MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by pembrook | 2025-04-03 16:38:26+00:00
“Diversity” is a nice positive spin on what is an extremely fragmented/disjointed/nonexistent energy policy, military strategy, technological cooperation, consumer markets, etc. Like I said, the average European cannot converse with his/her neighbor even at a 1st grade level in a common language. These are obviously not strengths in the context of the current international order, and to try to brush that away with platitudes is to live outside of reality.

If the EU had a cohesive strategy on these things, you can 100% guarantee Russia wouldn’t be starting wars along its borders. Russia is a small, weak economy compared to a theoretical unified EU (the irony of that phrase!)

Also, the reason Finland didn’t join NATO before is not because Finland felt they were so strong on their own. It’s because Finland didn’t want to piss off Russia in the slightest way and end up like Ukraine. An inability to make formal alignments comes from a position of weakness, not strength.
by 332451b | 2025-04-03 16:38:39+00:00
For the EU and US: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...

> For technical reasons, there is not one “absolute” figure for the average tariffs on EU-US trade, as this calculation can be done in a variety of ways which produce quite varied results. Nevertheless, considering the actual trade in goods between the EU and US, in practice the average tariff rate on both sides is approximately 1%. In 2023, the US collected approximately €7 billion of tariffs on EU exports, and the EU collected approximately €3 billion on US exports.
by TehCorwiz | 2025-04-03 16:38:40+00:00
The current spending bill has a 4.5T giveaway to corps and the ultra rich. The goal is to drive prices to the floor and then buy everything up.

What's a 50% drop in value to a billionaire? Most of them would still be a billionaire and the ones that fall from that group still have more money than they could ever spend. No wealthy person will truly feel what's going on. They'll still vacation and eat their caviar. Caricatures aside, it's absurd to compare someone stock sheet numbers going down with people not able to find medical care or feed themselves.
by ssttoo | 2025-04-03 16:39:01+00:00
Beethoven’s 5th symphony (da-da-da-DAA) starts with a rest too, it’s not unusual to notate like this. Many pieces have “pickup” measures which are not complete and much shorter than a full measure. But when the pickup is more than 50% of a normal measure, it’s no longer much of a pickup and starting with a rest to make up the complete measure makes sense.
by Marsymars | 2025-04-03 16:39:08+00:00
> Can you explain why countries have tariffs if tariffs are bad for their economies as a general principle?

Primarily special interest groups. e.g. You have a hundred people, everyone loses 1% of their salary due to tariffs, but one person retains 90% of the tariffs and the remaining 10% is lost. The net result is negative, most people don't care much about the 1%, but the one winner is vociferously against losing his entire income.
by tomnipotent | 2025-04-03 16:39:15+00:00
Valve used its influence over game publishers to stifle their competition in the digital distribution market.

I'm a happy Valve customer, and I'd still likely buy with them even if other platform's offered lower prices, but that doesn't change that they've leveraged their market domination to force concessions from publishers that benefit their business at the cost of competitors and customers.
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-04-03 16:39:22+00:00
> Where I live right now it's simply impossible because it's required to have an ID, we are also 10 million people so it's pretty easy to not fall into the cracks.

The hypocrisy here is astonishing. You are fine with your country requiring an ID but not mine. I think it's really telling that everyone on this thread is concerned with letting people vote without an ID, but nobody is saying we should try to help get people IDs because without an ID your life must be a complete shambles and they have no access to many basic government benefits or just basic things in life.

A state ID is proof of citizenship. There is no federal ID card in the US. I'm sorry, you shouldn't express opinions on these things when you clearly don't have basic understanding of what is going on.

> You simply are talking past through me, it's clear as day that people in the USA who want to vote many times cannot vote

Right, that is what the media puts out there, but it never actually happens. That's why I said it must be easy to find at least one actual person who couldn't vote, because supposedly there are so many. I've never met one nor heard of one. In the worst case they give you a 'provisional' ballot and in the event the election is close enough they check each one to see if that person was qualified to vote before counting it, but they ALWAYS let you vote. I had to do a provisional ballot in Santa Cruz, California (one of the most liberal cities in the US) to vote for Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary. It's not uncommon, but they NEVER turn anyone away from voting. I'm sorry, but you just have absolute ignorance here.
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-03 16:39:40+00:00
Definitely at any time of his life, his entire life's work up to that point was as a comical catalyst for financial losses.

A majority of successful businessmen over the decades would never consider him a businesslike thinker at all, just the opposite of an advanced thinker was a much more widespread consensus before he became well-known as a media curiousity.

People just can't legitimately expect anything different at this point, the bigger the stakes , the greater the losses. His consistency in this regard was legendary, and it took decades before there were millions more people who fell for his carefully crafted media image, in excess of the millions who had always ridiculed him.

The only consolation is that those who have trusted him most end up losing the most.
by jchw | 2025-04-03 16:40:02+00:00
I'm rooting for Ladybird to gain traction in the future. Currently, it is using cURL proper for networking. That is probably going to have some challenges (I think cURL is still limited in some ways, e.g. I don't think it can do WebSockets over h2 yet) but on the other hand, having a rising browser engine might eventually remove this avenue for fingerprinting since legitimate traffic will have the same fingerprint as stock cURL.
by donnachangstein | 2025-04-03 16:40:02+00:00
Writing software specifically for the BSDs then licensing it LGPL is like trying to sell them chilled, bottled poison from a roadside stand. What were they thinking?

That said, this sounds like what systemd should have been: a service control manager and nothing more, before they got a thirst for power and wanted to control any and every thing about the system.

But one of those already exists, it's called launchd, as long as you don't mind XML vs Windows INI syntax.
by LinuxAmbulance | 2025-04-03 16:40:05+00:00
You'll find unquestioning dogmatism everywhere you go unfortunately.

For what it's worth, the odds for rationally evaluating political ideas tend to go up around folks that have gone to universities that are known for some decent level of intellectual rigor.

Still not great though, some of the most dogmatic people I've met in my life were professors and undergrads. But those that were the opposite more than made up for that.
by joshdickson | 2025-04-03 16:40:14+00:00
Would you mind posting/messaging me in some way (links in bio) what you expected it to show?

It looks like for unsweetened oat milk:

https://www.opennutrition.app/search/unsweetened-oat-milk-mt...

...it is leaning into a citation from the Australian Nutrient Database (e.g. Oat beverage, fluid, unfortified. Australian Nutrient Database. Public Food Key F006132. ), which is what I instructed it to do if it thought there was an exact match from a governmental database.

It's possible this is a poor general source for oat milk or that's not the beverage intended for the entry to stand for. I'll check it out, thank you for the report.
by SJC_Hacker | 2025-04-03 16:40:16+00:00
Cheese is the obvious one here. I can get a variety of foreign cheeses even at my local big-box grocery. Much better options than most domestically produced cheese.

Irish/Finnish butter (Kerrygold/Finlandia) is also fairly popular here.

If properly refrigerated, milk can last for months especially if pasteurized.

You can also evaporate milk and it will last nearly forever unrefrigerated if kept dry
by vinceguidry | 2025-04-03 16:40:44+00:00
> I can't see how you can dismiss rationality/rationalism as insufficient to process reality on the basis of "ignoring the limbic", without dismissing all of science and mathematics in the process.

Only a rationalist could make such a statement. I tell you rationalism is only a part of reality, not the whole, and you take that as a dismissal of all of the rational. I have no problems with science and maths, I just don't elevate them to the level of prime importance that rationalists do. I watched the Veritasium video on Cantor and the Axiom of Choice before I saw it on HN, and I follow Dr. Angela Collier on YouTube.

I'm an intuitionist, not a rationalist. I believe in a broad and rich informational diet, and that intuitive understanding is better than reductionist, which is the only kind of understanding rationalists seem to value.

> is that we can model and reason about the "limbic",

We can, and the academic domain that produces is generally called the humanities, and the humanities seem to be almost universally dismissed, even despised, by rationalists. So color me unimpressed when rationalists do this acceptance / dismissal dance regarding them. You don't really care about the humanities, just that we can model and reason about them. You want your rational bent to encompass the irrational, when fundamentally it cannot do that. Yes we can study the humanities. Just not with science or math or any other positivistic approach that would satisfy a rationalist.

And I fundamentally disagree with the notion that it's the cognitive that allowed us to dominate. In fact it's the cooperation between the cognitive and the limbic that produces the language that allows us to communicate with each other that gave us the advantage. Without the limbic there's no reason or room to cooperate.

All your viewpoint seeks to do is reduce the real into the rational.

> Just like in math, if you construct a seemingly solid edifice of theorems and proofs, but forget and subsequently violate a critical assumption, all kind of wild conclusions will come out the other end.

Hence Elon Musk's Nazi-esque government takeover.
by dekhn | 2025-04-03 16:40:45+00:00
Endowments are typically restricted funds (imposed by the fund provider) and can't be used (unless the restrictions are removed) to be used for general operating budget.

Harvard generally uses the interest on the fund principal to pay for things and it was a massive internal controversy when folks proposed drawing down the (absolutely enormous) principal as payment for capital expenditures (among other controversies).
by _winx | 2025-04-03 16:41:22+00:00
Upon checking these emails, I realized what I did. It's a different company but with an but with an overlap in name/domain (Serp API/Search API) and similar website where I also applied. As embarrassing as this is, it really happened. I don't want to spread misinformation but can't edit the parent posts anymore. I'll contact the mods if it's possible to just edit/delete them. I'm really sorry.
by dpc_01234 | 2025-04-03 16:41:54+00:00
Yes.

If you're into green policies, then tariffs are aligned with what you'd probably want, at least on some level. Though it's more complicated and by no means a slam dunk. One could say that producing things locally in more places is less efficient (lower economies of scale, etc.) which might result in more overhead per item, which might outweigh the extra transportation, etc. General assumption is that an unconstrained free market arrangement encourages system optimizing itself. But then there's a question what is it optimizing itself for, and that's definitely not ecological impact.

A change like that in a global economy has tons of non-linear effects, many of which it need to play over time, etc. Some changes are more easy to predict confidently, many not so much. But barely anyone argues from first principles, and its typically just tribal screeching on both sides.
by kolanos | 2025-04-03 16:41:57+00:00
The u.S. didn't negotiate protectionist policies against their own exports. Can you cite a single example of this?

A more charitable explanation is that the U.S. has been all in on globalization and free trade since the 1970s and the rest of the world took a protectionist stance in response. I'm sure the rest of the world had their reasons. But the U.S. does now, too. Globalization and free trade that only substantially flows in one direction simply is not sustainable.
by k310 | 2025-04-03 16:41:57+00:00
They're not tariffs. They're sanctions. [0] by an angry old man against the whole world. [1]

[0] https://prospect.org/economy/2025-04-03-theyre-not-tariffs-t...

[1] I'm an altruistic old man. No ageism here. Resentment and greed are choices.
by palmotea | 2025-04-03 16:41:58+00:00
> The original architects of American global power did something very clever that no other empire had ever done before: they deliberately hid the instruments of their power.

> Specifically, they institutionalized the hard power of the post-WW2 American military into a "rules-based international order" and the organizations needed to run it.

> ...

> The reason they did this is because repeated use of hard military power is fragile and self-defeating: it engenders resentment and breeds defiance.

I think a similar thing happened to the people with the ideology of markets: they're presented as some neutral, optimal thing, but they aren't. They encode biases and preferences that suit powerful interests, which can take a lot of effort for a common person to discern. But since there's no leader or decision-maker to point to and defy, so it's hard to organize people about the problems, and then it's hard to point them at the right root cause/solution.
by tim333 | 2025-04-03 16:42:03+00:00
I'm not sure how it'll work in the US but in the UK when I'm buying cheap Chinese stuff on eBay there are usually two options - have it posted from China which is cheapest but slow, or order it from a UK distributor who has bulk imported from China which costs a bit more but arrives in a couple of days. I guess everything will move to the latter system?
by no_wizard | 2025-04-03 16:42:15+00:00
Cost cutting always enters the equation, because somehow its better to eliminate benefits. Why not reform the programs? There is actually ample room for this, particularly with Social Security. Why not raise revenue via land value taxes, closing tax loopholes and other less and/or non regressive means?

The social safety net in this country is already terrible, making it more terrible by cutting the programs won't be better for anyone except a slice of the wealthy
by nostrademons | 2025-04-03 16:42:19+00:00
It's kinda their job to not listen. CEOs get bombarded with thousands of pieces of information each week. If they shifted the company direction each time, the company would get nothing wrong. In the immortal words of Ribbonfarm, "CEOs don't steer":

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/11/09/ceos-dont-steer/

A good CEO will let in just the little bit of information that saves the company - this was Andy Grove's pivot to focus on microprocessors over memory chips, or Steve Jobs's turnaround of Apple. You didn't have a good CEO, and got your average mediocre CEO that sets a strategic direction and sticks with it regardless of what the market says.

I'm curious though, if you knew your employer was going under, why not jump ship to the competitor that actually did understand what customers wanted? Employees are economic agents too, and oftentimes competitors are more than happy to hire out of their competition.
by makeitdouble | 2025-04-03 16:42:37+00:00
Yes, it's not a fatality.

For context, that's what I'm talking about with the kind of patterns when it happens: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254769961?sortBy=rank

> packing it in tightly with books

Which is basically equivalent to "putting it in a backpack" to me. I brought my last one in a lot of places, putting it with an iPad in the laptop compartment, the iPad was fine, the MacBook screen wasn't. For comparison I have an Asus X13 now, same use case (the iPad became a Surface Pro) for the same one year+ period now, and the screen is still perfect.
by nkozyra | 2025-04-03 16:42:54+00:00
I think people look at "national debt" as though we're buying trillions of dollars of stuff and not, fundamentally, two things:

1) mandatory saving for future, like a Social Security for the country (which is ironically also comprised of Social Security)

2) investments made into the future of the country. People buy T-bonds because they're reliable returns. Low risk, relatively low reward. If suddenly our future looks less bright, our debt will slow, but it will be a pretty telling canary in the coal mine.

It's baffling to me that people generally don't grasp this. They treat it as though we're just ... buying stuff on a credit card.
by classichasclass | 2025-04-03 16:42:59+00:00
The part I'm particularly impressed with is what they determined was better to leave out ( https://github.com/InitWare/InitWare/wiki/Dropped-components ), especially the crypto and DNS portions which they quite reasonably determined they were insufficiently skilled to maintain (and modules that could be catastrophically damaging if you got them wrong). That's simply ample prudence and speaks well of the project.
by a3w | 2025-04-03 16:43:06+00:00
And subscription service free is high on my wishlist, too.

I could perhaps live with subscription terms that are still variable amount / mount (currently 0) as servers do cost money. Even if their quasi-monopoly would allow them to extort us. But what needs to be more reliable, is that the ToS I applied to when I bought the game should not change afterwards in a one-sided proposal to keep access to my game licenses. Which is not allowed in our jurisdiction at least, so steam was found non-compliant in the EU.

(Back in 2021) https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/it/ip_21_...
by fauigerzigerk | 2025-04-03 16:43:20+00:00
>but I _think_ what I've learned recently is that in the UK it isn't actually fractional reserve banking, which I was surprised by.

The BoE doesn't currently impose a mandatory reserve requirement. They do have more general liquidity requirements though (central bank reserves being one possible source of liquidity). I would still see it as a fractional reserve banking system, especially as these minor differences don't matter for the question of how money is created.
by __MatrixMan__ | 2025-04-03 16:43:50+00:00
Maybe there were better words I could have used there, sorry.

You can of course track it however you want, but the complexity of what you end up tracking explodes if you're operating on something like a monthly billing cycle. Especially if you have more than one financial institution with an opinion about whether money should/did get moved.

I've been involved with the maintenance of several billing pipelines and having to handle events like maybe the bank was only able to collect half of this person's bill but it took them a few days to let us know that, but we've already sent that money over here so now we' have this deficit and do we shut off their service over a deficit of just $5...

It's a nightmare that's totally orthogonal to the business that's being run. Nobody wants to be on the billing team, but it's viewed as a necessary evil. But I'm saying that it's an unnecessary evil. If you can very quickly settle up for practically nothing, then you can just build the app to withhold service for a few milliseconds until payment clears and then there's no debts to keep track of and resolve later. And having it on a public blockchain means that if you're collaborating with other companies over how the pie gets sliced, there's a single source of truth for how big the pie actually is.
by SXX | 2025-04-03 16:44:19+00:00
It's not like this is Steam fault. You can always return games you played under 2 hours no questions asked. Some people just like to buy stuff they dont need or hoard random things, but it's as old as humanity itself

At leastrented digital games on Steam account dont contribute to global warming, waste problems and dont use tons of electicity to mint some tokens.

I guess only major issue Steam really have to solve is ability to inherit these digital purchases if owner has died. Their license agreement dont have proper procedure for that.
by zjp | 2025-04-03 16:44:23+00:00
Yes! I've been consistently frustrated at both sides of the issue. It became salient for me when I read about how China had sanctioned three American drone manufacturers that were supplying Ukraine last year, and how it disrupted their supply chains and ultimately the war effort.

It is unacceptable for any other country to be able to do this to any part of the western-aligned military supply chain.

We needed a targeted policy -- I don't care about American cars except to the extent that those factories can be converted to aircraft and tank factories.

But the conversation has been frustratingly reduced to 'reshore low skill work' vs 'save my infinite trough of cheap plastic slop'.

I don't want to hear about tariffs bad, I want to hear about how subsidies are better or about how it doesn't matter anyway because of the structure of the Chinese economy (I saw it claimed without evidence that they depend on imports from places aligned with the west which is reassuring if substantiated).

There's an underlying issue everyone is dancing around.
by tombert | 2025-04-03 16:44:30+00:00
> I’m pretty sure that they weren’t voting for those candidates for the express purpose of stripping away those rights and there were other policies and values that they were voting for.

In some markets, about one third of the entire Trump campaign advertising was fear-mongering about how dangerous LGBTQ people are. They wouldn't have spent so much on this if they didn't think it was a uniquely important to their constituents.

I think you're unequivocally wrong if you don't think that Conservatives in the US are above voting for a single issue.

I don't know enough about the Palestine/Israel conflict to be able to make an informed opinion on it, so I won't comment on that.
by sodality2 | 2025-04-03 16:44:47+00:00
I have to say, irrespective of any concerns about the LLM-generated content, the actual app alone (goal-setting, macro tracking, etc) is the best free iOS-based nutrition-tracking app I've ever used, at first use. It's actually shockingly hard to find good, free (or even one time payment!) ones that don't constantly nag you to upgrade and paywall. I would pay a lot (once) for a nutrition/weight tracking app as slick as this, with all of the goal setting, data graphs, etc, that uses the OpenFoodFacts database, not your own. (Soliciting suggestions!) Please consider making the AI features optional and instead using the OFF database as the primary source.

Also, looks like the Apple Health option in Settings actually opens the start-of-week settings modal.
by abidhusain | 2025-04-03 16:44:51+00:00
The advancements in AI and robotics are incredibly exciting! With complex systems like Gemini, companies will need to rely on specialized teams to bring these innovations to life.

Outsourcing specific roles such as AI research or robotics engineers can help companies bring top-tier talent into the fold without the burden of full-time recruitment. It's fascinating to see how outsourcing can complement R&D in cutting-edge industries like robotics.

Curious to see how this shifts the industry, especially in terms of scalability and speed to market