MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pembrook | 2025-04-03 11:42:38+00:00
I would argue everything else sits downstream from those things. It would be quite an understatement to say they are...somewhat important...in the continued existence of a country.

So objectively, there is a correct way to prioritize those items if we're talking about being antifragile. People like to forget the Russian invasion of Ukraine actually started in 2014.

But again, the inability of the EU to agree on even a common set of values is why we never have to worry EU countries will start seriously integrating with each other. We will remain disjointed sitting ducks as we are in love with our early 1900s romantic ethno-nationalist movement stories of who we are.
by 9rx | 2025-04-03 11:43:17+00:00
> and that act of voting is itself one of the most important self-expression

That's what lobbyists want you to believe, at least. It makes their job a lot easier if they are the only ones carrying out democracy.

You need to select someone trustworthy enough to not botch your message, sure, but usually all political parties put up people who are trustworthy enough. What is much more important is your expression to the hired after they are on the job. That is the only way they are going to know what you are thinking. They are not mind readers, surprisingly.
by switch007 | 2025-04-03 11:44:14+00:00
Some say many EU politicians are compromised by Russia and China...

I know squabbling is the norm for European countries but I feel there are some recent big own goals. Crazy how we can't get our crap together in such times. (Crazy opinion: UK needs to be in the EU again to be the grown up in the trio of UK, France and Germany)
by mcpherrinm | 2025-04-03 11:45:29+00:00
I can’t see freely available intermediates ever happening. The first three reasons I can think of are here, but there’s more I’m sure.

1. No way to enforce what the issued end-entity certificates look like, beyond name constraints. X509 is an overly-flexible format and a lot of the ecosystem depends on a subset of them being used, which is enforced by policy on CAs.

2. Hiding private domains wouldn’t be any different than today. CT requirements are enforced by the clients, and presumably still would be. Some CAs support issuing certs without CT now, but browsers won’t accept them.

3. Allowing effectively unlimited issuance would likely overwhelm CT, and the whole ecosystem collapses.
by johnisgood | 2025-04-03 11:45:42+00:00
There was. I think it was titled "Moonfall", or maybe "Another Earth". There is also "Oblivion" in which the Moon was partially destroyed. There are probably other ones, too, but I think "Moonfall" is the one to which you are referring. I might just give it a watch in a bit!

But yeah, it would not be a good thing, according to the movie at least.
by orwin | 2025-04-03 11:46:02+00:00
> Yep, and if you respect the tariff, you don't get fined. How hard is it?

Exactly, so we agree fines are not tariffs then?

> Just as EU companies have to abide by EU privacy regs, US firms also have to abide by US tariff regs.

Yes, also by nature, only importers pay tariffs, so most tarrifs will be paid by US firms, just like most EU fines are paid by EU companies. I don't see a disagreement here.

> "THE LAW IS THE LAW" is not an logical argument

It's not mine. I'm saying that if you don't commit a crime or by negligence let a crime happen, you won't get fined. Some criminals are never caught, and we can talk about two-tiered justice system, but just, I don't know... Don't commit crime? The risk to be fined will be 0 then.
by WillAdams | 2025-04-03 11:46:25+00:00
As a person who uses devices w/ Wacom EMR digitizers by preference, the Thinkpad X###T line is one I _really_ wanted to like, but the difficulty of getting a reasonable OS on one, with handwriting recognition, with manageable performance/thermal characteristics pushed me to the point that I gave up and moved on to a Asus Vivotab Note 8, and then a Toshiba Encore 2 Write 10 when it was offered.

I keep telling myself I should try an X230T and Linux --- if there was a Framework device which supported Wacom EMR, I wouldn't have to. That said, my next major tech purchase is an rPi 5 and a Wacom Movink 13.
by sph | 2025-04-03 11:46:33+00:00
My long term wish is in 40 years, after civil wars/world war and rebuilding efforts, that we discover a better alternative to democracy; we have gone all in on it the past 200+ years and is utterly exploitable in the information age, as the populace gets less informed and more malleable to any malicious actor. It is a pretty fatal problem if the success of your government model depends on citizens not being total idiots.

My anarchist wish is that we figure out that large states have large benefits but also very large downsides. A country as big as many Western countries have simply no business existing, as they are unworkable. How is it realistic to have a functional government for 300 something millions souls and an area the size of the United States?
by gambiting | 2025-04-03 11:46:48+00:00
The article you posted confirms the 1 in 400 number:

"We found that around 0.5% of all voters reported being turned away at polling stations as a result of lacking ID in the local elections of 2023. We also found that four times as many people (around 2%) reported not voting because they knew they didn’t have the right ID."

2.5% is 1 in 400
by Clubber | 2025-04-03 11:46:50+00:00
Yes, this is the theory. Also to return manufacturing to the US, for jobs but also for national security. If a major war breaks out, which is more likely than in the past 2 decades, we can't effectively fight without a strong manufacturing base.

US businesses who offshored all the US manufacturing jobs now have their day of reckoning. The government can't really say, "move your jobs back," without some sort of constitutional change, they can only incentivize businesses do so, ergo tariffs on offshore labor / goods.
by relaxing | 2025-04-03 11:47:11+00:00
What is with the mix of high academia and lowbrow language? Does the author think it’s cute? Covering for something?

> the computations involved in autoencoding… are mathematically intractable

OK, so he doesn’t understand what he’s talking about.

> Peli Grietzer recently finished his PhD in mathematically informed literary theory at Harvard Comparative Literature

How is this a thing.
by aurareturn | 2025-04-03 11:47:22+00:00
One clear sign that the Trump administration does not know what they're doing is not factoring the US's biggest export, services, in the formula.

Vietnam exports low value physical goods to the US. The US sells high value non-physical services such as Microsoft office, ChatGPT, Netflix, Facebook ads, iOS Appstore fees, iCloud subscriptions, etc to Vietnam. Other services include engineering, US consulting, etc. None of these are factored into the formula.

So a country like Vietnam gets royally screwed by this formula. They are actually buying way more from the US than just the physical goods.

If you're Vietnam, it's very hard to "just take it" as suggested by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The formula is flawed in the first place.

If we truly want fair, the formula should be based on total profit of the goods and services sold. Services have much higher margins than physical goods typically.
by schuon | 2025-04-03 11:47:35+00:00
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by kasey_junk | 2025-04-03 11:47:41+00:00
China maintains a soft peg on the yuan in order to keep their industrial output cheap.

Part of the way they do this is with heavy currency controls. Those currency controls make it difficult to do international trade with the yuan.

But worse from Chinas perspective you can’t maintain a peg if your currency is used to trade goods, particularly fungible commodities because the commodity itself becomes the medium of exchange and derails the currency peg.

That would be disastrous for their exporters and their economy is not in a position to sustain that currently.
by derbOac | 2025-04-03 11:47:48+00:00
Sort of interesting that the Clock of the Long Now and Cage’s ORGAN2/ASLSP were conceived around the same time — 1989 and 1987, respectively.

Also worth noting the clock's name is from Brian Eno, who has expressed interest in developing chimes for the clock. So Cage's work was kinda presaging the clock.
by antonvs | 2025-04-03 11:47:49+00:00
If we change "definitely don't work" to "have the following so far insurmountable challenges", it addresses cases like this. Hardware scaling limitations on neural networks have been known to be a limitation for a long time - Minsky and Papert touched in this in Perceptrons in 1969.

The Hall would then end up containing a spectrum ranging from useless ideas to hard problems. Distinguishing between the two based on documented challenges would likely be possible in many cases.
by CharlieDigital | 2025-04-03 11:48:11+00:00
I live in NJ and people often make a lot of noise every time there's a report of people moving out of NJ because of high taxes and high housing costs (yet NJ's overall population has increased).

To me, it makes sense: NJ is a place where you live to make a high salary (proximity to NYC and Philadelphia) and raise a family (very good public school systems as a result of those high taxes). When you no longer have a need for those circumstances, you move.

Likewise, the US is not a great place for certain types of manufacturing because the labor and raw material supply chain simply isn't there. Why not focus on the things that we are good at instead?
by KronisLV | 2025-04-03 11:48:26+00:00
> Most people don't want to graduate from tribalism.

Even if you personally want to, others will still judge you based on it. And honestly, there's often enough people out there for you to pick a social circle that aligns with your own interests at least on fundamental issues.

As for the people that you don't choose to be around, e.g. at work, probably read the room first.
by diggan | 2025-04-03 11:48:32+00:00
> It's completely fine to have different political views if you both act like normal reasonable people.

Yes, this is true, you can have different political views and still be friends/lovers/partners/whatver.

What parent said though was "directly opposing political views", which I'd also agree with is inviting trouble, as it'll leak out in constant tensions and frictions. Simple things like "We shouldn't drive as much as we currently do" can lead to heavy argumentation if the underlying reasoning cannot be understood by both parties.

In real life, people might not speak about parties or political figures, but their everyday actions are driven by their values and beliefs, which also ends up reflected by who they vote for. Politics is everywhere, even where people don't speak of it directly.
by maqp | 2025-04-03 11:48:49+00:00
>These things do not matter in this conversation

The largest UX hit is when launching a client after it's been powered off for a while.

Telegram uses a symmetric session key. The client can with SINGLE AES-IGE decryption operation decrypt a massive packet containing every message received to every non-secret chat.

Signal uses Diffie-Hellman ratchet or SCIMP ratchet for every received message. That means there's X25519 and AES-CBC involved for every message. It is not, and will never be as fast as Telegram's insecure approach.

Thus the security design will absolutely affect the smoothness of the experience.

But Signal has blazing fast search function since it's local only. Telegram's search functionality freezes when you go over the server's chat history cache limit, to try to find years old posts.

>The UI/UX of the scrolling and chat display is the problem.

My desktop computer loads messages from my Signal history as fast as I can scroll my mouse.

My cheap smart phone loads messages from my Signal history as fast as I can swipe my fingers.

You can solve this with faster hardware.
by latexr | 2025-04-03 11:49:04+00:00
On the flip side, one black man has reformed hundreds of KKK members through conversation alone.

https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinc...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental_Courtesy:_Daryl_Dav...

Sometimes you have to fight¹, but other times engaging with an open mind² really is the most efficient strategy. Shouting at the opposition only cements them in their own thinking; to change minds you have to understand and engage them where they’re at. And yes, this is way easier said than done and can be quite frustrating.

¹ You probably won’t convince a fascist dictator to change their ways by appealing to their better nature, and it would take too long while irreperable damage is being done.

² Even if the other side believes in something appallingly hateful.
by cubefox | 2025-04-03 11:49:38+00:00
> I heard StarLink satellites eventually re-enter the atmosphere when they are not orbit-stable. Thus this technology is bad for life on earth when it is lauched into space and again when decommissioned.

The fact that they re-enter by itself is not the problem. The problem is that they contain aluminium:

> When Starlink’s satellites reach the end of their lives, they burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere and leave behind small particles of aluminum oxide. These travel down into the ozone layer, which absorbs harmful ultraviolet radiation. Researchers from the University of Southern California found that these oxides have increased eightfold from 2016 to 2022.
by germainhirwa | 2025-04-03 11:49:53+00:00
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by hansmayer | 2025-04-03 11:50:29+00:00
No, what you mean with dotcom boom? That's a completely wrong comparison. The dotcom-boom had more to do with the credit crunch of 2008, not with the inherent qualities of Internet as a technology. With or without dotcom boom, people continued to use Internet, because it was useful to them. I don't remember anyone was promising us that Internet would be able to do this and that, if only... It just worked and everyone got what it was about, right from the start. Where is that moment with LLMs? Summarising my emails, inventing non-existing functions in my code? Hard pass :)
by CharlieDigital | 2025-04-03 11:51:08+00:00
> They benefitted from it so hard they voted for the exact opposite with eyes wide open. Twice.

Have you considered the platform that the Republicans have actually been running on? Was it one of economic policy? Did you consider why they attacked DEI and minority groups (including LGBTQ)? Because they would not have won on this roughshod economic policy.
by petesergeant | 2025-04-03 11:51:29+00:00
> The US doesn't have the people to do the actual manufacturing ... I'm sure you'll have Apple investing in a mega plant where 50 educated people push some buttons though.

I feel like this could be used to steel-man the Trump administration's plan, though, should you want to. The best-case outcome here for America is it forces large capital investment in automated manufacturing facilities based in the US by making manufacturing that relies on cheap overseas labour expensive enough that the investment is worth it.

I'm doubtful, but, in the unlikely event it works like that, and this comes online in the next couple of years without causing a catastrophic wipeout in the mid-terms, Trump will look like a genius.

IMO it would have been much smarter to explicitly incentivize this with tax breaks and start with small tariffs that would ramp up a little bit each month, if it's the plan, and not just incoherent policy making.
by neonsunset | 2025-04-03 11:51:32+00:00
I think only MassTransit among them has any potential for "material" consequences.

MediatR and Automapper were candidates for removal/factoring out in modern applications even before the announcement (mediatr is a bit controversial because it is often misused and makes logic harder to follow but is popular regardless).

For MassTransit, I think enterprises which use it will have to decide if they want to stay for now on v8 and develop it by themselves or pay for v9, or migrate elsewhere. Luckily, there are quite a few choices for messaging from Kafka to NATS to Pulsar and RabbitMQ is used almost everywhere anyway. Or you can do gRPC streams, or SignalR. Pick your requirements and you have many good choices.
by notpushkin | 2025-04-03 11:52:23+00:00
I also have a T420, though not using it regularly nowadays. It would be really nice to get proper USB-C there – using one cable to plug in monitor and Ethernet and charge is really nice.

I’ve wanted to get a T480 for a while now (mainly to do a T25 frankenpad [1] – seems like a nice project), but if it really has those issues with the USB-C ports, I think I’ll pass :-(

[1]: https://www.xyte.ch/mods/t25-frankenpad/
by arijun | 2025-04-03 11:52:40+00:00
Interesting! TLDR is that Apple replaced a stack of four optical components with one flat metasurface to collimate the dots the FaceID camera uses to track face shape. Although they found it in the iPad and are only assuming (rightly, probably) that it will be in the iPhone 17. I wonder why none of the large tech blogs seemed to have picked that up?
by danpalmer | 2025-04-03 11:53:25+00:00
I think you're right that there's limited context, but I'd still disagree on "doesn't know what you want". I think search engines know what users want within the scope of the context they're able to provide. There are two issues with that, one is the deeper examples you gave in another reply may be better, and the other being differentiation between legitimate search matches, and bad actors trying to match for things they shouldn't do.

For the former, I'm intrigued but unconvinced that it's what I actually want in a search engine.

For the latter, I imagine that's something that this search engine will need to contend with, although it could "just" be an LLM compute trade-off, where if you give enough results to an LLM to analyse you'll eventually find the good stuff. That said, SEO is going to rapidly become LLMEO and ruin the day again.
by infecto | 2025-04-03 11:53:37+00:00
Right but that’s because there are more micro interests on the left. It’s still tribal though. If I start to bring up deregulation of building housing, there will be a strong immediate backlash by certain factions on the left. I see it more that there is little room for discussion, within these different groups there are only binary options and if you are with them on all talking points, well you are the enemy.
by Doxin | 2025-04-03 11:53:49+00:00
I don't think publishers quite realize that they have to compete not only against each other but also against older games, which have crazy value compared to modern games.

Titanfall 2 goes on sale for €5 very frequently, and is the best single player shooter out there. The Master Chief collection is €40 when it's not on sale and that's 6 very well made games.

A €80 game will have to provide more value than that for me to consider it. To be honest I don't think it's even possible. And that's not even considering how much of a crapshoot modern games are quality-wise.
by caioariede | 2025-04-03 11:54:29+00:00
I love this! I was about to start using Substack for a personal/professional blog and I was very concerned about the structure they "force" you into. I don't want to socialize in the way they want me to. I just want to write my stuff down, and perhaps help someone, but at the end, all I want is a place to share things with myself in a more elaborated way. Looking at it now!
by atmosx | 2025-04-03 11:54:32+00:00
To add to the comment: If you want to be the capital of an empire, you have to act like it—like Troy, Rome, or Constantinople—meaning you run deficits and play buyer of last resort. When you are no longer that, the empire has indeed collapsed.

Relate: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1998/08/18/t...
by steveBK123 | 2025-04-03 11:54:32+00:00
Yes this is the inherent tension some miss with "we can just tariff them".

If it's some dirty industry we outsourced 50 years ago, its probably work no one here wants to do, and is being done for $3/hr. What tariff rate will make comparable say.. $15/hr US labor work? None because even if they get rid of EPA and tariff to 1000%, those jobs are only coming back via 1 guy operating 10 robots.. not as 10 jobs.

And then for more advanced industries - look at how much trouble say Intel is having or how long it took TSMC to spin up an AZ fab. You need long lead times with low economic/political volatility in which to plan and implement these 5+ year projects.

Look at how slow moving automaker supply chains are, are they bringing back jobs for 2030 production if they have no idea what the world is going to look like then?

Oh and don't forget the PHD Trump sane washing explainers favorite fallback - hey it's all just a negotiating trick to get leverage. OK so then, again, what business leader is making investment decisions in that context?
by ben_w | 2025-04-03 11:54:47+00:00
China has goods and services, but don't underestimate the language barrier for services. Language is a barrier between EU member nations providing each other services, even though machine translation is OK between those languages and most of us learned one of the other nation's languages in school; The gap between Chinese and Latin-Germanic languages is much larger.

I'd give an example, but every time I have previously shown an example of machine translated Chinese to demonstrate that AI is bad at translating English into Chinese, the responses miss the point of the example — criticising the translation whose very errors are meant to demonstrate how bad current AI is.