https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseas...

[4] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6777859/
by danaris | 2025-07-23 02:34:46+00:00
I don't know anything particular about the others, but Apple has been investing at least that much in increasing US production for many years now, and Chobani, AFAIK, has never had significant non-US facilities (and started in NYS—in fact, its first plant is less than 20 minutes' drive from where I work).

Given that, I question how many of these are actually caused by the tariffs.
by Buttons840 | 2025-07-23 02:35:57+00:00
> You can’t tax the rich enough to pay off the debt. They already pay the overwhelming majority of taxes.

Yes. This means that if we double the taxes on the wealthy we will roughly double our total taxes collected. A neat trick.

It's true that the top 50% pay 97% of taxes, but that's not the slam dunk you think it is, because the top 50% have 97.5% of the wealth (see sources).

Your suggestion to tax the poor is stupid, because the poor have nothing more to give. Even if we could extract 10x the amount of taxes from the poor, it would barely be a blip. If the bottom 50% paid 10x the taxes, then they'd be contributing, what, like 15% of all taxes? We're going to take from the poor, take food out of their mouths, for 15% more taxes? Like I said before, its like trying to squeeze blood from a stone, there's just nothing there to squeeze.

https://taxfoundation.org/data/all/federal/latest-federal-in... https://usafacts.org/articles/who-owns-american-wealth/
by ActorNightly | 2025-07-23 02:36:24+00:00
In voting, you had 3 choices, vote Dem, vote Rep, or abstain.

When it comes to Palestine, you had 2 choices, vote Dem, which is arguably the better choice as Dems overall are more humanitarian minded, or the other 2, which both increase chances of Trump winning, which is way worse for Palestine.

I don't get what mental gymnastics one has to do to find that abstaining is the morally justified position. Its not like if enough people abstain, nobody becomes president.

>The Americans have blood on their hands when it comes to Gaza and the same cannot be said about other conflicts.

Uh.....lol?

The other big thing is that I dunno how one can support people that actively murder people for being gay, but thats just me.
by eviks | 2025-07-23 02:38:53+00:00
> I analysed a full day of my keystrokes with xkbcat, which was very useful: my most frequently pressed keys are not what I would have guessed! For example, I discovered that I type ‘>’ far more often than ‘<’6.

Excellent approach, though rarely used in layout design, at most you'd get frequency distribution of typed text instead of pressed keys

> Both hands need access to each of these modifiers, because using a modifier and typing a key with the same hand often involves painful contortions.

While home row mods is a better solution, another alternative is "sticky" mods that would remove the need to hold, so you can use the same hand without pain

> On a normal keyboard, if I press ‘f’ then ‘g’ I can roll from one to the other and press ‘g’ while ‘f’ still hasn’t been released – ‘fg’ will be sent to the computer. With home row mods, this ends up sending ‘G’.

This might be config issue. With a roll you release F before G (your fingers roll off the first key before rolling off the second), so this should type regular FG in properly configured home row mods instead of just capitalized G.

> The practical effect of this is that ‘f’ isn’t sent to the computer as soon as you press down, but only when you release the key.

Are there implementations that send F immediately, but send backspace to delete F if you hold?
by simurgh_beau | 2025-07-23 02:39:19+00:00
Apologies for the slow reply; I had mistakenly assumed this thread was inactive after the first day.

You have put your finger on the single most difficult technical challenge, and I appreciate you focusing on it. How does the system defend against manipulation from foreign actors or domestic users with multiple accounts?

A simple solution like filtering by in-country phone numbers is insufficient, as it would unfairly exclude the significant and important Iranian diaspora.

Instead, the primary defense against this kind of manipulation is built into the very structure of the protocol: massive randomization and scale.

The key is that an adversary with, for example, 1,000 coordinated accounts cannot concentrate them into one group to guarantee a win. The randomization protocol would scatter those 1,000 accounts across 1,000 different Level 1 groups. In each group, their single agent would be just one voice out of 100, rendering their coordinated voting power negligible.

To have a meaningful impact, an adversary wouldn't just need to create thousands of accounts; they would need to create hundreds of thousands or even millions to have a statistical chance of influencing a significant percentage of the concurrent discussions. This raises the cost and complexity of an attack by several orders of magnitude compared to traditional social media platforms.

While no system is perfectly immune, the protocol is designed so that its very architecture acts as the primary defense, making coordinated manipulation impractical.

Thank you again for this sharp and essential critique.
by usefulcat | 2025-07-23 02:40:01+00:00
> A tariff as you might recall is punitive for the ultra rich people

If by 'ultra rich people' you mean the owners of capital, then no, not really. Those businesses hurt by tariffs will almost always raise prices until they are at least breaking even, otherwise they couldn't survive.

Yes, such business might lose some sales, so their 'ultra rich' owners might end up slightly less 'ultra rich', but don't forget that there will also be other businesses that will very much benefit from the tariffs (because market prices will go up when any part of the market is hit with tariffs), so their owners will become more wealthy.

So to sum up, with tariffs:

* some businesses may be hurt

* some businesses may be helped

* government gets more tax revenue

* consumers get higher prices

The 'ultra rich' don't care if food, clothing, cars, etc cost 5 or 10 or 20 percent more because they already have way more disposable income than they need. And even if they do take a hit, going from an annual income of $1M to $500k is not nearly as bad as going from $50k to $40k.

Apart from hurting some businesses and helping others, tariffs are no different than a regressive tax increase.
by hafeoz | 2025-07-23 02:40:17+00:00
Firefox already has a monitor module that AFAIU tracks UI stalls and prompts the user to stop the website if it hangs for a long period [1]. It probably can be further developed to also track resource consumption and show a warning if some threshold is reached.

[1]: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/modules...
by decryption | 2025-07-23 02:40:40+00:00
I have a 2024 Volvo EX30, driven it about 11,000km. It uses the same computer system platform as the EX90 and while it's not fantastic (my previous Tesla is superior), it's better than most EVs I've driven and hasn't given me any problems. I love the car, so it's a shame the more expensive and "luxury" EX90 is plagued by these issues.

That said, Volvo Canada really needs to lift its game and just give the guy a new car already. Hope the bad PR and lawsuit gets Volvo to realise their mistake, apologise and refund him.
by ryankrage77 | 2025-07-23 02:40:59+00:00
I think a lot of these issues could be worked around by having the working state backed up after each step (e.g, make a git commit or similar). The LLM should not have any information about this backup process in its context or access to it, so it can't 'get confused' or mess with it.

LLMs will never be 100% reliable by their very nature, so the obvious solution is to limit what their output can affect. This is already standard practice for many forms of user input.

A lot of these failures seem to be by people hyped about LLMs, anthropomorphising and thus being overconfident in them (blaming the hammer for hitting your thumb).
by WalterBright | 2025-07-23 02:41:31+00:00
> Are you saying that extending that Trump tax cuts is not a tax cut?

Of course. It's disingenuous to claim that not raising taxes is a "cut".

It's the same lie as claiming a reduction in a spending increase is a "budget cut".

There are actual tax cuts in Trump's bill, but they don't apply to the wealthy.
by maxbond | 2025-07-23 02:42:31+00:00
> I will note that I am not familiar with Paul Feyerabend and the book mentioned in the top comment, it’s totally possible that those are from a different school of thought more interested in good faith discussion about the scientific method

I haven't read Against Method yet, but my understanding is that Feyeraband's point is that the scientific process, as it is actually practiced, is a lot less sterile than is generally described. He argues it involves a lot of ad-hoc hypothesis and unjustified intuitive leaps. He's not saying the Church was right to believe in Geocentrism, he's saying that strict adherence to a particular methodology is neither desirable nor how science is actually practiced.

The tagline is "anything goes," as in any methodology may or may not be useful in creating knowledge, and it's utility is subject to change. So we can't rule any of them in or out and must constantly test them against reality.