MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jijijijij | 2025-04-12 23:03:31+00:00
> Your computer parts factory likely runs using a large amount of imported raw materials, imported machines, and imported tooling, and there are no tariff exemptions for those broad categories… so you’re screwed.

All the planning charts and demolition orders have been on display at your local 24/7 news feed for more than eight years, so there’s no point in acting surprised about it. You’ve had plenty of time to lodge any bribe worth the president's time and it’s far too late to start making a fuss about it now. Oh, for heaven’s sake, Americans, President Trump did a crypto scam on his supporters before being sworn in, you know. I’m sorry, but if you can’t be bothered to take an interest in local affairs, that’s your own lookout.

I've no sympathy at all.
by jmward01 | 2025-04-12 23:03:39+00:00
This is a massive sign that Trump's double down strategy is failing badly. He only has one play: Be a bully and double down any time someone fights back. It works when you have the leverage but as soon as you don't anymore you loose, big. The US just ran out of leverage. I don't know about everyone else but I just started looking into how to move money and investments outside the US.
by edanm | 2025-04-12 23:03:58+00:00
> That's the "correct" that matters. Not the "I'd like to put words in your mouth and pretend you meant something you don't".

I think I made it clear that I don't think parent post was saying that.

> Israel is legal abstraction, not human life and as such has no "fundamental rights" whatsoever. Humans have fundamental rights, however, and those rights always trump the non-rights of state entities.

I don't know what any of that means. Does the US have fundamental rights? When it was attacked by Japan in WW2, did it have a right to defend itself? What does that even mean if "the US" has no fundamental rights?

(You could mean a lot of different things with this statement, hence my asking for a clarification. But there's a lot of history and philosophy about these concepts, and just FYI I believe you are stating a very minority view on how to think about countries.)

> You do know that the reason Zionists harp on about "Israel's right to exist" is to deny the victim's of that state's violence legal redress, right?

No, the reason Zionists "harp on" about Israel's right to exist is because so many people believe Israel, uniquely among countries, doesn't have a right to exist. For the first 30 years of its history, this included most of Israel's neighbors, who didn't just abstractly believe in Israel not having a right to exist - they went to war with Israel several times with the aim of getting rid of it.

Even today, some of Israel's neighbors insist it doesn't have the right to exist, including Iran, which is a hair away from having nukes, and which has spent billions of its people's resources to try and destroy Israel. This is not an abstract debate, its a very real threat to the lives of all Israelis.
by refulgentis | 2025-04-12 23:04:51+00:00
First thought: I'm not the greatest at coming up with a stirring polemic justifying pushing out boundary science.

Next thought that come to my head is, how do I boundary-test this. ex. work my way backwards, what was the last collider worth building?

It's perfectly rational and intellectually honest to say "whichever one gave us something that got commercialized / helped people / etc."

As far as high-temperature superconductivity, I'm virtually certain if there was consensus a $XXB facility would concretely advance that, I assume it'd get funded.

I'm not certain, but I believe someone with more wherewithal / had skin in the game would argue that there's no reason to think this isn't that facility. (in that, advancing the boundary of physics tends to bring breakthroughs down the pipeline)
by ymhr | 2025-04-12 23:06:04+00:00
This seems unnecessarily cynical, 4 years is a pretty long time to go between major versions for a library like this, and if you look at the breaking changes they're not exactly severe. This isn't a React Router situation where you need to re-write your whole app.

> I don't blame the maintainers (I assume they don't have a fat support and maintenance contract)

What's the implication here?
by motoxpro | 2025-04-12 23:06:16+00:00
So what you're saying is that people need to be aware of software being an iterative process and that maintainers of libraries can't know in advance all the things that might come up in 4 years time?

I don't know of any software that doesn't have these problems. Either you snapshot a thing and never do updates or you continually update it and have things change.

The update causes almost 0 breaking changes. I don't think this classifies as a "throwaway" library.
by joenot443 | 2025-04-12 23:06:23+00:00
Personally, I don't really think there's a team at Google, nor at OpenAI, paying for "astroturfing" on sites like HN.

What are the rough steps through which you see this working? I see people talking about "astroturfing" all the time without much explanation on the mechanisms. So roughly, there are employees paid solely to post on social media like HN trying to push the needle in one direction or another?
by bradac56 | 2025-04-12 23:06:55+00:00
I pay for kagi.com - privacy and a good search engine ... what a concept tho it's more of a "search aggregator".

I also pay for Proton for mail (anything that requires a credit card or bank account) mostly, tosser e-mails and vpn once in awhile as I have a gmail account strictly for Chrome/YouTube and an old yahoo account of spam control. Other than that it's mostly open source - ZorinOS, Bitwarden, KeePassXC (encrypted vault mode), Ublock Origins, Liberwolf, LiberOffice, etc.

You will never see an encrypted Discord not because it can't be done right this moment but because that is not what the company is doing. I don't think Discord is what you think it is.

As for /Privacy, it's mostly children and idiots flailing in the wind. They want the idea of privacy but not the work or limitations of it. An easy example is how they ban any mention of GrapheneOS or LinageOS both the only sane option to pick for a pixel phone (I run Graphene on my Pixel 8 Pro).
by cmsj | 2025-04-12 23:07:34+00:00
Surely what sets us apart is complexity?

Our brains are able to understand and process very complex abstract concepts and we can communicate those to each other.

Oral tradition is almost an unavoidable byproduct of that, and while writing it down is certainly useful, it's clearly the case that humans were archiving and disseminating information orally for a long time before we invented writing.
by sysrestartusr | 2025-04-12 23:08:00+00:00
it's mostly technical and design jargon ... which is what all the cool kids speak anyway ... and no-code is far from reaching it's limits and there will always be people who fucking hate communicating with computers, even if the tool's performance is 90% satisfying enough. and there will always be people who enjoy tinkering themselves ... with their own hands, hotkeys, a mouse and or a stylus ...
by snide | 2025-04-12 23:08:03+00:00
This is a little disingenuous. As far as I know, v3 isn't going anywhere. There's what... weeks until May 2025, which would be four years?

4 years in JavaScript land is actually pretty long. Zod has a pretty good maintenance record. I don't see how a statement like yours can be made without snark. Calling it a "throw-away" library is pretty brash.

This looks like a good update that sticks to the formula.
by rchaud | 2025-04-12 23:08:18+00:00
The finer points don't matter. If it did, they'd be wondering why the nation is not awash in coal jobs and why Obamacare wasn't repealed. Both of those were supposed to have happened by 2020.

Tariffs are sold to them as "hitting back" against countries "exploiting America". They don't know what they are or how they work, and they definitely do not think of it as a tax, which is the definition you'd see in any AP Macroeconomics textbook.

All that matters is maintaining the illusion that "he's fighting for people like me".
by maxglute | 2025-04-12 23:09:01+00:00
Hope this doesn't take off (kek), EVs have made PRC cities increasingly tranquil, dealing with rotors would be huge step down in QoL. Fine for quick transit across water.

That said, maybe they can optimize for size:volume. it would actually be pretty good to displace delivery network from ground level. Maybe even straight to 40th storey balcony / living room delivery sometime.
by musicale | 2025-04-12 23:11:15+00:00
If you want a laugh, find out how much the people who actually do the work (grad students and postdocs) are paid out of a typical university research grant.

Typically grad students are also only paid for 20 hours of work per week; the other 20+ hours are considered "training" and are uncompensated (though the tuition/registration fee may be covered and paid directly to the university.)
by refulgentis | 2025-04-12 23:11:34+00:00
I hope this doesn't seem abrupt, and when/if it does, that it comes across as coming from a place inviting further discussion and appreciating your curiosity.

That's one of the effects of the pitch framing by Sabine: the design intent is not about smashing stuff at higher energy, despite the basis of the critique requiring that it is.

My comment above is really long, but tl;dr the impetus for both facilities is smashing electrons and positrons and specific features of those collisions that let physicists hone in on the discoveries made at the LHC, not moar energy leading to new particle observations that theory never predicted.
by jfengel | 2025-04-12 23:12:19+00:00
There is a lot of interest. It may not be the most efficient use of money, but people like the feeling that scientists are trying to unravel the most fundamental nature of the universe.

People got so excited about the Higgs boson, despite having no idea what it really means. They kept asking if it had an application, but seemed to accept that the answer is "no".

I'll admit, I too would rather put the money into an array of different sciences. But the money goes where you can get interest, and a lot of other science happens in the margins.
by int_19h | 2025-04-12 23:13:42+00:00
The best user experience for what?

The most practical use case for generative AI today is coding assistants, and if you look at that market, the best offerings are third-party IDEs that build on top of models they don't own. E.g. Cursor + Gemini 2.5.

On the model front, it used to be the case that other companies were playing catch-up with OpenAI. I was one of the people consistently pointing out that "better than GPT o1" on a bunch of benchmarks does not reliably translate to actual improvements when you try to use them. But this is no longer the case, either - Gemini 2.5 is really that good, and Claude is also beating them in some real world scenarios.
by stavros | 2025-04-12 23:14:02+00:00
As a non-American, I can confirm that I've noticed that Americans tend to develop lots of superficial friendships, but aren't very willing to open up, which keeps the relationship at arm's length. I remember I was really surprised when a coworker was telling me about how she had some condition, and then immediately apologized for telling me. I didn't understand why someone would apologize for opening up, but in the US that's considered oversharing, and is frowned upon.
by ndiddy | 2025-04-12 23:14:52+00:00
Really good article! Personally it has me convinced that the 0x7F character was originally meant to be a delta, but whoever drew it did a poor enough job that it made other teams at IBM think it was supposed to be a house. As the article says, when you look in the PC BIOS source listing, there's a comment saying "DELTA" next to where the bitmap for the 0x7F character is defined. https://github.com/philspil66/IBM-PC-BIOS/blob/main/PCBIOS.A...
by Agingcoder | 2025-04-12 23:17:07+00:00
Where did you find this ? This is just plain wrong.

Airparif is a collection of people involving regular people, the local cities, major polluters etc. https://www.airparif.fr/airparif/missions-dairparif ( unfortunately in French)

It’s funded 24% by the state, 24% by cities, 27% by large companies including the polluting ones,20% by selling what they produce/know how etc.
by immibis | 2025-04-12 23:17:40+00:00
This is proven false by the existence of the West Bank, where is there no Hamas and there's still a war. Who is fighting the war there?

In case you're commenting in good faith and genuinely don't know this, "Do you condemn Hamas?" refers to a pattern in media interviews from the earlier days of the holocaust. The interviewer would simply ignore what the interviewee said and repeat "Do you condemn Hamas?" until the interviewee answered with a boolean, at which point the interview was over. No discussion was allowed. You either support everything Israel is doing (boolean true answer) or you are a terrorist (boolean false answer). No nuance allowed. No debate allowed. No facts allowed.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-12 23:18:08+00:00
> Wouldn’t a better alternative be to work on improving social safety nets for everybody, as opposed to providing a bespoke one for a single industry?

Yes, but:

1) It's not really an exclusive choice; different people can pursue different angles, including all of them - one can both seek immediate support/compensation for the specific case they're the victim of and seek longer-term solution for everyone who'd face the same problem in the future.

2) A bespoke solution is much more likely to be achievable than a general one.

3) I don't believe it would be good for society for artists to succeed in curtailing generative AI! But, should they succeed, I imagine the consequences will encourage people to seek the more general solution that mitigates occupational damage of GenAI while preserving its availability, instead of having to deal with a series of bespoke stopgaps that also kills GenAI entirely.

4) Not that banning GenAI has any chance of succeeding - the most we'd get is it being unavailable in some countries, who'd then be at a disadvantage in competition with countries that embraced it.

Again, I'm not in favor of banning GenAI - on the contrary, I'm in favor of giving a blanket exception from copyright laws for purposes of training generative models. However, I recognize the plight of artists and other people who are feeling the negative economic impact on their jobs right now (and hell, my own line of work - software development - is still one of the most at risk in the near to mid-term, too); I wish for a solution that will help them (and others about to be in this situation), but in the meantime, I don't begrudge them for trying to fight it - I think they have full right to. I only have problems with people who oppose AI because they feel that Big AI is depriving them of opportunity to seek rent from society for the value AI models are creating.
by anoncareer0212 | 2025-04-12 23:18:23+00:00
> The world is really doomed...

Sadly, it absolutely 100% is. She's an amazing case of this. I'll spend the next 2 years gently walking people down from her clickbait, and I'll end up with net-negative karma for it.

I honestly had given up entirely until I saw a subthread about a month ago where people who knew the area were exchanging info of lesser-known youtubers who come and clean up her messes after.

The sad news is, they are getting more and more attention (I saw one over 400K+ views), but a lot of that just comes from being loud, proud, and aggressive, as well as having 30 minutes of video to justify the up front "hey, she's at best a not even wrong contrarian, and honestly, lets be clear at this point, shes a liar for views!!!!"

Thankfully I'm old enough to see this stuff happens in waves, within 2 years it'll become common wisdom that she's X, Y, and Z, and even if I disagree and just think she's misguided, that'll be enough for the tide to ebb.
by wisty | 2025-04-12 23:18:27+00:00
Maybe Trump genuienly wants to disrupt neoliberalism?

Now, a lot of people on the left use "neoliberalism" in the same way people on the right use "woke", or (Eu) football fans use the word "offside" i.e. it means "it's anything the other side do that I don't like". But neoliberalism actually has a definition used by more serious people - generally free trade and the reduction of government interference.

Maybe Trump doesn't want globalisation, maybe Trump wants stuff to be made in the USA. Maybe he wants to roll trade back to before 1968, the Hakone Maru, and the TEU container, to when he was in his 20s (a lot of people think that their formative years were the best, since that's when they were made, and I doubt Trump is an exception). I'm not saying Trump isn't a hypocrite, but is it slightly possible that some of what he says is actually what he intends to do, e.g. "making America great again" meaning in part a disruption to the globalised world order that the online left always seems to think is evil?
by ZeroWidthJoiner | 2025-04-12 23:18:28+00:00
This is true for certification, which is mandatory for Server OS, distributing through Windows Update, or certain classes of drivers such as anti-malware or biometric authentication, but you can still submit drivers to Microsoft for "attestation signing" that will load without warnings on desktop OS without having to run them through the testing suite.

In any case, running the certification tests does not provide runtime protection for drivers running in kernel mode, as demonstrated by CrowdStrike. Only Windows 10 started introducing hardware virtualization-based isolation of kernel components (to provide isolation of security subsystems, not runtime checks to prevent crashes): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/design/de...
by rchaud | 2025-04-12 23:18:41+00:00
It's far from the only place the policy is incoherent. They fired the top ranking officer at the US base in Greenland for having the temerity to tell their host nation "I do not presume to understand current politics, but what I do know is the concerns of the US administration discussed by Vice-President Vance on Friday are not reflective of Pituffik Space Base."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/creq99l218do
by int_19h | 2025-04-12 23:18:47+00:00
The sentiment changes this fast because SOTA changes this fast. E.g. Google models were objectively crappy compared to OpenAI, but Gemini 2.5 really turned the tables (and I'm not talking about synthetic benchmarks here but real world coding).

The state of affairs with local models is similarly very much in flux, by the way.
by bradac56 | 2025-04-12 23:20:49+00:00
Good for them if that actually happens.

China's problem is they have no real economy of there own outside of producing USA goods. They need to fix that issue as they are not a consumer based society and have no where else to sell the goods being shipped to the USA. Vietnam has figured that out and are dropping there tariffs to continue making Nike's and Levies.

China export just over 5% of there GDP to the USA while they import .05% of there GDP from the USA. Even what they do import is mostly just soybeans and bulk commodity items easily sold to any other country other than them.

I'm not in favor of long term tariffs outside of true terrorist states but they are needed to curb the very bad things the Chinese government is doing to undermine the country they desperately need short to mid term.
by anoldperson | 2025-04-12 23:21:03+00:00
The last thing I searched for was about the lady who sunk the New Zealand Naval vessel. It told me she was a captain in the United States Navy. I said that was absolutely not true and it told me of course you are correct, she is from the Australian Navy, and nothing I could say could convince it otherwise.

If it can't manage one small fact on something that was covered quite a bit in the previous month, then it is worse than useless. At the very least it should say I don't know. It reminds me of that one guy we all know that does nothing but make stuff up when talking about stuff outside of their wheel house. Never backs down, never learns anything, and ultimately dumped from the relationship.
by somat | 2025-04-12 23:21:08+00:00
A number of traditional unix utilities change their behavior based on what their name is. /bin/test and /bin/[ come to mind. but I just checked and a quick survey of openbsd finds.

eject mt [ test chgrp chmod cksum md5 sha1 sha256 sha512 cpio pax tar ksh rksh sh

taken to it's logical extreme you end up with somthing like crunchgen https://man.openbsd.org/crunchgen which merges many independent programs into one and select which one to run based on the name.

And I am guilty of abusing symbolic links as a simple single value key value store. It turns out the link does not need to point to anything and using readlink(1) was easier than parsing a file.
by Tmpod | 2025-04-12 23:22:37+00:00
From their README:

Minestom is an open-source library that enables developers to create their own Minecraft server software, without any code from Mojang.

The main difference between Mojang's vanilla server and a minestom-based server, is that ours does not contain any features by default! However, we have a complete API which is designed to allow you to make anything possible, with ease.

This is a developer API not meant to be used by end-users.

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I believe the target audience is people developing non-vanilla/survival multiplayer servers, like minigames, PvP duels, etc.
by alganet | 2025-04-12 23:23:41+00:00
The anxiety spreaders are a political phenomena. It's mostly about blaming the "other side" and framing it as the cause for world collapse. Those people don't actually believe a catastrophe is going to happen. They already think they are being productive by hacking the political spectrum. In other words, imbecile automaton panfleteers.

What you described has nothing to do with schizophrenia. You are mixing up two distinct behaviors by a single theme (world ending catastrophes).
by 9283409232 | 2025-04-12 23:24:25+00:00
> Maybe Trump doesn't want globalisation, maybe Trump wants stuff to be made in the USA.

As I said, what he is doing is not going to get stuff made in the US. Even if we had all of the raw materials needed (we don't), the US doesn't have the talent to spin up a manufacturing hub. That is the missing piece to all of these conversations. So we don't have the materials, we don't have the skills, and we seem to be attacking education so it doesn't look training people to do these things is in the cards? How is this plan meant to work?

The only lifeline I can throw your comment is that he wants to invade Canada and Greenland to steal their raw materials which at least lines up with the idea of getting raw materials to build up manufacturing.
by fc417fc802 | 2025-04-12 23:24:53+00:00
Wut? That reads like satire. The equipment is inside the security boundary, the LAN is outside. What is the purpose of enforcing one-way control signals when the thing sending the control signals is by necessity within the same security boundary as the destination for those signals?

I want to extend the benefit of the doubt and assume my own ignorance but I'm really struggling with this one.
by qznc | 2025-04-12 23:24:54+00:00
Hm, you got me thinking about reversible computing and how it could be applied to configuration.

Debugging a configuration becomes tedious once computation is involved. You think some value should be "foo" but it is "bar". Why is it "bar"? If someone wrote it there, the fix is simply to change. If "bar" is the result of some computation, you have to understand the algorithm and its inputs, which is significantly harder.

Given a "reversible" programming language that might be easier. Such languages are weird though and I don't know much about them. For example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_(time-reversible_computi...