MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by GlibMonkeyDeath | 2025-07-02 12:50:26+00:00
So, if retailers are resisting raising prices, who will pay the increased costs? Domestically sourced goods can be no more than 55% more expensive (otherwise the imported goods would be cheaper), but we can be sure that locally sourced goods will be priced as close to the full 55% as possible (and as the article points out, some locally manufactured items are probably never going to be less than the overseas cost, even including the tariff tax.)

Now take a look at Walmart's margins https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/profit.... Their gross margin is ~25%, with a net around 2%. Even if Walmart decides to eat the tariff cost out of patriotic duty, anywhere near a ~50% hit to supply chain costs would put them out of business. Heck, even a few percent would require a huge business restructuring, if it were even possible.

So prices are going to be higher - it's a given. In the short-medium term, the tariff tax is simply a large regressive transfer of tax obligation onto consumers.
by ajg4 | 2025-07-02 12:50:38+00:00
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by ur-whale | 2025-07-02 12:50:49+00:00
First: gee, I wonder how the Swiss do it.

To your points:

>OK great, what do you want to cut?

The answer is largely dependent on the country you're talking about. But the generic answer: cut waste. That includes inefficiencies, duplication of effort, crazy useless shit the government wastes money on (see the unreal crap DOGE unearthed in the US for example), downright corruption. And when that's all said and done, cut every department budget equally by 50% the first year. When you deal with a parasite like most governments are on the planet, less food means a way more efficient and smaller parasite.

> Education ...

Your not getting my point. This is not about picking winners and losers in the belly of the beast. This is about reducing drastically the size of government overall. Period.

Now if you want to pick apart winners and losers, sure, let's do this ...

In in ideal world, a government should stick to regal functions: externals security (army), internal security (police), justice (enforcement of laws, property and contracts). End of story.

If you believe that including things like health, education and welfare in the R&R of govt is a good idea (I don't, it creates monopolies, which are inherently corrupt inefficient), fine.

In that case, make sure they're properly starved (small budgets) so they operate at maximum efficiency, decentralized so even if they're taxpayer funded there's at least a modicum of competition to keep them meritocratic, honest and efficient.

> Education is generally net positive as you need future taxpayers to pay for your pension

In countries where retirement management was designed like a ponzi scheme (new investors buy in so early investors can benefit), and where the age pyramid looks like a freaking Christmas tree, you would unfortunately be correct. In a properly designed retirement system, this is utter BS.

Retirement system should only be minimally mutualized. In an honest retirement system, you should mostly rely on what you have set aside during your work life, 401k style. And certainly not pray that there will be, 50 years down the road enough of the same suckers you are now to pay for your sustenance. When people stop making babies, guess who's going to be left holding the bag? You. That's who.

> Is there waste? Yeah, of course, but it tends to be much lower than in the private sector.

I'd love to see the data backing this claim.

But if we're talking impressions, my observation after a rather long life is the exact opposite: the private sector is far, far more efficient than governments except when corporations get to monopoly status and essentially become mini-governments (via crony capitalism) and with the exact same illnesses.
by Bjartr | 2025-07-02 12:51:20+00:00
> DocuQuest: A platform that leverages LLMs to transform and simplify complex technical documentation into interactive, user-friendly learning experiences tailored for developers and engineers.

So "A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" from Diamond Age, but for devs. A neat idea!

In general docs ecosystems tend to be heavy on only one of reference / explanation / tutorial. Would be cool to have a way to write one and get the others.
by bubblyworld | 2025-07-02 12:51:28+00:00
The systems we're talking about here are classical, not quantum, so the uncertainty principle isn't really relevant. I think the justification is mainly that it makes the analysis tractable. In physical terms it's simply not true that the interactions are uncorrelated, but you might hope that the correlations are "unimportant" in the long-term. In a really hot gas, for instance, everything is moving so fast in random directions that any correlations that start to arise will quickly get obliterated by chance.
by Arnt | 2025-07-02 12:51:49+00:00
Really rich people don't have a lot of money, they have a lot of assets that are considered to be worth a lot of money, typically companies. Companies are work. If you make the big owners ask for higher dividends, you tax the work indirectly.

You could of course tax the non-work wealth. Most of that is home ownership, few home owners consider themselves rich.
by skywal_l | 2025-07-02 12:51:53+00:00
No. It was a revolution against a regime where the rich paid NO taxes.

Article 9 of the august decree – Fiscal privileges in the payment of taxes were abolished forever. Taxes were to be collected from all the citizens, in exactly the same manner, and plans were to be considered to set up a new method of tax collection. [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_feudalism_in_Fran...
by akshayshah | 2025-07-02 12:52:51+00:00
This is especially interesting because Multigres is being led by Sugu Sougoumarane, one of the Vitess co-creators and Planetscale co-founders - so the two projects are growing from the same soil, so to speak.

https://youtu.be/28q9mFh87KY?si=SK3f1OEApWRlcr83
by Kuyawa | 2025-07-02 12:52:51+00:00
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by bluecalm | 2025-07-02 12:53:21+00:00
>>Why should people living an a country not pay tax in that country? its a general principle that you pay tax on your income to the government of the country you live in.

Terrible principle. You should pay proportionally to what you use/spend in the country. These days it's very difficult to say who lives where, especially in case of rich people. If someone spends 200 days in one country and 160 in another it's unfair to the latter country that 100% of the tax is paid in the first one. If someone spend their time across 3 countries current solutions don't make any sense at all. That's why it makes sense to tax assets locally.

The concept of "tax residency" belonging to one country is just a terrible idea. It's the reason a lot of those abusive schemes exists. The way is to get rid of that principle and substitute it with something that is not easy to get around like taxing assets under your control.

>>To put it another way, why should there be a special exemption so super-rich foreigners do not have to pay tax?

There shouldn't be. They should pay on assets they use in your country. If they have income there you can tax income issuer (like payroll tax). There is no need to tax income from abroad - let other countries who actually control assets that produce that income tax them.
by JadeNB | 2025-07-02 12:54:09+00:00
> I’ve never bought from AliExpress, but I’m pretty sure everyone does this. Customers are mostly looking for product reviews, not reviews on sellers. For example, take a mouse from Logitech. Even if five sellers sell the product, it’s better to show product reviews for every item. Isn’t that so?

I'd sure like to know if I'm buying counterfeits, and, unless the product is identified as "Counterfeit Such-and-such" or the platform can otherwise identify them, it doesn't help me for reviews of the counterfeit product to be lumped in with reviews of legitimate ones. (And, if the platform can identify the counterfeits, then it should be taking them down, not showing me cleverly mingled reviews.)
by fossa1 | 2025-07-02 12:54:58+00:00
> Welch was just very good at understanding that some invisible boundaries didn’t apply anymore, and that the zeitgeist was shifting in that direction

Agreed, Welch didn’t invent shareholder primacy, but he industrialized it. What makes him so consequential isn’t that he played the game better, but that he normalized a playbook that treated human capital as expendable
by scarface_74 | 2025-07-02 12:55:09+00:00
Gifted programs are based on test scores. Test scores have always been biased toward those who are better off economically.

https://hechingerreport.org/gifted-educations-race-problem/

Again let’s take two examples. I had the highest SAT score in my high school and the second highest in my county the year I graduated. Yes I was kind of smart. But I also had a parent who was not only a high school math teacher who never pushed me to study advanced math and do SAT prep in middle school. But as a person who proctored SAT tests, volunteered to do SAT training and had dozens of books about it before the Internet was a thing, don’t you think I had an advantage?

The second example is my stepson who raised his ACT scores enough to get into the college of his choice after we spent $100 per session for 10 sessions to be tutored one on one by an ex school teacher with a masters.

As far as modern conservatism, today there are states that forcing teachers to display the 10 commandments in school, the Florida education commission (where I live) wanted to teach that slavery was good for Black people.

But you can also look statewide - which states have worse education outcomes - Republican leaning states or Democratic leaning states?

I gave you a citation of one state that is pushing to teach that the election was stolen in 2020.

But again today the Republican administration has department of health and human services run by people with no medical background and are anti-vax.

I am looking at the evidence that you are ignoring.

And in your first reply you mentioned “rent control”. How is that any different from the president imposing tariffs and then telling companies like Walmart and car manufacturers to not raise their prices? That is a form of price control.
by TimorousBestie | 2025-07-02 12:55:43+00:00
Your “very basic math” is a negligent application of linear extrapolation.

The effective altruists have been trying to measure lives saved by interventions for a decade. It’s a very hard problem.

Anyway, the rest is moot. There’s no account anyone else can give as to the content of your own media diet. If you’re unhappy with it, you should read/watch/consume something else.
by ThibautdeVos | 2025-07-02 12:56:10+00:00
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by cameron_b | 2025-07-02 12:56:33+00:00
Project Apis m. ( data source cited in the article [0] ) is not limited to commercial beekeepers, but many backyard keepers are not plugged in to the research on either end. I responded to the survey as a backyard keeper with 4 surviving hives.

[0] https://www.projectapism.org/colony-loss-information
by fossa1 | 2025-07-02 12:56:56+00:00
It’s ironic: for years the open-source community was trying to match GPT-3 (175B dense) with 30B–70B models + RLHF + synthetic data—and the performance gap persisted.

Turns out, size really did matter, at least at the base model level. Only with the release of truly massive dense (405B) or high-activation MoE models (DeepSeek V3, DBRX, etc) did we start seeing GPT-4-level reasoning emerge outside closed labs.
by therealpygon | 2025-07-02 12:58:07+00:00
That is sort of the point of what you are considering “negative” comments. For clarity, my comment was advice on how you can improve the public persona of your project.

You seem to have pointed out but equally not registered that you identified exactly the issue: if your readme is filled with red flags, no one is going to invest their time (which is what you are asking for) looking at your code or trying it.

I completely understand as a developer how the “marketing” (readme) of a project may not seem that important or that it should be super accurate, and that it can be easy to fall into the pattern (as can be seen) of looking at every comment that brings voice to criticisms as being “negative”. You’re simply too close to the problem and are therefore only seeing the trees for the forest, while everyone is trying to tell you that you should probably remove the giant fence in front of the trees.
by nmfisher | 2025-07-02 12:58:14+00:00
Off the top of my head:

- Properly cross platform (including first-class JS/WASM interop)

- AOT & cross compilation

- Hot reload

- Static typing with many nice features (generics, extension types, enhanced enums, etc)

- Expressive without being overly verbose

- Well-supported by the language & SDK teams (i.e. it's not dead)

- Easy build/package system

The only things I really feel are missing are (1) union types and (2) access modifiers like protected/friend.
by getpokedagain | 2025-07-02 12:58:27+00:00
This is one of the most fascinating things I've found in the past ten or so years. When did people in general begin to buy into the bullshit spewed by big shots in corporate or really any commercial venture. People at least implicitly understood that the boss just wanted money and would fuck you, nature or his own firmly held beliefs to get it.

People are now shocked when a company cuts a loved product or their boss fires them when someone cheaper comes along.
by crazygringo | 2025-07-02 12:58:58+00:00
You can't use the word "counterfeit" or suggest that. But you can absolutely give 1 star and explain you only got milliamps. I have a bunch of 1 star reviews. I've never had anything taken down except when I used the word "counterfeit". Also, I get it -- how do you know if it's actually counterfeit, or genuine but low-quality? There are a bunch of things I've bought that I suspected were counterfeit, then went to my local store and discovered no, the authentic item is just crap.
by AlienRobot | 2025-07-02 12:59:45+00:00
If only there were 4 different HTML attributes[1][2][3][4] you could use to add a descriptive label to an arbitrary HTML element....

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/...

2. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...

3. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...

4. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/A...
by petercooper | 2025-07-02 12:59:53+00:00
Hard to quantify, but as an opinionated developer I've found that AI systems with too much leash will often head off in directions I don't appreciate and have to undo. This is desirable in areas where I have less knowledge or want more velocity, though, but a tighter cycle with smaller steps enables me to maintain more of my taste through making more concrete decisions rather than merely pointing a direction.
by stephen_g | 2025-07-02 12:59:56+00:00
Is that thing about 2m excavations actually true though? I read that it was actually a bit of a legend that started by somebody mistaking the construction process of foundations for villas with those of roads, and it just became assumed knowledge.

Obviously they were paved, but as I now understand it they were far simpler than the several layers I’d seen in history picture books in primary school! Otherwise the amount of material even a short stretch of road would need would be utterly impracticably huge.
by 9rx | 2025-07-02 13:00:02+00:00
> I say that to say it bewilders me how easily we, well mostly Americans, fell into this trap of believing that most humans are unnecessary

I suppose in hindsight they have a point. So much human effort is merely discovery that, if perfect information existed, really would have been pointless and unnecessary. Those who land into the right information, even if only by dumb luck, end up amassing capital as a natural consequence, so to the outside observer such people appear to be the "chosen ones" who have it all figured out.

This doesn't end with economics. In general, those who are deemed to not have the right information tend to be ostracized. To be wrong is the greatest sin a person, at least an American person, can make. This was particularly apparent during the high tensions of the COVID pandemic, where great friendships were lost when the parties involved couldn't agree on who had the right information.

The flaw in all that, of course, is that perfect information doesn't exist. I suspect the idea that it does was fuelled heavily by the college marketing campaigns of a several decades ago — that which also brought us the idea if you don't get a degree, you'll be forever stricken to flipping burgers at McDonald's — selling the idea that perfect information is available if only you choose to accept it. But, before you get your panties in a knot, let it be emphasized that my suspicions could be wrong and that's okay. Perfect information doesn't exist.
by bonvoyage36 | 2025-07-02 13:00:32+00:00
Strictly speaking, naturally on its own, it doesn't. Detailed equations remain reversible. Even for very big N, typical isolated classical mechanical systems are reversible. However, typical initial conditions imply transitions to equilibrium, or very long stay in it. The reversed process (ending in Poincare return) will happen eventually, but the time is so incredibly long, it can't be verified.
by dankwizard | 2025-07-02 13:00:40+00:00
They were mostly honest - I just always included something like 'an upgrade from my last one' but these clones are all so similar and all effective. Can do the whole house on a single charge, strong enough, has the low projecting light to highlight dust, high number of attachments.

Does the job. I'm no vacuum connoisseur (Which you think I'd be after all of these) but none were scammy products.
by ljoshua | 2025-07-02 13:00:57+00:00
Less a technical comment and more just a mind-blown comment, but I still can’t get over just how much data is compressed into and available in these downloadable models. Yesterday I was on a plane with no WiFi, but had gemma3:12b downloaded through Ollama. Was playing around with it and showing my kids, and we fired history questions at it, questions about recent video games, and some animal fact questions. It wasn’t perfect, but holy cow the breadth of information that is embedded in an 8.1 GB file is incredible! Lossy, sure, but a pretty amazing way of compressing all of human knowledge into something incredibly contained.
by taha_moji | 2025-07-02 13:01:13+00:00
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by flessner | 2025-07-02 13:01:13+00:00
I get it that "click here" is not descriptive, but so is simply linking "Amaya". What is it? A person? A fruit?

People don't read websites linearly, in the best case they skim read all the buttons and links. I personally would include the verb as it gives important context and is a clearer CTA for the "skimmers".

Amaya is W3C's... "Download Amaya"!
by alnwlsn | 2025-07-02 13:02:11+00:00
I know a couple people who are exactly this brand of weird. One of them owns the domain onepartwords.com.

The other wrote a one-syllable dictionary. It has about 2500 one-syllable words, defined using only other one-syllable words. Here's a few excerpts:

- Bake - To cook meat or cake with heat from all sides

- Flask - a glass jug with a small top and big low part

- Mouse - a small beast that hides in the house and is chased by cats

- Spring - (1) a coil of wire (2) a warm but not hot part of the year

Sadly, I don't think it's online anywhere.
by doctorwho42 | 2025-07-02 13:02:52+00:00
Well a lot of AI bros think that AI can generate novel solutions to all of the world's problems, they just need more data and processing power. I.E. the AI God (all knowing), which when you take a step back is utter lunacy. How can LLM's generate solutions to climate change if it's a predictive model.

All of this to say, they delude themselves that the future of humanity needs "AI" or we are doomed. Ironically, the creation and expansion of LLM's drastically increased the power usage of humanity to its own detriment.
by AlienRobot | 2025-07-02 13:03:36+00:00
Meanwhile, on GNOME, there is no standard menubar so good look figuring out which one of the icon-only buttons in the headerbar has the dropdown menu with the action that you want.

Edit -> preferences makes sense because you're editing your preferences. File -> Settings makes no sense. Help -> Options makes even less sense. Help -> KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS is just insane to me.
by rahimnathwani | 2025-07-02 13:04:07+00:00
Cost disease isn't driven by a shared currency, but by a common labor market.

When hyper-productive sectors, say, tech in the Bay Area, start paying top dollar, everyone else in the same talent pool eventually needs to follow suit.

Even industries with stagnant labour productivity, like K-12 education, have to hike their wages to attract and retain staff. They can't offset these higher costs with efficiency gains, and that's where the "disease" kicks in.

If you think this is caused by a common currency, consider labour costs in developing countries which use the US dollar. Do those costs go up when labour productivity in the Bay Area goes up?