MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by airstrike | 2025-04-03 11:55:20+00:00
> Your view about art is just too constrained by an appeal to aesthetic beauty.

This gets repeated a lot, but the reality is to many people, including philosophers, artists and appreciators of both, aesthetic beauty is a fundamental property of art without which it cannot survive.

The fact that contemporary art circles handwave away that relevance while arrogantly mumbling "you're just miopic, ignorant and misguided, learn more" doesn't really change that fact.

From the outside, it just shows that you too have been co-opted into the cult. You're free to subscribe to that view, but you don't get to gatekeep the meaning of art, no matter how many members that cult may have.
by _petronius | 2025-04-03 11:55:24+00:00
Some art-haters in the comments, so to defend this piece of contemporary art for a moment: one thing I love about it is a commitment to the long future of art, creativity, and civilization. What does it take to keep an instrument playing for six hundred years? To commit to that idea -- like the century-long projects of cathedral building in the middle ages, or the idea of planting trees you won't live to see mature -- is (to me) the awesome thing about the Halberstadt performance. All rendered in a medium (church organ) that has existed for an even longer time.

It's a pretty hopeful, optimistic view of the future in a time of high uncertainty, but also represents a positive argument: it's worth doing these things because they are interesting, weird, and fun, and because they represent a continuity with past and future people we will never meet.

Plus, you can already buy a ticket to the finale, so your distant descendants can go see it :)
by addicted | 2025-04-03 11:55:34+00:00
Europeans have a lot of alternatives to American services, including building out their own.

What Europeans truly lack is the ability to defend itself without the U.S. They have the technical know how and can build the manufacturing capacity but that will take a decade at least.

Also, European financing is just not as strong.

However, with the U.S. voluntarily walking away from its role as the center of the world, this may not be a problem for too long.

Tech is the easiest service to replace considering American tech workers by insisting on WFH have already largely eliminated the geographical advantages American tech used to have.
by perihelions | 2025-04-03 11:55:38+00:00
There's considerably more aluminum oxides in the stratosphere from solid rocket motors than satellite reentires, and that's been going on since the 1970's. The 135 Space Shuttle launches burned 160 tons of aluminum powder, per launch, in their SRB's. (22 kilotons in total?) An Ariane 6 launch burns 55 or 110 tons (2 or 4 boosters).

The largest satellite payloads are 20 tons in a launch.

(Al2O3 isn't even the highest-impact ozone depletor within the space industry; that's chlorine. Also from solid rocket fuel).
by JoshTriplett | 2025-04-03 11:55:46+00:00
I'm giving an example, which to some degree was meant as an existence proof of a way to support an unpopular position without getting massive downvotes. "X is entirely good with no problems whatsoever" being replaced by "I think the benefits of X outweigh the costs, and here's some acknowledgement of the costs". I'm not trying to suggest only one possible way to do that, or only one pattern to follow. (This is one danger of using an object-level example.)
by noduerme | 2025-04-03 11:56:00+00:00
It's likely not beneficial to them, for a couple reasons.

First of all, they can print Yuan. They want people to buy those pieces of paper for something of value. It doesn't do much good to have people send all that paper back in exchange for phones and tablets and stuff. Then they would've just got back some paper they printed in exchange for something that took time and resources to make.

No, they need something physical or at least valuable for that paper. Such as local labor. Then their own population can spend the paper internally, because it's in theory exchangeable for something external. When China buys stuff from the US, it spends dollars. Which it buys from the US not with Yuan, but with computer parts. It pays its own people Yuan to make the computer parts... but the Yuan is only valuable because the government holds dollars and euros to buy stuff that their citizens can then buy for Yuan.

This is why Trump's overall foreign policy and particulatly his tariffs scheme risks destroying America. If at some point enough countries decide that the USD is too unreliable, they may look for the next best paper to trade. That would be catastrophic for the US which may deserve it in any case, but it would be truly terrible if the alternative were a currency privately owned and manipulated by the leaders of a dictatorship. Perhaps the world isn't stupid enough to do that, but the size of China's economy compared to anything else would make it tempting.

I'll stipulate right now that if China were a democracy with civil rights and a fair legal system, I would have no problem with it taking over world trade from the US. But currently it's a repressive authoritarian state.
by robertlagrant | 2025-04-03 11:56:15+00:00
There's a big difference between money and power, though. A TSA agent can affect your life in a big way without the use of any money. That's power[0].

There's a big difference between money: voluntarily trading value for services and goods, some of which might negatively affect you, and power: trading nothing for direct control of aspects of your life.

[0] Not inappropriate power, or not in theory
by BLKNSLVR | 2025-04-03 11:56:18+00:00
Someone quoted this headline elsewhere, so I looked up the actual article[0].

It would have been hilarious back in 2001. It's... scarily prescient in 2025. Can satire be just too good?

[0]: https://theonion.com/bush-our-long-national-nightmare-of-pea...
by Cthulhu_ | 2025-04-03 11:56:21+00:00
They may be compelled to do that; there's 1.3 million packages from Chinese retailers a day coming in through the Netherlands, but since they're all individual packages, they fall under a threshold for import taxes. There's now calls to drop that threshold so that people pay import taxes for small items as well, and / or to compel Temu and co to stop shipping individual packages but do it in bulk.
by sneak | 2025-04-03 11:57:00+00:00
I would imagine the incentives being aligned (SX can’t make full economic and cultural Starship ROI if there is a planetsized wall of debris they can’t fly through) means that there will be multiple independent overlapping checks both private and government for each launch mission to ensure that it doesn’t become worse.

SpaceX stands to lose just as much as the rest of us if they fuck this up, possibly more.
by haolez | 2025-04-03 11:57:05+00:00
This reminded me of this old quote from Hal Abelson:

"Underlying our approach to this subject is our conviction that "computer science" is not a science and that its significance has little to do with computers. The computer revolution is a revolution in the way we think and in the way we express what we think. The essence of this change is the emergence of what might best be called procedural epistemology—the study of the structure of knowledge from an imperative point of view, as opposed to the more declarative point of view taken by classical mathematical subjects. Mathematics provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of "what is". Computation provides a framework for dealing precisely with notions of "how to"."
by threeseed | 2025-04-03 11:57:11+00:00
The problem is solvable by stopping people like Musk from putting 42,000 satellites in space.

Especially when the problem he is solving i.e. global access to internet is already solved just not to the level we would want it.

So as a society we have to ask what is more important: watching Netflix on a yacht or having the ability to someday explore the universe.
by maqp | 2025-04-03 11:57:33+00:00
>Are you aware the article you link to technically critiques MTProto 1, including links to web archives of the MTProto 1 docs?

Yes, but surely you realize a competent cryptographer wouldn't have implemented a backdoor looking design in the first place?

>Telegram does in fact have E2EE available in the form of Secret Chats, so that's just an incorrect statement from you.

No it's 100% correct and you just made my point for me.

1. Secret chats are not used by default, meaning most of users don't even know about it.

2. Secret chats are not available for group chats, not even small ones that have reasonable expectation for privacy.

3. Secret chats are not available for desktop chats, so you can not really use them seamlessly. I've spent six hours in front of my computer today. My phone is 30cm from my left hand. And I absolutely can't be arsed to pick it up every time my friend would send me a secret chat. Telegram's backdoor works exactly this way. They know I'm lazy. They make it my fault. Whereas with Signal, I can just alt-tab into the chats and reply there.

When I said Telegram only has E2EE in internet debates, that means people like you who love to point out it's technically there, but who also fail to understand what it takes for such feature to be even used on a daily basis.

>facile language invented by the person who has the most to gain from its use.

I've been criticizing Telegram for over a decade now. You trying to make it sound like it's Moxie who's the devil pulling all the strings and making my arguments for me, makes you look like an astroturfer employed by Telegram: https://tsf.telegram.org/
by blacklion | 2025-04-03 11:57:41+00:00
Unfortunately, no, as I've changed country of living year ago and still can not find way to good tea in new place. Also, I'm not sure, that recommendations from Europe is actual for you even if I have one.

But really best "black" tea of my life (and I spent most of my life in country with strong tea culture, where loose tea and teapots are still very popular, and not, it is not UK!) was bough at random tea factory in the middle of nowhere in Sri Lanka, packed in simple 1kg vacuum bags. No brand, no name, only date of picking (two days ago) and packing (today at the day of bought) :-)
by graemep | 2025-04-03 11:57:49+00:00
You are right, but the problem with turning the EU into a real union is that it is very difficult and risky. The creation of new nations and new identities more often than not leads to violence - and they are often formed by war.

Yes, the EU is fragile, but I think trying to fix it that way would be worse.

I think 1) the rich democracies in Europe are unlikely to go to war with each other and 2) have good reason to unite against common threats so I think a military alliance is military alliance makes sense.

Yes, we already have NATO but the US is going to be ever more focused on China, and Russia is not the threat the Soviet union was so a new military alliance focused on Russia and securing the Atlantic (the latter in cooperation with the US) makes a lot of sense. Obviously different countries have different interests (the Atlantic is a lot more important to the UK than it is to most others) but also enough in common.
by piva00 | 2025-04-03 11:57:53+00:00
Sure, keep being uncurious and ignorant, it's all your choice, it's you who is missing out.

"Fake intellectuals" is just... Sad, devaluing whole bodies of work simply because you cannot understand them, instead of attempting to curiously explore that you prefer to use a thought-terminating cliché and embrace your ignorance as supreme... All the while you live during a time where all information and knowledge in the world is there for you to access for free.

It's just... Sad to live that way but ignorance is bliss since it's just so much easier to reject anything that challenges you.
by brookst | 2025-04-03 11:58:30+00:00
I think you may be misinterpreting “possible” here. I’m shocked that it’s possible to get funding and interest to make a 639 year piece happen. It is unclear if it will be possible to complete. I do not think it would be possible to make a 10,000 year piece happen.

As with all things, the contraption is not the hard part. It’s the supporting civilization, society, economic context, and will of generations of people.

Cage’s game here is to question the entire scaffolding of art, not the pigments of the paint.
by solatic | 2025-04-03 11:58:45+00:00
Author thinks they are the lone person stuck in the middle between two tribes, but actually they are part of a third tribe that fallaciously believes that it is possible to write better policy, if only we took the time to study reality more and listen to more people and apply more reason etc. In short, Author distinguishes between the two established tribes (in which people make a very limited emotional engagement with the issues) and their tribe (in which people make a stronger emotional engagement). This is a fallacy because:

* It is not reasonable to expect most people to make strong emotional investments into voting choices that have little direct effect on their lives, and indeed we have a representative democracy rather than a direct democracy to recognize that reality * Reality is far, far more complicated than can be summarized in journalism or articles; many researchers spend their entire careers attempting to learn deeply about *one* area, let alone many areas; much pertinent information is non-public. Policies that are effective in one community are completely counter-productive in another. Believing that you are The Exception and that you Know The Right Way To Run The Country because you "do your research" is the height of hubris.

People will seek out good leadership. People will switch leaders when their current leadership fails to make them happy. Good leaders defer to experts, each in their own domain, who may make imperfect decisions and other mistakes but nonetheless make well-intentioned efforts to improve over time and pass on their knowledge so that future generations can learn from their mistakes. All else is natural variance due to human imperfection.
by dagw | 2025-04-03 11:58:45+00:00
This is 173% fud. If it happens, it's because Framework is dead

Take a look at the Framework desktop, it comes with soldered on RAM. Not because of any active decisions made by Framework, but simply because that's how that CPU ships. It literally didn't support RAM slots. I can only see this trend continuing. I don't doubt that Framework will be the last hold out in the fight against soldered on RAM and SSDs, but sooner or later if they want to keep shipping the latest CPUs, they probably won't have too much of a choice in the matter.
by jedimastert | 2025-04-03 11:59:03+00:00
> It was a significant improvement that now many a silly mistake did result in an error message instead of in an erroneous answer. (And even this improvement wasn't universally appreciated: some people found error messages they couldn't ignore more annoying than wrong results, and, when judging the relative merits of programming languages, some still seem to equate "the ease of programming" with the ease of making undetected mistakes.)

If I didn't know who wrote this it would seem like a jab directly at people who dislike Rust.
by sorcerer-mar | 2025-04-03 11:59:17+00:00
If you cannot comprehend the idea that work computers or phones can have software that is approved for one purpose, but not for others, then this discussion can't go anywhere.

If you work at a healthcare organization, you may have Slack, but that doesn't necessarily mean you can message people's PHI.

At a financial institution, you may have email, but that doesn't necessarily mean you can email PII.

At CIA, you may have Signal, but that doesn't mean you can discuss ongoing military operations in it.

I have already linked to policy that explicitly says non-public DoD information is not approved for Signal.

I find it literally not believable that you don't understand this concept, so I'll have to chalk this one up to motivated reasoning damaging your ability to interpret English.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-03 11:59:35+00:00
> when "more money for the rich" has always been the only consistent Republican policy.

You probably want to be more careful with how you phrase that. The Republican party passed the Civil Rights Act and ended slavery, among other things.

Those may not be the type of Republicans you are thinking of today, but they still had that little (R) next to their names.
by cubefox | 2025-04-03 11:59:35+00:00
> Or weak typing. How many languages thought that simplifying strings and integers and other types into "scalar", and making any operation between any operands meaningful, would simplify the language? Yet every single one ended up becoming a total mess instead.

Yet JavaScript and Python are the most widely used programming languages [1]. Which suggests your analysis is mistaken here.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/793628/worldwide-develop...
by jjice | 2025-04-03 12:00:13+00:00
I love my Framework AMD 13. Coming from an old Thinkpad X1 Carbon gen 3 I got used after a few years. Excellent form factor and oh so repairable. I’ve been very satisfied with the purchase.

I’m really rooting for Framework over the next decade to really establish themselves and hopefully affect some change in laptop repairability. And hell, even if they don’t, hopefully they’ll be around so I can continue to be a customer.
by olejorgenb | 2025-04-03 12:00:24+00:00
> EU market is harder to operate in (because everyone pays VAT)

Surely it's not exactly rocket-science to handle VAT...

Explain how it's an disadvantage for an US exporter compared to a domestic company... Give an example instead of handwaving. I'm willing to admit I don't understand all the details, but you wont convince me using this vague statement: "harder to operate in (because everyone pays VAT)" ...

If the US adjusted selected tariffs to protect selected industries the outcry wouldn't be the same, so I'm not very interested in specific examples where the US have a lower tariff than the "counterpart".
by matwood | 2025-04-03 12:00:35+00:00
> People using others papers to vote

Except every analysis has shown people are not doing this. Oddly, the few times there have been real cases, it's often GOP voting more than once or for their dead spouse or some such.

Think of it, if someone is truly not eligible to vote, why expose themselves to additional scrutiny for a single likely inconsequential vote?

Where fraud could happen is at scale, and with DOGE getting access to all systems and dismantling the agencies that guard against voting fraud, I feel that once again we're seeing that every accusation is an admission.
by bsenftner | 2025-04-03 12:00:36+00:00
> There is really one ultimate question here: "Is this the best use of our tax dollars?"

This attitude right here is why UBI will never exist without being a farce, a trap, and those that go on UBI regulated to institutionalized misery.

Plain fact: humans do not give gifts without expecting returns. UBI violates this basic tenant. No, the economic activity generated by UBI is not enough, that's a flat wash, the returns need to be just like investments.
by kjs3 | 2025-04-03 12:00:38+00:00
You hit on why I got my first used ThinkPad many years ago (a T42): it was so cheap as to be disposable. I was going on a trip that promised to be somewhat...ah...rough on my kit, and I picked up the T42 for dirt so I didn't take my new, very expensive laptop only to have it trashed (I don't remember what it was now...probably some Dell). The Dell(?) is loooong gone. The T42 made it through the trip fine, and over many years has gotten an SSD, a memory upgrade and a new screen (old one worked fine; wanted the pretty SXGA screen) and because it has a real, honest to gawd parallel port, it's still serving duty today controlling some stuff in my lab (PROM programmer, some finicky windows software, etc). It might not be a daily driver, but it gets fired up most every week to do real work.
by subpixel | 2025-04-03 12:00:57+00:00
The most visible example of tribalism is when groups fail to update their ideas and beliefs as facts start to come in. You can't escape the religious parallel.

This occurs clear across the political spectrum, but a standout example is record-breaking levels of immigration in European countries like Sweden and Germany. Instead of realizing the policy failure and acting to fix it, the line becomes "it was the right thing to do, it was just done poorly."
by seszett | 2025-04-03 12:01:01+00:00
That doesn't seem likely, because they separately listed parts of France that are wholly in the EU (Martinique, Guadeloupe, Réunion and French Guiana, separate tariffs there are as meaningless as having separate tariffs for Berlin and Munich) but they also did not list those that are NOT part of the EU (EDIT one list I found does list French Polynesia, but not New Caledonia[0]) even though they are the ones where a separate rate would make the "most" sense (if any of this makes sense anyway).

There is trade today between New Caledonia, or French Polynesia, and the US. They are probably going to be tariffed at the rate for France, which is probably going to be the one for the EU, but who knows, neither New Caledonia nor France itself are listed.

It is really apparent that there is no understanding behind this half-assed list.

[0]https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2025/04/02/heres-...
by alephnerd | 2025-04-03 12:01:05+00:00
The core EUV/DUV IP is co-owned by a mixture of National Labs, and much of the intermediate parts manufacturing has remained in the US as a result. It's not much of a check

> Zeiss the optics

Much of the photonics optics portion is in Dublin CA because of the DoE National Labs commercialization partnership

> ASML the mechanics and metrology

Much of which remains in California as well.

> I gather in Cambridge/UK they'd disagree with you. Even if in classical English stiff upper lip style they may say it less brashly (but not less harshly) than a Texan

Maybe, maybe not.

Hiring data (both open jobs as well as LinkedIn) show otherwise. Their design presence in UK and US is similar in size, and the India one is not far behind.

> This World is rather intertwined

I agree, but the world is not going to end with a goods tariff.

Canada and Mexico have been exempted (thank goodness Congress held the admin accountable), and much of the Americas, Australia, UK, and Philippines have been given a lower tariff slab.

Semiconductors, Pharmaceuticals, Services, Automtive intermediate parts, and a couple other high value goods have been exempted.

The only industries this really hurts is apparel and textiles (never coming back to America anyhow, but now it will return to Latin America) and assembled electronics (consumer electronics will not return to the US either, but Mexico and Brazil are now cost competitive over China and Vietnam).

This kind of a change was inevitable - we faced similar consternation from Europe when we rolled out the IRA under the Biden admin, and we never rolled back the initial tariffs from Trump 1. There is bipartisan appetite for this kind of an action (more planned mind you) but still the principle of supporting American industries either thru subsidies like under Biden or autaurky like under Trump holds.

Now go back to selling off your Satelite players (Eutelsat, OneWeb), Steel manufacturers (Port Talbot), telecom (BT), and battery (Faradion) players to Indian companies like Bharti, Tata, and Reliance.
by solarkraft | 2025-04-03 12:01:06+00:00
> using the open-source Stalwart stack

This is REALLY cool news. This will make them the second JMAP compatible vendor and the first that didn’t invent it (which is an ick)!

This makes it MUCH more interesting to build JMAP clients. I will most likely subscribe to this just to play around with JMAP because I‘ve been to lazy to set up Stalwart for myself.

I wonder whether they will build a new web front-end, since the existing FOSS ones I’m aware of aren’t all that great.