MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by hollerith | 2025-04-03 19:33:25+00:00
>the alternative to "liberal hegemony" in places like Iraq, Libya, Ukraine and Syria is nuclear proliferation

The West persuaded Qaddafi to give up his nukes, then a few years went by, then the West helped Libyan rebels overthrow Qaddafi, resulting in his violent death. Since the world was watching, good luck now trying to persuade any other leader to give up his nukes in the future.

I'm not objecting to the West's having persuaded Qaddafi to give up his nukes; I'm objecting to the West's putting him in mortal peril after he cooperated to give up his nukes. (Much of the help given to the rebels consisted of Western bombers attacking Libyan governmental installations. If Libya still had nukes, the West would not have dared to use their bombers in that way.)

So, explain to me again how the agenda and approach I am criticizing (which has been called "liberal hegemony") helps control nuclear proliferation.

Also: I always thought that any attempt to obtain a nuke by the leadership of Iraq ended before the US took over that country.
by watwut | 2025-04-03 19:33:28+00:00
I did not said they are perfect and prescient and saint. They are not like Trump.

Trump who openly admires Putin. His latest moves were literally trying to steal from Ukraine with nothing in return. Who even declared America free from Russian meddling.

They are just not like the guy who tried to extort the Ukraine to hurt his political ennemies, they are not openly praising Putin, they are not giving concessions to Putin ... while lying on TV in front of Ukrainian president ... and then having complete meltdown when he factually corrects you

Like common ... Merkel and Trump are here completely uncomparable.
by gradschool | 2025-04-03 19:33:30+00:00
I grabbed an ASUS E210 about a year ago and it's doing great with Linux on it. It's fanless, with an 11.6" display, 4G of ram, a 1.1 Ghz celeron, and 64G of storage. You can get one dirt cheap as an ex display model. I don't know if it's still up, but there was a surprisingly good repair manual for it on the ASUS web site, showing in detail how to install an m.2 storage device, so I souped it up with an additional 8TB of storage, which I'm using for jellyfin, immich, calibre, and paperless-ngx. It will just about manage to run a virtualbox vm if you need to do any windows stuff.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-03 19:35:32+00:00
Art Appreciation is such a mystical skill! I would have never even remotely thought of OP's take upon reading a description of this art piece. I'm just not wired to come up with takeaways like that. When I hear about "weird" art project, my mind usually just thinks "Well, I guess that's just how this guy wanks" and I just don't seem to have the brain to divine the kind of stuff that OP wrote about!
by jruohonen | 2025-04-03 19:35:54+00:00
> Those checks are a serious contender for worse thing ever happened to the web.

I couldn't agree more. And not only Cloudflare but also Google is increasingly imposing extremely heavy CAPTCHAs, which destroy experiences for many users. They should really think more about false positives too. (And the irony of course is that Google is the biggest scraper in itself.) Thus, please come up with something else than CAPTCHAs or heavy JavaScripts blobs in general.
by pesus | 2025-04-03 19:36:04+00:00
They are absolutely buying goods that are manufactured in countries subject to these tariffs. They have to buy clothes and all sorts of everyday items, and since they can't afford to buy things manufactured in the US (when that's even an option), it's very likely they buy things that are made in China/etc at a higher rate that wealthier people. Even going back to your examples, flour will be going up in price, as well as gas and car parts.

Your comment insinuates that people complaining about tariffs are disconnected from those living in poverty, but thinking that those living in poverty won't be affected by prices going up around the board is a much bigger disconnect.
by StackRanker3000 | 2025-04-03 19:36:06+00:00
> But at its core: "less trade, less global & more local" is a key pillar of virtually every Green Parties over here; it's so weird to me to see Trump (!!!) actually do something that looks like it aligns with those goals.

But it’s not for the same reasons. Also, the Green parties explicitly want to reduce everyone’s consumption. Do you think American Trump supporters have intentionally voted for being able to afford less stuff, have less variety at the grocery store, etc?
by CamperBob2 | 2025-04-03 19:36:10+00:00
And? What's the model supposed to do? It's just doing what many human artists would do, if they're not explicitly being paid to create new IP.

If infringement is happening, it arguably doesn't happen when an infringing work product is generated (or regurgitated, or whatever you want to call it.) Much less when the model is trained. It's when the output is used commercially -- by a human -- that the liability should rightfully attach.

And it should attach to the human, not the tool.
by joshdickson | 2025-04-03 19:36:14+00:00
The licensing terms are identical to similar projects including OpenFoodFacts (which also has an app) and OpenStreetMap, see:

https://wiki.openfoodfacts.org/ODBL_License

You may disagree with each of those projects as well, but, I am following long-standing licensing in this space. I also have used some OFF data for product naming, and as a result, their terms state I have to maintain their license.

Creating these databases involves a tremendous amount of time and effort, and it would not make sense for me to make this data available to commercial entities to use without attribution. The alternative is not a MIT-licensed dataset, it is no dataset.
by phtrivier | 2025-04-03 19:36:15+00:00
Other popular options are very publicly taking your card of the Party, writing odes and poems to the Great Leader, and give your firstborn daughter's virginity as a token of vassality.

The problem is not so much that people don't like doing such things - they get by - it's that, at some point, enough people will start getting more favours than you do, and you'll start feeling the need to stage a coup, which is a lot of work.

I wonder how it will work out in a world where tiktok is always there as a much less exhausting form of entertainment than revolutions.
by daveguy | 2025-04-03 19:36:24+00:00
I don't think quotes are the appropriate modifier to adjust for the damage from draconian and short-sighted immigration policy. Past tense use of the verb is probably more appropriate since countries are issuing do-not-travel warnings against the US (for the first time ever?). This administration is arrogant fools all the way down. I hope the messages sent by the electorate in 2026 and 2028 are loud enough and the brain drain is still reversible.
by olyjohn | 2025-04-03 19:37:11+00:00
Yeah and when it does break down, the parts are going to cost more to fix it.

And what are they gonna do when their car breaks down catastrophically? Buy a used car? The prices of those will skyrocket once the price of new cars goes up.

Then really desperate people will steal cars as the value of them, and used parts start to skyrocket.

It doesn't even take half a brain cell to see how this works.
by miramba | 2025-04-03 19:37:37+00:00
Just a workaround, but someone made a helping pop-up: https://github.com/ryxxn/pwa-install-prompt

Last time I checked, push messages did not work when the web app was not running, has that changed? Because I think that is the most interesting feature for users: To notify about important things while not using the app. It has also always been abused by app creators with useless stuff to drive engagement etc. I think I never allowed a single webpage to send me notifications - if for example I want to know about the latest news about plant pottery, I will probably just visit that website again...no need to notify me.
by afavour | 2025-04-03 19:37:42+00:00
> It's pretty clear they (and Google, to a lesser extent) don't want web apps to be on the same level as native apps.

Ironically the reality here is backwards: for a very long time iOS apps could _only_ send declarative push alerts. Only since iOS 10 were you able to use a UNNotificationServiceExtension to customize the content on-device. That extension has very strict resource and CPU limits and is terminated if it violates them. Even when you do have this extension you still need to send a declarative payload in case the on-client code fails, exactly the same as Declarative Web Push requires.

> And running _any_ amount of code "expends energy", so it seems silly to even imply that is a problem.

There's a big difference between running some native code and spinning up an entire JS virtual machine and worker environment to (effectively) modify some JSON. In fact, worker boot up speed is a recognized problem to the extent that there's an entire API to handle situations where a network response would load quicker than a Service Worker might:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigationP...

Years ago I actually tried spinning up a JSContext in a notification extension out of curiosity and the extension was immediately killed for exceeding resource limits. May well not be the case today but the logic still makes sense to me.

Apple is no saint and has done plenty of negative things for web apps. But in this specific instance they're making the right call, IMO: requiring backup notification content for when client-side code fails is sensible.
by jfengel | 2025-04-03 19:37:54+00:00
Even taking that for granted, we need to understand why America voted for a Kremlin agent, and largely continues to support this behavior. (If you reran the 2024 election today, I don't think the results would be radically different.)

Surely, the Kremlin plays some role there, with their troll farms. But it has been going in this direction even before the Internet, and the trolls are really just nudging things along in the direction they were already going.

That is something that historians will one day probe very deeply... assuming that there are any.
by themacguffinman | 2025-04-03 19:37:57+00:00
Trump may be a bad leader but he'd still be just one type of bad leader. I'm not trying to fully relativize Trump either, they're not all equally bad.

I agree with Slavoj Zizek's take on Trump's appeal and why a lot of criticism of him seems to either have no effect or increases his fan appeal: As a general rule, people relate to others by identifying with their weaknesses, not only or not even primarily with their strengths. You aren't susceptible to his appeal because you're of a different class or background which has different sets of strengths/weaknesses which make it hard for you to relate to Trump.

The weaknesses Trump has - his stubborn ignorance, his impulsiveness, his might-makes-right mentality and disdain for rules, his vindictiveness - are deeply shared with his fans. They will forgive his sins because it is their sins too. For example when Trump is attacked for an impulsive comment, they relate to the risk that they could also be cancelled for some comment that is seen as racist or sexist or something. His policy framework is made of the kind of simple ideas you'll find in a pub, I once heard Trump described as "the average guy from Queens" and it made a lot of sense to me. "Nobody knew healthcare was so complicated", "We're going to build a wall".

I belong more to a white collar, professional class. I probably have a blindspot on the weaknesses and sins more endemic to my group, ones that I share with the figures I find appealing. If I had to guess I'd say it's something like an ideological/theoretical zeal, bureaucratic dysfunction, and an exclusionary judginess. When a politician unveils some theoretically elegant project and it largely fails and runs over budget and gets mired in bureaucratic hell, I'm maybe too quick to forgive that as it's a relatable sin.
by klank | 2025-04-03 19:38:08+00:00
> The crucial question is what is "politics"? Are personalities politics? No. Are parties? No. Are inflammatory issues about race, sex or gender or political correctness or immigration? No!

I don't personally agree with how quick you are able to write those things off as not being political. Would you mind providing a bit more explanation of how you are able to arrive at such confident No's?

Perhaps you consider political to be an intrinsic quality of a thing rather than a descriptor of how a thing is used/intended? I fall into the latter camp, and thus am very open to consider almost anything and everything political. Much like art.
by cosmic_cheese | 2025-04-03 19:38:15+00:00
The big difference, as always with web apps, is intent and consent.

Installing an app is a strong signal that the user actually wants/needs it. The level of consent is much higher right out of the gate. With web apps on the other hand, the user can be swept away by a redirect, accidental tap, maliciously captured tap (think a transparent element covering the whole page), etc. There’s a much higher chance that users never intended to end up where they’re at and don’t actually want anything from the app.

Following this train of thought, it stands to reason to have a looser policy with apps. If there’s a way to install web apps with the same level of consent (PWA listings in an App Store for example), standards could be loosened when users come through that route, but for navigating to any random web address things should be more tight.
by kemayo | 2025-04-03 19:38:38+00:00
Apple's approach of only allowing sites that you've pulled out onto your home screen to request them is actually not bad for balancing this. It means I'm not being constantly nagged while browsing normally, but when I decide I want to treat something "like an app" it gets access to richer features.

(I very rarely do this. I think the only thing I have pulled out like that currently is Puzzmo, which doesn't even do notifications.)
by phtrivier | 2025-04-03 19:38:51+00:00
Side concern: how impactful must the tarrifs be to make a noticable dent in global trend, and a noticable dent on climate change ?

(I mean, it would not be noticed by the USA anymore, since they're not into that whole "science" stuff, but I heard that Europeans have learned how to make a couple satellites on the side.)
by SteveNuts | 2025-04-03 19:39:02+00:00
I mean, I watched and participated in the US Election last year, it was extremely clear to me that Republicans focused on economy, and Democrats focused on social issues.

The Republicans won, which is an indictment on the Democrats messaging in my opinion.

I'm not even talking about the merits of which party has better ideas, or if people are voting against their own best interests. But I think the party that said they'd do "something" to make the economy better is the one that won.

Why Democrats don't hammer on retraining and education so that more people can participate in the services and information economy confuses me greatly. Manufacturing isn't coming back, at least not immediately.
by xg15 | 2025-04-03 19:39:08+00:00
Yes, but all that internal state only survives until the end of the computation chain that predicts the next token - it doesn't survive across the entire sequence as it would in a recurrent network.

There is literally no difference between a model predicting the tokens "<thought> I think the second choice looks best </thought>" and a user putting those tokens into the prompt: The input for the next round would be exactly the same.

So the tokens kind of act like a bottleneck (or more precisely the sampling of exactly one next token at the end of each prediction round does). During prediction of one token, the model can go crazy with hidden state, but not across several tokens. That forces the model to do "long form" reasoning through the tokens and not through hidden state.
by freehorse | 2025-04-03 19:39:40+00:00
It is nonsense to take whatever an LLM writes in its CoT too seriously. I try to classify some messy data, writing "if X edge case appears, then do Y instead of Z". The model in its CoT took notice of X, wrote it should do Y and... it would not do it in the actual output.

The only way to make actual use of LLMs imo is to treat them as what they are, a model that generates text based on some statistical regularities, without any kind of actual understanding or concepts behind that. If that is understood well, one can know how to setup things in order to optimise for desired output (or "alignment"). The way "alignment research" presents models as if they are actually thinking or have intentions of their own (hence the choice of the word "alignment" for this) makes no sense.
by cj | 2025-04-03 19:40:08+00:00
> "If p then q" does not imply "If q then p."

My original comment is challenging whether "p then q" is valid in the first place by asking if the inverse would be true as a thought experiment. (Neither is true IMO)

Just because someone has certain values doesn't mean they vote a certain way.

Just because they vote a certain way doesn't mean they have certain values.

"p" (who you voted for) and "q" (your values) are largely independent for a large percentage of voters.
by zkid18 | 2025-04-03 19:40:12+00:00
I think the assumption that political parties represent two completely distinct sets of values is overly simplistic. In reality, there's a significant amount of overlap between them—what often differs is the style of messaging and the framing of ideas.

Personally, I find it hard to fully identify with either the left or the right. I share beliefs and values from both sides, depending on the issue. This makes it difficult to adopt a clear-cut political label, and I think that's true for many people.

Politics today often feels more like a battle of narratives than a clash of core principles / values.

p.s. my perspective is non-US one.
by genewitch | 2025-04-03 19:41:54+00:00
> Access to gender affirming care for trans minors is banned in more than half of US states. The very same medicines are allowed to be given to cis minors.

The Cass report conclusions and recommendations should be listened to, it was a way better and more thorough study than the Netherlands study that begat all of the "gender clinics" in the US and elsewhere. https://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/20250310143...

> In 13 US states bathroom bills prevent trans people from comfortably existing outside of their homes for more than a few hours at a time.

As far as bathrooms, i feel uncomfortable in public restrooms. I don't know what the rate of people that feel uncomfortable in public restrooms, but those of us that do find family or single occupant restrooms, and know what places have those. No one wants to piss in a literal trough, i could be wrong.

I don't consider sodomy a basic human right, but i could be argued with, i guess.

I don't see what "bomb threats" have to do with human rights, in this context. Is there a human right to have products available at Target? If everyone boycotted Target (like they did with Bud Light), is that a violation of human rights, too?

I am unsure why people keep deleting their replies. It is possible to have a reasoned discussion about inflammatory topics.
by pixl97 | 2025-04-03 19:42:19+00:00
>Because whats inside our minds is more than mathematics,

uh oh, this sounds like magical thinking.

What exactly in our mind is "more" than mathematics exactly.

>or we would be able to explain human behavior with the purity of mathematics

Right, because we understood quantum physics right out of the gate and haven't required a century of desperate study to eek more knowledge from the subject.

Unfortunately it sounds like you are saying "Anything I don't understand is magic", instead of the more rational "I don't understand it, but it seems to be built on repeatable physical systems that are complicated but eventually deciperable"
by stephenbez | 2025-04-03 19:42:21+00:00
That's a really interesting metaphor. I worked with Dan years ago.

It seems like the talk was at CraftCon 15 and called "Beyond Features: rethinking agile software delivery with Dan North".

I couldn't find it, but I found a similar talk he gave at a meetup that discussed surgery: https://youtu.be/EoJFWdhv8q0?feature=shared&t=1564 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz5HBtDl-1A
by garfield_light | 2025-04-03 19:42:24+00:00
> It also has a separate country abbreviation (RE). You know, like you'd see on an address. The thing that tells you where something, like a good imported in to the United States, is coming from.

Yes, obviously, it's ISO 3166-1 but that's a batshit way of assigning tariffs. To the point I suspect it's a LLM.

Norfolk Island? The island with 3000 people, which in the context of international trade is a speck at the side of Australia. Or the uninhabited Heard Island and McDonald Islands with zero trade?

If Reunion and Norfolk Island are to be considered separately from their mainlands, where are the tariffs for Easter Island (Chile)? It has more people than Norfolk and probably more trade, it's 3700ish km from the administrative region it belongs, so it geographically distinct like Reunion.

Anyone (with a pulse) tasked with calculating the tariffs would see this and think "I have to remove these outliers". So the two options are:

A. Someone took the ISO 3166-1 codes and brainlessly calculated their batshit formula without noticing that HM doesn't produce anything. They did not instead do the more natural thing, go from highest imports to lowest which would've eliminated HM and most anomalies. They didn't even check their work.

B. They asked an LLM, which calculated this in the most naive way possible one-shot.

I dunno governor, this looks like vibecoded Excel spreadsheets.
by waffletower | 2025-04-03 19:42:27+00:00
As a highly skilled and comparatively highly paid worker, I feel it is outrageous to suggest that I am within the class that needs to give up any reputed "wealth" when I am nowhere near the 1% who hold more than 50% of it. Such a claim just contributes to the wealth making of the 1% misers even more. Class warfare! I have already had to give up significant amounts of college and retirement savings from these tariffs.
by dumbledoren | 2025-04-03 19:42:37+00:00
If the billionaires pack up and move to another country, then those who are willing to pay their due taxes and operate with a lesser profit margin would take the place they left in the market. There is no need to oblige sociopathic profiteers because they threaten to leave.

And, where will they go, really? There are considerable taxes in every country that billionaires would consider. And if they choose to cram into some small island tax haven in the Caribbean, the US can easily pressure that tax haven to do anything it wants.
by an_aparallel | 2025-04-03 19:42:52+00:00
These threads show off one thing: that the world is full of bullshit jobs, and companies selling bullshit products.

If you work in AEC, youll see how far away we are from "fully replacing" anything.

Are we really going to start erected skyscrapers and bridges, wait for them to collapse, then wait for the gov to slap AI on the wrist?

Get a job in building engineering, mech eng and come back to me. Theres a lot of ML and assistance, but humans are still thinking and collaborating.
by jfengel | 2025-04-03 19:42:57+00:00
For Adams, yes.

But for the Department of Justice, no. They were trying to get the case dismissed solely in order to be able to threaten the mayor of New York. They (rightly) believe he's guilty, but (wrongly) believed that asking the judge to dismiss it would let them hold it over him forever.

Instead, the judge sidestepped that: he dismissed it "with prejudice". So Adams gets to walk free, but the administration doesn't get to use that as a threat. There was a serious "plague on both your houses" vibe from the judge.