MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by id34 | 2026-01-19 16:47:56+00:00
The use of tariffs as a mid-long strategy, in my view, would require a stable, long-term communication that the US government will implement careful, strategic tariffs alongside incentives to strengthen chosen domestic industries where they believe a domestic alternative is feasible. We haven't seen anything even close to that at any point in this tariff rollercoaster - tariffs for products that cannot be produced at scale domestically (coffee, bananas), tariffs for grudges, tariffs that only exist for a week, tariffs that are written post-hoc after a Truth post to fit what the president said. There's an argument to be made for domestic protectionism, but the people currently at the levers are not serious policy-minded folks.
by estearum | 2026-01-19 16:48:02+00:00
Many people in Trumpistan do believe tariffs magically make the US economy better.

Then there are the sanewashers who try to act like there is a grand strategy behind taxing uhhh... bathroom vanities... then removing the tax a few months later.

Both are wrong, just different flavors and with different moral and intellectual culpability for being wrong (the latter are worse).
by notahacker | 2026-01-19 16:48:09+00:00
It is quite amusing watching people try to argue that there's a very serious plan behind Greenland whilst Trump privately lobbies for it with the arguments of a young and very spoiled child. His tariff preferences have the same level of thought behind them, at least until the people that have the slightest idea of things how to actually work can tone them down and put his ideas on the shelf for long enough to stave off serious damage and unwind their TACO trades.

It's entirely possible he's not even informed on the issue to be intentionally lying.
by parliament32 | 2026-01-19 16:48:33+00:00
> pass most of the tariff cost to consumers

What do you mean by "pass the cost"? Exporters do not pay tariffs, importers do. The exporter doesn't give a shit because it doesn't affect them at all.

This is one of the most fundamental misunderstandings of how tariffs work in the first place. The entity that's picking up the cargo at the port is who literally has to pay CBP for them to release the goods. The middleman (say, Walmart) may pass the cost to customers or whatever, but tariffs are entirely inconsequential and irrelevant to foreign exporters. There's no way to send a bill to a foreign entity demanding a tax for some goods that have arrived at a port, after all.
by api | 2026-01-19 16:48:48+00:00
I remember predicting years ago that if MAGA got in again they'd raise taxes massively and sell it through some kind of deception that convinced people it was actually a tax cut or something else.

I thought what they'd do is push for a national sales tax (which would be regressive) with the promise of repealing the income tax, but when it came to the last part they'd just kind of conveniently forget about that and we'd end up with a huge national sales tax on top of existing income tax.

But this works too.
by igogq425 | 2026-01-19 16:48:55+00:00
As a German, I am generally cautious about drawing hasty parallels with the Holocaust, but I must admit: now that you mention it, the Sturmabteilung and the Schutzstaffel probably began their work in the streets of the country in a similar way to ICE today.

"""

Sturmabteilung (SA)

The SA was formed in 1921 as the paramilitary fighting organization of the NSDAP and protected party events. After 1933, under Ernst Röhm, it carried out street violence against Jews, communists, and trade unions, grew to millions of members, but was crushed in 1934 in the Röhm Putsch.

Schutzstaffel (SS)

The SS started in 1925 as Hitler's elite bodyguard under Heinrich Himmler and emancipated itself from the SA. From 1934, it took over police duties, concentration camp guarding, and from 1936, the Gestapo, directing deportations and the Holocaust.

"""

It sends a chill down my spine when I think about this comparison. I recently heard about an ICE agent who tried to drag an indigenous woman out of her car and said to her, “You're next!”
by boarsofcanada | 2026-01-19 16:49:02+00:00
Someone blaring their choice of music in a public space at 90 dB is a “cultural touchstone”?

I don’t drive, take public transit daily, and am old enough to remember when you would never experience anything like this (even in the heyday of boom boxes in the 80s). So yeah I’m not convinced it’s a “me” problem.

And returning to the point, if you asked someone 30 years ago to turn their music down they would either comply or say something nasty - not physically assault you.
by SubiculumCode | 2026-01-19 16:49:12+00:00
Maybe HN needs to have a real ID verification? One account per official government ID. I remember when social media companies like Facebook and others pushed really hard for it, and how I resisted, but now...well, maybe its a good thing to know that if I am talking to someone they are either a person, or the dedicated bot for that person, rather than to a host of propaganda selling swarms of bots trying to crack our brains for power and profit.
by dangus | 2026-01-19 16:49:13+00:00
The Microsoft AutoUpdate tool is fully configurable so long as your organization doesn’t have any specific forced configurations.

You can uncheck automatically update and install.

You can decide whether or not to run the background service at all at the OS level.

This is a really strange hill to die on because your OS and other programs already have similar functionality, you are just saying no to Microsoft specifically. Chrome runs a background process to stay up to date, for example.
by anthk | 2026-01-19 16:49:34+00:00
Spaniard here. Nope; we are full of "take the money and run" type CEO's, where they even
blamed the train driver. He might be partially accountable, but it wasn't his fault in the very end.

This happened in 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_de_Compostela_derailm...
by Yemoshino | 2026-01-19 16:49:46+00:00
Honestly why I would really apprechiate something like this, hn is not an explain platform.

For sure, some words or feedback on what you understood (did you get it right) etc. yeah.

But otherwise, if you do not understand a research paper, you have to do the same hard work as everyone else. Sitting down, going through it paragraph by paragraph and learning it. This takes massive time.

and for a high level overview, chatgpt and co are really really good getting papers.
by srameshc | 2026-01-19 16:50:20+00:00
Tea truly elevates the experience! I lived in western India years ago, and remember a trip to the mountains with a friend on a moped. It was raining and the tropical drizzle added to the fun. Reaching the top, we found a small tea vendor and a woman selling "pakoras" (deep-fried snacks). I can't quite describe the elevated experience at that point.
by kaicianflone | 2026-01-19 16:50:21+00:00
The incidence result isn’t surprising, but incidence alone isn’t a full policy critique. Consumers bear most taxes in general: corporate, VAT, payroll, etc.

The real distinction is that tariffs are conditional. Currently, firms can avoid them by changing sourcing. That makes them more behavior-shaping than revenue maximizing.

Given that the U.S. never reversed the TCJA corporate cuts from 2020-2024, tariffs are one of the few active levers currently increasing the marginal cost of offshore supply chains.
by g8oz | 2026-01-19 16:50:26+00:00
Maccabee fans in Amsterdam
- indulged in racist chants like "Death to Arabs" and "There are no more babies in Gaza"
(because they're dead)

- Beat an Arab taxi driver

- Tore a Palestinian flag from a woman's balcony and attempted to break in to the apartment.

After they FAFOd and got their asses handed to them the media treated them like the second coming of Anne Frank.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_2024_Amsterdam_riots.

The "media reporting" section of the article is particularly illuminating - a Zionist influence operation was in full swing afterwards to minimize the bad behavior of the Israeli fans.

Furthermore Maccabee fans have a reputation for hooliganism in Israel itself. So the West Midlands assessment was eminently reasonable.

The manufactured storm over the decision again showcases a broader pattern of insidious Zionist influence over Western institutions. The decision was lawyered to death in a manner only Israelis get the benefit of.
by mothballed | 2026-01-19 16:50:59+00:00
Harris was shitcanned post haste when she actually primaried, so the party already knew she was non-viable. She got put in as VP as the best token non-white woman from a large population state they could shove in there and then Democrats got caught with their pants down because they hid Biden's physical state past the point they could have an actual primary to vet the proper candidate.

The fact Biden said he wouldn't back out then suddenly did at the 11th hour made the whole thing far more bizarre and was a massive erosion of confidence in any semblance of a plan for the presidency by the Democratic Party. I ended up voting for a 3rd party because both campaigns were run so horribly to the point I couldn't even imagine either side managing a mayor's office let alone the country.
by BanAntiVaxxers | 2026-01-19 16:51:03+00:00
She’s known to own firearms. I wonder what would happen if one of these Democrat candidates released a video like “A girl and her Glock: Kamala goes John Wick”.

Similarly, AOC should visit the south, eat some grits, volunteer with some Black churches, and do a little skeet shooting with some good ole boys.
by rafterydj | 2026-01-19 16:51:09+00:00
What are you saying?
"None of the doomsday predictions have come to pass." -> nothing is wrong and the USA is fine

"There's been major impact to some things" -> so bad things have happened

"but for the most part the economy has hummed along without a blip." -> so despite bad things happening, just plug your ears and sing loudly?

As for prices in Walmart, they HAVE gone up. Several companies have had press releases stating they need to increase prices because of tariffs:

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/31/trump-tariffs-here-are-the-r...

"Retailers like Costco and Best Buy said they have already raised some prices, while Walmart, Target and Macy's plan to follow suit"

I'll be the first to say that given the circumstances our underlying economy and people have held up better than complete collapse. But you can't pretend this is not happening.
by scelerat | 2026-01-19 16:51:34+00:00
Completely agree, but at the same time I can't bring myself to believe that reinforcing systems like the electoral college or reinstating a state-legislature-chosen Senate would yield better outcomes.

Most people I know who have strong political opinions (as well as those who don't) can't name their own city council members or state assemblyman, and that's a real problem for functioning representative democracy. Not only for their direct influence on local policy, but also because these levels of government also serve as the farm team or proving grounds for higher levels of office.

By the time candidates are running with the money and media of a national campaign, in some sense it's too late to evaluate them on matters of their specific policies and temperaments, and you kind of just have to assume they're going to follow the general contours of their party. By and large, it seems the entrenched political parties (and, perhaps, parties in general) are impediments to good governance.
by monegator | 2026-01-19 16:51:41+00:00
While i always try to look for open source utility apps (i use several), our userbase simply don't care.

Context: Our apps are means to connect to our devices via BLE, are free and without ads (fuck ads, fuck all ads), no integrity checks. We don't publish the API but we know of a couple of clients that reverse engineered the protocol and made their own. Good for them. (one of them also came by the office to bring a friend and showed us his app that glued together the functionality of several modules from also our competitors. Cool!)

But given what we do our customers are complete normies, doing what google asks us is the path of least resistance, and gets us most audience.

Those who don't want to use the play store can find the APK in the usual sites, don't care.

If i made app for myself i would indeed distribute it differently.
by MrPowerGamerBR | 2026-01-19 16:51:46+00:00
To be SURE that I'm not "misrepresent basically everyone involved": Right now I tried the Proton build the PR creator made... and Photoshop still does not work. It shows the activation screen with "Loading..." written on it (sometimes it is just a blank box). https://i.imgur.com/QN2rxoO.png

You also aren't able to install Creative Cloud with that fork, the Creative Cloud installer gets stuck on a loading loop, so I needed to copy my Photoshop + Creative Cloud installation from my other Wine prefix.

This is not me throwing the PR's creator to the curb, it is impressive that they were able to fix the installers, even though they aren't the "main" installers, and I'm pretty sure that the PR creator could fix the activation screen too, because I think the issue is similar to the ones they are fixing, they probably just didn't do that yet because they don't know the activation screen is also borked.
by carefulfungi | 2026-01-19 16:51:57+00:00
I don’t think the evidence supports this. This was the marketing of tarifs. But the reality is rates have been changed rapidly, added, dropped - this is just leverage Trump is using to exert his will. Whether it is Greenland, defense spending by NATO, whims of narcissism, or kickback deal making (like NVIDIA or Intel). There is little evidence this policy is designed to increase US manufacturing.
by andy_ppp | 2026-01-19 16:52:20+00:00
The point of taxing goods made elsewhere is to make building equivalent goods in your local economy competitive for locals to purchase. I am pretty sure they are not putting a tax on EUV Lithography machines from ASML or at least you can have an exception if you bow down to the king...

How did the US become this insane this fast - I'm not even against tariffs but you need to decide which industries to use them on e.g. steel, drones, maybe electric vehicles - blanket tariffs by a mad king are really difficult to fathom. When will congress wake up and will it be too late?
by fooker | 2026-01-19 16:52:20+00:00
Thread safety has not usually been a concern because it’s pretty rare to use raw threads in C++.

Rust folks always seem to assume people write C++ like it is 1995.

> implied by you questioning whether it bought any meaningful performance

This is the first thing you should always ask when you do anything with parallelism! Are you familiar with Amdahl’s law?
by andsoitis | 2026-01-19 16:52:33+00:00
Identity politics is not the way.

A Republican candidate could be a Muslim, a women, or trans, but that's not a good reason to vote for them. It should be about what they stand for. Voting for a Kristi Noem would be terrible, for example.

Similarly, the Democratic Party, if they're to win, should not depend on the opposition failing or on identity, but instead on solid ideas and the ability to communicate it well. Kamala wasn't that.
by ethersteeds | 2026-01-19 16:52:43+00:00
Outside the specious argument that other countries would pay, the other more serious argument was that tarrifs would promote the growth of domestic alternatives.

Yes it will hurt, they argued, but the long term effect will be a stronger and more independent domestic economy. And the pain is worth it for that end. There's plenty of evidence that what actually results are inferior products from domestic companies insulated from international competition, but that was the pitch.

There's also a large group in the base that voted for this who already had an ideological "buy local even if it costs more" philosophy, so to them the proposal was just to force everyone else to join their cause.
by niyikiza | 2026-01-19 16:52:48+00:00
Nice architecture. The typed deck composition pattern is exactly right for making agent workflows testable.

One thing I've been thinking about is that schema validation catches "is this data shaped correctly?" but not "is this action permitted given who initiated the request?" When you have deck → child deck → grandchild deck chains, a prompt injection at any level could trigger actions the root caller never intended.

I've been working on offline capability verification for this using cryptographically signed warrants that attenuate as they propagate down the call chain. Curious if you've thought about that layer, or if you're relying on the model to self-police tool selection?
by embedding-shape | 2026-01-19 16:53:19+00:00
I saw your comment, thought "This person must have not checked the website, can't be just a yes or no question because that'd be so misleading"

Clicks on the page.

[Yes] - [No]

I think it serves as a beautiful visualization of everything that is wrong in the world today. Not because of the question, nor the answers, but because of thinking something like that can just be divided into "Agree" and "Disagree" and somehow think that's a good idea.
by turnsout | 2026-01-19 16:53:32+00:00
I strongly believe that users will start to demand proof of humanity (and related things like content credentials on photos/videos), and eventually filter out anything that isn't verified. Through great expense and loss of privacy, we will eventually claw our way back to an internet that looks more or less the same as it was in 2020.

Unfortunately, less privileged users will have to endure the sea of AI content that still preys on the unauthenticated. It will be like using the web without an ad blocker, but 1000X worse.
by FatherOfCurses | 2026-01-19 16:53:35+00:00
I'm sure we will see lots of hand-wringing here on Ycombinator about the results, which will completely miss the point of how many people in the real world are sick of how overhyped AI is and the negative impacts that hype is having. The tech industry's obsession with AI is souring a lot of people on it because adoption/promotion isn't happening organically.
by abustamam | 2026-01-19 16:53:36+00:00
I think the comment you're replying to isn't necessarily a question of opting out of such news, it's the fact that it's so hard to escape it. I swipe on my home screen and there I am, in my Google news feed with the constant barrage of nonsense.

I mostly get gaming and entertainment news for shows I watch, but even between those I get CNN and Fox News, both which I view as "opinion masquerading as news" outlets.

My mom shares so many articles from her FB feed that are both mainstream (CNN, etc) nonsense and "influencer" nonsense.
by vunderba | 2026-01-19 16:53:48+00:00
Sure, but if you just wanted a 100% client-side PDF tool, there are dozens of them in existence already.

You can do as you like, but I don't think this is a particularly good use of your time, even with AI doing the majority of the heavy lifting.

I guess what I'm saying is that "Swiss army knife multitool" apps are one of the lowest hanging LLM fruits, so don't be too surprised when you find that the tree has been stripped clean.
by spankalee | 2026-01-19 16:53:53+00:00
I'm a big web components guy, but calling these web components is a massive stretch of the word component.

The word "component" has to mean something ultimately, and to me the defining feature of a web component is that it's self-contained: it brings along its own dependencies, whether that's JavaScript, templates, CSS, etc. Web components shouldn't require an external framework or external CSS (except for customization by the user) - those things should be implementation details depended on directly by the component.

This here is just CSS using tag names for selectors. The element is doing nothing on its own.

Which is fine! It's just not web components.

edit: Also, don't do this:

<link-button>
<a href="">Learn more</a>
</link-button>

That just adds HTML bloat to the page, something people with a singular focus on eliminating JavaScript often forget to worry about. To many HTML elements can slow the page to a crawl.

Use classes:

<a class="button" href="">Learn more</a>

They're meant for this, lighter weight, and highly optimized.
by jandrewrogers | 2026-01-19 16:53:58+00:00
There is a large variance in AVX-512 performance across the microarchitectures, particularly the early ones. In addition to throttling, which was mitigated relatively early, some relatively feature-complete microarchitectures (e.g. Ice Lake) were sensitive to alignment. The microarchitectures with these issues are approaching obsolescence at this point. AVX-512 runs very well with predictable performance on most vaguely recent microarchitectures.

In my case I find AVX-512 to be usable in practice because the kinds of users that are obsessed with performance-engineered systems are typically not running creaky hardware.
by machomaster | 2026-01-19 16:53:58+00:00
Imagine your dad not understanding that he was not promoted despite witnessing that people with MBA were promoted, that people without MBA were not promoted, as well as BEING DIRECTLY TOLD that this is the reason.

You are in this exact situation regarding Scott Adams' experience. Sure, what you say is theoretically possible, but very unlikely. I suggest we use Occam's razor.
by jkaplowitz | 2026-01-19 16:54:03+00:00
> Even one of the white papers commissioned by the FSF

Quoting the text which the FSF put at the top of that page:

"This paper is published as part of our call for community whitepapers on Copilot. The papers contain opinions with which the FSF may or may not agree, and any views expressed by the authors do not necessarily represent the Free Software Foundation. They were selected because we thought they advanced the discussion of important questions, and did so clearly."

So, they asked the community to share thoughts on this topic, and they're publishing interesting viewpoints that clearly advance the discussion, whether or not they end up agreeing with them. I do acknowledge that they paid $500 for each paper they published, which gives some validity to your use of the verb "commissioned", but that's a separate question from whether the FSF agrees with the conclusions. They certainly didn't choose a specific author or set of authors to write a paper on a specific topic before the paper was written, which a commission usually involves, and even then the commissioning organization doesn't always agree with the paper's conclusion unless the commission isn't considered done until the paper is updated to match the desired conclusion.

> You will notice that the FSF has not rushed out to file copyright infringement suits even though they probably have more reason to oppose LLMs trained on FOSS code than anyone else in the world.

This would be consistent with them agreeing with this paper's conclusion, sure. But that's not the only possibility it's consistent with.

It could alternatively be because they discovered or reasonably should have discovered the copyright infringement less than three years ago, therefore still have time remaining in their statute of limitations, and are taking their time to make sure they file the best possible legal complaint in the most favorable available venue.

Or it could simply be because they don't think they can afford the legal and PR fight that would likely result.
by nathan_compton | 2026-01-19 16:54:20+00:00
Politicians should not preemptively give in to political resistance and tell their voters they can't solve their problems because its "unrealistic." You'd think we would have figured this out in the Clinton campaign. Politicians should have a set of goals they fight for rabidly and when political resistance manifests they should point their fingers at it and say "Those assholes over there kept me from forgiving student loans."

Democrats who believe in "realistic" political campaigns are why awful people keep winning.