skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering how open they've been about their clear conflicts of interest (Trump launching a cryptocurrency on day 1 of his presidency, being in charge of a publicly traded company that he's made no effort to remove himself from, and the Diablo cheater being in charge of a department that gets to determine "efficiency" while also bidding on government contracts), I think we should really consider the possibility that Trump and Musk shorted or bought Puts on companies that would be hit especially hard by tariffs.

I debated doing that. I wish I had, I would have made a bit of money in the last few days.
On top of the issues highlighted, I think an overly cautious ITAR regime didn't help. The state of the art CNC machines all trip over this on a whim. North Korea responded by building their own CNC machine tool industry, for example.
Show HN: Corral – A Visual Logic Puzzle About Enclosing Numbers
Hey HN!

I just finished building a puzzle game called Corral, and I’d love to share it with you.
It’s a logic puzzle played on a rectangular grid, where some of the cells contain numbers. Your goal is to mark which cells are inside a single continuous loop that encloses all the numbers.

For each numbered cell, the number tells you how many cells are visible in the four orthogonal directions (up, down, left, right) until a wall of the loop is hit, plus the cell itself. So a cell with a 2 must see one empty cell before hitting the loop boundary.
Gameplay is all about deduction: you can mark cells as definitely inside or definitely outside the loop. The loop must be one continuous shape, with no "islands" inside. Every puzzle has a solution and can be solved using pure logic.

There are three difficulty levels that you can choose from, enjoy!

Would love to hear your thoughts, ideas, or bug reports. Thanks for taking a look!
Probably needs (2022) in the title. The book is available on libgen for anyone who wants to take a look.
Things Microsoft has ever made
Or short sell one day before the tarriff announcements.
From what I've seen, generally speaking, yes. Even more so if the site wasn't submitted by the owner.

Self-promotion has even always been explicitly allowed here, but I believe the guidelines contain some verbiage to the effect of "your primary activity here should not be self-promotion". I have no official info, but just from observing things over the years, it appears that accounts who promote their own content overly frequently, and/or only post self-promotional content, are the ones that get shadow-banned or set to auto-dead status.
My brother works in industry and has hired lots of Veterans. From what he says, the military tends to have paradigms that don't translate well to civilian work - like electricians. So I'd assume 'vets who code' have Perl 6 as their modern language.
Wow, you sure convinced me
Very detailed post. True dat.
I would think that it would be put options wouldn't it? Aren't puts the ones where you want the stock to go down?
The BBC's Shock and Awe: The Story of Electricity [0] documentary really made it click for me. The historical development and the conceptual development are woven together nicely.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_and_Awe:_The_Story_of_El...
Housing and healthcare are the two things that have little to do with trade. Housing affordability is almost entirely policy driven. In a "free" market (quoted because the definition typically doesn't take into account the necessity of a functional society to maintain property rights and values, just ask Detroit), housing affordability is entirely dependent on one's relative income and propensity to spend, i.e. you can have high absolute income (say in NYC) and still find you desired housing unaffordable. I think people intuitively understand this. Healthcare costs are more complicated but is also almost entirely a domestic issue.
Webflow is pretty good!
This is what happened in Sweden about 10 years ago, when they started charging a $7 "administrative fee" on all packages privately imported from China. Prices for resistors went from $1 for a pack of a hundred to $8. As a student at the time, it effectively made the hobby non-viable over night because it got too expensive.

Lately, there have been some domestic actors filling in the gap. But it's still a significant cost increase compared to the glory days.
the jump between paragraphs 2 and 3 of the "key exchange" section totally lost me, as it does not explain how (K1 op P2) and (K2 op P1) produce a shared secret...
From the first paragraph of your linked article:

> BEIJING, March 31 (Reuters) - China, Japan and South Korea agreed to jointly respond to U.S. tariffs, a social media account affiliated with Chinese state media said on Monday, an assertion Seoul called "somewhat exaggerated", while Tokyo said there was no such discussion.
You're thinking of Puts and Put-ins. However it would be funny if they did calls.
they have terrible names. I can never remember. A put option I think gives me the right to sell you a stock at a price.

So say, ACME is trading at 110. I can buy the right to sell you ACME at 100. You say ok because it's at 110.

But then ACME crashes to 50.

I buy it at 50 and you are on the hook to buy it from me at 100.
BJTs were a real pain. Uncooperative exponentials fighting each other, or something like that, if I haven’t managed to forget successfully…
Minister criticizes Indian startup scene for lacking focus on deep tech
Indian Union minister criticized Indian start-up ecosystem highlighting the lack of deep-tech start-ups and innovation. He also expressed his concern over too much focus on "quick food delivery" and "healthy ice cream" type start-ups which are basically what Indian start-up ecosystem comprise of at this moment.
He also drew comparison with China highlighting their strides of innovation and development in fields like EV, AI and more and called for Indian entrepreneurs and start-ups to strive for something like that.

Indian start-up ecosystem, however, hasn't taken this comment lightly and some of the founders have come out openly to criticize the minister and the government as a whole claiming the lack of support and capital to build something like this in India.
I knew I wanted one, but I didn't know that it was called a "chip clip" and indeed "IC clip" and "IC test clip" seem to be a better match.

The clip will give you a electrical connection to the SPI flash but I'm not sure you'll be able to talk to it without jumpers on the board. Is it possible without jumpers?
yeah same although I already know where I stand blubwise
This makes sense. I think even MAGA might agree if you pitch it as "we use tarrifs to prevent American labor from being undercut.

But it is clear that the reasoning here is "I want tarrifs, how do I easily get them". And then they found the easiest possible way to say something about 'countries putting a tarrif on the US'.

The stupid theory behind this is effectively: not having a minimum wage is equivalent to putting a tarrif on the US.
Which would suggest that the low US minimum wage is actually already a tarrif on the EU.
Yeah, it sucks and I bet these countries won't forget this for a very long time.
Too bad oversight is "inefficient"
Is there anything new here? I thought this pretty much is dead. Most models available in Sherpa onnx and piper right?
"incentivize higher wages in a way that set rates make producers more profitable if they paid workers more"

That sounds amazing..how would that work?
I mean clearly nothing but why does that matter
How are your in the opposite camp of an article encouraging side projects when you say you have many side projects?
> There used to be a garment industry in the USA...

Yeah, but the last large piece of it (there are still some amall remnants) got wiped out with the most recent push for eliminating large scale non-penal slavery in the US.

And, no, I don’t mean abolishing formal chattel slavery with the 13th Amendment, I mean the push to eliminate the informal de facto slavery that persisted in the US territory of the Confederation of the Northern Mariana Islands around the turn of the millenium.
That is just so dystopian, having to constantly play "role model citizen" instead of living your own life. Whatever happened to the "land of the free"?
I don't know, it's hard for me to know what the author means by "fundamentals". I looked at the table of contents from the amazon website, and somethings that I consider pretty fundamental like Thevenin's Theorem didn't seem to be listed there. By comparison it's in Chapter 1, page 9 on my copy of "The Art of Electronics". I'm not trying to knock the book, it could be very handy, but I would use the term "basics" as opposed to "fundamentals" to describe the content as I understand it.
TMTG down over 10% since before announcement
You fixed the videos!

This is awesome :)

I had to (was able to) slow the videos to 1/2 speed (no tengo muchas parablas dontcha know) but this is much better training than Duolingo
This post reads like its an AI generated bot trying to stur something up.
Kamal proxy is good enough to sit behind a load balancer. I would not let it be what a client sees. There are some major features missing and it just hasn’t been battle tested enough to be subjected to DDoS type traffic, etc.

Overall, I do like the Kamal approach which basically boils down to the fact that instead of a complicated cluster orchestration system the developers decide which machines code runs on.

Once it has real support for doing DB migrations as a part of its deploys, a proxy that is less magical and more feature rich, and its CLI fixes some poorly documented and frankly somewhat annoying issues it will be a real workhorse.

I am also curious about Dokku + k3s. I have used Dokku for a long time but only on a single host.
I see programming as a means to an end. That is, one of several tools to use in creating solutions to real problems.

Perhaps the problem is that much of what passes for programming activity is in pursuit of addressing some trivial problem or burnishing some manager's ego.

Of course, most of the big problems of our age cannot be solved by computer technologies alone. Solving such problems requires skills in numerous domains, most of which require deep levels of specialized expertise.
This comment alone is more than your median spoken words in a day?
Something felt a little "off" about the text of this article, but this fragment raised the most suspicion:

demonstrate mechanical empathy with the 68k platform
Which countries would that be? Capturing CO2 from the atmosphere in order to have a source of carbon is, to this day, a technology in the prototype stage.

If you're thinking of Germany during WWII, or South Africa during apartheid, they produced synthetic liquid fuels from coal. That was technology that worked, though it was very expensive. And of course CO2 emissions were much higher than using petroleum.
MSPaint (which I wish MS would officially open-source) heavily relies on GDI too.
I really like the concept of night driving in the city.
Would the tariffs make more sense if this were true?

I mean, I don't doubt that it's true, but it seems more like an opportunity to make some money on the side than a reason to do it in the first place.
This is dead. I recommend Kokoro TTS https://huggingface.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS
> This is just the 'you made me do it' defense argued by every abuser ever.

Meh. You can say that about every consequence ever if you determine a priori, like you have, that consequences are only performed by abusers.

In any case, it's not a defense when many many people were saying this before it happened.

IOW, it was a prediction before the fact, not a defense after the fact.
No that's not what I mean I mean like if I have 99% of my assets in ...business capital (read: mostly stock) what's the plan? I'd have to front-run, but the wealthy own half of the business capital in the US so that's also incoherent because there's just not that much besides other wealthy to front-run.

If the wealthy wanted to buy something up on the cheap that they didn't own, they'd do residential real estate: something that's majority middle class owned (a fun corollary: property taxes are just wealth taxes on the middle class, the proportion of business capital the middle class owns is teeny). However, house prices have gone in the opposite direction as you'd expect from this theory!
see above comment under other thread
> we can see throughout history that the prevalence of disease follows closely with societies that raise animals

Assuming that's true, when was the last time it happened?
In Your Face: The Brutal Aesthetics of MAGA
Given the amount of military and economic power wielded by the US compared to our nearest competitor, we are one of the most benign great powers in history, which is saying a lot about considering the harm that we have caused. Calling the US "the real evil empire" is puzzling when we have still have the regimes in Russia, China and North Korea still at large.
What you're advocating for is these 30.000 people to lose their jobs, not earn anything and starve.

How does that help them? Oh, right. You don't care about them, actually. You just have this vague ideal that people should earn more money. Maybe not even that. You just want tariffs for some inexplicable reason. Because tariffs cannot give these people higher salaries. That's not how any of this works.
Retire.js – Scanner for JavaScript Libraries
It's more concentrated than you give it credit: the wealthy overwhelmingly hold their money in business capital (read: stocks) not housing. Housing is predominantly owned by the middle class. Having stocks go up and down is what mostly changes the ultra-rich wealth, and in this case they're going down.
> I debated doing that. I wish I had, I would have made a bit of money in the last few days.

The details weren't public. You can stop feeling being bad about yourself.
you missed the most important part of the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” you forgot by whom those right were endowed, by “the Creator”. It’s either this, or by the definition of it, you don’t have those rights.
there will be new jobs.
Slightly baffled why this is on HN and especially as the no.1 link. For this to be upvoted so high I expected to find a spectacular interactive learning experience someone has made for fun, or at least a substantial free book.

But it's just another book on Amazon like a dozen other books on the same subject.
Bill Atkinson unfortunately has been diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/11/13/atkinson-prayer... I'm sure everyone wishes him well.
I don't quite understand the error this article is pointing out and how it could lead to a four fold inaccuracy. Can someone try explain with an example?
Such a tarrif on low wage countries would prevent the exploitation of low wage countries. Because any county could easily 'defeat' the tarrif by setting a minimum wage.
It doesn't help raise the people being exploited out of poverty. But it does prevent countries from getting stuck in a cycle of depending on low wage labor.

Whether that works out better for the exploited is uncertain. But the alternative argument is effectively "these poor countries should be happy to let themselves be exploited" it is their only way out of poverty. And that really doesn't sit right with me.
Ask HN: What marketing book helped you become a better marketer?
Hi HN,

There are so many marketing books out there, but most of them feel repetitive or not very practical.

I’m interested in book recommendations that helped you learn marketing and apply it effectively. Whether they're about growing a business, building an audience, or enhancing branding, I’d love to hear your suggestions.

What books made a real difference in how you do marketing?

Thanks!
> Mac OS didn't have memory protection

That's true, but that's not the only issue in system design. None were modern OSes.

Most of the rest I think is BS.

> IE was even a hell of a lot more stable (and faster) than Netscape.

Never heard that. What I always heard was that Netscape was the better browser but Microsoft used their Windows monopoly, again, to spread IE - which the US government also convicted them for.

> I put a fresh copy of Redhat on the Internet in 90s and it was p0wned in 5 minutes.

By who? Over your 56K dial-up connection?
It was originally run by a company that also offered a platform, but it has since shut down. Not sure of the source of this new site
There are a couple more photos from that photoset https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/12/the-o...
So you are at a similar level of productivity and have 1000s of hours of free time?
we are using claudie(.io) together with ray. but we put a lot time into the infrastructure but we managed to cut our cost for a factor of 20x by doing this.
Plan for the tariffs to reverse course once enough political pressure mounts. Calls for say, three months out.
for countries that pay a worker $10 a day, put a tariff on the goods produced by that worker to total $10

for countries that pay a worker $15 dollars a day put a tariff on the goods produced by that work to total $4

therefore someone importing goods produced by one worker in one day from the lower wage country would spend $20 for the goods from the lower wage country but only $19 for the goods for the higher wage country giving a competitive advantage for higher wages

obviously that is a simplistic example but that's what i mean using tariffs to incentivize better behavior and level the playing field so the most exploitation doesn't make the most money
I mean, any "definitive" list of countries is gonna be inaccurate in some way.

For example, according to ISO 3166, Kosovo is not a country, but Antarctica is, which isn't particularly useful in real-world scenarios. Kosovo does have its own ccTLD (.xk, although it's supposed to be a temporary one) and were tariffed.

The reason I've mentioned Soviet Union in particular is that its domain is still active. You can go and buy .su right now, unlike say .yu (Yugoslavia), .dd (East Germany) or .cs (Czechoslovakia), which were deprecated.
> and we lost

Lost due to lack of redistribution not because of foreign companies outcompeting everyone.

US won, its economy was basically built on exporting dollars and effectively buying “free” stuff with it. Almost any other country besides the US that had a similar fiscal policy would have already imploded. Instead you got to export your inflation to the rest of the world and even that wasn’t good enough…
They get loans using their portfolios as collateral and then use the loans to buy stocks. This is very standard.
I haven't watched any of the lectures, but there's also Georgia Tech's Analog Circuits for Music Synthesis https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLOunECWxELQS5bMdWo9Vh...
Potentially France could have all imports from US pass by Martinique and they’d save a lot of money
Wrt creating, writing a blog post also counts!
cool puzzle! I like the visual updates, it would be interesting if you'd explain the algorithm used to generate the puzzles.
They are worth not having to pay a Webdesigner. And the clients these systems are made for get all the SEO penalties they deserve while having peace of mind. And If the site has the core search parameters where am I and what service am I looking for in the domain name there should be no issue in finding them on google after a couple of months.
Grok's War on 'Woke'
> The formula for the tariffs, originally credited to the Council of Economic Advisers and published by the Office of the United States Trade Representative, does not make economic sense.

There is a 2024 paper (40 pages) by Stephen Miran, chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43589350

The root of the economic imbalances lies in persistent dollar overvaluation that prevents the balancing of international trade, and this overvaluation is driven by inelastic demand for reserve assets. As global GDP grows, it becomes increasingly burdensome for the United States to finance the provision of reserve assets and the defense umbrella, as the manufacturing and tradeable sectors bear the brunt of the costs... Tariffs provide revenue, and if offset by currency adjustments, present minimal inflationary or otherwise adverse side effects.

https://financialpost.com/news/stephen-miran-economist-trump...

> Miran.. points to Trump’s application of tariffs on China in 2018-2019, which he argues “passed with little discernible macroeconomic consequence.” He adds that during that time the U.S. dollar rose to offset the macroeconomic impact of the tariffs and resulted in significant revenue for the U.S. Treasury.. “The effective tariff rate on Chinese imports increased by 17.9 percentage points from the start of the trade war in 2018 to the maximum tariff rate in 2019,” the report said. “As the financial markets digested the news, the Chinese renminbi depreciated against the dollar over this period by 13.7 per cent, so that the after-tariff USD import price rose by 4.1 per cent.”
Trump said he is open to negotiation on these tariffs. The factor of four difference is likely intentional padding. This way, he can:

1.) Shock the market into dropping several hundred points on the S&P and Nasdaq indices, thereby making quite a bit of money on the way down and then back up again.
and

2.) Lower tariffs in exchange for patronage from countries or specific businesses that want a port opened in this new trade firewall.
What is DCR?
Ask HN: Best Way to Technical Spike?
I'm sure there is wisdom to be learned from people who've successfully executed a technical spike and figure things out?
How do I come out on top?
I'm really not sure: it's highly specialized to scrape the pages of that particular course and output it in my own HTML and CSS classes. Luckily for me, their format is quite standard across chapters, but may not be across courses, and I didn't write the code to be modular or adaptive given my need (and the fact that I'm learning Python, not application design).

Still, the code lives in a git repo, so it's not excluded that I'll make it evolve to something more generic and maintainable in the future. But today, it's my own little dirty code that I will jealously keep and hide like that lewd drawing I did when I was a teenager.
I'm sorry but Americans including democrats were really harsh on biden on the last election.

Arrange a political debate right after a diplomatic tour, with huge jet-legs sleep loss?

free-trans-surgery with tax payer money?

no wonder that man went "fck this"

I just wonder if democrats simply gave up on the last election
> USD has no value other than what it can purchase in the US.

Tell me you don't know what a Eurodollar is without telling me you don’t know what a Eurodollar is.
Easy: evil lacks empathy. All it takes to not be evil is... empathy.
I love traveling, but rarely alone, and always with a purpose. I find aimless traveling just for the sake of saying I've been somewhere more exhausting than exhilarating. If I'm going to the Netherlands it's to visit some ancestral villages. If I'm going to Japan it's because I have a deep fascination with Kabuki and Noh. But I too love having a place to call home, with people in my community who are familiar with me.
Grok 3's Brush with Censorship: XAI's "Truth-Seeking" AI
Gatekeeping the use of the word Zen in English is probably counter to the core principles ironically. But I understand your concern.

Even the CPU in my computer is named Zen