skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which is why things that bring back manufacturing to the US is something we were doing. It's just unfortunate that instead of continuing that, the current administration is trying undermine the effective efforts of the previous administration's actions that helped bring manufacturing back into the US.
Not OP,

AI may or may not, this is to be seen, but LLMs of today certainly won't.
Temu and Shein sell cheap crap.

Dollar stores sell cheap crap and destroy communities.

So no, I don't feel quite the same about them.
I agree with the author… We need to stop pathologizing behavior that is developmentally natural. We over-medicate kids, full stop.

The ADHD self-diagnosis trend amongst adults also needs to stop. People are now ascribing any minor challenge in life to ADHD. Everyone procrastinates. Everyone forgets people’s names. Everyone has trouble focusing sometimes. It’s not ADHD, that’s called life.

My worry is that by giving it a label, it lets people give in to negative behavior because “that’s just the way I am,” or “I’m neurodivergent.” But even people with severe emotional and behavioral challenges can navigate life. It’s not an excuse to be inconsiderate.
I think this says less about supernovas and a lot more about how staggeringly, incomprehensibly vast the observable universe it.
See my other comment. The answer is transfer learning: leveraging massive amounts of data in one language like Python, a few bridges to another language like Ruby, and obtain a “native” result in the other language.

But in this case the LLM is not exposed to explicit translation pairs between these two languages and rather by seeing enough examples in similar contexts, LLMs transfer some of their learnings in Python to Ruby (for better or worse results)
At its root I think this is driven by anxiety over how America would perform in a hot war, rose colored glasses culturally regarding the post WW2 era, and acknowledging that there's no real economic growth opportunity in America for unskilled labor, it's merely a way to tread water now.
You seem to be deliberately misunderstanding me, so I don't know what to tell you. Again, I tried to help explain it to you, but you are refusing to acknowledge that people really do store events as future datetimes attached to a timezone, not just as local times, and I don't know why you continue to insist otherwise.

Good luck.
What in the linkedin spam
Molson has a Chinese spouse, directly benefitted from Chinese manufacturing for a long time, and often spouts direct propaganda from his X account so while he's likely to be right about a lot of things he had/has a strong incentive to not imagine alternatives to the status quo.
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The answer is 42! Fedora Linux 42, that is.
Capitalism as such went out the window with tariffs.
You don't think American companies raising hundreds of millions to ten billion for training models contributed to their model performance or market positions?

I think a pile of money and talent is largely the cause of where they're at.
>meaning it cuts a big chunk of the potential buyers of the cheap crap.

No. Really not much at all.

The US cut 330 million or so people out of a market of billions setting it up so the rest of the world starts getting a competitive advantage over the US.

>it also means that reputable brands now start to cut corners in order to compete with cheap no name crap.

LOLOLOL. You do not think like a capitalist. They didn't go "oh no I have to cut corners". They saw they could cut corners on costs decades ago. China has been building your name brand products for as long half the people on HN have been alive. If you look at Tiktok now, they are out right showing the factories building products you are paying hundreds/thousands for in the US for 20-50 dollars.

The US screwed itself with huge consolidations and rent seeking behaviors. We are paying huge amounts for products and not getting the value we deserve.
Compared to plain wires with your intended voltage and your choice of any 2-pin connector, USB-C is not so basic. SMD resistors imply you have a PCB or something to put them on. Which means that your power connector is no longer just a couple pieces of stamped metal and some plastic. It's also a tiny connector with close together pins. For everything else since the introduction of electric lighting, you can just solder two wires on the back and call it a day.

Not that I'm making excuses here - there's some weird stuff going on inside that lamp. There's a PCB for the battery charger, but the USB-C socket isn't on it, it's on a wire pigtail that connects to the board with another connector. And I don't usually see so many removable connectors inside something made so cheaply. They clearly could have done it correctly in this case, but didn't.
That's what we did, and it moved everything to China.
Thanks, I've just took a glance. It's a nice feature
No kidding!

Beyond the obvious skilled labor there’s supply chain network, maintenance, townships and supporting system around them.

And all of this needs human labor which is taken from somewhere else. How do you incentivize them? Just throwing money at the problem won’t solve it either. Because more often than not it’ll attract charlatans who will promise the sky, take the money and move away.
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It's incredibly easy to just not use those websites. My throat remains surprisingly clear with no effort.
If a dishonest person tells you he's dishonest, doesn't that mean he's actually honest?
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Research proposals hypothesizing either "reverse discrimination" (i.e., against White males) or conventional discrimination (i.e., against ethnic minorities) were submitted to 150 Internal Review Boards. Everything else about the proposals was held constant. The "reverse discrimination" proposals were approved less often than the conventional discrimination proposals. [1,2]

Diversity Statements Required for One-Fifth of Academic Jobs [3]

Berkeley Weeded Out Job Applicants Who Didn't Propose Specific Plans To Advance Diversity [4]

Researchers Axed Data Point Undermining ‘Narrative’ That White Doctors Are Biased Against Black Babies [5,6]

[1] https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioral-and-brain...

[2] https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1986-12806-001

[3] https://www.schoolinfosystem.org/2021/11/11/study-diversity-...

[4] https://reason.com/2020/02/03/university-of-california-diver...

[5] https://dailycaller.com/2025/03/31/exclusive-researchers-axe...

[6] https://www.economist.com/united-states/2024/10/27/the-data-...
I guess its a sarcastic statement about EuroEval covering a fraction of the European languages, yet containing Faroese.

It was called ScandEval until recently.
Typical coastalist ivory tower thinking. No wonder we're in a pickle...
There's a lot more to our education than that. Additionally, our REAL competitive advantage are our universities. We have the best universities in the world, by far, and that's what drives our economy over all others as we create the most valuable intellectual property.
Poetic, or maybe Lovecraftian. A lot of "cosmic horror" has the trope of vastnesses too big to comprehend, where even trying to think about it (or in some cases merely learning of the possibility) causes you to go mad.
Yet, 40% of our students can't read at a basic level.
I'm sure that the capitalists would disagree in this instance.
As a non-native English speaker: why is there a comma in the title?
I have a friend who went to an allergist last week for sinus issues. They did a CT scan within 5 minutes of coming into the office.
How are markets going to figure anything out with tariffs changing every day, depending on the mood of dear leader?
America's tariff move under Trump is a symptom of mass psychosis. But I think China's response is a huge gamble that the psychosis can be broken with careful application of pain - before that pain hurts China even more.

There is some hope that they'll revolt against Trump if things get bad enough, the way there's some hope for democracy in China, I suppose. But at the same time, I don't know that China's aggressive response is going to politically move things in that direction, because it's so easy for the nationalists to rally around the flag - regardless of the economic pain they're experiencing. China itself knows this and leverages it with its own nationalists. And this response is going to cost China dearly.
And do not forget NIMBY :)

Where I live it is close to impossible to even get a Dog House approved and built.
I haven't really found the skills rewarded in school to be very useful in my adult life. Schools are an extremely poor approximation of white collar desk work. In my estimation, the only thing schools are really good at training you for is academic ladder climbing
One of the big takeaways for me is that traditional K12 education doesn’t work for a significant chunk of the US population. We have a pedagogical problem with a pharmaceutical solution.
No, purely free markets (which weren't free to start off with) went out the window.
The "almost certainly" that you brush off is the entire point of the calculation. Is it 95% certain or 99.5% certain? The exact balance between benefit and risk in medical procedures is exactly how it is determined when to use them in the standard of care.
I think its more complicated than this. People don't want to work in factories per se, but what a world where labor has actual power. The big thing that offshoring did was strip the power of local labor to enforce certain reasonable conditions on employers and this allowed normal people to live stable, even comfortable lives.

Offshoring has produced a world where we can buy cheap trinkets but where many, many, americans live precariously, have little to no stability, and work more than one job to make ends meet. What Americans really want is more control over their lives and "bringing back manufacturing" is a sort of short-hand for that ideal.

I think bringing back some manufacturing may help, but in the end Americans need to learn that what they really want is more power to shape their lives and that they will need to wrest that power back from a system which has leaned ever more towards market control of the allocation of time, energy, and labor.
I went to the doctor complaining of constipation. He sent me for a CT scan which showed that I was literally full of shit. The prescription was for a large dose of MiraLax. Now I wonder if the risk of the CT scan was really justified given that plenty of people already tell me that for free and without radiation.
Clicking anywhere else discards it.

I have removed the popup anyway, seems like most people don't like it.
What about Tolkien, Lewis, Chesterton, Dorothy Sayer, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, or Josef Pieper?

These were in fact some of the intellectual greats of the 20th century. Like many today, they wouldn't necessarily closely identify with "the right" as much as they'd disagree with and argue against the current ideology of the left.
So if I wanted to mess with someone I can just send them tons of cheap crap from Temu and they'll be forced to pay tariffs for items they never asked for?
As they should. It’s not difficult to use questionable math to justify very awful things.
Where are those AI experts on this one? Why isn't AI commanding our manufacturing boom? Isn't manufacturing all just software and logistics?
The problem with an exclusively intellectual economy is that it easily loses touch with reality entirely. You end up with generations of people who have no idea how anything works or how to actually make anything or do things in the real world.

Why does it cost us 10X more to build half as much? It's not all wage differences. It's that we don't have a large talent pool of builders. When you make things -- physical things in the real world -- you learn things about the nature of reality that cannot be learned from books or computers.
Why doesn't AI do what the rest of us do and cite the sources linked to by Wikipedia rather than the pedia itself? ;)
it's the whole point of the tariffs. China does an end run around all of our laws, consumer safety, human rights, workers conditions, intellectual property, all that, and in doing so they cut costs and beat domestic companies at the market. Tariffs are a tax we charge to represent those things they have immorally refused to do while participating in our market.

A country can't effectively have things like a minimum wage while allowing completely free trade with countries that use slave labor and don't share your values, because they can beat you on price by using human suffering as a competitive advantage, and put you entirely out of business.
This looks like a cool solve for this problem. Some of the other tools I tried didn't seem to contextualize the app, so the comments were surface level and trite.

I'm on Bitbucket so will have to wait :)
That's a problem for the markets to suss out.
If it's any consolation, a sinus CT is tuned to have a very low radiation dose compared to typical body CT scans.
Jonathan Blow's "Preventing the collapse of civilization" [1] makes a similar point. It is easy to assume that, if we can build EUV machines and space telescopes, then processing stainless steel and manufacturing PCBs is baby stuff, and is just waiting for the proper incentives to spring up again. Unfortunately that is not the case -- reality has a surprising amount of detail [2] and even medium-level technology takes know-how and skilled workers to execute properly. Both can be recovered and scaled back up if the will is there. And time -- ten or twenty years of persistent and intelligent effort should be plenty to MAGA :)

1. https://www.youtube.com/embed/pW-SOdj4Kkk

2. http://johnsalvatier.org/blog/2017/reality-has-a-surprising-...
A true accounting of board level corporate motivations is not available. The standard line is typically something like “we are acquiring our smaller rival to more effectively compete with our larger rival”. I.e “we are acquiring a small desktop publishing start up to compete with the largest cloud computing provider”. Or in this case: “we are acquiring a small photo sharing company to compete against Google/Youtube”.
It might have been better reputation-wise than the current game of chicken, but tariffs will always sour economic partnerships, which in turn leads to bolstering alternative economic partnerships...
Last reply, because you are very obviously trolling and commenting in bad faith.

>the US government had every right to deport him,

No.

These are all from that article. Special attention to "his removal was illegal".

>Abrego Garcia, who has no criminal record in the United States or anywhere else

>the government has conceded that it wrongfully removed Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia from the United States

>his removal was illegal because an immigration judge had granted him “withholding of removal”

>Jones’s 2019 ruling, barring Abrego Garcia’s removal

The Supreme Court has even stepped in, which I'm sure you're aware despite pretending not to be:

>On April 7, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a per curiam order, with no recorded dissents, requiring the government to “facilitate [Abrego Garcia’s] return”

And, despite any and all of that! There was no due process. Which, "illegal" or "legal", everyone is supposed to get a due process. If you remove due process for the people you don't like, someone else just needs to claim you're in that group and now you don't get due process! It's like Step 1 of authoritarianism.

Which, since you've not posted anything proving your innocence despite other commenters asking for it, perhaps we should remove your rights to due process.
Mein Kampf IS a rant.

I recommend people read it so you can understand how people like that think. This is also a valid reason for reading Lolita (although at least Lolita is well written).
> China generates over twice as much electricity per person today as the United States. Why?

This appears to be completely wrong? All the stats I can find say that the US has about 4x the per capita electricity generation of China.

Other than that it seems to be mostly good points, especially the overall one: you cannot do this overnight.

> If you’re building a new factory in the United States, your investment will alternate between maybe it will work, and catastrophic loss according to which way the tariffs and the wind blows. No one is building factories right now, and no one is renting them, because there is no certainty that any of these tariffs will last

Policy by amphetamine-driven tweeting is a disaster.

> 12. Enforcement of the tariffs will be uneven and manipulated

Yup. The 145% level seems designed to create smuggling, and the wild variations between countries to create re-labelling. It's chicken tax trucks all over again.

> This is probably the worst economic policy I’ve ever seen

Per Simpsons: this is the worst economic policy you've seen so far. The budget is yet to come.

> If American companies want to sell in China, they must incorporate there, register capital, and name a person to be a legal representative. To sell in Europe, we must register for their tax system and nominate a legal representative. For Europeans and Chinese to sell in the United States, none of this is needed, nor do federal taxes need to be paid.

This is .. not a bad idea, really. It would probably be annoying for small EU and UK exporters but less so than 10% tariffs and even less so than random day of the week tariffs. Maybe one day it could harmonise with the EU VAT system or something.

(also I think the author is imagining that sub-par workers, crime, and drugs don't exist in China, when they almost certainly do, but somewhere out of sight. Possibly due to the internal migration control of hukou combined with media control?)
Not if they might become a competitor, or thrive (proving that the sale was a good idea). Better to keep them weak and likely to fail.
yea its difficult lets not do it
There are likely some languages that are genuinely easier or more difficult for LLMs.

For example consider Pascal or C89 requiring all variables to be declared at the start of the function body. That makes it much harder to generate code in a linear fashion. In Python you can just make up a variable the moment you decide you need it. In Pascal or C89 you would have to go back and change previous code, which LLMs can't easily do.

Similar things likely apply to strict typing. Typing makes it easier to reason about existing code, but it makes it harder to write new code if you don't have the ability to go back and change your mind on a type choice.

Both could be solved if we selected tokens in a beam search, searching for the path with the highest combined token probability instead of greedily selecting one token at a time. But that's much more expensive and I'm not sure anyone still does that with large-scale LLMs.
I am bugged more by local environmental impacts.

Around the time that manufacturing started moving to China en masse in the 1990s I started to hear about trichloroethylene contamination at manufacturing sites in the U.S. Look up "trichloroethylene united states" in Google and you'll probably get results about how our marines were exposed at Camp Jejune and are now eligible for V.A. benefits. A search for "trichloroethylene china" might turn up a picture of a truck full of barrels from a company that wants to send you those barrels.
AI cannot replace people for anything but shitting out large volumes of boilerplate code. It's really irritating that the grifters are so loud that actual smart people are believing them.

If you do, please take a cutting-edge model and ask it to write code for a slightly obscure use case. Unless your thing has been done to death, the model will fumble hard.

We have a word for programs that turn high level instructions into machine code: compilers. They don't lead to fewer software engineers, they lead to more, and a compiler that uses natural language and behaves unpredictably will not change that.
Still Too Big to Fail?
Exactly!

The regulatory apparatus has to be rewired.

And then what happens when a new administration comes along 4-8 years down the line and decides to abandon some of those initiatives?
This pretty much mirrors what a friend of mine said (he is a recently-retired Co-CEO of a medium-sized manufacturing business).

He's been telling me this, for years. It's not a secret. The information has been out there, for ages. I'm surprised that the administration didn't understand this.
Missing reason #15: commercial lenders with a brain realize that these tariffs and this self-imposed domestic crisis will dissipate in the next ~6 years. Nobody's going to lend in this market to try to spin up a new greenfield project in the US that will take years to get operational when they can sit and ride it out - ESPECIALLY at these interest rates.
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this is what i've been saying - critical manufacturing should of course be brought on shore but I don't understand the idea of bringing back "the assembly of hyper niche part that country Y can produce extremely cheaply but America can't even reasonably produce in quality" to American shores.

It literally harms industry because anyone relying on that hyper niche part now has to pay more (because American mfg, let's face it - is not efficient) and deal with subpar quality as opposed to higher quality foreign parts.

I hate it say it, but come on man - people aren't buying American cars globally because the Japanese and even Germans can do it better. That's free market economics, either get better at making cars or focus on making things that we can do better like iPhones and Macbooks - not try to artificially defend an industry we suck at by forcing people to deal with shittier subpar products.

Maybe I'm being unreasonable, I don't know.
My problem with large-scale market regulation is that it also increases the price of inputs for companies who would otherwise be interested in building a factory in the US. Do you have a solution for that?