skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a symptom of the decline of high street retail and high long-term vacancy rates for many retail properties.

For commercial landlords, a charity shop paying little or no rent is usually better than no tenant at all - the property is less likely to be smashed up by vandals, burned down by arsonists or occupied by squatters if it's occupied. The landlord would be liable for business rates after three months of vacancy, but not if there's a tenant.

Charity shops get an 80% relief on business rates, pay nothing for their stock and get some or all of their staff for free; obviously this allows them to operate profitably in circumstances where no normal business could.

As I understand it, the landlords are holding on mostly in the hope that their properties will either be compulsorily purchased as part of a regeneration scheme, or granted planning permission for redevelopment as housing.
What quantitative evidence do you have of that?
"DHS to screen social media of visa applicants for 'antisemitic activity'": https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs-screen-social-media-visa... (abcnews.go.com/Politics/dhs-screen-social-media-visa-applicants-antisemitic-activity/story?id=120642944)
What's the fundamental difference? They're stores with old books; someone makes a few cents. I honestly don't understand the question.
Interesting analysis. I'm somewhat confused by why anyone would think charity bookshops replacing secondhand bookshops would be a bad thing (if that were to actually be happening as the article suggests there isn't much evidence of this). Surely, to the shopper, they are exactly the same except one helps a charitable cause as a bonus.
The problem with GPS is that you never learn to orient yourself. You don't learn to have a sense of place, direction or elapsed distance. [0]

As to writing, just the action of writing something down with a pen, on paper, has been proven to be better for memorization than recording it on a computer [1].

If we're not teaching these basic skills because an LLM does it better, how do learn to be skeptical of the output of the LLM. How do we validate it?

How do we bolster ourselves against corporate influences when asking which of 2 products is healthier? How do we spot native advertising? [2]

[0]: https://www.nature.com/articles/531573a

[1]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00016...

[2]: Example: https://www.nytimes.com/paidpost/netflix/women-inmates-separ...
Agreed.

This is where I bounce (out of this discussion).
I’m saying that using a courtroom to decide the definition of a biscuit indicates a problem with sales tax legislation.

Flat rate sales tax has its problems, but avoiding Jaffa cake situations is entirely desirable.
Designing the most stylish bevel radius on edges.
The parent comment is not making a causal claim. They're pointing out a double standard: "Anyone arguing this is about childhood IQ and wouldn’t similarly ban (not stop mandating, ban) soft drinks, chips and fast food for kids, they’re signalling this is about something other than kids’ health."

In other words, if these people are anti-fluoride because it's supposedly bad for children's IQ, they should also oppose bad food for the same reason. If they don't, the supposed (unproven) health effects are not the reason. That's the point that is made, at least.
BBC reinstalls sculpture by paedophile Eric Gill with new protective screen
Previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43624468
I've thought about getting one myself, since I identify as a gay man. Though last I checked it was not covered by my insurance...
Sorry if this offends, but I am deeply skeptical that the effect of UBI is independent of common culturally influenced behaviors of where it might be implemented. Try it in an opioid epidemic stricken rust belt town in the American Midwest, or an urban ghetto (I'm not totally sold that the selection criteria for the Stockton study were unbiased) and let us know how it goes.
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Individual bit of information are not the real issue. What is important is allowing oneself to be slowly primed to certain viewpoints and then accepting things via confirmation bias. Even the preceding is probably too simplistic, I think various human perception "bugs" are used to sway opinions.
This is wild.

8:37AM "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT"

12:18PM "I have authorized a 90 day PAUSE, and a substantially lowered Reciprocal Tariff during this period, of 10%, also effective immediately. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"
Who's made the best progress so far making LLMs in Indian vernaculars?
Do flu shots increase your risk of getting the flu?
Which raises the question of why they need chroot if they have the VM.

Another semi-related but equally odd view: Docker is an operating system and containers are processes.

The difference between Docker and chroot, by the way, is that Docker does a bunch more system calls to ch the root of several other things that are not the filesystem. It also sets up things inside those roots for you by default, so your containers can access the internet, for example.
To be fair, government cheese (from what I understand) was actually created in order to save extra milk the government bought up as part of a price control effort. In other words, there was an abundance of milk (because the government subsidized it, causing more to be produced than the market needed).

Once it was already sitting around, it's been used to address citizens in the country not having enough resources. Which is kind of the same thing your semi-universal basic provisions would address.
I'm saying he thinks 4 steps ahead but not the next step.
Oh, so you think Emacs in 2025 doesn't know what a "completion" is? Just because it started over forty years ago doesn't mean it's stuck in the past, you don't need to "type half a freaking" nothing.

You know, I can too, play this game - in VSCode, the method of inserting an em-dash is different for all three platforms; IntelliJ, and Sublime don't even have the built-in feature like that - you gotta use 'snippets' or something. In contrast, Emacs and Vim knew how to do it probably before you even learned how to type, and the method has been consistent since then - you'd just learn how to do it once, and that knowledge is guaranteed to stay relevant even decades later.
The reality is that it exists and that people take crypto risks. Just like illegal gambling.

There is a reason exchanges were investigated in the first place and it wasn’t for fun.
> Meta says it regularly discloses the fact that it generates advertising revenue from advertisers based in China but says that doesn’t mean that it operates services in China. It says its services are banned in China.

This is phrasing is very weaselly. All foreign companies in China either partner with or are operated by a domestic company like Alibaba or Tencent. Saying "we don't operate our services in China" is like saying water is wet to people who know what that really means. It doesn't in anyway invalidate the claims made against them.
God no. I know I sometimes get verbose, especially when sunk cost fallacy kicks in, and I do use LLMs for researching things, but I'm not yet so desperate to have them formulate my own thoughts for me.

The act of writing a comment on HN forces me to think through the opinions and beliefs in it, which is extremely valuable to me :). Half the time, I realize partway through that I'm wrong, and close the window instead of submitting.
Yes, and we'll see what next week brings sigh. For all any of us know we're going to wake up in the morning and the EU has a 125% tariff too. I'm not even sure Mr orange himself knows what happens in 90 days when these temporary reliefs expire.
I wonder if anyone's studied family connections of colonies vs old regions?

Like for Americans, at some point all of their ancestors significantly detached themselves from their place of origin and relocated. For e.g. Europe some people definitely did that but not all and maybe not even most?

I would expect Americans to have less of a familial social network in general, which could affect health and lifespan.
Is there such a thing as a "non-coder" anymore, now that everyone has access to AI?
What the fishing industry in the UK wanted out of Brexit was pie in the sky though. It's not like the plan was to saw the British isles off the continent and set sail into the Atlantic, so they still had to deal with the fact of fishing in commercially contested waters.

It seemed like their plan was to be able to do more fishing of the kinds of fish that are available around coastal Britain that aren't popular in the UK and sell them to the Europeans. I say plan, I mean "barely thought out idea". Because the reality is that the ships that do that fishing already exist and already have agreements with the processing businesses, which are already in the EU. And fishing is such a tiny part of the UK economy in comparison to some other countries that access was just traded away.
I also find it damn near impossible to focus on the reference. I know it sounds childish, but I just can't do it sometimes. Playing around with code is how I got here.
As far as we know. It could be similar to Dual_EC_DRBG encryption. Some technique unknown to the public could potentially exist in it, and if the NSA is Satoshi, the likelihood goes way up.
Ooh, I was in semiconductor manufacturing too! As a junior ion implant engineer, I was looking into yield problems. Some of the tests were flaky and I traced the issue back to one of the transistors not delivering enough current. Great, we know how to fix that! More arsenic! I proposed a small scale experiment, those wafers tested great, and we started rolling out the process change. Those wafers tested great too.

Until we got word back from packaging post test. Every single die failed for excessive current draw. Several hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of scrap. I was correct, but I wasn’t deeply correct.

What surprises me in retrospect is that everybody signed off on this. It’s not like we didn’t have processes, I just somehow managed to talk a bunch of people who should have known better into doing it anyway.
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At minimum all of these rules should be inflation-adjusted.
Supermarkets in poor areas get reliable cash flow from EBT - it is arguably UBI in action. Its patrons tend to have lower rates of vehicle ownership and free time to seek better priced alternatives.
I built an AI reading assistant for academic papers, and financial reports, etc.
Importers care because unlike VAT or sales tax, it makes them x% more expensive than competitors. Consumers care because tariffs paid are in addition to sales taxes or VAT.
You're suggesting businesses B and C would just absorb the tariff cost by reducing their margin percentage to keep the same dollar profit. However, as Cerium noted earlier, many business costs do tend to scale with the price of goods, making this difficult without impacting profitability.

For financial costs, higher inventory value due to tariffs increases the cost of capital (interest on loans/tied-up funds), insurance premiums, and potentially transaction fees.

For operations costs (handling and labor), increases due to indirect effects: As the price of the average consumer basket increases due to tariffs, the average citizen either demands and receives higher wages or has to reduce spending; this means that the per-item variable cost of processing goes up, either because the wages of those employees increased (higher wages) or because the sales volume decreases (reduced spending).

Of course this does not mean that every business will have exactly this outcome. And absolute size of these effects is also dependent on the actual demand elasticity.
To allow free trade of certain goods which your country needs more.

This is why tariffs are much more flexible, because they allow you to, let's say, trade oil at a cheaper price, while pasta (widely produced in europe) at a higher price.
Yes, and I've always been the "it could never happen to me" person. But now things are volatile and chaotic. That is elevated risk, and you just shouldn't ignore it.
Indeed, the 90 days delay leaked in the morning before being denied and at the end of the day there was the official announcement. So some people new before the official announcement and shared the information.
It's interesting to see it as an answer to the question, how long does it take to turn a well regulated democracy with a powerless head of state into an autocracy.
Given that no one using AI is actually doing the coding themselves, yes. More than ever before.
They shelve by author; we shelve by likelihood the book causes déjà vu.
I wonder if we could tease out differences with rates of psychiatric medication usage.

Good use of anti-depressants -- It's all hopeless there's no point to going on -> Eh, it's not so bad.

Questionable anti-depressant effect -- "Your diabetes is out of control" -> Eh, it's not so bad. Why worry?
It definitely would if they are in place for a long time. The big issue is how discontinuous American leadership is. This forces more drastic moves in a shorter time frame if one wants to shake things up. I'm not advocating for Trump personally to have a longer term, but if an American leader was guaranteed to be in power for say 25 years then they could implement a slower and more strategic set of changes.

It's almost as if removing leadership incentives to plan for the long term of the country (such as by preserving it for their children to govern) might be a bad idea...
If you’re in the uk, I think you’d understand the question.

Charity shops have sprung up all over on high streets, even while businesses around them fall. It’s not hard to imagine that the economics are different and that non-charity shops can’t compete due to lack of special tax treatment.
Roman dictators have always fascinated me. It worked (for a while at least) because both sides agreed it was necessary and temporary. The people who appointed the dictator knew extreme measures were needed to navigate them through some crisis. The dictator knew if they tried to hold on to power longer than was necessary they would simply be removed or killed, their supreme power only extended through the crisis in which they were needed.
I don't know, they went from productive work (someone paying them to do it) to unproductive work.

This is the old Keynesian argument I never bought that you can pay people to dig ditches and fill them back in and it would stimulate the economy.
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> Meanwhile there is another reason why the number of government workers has gone down:

Uh...excluding the very recent cuts this year under Trump; the number of civilians in the US Federal work force has gone up fairly steadily. [0]

We had 23.592 million civilian employees in Jan 2025. 21.779M in Jan 2021, after being largely stagnant overall the previous 10 years. That's a net change in excess of 1.8M employees under Biden.

I do find it interesting that it appears that employee count was flat, or even down under Obama, but until COVID, there was a steady increase under Trump v1.

[0] https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/USGOVT
He first announced tariffs on China over fentanyl something like 2 or 3 days after pardoning the biggest heroin by mail operator in world history (Ross Ulbricht).
I follow all the licenses and yet still keep finding nails on the driveway, because some people are convinced their Dog in the Manger-mentality soundbites are more correct about copyright than the copyright law itself.
It’s very sad you feel that way. It’s ok for you to feel defeated but why go to the trouble of discouraging others?
The actual quote is "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!! DJT", which makes DJT either a signature and a call to buy the market if he can form a valid sentence, or a call to buy NASDAQ:DJT if he can't form a valid sentence. Take your pick. It's market manipulation either way.
> I do think there is a pretty good chance that SCOTUS will rule these tariffs unconstitutional.

Unlikely. SCOTUS is cowed, as shown by the latest batch of rulings (https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/nx-s1-5351799/scotus-probatio...). They want to avoid his ire, and interference.

Possibly, they are saving dry powder for a bigger fight.
I had not had almost any issues with reliability until recently and suddenly I'm getting transient UI and server issues on a daily basis. Not happy with it.

Even worse is I bought a yearly subscription from a deal they offered. However, now that reliability will be going down, I'm feeling a bit scammed!
"With more than 300 student visas revoked, international scholars worry as the government expands reasons for deportation": https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/us/us-immigration-student-vis... (www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/us/us-immigration-student-visas-revoked/index.html)
First rule of security journalism - if the feds call you out by name, it's usually because you're right.
And national animus can change significantly over time. Just look at where US and Vietnam are (or were, prior to tariffs).
That's like saying China's strategy is to get Ecuador and El Salvador to inflict high tariffs on the USA.
The study only compared Americans to Europeans. Of course diet and access to healthcare, even for the wealthy, is part of the issue here.

We have to ask "earlier than who"?

Of course, the majority of Americans are descended from Europeans, but the American diet is significantly worse than most European countries, and the healthcare system is not as accessible. Americans lack the levels of exercise Europeans get, and a host of other factors.

The less wealthy in America die earlier than the wealthy, but being richer in America buys more years, but not more years than one would live if in Europe.
Just make lecture times longer.
If you want to blow your mind in what's possible in operating-system isolation read about KeyKOS from 1985: https://css.csail.mit.edu/6.858/2014/readings/keykos.pdf

Such systems are rarely very pragmatic, but do show off a bunch of weird concepts.
"From the beginning, I’ve believed the executive branch's real goal was to push down the yield on the 10-year Treasury. Why?"

None of leaked conversations or prior discussions indicate anything like this. Peter Navarro has no even slightly nuanced agenda. He's been on record for years about this. I think their position was much more that they'd drive foreign tariffs down and would be able to make other demands against other countries, and they underestimated the tolerance even their base would have.
Got it! However, as a large language model I am unable to feel emotions about AI or other topics.
Maybe, but piss on that, who needs good grades? Youll learn a hell of a lot better
With their prices do they need to make a discount?
I will have to look into this. I am currently in the process of going on disability as I cannot work due to (amongst other things) carpal and cubical tunnel in both arms.
What are? Let me make a cynical guess:

1. Reducing costs by hiring fewer people.

2. Increasing profits by decreasing care.

Did I nail it or what?
Yeah unfortunately the world doesn't care about what we "want" only what it can make us do.
Thank you, it's amazing how people don't even try to understand what words mean before dismissing it. Flipped makes way more sense anyway since lectures aren't terribly interactive. Being able to pause/replay/skip around in lectures is underrated.
I am shocked because this was not always the reality.

I have qualified my statement with "modern".
While this advice is good, the article is discussing HSV (herpes simplex virus), not HPV (human papilloma virus), which have quite different symptoms and epidemiology. There are, as yet, no approved HSV vaccines.
Bessent et al’s plan isn’t even internally coherent.

Yeah, Americans are going to go back to working in factories. But not for low wages, because errr ummm actually it’ll be robots doing the work! So where will Americans be working? Errr ummm well… in the factories! (??)
A kid/younger audience version of this would be great!
125% tariff rate on your biggest importer isn't something I'd say is "nothing to sneeze at" personally. Particularly when the expert economist used to justify it is made up.
Yes, but I don't think we've ever had a president pop a market bubble at a date & time of his choosing. Funny for the party of "don't let the government choose winners & losers" and all that.
Yes, as practiced, as well as in principle, sociology is less scientific than physics.

Some systems- human social behavior being one of them- are simply not amenable to modern science because the systems have far too many uncontrolled variables, and the ability to create hypotheses which can't be falsified (because running the experiments would be impossible, unethical, or ambiguous) is far larger.
> I don't offload my brain to Kagi, because I don't prompt it until it gives me something I like.

Similarly, I don't offload my brain to LLMs.

> I do the hard work of synthesizing and understanding the answer. Not reading some slop and accepting it at face value.

Again, it's not necessary to accept LLM output at face value.

Use tools, think for yourself, sure. This applies to various tools: Kagi, LLMs, and others. None of these give you "accuracy guarantees". You usually have to think for yourself.

My favourite example of a situation where you don't have to think for yourself is asking an LLM to implement a function in a very strongly typed language. There only is one implementation of `a -> a`. For `(a -> b) -> List a -> List b`, you could return an empty list instead of performing map. There aren't that many implementations of `(a -> b -> b) -> b -> List a -> b` (three as far as I can see: left/right fold and a function which just returns the accumulator). It's easier to verify the LLM solution than to implement it yourself!
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> PSA, everyone should be getting the HPV vaccine, regardless of age and gender.

This is false, please don't take medical advice from an HN post. CDC guidelines do include quite a bit of discussion of patient age. [1]

1. https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/hpv/hcp/recommendations.htm...
Politics isn't about good long-term planning - it's about accountability sinks.

This decade: "We're not the ones trying to steal your fishing jobs!"

Next decade: "It's not our fault there aren't fish!"
I admit, this comment did a lot better at Buzzword Bingo compared to my attempt in ChatGPT: ("Give me a two sentence marketing pitch for Firebase Studio")

"Firebase Studio is a powerful visual development platform that lets you build, customize, and deploy full-featured apps with the speed of low-code and the flexibility of Firebase. Whether you're prototyping or scaling to millions of users, Firebase Studio streamlines your workflow with real-time data, seamless backend integration, and built-in hosting."
Original sounds like one of the speakers wired in reverse inverting phase.
I see, that's extremely interesting. As mentioned earlier, I do respect efforts to push on something new, especially if it's against conventional wisdom and would be interested in poking around with an open mind. I'll join the Discord.
Thank you!
With the whiplash of tariffs, upping tariffs, pausing tariffs, I don't know how companies can do any planning.

A lot of earnings are coming out next couple of weeks. Take Apple for example, how would they forecast Q2 numbers? They have 125% tariffs on all imports from China. Maybe it'll go up more as China increases their own. Or maybe it gets paused. I feel for the FP&A team there.