MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dwallin | 2025-04-03 17:32:43+00:00
I would say that the partial counterpoint to that is, for most people their values are also largely tribe based, in that their values are not purely fixed, but rather tend to adapt to loosely track the tribal consensus. Very few are the ones willing to stick to their convictions under pressure.

There are clearly some (many?) shared average axiomatic values that seem to be common between very different cultures/religions (although individuals vary much more significantly), but it's much easier to obsess on the places we differ.

Where I strongly disagree is the idea that groups with different fundamental values can't necessarily find common policy ground. A good example is Basic Income, where you can find agreement between groups on opposite sides that both embrace the idea, but for very different value-driven reasons. In many cases, you can also agree to disagree, and just keep your collective hands out of it (eg. separation of religion and state).
by petsfed | 2025-04-03 17:32:49+00:00
By just about any reasonable accounting, the willful deconstruction of the concept of art reached its peak during and after World War I (e.g. Dadaism), specifically because of the wanton and apparently pointless destruction of an entire generation of French, British, Germans, and Russians (and others besides, but they bore the brunt of it). There was a very widespread questioning of traditional mores, which arguably bolstered the broader Marxist cause, but its definitely an inversion of causality to say that Marxism caused existentialism.
by mistrial9 | 2025-04-03 17:33:14+00:00
this glib analysis neglects the part where decades of plans and budgets have been addressing " build out social systems" while simultaneously building crony networks of political appointees, guarding the hen house. Short term pain is loudly announced for the purpose of defeating the political opponent, not addressing the long standing inefficiencies in a swollen and obese wealth exchange centered in the USA.

tons of cynical one-liners from partisans drown out efforts to really examine the impacts over medium and long term. A horrible problem with this move is that it is not entirely wrong from a fundamentals point of view? It certainly creates winners and losers, no question about it.
by giantg2 | 2025-04-03 17:33:27+00:00
Sure, not every country needs the same pay. Things like cost of living can vary. It seems hypocritical to say that people in one country deserve better protections than in another though. If we aren't creating the same protections as the workers here, it would seem that we are exploiting the less protected group. Workers here deserve real unions, but not in China. Workers here deserve OSHA, but not in China. We've decided as a society that people deserve certain protections, benefits, and even environmental protections. These costs factor into the cost of the goods. To not extend these protections (or the remuneration to pay for them) to the poorer group is exploitation by definition.
by jbverschoor | 2025-04-03 17:33:33+00:00
Not doing nix.. I tried a few times.. maybe I'll adapt my docker-based tooling at a certain point.

Less features is probably good, because make originally was just the dependency thing, but got abused as a build system.

Any performance improvements such as incremental compilations / incremental builds / interpreters / copy-on-write / hot-code reloading are always welcome.
by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t | 2025-04-03 17:33:39+00:00
This.

If you are a European startup and were considered "only an alternative" to a bigger competitor...now's the time to push it out and be seen for it. There's a huge demand right now, and it won't easily go away for the next (remaining) 4 years. The civil war that in my opinion is unavoidable won't make it better for US stability.
by HocusLocus | 2025-04-03 17:33:44+00:00
Hacker News itself looks promising for those needing an easy-to-use cluster management tool. I like its ability to operate on smaller AAA batteries by just putting bits of tinfoil on each end. It seems like a good replacement for Plex. I mangle users and software when necessary, but would like an opensource tool to play with. The orange objects are a nice touch. Curious to see how it evolves and compares to other social edifices like the Catholic Church.
by shaftway | 2025-04-03 17:33:52+00:00
FWIW, here's the bezier algorithm in Python:

def bezier(t, *handles): """Computes a single point of a bezier of any order where 0 <= t <= 1.""" if len(handles) == 1: return handles[0] else: pairs = zip(handles[:-1], handles[1:]) return bezier(t, *[_bezier_interpolate(t, a, b) for a, b in pairs]) def _bezier_interpolate(t, a, b): return [a * (1-t) + b * t for a, b in zip(a, b)] assert bezier(0.25, [1, 1, 1], [2, 2, 2], [3, 4, 5]) == [1.5, 1.5625, 1.625]

You can pass it any order of bezier (cubic, quadratic, etc.) for any number of dimensions, and how for along the interpolation you are. It will give you a single point. Connect a bunch together to get your curve. You can actually stop when `len(handles) == 2` and you get line segments instead of points, but it's slightly less accurate.

You can see the math for computing a point (or segment) is trivial (addition and multiplication) and it can be easily parallelized. It can even be a one-liner, but that isn't very readable.

Here's a good website for visualizing the math: https://www.summbit.com/blog/bezier-curve-guide/
by zeroq | 2025-04-03 17:33:56+00:00
> they can't seem to turn the work of their talented engineers into great new products

I think about this a lot. The most famous example in tech world is obviously Jobs and Apple. And it's a great example because it's a borderline scientific experiment where you can directly compare three different phases.

But I think about it in a broader scope - like how many companies can last generations and remain relevant? There are plenty examples outside of tech, like banks but that's basically the same product and it's not that easy to launch a direct competetior to Bank of America or BMW, wheras software constantly evolves, people iterate on exisisting ideas I can I think of, from top of my hand, handful of examples of software that was really impactful but is not anymore.
by creativeCak3 | 2025-04-03 17:34:00+00:00
I agree so much with you. This is not a dataset. This is the vomit of an LLM making stuff up. Like...why couldn't you just collect the data that already exist?? Why do you need an LLM?

Adding an LLM to this just adds a unnecessary layer of complexity, for what benefit? For street cred?
by garciasn | 2025-04-03 17:34:06+00:00
If the tariffs remained in effect for three decades, or more, there may have been incentive to move manufacturing back to the US; however, with the changing of the guard on the regular, most companies are just going to ignore it for 3.5 more years and hope that someone stops this from continuing.

Because, if you think about it, it took decades to get us to where we are today and it'll take decades to reverse, even logistically. This is a bunch of stupidity and meaningless saber rattling that will do nothing but hurt everyone except the extremely wealthy who can afford the additional taxation on the consumer side because the Republicans will further reduce the taxation on the income side.
by seba_dos1 | 2025-04-03 17:34:16+00:00
That's an editorialized title ("The Steam Deck is software-freedom friendly") and subtly different than what the article actually states. I don't think Steam Deck was made particularly software-freedom friendly. I do think that it managed to not be software-freedom unfriendly, and that's because unlike other vendors Valve did not care to make it so. It's a subtle, yet non-negligible difference that leads to different outcomes.
Show HN: rtrvr.ai one shotted doing taxes using Gemini 2.5 Pro
by arjunchint | 2025-04-03 17:34:24+00:00
rtrvr.ai recently launched AI PDF Form Filling capability for our Chrome Extension, where you can leverage the context of multiple open tabs to fill a PDF form. To demo this capability, we had our agent fill an IRS 1040 form using IRS tax guidelines and a synthetic W2 as context!
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-03 17:34:45+00:00
I agree there is merit to this reasoning around trust and promises between nations, but I don’t believe it applies in this case, which was a wink and a nudge around using “legal” immigration and visa policy to suppress wages and disempower domestic workers, to the benefit of imported labor and capital.

Bad faith agreements warrant no continuity or protection, but people should still always be treated humanely when the rules change.
by throwawaylolllm | 2025-04-03 17:34:46+00:00
It's my belief (and I'm far from the only person who thinks this) that many AI optimists are motivated by an essentially religious belief that you could call Singularitarianism. So "wishful thinking" would be one answer. This document would then be the rough equivalent of a Christian fundamentalist outlining, on the basis of tangentially related news stories, how the Second Coming will come to pass in the next few years.
by adrianvoica | 2025-04-03 17:35:03+00:00
Julian (the author) is a genius. v4 has been in the making for some time, but, boy, is it worth the wait! I have used v3 (I am using it on my landing page and even built a small game engine with it), but this version is on a whole new level. Congrats to the author! Keep up the good work!
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-03 17:35:13+00:00
> Prices rising due to tariffs isn't "inflation" in any traditional sense.

Yes, consumer prices rising is inflation in the traditional sense (since, unqualified, “inflation” refers to increases in consumer prices.)

> It's not driven by consumer demand,

Inflation is not restricted to demand-pull inflation, which is why the term “demand-pull inflation” has a reason to exist.

Tariff-driven price increases are a form of cost-push inflation.

> and therefore the logic for raising rates (i.e. slowing economic growth by reducing money in the market) doesn't apply.

The existence of cost-push inflation doesn't change the short-term marginal effects of monetary policy on prices, so of you care just about near-term price levels, the same monetary interventions make sense as for demand-pull inflation.

OTOH, beyond short-term price effects things are very different: demand-pull inflation frequently is a symptom of strong economic growth and cooling the economy can still be consistent with acceptable growth.

Cost-push inflation tends to be an effect of forces outside of monetary policy which tend to slow the economy, so throwing tight money policy on top of it accelerates the slowdown. This is particularly bad if you are already in a recession with cost-push inflation (stagflation).

The good thing, such as it is, about cost-push inflation where the cost driver is a clear policy like tariffs, is that while monetary policy has no good option to fix it, there is a very clear policy solution—stop the policy that is driving the problem.

The problem is when there is irrational attachment to that policy in the current government.
by kody | 2025-04-03 17:35:57+00:00
It's 60-80% as good as Stack Overflow copy-pasting programmers, sure, but those programmers were already providing questionable value.

It's nowhere near as good as someone actually building and maintaining systems. It's barely able to vomit out an MVP and it's almost never capable of making a meaningful change to that MVP.

If your experiences have been different that's fine, but in my day job I am spending more and more time just fixing crappy LLM code produced and merged by STAFF engineers. I really don't see that changing any time soon.
by BXLE_1-1-BitIs1 | 2025-04-03 17:35:59+00:00
I've done solo trips in a 16' 4" Pinetree Ojibway 32" beam canoe in Lake Superior and a number of river systems. Didn't sleep in the boat and didn't take cans. Pasta, sauce and soup in packets. Didn't have to worry about fresh water supply.
by williamdclt | 2025-04-03 17:36:11+00:00
Regardless of the philosophy of it (which is certainly interesting), many pieces uncontroversially start with a rest. If the first bar doesn’t start on a note, then the piece starts on a rest.

You could argue that the first bar is actually shorter than all the following ones and only starts on the first note, but… no one thinks like that that I ever heard of
by jborden13 | 2025-04-03 17:36:21+00:00
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by billy99k | 2025-04-03 17:37:17+00:00
"Imagine you want to buy a toy at a store which costs $50. You pay for the toy and walk away with it. The President looks at that transaction and says ‘wait, you paid the store $50 and the store paid you nothing, therefore the store is stealing from you. To “fix” this, I’m going to tax the store $25. From now on that same toy costs $75."

Incorrect. Imagine you want to buy a toy from the store in country X and because of where you live (the US), the store now charges you $75 instead of the $50 it normally costs for that item. This has been going on for decades.

A new president comes in and decides that if you are from country X and want to buy a toy from the US, you now have to pay the same inflated costs added to the item.

Country X now decides to charge the US $50 for that item and the US does the same. We both win.

Nobody seems to have critical thinking skills here. These tariffs will not be like this forever. In all likelihood, they will be gone within a month or two as these counties hammer out some better trade agreements.
by alex_varga | 2025-04-03 17:37:48+00:00
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by mindslight | 2025-04-03 17:38:18+00:00
> In this world, asking "who did you vote for" isn't a matter of tribalism, but it is a (good) proxy for asking someone "what are your values".

Only if you ascertain the (inverse of the) mapping of values -> vote correctly, and it's definitively not what the parties or the tribes themselves profess.

For myself [0], I sympathize with many of the issues Trump ran on while finding most of the Democratic platform cloying and hollow. But I value effective policy, being accountable to intellectual criticism, and a generally open society far far more. (And at this point in my life, a healthy dose of straight up actual conservatism, too!)

[0] and while it might seem needlessly inflammatory to include this here, I think it's unavoidable that people are going to be trying to read partisan implications from abstract comments regardless.
by vhodges | 2025-04-03 17:38:44+00:00
There's some mis-information here:

Yep on battery - I rarely use mine while traveling (and rarely travel) and set max charge to 60% so it should last a good long time, but it can be replaced when I need too. I replaced 2 in my black Macbook and once in my iPhone 3G (but I got 8 years out of the phone). When my work MB Pro had a battery bulge, the whole machine was replaced and presumably recycled since it was not repairable.

Internal, yep, but nvme > SATA any day.

They are usb-c yes, but the ports are adjustable (can mix usb-c, usb-a, display-port, hdmi, network, storage, etc) so it's not as restrictive as you seem to be implying.

On video, I am not sure if you think it's some kind of DisplayLink thing but it's alt-dp over usb, directly connected to the GPU.

My 13" has a headphone jack (and passable speakers) and a built in Mic (and both the camera and mic have switches to disable them).

2.5GB Ethernet is available as an expansion module.

I find the keyboard and touch pad okay! I don't really need a touchscreen.

On ports: I don't use the finger print reader (but it has one). I don't need SD card slot all that often (but is available). I don't have any FW devices (and 400Mbs vs 5-10Gbps). Don't need a modem or an IR Port

I don't use a dock (I do at work for my MB Pro - but it's mostly a permanent desktop configuration so I don't mind that it's connected via usb-c). The one I got IS compatible with my Framework 13 though.

I had a t61 for work and I loved it... in 2009 . I should have bought it from the company when I left but bought a black Macbook instead
by jm4 | 2025-04-03 17:38:46+00:00
Hawaii is the only U.S. state where you can grow coffee and their coffee costs a fortune. You need tropical weather and high altitude. Florida won't cut it. Besides, we already have fruit rotting in the fields in Florida because there's no one to pick it.

Want to put tariffs on Chinese electric cars or batteries? Ok, fine. But tariffs on all imports? It's the most brain dead policy in my lifetime. I can't think of any products that are produced 100% domestically without any foreign inputs. These tariffs will drive up the price of just about everything.
by thyristan | 2025-04-03 17:38:56+00:00
I've done scientific work in science. I've been paid for it, but by a public university, so not "commercial" in the strictest sense of the word.

Do you mean to suggest that "commercial work" in science takes shortcuts and ignores the essentials of the scientific method? Do you mean to suggest that commercial science or at least commercial chemistry writing science-like papers are all misrepresenting their results systematically? Do you think the standards for good scientific conduct do not apply to chemists or commercially working scientists? Because any of that would mean that "commercial work" in science is just fraud dressed up as science.

And yes of course an experienced experimenter will get better, easier, more consistent results, everyone knows that. The issue is not about that at all. The issue is about suppressing results and data that you don't like. Those maybe result from initial inexperience or bad luck, normal variations in measurements or whatever. You present all your data, with statistics, with an explanation, and if that explanation is "well, the initial 20 values are excluded from the reported average because of me being heavy-handed with the frobnicator" then that is fine. People can check your values, your reasoning and convince themselves that your reporting is right and your experiment works to the extend you reported. If you just say "the yield is 89%" without mentioning that all the other yields were worse, without mentioning any kind of variance, range, exclusions, you are lying. Those 89% were your single best yield, since they were best you were never able to reproduce that, so it might as well have been leftover product from improperly cleaning your glassware...

Are you really trying to convince me that all chemists are crooked like that? Or all commercial work in science is crooked?
by giantg2 | 2025-04-03 17:39:11+00:00
Just don't bring anything important or sensitive. Buy a cheap phone to swap SIMs. Buy a cheap laptop on Facebook or Ebay if you really need one. What kind of sensitive personal data do you really need to travel with? I would guess most people could transmit encrypted data via web services unless you're a journalist coming out of a censored country or something.
by mjevans | 2025-04-03 17:39:15+00:00
Increased taxes (on the wealthy) could also be used, not just to pay down debts, but to start new programs like expanding domestic production, back loans for small businesses and house construction. Heck even just 'new new deal' style jobs that build infrastructure.

Though I am partial to using new revenue to increase competition (new startups) in weakly competitive markets. That's the most effective way of increasing supply, and choice, and letting a market function.
by owyn | 2025-04-03 17:39:15+00:00
My guess would be Zork and the other Infocom games which at the time were huge because they could be played on the very limited PC's of the 80's and were top 10 selling games. Myst is basically a graphical "text style" adventure that was huge in the 90's and drove lots of CD-ROM sales and was a top seller for like a decade.
by Capricorn2481 | 2025-04-03 17:39:42+00:00
That's not quite what happened, was it?

First off, capital flight is not a good argument against high wealth taxes, it's an argument for more controls to prevent people from doing this, so they are forced to reinvest in business.

The wealth tax was in for a meager 2 years, and the richest in the country started calling it "anti-business" even though they were transparently refusing to reinvest that money in their company. Anti-business is shorthand for "We can't hire the 1 high-earner executive we want to play golf with instead of the 100 lower level employees that would actually help the economy."

Instead, they kept THEIR salaries and ate that tax cost, and told their employees they would suffer during these times. It was a coordinated effort to discredit something that was meant to create more jobs. Much like when Saudi Arabia artificially restricted oil until after the 2020 election. And the administration had no controls on this.

So yes, high taxes on the rich by themselves are worthless, but that doesn't mean those policies coupled with tighter controls aren't essential for wealth inequality.

Of course, conservative news is going to talk about this in the context of debt, and claim because the amount raised did not match the debt (moronic) that it was clearly a bad idea to tax the rich, when the real takeaway is there needs to be more controls and a bigger spotlight on how these scumbags jerk the system around. At the end of the day, they are trying to keep their yachts and their massive, unnecessary mortgages, and will fight tooth and nail to do so, and anyone falling for news stories about "oh it didn't work in 2 years, my boss said I was going to take a salary cut" is helping that agenda and nothing else.