MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by xyzzy9563 | 2025-04-05 13:41:49+00:00
It's actually better to have a trade deficit. Let's say you are a king living in a castle. If you are importing grain from all the surrounding land, the peasants are doing all the hard labor. You have a trade deficit with the peasants and pay them with pieces of paper and goodwill (i.e. dollars). You get to enjoy your life in the castle and read books or whatever else you do in your spare time.
by vinceguidry | 2025-04-05 13:42:12+00:00
> Interesting that you don't engage with the words at all, and lazily use insults.

Why should I? Your incoherence requires nothing more. There's nothing to say about the "Iron Law of Wokism". That's just mollycoddle you picked up from some trumptwaddle on YouTube somewhere.

You want to talk real politics, you're gonna have to smarten up, my dude.

> what kind of person you really are, since you've accrued quite a few internet points here on HN

Someone who gave his last fuck 20 years ago. Folks around here like that.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-04-05 13:42:35+00:00
The right wing shift will be short-lived, like all recent political swings. The constant is a lot of political volatility, and the effects of climate change are not going to help with that.

Unfortunately (or at least ironically) the best chance we have comes from China, which has managed to maintain an ironclad grip on its internal politics and also is actually decarbonizing. The question facing us is when governments realize we’re going to need large scale solar radiation management, and who will do it first.
by almog | 2025-04-05 13:43:11+00:00
If only they he use a fancy French word for what's essentially is "import taxes", I'm pretty sure the election results would have been very different.

To put that in Simpsons terms: "The Garage? Well oo la di da Mr. Frenchman."

https://youtu.be/JhbJnlIvfyc
by throw0101d | 2025-04-05 13:43:38+00:00
> It makes sense if you consider how Chinese companies moved factories to Mexico after the first round of tariffs.

Which benefits Mexican workers and by osmosis the US: the richer MX is, the more likely they'll become consumerist, and the US companies tend to sell a lot of consumerist goods.

Further, in the case of war, all those physical factories that are ostensibly owned by the Chinese could be nationalized by Mexico as they'd probably be more interested in being friendly with their immediate neighbour. Ditto for Canada: why is the US putting tariffs there?

Also: USMCA is only a few years old. There were already some Chinese-owned factories in Mexico at the time of its signing (which Trump at the time called "the best trade deal ever".) The Chinese factories didn't seem to have been a problem then.
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by noelpotnic | 2025-04-05 13:44:19+00:00
I built `Meld RDP`, a simple, lightweight, portable application for managing remote desktop (.rdp) connections.

Other connection managers I tried were too slow, overly complex, or not portable (there's something great about a utility you don't need to install)

If you're someone who needs to juggle a few RDP connections and just wants something that works, I hope you’ll find it useful... p.s. it works on my machine (TM).

A few notes:

- It includes binaries of [MsRdpEx](https://github.com/Devolutions/MsRdpEx) to edit and launch connections.

- It's free for personal use.

- For commercial use, I'm asking folks to either submit a PR or donate a few dollars to keep the project alive (details in the license).

- It's built with https://avaloniaui.net/ so it may be possible to get it working on Linux, though I have little experience there.

Would love to hear any feedback, ideas, or feature suggestions!

Thanks for checking it out!

https://github.com/meld-cp/MeldRDP
by dataviz1000 | 2025-04-05 13:44:40+00:00
> Why Trump's tariff chaos actually makes sense (big picture) [0]

The title is a little misleading. The video explains objectively the logic used for the tariffs mostly to first to create chaos. But, towards the end, it makes the argument that the current strategy also requires countries to have a high level of trust that the United States will uphold treaties and agreements for the current strategy to work. The end goal is to force countries to become vassals to the United States by pegging their currency to the dollar with the benefit that the United States will provide military protection. However, without the trust the United States will honor agreements this strategy will fall apart.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ts5wJ6OfzA
by simpaticoder | 2025-04-05 13:44:42+00:00
I like the use of watts/day instead of joules here because we have some intuition about watts. Earth must dissapate 170 exawatts per day of sunshine, in addition to letting off some amount of heat from the molten core.

(Life has evolved on the edge of a knife, at the narrow balance point between enormous energies that cancel out just so. I often think that at the beach, looking out across the ocean, marveling that the water is almost never sloshing around at any scale proportional to itself. It's up to us to educate those who don't understand positive feedback loops and the existential risk they present to any system in equilibrium.)
by belorn | 2025-04-05 13:44:45+00:00
I don't think the advertisement companies (or rather, their lawyers) like to see it as consumer that pay for content by watching adds. Any transaction between a company and a consumer of monetary value need to be accounted and taxed, and advertisement based industries has an EU exception that explicitly states that content/products that has advertisement attached is not a transaction, since the viewer may watch 0 seconds, watch the whole add, or anything between, and thus there is no expectations of payment between a producer and consumer. There is also none of the usually consumer protection when dealing with such products.

The model that those companies deploy is that they give away, for free, the product, in the statistically prediction that enough people will happen to watch the ads in order to make it profitable. That is the deal.
by Aerroon | 2025-04-05 13:45:07+00:00
Forgive me if I'm not interested in such a platform. Here are some examples of "hate speech" in Europe:

British teen arrested for quoting rap lyrics.[0]

German man arrested for calling the vice chancellor an idiot ("dumkopf").[1]

French woman charged with insulting the president and faces a fine of $13,000.[2]

>In March 2018, Hasél was convicted by Spanish Special Court Audiencia Nacional in Madrid to a two-year prison sentence and a fine of €24,300 for insulting and slandering the Crown and using the King's image (for which he was ordered to pay a fine), for insulting and slandering State institutions (for which he was also ordered to pay a fine); /.../ The song was titled Juan Carlos el Bobón, which roughly translates as Juan Carlos the Clown, a wordplay on the former king's actual name, Juan Carlos de Borbón. In the song, Hasél recounts the former king's numerous scandals in a chronological order.[3]

[0] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-43816921

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/27626fa8-3379-4b69-891d-379401675...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/03/30/woman-face...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Has%C3%A9l
by throwanem | 2025-04-05 13:45:12+00:00
This strikes me as invidious, an effort to silence. Perhaps I misjudge, so I'll respond in good faith: your prior interlocutor attributes to women what is in fact a common trait of people who've previously been abused.

The misattribution is common; women more often come in for sexual abuse on the one hand, and on the other benefit from much more space in the social narrative to exist as survivors thereof. Men who have been similarly abused tend to respond differently, for that and other reasons.
by jchw | 2025-04-05 13:45:22+00:00
I hate how when an article about how science has discredited the concept of porn addiction wound up getting bounced off the HN frontpage within minutes of appearing on it, then flagged and deaded:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43587448

And yet, this absurd sensationalist dreck will probably stay up here for longer.
by Calwestjobs | 2025-04-05 13:45:46+00:00
for home charging, figures are exact opposite - when i come home it "costs me" 3 seconds to plug it in, then i do literally literally nothing ( or something else rather), then it "costs me" another 3 seconds to unplug it in morning,

so for 100kwh it is essentially 6 seconds. so electric car wastes 1/10 of my time compared to gasoline one.

im good mathematician, but i like engineering more, because it has to take into account external factors, not "just" numbers.

(intentionally not calculating travel time to and from gas station, queue, noise, smell of a gas station etc )
by oldlaptop | 2025-04-05 13:45:53+00:00
I can't comment on virtual-table shenanigans, but I'll enthusiastically confirm that thought. Not only is an in-memory database powerful and useful for all the obvious reasons, but (I would argue) the Tcl interface to SQLite is perhaps the best relational database API in any language. (Even if it cheats a bit by being an embedded database, as with <https://sqlite.org/tclsqlite.html#function>.) It's easily as synergistic a combination as Tcl and Tk themseves, possibly more.
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by jeffbee | 2025-04-05 13:46:56+00:00
> Because the landlord is able to pass down the burden of the property tax to the tenants, the property tax becomes regressive.

Here's the flaw that sinks your argument. Lessors aren't able to pass through taxes to tenants. They charge what the market will bear and leave nothing on the table. When a new tax arrives the increment comes entirely out of the owner's share because the tenants were already paying the market-clearing price.
by throwanem | 2025-04-05 13:47:10+00:00
If it's so trivial, you should find the claim no harder to substantiate than to insist upon as here.

I encourage the attempt. Seriously. Go show me how easy reliable data is to find on this. Prove me wrong and you'll have earned a friend for life, or at least a dinner at the nice place down the street the next time you're in town.
by ath3nd | 2025-04-05 13:47:38+00:00
> Policy positions that were mainstream in 2000 are now painted as far-right.

Painted? Historically, there is a bunch of groups that were opposed to homosexual rights. I wonder how do you think those organization are "painted" on the political spectrum?

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_homosexuals_in_...

- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9780230294158_9

- https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-00994-6

> Policy positions that were mainstream in 2000 are now painted as far-right.

Maybe that speaks something about a country that still has the KKK, and allowed its African American population to vote in 1965, not even 40 years before 2000.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation

- https://www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/white-supremacist-ideals-o...
by therealpygon | 2025-04-05 13:47:44+00:00
That trend was always comical to me. I’ve never been one to memorize documentation, specific function call orders, etc, and I remember miserably failing a coding test for Comcast. The test? Write a full contact management application on an isolated computer, no IDE, using notepad and no installed runtime.

You’re spot on with the uselessness of modern algorithmic questions. We live in a world of high level languages; in 20+ years, I’ve never implemented a single one of those coding problems in an actual codebase. I would prefer to hire an intelligent, sociable person with core skills and who has room to learn and grow, rather than someone who can ace silly algorithms but can’t work with a team or complex codebase.

Heck, the person you refer to having hired, and presumably fired, may not have even used these tools. The trend these days is to learn to the coding tests from sites we all know about, not the ideas or concepts needed to work in a real team on a real application. They spend all their time writing algorithms, but often never actually touch a database/write a real complex application. The bootcamp explosion was a self-escalating problem for algorithm-based test questions.
by LinuxBender | 2025-04-05 13:47:54+00:00
There is probably some truth in this but China have their own major obstacles to overcome that this won't help much with. They have demographic challenges they needed to solve many decades ago and are basically running out of workers. In my opinion they would have to open the doors to global immigration and give people really good incentives to do this. I have no idea what those incentives would have to be.
by helpfulContrib | 2025-04-05 13:49:37+00:00
For audio applications, high performance display updates are important.

The richer the font, the higher-performance the GUI in these cases.

Render 4,000 independent graphic objects as quickly as possible? May as well let the operating systems text rendering pipeline do all the work .. as long as the typography is rich, it can result in a superlative user experience.
by throw0101d | 2025-04-05 13:49:59+00:00
> It's not so obvious to me. If they left certain countries out, then bad actors could set up shop in those countries to exploit their low tariff. For example, Chinese companies opened factories in Mexico after the first round of tariffs hit China.

Is that why Israel got 17% tariffs but Iran has 10%?

Or why Diego Garcia—who is run by the UK—also got hit with tariffs, even though the only inhabitants are UK and US military personnel. There's a bunch of B-2s there right now:

* https://www.twz.com/air/b-2-spirits-amassed-on-diego-garcia-...

* https://newrepublic.com/post/193523/donald-trump-tariffs-us-...
by thaumasiotes | 2025-04-05 13:50:07+00:00
> They share this property with the Fullwidth Latin block, which does occur in the wild interspersed with Japanese or Chinese text.

How common is that? In my experience it's much more normal for Chinese text to intersperse ordinary ascii characters.

https://www.zdic.net/hans/%E8%84%B8

I'm not sure what purpose fullwidth characters are supposed to serve, but whatever it is, it doesn't seem like they're succeeding.
by amazingamazing | 2025-04-05 13:50:13+00:00
These types of comments are pointless. We are destroying the world. Ok. What’s the solution? All involve pain, but no one wants to talk about that. Tech isn’t going to solve it. For one, the kind of person on this site is contributing literally 10000x more to the issue than the worlds bottom, so we can start there.

People love tech solutions, because then they don’t have to stop consuming and live modestly.
by icegreentea2 | 2025-04-05 13:50:37+00:00
So the article says that Agoura Road (which is not the highway) will be closed, but the project FAQ still says that it won't be? And the government pre-notices don't seem to mention anticipating closing the road either...

https://101wildlifecrossing.org/crossing-faq/

https://www.agourahillscity.org/Home/Components/News/News/39...
by MichaelRo | 2025-04-05 13:51:34+00:00
Well I don't know about the "porn algorithms", people are free to choose what they want. So if they continuously choose from the "teen" category, I'm guessing some sort of deviation must be at play.

Like if you check the teen category on https://www.pornpics.com/ , many of the girls there seem awfully young with some, practically kids.

For me the feeling is too uncomfortable to watch those. But I did notice a curious phenomenon, now that I'm approaching 50s. There were all kind of movies I watched as a kid, teenager or young adult and I completely ignored the beauty of the actresses in them, they were at best associated with "mom" if not "granny". But now, that their age in the movie is 10-20 years below my current age, suddenly I discover that they're pretty good looking. Like Elaine from Seinfeld for instance :)

I heard somewhere this saying and I'm afraid it's true: "When a man is in his 20s, he finds beautiful maybe 5-10% of the women of his age. When they're in their 40s, they find about half the 20-somethings beautiful. When they reach 80s, they find all of the young women beautiful." :)
by Y-bar | 2025-04-05 13:51:34+00:00
> how quickly it can be transferred is not refuted by this irrelevant statistic

Of course it is refuted. No need to transfer is without a doubt faster than a transfer taking a few minutes.

> if the median trip distance is 200 miles half of trips are longer than an EV battery charge

The median LONG distance trip. The trip which only happens a few times per yer. That trip. There are about 2.6 billion long distance trips, and 411 billion daily trips. So this means that just over 0.5% of all trips in a year is a long-distance trip, and therefore significantly less than half of those again can be completed without a refill.

0.25% of 365 = 0.9125

So one, probably two, long distance trips in USA per year on average need a refill on the way, when adjusted for all trips in the nation.

In what world is that a lot?
by ndsipa_pomu | 2025-04-05 13:51:41+00:00
I think the tariffs are going to hit the small producers really hard and I can imagine that anyone that has already got the game being manufactured (e.g. in China) will then be bankrupted by the sudden extra costs of getting the product into the USA - I'm thinking of KickStarter games where they've already worked out the prices (and been paid) and have no practical means of recovering increased costs. Maybe some companies will just dump the manufacturing run and choose bankruptcy instead - better than losing more money over just trying to get the goods into the country.
by squiggleblaz | 2025-04-05 13:52:11+00:00
I think OP's point isn't to prevent toxic assholes from saying whatever righteous things and fighting whatever bad fight, but to limit bot/inorganic/foreign contributions from made up people - basically to make it "one person one voice".

I kind of like the idea of "one person one voice", but I have two problems with it, which I think will block me from accepting it.

One is that the cost of it seems much too high, even if you can change it to allow the use of chosen aliases (I don't think it matters what a "one person one voice" system calls an authenticated member). I don't really trust everyone who I have to give my ID details too, and this is just one more bit of stress for so little gain.

The second is that the benefits will never be realised. In an election, one person one vote doesn't work when half the population doesn't vote; you need almost everyone to come, otherwise it's the strongest opinions not the mainstream opinions that dominate. And I'm quite sure we'll see the exact same thing here, but in spades, and faster. If you don't like the opinion, you just don't show up. Once the centre of the social media is sufficiently different from the centre of the community, there will be the sort of bullying and self censorship you foresee and it will spiral out of control.
by jareds | 2025-04-05 13:52:22+00:00
While this may be true in the short to medium term how do you square this with the issues of an aging workforce and low fertility in China in the long term? While I don't believe Peter Zeihan's opinion that China will no longer exist as a country in the next 20 years I haven't been able to find any more reasonable takes on how aging societies will or won't adapt and what the consequences' of that will be.
by leeoniya | 2025-04-05 13:52:36+00:00
we needed something like this for virtualization of the Table panel, data-heavy dropdowns, and long list views in Grafana. so i guess that's a three-in-one?

i looked for the fastest thing i could find but canvas-hypertxt wasnt accurate enough and allocated an array of split lines per item, which is really wasteful when all you need is a line count. i forked it with some optimizations which improved perf by 60% but still suffered from the accuracy issues. so then decided to DIY my own strategy, and uWrap is the result.
by marcusb | 2025-04-05 13:52:37+00:00
The weight is the most trivial problem to solve in this whole problem chain. A hydraulic lifting apparatus capable of moving a ton that fits under a passenger car is something that exists today.

Getting automakers to agree to a standardized form factor (and to not put non-battery components in their battery packs ala Tesla,) automatically locating and removing whatever retentioning mechanism is used, having a large enough stock of batteries at each “filling station”, etc. are more difficult problems.

But, as I said, I hope this does happen in the future.
by jchw | 2025-04-05 13:53:04+00:00
OK... but there really are so many results upon literally just searching it. You immediately get multiple prominent results. You'd think if people actually cared about substantiating this, they could do one (1) Google search to find out. But here you go, courtesy of lazyweb.

https://files.calio.org/BIBS/declining-rates-bib4.pdf

https://www.stopitnow.org/sites/default/files//prevalence-ra...

https://www.unh.edu/ccrc/resource/decline-sexual-abuse-cases

(Of course the answer is that people don't care. They'd be happy to ignore the lack of sources if the conclusion being drawn agreed to them, but can't do a single fucking Google search if it doesn't.)
by snvzz | 2025-04-05 13:53:18+00:00
>You can either target the final result (RV23, I think is the name), which is somewhat sensible

RVA23 is the name. And I hear this is what e.g. Windows, Android and the next Ubuntu LTS target.

>or you can target the least common denominator, which will run everywhere, shittily

Not as shitty as you make it to be. And it has a huge advantage to aarch64, in its simplicity. Easily an order of magnitude, allows it to be used in scenarios aarch64 could only dream of.

>At approximately the same point in history, another instruction set was designed

I get it, you really like aarch64.

Which one weighted its options better? You might be right, but as years pass we'll have the benefit of hindsight. We'll be able to look back and see whether either side had good choices or cursed ones.

It's going to be fun. Hasn't been this fun since the 90s.
by sgarland | 2025-04-05 13:53:48+00:00
Just don’t do something stupid like changing system Python, because it will silently fail. I learned this the fun way, by inheriting someone else’s travesty of a setup (spoiler: if you have to hardlink random shared libraries to get stuff to work, that’s a good indicator that maybe you shouldn’t have forcibly upgraded the system’s Python installation), and then finding out that despite reporting success, no packages had been updated in the past year.

Security lost their minds. I was in awe of the miasma of bad decisions that had been made. Perhaps my favorite was that in the script that created this abomination, it blocked Postgres from being updated automatically via editing a file with sed, but they forgot to use -i, so it just, you know, spat out the modified line to stdout and then went on its merry way. This was not an issue however, since as mentioned, unattended-upgrades was broken, so nothing updated.