MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mjewkes | 2025-04-02 17:09:06+00:00
Sure, they can build it here—but protectionism doesn’t deliver long-term success.

In the short term, it drives up prices and makes consumers poorer. In the long run, tariffs shield companies from global competition and limit their ability to scale. Without that pressure or opportunity, businesses grow weaker—not stronger.

That weakens U.S. industry, not strengthens it.
by akomtu | 2025-04-02 17:09:31+00:00
> The underlying theory in all of these cases is that while color is sensory, unstable, and chaotic, form is rational, stable, and pure.

And pure reason is inhuman.

Color represents emotions, form represents reason. Since emotions is a big part of human nature, the loss of color means the western society has been sliding into a depression, and the west is depressed because it's falling under the influence of the origin of this colorless stereometric brutalism.
by chneu | 2025-04-02 17:09:35+00:00
A lot of that will takes years to get going. Trump will nearly be out of office before manufacturing can ramp up.

Add on that trump is quite literally tariffing the materials needed to expand US industry/manufacturing.

The US also has a major labor shortage that trump is only making worse. How are ya gonna build a violin face when you can't hire anyone to do it?

Like usual, conservatives/Republicans grossly oversimplify how the world works in order to get sound bites and convince fools that 1+1=3.
by Symbiote | 2025-04-02 17:09:43+00:00
> Or the factory can build their parts here in one of our 50 great states.

Then the ⅔ they sell outside the USA would be subject to the retaliatory tariffs likely to come in response to Trump's tariffs. They'd also lose at least some of their existing 10 employees who wouldn't want to move, so they'd need to train more — quality would suffer.

It's more likely they'll find ways to avoid the USA — the European nylon supplier mentioned in the article might reduce their minimum order size, or maybe they could find another business to split the minimum order. The Canadian packaging producer is probably trying to find a Canadian paper supplier.
by out_of_protocol | 2025-04-02 17:09:51+00:00
470€ vs 570€ for OLED 512GB. With 80€ (digital, 90€ physical) base price for a game, you'd probably go break even in like 2-3 games, especially when buying games on sales (Nintendo don't do that) and older titles (Nintendo don't discount these either)

P.S. $450 vs $550 for US
by amarcheschi | 2025-04-02 17:10:05+00:00
Well, visually exhausting is something that imho happens only if you find unpleasant the colors you're seeing. The wonderful island of Burano is something I would never get tired of, yet it's so colorful.

I think that the visual exhaustion comes from the fact that the thing we see everyday are made to catch our attention and not to decorate. So ads, shits and giggles that don't really add to our experience but that catch - and drain - our attention

Then again I'd probably be fine with a super duper wallpaper like this so perhaps we won't agree on some things such as having few colorful elements https://www.photowall.com/ee/memphis-piazza-panorama-wallpap...
by techpineapple | 2025-04-02 17:10:11+00:00
Seems like a retelling of the fourth turning, don't see the book mentioned here:

https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Turning-Here-Seasons-History-e...

These ways of finding patterns, are always interesting, but also usually flawed by like all of the things left out.

"This juncture (civil war) is the best one to drive home the point about why political passions run so high at these historic moments: They mark fundamental system changes, and the stakes are extremely high, particularly for those on the side of the system that has to die."

We're there political passions in the 1945's? Seems like there we're greater political passions and divisions in the 1960's an 1970's, halfway through his theory.

There seems to be this idea that what, maybe AI is the next technological explosion 80 years after the end of ww2, but I'd argue we just got out of a technological explosion of the computer age/the internet.

My flawed cycles theory is: I'd cut all these theories in half. I sort of theorize maybe a 40 year cycle. bottom-up civil rights action, (20's,60's). Top-down backlash and economic instability (30's70's) economic deregulation and push (40's? , 80's) and then optimisim (50's/90's).

In this model, I think we're headed into the 70's (backlash and economic instability)
by zodiacoinxyz | 2025-04-02 17:11:02+00:00
Building Zodiacoin.xyz – Where Astrology Meets Crypto Vibes (No Coins... Yet)

Hey r/SideProject!

I’ve been brewing something cosmic in my spare time, and I’m finally ready to share the first spark of it: Zodiacoin.xyz – a project at the intersection of astrology, personality, and crypto culture.
by famouswaffles | 2025-04-02 17:11:05+00:00
What is the difference between "English Speaking People" and "the Chinese Room" ? The problem with Searle's arguments is that all the Chinese room is is an appeal to absurdity, a sleight of hand. I'm supposed to think, "Oh. This is so absurd, of course the room doesn't understand" but it is an appeal that falls apart about once you realize that the same logic could be applied to any computational process, including human cognition. The distinction Searle draws between a person who genuinely understands English and a system that mechanically manipulates symbols is, in essence, arbitrary. They are both systems that have demonstrated understanding.
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-04-02 17:11:19+00:00
Deconstructing Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music for Airports:

https://reverbmachine.com/blog/deconstructing-brian-eno-musi...

It's a must-read! It has analysis of all Eno's tape loops and an interactive note randomizer. Mentioned in the article's related content but it's worth an extra shout.

Fun to play around with for anyone who likes the album or ambient music in general.
by dreamworld | 2025-04-02 17:11:39+00:00
Yes and, part of it is advertising visually tormenting us. They throw uber catchy colorful banners of stuff we're often not interested in the slightest, doing everything to get our attention. Also, websites featuring advertisement are encouraged to have more muted tones so they stand out. That gets tiresome and we tend to want rest for private spaces.

But overall I agree. If everything is uber-colorful, that can become just overwhelming. Also we are a lot more stimulated throughout the day with screen and movies and games. In the olden days you didn't have a smartphone with a colorful screen, so putting lots of colour in your house or your church made more sense.

I'd want less advertisement, and more thoughtful color choices throughout cities and digital spaces.
by morkalork | 2025-04-02 17:11:47+00:00
Hello investors! I have an opportunity here and would like to build a factory in the USA. The market is tiny, the product is bespoke, and the MSRP is also tiny. We'd be looking at employing around 10 people (as per the fine article). Also the economic conditions may disappear tonight, tomorrow or next few years. Any time, really. Oh, not interested in investing? Quelle surprise..
by cjbgkagh | 2025-04-02 17:12:11+00:00
'async' is not a keyword in F#, it's a builder instance no different to the ones that you can create. It's just built in to the standard library.

The return statement is only required if you want to return something form the computation expression. In your example you use async { let! x = f(); return x}, which can be reduced to async { return! f()}, which can be reduced to f().

The rest is your opinion that I don't agree with.
by maxloh | 2025-04-02 17:12:31+00:00
It seems that Bare is also built on top of V8 and libuv, much like Node.js.

Bare is built on top of https://github.com/holepunchto/libjs, which provides low-level bindings to V8 in an engine independent manner, and https://github.com/libuv/libuv, which provides an asynchronous I/O event loop. (from their README)

Moreover, you actually need Node.js and npm to install and run it. You need another JavaScript runtime as a prerequisite to install this JavaScript runtime…

npm i -g bare (also from their README)

I don't get it – is it worth it to choose Bare over a more established and welly-maintained solution?
by mindslight | 2025-04-02 17:13:33+00:00
It's no mystery. The US regime changed to one sympathetic to Russia (at the very least), so the ever-supplicating political establishment has started realigning. Remember this is the same paper that helped drum up support for the Iraq War. Even "leftist" corpo media is still just blue-flavored state media.

As far as the truth, the problem is the lack of two functioning political parties. Two parties representing different approaches to the US's interests would have meant that the opposition poking holes in the official narratives would point to a competing US-benefiting alternative. Imagine instead of this feckless trickle of weapons effectively keeping the Ukrainians on a leash, the US could have taken the lesson from the Moskva and let Ukraine run with it. That is the debate we should have had.
by x0x0 | 2025-04-02 17:13:36+00:00
> How are ya gonna build a violin face when you can't hire anyone to do it?

We're going to use children.

The US labor force is shrinking for at least the next 20 years. We're losing 500-900k workers a year until at least 2034, and longer if people have fewer children because of, well... And it's not projected to increase until 2045.

All the squealing you hear from business owners? Labor today is likely about as inexpensive as it's going to be for the next 20 years.
by seadan83 | 2025-04-02 17:13:46+00:00
Not sure anything is captured. Need control for diet and measurements of existing creatine levels. It takes a few weeks to get creatine higher after supplementation. This is a small sample sized study that strikes me as dubious. Particularly compared to others that have done muscle biopsies. The pre-warm up routine is itself sus, that impacts lifting potentially more than creatine. Creatine also has a role in recovery, good luck measuring that..
by Freak_NL | 2025-04-02 17:13:54+00:00
> Kind of like the nausea-inducing, shaky "hand held camera" thing that was so predominate some decades ago. Good riddance to that.

Shudders. A lot of shows were utterly unwatchable for me.

(Now they're just unwatchable because of the mumbling/whispering and the colour palettes tweaked to the extent nothing has any contrast left.)
by arwhatever | 2025-04-02 17:13:54+00:00
Ah yes that is definitely a nice addition to the C# language, albeit still with a couple of shortcomings compared to F#:

1. It doesn’t support code blocks, so if you need multiple lines or statements you have to define a function elsewhere. 2. To get exhaustiveness checking on int-backed enums you have to fiddle with compiler preprocessor directives.

And for #2 any data associated with each enum variant is left implied by C# and has to be inferred from a reading of the surrounding imperative code, whereas in F# the union data structure makes the relationship explicit, and verifiable by the compiler.
by fatbird | 2025-04-02 17:13:57+00:00
This is, in fact, part of the support for Dark Matter, both with galaxies (the amount of lensing requires the galaxy to include a lot of Dark Matter) and between galaxies, where other lensing effects occur that can only be explained by filaments of Dark Matter between galaxies and galaxy clusters.

This is a great podcast, with episode 6 concentrating specifically on Dark Matter and the evidence for it: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crash-course-pods-the-...
by nonethewiser | 2025-04-02 17:14:02+00:00
I think an interesting angle to this discussion is the fact that before the "temporary" income taxes (in 1913), tariffs were the primary source of tax revenue in the United States. There are lots of modern economists in favor of consumption taxes over income taxes. And in a climate where people are up in arms about billionaires skirting income taxes, you'd think it might be a popular idea to tax all the money they spend.
by dekhn | 2025-04-02 17:14:09+00:00
Intepretability is nice, I guess, but what if the underlying latent model for a real-world system is not human-understandable. if a system provides interpretability by default, does it fail to build a model for a system that can't be interpreted? Personally I think the answer is, it still builds a model, but produces an interpretation that can't be understood by people.
by atoav | 2025-04-02 17:14:33+00:00
My pet peeve is that in the boy cried wolf story in the end the wolf was real and the boy got eaten.

Imagine a real village where a boy sees a wolf and three times the villagers run out and don't see a wolf and then one day the boy cries wolf again and gets eaten — which is more likely:

1. The boy lied to the villagers about the wolf and then by a turn of fate a wolf showed up.

2. The boy actually saw a real wolf, but that wolf evaded the villagers, then the villagers let the boy get eaten and out of shame they started telling the story in a way that tells us the boy lied, even if he didn't. That boy had it coming. He always was a bit misguided — says the person who thinks death is an acceptable punishment for lying.

I find the latter way more likely and the lesson to be learned from it more profound.
by dansmyers | 2025-04-02 17:14:46+00:00
Pair with this complementary piece by W. David Marx:

https://culture.ghost.io/cultural-stasis-produces-fewer-chee...

He writes about incentives since the 1990s that have pushed artists to shy away from making bold aesthetic choices that might seem dated a few years later.

The result is more stability and a longer shelf-life for culture, but less experimentation and fewer ways for new styles to break out.
by toomuchtodo | 2025-04-02 17:15:14+00:00
Are there any products that can act as a locator beacon, in perhaps a pager form factor? They listen for a signal from a powerful base station at frequencies low enough to deeply penetrate RF opaque material, and upon command, could key up and transmit at max power while using Time of Flight to triangulate (from a network of base stations)? 900mhz comes to mind, but perhaps there are alternate, more optimal frequency bands for this.

It's a local version of https://www.findmespot.com/
by hidelooktropic | 2025-04-02 17:15:25+00:00
Same. The "runs on mobile" part I assume is Android only? How do I develop something for iOS that uses Bear? Seems like a limitation they wouldn't be able to lift but maybe I'm missing something

Update: from home page

> Built for Mobile > Embedding a JavaScript runtime on mobile is easy with Bare Kit. Bare Kit allows you to create "worklets" or isolated Bare threads which expose an IPC with bindings for Android and iOS. With React Native, you install `react-native-bare-kit` and create a `Worklet` instance passing the JavaScript you want to run.
by maxloh | 2025-04-02 17:15:31+00:00
From their README [1]:

Bare itself only adds a few missing pieces on top to support a wider ecosystem of modules: 1. A module system supporting both CJS and ESM with bidirectional interoperability between the two. 2. A native addon system supporting both statically and dynamically linked addons. 3. Light-weight thread support with synchronous joins and shared array buffer support. Everything else if left to userland modules to implement using these primitives, keeping the runtime itself succinct and bare.

[1]: https://github.com/holepunchto/bare#architecture
by legitster | 2025-04-02 17:15:46+00:00
I think it speaks more to the sloppiness of the action more than its expansiveness.

Pardoning a corporation is silly - corporations aren't subject to jail time and the administration can't really change the regulating laws. So really you are just absolving them of a 1-time fine.

BitMEX being named on the pardon was probably more of an oversight by a pardon-happy administration than it was a calculated legal decision.
by floxy | 2025-04-02 17:15:49+00:00
Also of potential interest is Kempe's Universailty Theroem which states you can draw any (polynomial) shape with a set of mechanical linkages. Like one that will sign your name.

https://academic.oup.com/plms/article/s1-7/1/213/1570315?log...

http://www.koutschan.de/data/link/
by drivebyhooting | 2025-04-02 17:15:50+00:00
I agree. But unless the incentives are changed, the US will continue to deindustrialize. Many here constantly bemoan the financialization of American companies. But that’s all that’s left after gutting the industrial capacity.

Think not for one moment that Apple et al can rest on their laurels “designed in California”. China is coming for the value chain lunch.
by f18m | 2025-04-02 17:16:25+00:00
I also consider myself largely self-taught in the subjects I genuinely enjoy and work with today - despite my academic degrees. Looking back on my academic years, I realize I “vibeschooled” quite a bit (or the pre-AI equivalent of it)—mostly because I was studying things I didn’t care about, with my main motivation being just to pass. The point I was tying to make on the post is that “vibelearning” in the same way as “vibecoding” (where code is the actual output) is inherently contradictory if it doesn’t result in actual, retained knowledge. When you vibelearn the wrong way, it’s easy to confuse the appearance of learning with actual knowledge retention. Great point about "going back and forth" under a teacher guidance. I haven't thought about this before, but I'm sure this is a great way of reinforcing learning and broadening perspectives. It's another behavioral dynamic that's hard to replicate through tech alone.
by ziddoap | 2025-04-02 17:16:55+00:00
I believe this story is supposed to bring a more human/relatable element to the impacts of the tariffs and trade war, using a unique family-owned business that happens to make a violin widget.

Focusing on cheaper Chinese competitors and how student violinists might approach a cost/benefit analysis for the widget seems to miss the spirit of the article (at least, as I understood it).
by emadda | 2025-04-02 17:17:25+00:00
> explain bundling an entire terminal emulator for something this simple.

- The app takes 40MB disk space, and around 80MB RAM. So quite light.

- Ghostty is fast, and is needed to render the search result list quickly. It is much lighter than a whole browser engine (Electron apps).

- I wanted a single "drag and drop" install method for all skill levels.

- The app needs its own windows and bundle ID so that the global keyboard shortcut can focus the Hot Notes window without interacting with your other terminal windows.

> Not sure that bundling their licenses in a file within Contents/Resources/ is sufficient

You can also view the MIT and other licenses in the About menu.
by pcthrowaway | 2025-04-02 17:17:27+00:00
I think he's banking on not being out of office in 4 years.

Also I don't think he's making the labour market worse, haven't deportations been roughly at the same level as past administrations when we actually drill down into the numbers?

What he is doing differently is targeting protestors of U.S. foreign (and probably soon domestic) policy with his deportations, which is simply abhorrent, not to mention possibly illegal.

But it remains to be seen if these measures will actually harm the economy, or (by suppressing criticism) actually strengthen his administration. It's a move out of the fascist playbook, and fascist economics aren't necessarily bad for the economy (except when they're overthrown or defeated).

I highly doubt we'll see the U.S. defeated in conventional warfare any time soon, so if he manages to extend his seat as fuhrer, I think his deposal will only be possible internally.
by tehjoker | 2025-04-02 17:17:30+00:00
I think white ppl (i’m one of them) should get over themselves. We’ve been the bad guys of history and we need to face it and correct course. It’s not written in our fate, it’s in settler colonial ideology and capitalism. We can adopt a new outlook in solidarity with our brothers and sisters and the world and make a fairer more decent world. Being uncomfortable is ok
by badlibrarian | 2025-04-02 17:17:50+00:00
There's a lot of panic and overlap in the space; a way to coordinate these efforts would be helpful.

Internet Archive et al. made noise and promises but told volunteers to stop because they couldn't actually handle the ingest.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/1jbgycm/us_gov...

These folks made a notable effort.

https://webrecorder.net/blog/2025-03-25-govarchive-us-and-mi...
by chneu | 2025-04-02 17:17:55+00:00
Radiolab did an amazing episode on food freshness. They talk about plastic produce packaging, which is a bit of a modern marvel.

https://radiolab.org/podcast/forever-fresh

Tldr: those plastic bags that salads come in are WAY more interesting than you think. They're selectively permeable membranes that only allow certain gasses in/out.
by famouswaffles | 2025-04-02 17:18:12+00:00
The point is that all the Chinese room is is a play to absurdity. That because opening the box reveals mechanisms that we would not call understanding does not mean the system, the Chinese room does not understand. The neuron comparison is to demonstrate that very fact. The brain is a Chinese room. It doesn't have to be relegated to a neuron, feel free to open the box and show any of us what happens in there that we would call understanding.

>It does not take place in an LLM.

I don't know what else to tell you but LLMs absolutely model concepts and the physical world, separate from the words that describe them. This has been demonstrated several times.
by jmye | 2025-04-02 17:18:30+00:00
Sure, but that’s what I’m saying: even for the people who buy trucks basically as status symbols, it’s a crappy truck.

There’s just no use case, IMO, where it sells to anyone who isn’t fully into what Elon was or currently is, or who didn’t buy the bullshit (self-driving, etc).

The F150 was the perfect electric truck - it can do real pickup things, but it also hits all the sweet spots for people who want a truck but don’t really need one (and who are willing to spend the premium).
by acc_297 | 2025-04-02 17:18:52+00:00
"Canadian tariffs" doesn't mean anything please specify on which goods you are referring to. (e.g. lumber, dairy etc...)

The American government is proposing across the board on every import (>=$800 or something) tariffs which has never been implemented by the Canadian government on American goods.

Canada is highly protective of certain industries which are typically small and are engaged in by a large voting population but small portion of the economy (GDP). As a percentage of total goods that American companies might actually want to export to Canada import tariffs are typically quite low.
by nonethewiser | 2025-04-02 17:19:00+00:00
That is very relevant overall and I thank you for bringing it to my attention. But what I'm talking about are people who declare tariffs as an absolute bad and then go on to say enacting them is rational and good. In the beggar thy neighbor policy, the behavior is not considered an absolutely bad thing. This happens with tariffs as well, but people can be even more dogmatic about it.
by mlissner | 2025-04-02 17:19:17+00:00
OK, here's the first thing popping up in court about this. There's a motion to unseal search warrants filed by a security researcher at Stanford that was just filed:

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69834044/in-re-motion-t...

This doesn't mean there are search warrants, necessarily, but this case might be the next place something pops up. If anybody wants to follow the case, you can do so with this link. :

https://www.courtlistener.com/alert/docket/new/?pacer_case_i...
by blueyes | 2025-04-02 17:19:27+00:00
We're in a Cold War with hot proxies. The original Cold War was also like that.

Now, China, Iran and North Korea are backing Russia without engaging in direct confrontation in Ukraine; the EU, NATO, and maybe still the US are backing Ukraine. If Trump realigns with Putin against Ukraine, then the axis of authoritarian countries will have won a major battle. Trump will ofc lose many of his old-guard GOP supporters if he does that.