MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ryzvonusef | 2025-04-03 09:15:19+00:00
And? That's bigotry, a totally different issue from accessibility.

The population WANTS this piece of bigotry, heck our ancestors voted for the damn thing it, it's literally the 2nd amendment of our the constitution.

You can't blame NADRA for including it in their forms, they do it on government demand. Heck, I had to sign the damn thing to get my damn passport, there is no escaping it.

But NADRA also has vans that go village by village providing photo-ID on the doorstep. And THAT is accessibility.

Do I wish this piece of bigotry wasn't in on our forms? Yes. Today Ahmedis; tomorrow Shias; day after who knows, it might be me.

Does it mean CNIC are BAD? NO, they are perhaps the only actually part of cour damn governance, being able to provide ID.

We could obviously do better, but NOT having ID is crazy.
by Lachstec | 2025-04-03 09:15:59+00:00
You are absolutely right, that is not a .NET specific issue, it was just very little time between these big libraries going commercial. I think that there is a deeper issue here. Maintaining an open source project is hard work and is rarely compensated, I can even understand the motivation of the mantainers that decided to put their projects under a commercial license.

Businesses and developers profit from foss software, but the chances that anything, be it money or support via contributions, is given back are low. I don't think that it is desirable to go closed source to solve that issue, but I also don't have a good solution at hand.
by troupo | 2025-04-03 09:16:34+00:00
You really don't understand what types give you, do you?

Where are you going to put the code above in this:

<section @name="user-details" class="user"> <media :image="/app/icon/cc/{cc}.svg" :title="name"> <p>{ email }</p> </media> <dl :if="org"> <dt>Company</dt> <dd>{ org }</dd> <dt>Country</dt> <dd> { country }</dd> <dt>Company size</dt> <dd>{ size.desc } ({ size.label })</dd> <dt>Website</dt> <dd><a class="action">{ website }</a></dd> <dt>Plan</dt> <dd><pill icon="dot" :label="{ plan }"/></dd> </dl> <media-thumbs :items="shots"/> <chat-thread :thread="thread"/>

</section>

Are you going to write ifs for every permutation of possible typos? (Let's ignore for a second that it's not just typos)
by nemothekid | 2025-04-03 09:16:42+00:00
>You have hitched yourself to the no-ID bandwagon for so long it kills you to admit it was wrong.

Please explain to me clearly where I was wrong? What is the problem you have identified and the solution that I gave that was incorrect?

This rest of the text you posted is a massive non-sequitor. I identified to you that (1) there is no voter fraud problem (2) voter ID would not fix anything except cost the government more money and (3) it's a false claim made to disenfranchise voters.

Please clearly, explain whats wrong, backed with relevant data about voter fraud instead of waffling about Ezra Klein and John Stewart on a completely different issue.

>I am sorry, you fear.... governing?

I fear spending money trying to solve a made up problem. Something you pretended to care about when you brought up Ezra Klein. Except in the case of Voter ID you oppose Ezra Klein and you actually want to spend money doing bullshit that solves nothing. Please identify what is actually solved that is worth someone spending 25 years of their life handing out voter IDs.
by mrb | 2025-04-03 09:18:21+00:00
Edit: someone said it doesn't work for Japan but it does. Every country I checked by hand matches the figures exactly... For Japan the figures are from https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5880.html and their 2024 trade balance is: 79,740.8 (exports) and 148,208.6 (imports) so 1-79740/148208 = 0.46 which matches the 46% "Tariffs charged to the USA " from the table shown by Trump...
by 4ad | 2025-04-03 09:18:35+00:00
I'm not a fan of OpenAI, and certainly not a fan on Sam Altman, quite the opposite, it's anything but open, and at a fundamental level I believe it does the opposite it claimes to do—benefit humanity. In fact I've often called OpenAI a scam.

But the hubris of the conspiring board members is astounding. God, what arrogance. Not only conspire against Altman, but essentially conspire to destroy OpenAI itself. I don't understand how these people have not been charged with something. They didn't make a mistake, they were activelly sabotaging OpenAI. To think that these people are on other boards is unthinkable.
by palata | 2025-04-03 09:18:46+00:00
I actually was in a situation where I had such a debate during Covid with someone I was in school with. I tried to take time to argue.

He would show some numbers and make completely wrong conclusions. There was no way I could get him to try to listen to me. Whereas back at school, he was never arguing with me about maths given that he had bad grades and I didn't.

So somehow I really feel like there is this "authority" thing missing. Now that he is an adult, he feels like his opinion about everything is valid.
by ryzvonusef | 2025-04-03 09:18:52+00:00
I am not ignoring it, That disenfranchisement is deliberate, and NOT as a consequence of voter-ID.

Our government and population WANT to disenfranchise them, we WANT to be bigoted against them, and if photo-ID didn't exist, voter rolls STILL exist and then we would use THOSE to lynch them or whatever.
by pembrook | 2025-04-03 09:18:57+00:00
De minimis exemption expiring has been a planned thing for years through administrations of both parties. Trump admin has been delaying the already planned expiration during the Biden years to use as a negotiating carrot.

Basically it just means Temu/Aliexpress/Etc. will ship their goods to the US in bulk instead of bypassing customs on individual small orders, and distribute from domestic warehouses, having to now compete with US producers who do the same thing.

It does completely kill any business built on dropshipping individual orders from chinese factories without ever touching inventory however.
by jeswin | 2025-04-03 09:19:06+00:00
> The Make in India policy of the present government is reminiscent of the pre-1991 inward-looking Indian state.

Have you seen the 70s or the 80s? I was a child during the 1980s when India was a socialist state. There were very few private enterprises, because there was absolutely zero government support. Taxation peaked at 90% during the early 1970s under Indira Gandhi, who also nationalized many of the largest private companies - because private enterprise was seen as a bad thing. It was also impossible to bring in foreign investment, because that would come with profit motives.

Basically, the comparison you're drawing is not really accurate. The current Make in India plan is very similar to the US bringing in strategic manufacturing back into the US; a plan which has had bipartisan support (for example, the CHIPS Act). It incentivizes businesses (including foreign companies) to set up manufacturing units in India. And is quite the opposite of what was happening during India's socialist era.
by bravetraveler | 2025-04-03 09:19:23+00:00
Ignore the financial valuations, man is a worm. I'd call him a 'hack' but that might imply talents given where we are.

Through his shitshow, he tried - and failed - to curry favor with an OSS puppet. Not any particular software... like one might think, but the whole "thing".

There was never any moment where WPEngine was beholden for offering WordPress services. Everything was strained to the point he was trying to redefine OSS.

He got in his way, ours as members of the public, and that of WPEngine. Repeatedly... and I don't see enough reflection/reason from Matt to believe this will change. Personally, I'd hesitate to promote his strategies or skills.

Hamfisted is a better message. Or none, take the wind away. We don't want his ambition or to hear about it. It's demonstrably shit.

Edit: just in case this needs saying, I've never been affiliated with either company. Don't waste your limited time looking for me, Matt.
by thinkingemote | 2025-04-03 09:19:24+00:00
Whataboutism is outsider tribe X also does thing B therefore B is not to be argued about.

Instead maybe consider that it's thinking in tribes that's the issue at root.

Personally I think it's impossible to stop being in a tribe. One should, if free, only be able to choose the tribe to join. We can't choose not to join a tribe. Most people either are not free to choose or not willing to consider that they can choose. Freedom to choose a tribe is very scary.

Looking at how other countries do politics might help. For example did you know that conspiracy and paranoia is a characteristic strategy used in American politics? It's not used as much in other parts of the world.

It's incredibly difficult for a person to see themselves as being paranoid or to believe in a conspiracy theory. But paranoid people who believe in conspiracy theories make great tribe members. It is literally a way to make people think of things as "us vs them"
by Nursie | 2025-04-03 09:19:25+00:00
I often talk politics with friends, mostly because we all like to moan about the state of things.

Maybe this doesn't translate to the US, but in the UK (and the largely British friend-group I have here in Australia) in my bubble we don't tend to strongly identify with any political party or politician, rather we tend to look down at the self-serving and/or myopic weirdos in parliament and decry their short-sighted, uninformed policy-making whichever side they're on. And I'm not trying to claim some great enlightened intellectual position for myself here - I think it's probably more common than not.
by tomp | 2025-04-03 09:20:14+00:00
For what it's worth, I bought a $2000 robotic hand from US a year ago, and paid about €400 in VAT and €32 (so like 2%) in import duties / tariffs.

Obviously VAT isn't a "trade barrier", if anything it's a "consumption barrier" and it's the same for every business that EU citizens give money to (i.e. if I bought a robot hand that cost $2000 to make from an EU company, I'd likewise be paying €400 VAT on top of that).
by red_admiral | 2025-04-03 09:20:26+00:00
AFAIK, it's server-based rather than p2p for DE, but the way it works is all clients/servers simulate the world in lockstep and hold a full copy of the state. That's what makes map hacks possible.

You don't need anything paxos-like for this, the game desyncs and stops if any machine messes up but you can usually restore from a save point in that case.
by 8-prime | 2025-04-03 09:20:47+00:00
Whilst I'm generally not against piracy - I think there are valid reasons as to why it's a thing - I can't help but feel like disguising pirating content under the veil of fair use is a bit far fetched and disingenuous.

Using copyrighted material in a fair use way seems fine to me and is important. But these companies not wanting to pay for creating their model and then just claiming fair use is silly.
by alkonaut | 2025-04-03 09:23:15+00:00
I completely disagree with this. A friend is someone who I can disagree politically with and still be friends with. I extend the tribe to political views that aren't too extreme (fascists, extreme populists, violent revolutionary socialists, islamists...), so 90% of the people I can probably be friends with or have family relations with. And it has happened probably about 1-2 times in my lifetime that I even e.g. un-friended someone on social media because of views that I wouldn't tolerate because they fell outside the "normal politics tribe".

And again, that's because I'm lucky enough to not live in the US. I'd unfriend a red hat on FB in a heartbeat. I'd probably break connections with a family member over it too. I'd have problems even having a professional relationship with my US colleagues if I had found out they had a red hat in a social media post. But I don't see the problem with this at all tbh.
by nemothekid | 2025-04-03 09:23:35+00:00
This is hilarious. When it's YOUR government trying to disenfranchise voters, it's deliberate and you can understand that.

When it's America, then it's somehow different. I even laid it out for you clearly that republicans WANT to disenfranchise them, but your prescription is that we need a 25 year plan to offer photo IDs on the cheap.

>and if photo-ID didn't exist, voter rolls STILL exist and then we would use THOSE to lynch them or whatever.

The irony in telling Americans to build a 25 year plan to roll out photo ID when they don't even solve issues for your government. Do you not see how foolish it is to tell Americans to spend time solving a problem that YOU KNOW won't solve the issue of government targeted disenfranchisement? You wrote 500 odd words telling Americans to build a system you just admitted doesn't work to solve the underlying problem.
by palata | 2025-04-03 09:25:39+00:00
> This (my thread, not the greater thread we're in)

Well, you're answering to my thread, if we go like this. Where I said that one reason the UX is better in Telegram is that they don't care about privacy.

> Every single point that you want to try here has nothing to do with implementing a smooth scrolling, buttery UI/UX of a chat application.

Then we fundamentally disagree on what UX means. If it takes 2 days to receive a message because a human has to check that it is not spam, wouldn't you say that it's bad UX? Or is "scrolling" the only thing that you put into "UI/UX"? Do you actually know what UI/UX is?

> It is not obviously wrong, and you've done nothing but attempt to loop the conversation back to some level of privacy/encryption/etc.

Because that's my goddamn point from the beginning on. Privacy has an impact on UX (which means "user experience", by the way), period.

> If that is not clear to you, I don't know what to say anymore.

Same here. You don't seem to understand how privacy works technically, and you don't seem to understand what UI/UX means.
by Johanx64 | 2025-04-03 09:25:58+00:00
> There's an implication here, that people exercised free will when they voted.

There's no such implication.

> This is plainly incorrect, because free will quite clearly does not exist.

> Since free will does not exist, there is simply no a priori reason to believe that people voted in their interests.

What are you even talking about.

People (and living beings in general) acting in their own self-interest - pretty much all the time - it is the most universal general principle of life if there ever was one. This doesn't require or involve free will.

How well a biorobot (no free will!) executes in pursuing his self-interests, is the selection critereon.

Now, the people make mistakes pursuing their self-interests, doesn't mean they aren't acting in their self-interest. Because they sure as hell are - all the frigging time! It's their whole firmware!

Deindustrialization / nikefication all the way through the value chain except the very, very top last step of the value add - hasn't been in their self-interest, it isn't in the interests of their nation either.

It's only in the self-interests of short-term thinking shareholders that min-max asset valuations with great costs to everyone else but themselves.
by oytis | 2025-04-03 09:26:26+00:00
Somewhat unrelated, but - is it just me or do other people notice too, that whenever a major university publishes course materials online, the instructors there are normally very young? It wasn't like that a while ago, e.g. when Coursera started, or it is not like that if you look at older MIT videos.

Does it reflect university teachers getting younger? Or younger teachers tend to give more effort to putting everything online? Or did my perception change with age?
by tromp | 2025-04-03 09:27:09+00:00
I love everything about this design except for how much the front wheels stick out. Especially here in Europe where roads are narrow and parking spaces can be tight, I'd worry about those wheels hitting things or scratching curbs. But even ignoring the front wheels, I agree ordering from this company with no guaranteed medium (let alone long) term viability would be a big gamble.
by lapcat | 2025-04-03 09:27:32+00:00
> This is a decapitation strike on America by our enemies.

> if foreign governments spend money, they can elect their preferred candidates.

> We institute regime change in other counties, and I see no reason to believe we are immune.

Do we really need such conspiracy theories? There's a much more mundane explanation, which is well-documented:

"Trump’s Love for Tariffs Began in Japan’s ’80s Boom" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/us/politics/china-trade-d...

"Allies and historians say that his admiration of tariffs is one of his longest and most deeply held policy positions."

In the 1980s, Russia still had a state-run socialist economy, and China was just beginning to grow (albeit quickly) after its 1978 economic reforms. These countries did not purchase Donald Trump's policies.

If you're concerned about foreign influence and foreign money in American elections, you should be much more worried about Australian Rupert Murdoch, for example, who founded Fox News, or South African Elon Musk, who just spent a whopping $250 million to elect Donald Trump and is now personally dismantling the US government (although Musk's money didn't help in the local Wisconsin election), or Israel, which has had one of the most powerful and well-financed lobbies in Washington for decades.
by blatantly | 2025-04-03 09:28:23+00:00
This make no sense. Tariffs are paid by the supplier who is receiving money from the US customer. Are you saying if they pay the tariff in doge coins the tariff is zero doge coins?

As for other polices that "punish USD" "reward MagicCoins" ... well the market would hopefully see both currencies as crap and use Euros or Yuan. Or maybe new currency baskets will emerge to decentralise power.
by Rodmine | 2025-04-03 09:28:24+00:00
What needs to be done can and is almost always described in natural language.

Whether that is feasible is a different question (https://xkcd.com/1425/), but also can be described in natural language.

Here is something I tried with o3-mini:

> Create a program that takes an input image and can tell if there is a bird in it.

> ChatGPT said:

> Reasoned for 38 seconds

> Below is an example in Python that uses TensorFlow’s Keras API and a pre-trained ResNet50 model to classify an input image. The code loads an image, preprocesses it to the required size, obtains the top predictions, and then checks if any of the top labels appear to be a bird. You can expand the list of bird keywords as needed for your application.

> python code that works

If you take the critical view, you can always find a way to find an exception that will fail. I can see many happy cases which will just work most of the time, even with the currently available technology. Most of the programming work done today is putting libraries and api services together.
by DeathArrow | 2025-04-03 09:28:43+00:00
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by short_sells_poo | 2025-04-03 09:29:02+00:00
I mean, you are not presenting any robust or even reasonable arguments for your view. What you seem to be completely missing is intent. The EU privacy laws were not put in place to tariff US tech companies. The fact that US tech runs routinely afoul EU privacy laws and actually mostly gets away with it is entirely their choice. They could always abide by the rules and then they wouldn't get fined.
by contravariant | 2025-04-03 09:29:06+00:00
Politics is supposed to make maximizing money a good idea.

All things being equal (which they're not) it would be a bit odd to choose a policy that ends up being more expensive. Either money doesn't work as it should or it's a bad policy.

In this case the hidden costs of police and health is a lot higher than the hidden cost in what is effectively a purely administrative change.
by alkonaut | 2025-04-03 09:29:33+00:00
> I’m pretty sure that they weren’t voting for those candidates for the express purpose of stripping away those rights and there were other policies and values that they were voting for.

Sure. But this is that age-old meme: You know those people (most people?) in 1930s Germany who supported the Nazi party but they perhaps weren't really for annexations and genocide. You know what they call those people? Nazis.

People who voted for Trump are responsible for the fate of Ukraine, the demise of Nato, the fallout with Canada and Mexico, the inevitable inflation and economic turmoil of tariffs etc. And that's of course even if they only voted for Trump because they hold "traditional republican values", or because of single issues like gun rights, migration or taxes.

> tolerance is necessary

Tolerance stops at intolerance. You can never tolerate intolerance. Apart from that, politics also relies on a few fundamental things like the reliance on facts and experts, and respect for the rule of law. Obviously you can't ever tolerate "politics" which starts to tamper with either of these. Luckily I can keep a tribe which consists of people who agree with this, which can vote for any party in my parliament, and is 98% of the population. I'd hate to be in the US though where the tribes cut down the middle of the population.
by _the_inflator | 2025-04-03 09:29:34+00:00
Imagine AoE being owned by Nintendo. :D

A no small wonder. I never thought that MS, as the IP owner, would allow such an open community to grow and thrive. MS is notoriously bad at game community growth development.

I remember that right after the acquisition of ES through MS in 2001, Microsoft went on a rigid IP enforcement role and, for example, targeted people at MFO.

The story of DBD_Jinx losing his account to MS

Legendary DBD_Jinx lost his account and had to start anew under _IamJinx because MS suspended his ZONE account due to copyright infringement for using MS trademarks without a license.

What did he do?

He advertised at MFO to help people increase their early game through his academy training, which offered advice on micro-management, game planning, strategy, and scouting.

Together with a couple of other 2000+ Zone Rating dudes from the US, they started to make a few bucks on the side using AoE as a vehicle.

What a knee-jerk reaction from MS back then.

And today? Red Bull Wololo - I hardly can hold my pants compared to 2001.

I hope this keeps going, even though I am a purist "old-schooler" who prefers the AoE 2 classics game.

Cheers + gl + hf!

_CN
by piokoch | 2025-04-03 09:29:35+00:00
This is recurring topic indeed. I remember it was hot topic at least two times, when ALM tools were introduced (e.g. Borland ALM suite - https://www.qast.com/eng/product/develop/borland/index.htm), next when BPML language become popular - processes were described by the "marketing" and the software was, you know, generated automatically.

All this went out of fashion, leaving some good stuff that was built at that time (remaining 95% was crap).

Today's "vibe coding" ends when Chat GPT and alikes want to call on some object a method that does not exist (but existed in 1000s of other objects LLM was trained with, so should work here). Again, we will be left with the good parts, the rest will be forgotten and we will move to next big thing.