MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mrandish | 2025-04-25 21:55:15+00:00
> I remain horrified that people I really thought were normal Americans are willing to burn it all down just so they don't have to hear Spanish spoken in their doctor's office.

The GP (or GGP, I forget) was discussing very specific legal technical details surrounding the judge's actions, the nature of the warrant and permissible locations for serving the warrant. I was pretty interested in that discussion - even though I probably generally agree with your macro views on immigration policy. You chose to focus on something completely different, the overall aggregate outcomes of national political policies and jumped immediately to rhetoric like "tear down the structure of democracy".

IMHO, an important part of "the structure of democracy" is the rule of law. Ideally, that means equal, impartial, consistent enforcement of the laws as written. If the circumstances were changed to this being 1962 Alabama and the defendant being the Grand Wizard of the local KKK and the judge snuck him out the back door because RFK had sent FBI agents from Washington to serve a warrant arresting the KKK Grand Wizard - would you think those discussing whether that judge might have technically obstructed justice were equally "tearing down the structure of democracy?"
by aucisson_masque | 2025-04-25 21:57:30+00:00
Well, from the very same article you’re quoting.

> The ZTE exec Santiago Sierra said they are giving Microsoft between 15 to 20 pound sterling for each handset, which is why Windows Phones are going to be more expensive for the company to make than their Android handsets

> Google, in its turn, tries to keep Android free and open, and hopes to make money from search and advertising on the platform, which is its core business.

I mean it goes clearly in the direction I’m saying.

When searching for how much Google play service cost per device, I not only found it was free when it mattered (when there was competition) but also this :

> Google is changing the way it licenses its suite of Android apps in Europe, leading the company to charge a licensing fee for the Play Store and other Google apps for the first time.

> The changes come in response to a July ruling by the European Commission, which fined the company $5 billion for antitrust violations

Again, it’s pretty explicit.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/16/17984074/google-eu-andro...

There is not much room to defend Google case, it’s blatant and have been found so by other jurisdictions than the USA.
by Teever | 2025-04-25 21:57:39+00:00
Canada ultimately repealed the carbon tax because it was used as a political cudgel against the Liberal party that enacted it by the Conservative opposition in a sustained fashion for several years.

Which is dismaying because carbon taxes are a conservative solution to this problem and IIRC the first political entities to suggest the implementation of them in Canada were Conservative.

At the end of the day you have a nontrivial amount of the population, and many in positions of power who just outright deny environmental concerns and climate change as an existential threat.

They aren't going to approach this problem in good faith and it isn't obvious what the solution to their nefarious influence on policy should be.
by flanked-evergl | 2025-04-25 21:58:06+00:00
> I've doubtless taken more trouble than I needed to, rebutting what could have been a GPT-extruded troll of an argument, but it was fun :)

Yet failed to address even one of my contentions, which if I had to summarise them for you again are:

- Music of the 20th century falls short of music of the 19th century, and it's not particularly close.

- Having no boundaries and standards does not make for better art.

- Bowie's music cannot convey meaning or wonder because he did not believe there is any meaningful or wonderful in the universe other than him, even if he held this view "humbly".

- Bowie could not write joyful music because his world view made it impossible for him to have joy.

(quoted) The last Stoics, like Marcus Aurelius, were exactly the people who did believe in the Inner Light. Their dignity, their weariness, their sad external care for others, their incurable internal care for themselves, were all due to the Inner Light, and existed only by that dismal illumination. Notice that Marcus Aurelius insists, as such introspective moralists always do, upon small things done or undone; it is because he has not hate or love enough to make a moral revolution. He gets up early in the morning, just as our own aristocrats living the Simple Life get up early in the morning; because such altruism is much easier than stopping the games of the amphitheatre or giving the English people back their land. Marcus Aurelius is the most intolerable of human types. He is an unselfish egoist. An unselfish egoist is a man who has pride without the excuse of passion. Of all conceivable forms of enlightenment the worst is what these people call the Inner Light. Of all horrible religions the most horrible is the worship of the god within. Any one who knows any body knows how it would work; any one who knows any one from the Higher Thought Centre knows how it does work. That Jones shall worship the god within him turns out ultimately to mean that Jones shall worship Jones. Let Jones worship the sun or moon, anything rather than the Inner Light; let Jones worship cats or crocodiles, if he can find any in his street, but not the god within. Christianity came into the world firstly in order to assert with violence that a man had not only to look inwards, but to look outwards, to behold with astonishment and enthusiasm a divine company and a divine captain. The only fun of being a Christian was that a man was not left alone with the Inner Light, but definitely recognized an outer light, fair as the sun, clear as the moon, terrible as an army with banners.
by skydhash | 2025-04-25 21:58:23+00:00
> But in doing that, aren't you simply moving the complexity of the abstractions from the functions code into the data structure?

The core idea behind most of functional programming and APL is that data don't change. Policies do. So you design a set of primitives that can represent any data types by combination, then build a standard library that combine and split them, as well as transform them into each other. Then you have everything you need for expressing policies.

Let's take music notation as an analogy. You only need the staff for pitch and the note-head for duration. And with those (plus other extra symbols), you can note down most music. You can move higher up with chords, but you don't really need to go much higher than that.

Data are always external to the business domains. Only policies are internal. Those policies need semantics on data, so we have additional policies that takes rough data and transform them into meaningful one. What Java, C#, and other do is fixing those semantics in the code and have the code revolve around them. But those labels are in fact transient in either the short or long term. What you really need is a good way to write policies and reasons about them.

I like Go because it lets you define data semantics well, but don't confine your policies.

> Someone reading the program for the same time will have just the same difficulties understanding what the code does, not in terms of primitives, but in terms of business domain meanings.

That's what naming and namespacing is there for. Also docstrings.
by hahaxdxd123 | 2025-04-25 21:58:30+00:00
A lot of people have pointed out a reproducibility crisis in social sciences, but I think it's interesting to point out this happens in CompSci as well when verifying results is hard.

Reproducing ML Robotics papers requires the exact robot/environment/objects/etc -> people fudge their numbers and have strawman implementation of benchmarks.

LLMs are so expensive to train + the datasets are non-public -> Meta trained on the test set for Llama4 (and we wouldn't have known if not for some forum leak).

In some way it's no different than startups or salesmen overpromising - it's just lying for personal gain. The truth usually wins in the end though.
by zx10rse | 2025-04-25 21:58:46+00:00
Automotive industry is one of the biggest scams on planet earth. One of my favorite cases recently is how Suzuki Jimny is banned in Europe and US because of emission standards allegedly, so the little Jimny is emitting 146g/km but somehow there is no problem to buy a G-Class that is emitting 358g/km oh and surprise surprise Mercedes are going to release a smaller more affordable G-Class [1].

[1] - https://www.motortrend.com/news/2026-mercedes-benz-baby-g-wa...
by cameldrv | 2025-04-25 21:59:05+00:00
The problem with all of this is that the majority of spending is in three areas:

1. Health care services (About 33%)

2. Social Security and other transfer payments (About 25%) (EITC, SNAP, housing subsidies, etc)

3. Defense (About 15%)

4. Interest on the debt (About 11%).

There's simply not all that much to cut from everything else. Each of those areas also has a giant constituency that will fight cuts.

If I had to give an area where you could probably cut the most, it would be health care, but that has proven to be a very thorny problem.
by sigy | 2025-04-25 21:59:13+00:00
The physical interface is an intrinsic part of the design of any eurorack module, including artistic elements. If you actually use these, then you quickly tire of menu diving for simple options, and only modules that do very particular things make it worth the bother. For everything else, the layout must be accessible, memorable, understandable, and not too crowded. And it helps if the visual of the thing conjures up memories of how it sounds or what it does.
by timschmidt | 2025-04-25 21:59:15+00:00
llamafile contains specific optimizations for prompt processing using AVX512 for dealing with just this issue: https://justine.lol/matmul/ (about a 10x speedup over llama.cpp)

Somewhere between 8 and 192 cores I'm sure there's enough AVX512 to get the job done. And we've managed to reinvent Intel's Larrabee / Knights concept.

Sadly, the highly optimized AVX512 kernels of llamafile don't support these exotic floats yet as far as I know.

Yes, energy efficiency per query will be terrible compared to a hyperscaler. However privacy will be perfect. Flexibility will be higher than other options - as running on the CPU is almost always possible. Even with new algorithms and experimental models.
by nullc | 2025-04-25 22:00:39+00:00
You can still get a refund with this tax credit, but it has to be a refund of taxes you paid through things like your payroll tax.

Non-refundable means that if the rebate drives your owed taxes below zero you don't get the negative tax debt back.

If you don't earn much money most of your paid taxes go to SS and medicare rather than income tax, so the rebate may not do anything for you. But if you make at least median income you should be able to fully use this rebate.

If you're retired and buy one of these trucks you'd be wise to realize $100k in investment gains in that year in order to fully exploit the tax credit.
by EA-3167 | 2025-04-25 22:01:23+00:00
I read the substack post, and maybe we just have different ideas of what "explicit" means. Maybe to you couching the title in terms of a question made it less clear. To me it's all summed up in the closing:

> The future is not certain. It may be that the present administration should flinch, and turn back in face of lighter action. I fondly hope that that may be the case. But if it comes, we must awaken from this ignorant dream. This evil will not pass without blood, sweat, toil, and tears. So harden your hearts, and be prepared to die.

What do you think that means? You can disagree with what the Trump administration is doing, I disagree with them, but that isn't how democracy works. We're three months in and we have people talking about (charitably) violent revolution or (uncharitably) assassination of political opponents. People who honestly believe that large numbers of (insert minority/identity) will soon be rounded up in put into camps.

The last time I heard that it was the right wing saying that Obama was using FEMA to set up camps for them.

Sometimes we lose elections, and sometimes the consequences are dire. Ask anyone who lived through the war in Vietnam, or had to fight for Civil Rights, or the Depression. Elections matter, the things we're seeing are a relatively mild example of why they matter, but it's still not an excuse to immediately revert to violence because you're managing to whip yourself into a social media mediated frenzy.

To get back to that closing statement from the author, phrased another way: "If they don't do what we want, we'll kill them." Imagine it's people on the right wing saying that about a Democrat, regarding guns or abortion, etc. They care about that every bit as much as we care about the rule of law and due process for immigrants.
by agumonkey | 2025-04-25 22:01:48+00:00
I anticipate a control issue, where agents can produce code faster than people can analyze and beside applications with small visible surfaces, nobody will be able to check what is going on

I saw people with trouble manipulating boolean tables of 3 variables in their head trying to generate complete web applications, it will work for linear duties (input -> processing -> storage) but I highly doubt they will be able to understand anything with 2nd order effects
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-04-25 22:02:24+00:00
I've seen that it doesn't have the ability to phone home on it's own but that OTA updates and other connectivity relies on you using their optional phone app and your phones internet connection.

That's the killer feature for me, if this actually comes out the after market mods are going to be amazing, having a test bed for creating your own self driving rigs is going to be a complete game changer.

It's so hackable (in a good way) that this platform could foster a whole knew segment of the population getting into EV manufacturing and dramatically increase the talent pool the same way the VW beetle and the Lisa Computer did, hobbyist hackers are the greatest pool for technical founders.

Not to mention replacing the exterior panels with custom displays and other amazing "Art Car" opportunities.
by rpcope1 | 2025-04-25 22:02:38+00:00
The Maverick is also kind of dumb because of the choice to do unibody instead of body on frame. I'm sure there's some weight savings or whatever, but at least on a body on frame truck, I can opt to change the bed out even on a short bed truck and add a flatbed when it makes sense. When someone using it like a truck inevitably beer cans the bed, they're going to be really sad that it's not a relatively quick and simple thing to fix (by just going and getting another bed).
by crazygringo | 2025-04-25 22:04:22+00:00
First of all, you're wrong about how debt is financed. It's not via inflation, it's by taxes. Interest payments accounted for 13% of the federal budget last year. That's enormous. (Yes inflation reduces the value of debt over time, but debt carries interest which generally outweighs expected inflation.)

Second, Congress absolutely adjusts tax rates as well. Not precisely one-to-one to match spending each year, but over the long term it's all got to add up. Every dollar the government spends today is paid with people's taxes either today or their taxes tomorrow.

Third, the person who received the tax credits isn't being affected "equally". If 1% of people get the credit, but 100% of people pay for it, then the people who receive the credit end up hugely ahead in the end, while the other 99% lose out. So yes, for the 1% of people getting an electric vehicle tax credit, it is almost entirely paid for by the other 99% of people.
by gazebo64 | 2025-04-25 22:04:45+00:00
>Hold up, all that stuff is completely unattested (and would have to be facts tried before a jury anyway).

I mean, it was going to be attested until the judge decided to adjourn his proceedings and push him out the back door to avoid ICE. He's charged with domestic abuse.

>But more: What if the suspect was in court on an immigration concern?

Based on my limited understanding of immigration law I'd agree that there's probably a valid mechanism for the judge to legally intervene in the deportation to let the immigration concern be addressed -- but that isn't what happened here. The defendant was there for a criminal charge of domestic abuse and the judge essentially canceled his hearing and snuck him out the back to prevent ICE from executing a legal order to deport someone who is here illegally and has already been deported once before.

>The point of the Rule of Law is that you don't empower individuals to make decisions about justice, ever.

That's why the judge is being arrested, because she as an individual skirted legal process to interrupt a lawful deportation (allegedly).
by Jensson | 2025-04-25 22:04:51+00:00
> Oh the irony - Sometimes people need to stfu and root for something without pointing out how it could be better. "Awesome! Did you think about..... STFU!"

There are many such people already, there are also many haters, and many people in the middle. This diversity is how humanity managed to get this far, we need all of them.
by godelski | 2025-04-25 22:04:55+00:00
If someone can be rehabilitated, they should be.

If someone can't be rehabilitated, they should be contained[0]

| If they need to be contained, we have additional concerns with deportation.

| | If they are being deported freely to another country (i.e. not through extradition), then we are doing (at least) similar harm to another as to what harm would be if we just let them go in our own country. Personal ethics aside, this creates disorder and enemies. It is one thing if extradition is attempted and this is the result after failure, but it is another if the process doesn't happen. This is analogous to capturing all the rattlesnakes in my backyard and throwing them into yours. "Not my problem" isn't so accurate when I piss you off and now I have a new problem which is you being pissed at me and seeking your own form of justice. In the short term, being an asshole is an optimal strategy, but in the long term is really is not.

| | If they are being extradited to another country and that country is known to torture or do things that we do not believe are humane to their inmates, then I similarly agree we should not extradite and it is better to contain here. The blood is still on your hands, as they say.

Extradition (distinct from deportation) is the right move when it is believed the criminal will face the rule of law, fairly and in accordance to our own ethics (how we would treat our own).

I see no situation in which extra-judicial deportation (or extradition!) is the right course of action. It is also critical to recognize that mistakes happen. Even if cumbersome, the judicial process reduces the chance for mistakes. It's also worth noting that, by design, the judicial system is biased such that when mistakes occur there is a strong preference that a criminal is left unpunished rather than an innocent be prosecuted (an either or situation). We want to maximize justice, I doubt there is many who do not. But when it comes down to it, there is a binary decision at the end of the day "guilty or not guilty." We engineer failure into the judicial system just like we do in engineering. You do not design a building to fail, but you do design a building such that when it does fail, it is most likely to fail in a predictable manner which causes the least harm. And if you don't want to take my word on it, you can go consult Blackstone, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and many others. Because at the end of the day, I'm not the one who created this system, but I do agree with their reasoning.

[0] Not killed, because if we are wrong about the inability the rehabilitate then the cost is higher than the cost of custodianship.
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-25 22:05:11+00:00
Salami slicing is the first page of the present day authoritarian play book.

Here's an excerpt from They Thought They Were Free, a book about the mindset of ordinary Germans experiencing the rise of the Nazi Government:

Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don’t want to act, or even talk alone; you don’t want to “go out of your way to make trouble.” Why not?—Well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty.

Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, “everyone” is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, “It’s not so bad” or “You’re seeing things” or “You’re an alarmist.”

And you are an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can’t prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don’t know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh-pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have.

...

But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds of thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions, would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the “German Firm” stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all of the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.
by Mountain_Skies | 2025-04-25 22:05:15+00:00
Seems pretty harmless. There's no PII or PCI data. It doesn't interact with the physical world. I'm far more concerned about "vibe" coding being used in situations where it can cause real harm. Human coders can and do make mistakes of that type but there are review processes to catch them. In theory, the same reviews could be used for vibe code but the big appeal of it is cutting out the type of people who can identify and correct such defects.