MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Towaway69 | 2025-04-05 14:08:46+00:00
TikTok only succeed because it came from a large country then? A country that doesn't even speak english, nor any european language. Oh, that was because the Chinese government was behind it with much money and influence says the EU.

So Nestle can only succeed because it comes from Switzland? A non-european country within the EU. ARM succeeds because it is British and outside the EU.

Lets face it, the EU cannot create a) global cloud services (aka AWS), b) global search engine (aka google), c) global social media and d) global tech infrastructure (i.e. GPU chips). Only everyone else can do those things because .... well because the EU has so many separate cultures and languages. So cooperation is impossible.

EU can build giant particle accelerators, a space agency and a bureaucracy to stifle any innovation that isn't lead by some large established european consultancy company. EU can organise a huge increase in military spending. The EU can build fences around europe to ensure refugees don't get in.

But the EU cannot build a single search engine of global note. Yeck Google is simply too good. Even DuckDuckGo has managed to become a competitor but the EU? Too hard. Too fucking hard for the EU.

Fuck I'm sick and tired of hearing the poor EU complain about technology. It's been long enough and yet the EU cannot seem to compete. Remember when it came clear that the NSA was spying on European leaders? Well what has happened since? Nothing. Nichts. Rien. Niente. Nada. Nic.

The EU is rapidly becoming a giant open-air mueseum for tourists coming from countries that can do tech.
by ttyprintk | 2025-04-05 14:08:57+00:00
I’ve been thinking about your second point. Some speculation:

Assuming that Trump, Musk, and Putin each need something from one of each other. Assuming that the siloviki want to quietly rule Russia.

A mercenary uprising would be convenient cover for Putin to endure exile in, say, the Caribbean. Security by FSB, siloviki split up their rule across Russia, etc. Operating from Guyana, Putin could deprive ESA of access to the French Guiana spaceport, handing it over to Musk.

The entire Caribbean fell into 10% tariffs except for two: Guyana (38%) and Cuba (0%).
by dgacmu | 2025-04-05 14:09:04+00:00
Yes. 80-97% reduction in vehicle-animal collisions, per: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00063...

> If wildlife fencing and crossing structures are designed based on the requirements of the target species, and if they are implemented and maintained correctly, the measures can reduce large mammal–vehicle collisions by 80–97% (Clevenger et al., 2001, Gagnon et al., 2015, Sawyer et al., 2012).
by davedx | 2025-04-05 14:09:39+00:00
You're being obtuse. With those points I could argue the US isn't a single market either!

1. California has 10 million Spanish speakers 2. Every state has its own regulations and legislation (and taxes!)

But I don't think you would try to make that argument... right?

Free movement of labour and goods make a single market. The other stuff is just normal operational costs of doing business.

Also, and you know this: most of the EEA uses the Euro; the countries that don't are exceptions
by throwanem | 2025-04-05 14:09:53+00:00
I'd be interested to know what search query you actually used. It's also been a while since I compared DDG and Google result quality. Maybe I'm getting poorer results than in the past. Queries on the theme of "child sexual abuse statistics US by year" don't get me anything very useful from DDG, much more advocacy around headline prevalence figures than anything relevant to incidence. (Statista does reflect a drop, but I didn't want to make an account to see their sources. Fair, my fault, I can't evaluate that well.)

The bibliography is interesting and useful but not immediately evaluable, and seems mainly Canada-focused. The Stop It Now/D2L data is very clear up front that it relates to prevalence and not incidence, a distinction that matters for reasons to which we'll return in a moment. The UNH data substantiates some level of decrease since the early 90s, as does every other source, but disagrees with itself on magnitude in different places and comes out of one researcher's shop, which does not invalidate it but does mean I'd like to see someone else produce something similar before I weight their novel results too heavily.

I guess maybe we have differing definitions of "reliable," but I think you and I have clashed on this subject before. I don't blame anyone for assuming that a victim of such abuse would tend to overestimate its prevalence, and I try to watch out for the tendency in myself, but what's all the anger about?

The difference between prevalence and incidence matters because the former tells us how many people have been abused as children, and the latter tells us how frequently children are abused over time, which is the thing we're actually talking about. How we count multiple instances of abuse against the same person confounds everything, and intuitively I would expect prevalence by victim (ie for a given victim how frequently they themselves were abused) to follow something like a power-law distribution, but in general if we just take the headline number of "X total kids" it's hard to see how that gets us to a nuanced understanding of incidence rates that lets us talk knowledgeably about how and to what extent the shape of this problem is changing over time.
by Y-bar | 2025-04-05 14:10:32+00:00
I'm not disagreeing, but we don't even need technology, all we need is the political will to truly stop subsidising fossil-based energy.

In the just over a minute it took me to read your comment and write this reply, the fossil industry received _another_ USD 14 Million: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/06/fossil-f...
by glenstein | 2025-04-05 14:11:19+00:00
Mike Daisey, the fabricator in question, had a completely headspinning excuse:

>Everything I have done making this monologue for the theater has been to make people care. I’m not going to say I didn’t take a few shortcuts in my passion to be heard. But I stand behind the work. It’s theater. I use the tools of theater to achieve its dramatic arc, and of that arc and that work, I am very proud, because I think I made you care, Ira, and I think I made you want to delve.

It's reminiscent of Hasan Minhaj's 'emotional truths'. Just such a casual abandonment of objective reality as if that's not going to set off nuclear-level alerts.
by Shekelphile | 2025-04-05 14:11:54+00:00
My pet theory is that we are only a few decades away from turning earth into venus 2.0 at this point. It feels like we keep finding new catastrophic tipping points every few months at this point.

It is worth mentioning that we are already in the last few hundred million years of earth's lifespan -- the sun was much dimmer last time the planet had this much GHG and warming going on. We may have already set the conditions for the oceans to boil away and the heat death of our planet without massive geoengineering.
by safety1st | 2025-04-05 14:13:05+00:00
I mean the topic of the article here is Tariffs Can Help America, and my comment was in relation to that idea. The topic was not "Trump's Ideas Are Always Smart," or "Trump is Good at Execution," or "The World Will Benefit from Donald Trump." I have not taken and therefore don't have to defend any of those positions. The tariff on the Falkland Islands may have some point or it may indeed be super dumb, but this is immaterial to my point.

The position I have taken is, I have already seen reports of countries that are willing to negotiate, and it's a good guess that Trump will ask them to buy more American stuff, and some of them will be able to. This will lead to improved earnings at US companies. Moreover, many of those companies are trading at a discount to their usual valuations right now. That's all.
by codemonkey-zeta | 2025-04-05 14:13:25+00:00
Yeah anyone criticizing the mass incarceration in El Salvador as unjust should really familiarize themselves with the crimes of the gangs down there. The obliteration of a social scourge in a single presidency was nothing short of miraculous. That's why Bukele was re-elected at the highest levels in history - his people genuinely love him for it. The right to a fair trial is great in places that have law and order, but when you witness beheadings, mass executions, torture, etc. daily, you won't miss that right at all.
by appleorchard46 | 2025-04-05 14:13:49+00:00
Interesting article but not one of much substance. The parallels they point out between current events and historical ones are undeniable, but so are the holes in the narrative surrounding the relationship between quality of life and globalization.

To be clear I do not support the Trump administration in any way - but the attitude I see in this article, that the inequalities and issues that lead to fascism and isolationism are small problems to be solved once everything is back in proper order and the dumb rabble has lost momentum, strikes me as a very privileged perspective. If we don't look deeper into why things have reached their current state and only decry the symptoms we're bound to be here again sooner or later.
by creata | 2025-04-05 14:14:25+00:00
Tangentially, there are two versions of Source Sans worth considering afaik:

* the latest OTF

* the Source Sans 2.020 TTF, which is the last version (at least, the last version released in the GitHub repository[0]) that has manual hinting

[0]: https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-sans/releases
by PeterWhittaker | 2025-04-05 14:14:32+00:00
No, though HMACs can play a role. It was a protocol developed specifically for establishment of secure, encrypted, authenticated, and integrity-protected sessions.

I've been racking my brain trying to remember (rarely accessed memories from ~27 years ago). The basic challenge is that unless authenticity, key exchange, and integrity are managed simultaneously during session establishment, there are attacks possible against whatever was omitted. There was a protocol developed at that time that did all of the above as part of session establishment, but I don't remember it really taking off (IIRC, it was patent-encumbered, and that was an obstacle to adoption).
by banqjls | 2025-04-05 14:14:54+00:00
> My pet theory is that we are only a few decades away from turning earth into venus 2.0 at this point. It feels like we keep finding new catastrophic tipping points every few months at this point.

Given that the glaciers should’ve all melted by now, and that we can’t even predict with certainty whether it will rain tomorrow, I wouldn’t pay much attention to predictions.
by cratermoon | 2025-04-05 14:15:06+00:00
The funny thing is, Daisey was not the first time narrative journalism – aka documentary media – has waltzed down the path to fiction. Famously, we have the film Nanook of the North and the book Wisconsin Death Trip, case studies I covered when I was in journalism program, before TAL. Today, we might call these works docudrama, but the blurring of the line between drama and journalism remains.
by ath3nd | 2025-04-05 14:15:17+00:00
> You may be overgeneralizing here, only the US has enshrined freedom of expression in their constitution.

Sounds very progressive considering voting for the African American population came about in 1965, and having McCarthyism in the 50s (which was basically persecution of free speech and freedom of expression, the same thing the Trump administration is doing atm).

Freedom of expression being "enshrined" in the Constitution sounds good, but if it comes with no voting if I am black, and with being persecuted for leaning left, maybe that's not exactly "freedom of expression".

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism
by eYrKEC2 | 2025-04-05 14:16:28+00:00
Ooo. I want to be able to do an expression in a format string.

Instead of:

format!("{}:{} wasn't able to connect to host {}.", file!(), line!(), db_opts.hostname);

I'd rather do:

format!("{file!()}:{line!()} wasn't able to connect to host {db_opts.hostname}.");

Yes, expressions in format strings can be abused, but knee-capping a pretty standard case (`instance.field`)to prevent outlier bad behavior seems like a premature optimization.
by timeflex | 2025-04-05 14:16:49+00:00
I'm not even using Docker. I use Podman in rootless mode installed using the system package manager. Even if an app found a way to break out of the container, it wouldn't have elevated privileges.

I'm not saying security is about perfection, but encouraging people to curl something to the shell with sudo is poor practice. I get that it is a newer piece of software, so I am forgiving. But getting it packaged into Homebrew, WinGet, Nix, etc. is more ideal. Some of them may verify a signed package, ensure reproducible builds, track changes for proper uninstalls, etc.
by sneak | 2025-04-05 14:16:56+00:00
This seems to be an issue in the PaaS space. The guy who runs CapRover illegally changed the license on it to be nonfree, without copyright assignments from any of the contributors who worked on it when it was free software.

https://github.com/caprover/caprover/blob/master/LICENSE

It’s deceptive, because it starts out saying APACHE LICENSE but then adds a bunch of nonfree provisions to it, making it NOT Apache licensed.

It’s especially galling when all of these people are trying to nickel and dime their users with this open core nonsense while their business wouldn’t exist if not for docker, k8s, postgres, mysql, node, php, all being open source.
by tossandthrow | 2025-04-05 14:17:20+00:00
Personally, I think the issue is affordable housing. Whether it is renting or owning is another discussion.

High taxes will definitely encourage people to utilize their housing stock.

But encouragement is not really enough for foreign investors.

Instead the local government should be able to use housing with no registered occupants and rent it out to people in need. naturally there will be a due process, and the owner should be able to collect their rent payments at the municipality offices and take over the lease themselves.

This would generate realistic housing prices.

But then again - the oligarchy wouldn't like that an asset it made less speculative for them.
by bitshiftfaced | 2025-04-05 14:17:40+00:00
> Which benefits Mexican workers and by osmosis the US: the richer MX is, the more likely they'll become consumerist, and the US companies tend to sell a lot of consumerist goods.

I was taking a specific example to illustrate why a general rule makes sense. It may be that your view of the specific example might be right, but that doesn't do anything to explain why the general rule isn't necessary. Suppose it's Vietnam instead of China. There's no similar type "osmosis" there. The particular country doesn't matter when you're trying to stop playing "whack-a-mole." At most, your argument might justify leaving very specific countries out while it still makes sense to keep the general rule for everyone else, and lo and behold Mexico wasn't on the list of new tariffs.
by apothegm | 2025-04-05 14:17:52+00:00
There are always people for whom renting is a better idea than ownership. Especially younger people and many single people, but also those who want to be able to move easily for career or family reasons.

Also, capital upkeep and repairs are difficult to save for for those living hand-to-mouth. (And some people just like not having the logistical responsibility for said capital upkeep and repairs.)
by mionhe | 2025-04-05 14:18:21+00:00
My dad actually did a form of this, at the encouragement of a teacher.

He was working out the proof to a problem in college and got stuck half way through. He had the problem and the answer, so he worked it from both ends and got stuck in the middle. He had to present the process in class, so he went to the professor for help.

His professor (who had done it originally) couldn't remember how anymore, and told him when he got to that point, he should say "and from this, it's obvious that..." and just jump to the next step.

That's exactly what he did, and no one in class (half hour into the class) even noticed.
by sgarland | 2025-04-05 14:18:36+00:00
It’s because by and large, web devs do not know computing fundamentals, because they’ve had no reason to learn them.

If your language handles memory management for you, why would you learn about it?

If poor performance in your app can be dealt with by spinning up more copies of it, why would you spend time profiling your code?

And, explicitly to your point, if networking can be hand-waved away by tools like ngrok, why would you need to know how it works?

And so on. People who grew up on computers in the 90s, 80s, etc. largely do know these things, because they had to. Understanding those fundamentals, as in any industry, pays dividends.

It’s incredibly frustrating to me that at almost all companies I’ve worked for, when I suggest we self-host something instead of forking over millions to AWS, it’s an instant no. The most honest answer I’ve had so far was “that skill set is difficult to hire for.” It is, I agree – and how do you think we got to this point? By perpetuating the status quo, and enriching the hyperscalers, who seem to have no problem hiring for that skill set.
by jacamera | 2025-04-05 14:18:40+00:00
Yeah I definitely struggle with this. You need downtime to relax but it's easy to "over relax" just like it's easy to oversleep or overeat or overdo any other number of things that are healthy and necessary but only at the right amplitude and frequency. I think that's why it can feel so good to be in a rhythm. You get a nice oscillation going that rides the wave of momentum instead of some monotonic rise or fall that is going to lead to burnout or stagnation.
by snapplebobapple | 2025-04-05 14:18:44+00:00
For me, it's not so much the vacationing that I enjoy (I can do a pampered resort for maybe 1 week a year max before it gets really tiring). It's more a combination of already seeing a whole bunch of stuff and getting older (and feeling that older in my body) utterly changes the tradeoffs. Cramming my fat ass into an economy seat on flights longer than 4 hours to save a few thousand on flights 20's me was all over that, 40's me no freaking way. I can either afford the business class tickets or I'm not going at this point. Staying in a hostel/ renting a van and sleeping in the back of it to save a few thousand on hotels? Same deal hells yes for 20's me, PFO for 40's me. Flying in one spot, booking 1 or 2 nights in hostels traveling across the region for three weeks then flying out somewhere else? Big yes in my 20's big nope now. Now I fly in somewhere and spend at least 3 nights in every spot (but often a whole week) and instead of 35k+ steps and 12 hour plus non stop go days to see as much as possible, 10-15k usual, 20k max with some relaxation time planned for every day.
by MOARDONGZPLZ | 2025-04-05 14:18:44+00:00
In person means everything past the initial tech / recruiter screen, which is a very low bar just to see if we think it’s worth flying them out. The alternative is you will hire people and you can’t know if they fraudulently interviewed using things like the tools above, or even if the person who interviewed is the same person who applied and will show up on day one.

For smaller companies in particular the above can be catastrophic, so I recommend they adapt to changing times.
by PaulHoule | 2025-04-05 14:19:52+00:00
I see it the other way. I’ll admit that I do a lot of “embarrassingly parallel” problems where the answer is “Executor and chill” in Java. I have dealt with quite a few Scala systems that (1) didn’t get the same answer every time and (2) got a 250% speed up with 8 cores and such, and common problems where “error handling with monads theater”, “we are careful about initialization but could care less about teardown (monads again!)” [1] and actors.

The choice is between a few days of messing around with actors and it still doesn’t work and 20 minutes rewriting with Executors and done. The trick with threads is having a good set of primitives to work with and Java gives you that. In some areas of software the idea of composing a minimal set of operations really gets you somewhere, when it comes to threads it gets you to the painhouse,

I went through a phase of having a huge amount of fun writing little server/clients with async Python but switched to sync when the demands in CPU increased. The idea that “parallelism” and “concurrency” aren’t closely related is a bad idea like the alleged clean split between “authentication” and “authorization” —- Java is great because it gives you 100% adequate tools that handle parallelism and concurrency with the same paradigm.

[1] You could do error handling and teardown with monads but drunk on the alleged superiority of a new programming paradigm many people don’t —- so you meet the coders who travel from job to job like itinerant martial artists looking for functional programming enlightenment. TAOCP (Turing) stands the test of time whereas SICP (lambda calculus) is a fad.
by geor9e | 2025-04-05 14:20:00+00:00
I remember making an ad clicker. I got the idea after my Banjo-Kazooie website earned $12 in banner ad clicks organically. That check in the mail inspired 11-year-old me to create InfiniteMoneyGlitch.js. It chugged away all night. And when I woke up, I saw that I was promptly banned for life.
by imchillyb | 2025-04-05 14:20:28+00:00
There is an ancient text that predicts every body of water becoming like blood.

There is an algae that flourishes in warm water that almost solidifies water into a reddish goop. That goop is much like blood.

We, society, are making this happen. And, it’s happening at a prodigious rate.

The earth’s cooling mechanisms rely upon these bodies of water. The warmer the water the greater the chances of these algal blooms.

Yay us.
by shrubby | 2025-04-05 14:20:29+00:00
We'd be well net neutral and way positive on the just/unjust scale with just two fucking changes.

Get rid of the millionaires excessive destructive power (both structural/political and the personal excessive consumption) and by eliminating factory animal agriculture.

Neither would diminish well-being. At least the actual. Some ego/envy issues though as narcissistic "successful" people couldn't feel their power, but I'm willing to sacrifice that for my kids future.

The benefits are many fold as per Durkheim and more recently Wilkinson and Pickett have shown us.

Easy peasy guys.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-05 14:20:59+00:00
> Elon Musk activated secret Neuralink

Musk has been god’s gift to Beijing moreso than Trump. He’s fundamentally compromised on China. And he’s going on drug-fuelled binges of unpopular exercises of illegal executive authority through our republic’s institutions. He’s a walking global billboard for China’s political system, which has shown itself perhaps uniquely capable of disciplining its billionaires.
by DennisP | 2025-04-05 14:21:14+00:00
There's a serious proposal to do that with a fleet of wind-powered ships, seeding low-lying clouds with seawater. Wikipedia cites a cost of $5 billion/year for a large deployment, and a maximum potential of offsetting two-thirds of our current anthropogenic warming. If we stopped doing it then things would be back to "normal" in a couple weeks. There would be local weather changes, but less than what's caused by unabated heating.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_cloud_brightening

A disadvantage of solar radiation management like this is that it does nothing for ocean acidification. But it could buy us time by heading off feedback effects that cause the planet to emit a lot more greenhouse gas of its own, due to melting permafrost, forest fires, etc.