skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I honestly wonder why there are such divergent opinions between say git and Nix? (I've never used Nix, but I use git all the time) Is Nix so much harder to use than git?

git also has a clear model (the Merkle tree of file and directory nodes) but a famously unfriendly UI (git checkout does 5 or more unrelated things)

Some people do not like git, but I get the feeling that most people just use it, and get on with their day.

Why the difference with Nix? Maybe because building packages is inherently slower. Whereas you can quickly get yourself intro trouble with git, but you can also quickly get out of trouble (rm -rf, git clone)

Maybe Nix is more stateful? Although the git index/staging area I find to be a fabulously odd piece of state, and honestly breaks all the rules when I think about CLIs

Also Nix does rely on a very big global repo, whereas git doesn't

It also seems that Nix's model is less clean, and perhaps doesn't match the problem domain as well ... there are disagreements on whether it is "reproducible", etc.

Or maybe it's just a harder problem
It looks like the administration is filled with people more interested in making a buck for themselves, rather than do what is best for the country.

Everyone knows that getting another trump may not be possible for at-least another 10 or so years (I don't mean the dems will win, just that republicans may put forth a saner version of trump just to save the party)
which is what, drone swarms to kill the jet engines?

flying them that high has got to be a pain
Are we going to give up on an open internet and just SSH into a proxy that can deal with all of this overhead?
I dunno. Somebody literally wrote a guidebook for him to follow, but I haven't even glanced over it.

The stuff I've seen people quote from the book have all been stupid, but the kind of stupidity seems to be a "do X, so you'll get Y" where "Y" is really bad and the author thinks it's good. So I guess I do expect some kind of coherence from him.

That said, I don't remember anybody claiming Project 25 talks about tariffs.
I work in marketing for a large number of e-commerce brands across a variety of verticals, including shoes. Brand direct on Nikes website is bugged, but is absolutely dwarfed by sales in brick and mortar retail stores. Think about target/walmart/dicks/big5/etc and then think about just Nike.
> I wish people would stop this "we" business where they purport to speak for everyone.

Saying that we are all used to consuming content in a web browser is hardly a controversial comment, especially when posting on HN which is accessed using a web browser. You most likely read my comment on a web browser and wrote it on a web browser.

Additionally, you said yourself the sentence before the one I quoted that you are used to reading documents on the web, so it seems like this "we" also applies to you. So I'm just baffled by both this and the sibling comment.
"We need to anticipate a future where China is equal to America on a per capita basis, but four times bigger"

Four times bigger absolutely will not happen; China's demographic disaster is already baked into the cake. Forecasts suggest China's total population will be around 1.5x the USA by 2100, but the average age / working age population will be in the USA's favour.
> self-built building by somebody who's neither engineer nor architect

That is exactly how our ancestors built houses. Also a traditional wooden house doesn't look complicated.
its reality TV. his supporters are generally insulated from the consequences, but even when affected, get the excitement of participating.
> … that they don' even paint for you

Of course. That way they can sell you the official paints.

Fortunately, it seems they’ve dropped that you’re required to use the official paints if you want to enter a sanctioned tournament.
Okay… what does this have to do with tariffs or shoes though?

> …China equal to America on a per capital basis

Hmm, what number do you mean will be equal? Income per capita? If the Chinese system paid Americans the same as the American system does, why would Nike operate its sweatshops there? Kind of tautological, no?
This hype cycle is about replacing pesky employees not delivering value for consumers. Their good will doesn’t matter, they are all online and won’t leave.
Wasn't this a Seinfeld episode?
> I agree with that critique, though it may be a problem with this specific version of Globalism, not globalism itself.

Well, there's nothing about Globalism that enforces this so it's really a complaint about most if-not all Globalism.

> With only 5% of the population the US would not have nearly enough manufacturing capacity to meet modern needs.

Expand your borders to include say Canada or all of South America. The UK moved up the value chain into industrial jobs while delegating out the cotton farming to their North American _Colony_ (as well as their South East Asian colony).

> If it was handing away money, then why would someone invest in it? They invest because the investment generates returns, in this case massive returns that changed hundreds of millions of lives and provided wealth that was used to buy and invest in yet more things.

Sending over capital goods in exchange for future considerations is not a Mercantilism argument. The reason why somebody would invest in it is because they're a Globalist.

The reason why "we" switched from Mercantilism to Globalism is because it generates more growth but you can't use Globalism arguments in a Mercantilism framework unless you're making the argument to switch frameworks.

(Also Mercantilism is also causing income equality by having an underclass in your colonies to support a wealthier main land; but the mainland isn't going to be complaining about being poor).
> Take the hard problem of parsing a language, break it down into the much simpler problem of reading tokens, then write simple "combinators" (and, or, one_or_many, etc etc) to combine these simple parsers into larger more complex parsers.

That's a terrible example for "parser combinators beat regexes"; those are the three regular operations. (Except that you use zero_or_many in preference to one_or_many.)
I think Musk got one of the biggest concessions ever without any precedent, something like 100% ownership where no other car plant ever got that before.
That’s the biggest thing I took away from the whole Boeing corporate disaster

You need to maintain at least a minimum amount of internal competency in almost all areas

If you completely give away a capability to other countries (in this case, fishing knowledge and labour) it is much harder to bring back than just coughing up the money

Those sectors you let die might not matter right now, but they might matter later. And you might have to scale up fast.
something drastic to do what about china?

i dont want china to be some colony of the west. i want china to become as rich as the west so that they can have clean domestic consumption with strong worker protections and rights
People really read 2016 wrong.

At no point was Hillary Clinton 100% guaranteed to win the election. 538's final call right before the election was 65% Clinton, 35% Trump; or in other words, under Nate Silver's model, Trump had a 35% chance of winning. And he did win, and just barely at that.
The obeying in advance and reflexive glazing is scary in a Twilight Zone or slow-start-of-a-zombie-movie sort of way, but the fact that Trump is playing very fast and loose with due process, talking seriously about "deporting" American citizens and is actively applying economic death penalties to people on his bad side (like the EO stripping security clearance not only from Chris Krebs, but everyone who happens to work at his current employer) is scary in a "is the US as we know it actually going to survive this?" kind of way.

And I'm just pulling a few things off the top of Many Very Worrying Things here for brevity.
The “mc^2 = E” example is confusing too as both boxes are white, so it’s not clear which part you’re given and which part you would have to fill in
Depends. Are the Brazilians doing anything about it?

If not, and no one else is, then there's a chance that someone like Trump might try to do something like that himself. That's what he does. He sees someone else getting away with something bad, tries to do it because he thinks he'll get an advantage, gets caught, and complains about how unfair it is that he got caught.
Managed funds and ETFs will have needed to rebalance, buying and selling assets to get the proportions back to what they are supposed to be.
>The noise .... is so loud and grating :(

So, like basically every kids toy that's battery-powered?
I'm surprised they'd let you do so in the claim luggage, but in this case it was carry-on. The story goes my mother just walked through customs and got on the plane with it.
Just the other day, I got a pair of shoes at Walmart for TREE FITTY.

The most comfortable pair of shoes I own are also from Walmart and they cost less than twenty bucks.

How do my $3.50 shoes from Walmart fit into this picture that justifies why Nikes are $100?

This article fails the smell test. Or maybe it’s Nike’s business model that is failing the smell test, I’m unsure.

Also, anybody commenting who claims they “need” a pair of Nikes for their special feet should try being desperately unemployed and borderline homeless for a while.

You don’t “need” anything.
America will get the outcome it deserves.
…what does this have to do with shoes? A “managed decline?” Brother, the problem with the UK economy is Brexit. That was put in by a plebiscite. It’s not saying much, but at every level, including in the manufacture of shoes, the government has the greatest power to create or destroy wealth.
>>>For instance, I'm not too concerned about my child's ability to write very legibly (most writing is done on computers), spell very well (spell check keeps us professional), reading a map to get around (GPS), etc

Not that these aren't noble things or worth doing, but they won't impact your life too much if you're not interest in penmanship, spelling, or cartography. <<<

For me it is the second order benefits, notably the idea of "attention to detail" and "a feel for the principles". The principles of each activity being different: writing -> fine motor control, spelling -> word choice/connotation, map -> sense of direction, (my own insert here) money handling -> cost of things

All of them involve "attention to detail" because that's what any activity is - paying attention to it.

But having built up the experience in paying attention to [xyz], you can now be capable when things go wrong.

IE catch disputable transaction on the credit card, or note being told by the shop clerk "No Returns" when their policy says otherwise, un-losting yourself when the phone runs out of battery in the city.

Notably, you don't have to be trained for the details in traditional ways like writing the same sentence 100 times on a piece of paper. Learning can be fun and interesting.

Children can write letters to their friends well before they get their own phone. Geocaching/treasure hunts(hand drawn mud maps!)/orienteering for map use.

As for LLM ... well currently "attention to detail" is vital to spot the (handwave number) 10% of when it goes wrong. In the future LLMs may be better.

But if you want to be better than your peers at any given thing - you will need an edge somewhere outside of using an LLM. Yet still, spelling/word choice/connotations are especially linked to using an LLM currently.

Knowing how to "pay attention to detail" when it counts - counts.
At least 4 downvotes, no explanation. What's the problem?

I'm curious what the situation is: did the person speak up internally, were they disempowered, did they go along with it but then have a change of heart at some point, etc.?
Tailwind CSS v4.1: Text shadows, masks, and tons more
It is very likely that some kind of AI similar to the current batch of LLMs was already deployed and working before any of the commercial players published their public versions. We just didn't knew about it. You probably talked to one without realizing. I must have done it several times myself.

So, what changed? Really? (rethorical).

You're proposing an HTTPS padlock sign. "This conversation is human" is the new "This connection is secure". Can't do that, it doesn't work. You should know these marks and verified labels are useless by now.

We need to get better than AI can possibly be. It's a mathematical machine turk, we should be able to overcome it (at least in energy efficiency). Smarter, kinder humans are what we need.
I bought Lego on Tuesday at the Goodwill on Philadelphia Pike in Wilmington. So you just need to look on a regular cycle.
He was always long-winded and discursive (in the needs-and-editor way, not the interesting way) but I'd actually enjoyed his earlier works (this one is pretty popular: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...)

This new stuff just sucks.
And what happened to them, I wonder?
Congressional Subpoenas are at same level as Court Subpoena. So if Congress subpoenaed her documents, she could (willingly) turn them over and not be in breach of her NDA.
The facts exist independent of your empty words.
There isn’t a serious plan to bring manufacturing back. You can debate whether there is a plan for high-pressure negotiations, insider trading or kickbacks (e.g. Nvidia’s successful deployment of a million dollar dinner at Mar-a-Lago), etc. but you can tell that it’s not a good-faith attempt to invest in American industry because that would start with the two things you mentioned: you’d see the investment in those industries now and a commitment to raising taxes on foreign competition in 2030 or so when people have had time to actually be able to meet demand.

What we’re seeing now makes as much sense as a middle-aged laptop jockey deciding that they want to be in better shape – and then quitting their job to run in the Badwater Ultramarathon the next week.
€1200 per month is around £1000, there are 43.1m working age people in the UK, that's £517.2 BILLION per year.

The NHS costs £181.7b per year and climbing & we struggle to afford that.

HMRC collected £828.9 billion in taxes in 2023 to 2024

UBI would cost 2.8 NHSs per year and 62% of all the tax revenue.

"Tax the rich!" You're probably thinking... "The combined wealth of the 350 wealthiest individuals and families in the [Sunday Times Rich] list totals £965 billion," even if you took every penny real and imagined from the rich, you'd only manage it once and get not even two years of UBI from it.

UBI isn't going to happen.
The issue is that putting fluoride in the water isn't really "treating" the water. It's in essence acting a medication (see my paragraph below for a justification of this), to the benefit of people's teeth. As far as I know, every other chemical added / removed from the water is done for the purpose of the taste of the water, protecting the pipes which serve the water, or disinfecting the water. In this way, it's different from all the other chemicals, and there is also some limited opposition to other chemicals (e.g. debate on the use of UV / chlorine / ozone).

As for a loose argument for why fluoride in water is medicinal: the FDA classifies toothpaste as a cosmetic and also potentially a drug (depending on whether it contains fluoride and the claims the product makes):

> Ingredients that cause a product to be considered a drug because they have a well-known (to the public and industry) therapeutic use. An example is fluoride in toothpaste.

> Some products meet the definitions of both cosmetics and drugs. [...] Among other cosmetic/drug combinations are toothpastes with claims to freshen breath and cleanse the teeth that contain fluoride.
[Both quotes are from https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetics-laws-regulations/it-...]
The Brazilian Congress finished approving a law yesterday granting the president powers to retaliate by voiding intellectual property.
The movie "The Empty Man" is about a Tulpa.. It's one of my favorite movies of all time. I've seen it probably 30 times and I'm still noticing new things when I watch it.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5867314/
Not sure why you're being downvoted, this is right. And every other console company has been charging for it, too. For longer, at a higher price.

There's this recurring theme I'm seeing where when Nintendo does something price-wise people act like it's the end of the world. And, almost every time, the other big dogs have already done it, and typically worse.

The reality is 80 dollars is about expected for a flagship game. 450 dollars is the cheapest console around. And, NSO is the cheapest subscription. I think people percieve Nintendo as making kiddy games so they expect kiddy prices. The problem is, that doesn't mean the games are cheap to produce.
You’re not going to see it used in such terms because of how economics defines trade. However you will see examples that make it clear currency is a commodity subject to supply and demand when you look into exchange rates. https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/041515/how-does-bal...

Trade networks allow for stable equilibriums with no individual country having equal trade with any other county. To simplify, A on net sends money to B, and B buys stuff from C with A’s currency, C then buys stuff from A in A’s currency returning that money to A. However, people want to operate in their native currency and there are a lot more than 3 countries in the real world so you end with intermediary currency exchanges changes going on. In theory supply and demand steps in to balance things, in practice cash flows rarely actually sum to 0.
Hey! I love parser combinators and wish they were more mainstream. That's why I wrote Tarsec, which is Parsec for TypeScript:
https://github.com/egonSchiele/tarsec

I have a short and a long intro, both illustrated: https://github.com/egonSchiele/tarsec/blob/main/tutorials/5-... and https://github.com/egonSchiele/tarsec/blob/main/tutorials/th...

It also has a neat debug mode, and a way to benchmark performance. I've loved using it, hopefully someone reading will use it too! Use this as a chance to learn something cool (parser combinators)!
Elon Musk's xAI powering its facility in Memphis with 'illegal' generators
GraphQL-esque response from local LLM over MCP
Did some more experimentation with local LLMs. This time looking at how to integrate MCP servers.

As a fun experiment I tried to use tool calling to implement a simple POC of a basic GraphQL-esque response from a series of tool calls inferred from the prompt.

My takeaway is that tool calling works reasonably well, even in small LLMs (7-8B).

Article: https://www.teachmecoolstuff.com/viewarticle/using-mcp-serve...
This is the kind of stuff the TPP was supposed to deal with. Free trade contingent on all sorts of IP protections and market fairness rules.

No one cared at the time, and no cares about the nuance now.
HSV-targeting antivirals like acyclovir lower the chances of transmission when taken regularly by an infected individual. They do nothing if taken by those not carrying the virus. Keeping them on hand accomplishes nothing.

From the page you link:

> If you have genital herpes, you will probably be somewhat less likely to infect your partner if you use antiviral medication for prevention. The medications used for this purpose include acyclovir, famciclovir and valaciclovir. They must be taken every day over a long period of time, though. Using them as a creme or ointment is not suitable.
> For instance, I'm not too concerned about my child's ability to write very legibly (most writing is done on computers), spell very well (spell check keeps us professional), reading a map to get around (GPS), etc

However, I am going to hazard a guess that you still care about your child's ability to do arithmetic, even though calculators make that trivial.

And if I'm right, I think it's for a good reason—learning to perform more basic math operations helps build the foundation for more advanced math, the type which computers can't do trivially.

I think this applies to AI. The AI can do the basic writing for you, but you will eventually hit a wall, and if all you've ever learned is how to type a prompt into ChatGPT, you won't ever get past that wall.

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Put another way:

> So how do I answer my child when he asks "Why should I learn to do X if I can just ask an LLM and it will do it better than me"

"Because eventually, you will be able to do X better than any LLM, but it will take practice, and you have to practice now."
That LLMs cannot synthesize it into a propri, including other rules of logic and mathematics, is a major failure of the technology...
I believe Carlson was one of the most popular hosts on one of the most popular channels till he was sacked. Keeping your job in the mainstream media, is no badge of honour.
It just means you're happy to sacrifice your independence and submit to the demands of the media biz (and mainstream groupthink).
>> Uh I work for an enterprise of tens of thousands of users and $18 a month is not nothing for us. In fact considering the discounts we get at our size that would be so high we'd never consider it.

This doesn't make sense to me. It shouldn't matter if you are a small company or a large one, a few bucks per person per month is noise. I get trying to leverage scale to get a better price, but if something saves time / money, a company shouldn't refuse it just because they are large. Whoever is gatekeeping these decisions is ultimately eroding the company's value.
You can end up in legal quandary where you fight over exactly what NDA can and cannot cover. Congressional Subpoena would put her on much firmer legal standing. My guess is her lawyers recommended this strategy.
Hell it's one of the cleaner ways to do async networking in C++ alone
There are so many Google products that overlap it's mind boggling
Correct. USA will become like UK. Trump is trying to basically change the situation but he is pissing against the wind.
"Technique" is a term for "something you can do, among a million other things, if you know enough about X".
House Republicans move to block vote on Trump's tariffs
Today is March 11, 2025. Tomorrow is March 11, 2025. Etc., etc., etc.
> As it turns out, a UI toolkit is, at least conceptually, not very complicated.

Hee hee

Interesting read but as a seasoned Blub programmer I probably won't be binding my non-LISP code to Barium any time soon. This does give me ideas for *my* eventual GUI framework ofc
Exercise, diet and regular checkups are the key to living longer.

It may be that people who are moderate drinkers are more likely to do all or most of the above.
Yes, his advisor, ChatGPT, account name donjr3@yahoo.com.
What a fun read. Thanks for the nice call out on my blog.

If you're also interested I (Farid) also had a follow up where I follow up on how the hashes are calculated.
(Using the error to get the hashes also bugged me)

I use it to also create vanity hashes :)

https://fzakaria.com/2025/03/28/what-s-in-a-nix-store-path

https://fzakaria.com/2025/03/27/nix-vanity-store-paths
well obviously you're given the equation, and you have to fill in the letter???
This is all correct, but it's a first principles explanation that doesn't explain why US bonds, and in particular the 10-year note, spiked today. Yes, eventually excessive tariffs would have that result. They literally hadn't even taken effect yet. So this doesn't explain the bond motion today.

Someone was dumping, we don't know who or why. But the answer to that question is a lot (a lot) more important than people realize, and certainly more so than the immediate market motion or tariff policy.

Honestly if the answer was "The PRC was unloading bonds to send a message" that's sort of the best option, as they have limited wiggle room to continue to do so without wrecking their own financial situation.

If it's "The market as a whole lost confidence in US debt", then we're fucked no matter what Trump does next.