MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jacooper | 2025-04-05 02:11:57+00:00
It literally doesn't matter.

What Hamas did or does, doesn't give any right to Israel to ethnically cleanse, forcibly displace, massacre 100+ people every day and commit a genocide in Gaza. 100 people, most of them kids!

These are people with lives, families, hope and compassion. Just imagine if the Ukrainian war came even close to this. People are not numbers.

And these are WARCRIMES, the entire global system was built to stop such things from happening, letting the occupation do whatever it wants while making a joke of any and every concept of the "international rule based order" will come back to bite the west, hard.

If this is allowed to happen, what's different about Taiwan and Ukraine then? Let the stronger one win right?
by OJFord | 2025-04-05 02:12:01+00:00
I don't know what 'pretty young' is, apart from condescending, but I voted in it, so I remember as well as you do I imagine.

Regardless of contemporaneous comparisons, the up-thread comment I initially replied to suggested there was some ongoing worse 'crisis' in the UK than the current situation in the US, if they meant to refer to Brexit it was not clear at all, regardless of whether anyone things that's an ongoing worse situation. (Except that the fact it's not clear really suggests it isn't...)
by ameetgaitonde | 2025-04-05 02:12:09+00:00
What makes you think the United States has lost hard economic assets? Also, have you considered that there are different types of innovations, that are affected by the structure of an economy and its research institutions?

The US has dominated radical innovations, China has excelled in incremental innovations. We're potentially throwing away our advantage in the former by decimating our research capacity (something conspicuously absent in your concept of what drives innovation), and there is no clear plan to take the necessary steps to rebuild our capacity in the latter.
by blatantly | 2025-04-05 02:12:18+00:00
Cheap stocks people. Got my eye on some that below a certain price it would be a no brainer to buy. Global trade is rerouting around the bottleneck.

Didn't think there would be an opportunity so soon after March 2020.

Got my eye on a tech stock that has dropped about 40% already but was undervalued before IMO.
by jMyles | 2025-04-05 02:12:37+00:00
Not sure the future of SMS in my life, but dang for whatever reason, people still want to use it.

I don't have as much need for email-=>sms gateways, but what about the other way? I much prefer to handle comms on my desktop, and presently I use google voice for SMS. It leaves plenty to be desired, though. Are there better alternatives?
by acomjean | 2025-04-05 02:12:39+00:00
I mean its a bad example, but not the only example of obtuse puzzles in games preventing forward progress in game. Dead ends and not being able to finish if messed up a previous steps were real problems. This was a bigger issue when the internet wasn't available to help out. I like adventure games, but even still they can be difficult and frustrating (although maybe I'm not great at them)

Puzzle Dependency charts in game design help this (from Ron Gilbert/ Monkey Island etc...).

https://grumpygamer.com/puzzle_dependency_charts/
by ants_everywhere | 2025-04-05 02:13:06+00:00
No I think the goal is to isolate the US and make it no longer a global power. That's explicitly the goal of several powerful people who were instrumental in Trump's rise to power.

This includes not only foreign adversaries (and those who work for them) who helped Trump, but also ideological crypto currency fans who fantasize about ending the idea of nation states in general.
by telchior | 2025-04-05 02:13:36+00:00
> unfathomable that a nation in such a privileged position would decide it's tired of such a systematic set of advantages.

That's just the thing, you've got it exactly backward! The US has been "looted, pillaged, raped and plundered by nations near and far," and it's far less rich than it should be.

Icarus is taking flight, the rest of the universe better watch out. And for those stuck getting carried along toward the sun... tough shit, there's not going to be enough time to convince a population of born and bred narcissists that it's really hot up there before the meltdown.
by mathfailure | 2025-04-05 02:14:14+00:00
Surely there is:

> Europe clearly at least has a shot

I doubt Europe would be that cocky without a full support from their "big bro" from across the ocean.

As for attacking Poland - that sounds quite uncalled for: Poland doesn't have a meaningful share of Russian natives living there historically for the Poland to start oppressing them to the point Russia would start a war against Poland. I can't even think of any reason why Russia would attack Poland.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-04-05 02:14:37+00:00
It’s unbelievable that anyone is bothering to argue with their pathetic “it’s another country nyah nyah nyah” stance. The correct response is that ok, everyone involved in getting that plane off the ground and everyone involved in sending money to El Salvador to pay for this program is in contempt of court until the whole plane load returns to the US. The court doesn’t need jurisdiction in El Salvador.
by defrost | 2025-04-05 02:15:00+00:00
Frith said the tape appeared to be a professionally edited recording of the Beatles’ New Year’s Day 1962 audition for Decca Records in London, a session that notably ended with the band’s rejection. The 15 songs — all but three of them covers — matched the group’s set list from the audition, according to Frith.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles%27_Decca_audition#...

[including] the Beatles performing a cover of the Motown hit “Money (That’s What I Want).”

But was that cover as good as The Flying Lizards cover of the same?
by sebmellen | 2025-04-05 02:15:25+00:00
Yes, and that’s always mysteriously forgotten in these conversations.

Historically, China stole US IP and software, like Windows, en masse. Now they refuse to import our main export product — software — while we import their physical products and software like TikTok.

If we were allowed to export our services to China in exchange, this would be a very different geopolitical moment.
by kaycebasques | 2025-04-05 02:16:20+00:00
A simple but profound idea that has stuck with me from the days when I religiously listened to The Macro Tourist's podcast: who's on the other side of the trade? In order for AAPL to drop 7% today, someone of course had to agree to sell their shares at a price that is 7% lower than yesterday's. But perhaps more interesting, someone else agreed to buy the shares at that price. Who's buying here and who's selling? Who's more composed? What is the investment timeframe of the seller versus the buyer?

It takes two to make a market.
by rayiner | 2025-04-05 02:16:34+00:00
The homicide rate in El Salvador has dropped from 100 per 100,000 to 2.5 per 100,000 in just a decade: https://www.statista.com/statistics/696152/homicide-rate-in-.... The El Salvadoran government has literally brought the country to an entirely different level of development, vastly improving the lives of most of the country’s 6 million people. Disorder and dysfunction doesn’t just hurt those who are killed. It’s a tax on the whole country, on the economy, and on kids’ futures. It’s system that beats down builders and cultivators and makes them subservient to the sociopaths.

As someone from a dysfunctional third-world country, the revolution in El Salvador gives me hope that change is actually possible in some of these places. It’s such a slap in the face to see that the only news coverage of this is from privileged Americans who can’t possibly understand what this means for the standard of living in that country. Your ancestors did the hard things (England punished all felonies by death for centuries) so you have forgotten how your lives became so comfortable in the first place.
by mancerayder | 2025-04-05 02:16:49+00:00
Because it's not that great a question: How do you define protected speech when the same speech is used to punish someone else, and if it's an expression for example, that performs an action, how do we draw the line if it should be protected? That's what you asked. It's not a username issue. I didn't read it as a direct reply because I hadn't conceptualized that stopping speech is protected speech. Or is the Internet perplexing us again and I'm making no sense?

I re-iterated my point that freedom of speech is loosely defined and we have a problem with weaponizing protection of one side at the expense of the other. The Consequences argument. I maintain that consequences of speech are the issue. Let me phrase it like this: the general principle of respecting differing views, however repugnant, has fallen by the wayside. The ACLU of the 20th century has excellent arguments for why we should consider respecting repugnant views. You're throwing in a curve ball of defining speech as also potentially blocking or causing 'consequences', but that's missing the bigger picture.

You don't agree, but does that better address the problem you raised?
by FabHK | 2025-04-05 02:17:57+00:00
Thanks for illuminating the mindset.

One thing I want to say in support:

The argument in favour of free trade is that it increases the pie, so that everyone can be better off (a Pareto improvement). However, given that trade does produce winners and losers, this argument is predicated on redistribution, namely (over)compensating the losers.

That second part of the argument in favour of free trade is often conveniently forgotten. So when that redistribution doesn’t happen, then opposing free trade is quite rational for some.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-05 02:18:19+00:00
The way it's coded, if you don't specify something more specific, asking for "plumber in a red hat" implies that you're asking for Mario, because that's the most well-known instance of what you requested. If you want something else, you ask for something else. Specify the ways in which you want your plumber in a red hat to differ from the most well-known instance, and it will.

If you want the Spelunky protagonist you can literally type "spelunky protagonist" into the prompt and it will do it, or you can describe how you want your own parody to differ from the original. But if you just type "Indiana Jones" into the prompt and nothing else, you're getting Indiana Jones, because what else is it even supposed to do with that? And likewise if you use a prompt which is designed to conjure India Jones by description rather than by name.
by Nathanba | 2025-04-05 02:18:28+00:00
>Trust is not important if they are afraid of you

I understand that argument I've never seen it spelled out by anyone other than me. I only brought it up as a last effort to explain the possible thinking behind these actions. It still won't make sense because even if you believe that you are the top dog and you can effortlessly bully others then you'd have to realize that you won't be the top dog in every situation all the time everywhere at the same time. There will be many instances where others who previously leaned your way for free will now look to get paid for leaning your way.
by Aeolun | 2025-04-05 02:18:43+00:00
> I call bullshit on them wanting to ban women and black people from colleges

Oh I’m sure it’s not as egregious as them wanting to ‘literally’ ban them. There’s no need for something quite that drastic. But think of how much nicer the place would be (not to mention more useful for networking) if none of these poor people were ever accepted in the first place.
by exikyut | 2025-04-05 02:19:24+00:00
3D objects viewable in-browser can be found here: https://sketchfab.com/FloridaMuseum/models

So far about 800 objects have been uploaded, including within the past fortnight.

Some noninteractive colour images are available here: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/overt/gallery/
by ekr____ | 2025-04-05 02:19:54+00:00
> Interest article, but overlooks SPEKE, which solves problem #1.

Well, sort of.

At a high level there are two scenarios:

1. The endpoints have had no prior contact. 2. The endpoints have had some prior opportunity to establish shared state.

The common version of case (1) is the Web, where the client has the server's identity (i.e., a domain name). When the client connects to the server, the server has to prove its identity, specifically a binding between its name and its public key. That's where certificates come in because they allow the server to prove [0] its identity to a third party who when vouches for that attestation.

The case where the endpoints have had an opportunity to establish shared state is different. There are basically three settings:

- The shared state is one side's public key. In this case, you can (mostly) use the same kinds of authenticated key establishment protocols as before, just without the certificate. This is how SSH works. - The shared state is a high entropy secret (a pre-shared key). In this case, you can use it to bootstrap up to a shared key by authenticating the endpoints. TLS 1.3 provides such a PSK mode. - The shared state is a low entropy secret (a password).

This last case is challenging because in the obvious protocol where you use it like a PSK an attacker can record a single protocol run and then exhaustively search the password space. The solution here is what's called a password authenticated key agreement (PAKE) protocol, which resists this kind of attack. SPEKE is one such protocol, though most of the interest now is in newer protocols like OPAQUE or SPAKE2+. There are proposals to bind these to TLS (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-bmw-tls-pake13/) but they don't really work for the Web (https://educatedguesswork.org/posts/password-proto/#password...).

[0] For some value of prove. Terms and conditions may apply.
by ahartmetz | 2025-04-05 02:20:06+00:00
Trump is ha-ha-only-serious joking about a third term and has said that, if people voted for him, they'd never have to vote again. So... in case of Emperor Trump, the tariffs wouldn't go away. I wonder if somebody is already working out how to tell "the economy" about that without being too obvious about the seriousness of his third term plan.
by js2 | 2025-04-05 02:20:43+00:00
Yes. It's because the Messages UI conflates iMessage groups (blue bubbles) with SMS/MMS/RCS groups (green bubbles), combined with the fact that you can iMessage an Apple user using either their phone number or any email address they have enabled for iMessaging.

So say you start a group message to Apple users. You add type their names and don't pay attention to whether Messages is using their phone number or email address to add them to the group. (Even worse, after you're done typing their name, Messages only shows the name so you can't even tell how they've been added w/o taping their name again.)

Now, when it's an iMessage group (blue bubbles), it doesn't matter how you added them.

But as soon as you add a non-Apple user, it becomes an SMS/MMS/RCS group (green bubbles).

Guess what happens to the Apple users who were added by email address? That's right, they get emails.

There's no indication whatsoever to anyone in the group that this is happening. And as a member of the group, you can't fix how you were added. The message group has to be abandoned and a new group needs to be created using only phone numbers.

It's a terrible UI. I've been dealing with it for years because originally I used Google Voice and there's both Apple and Android users in my extended family. But even after I finally ported my number over to my phone, my extended family still sometimes adds me to SMS/MMS/RCS groups using my email address.

(Why don't we just use WhatsApp you ask? Oh, we use that too. With varying degrees of technical literacy, we end up using all the things.)
by mdaniel | 2025-04-05 02:21:12+00:00
> Some content has been removed in the second edition of the book because of limits on the number of pages

Lol, wut? The literal only working "buy it now" link is to a PDF. Page limits my ass. Or maybe "Paperback: 660 pages" was dangerously close to the Devil himself springing forth from the pages and turning all your codebase into VBScript
by makeitdouble | 2025-04-05 02:21:58+00:00
Regardless of current events: Both are looking at volume, when the nature of what's exchanged probably matter as much if not more.

If a country massively imports raw materials and exports a low but steady volume of high level finished products, as long as the raw materials are reasonably cheap it will be a winning strategy.

A country importing high technology goods and balancing that with raw resources will potentially be in a worse condition if raw materials stay a commodity or deplete.
by lazyasciiart | 2025-04-05 02:23:33+00:00
The vote didn’t implement anything. Britain didn’t actually leave the EU until 2020. Brexit is as of much concern in Britain, still, as Trump is - because it underlies their entire shaken economy. You think some tariffs are bad? Ok now what if Trump simultaneously tore up every trade agreement? And cancelled the visas of every European citizen in the country, who happened to make up 10% of the medical sector?
by dylan604 | 2025-04-05 02:23:41+00:00
Could it be that the person has the email address saved as the default contact method in their contacts?

For a bit of time I had no cell service, but people could use Messages to send to my email address for my iCloud account. Once cell service was restored to the device, messages from one person always came addressed to the email while everyone else reverted to the phone number. I just assumed that this person's contacts listing for me was updated, or possibly even a separate contact using just my email???? I never figured it out/confirmed it either
by neogodless | 2025-04-05 02:23:52+00:00
Presumably most 401(k) contributions and dividend reinvestments happening automatically create a large volume of buying power.

While some people freak out, call an agent, sell stocks, I'd imagine this is mostly actively managed (by humans and software) investments doing the selling.

Beyond that, when you sell something, maybe it felt like it was worth $10. But you offer it for $9.95. Maybe someone buys it, maybe not. Maybe you drop it to $9.80? Then someone buys it. Rinse and repeat until the price is now $8.

When you sell a "$10" stock, if you say you won't sell it for less than $10, you might not be able to do so. It's all more complicated than that, and there are limit and market orders, etc. that affect how much the price will vary from when you initiate it.

But if you're like "hmm, this is horrible news for the economy" you probably press the "sell as fast as possible" order, and your $10 stock might actually sell instantly for $9.50 because for someone with a "smart" algorithm, $9.50 looks pretty good when the stock still seems valued at $9.75+. But then a few million shares sell at prices lower than $9.75 and now the same system that thought it was a good idea to buy at $9.50 thinks it's a good idea to turn around and sell it... for even less.
by saagarjha | 2025-04-05 02:23:56+00:00
I mean, it doesn’t really make sense to unify them. CPUs and GPUs have very different performance characteristics and you design for them differently depending on what they let you do. There’s obviously a common ground where you can design mostly good interfaces to do things ok (I’ll argue PyTorch is that) but it’s not really reasonable to write an algorithm that is hobbled on CPUs for no reason because it assumes that synchronizing between execution contexts is super expensive.
by bitbuilder | 2025-04-05 02:24:09+00:00
This article really resonated with me.

I'm currenlty juggling a few side projects, one of which is a game I've been tinkering with for 3 years. It's a pretty simple simulation of riding your bike through a city at night. It's never been anywhere near close to anything I could actually release, but I finally at least pulled together a gameplay video I could show off to my familiy and friends. They were all pretty impressed, and all wanted to know when I'd actually release it.

But I doubt I ever will. To me, making the game is my game, and I've tried to frame my side project work to my gamer friends that way. Sometimes it's giving myself new techncial puzzles to figure out, other times it's just letting myself zone out and get creative with world building, snapping together building facades like legos to build whatever crazy city I can imagine. It's so much fun.

Another is a web project that's much less fun and creative, but the more I tinker with it the more it turns into something that may actually be useful to others. And it may actually turn into something I can release and promote, and maybe even earn a little beer money with. I'm currently working up the motivation and courage to do a Show HN on that one here soon.

It almost pains me to say it (for reasons I can't even articulate well) but I've found LLMs to be tremendously useful in pushing through on side project work. I've lost track of how many projects I've spun up over the years and abandoned as soon as I got to the tedious parts you need to tackle if you actually want a marketable product (admin interfaces, user accounts, endless boilerplate html, etc, etc). With a competent LLM I can just delegate all the tedious crap and stay focused on what's actually fun for me. It's great.
by hinkley | 2025-04-05 02:24:52+00:00
A bunch of these dates are way wrong because the author is stuck in an x86 consumer grade mindset. Even if we didn’t have multicore on our desktops a lot of us had shipped on multicore long before 2014 which is when he marks the era as beginning.

Multiprocessor was already an established solution. I worked on 4 core machines around 2008. As would anyone who worked on server software instead of just desktop.
by sebmellen | 2025-04-05 02:25:00+00:00
Devil’s advocate:

If you (the US) massively subsidize the world order through your financial markets, military defense, and foreign aid, it’s only fair that you get to take advantage of your position.

Historically, the US has done this at the expense of its working class. Now there is a populist feeling that we are owed a long due “payback” for our generosity.

The Bernie/AOC left believe the payback is owed by our elites, who enriched themselves by austerity and hollowing out our industrial base.

The Trump/MAGA right believe the payback is owed by other countries — freeloaders that have benefited from our technology, military defense, and foreign aid while simultaneously being net exporters to the US.

To the latter crowd, the kind of “bullying” behavior you describe is actually the equivalent of a gentle giant who never stood up for himself finally deciding that he won’t take any more shit.

Edit: To any downvoters, please comment with where you think I’m wrong. I’m not defending any policy, just providing what I believe is an accurate representation of the populist American mindset described in the parent comment.
by card_zero | 2025-04-05 02:25:29+00:00
Ten times? More like two times:

US population is around 340 000 000, 770 000 homeless.

UK population is around 68 000 000, 354 000 homeless. (Possibly calculated more inclusively.)

That's 0.23 % and 0.52 %.

(Numbers from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Kin... or more specifically from a govt department and a homelessness charity. The US figure "does not include those staying with friends or family because they do not have a place of their own".)