skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish there was a way to activate it with Siri though, in case I were accosted in a manner such that I could talk to my phone but my hands were, say, handcuffed.
Pre-orders in a lot of businesses have been paused because with the tariffs volatile, stores can't guarantee they won't lose their shirts if they promise product to customers that is later unaffordable to sell (or cannot be sold at that agreed-upon pricepoint).

China is also likely to continue selling off US treasuries; even if that wasn't an immediate way to disrupt the American economy by itself, it's a sound idea if their trust in the stability of the US as a sovereign nation has gone down. China is also, historically, the second-largest buyer and holder of US T-bills; if that changes, it will have consequences in terms of America's deficit.
It partially works but it doesn’t “stick”, as you say. I’ve tried setting it on Preferences but it isn’t consistent.
"they are not actively partisan"....again, no objective observer believes this.
And quoting Jon Stewart would be like me quoting Tucker Carlson.
If you think about it, television has never been designed to inform or edify anyone.

Television is meant to sell ads and blanket the nations with a haze of opiates in order to keep us pacified and distracted and far too stupid to make waves.

And people blame religion for this stuff ...
I gave the example of the U.K., a dystopian privacy violator. The U.K. is in Europe.

The entirety of Europe would not come close to making a majority of countries. Even if I grant you the "entirety of Europe", I bet I'm still right that most (i.e., more than half) of countries reserve the right to search your device at the border, and will compel you to give the password.

For instances where the authorities wish to suspect you of a crime, looks like France was prepared to compel you to give a password in 2022: https://www.fairtrials.org/articles/news/french-court-rules-...

EU-wide, 2024: https://www.politico.eu/article/police-can-access-mobile-pho...

In the U.S., I believe you are covered by your 5th Amendment self-incrimination protections. I have some recollection that there are situations where authorities will compel you, like if you're not the one being accused of the crime.
* EU and many other counties have had comparatively small and targeted tariffs on the US for a long time
Show HN: My Chrome Extension: Scheduled Eye Exercises for Developers
A couple of months ago I've started experiencing dry eyes and worsening eyesight, especially towards the evenings.
I remembered a site from the past that I used to use to take breaks and relax my eyes.

The site was unfortunately no longer working, so I decided to revive it using the Web Archive and build a Chrome Extension to remind myself every hour.

My eyes do feel better now, but of course, this isn't a panacea, and it definitely would not help everyone.

These are just exercises, after all.
i mean the other perspective is that this headline is a lie. i'm no supporter of trump, but it is a simply false headline
True, because if Democrats had an anti-American POTUS hell-bent on destroying the country they would be helping the impeachment process, not defending them
what is DTC?
- April 7th: Spread rumours of a 90 days tariff pause which immediately triggers a market really, then claim it was "fake new", markets go down

- April 9th: "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT", then 4 hours later announce a 90 days tariff reduction, markets jump nearly 10%

This level of market manipulation orchestrated directly by a head of state is something you only see in totalitarian states.

The US is moving into a very serious situation. These people won't ever voluntarily leave the Oval Office.
> Too late for those forced to sell financial assets in order to pay margin calls

Yea, I want my president looking out for financial vultures leveraged to the hilt
I think the media continues to sane-wash him. The AP news headline of his recent meeting with Mark Rutte was

"NATO secretary-general tells Trump he’s motivating alliance members to spend more on defense"

It doesn't say anything about Greenland. It should have because Trump continued to push it:

""We've been dealing with Denmark, we've been dealing with Greenland, and we have to do it. We really need it for national security. I think that's why NATO might have to get involved in a way, because we really need Greenland for national security. It's very important," Trump said."

From Reuters, which seems to be doing a moderately better job.

"Trump wants to control Greenland" along with "Trump threatens to annex Canada" should be at the top of every headline because its complete insanity. No one voted for this, no one wants this, if Biden had said it or Obama had said it or any president had said it at any time every they would have become a laughing stock and every politician and voter would have risen up against them.

But it gets swept under the rug, in the same way all his insanity gets swept under the rug. Where were the headlines when he openly admired Arnold Palmer's penis? Nowhere, instead we got "Trump attacks Harris on immigration".

I've got my explanations but they all make me sound like a raving conspiracy theorist. Nevertheless, its my only explanation. This is what happens when its us vs. the billionaires. They can always outspend, and everyone really only cares about the bottom line.
It’s worse than that. Everything leading up to this and this reversion right now is a perfect demonstration that the current US administration cannot be trusted and behaves in irrational ways. You cannot expect consistency and enduring policies. It’s all fickle and capricious. How are you supposed to do any planning with this?

This is all so obviously dumb and I’m frankly astounded by so many people (especially here on HN) playing devils advocate or, I don’t know, honestly believing that this all makes sense.

Even if you agree with the stated (also somewhat incoherent, by the way) goals why do you think this implementation can achieve any of that?
It’s unpopular because conservatives hate it when you tell them what their representatives are doing. Again, they’re allergic to accountability!

To this day, millions deny the impact of project 2025. Like it’s some made up liberal strawman.

Guys, half the writers are in his cabinet. He’s following it to a tee. I don’t think we could’ve asked for a more perfect establishment Republican if we tried.

They’re not some little guys dismantling the system. They ARE the system.
Biggest pump and dump ever.
It's Elon's dogecoin pump & dump all over again. I should have kept an eye on twitter!
On the one hand, this entire exercise has been (and continues to be) batship insane

....Otoh this is good in a meta sense, tells about the level of resilience of the capitalist system, I think we should treat this entire fiasco as one of those controlled forest fire sort of things.

Like...anytime someone tries to mention JIT or other corporate 'efficiency' nonsense, we can refer to these sort of shenanigans and shut them down.
You’ve been repeating that a lot but as many people have corrected you, they’re nothing like this broad or high: only 1%, and that’s balanced by the EU’s trade deficit on services since we don’t make things like good cars for Europe but they buy a lot of software, entertainment, etc.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...
And that's a problem... reasonable people now don't.
>more work still needs to be done to determine which specific aspects of European social systems − whether health care delivery, education access, retirement security or tax policies − most effectively protect health regardless of personal wealth.

Hypothesis.

Rich in the US healthcare system suffer from overtreatment. Medical ads are allowed, marketing drugs and treatments to people who don't need them is a health risk. In the US doctors have much stronger incentives to overtreat. They can be sued much easier for not treating or giving medicines the patient wants, if something happens.
I've always wondered why the supply chain has exponential price increase at each step. The example given (guessed at) is the factory produces the shoe for $12.5 and sells it to Nike for $25. Nike then sells it to Footlocker for $50 and they then sell to a customer for $100. Everyone expects to mark up their costs by about 100 percent. Why is that the case? Even if we say the markup isn't 100 percent, why is it a percentage of cost at all? If the shoe factory can make $12 then why can't Nike and Footlocker both make $12 and retail the shoe for $50?

I'm not saying things should be different, just wondering why it is the way it is. If Footlocker was also selling some cheapo shoe for $50 presumably they do the same amount of work to bring that to the store. Are they only paying $25 for those? Why does it cost half for them to handle a cheaper shoe?
If they voted for Republicans, they did in fact vote for this. It doesn’t need to be like this, congress and specifically the Republican majority which controls it can act to reclaim the power of tariffs from the president _at any time_.

All of this chaos is specifically because they have chosen to be complicit instead of opposing the president. If you want the madness to stop, call your representatives. Speak to your family and ask them to do the same.
True, but I don't think the gap on indexing Markdown docs is very large.

In fact... man already supports two parsable languages for the pages themselves. It could, hypothetically, support three.
The F3 has great audio quality and it might work for a lot of use cases... but the physical format is terrible if you want to put it in a bag (which is what most people recording audio on set do).

It's great for field recording though where you attach the recorder to a tree branch or something.
But you know it has something to do with Windows Update.
Trump is already a billionaire and is in his 70s. No explanation of his behavior in terms of gaining money makes sense.
GNU trying with info pages was largely hampered by the fragmented UNIX world of the day? I seem to recall various UNIX controllers were far more active in standards and such than they seem to be today. Specifically, I don't think any one company had the dominance that would be needed to drive a large migration.

Not that I'm certain that company exists today. There does seem to have been more consolidation than we had back then.
Unless you're getting goretex or leather (and even then, shoes are small), there's not really anything in a shoe besides a bit of rubber, some EVA foam, and probably some plastic mesh. The materials cost is very low.
Scott Bessent > "I think it's unfortunate that the Chinese actually don't want to come and negotiate, because they are the worst offenders in the international trading system"

Why are the Chinese labeled "offenders"? What court found them guilty beyond reasonable doubt? By what law? They do what everybody else does, except their game is more beneficial, not only for them but for everyone trading with them, otherwise they wouldn't be trading with them.

"The international trading system" consists of trade agreements overseen by the WTO. The Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) at the WTO is supposed to judge in case of disagreements. No such case has been lodged at the DSB, no judgements have been issued. Using an exception clause to impose tariffs does not make anyone an offender - no rules are broken, no judgment is passed.

The really disturbing part of all this is that both parties and the media prefer to repeat the narrative of the administration while hiding the simple fact that China didn't brake any trade rules - their way of doing business haven't changed at all since the time Wall Street was raging about outsourcing to China as the best thing after sliced bread.
Meanwhile the price of the Ruble is skyrocketing since trump took office. Everything he does is a gift to Putin.
It’s now called just “trading”.
A few comments here have hinted at this: we don't need to have a debate about penalizing platforms for the fraud of the users, everyone agrees that's problematic. The reason this directive confuses me is because very often the fraudsters are the platform runners themselves.
Are we really going to not consider Trump really being a Russian Asset and this is just WAI (destroy America's credibility) as far as he is concerned? What else even makes sense at this point?
Hey! I'm the creator of this extension. I'd really appreciate it if you could share your thoughts on this and maybe give me some ideas for improvement.

Thanks for checking it out!
Some context from a related article [1] by Cory Doctorow, who is an EFF Special Advisor, about why EFF's successfully proving standing in the DOGE/OPM lawsuits is a big deal:

> Ironically, it's when governments violate our rights on a mass scale that standing is hardest to prove. Our Jewel case, over NSA spying, foundered because the US government argued that we couldn't prove our clients had been swept up by NSA surveillance because the details of that surveillance were officially still secret, even though Snowden had disclosed their working a decade earlier, and our client Mark Klein (RIP) had come forward with documents on illegal mass NSA spying in 2006!:

> https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/effs-flagship-jewel-v-...

(I am not affiliated with the EFF. "Our" refers to the EFF.)

[1] EFF's lawsuit against DOGE will go forward - https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/09/cases-and-controversy/
It’s designed with taxes in mind. Total user cashflow is still apparent at the bank, just like if you withdrew cash. And the amounts received by vendors are visible as well. So taxable there too. That’s a big part of what’s so cool about it.
That's a great idea - I may look into that.
It's awfully hard to find any content on CNN or MSNBC that approaches the total shamelessness which Fox displays on a regular basis.

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1895597181945725304

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1905778768511406175

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1909744238621020262

https://x.com/Acyn/status/1909717088241172661
I think that’s a fair comment. The only reason why I was not entirely convinced that that would be the case is that tariffs seem to be one of the positions that Trump was truly ideologically bound to.

I couldn’t tell whether he would really go through with this or not. Now it’s clear he has no bottle at all. So weirdly is more of a comfort.
This reckless way of negotiating has a cost: our trustworthiness. The more recklessness Trump does, the more other nations will strongly consider naming some other currency the global reserve currency, such as the euro, the yuan, or something else, maybe even something new.

This isn't 1946 when the United States was heads-and-shoulders the most prosperous nation on earth, with most other developed countries having to rebuild. Other regions such as the European Union, China, and the bloc of East Asian democracies (Japan, South Korea, Taiwan) also have strong, competitive economies with a high standard of living for many of their residents. If they got together, it's possible that they could move to some alternative to the US dollar should they wish, and with Trump's bullying, this might just be the push.
Bad news. Haas announced yesterday they are cutting US machine tool production during the tariff mess.[1] The exact opposite of what was supposed to happen.

[1] https://x.com/peteoxenham/status/1909751767610654795
> other countries are kissing his ass

Notable exception: Xi Jinping. So it's a contest of wills. Trump vs. the man who enforced a "zero-Covid" lockdown on 1.4 billion people.
You should see the sick shit natural born citizens get up to.
The scary part is that it has been scrubbed in many sites

https://www.ft.com/content/0005e091-930d-46ff-9e81-8591704a9...
They are a bit of ripoff, especially cli thing. It will hallucinate tons of things, add things that break code and then you pay again (quite a lot) to fix it.
Ho wow, the sample video shows incredible results, I'd love to read more about how to configure it with my own laptop and microphone. Settings ought to be different for each laptop model, right ?
> No, it is not. There's no way to send the incremental results of typing in a search box, for instance, to the server with HTML alone - you need to use Javascript.

Hypermedia applications use javascript (e.g., htmx - the original subject), so I'm not sure why you're hung up on that.

> And then you're still paying the latency penalty, because you don't know what the user's full search term is going to be until they press enter, and any autocomplete is going to have to make a full round trip with each incremental keystroke.

You just send the request on keydown. It's going to take about ~50-75ms or so for your user's finger to traverse into the up position. Considering anything under ~100-150ms feels instantaneous, that's plenty of time to return a response.

> As someone building web applications - no, they really aren't.

We were originally talking about "normal" (js) web applications (e.g. react, angular, etc.)., most of these apps have all the traits I mentioned earlier. We all have used these pigs that take forever on first load, cause high cpu utilization, and are often janky.

> My webapps sip power and compute and are low-latency while still being very poorly optimized.

And now you have subtlely moved the goals posts to only consider the web apps you're building, in place of "normal" js webapps you originally compared against htmx. I saw you do the same thing in another thread on this story. I have no further interest in engaging in that sort of discussion.
It might be time for you and your family to consider moving to a more stable country.
Isn’t this simply taking advantage of what the market is willing to pay?
That’s not a problem here (they have an app, too) but it’s definitely valid for Uber to compete on better service. I am skeptical that they will be able to get the kind of returns which their investors want that way, however.
The Chinese stock market is flat while their GDP rises because their economy is not based around the stock market. US economic management is entirely based around pumping the stock market.
Anybody who could investigate probably got fired. After the pardons of Blagojevich and the Nikola guy it’s pretty clear that scamming is ok now.
Demand that they recognize. Businesses only recognize demand in narrow bands... if they don't sell eggplant, then they can't check to see how much eggplant is moving and increase supply of it. At best, they have to rely on business intelligence that 3 years after the entire country has gone eggplant wild "hey, maybe we should be selling eggplant too". In other words, they're completely blind to demand that doesn't rise to the level of "some fad or mania for this product has emerged".
This is a great resource which I've used many times but the reality is that most of the noise will come from the mic itself.

I regularly record very quiet sources with the Rode NT1 (one of the mics with lowest self noise) and I've yet to hear any noise from any of my preamps.
As someone semi-retired, I was already reasonably conservatively invested. When all this kicked off dumped some more equities. Maybe I could have done a bit better waiting. Who knows? I know I’m happy being that much more liquid.
Absolutely nothing was accomplished but the undermining of the US as a stable partner. US treasuries and the US dollar both have taken a colossal hit that is going to reverberate into much greater consequences. It is the hit on TBills that forced Trump's retreat, which his weird cult now need to spin into some 4D chess.

Like, listen to what Trump himself says to justify the pause-

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmfosw5usb2f

Basically "everyone was saying this was really stupid -- getting "yipeee" -- so I paused it". Not "Haha now I've got them where I want 'em!"

These pauses and this chaos is literally the worst of both worlds. Christ, he would have done better either cancelling them or going full bore.

Congress needs to remove his ability to levy tariffs under his imaginary emergencies.
> Now is the ripe time, 90 days, to make a deal with the US and offer the best terms.

What terms? Remember, the tariffs were not reciprocal -- that was a boldfaced lie. They were based on trade imbalance. So what, Cambodia is supposed to pledge to buy ... what exactly? ... from the US in order to balance its trade?

The reason Cambodia or Vietnam have a trade imbalance is because US/other companies have factories there to produce the goods. You think those companies are going to set up garment and shoe factories in the US? With what labor?

The whole thing reeks of a shockingly inept understanding of global trade and economics.
Actually, your approach “test yourself first, then learn” is better for learning compared with just learning first according to research.
>We are doomed imho.

I encourage you to take action to prove to yourself that real change is possible.

What you can do in your own life to enact change is hard to say, given I know nothing about your situation. But say you are a parent, you have control over how often your children use their phones, whether they are on social media, whether they are using ChatGPT to get around doing their homework. How we raise the next generation of children will play an important role in how prepared they are to deal with the consequences of the actions we're currently making.

As a worker you can try to organize to form a union. At the very least you can join an organization like the Democratic Socialists of America. Your ability to organize is your greatest strength.
The title is wrong. The study concluded that Vitamin D supplementation doesn't help prevent acute respiratory infections.
Seems kinda crazy that so much power was ever vested in the president.

https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/R48435
I believe OpenAI wants ChaptGPT to have a tone that is more casual and less professional or uptight than it was before....

And so ChatGPT relies on the training data to know what that means so it leads to it talking like this as this is what the training data is filled with.
Antiviral chewing gum to reduce influenza and herpes simplex virus transmission
I wonder what the latency is. FIR needs quite some time in the lower frequencies.
> They've stopped fluoridating their water in Scandinavia for years now.

Note that Scandinavia has naturally high fluorine levels in their groundwater:

> In Sweden, fluoride concentrations in drinking water from water treatment plants have been reported to mostly range between 0 and 1.5 mg/L, with a maximum level of 4.1 mg/L, while in private wells in South-Eastern Sweden, it was found that 24% out of about 4,800 wells exceed 1.5 mg/L. In Norway, a study from 2017 found that 4 of 201 waterworks had fluoride concentrations exceeding guideline value of 1.5 mg F/L. In a study from Western Norway, the fluoride concentration in selected wells ranged from 0.51 to 8.0 mg F/L, and drinking water was the only dietary variable associated with increased risk of dental fluorosis. In Denmark, analyses of drinking water show most sources being low and below 1.5 mg F/L.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10770722/

The US targets 0.7 mg/L.

Many European countries also choose to add fluorine to milk and/or salt instead of water.
Who falls for fake news? Anyone who aligns themselves with a political party.
I wouldn't call it the lede but also in this article is that he increased China tariffs to 125% which is funny. Let's just keep it going, 200% China tariffs! Why not? People weren't going to do business at the 54% tariff anyway.
I have a trip to China on Saturday and I'm worried about:

a. Chinese retaliation. I don't think they are going to start arresting Americans, but it might get uncomfortable if I don't have my passport in the subway station.

b. American retaliation. My wife has a greencard, this is actually worrying me more than anything, although as far as I have heard so far, we should be OK.

Trip is still on. I'm really interested in how China has changed since I left 8 years ago.
Luckily the founding fathers thought of this