MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by gnabgib | 2025-04-29 23:02:37+00:00
A few past discussions:

2023 (150 points, 39 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35415403

2021 (763 points, 477 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27819384

2019 (22 points, 19 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19407334
by esalman | 2025-04-29 23:03:08+00:00
The irony here is that Democrats, for more than a decade, did anything and everything, by bankrolling taxpayers money into incentives and subsidies, to protect Tesla, help it compete and even flourish and scale, in the auto market where margins are razor thin and true innovations are hard to come by, even less so from smaller players. Nobody, except Republicans, batted an eye because climate change, science and environment comes first supposedly.
by AlotOfReading | 2025-04-29 23:03:21+00:00
I'm not sure even Tesla unambiguously qualifies here. Looking at the NHTSA part 583 list for 2025 [0], none of the Tesla vehicles have a "US" content higher than 75% (which I think includes Canada?). The highest is the base Kia EV6 at 80%. This seems to be coming from the Kogod manufacturing index. That's a more qualitative ranking that attempts to deal with things like corporate structures rather than just origin like the NHTSA numbers.

As someone who works in the industry, "where" something comes from is an inherently fuzzy concept. Different parts of the government use radically different definitions. For example, under NAFTA "domestic" parts are usually things manufactured anywhere in North America. This was done to onshore automotive manufacturing that wasn't realistically going to come back to the US, but political leaders didn't want to stay in Asia. One result of these tariffs may actually be that more auto manufacturing moves to Asia as the advantage of North American manufacturing is lost.

[0] https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2025-04/MY2025-A...
by cogman10 | 2025-04-29 23:03:30+00:00
> You're exaggerating to try to make a point

What am I exaggerating?

> if the mob had gotten into Congress,

Correct, which we have documents, conversations and even zipties which show that was the plan.

> if the mob had offed Democrats

Again, multiple conversations and recordings of mob members specifically saying this was the plan.

> if the Republicans then rubber stamped it and didn't have their own objections

There are literally court documents which ended up getting Eastman disbarred because, you guessed it, this was literally the plan. We even know who the collaborators were because we have recordings between them and Trump/Rudy about executing the plan.

> if the Supreme Court was also killed or if the Supreme Court chose to take no action

The supreme court is literally right around the corner from congress. But I admit, they weren't a part of any documented plan that I'm aware of. However, as we are seeing with the current Trump term that doesn't really matter now does it. If the executive and congress doesn't care about the SC then they are toothless.

> if the states involved like California also decided to go along with everything

It was an attempted coup. Who knows what Cali would do, they'd certainly object. But now you have a crisis where congress has declared trump the winner and the military has to choose whether or not they follow Cali or the Executive which they are bound to. How that would have played out is anyone's guess.

> That's so implausible to chain it all together, I might as well make a similar case for a group of guys with bombs in their cars.

You are now extrapolating past what I did. What would have happened in the aftermath of the coup isn't something that anyone could know. There's no way to know if it'd be successful. But that's entirely not the point. The point is the coup was attempted and it was damn near the point of having multiple congress people killed.

My point, which you are trying to get away from, is that this was more than a mosquito bite. This very well could have caused a huge amount of turmoil and that turmoil was planned and documented. And, of course, those that planned this turmoil were all pardoned by Trump.

What you are doing is downplaying how serious J6 was. You want to act like just because it wasn't successful, it wasn't serious. Or that just because it might never have been completely successful, it wasn't serious. That is ridiculous.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-04-29 23:03:33+00:00
> Do we have any complex mechanism which works for last 100 years nonstop without fail ?

For the following examples, this question is open, and you might have a different opinion whether they fit your opinion of "complex", but the following are candidates that I am aware of:

The 10,000 Year Clock (Clock of the Long Now)

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

https://www.10000yearclock.net/index.html

The organ in the St. Burchardi church in Halberstadt (Germany) that is used to play the ORGAN²/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) by John Cage

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

https://www.aslsp.org/
by linguae | 2025-04-29 23:03:48+00:00
The behavior I’ve seen from so many libertarians from 2017 onward, especially during the pandemic, January 6th, and Trump’s reelection, has revealed so much to me and has made me rethink my libertarianism. So many libertarians, when pressed, would gladly align themselves with the far-right for their own benefit, whether to accelerate the destruction of the state they hate so much, or whether because, deep down inside, they agree with the far-right on social views, and libertarianism was simply a cover for them to promote abhorrent social views.

I’ve read a lot of Murray Rothbard and Lew Rockwell back in the 2000s and the first half of the 2010s. I also voted for Ron Paul in the 2008 and 2012 primary and regular elections. I used to consider myself a Rothbardian-style libertarian. While I still view the Austrian School of Economics with high regard, my biggest problem with Rothbardianism is Rothbard’s 1990s turn to the right before his passing around 1995, and its deleterious effect on libertarianism. Rothbard supported “right-wing populism” as a way for the libertarian movement to advance. Rothbard supported Pat Buchanan’s 1992 presidential run (though Rothbard would fall out with Buchanan over the latter’s support for protectionism), and Rothbard even went as far as to support the notorious David Duke’s gubernatorial campaign in Louisiana. This right-wing populism strategy led to the paleolibertarian movement, which is limited-to-no government fused with a culturally conservative outlook. However, it’s this cultural conservative mindset that has led so many libertarians to be so enamored with Trump. Trump, after all, is a much more bombastic version of Buchanan, who has a similar ideology. It seems protectionism can be overlooked when people view “wokeness,” and not a breakdown of rule of law, is the biggest problem in American society…

Ironically, it was Rothbard himself who complained earlier in his career about right-wingers who “hated the left more than they hated the state,” yet so many libertarians today are willing to embrace the far-right because they view the left as enemy #1. If I had a dollar for every time I saw a post or article sympathetic to Pinochet, I’d probably have enough for a nice MacBook Pro.

I realized over the years that while I’m still very skeptical of government power, I don’t hate the state, and I prefer good government over chaos. I value liberal institutions and feel they should be defended.
by gnabgib | 2025-04-29 23:04:28+00:00
Discussion (128 points, 66 days ago, 139 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43140754

Related Bybit loses $1.5B in hack (320 points, 67 days ago, 373 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43130143
by Aurornis | 2025-04-29 23:04:46+00:00
The article is really bad. Even the original source is just an off-hand comment from Lutnick, not the final regulation.

The idea is that automakers will get special exemptions from the tariffs for what they do import.

Handing out tariff exemptions was one of the red flags people were raising during this process. It becomes a lever the administration can pull to grant favor to specific companies. Everyone else suffers.
by semiquaver | 2025-04-29 23:04:55+00:00
I think you may have misunderstood my comment. I think it’s quite interesting. I was responding to parent who is horrified that AI can violate privacy like this:

> This tool just makes it easier for weirdos to achieve their goals at stalking women and kids. > Crazy that this is even allowed.

I was pointing out that to not “allow” using context clues to interpret an image location, something any well-trained human can also do and is in fact an active hobby/esport, is a bit silly.
by js2 | 2025-04-29 23:05:21+00:00
Unpacked, it's actually 517M on disk:

517M ─┬ Screen Studio.app 100% 517M └─┬ Contents 100% 284M ├─┬ Resources 55% 150M │ ├── app.asar 29% 133M │ └─┬ app.asar.unpacked 26% 117M │ ├─┬ bin 23% 39M │ │ ├── ffmpeg-darwin-arm64 8% 26M │ │ ├── deep-filter-arm64 5% 11M │ │ ├─┬ prod 2% 10.0M │ │ │ └── polyrecorder-prod 2% 11M │ │ ├─┬ beta 2% 10.0M │ │ │ └── polyrecorder-beta 2% 10.0M │ │ ├── hide-icons 2% 9.9M │ │ ├─┬ discovery 2% 8.9M │ │ │ └── polyrecorder 2% 5.6M │ │ └── macos-wallpaper 1% 16M │ └─┬ node_modules 3% 10M │ ├─┬ hide-desktop-icons 2% 10.0M │ │ └─┬ scripts 2% 10.0M │ │ └── HideIcons 2% 5.7M │ └─┬ wallpaper 1% 5.7M │ └─┬ source 1% 5.6M │ └── macos-wallpaper 1% 232M └─┬ Frameworks 45% 231M └─┬ Electron Framework.framework 45% 231M └─┬ Versions 45% 231M └─┬ A 45% 147M ├── Electron Framework 29% 57M ├─┬ Resources 11% 10.0M │ ├── icudtl.dat 2% 5.5M │ └── resources.pak 1% 24M └─┬ Libraries 5% 15M ├── libvk_swiftshader.dylib 3% 6.8M └── libGLESv2.dylib 1%
by Retric | 2025-04-29 23:06:00+00:00
That negative view doesn’t match the underlying reality of the world today. We’re simply getting a closer look at just what most people are like on social media/reality TV/streaming etc. Meanwhile the past sucked.

Consider what are the major issues right now that aren’t being addressed? Global poverty is at an all time low, climate change has been met with vast investments in solar/wind/batteries/EV’s etc, there’s suddenly effective drugs for obesity, poverty’s down, medicine keeps advancing and antibiotic resistance is being slowed down by better methodologies, etc

The mainstream in the US is far more accepting than ever, remember when gay marriage was illegal? Yea interracial marriage was illegal in some areas as recently as 1967.

Not everything is improving in lockstep, but the general trends aren’t nearly as bad as you imply.
by mindcrime | 2025-04-29 23:06:18+00:00
Yes, so long as the backups themselves are not vulnerable! That's why I want to pull my backups in the future. I'm picturing a remote server, connecting to the primary server using cert based auth and pulling the backup files down. That way nothing on the primary server indicates where backups are being stored, or even that they are being stored at all, and no credentials for the backup server are on the primary server.

In the past I've fallen back to pushing backup files to an S3 bucket from the server being backed up, and that's fine for protecting against some situations. But with the AWS credentials / etc. on the machine where they could be potentially compromised... not good. So I'm going to rework how I do this sort of thing in the future.
by aleph_minus_one | 2025-04-29 23:06:43+00:00
> Of course I get that Star Wars isn't hard sci-fi. It's fantasy sci-fi, hence we have droids that scream and get tortured ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The genre of Star Wars is "Space Opera":

> https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SpaceOpera
by gertlex | 2025-04-29 23:06:47+00:00
Windows are a good solution, except, MS Windows (my home desktop) makes it not a good solution.

I'm pretty sure the ordering of my 4 firefox windows used to stay fixed (i.e when clicking the tray icon, and seeing the 4), but this stopped being the case a few years ago for me.

So I live with 3-4 windows; I don't think having 10 windows would help me because their arrangement is not consistent.

(I hover between about 600-1100 tabs open; I do cleanup when I notice I'm near or above 1000; I don't reliably do cleanup after e.g. opening 5 ebay tabs and deciding what to buy; nor do I reliably finish using those ebay tabs in one sitting; multiply that by the dozens of things I might be researching/comparing, going back many months :) )

(I keep my work Linux laptop Chrome browser to under 50 tabs, and often don't bother restoring tabs after my laptop is rebooted)
by munchler | 2025-04-29 23:06:48+00:00
I'm happy to have this discussion, but I think you're making a false equivalence between the two sides. The examples you provided of liberal scientific overreach are either false or exaggerated. On the other side, you have an anti-vaxxer running the Department of Health and a president who suggested ingesting bleach to treat covid.

To respond to your examples specifically:

* Racist highways: I don't know what this is about.

* Periods in transgender men: This is a small, nuanced issue, not something worth destroying civilization over.

* Racism is a disease: Again, not familiar with this.

* Gun violence is a disease: It is the leading cause of death among children in this country, so treating it as an epidemic makes some sense. Should the CDC just pretend it's not happening?

* Lying about the origins of covid: Not sure who lied about this. The actual origin may never be known, but it most likely evolved from a disease that affected animals in Asia. There is no evidence that it was developed deliberately by China as a bioweapon.

* Lying about the efficacy of masks: Again, not sure what lie you're referring to. Masking was a rational response to an unknown virus. Since covid is a highly contagious respiratory disease, too much masking is certainly better than not enough masking.

* Lying about the efficacy of the vaccine: Again, not sure what lie you're referring to. The covid vaccines saved many thousands of lives.

* Pushing ineffective and harmful lockdowns: This was another rational response to an unknown virus. Lockdowns saved lives, even though they caused huge disruptions.

Your claim that the scientific community overreacted to covid is particularly unjustified and concerning to me. People like Anthony Fauci should be celebrated as heroes, not vilified.
by godelski | 2025-04-29 23:07:10+00:00
I don't think the time claim was exaggeration or clickbait.

I do appreciate you re-running the experiments without search. I think it adds far more legitimacy to the claim. Though in that link I only see a single instance.

Does O3 still beat you when it can't search? I'm still interested in that question. Or more specifically: After making O3's play constraints as comparable to a human's (in expected play settings), what is its performance? Truthfully, I think this is the underlying issue that people were bringing up when pointing out EXIF data. How it was cheating was less important than the fact that it was cheating. That's why allowing a different means to cheat undermines your claims.
by Aloisius | 2025-04-29 23:07:17+00:00
From the 2025 Part 583 for this year:

- Tesla model 3 - 70-75% US/Canada content

- Tesla model Y - 70% US/Canada content

- Tesla Cybertruck - 65% US/Canada content

- Tesla model S - 65% US/Canada content

Perhaps it is calculated differently since no one hits 85%.

https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.gov/files/2025-04/MY2025-A...
by kube-system | 2025-04-29 23:07:31+00:00
The area has enough traffic to support three airports, and all three (DCA/IAD/BWI) carry between 26-27 million passengers a year, each. I don't think you could close one of them without some significant disruption to service.

Travel in/out of IAD from DC can take an hour, which is obviously why people there prefer DCA. And the flights there are all short-haul anyway, so many are the types of flights people are doing on short turnarounds.
by throwaway0123_5 | 2025-04-29 23:07:39+00:00
For cities and landscapes in the US it is scary good. I tried about twenty photos from (mostly rural) Central and South America and it is much less effective there w/o a well-known landmark to go off of (likely unsurprisingly). In four cases it got the wrong continent entirely, and in one case guessed as far away as India.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-29 23:07:47+00:00
> Right but presumably 85% of the parts aren't imported?

85% of parts != 85% of cost

The rules for calculating what percentage of a vehicle is domestic or foreign made are obscure. It's not clear what rules they're going to be using for this tariff exemption yet.

It could be possible that the 15% foreign content of a car could make up 30% of the cost of goods sold, for example. If the parts come from China they could have a 125% or higher tariff applied, pushing the share of BOM cost even higher.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-04-29 23:08:10+00:00
Huh? If anything, it now should be clearer than ever that it has been for a long time. The only difference is that the oligarch that happens to be benefiting from it is in the public spotlight, associated with and part of the current administration, and at the same time main guy for several publicly owned companies.

If the other oligarchs seem to be doing nothing, it is not because they have no power to wield.

Good grief. There are times when I read some posts and it is like reading youtube comments under madtv skit 'apple i-rack' asking what it means... how do you not know what it means?
by bigyabai | 2025-04-29 23:08:11+00:00
I'm quite a big fan of my Quest 1 as a cheap flight sim headset, too. I don't end up using it more than maybe twice a week, but that's more than worth-it for the $400 I paid 5 years ago. It installs (or "sideloads" in present vernacular) Android apps like any other device, browses the web, and streams wireless VR from my desktop via ALVR when I want to play games. It does a lot of stuff you wouldn't expect out of a "depreciated" piece of hardware.

The trepidation behind VR for professional applications makes sense to me - it's expensive and tough to compare with what it's replacing. As a pure vehicle for fun though, I genuinely have no regrets with my Quest hardware. It was easily a better purchase than my Xbox One.
by LorenPechtel | 2025-04-29 23:08:44+00:00
We have plenty of small scale collapses that weren't of limited duration. It's just that such things are typically only noted by archeologists. We only see the survivors and thus conclude that collapse isn't an existential problem.

I do agree on Covid disability. Early on we saw some pretty dire predictions, but since then it's mostly been an exercise in muddying the waters. Lots of wheel-spinning about what constitutes long Covid when they should have simply been collecting data on the various symptoms. Better to not see the problem than have to deal with it.

Look at how we were handling AIDS before we discovered it was HIV destroying the immune system. Long Covid is still at that stage--we are seeing a slew of highly varied effects rather than the mechanism.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-29 23:09:13+00:00
The parent comment was a confusing statement. They were saying that buying a used car or goods from a second-hand store does not go through the tariff process because the produce is already here.

There was a loophole in the past where you could take delivery of a car in a foreign country, drive it for a while, and then go through the process of importing it as if you were moving back to the United States. I don't know if the new tariffs honor that loophole or not.
by gparke | 2025-04-29 23:09:23+00:00
Does it depend on whether you know in advance _when_ you need it back at the hot temperature?

If you don’t think ahead and simply switch the heater back on when you need it, then you need the heater on for_longer_.

That means you have to pay back the energy you lost, but also the energy you lose during the reheating process. Maybe that’s the countervailing effect?

> Hotter objects require more energy to add another unit of heat

Not sure about this. A unit of heat is a unit energy, right? Maybe you were thinking of entropy?
by gertlex | 2025-04-29 23:10:06+00:00
I haven't regularly bookmarked sites in a decade or more. The bookmarks are in my head, and I can live with the Omnibar mostly reliably surfacing the things I didn't finish, and later recall and want to pick up.

That said, I'm pretty sure the Omnibar is buggy at finding tabs. I inevitably have several tabs to gmail "open". It ought to be a lot easier than it is to find /return to the last-used gmail tab, and not one of the several from previous browsing sessions. :)
by alganet | 2025-04-29 23:13:02+00:00
That is exactly what the AI told me.

In theory, communism works but in practice it was different.

The AI also tells me that the sci fi plot is not like that, that it will work in practice.

In the words of the famous prophet Dave Mustaine "if there's a new way, I'll be the first in line, but it better work this time" and also "you know your worth when your enemies praise your architecture of aggression".
by g-b-r | 2025-04-29 23:13:23+00:00
> Android can play more than 2 media streams at once.

From what I can glean that's only if the apps allow that, by not requesting the audio focus, and the documentation recommends to request it.

It's indeed very rare to find two (or more) apps that can play audio at the same time.

Not to mention that you can't set the volume of the individual apps (unless they have their own volume controls).

> A 2GB phone isn't a modern phone. I worked on Android and that was our Emerging Markets™ standard (read: dirt cheapest phone expected to work ok) in 2018, 7 years ago.

He might have meant 2GB of free ram, and so at least a 4GB phone.
by tom_ | 2025-04-29 23:13:33+00:00
It has to cater for any possible input. Even with special case handling for this particular (generally uncommon) case of vast runs of the same value: the compressed data will probably be packetized somehow, and each packet can reproduce only so many repeats, so you'll need to repeat each packet enough times to reproduce the output. With 10 GB, it mounts up.

I tried this on my computer with a couple of other tools, after creating a file full of 0s as per the article.

gzip -9 turns it into 10,436,266 bytes in approx 1 minute.

xz -9 turns it into 1,568,052 bytes in approx 4 minutes.

bzip2 -9 turns it into 7,506 (!) bytes in approx 5 minutes.

I think OP should consider getting bzip2 on the case. 2 TBytes of 0s should compress nicely. And I'm long overdue an upgrade to my laptop... you probably won't be waiting long for the result on anything modern.
by forgotpwagain | 2025-04-29 23:14:38+00:00
Indeed, now is the moment to step on the gas in biotech. The past 15 years have been nothing short of extraordinary in the field. We finally have the tools needed to effectively measure biology, manipulate biology, and increasingly predict biology. More recently, we have been able to turn more and more problems into computational problems.

With all of this coming together, we should be accelerating both public and private investment in biotechnology because we're getting closer and closer to transformative therapies. But...we're failing to rise to the occasion and meet the moment.
by fullshark | 2025-04-29 23:16:17+00:00
I just think a lot of democrats really haven't paid attention to how Trump has morphed the Republican party and the realignment that has been going on. They still think of a Republican as George w. Bush / John McCain / Mitt Romney even though they have all been effectively excommunicated from the party. I think part of it was hope was Trump was a momentary blip but that's obviously no longer the case.