MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by no_wizard | 2025-04-05 03:32:43+00:00
All I can say is that’s the cost of doing business with the browser being the main platform.

If devs want to interact with it less then focus on moving more to the server. You can still serve HTML and CSS and get a long way without ever touching JS.

It’s no different than other domains where one or two particular languages largely dominate. Like I don’t hear developers decrying the existence of C/C++ every chance they get

I think the hate is entirely unjustified. It’s fine to have preferences but so often it goes beyond that.
by maqp | 2025-04-05 03:33:10+00:00
Yeah ok I reviewed some of your post history and figured this isn't the first time you're being called out for your opinions. You've been downvoted about this topic for the past several years. It's not even the first time we two are having this discussion. You obviously aren't someone who changes their mind when presented with arguments so it makes zero sense to continue. Take care my weird Russian oligarch defending Dane.
by dghlsakjg | 2025-04-05 03:34:23+00:00
Logging an area doesn’t necessarily decrease the fire danger. If you go to cut blocks in the PNW you’ll notice huge piles of slash in every cut block.

There are ways to log that do decrease fire risk, but generally those are not the techniques used in industrial logging since they are less profitable and tend to leave quite a few trees standing.

Here’s a good primer that lays out the basicshttps://davidsuzuki.org/expert-article/will-logging-more-in-...
by somenameforme | 2025-04-05 03:34:24+00:00
This is not an either/or scenario. If one wanted to maintain the handouts while simultaneously working to ensure they won't be necessary in the future, we absolutely could. And it doesn't take years to spin up plant and lab, months at most. But we do nothing of the sort, and there's no logical reason for this, unless the entire point is to create dependencies.

And when I speak of the US political system I'm obviously not speaking of this side or that. Both sides operate the same way in regards to each other, with all the sophistication of two children in a playground spat.

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Actually there's even a simple litmus test here to evaluate your own belief in "high-minded altruism." Imagine Russia or China decided to start pumping billions into projects in rural America: food banks/free healthcare/etc - lots of free stuff, but with no effort to create sustainability. Beyond this there would be no strings attached and no further aims than improving the life of rural Americans. Would you again support such "high-minded altruism"?
by 0_____0 | 2025-04-05 03:35:21+00:00
Fuel reduction for wildfire mitigation, if that's what you are referring to, doesn't focus on mature trees, which are pretty important for the long term health of forests.

This doesn't so much address the health of forest ecosystems so much as remove them, which really fucks stuff up. Habitat destruction, changes to waterways and luvial fauna, soil erosion. We already do a lot of timber farming, like a lot of DT policies it's hard not to read this as a simply spiteful move.
by polishdude20 | 2025-04-05 03:35:24+00:00
I find that due to having a remote job and living alone (albeit with my lovely dog) I'm less inclined to work on a side project where I'm again alone. I tend to gravitate more nowadays to spending time with people and being outdoors.

I used to be really active on side projects when I was a teacher. I'd have my social interaction filled to the brim so side projects were a way to have some alone time and recharge.
by Izkata | 2025-04-05 03:35:58+00:00
> I haven't heard a single analyst find sense in how tariff levels were set per country - someone did notice that it appeared a very simple formula had been applied, one that has no basis in economic theory.

I find it funny people keep talking about someone figuring out it out when they actually published it, including the reasoning with references at the bottom: https://ustr.gov/issue-areas/reciprocal-tariff-calculations
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-04-05 03:36:02+00:00
I’m happy using coolify. I self host on my Mac Studio as the control plane and deploy to digital ocean. I’m currently looking to host in Canada instead, but not having much luck. I considered hosting my deployments locally as well, I don’t get much traffic, but haven’t made a decision yet.

Overall it’s good software that just does what it says it will. My needs aren’t particularly complex, but they aren’t totally trivial either. It does a great job orchestrating things without me needing to worry much about the inner workings.

I’ve done these things manually for a long time and I would be fine continuing to do that, but… I’ve got a job, kids, other hobbies, etc. It has been great to have a simple control plane to automate a lot of it for me. I find it makes it more likely for me to build and deploy something in the first place, which is what really counts for me at the end of the day.

The discord has also been a good resource. They’re very helpful and the vibe is very positive in my experience. It has been, and still seems like an ecosystem worth investing in.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-04-05 03:38:26+00:00
What? The didn't happen, or it's not how it happened. Are you pretty young to remember Brexit?

The UK voted for Brexit in 2016, but it was up to the UK itself to invoke it with the EU. They took almost 4 years to do it in January of 2020 after 4 years of arguing about it with a transition period and trade talks with the EU until the end of 2020. It wasn't a surprise and "no one knew how imports worked". Yeah people online made all sort of wild hyperbolic scenarios, but trade was unaffected until the end of 2020. There were shortages in the UK around that time, but I wonder if you remember what happened shortly after January 31st of 2020?

The prescription drug shortages is still a problem in the UK. It's not because no one still knows how imports work in the UK, 5 years after Brexit. It's because the overall imports and exports in the UK has been falling since Brexit. Because the UK economy hasn't been doing great. Brexit, COVID, and then Ukraine/Russian energy dependency came in a pretty bad time for the UK.
by idiotsecant | 2025-04-05 03:39:02+00:00
Timber harvest doesn't work as an alternative to forest fires. This is timber industry propaganda. It produces shallow ecosystems and monoculture forests. Forest fires work just fine, and we continue to have them every year whether we do controlled burns or not. Many species rely on the natural fire cycle and we shouldn't try to prevent fires through timber harvest, it just makes fires and erosion and biodiversity worse.
by rawgabbit | 2025-04-05 03:39:51+00:00
Friedman was not saying we should maximize imports. Instead he was saying we should maximize the ratio of imports to exports. Essentially to get as much stuff from others (imports) while paying as little as possible (via exports).

”And the proper objective for a nation as Adam Smith put it, is to arrange things so that we get as large a volume of imports as possible, for as small a volume of exports as possible.”

With that said. He appears to be arguing for colonialism. Take stuff from others and pay a pittance for it.
by tayo42 | 2025-04-05 03:41:56+00:00
I keep putting off looking for something along his topic. Mostly becasue I want to learn to repair electronics. I have audio equipment that doesn't work right that I'm pretty sure just needs a small repair, but I'm stuck thinking about throwing it away becasue idk how to fix it. Pro repairs cost almost as much as what I have for some of them.
by dleary | 2025-04-05 03:42:07+00:00
Where did you get that figure from?

There are many sources online that agree, so I won’t bother to link them, that the population of New England was ~100k in 1700 and ~300k in 1750.

The claim that that actual rate of murder in all of New England was 2-6 per year is not believable.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-04-05 03:42:29+00:00
> i hate getting business sms

The big mass senders can afford TCR compliance. I'm betting that's who you hate getting sms from. Well, you'll keep getting their SMS.

It's small biz who is hurt by TCR. Biz who are run by people you've met and talk to.

I do business with lots of local shops and often SMS is the best fit for us to talk to each other. Except now we can't.

That's who TCR is protecting us from.
by no_wizard | 2025-04-05 03:43:18+00:00
I agree with what Biden was trying to do and the last part about the thrashing and lack of long term focus.

However I don’t think it’s the electorate that wants it now the same way a petulant child wants a toy. It’s the lack of clear vision and support that makes the electorate so desperate for it to happen. If we were to actually reinvest in our citizenry (meaning the wealthy in this country would need to pay a little more in taxes) and have proper support for people in the meantime the public would be supportive and it would be better for the country as a whole.

Instead it seems the US is trying to inch its way to becoming some type of modern Game of Thrones
by kragen | 2025-04-05 03:44:24+00:00
Aside from the project itself being very cool, this page is a great source for information about small microcontrollers, even if it does omit the WLCSP ones. And it links to the MIPS emulator page for ARM at https://dmitry.gr/?r=05.Projects&proj=33.%20LinuxCard which seems very interesting.
by Jtsummers | 2025-04-05 03:46:45+00:00
> Is it not obvious? The number of protons is the atomic number. If "c" was the answer, ions couldn't exist.

The answer key, unless it has changed since you wrote your comment, has the correct answer of (a) for that question (midway down page 3). You seem to have scrolled to the very end of the document which has the answers to a completely different section.
by VTimofeenko | 2025-04-05 03:47:16+00:00
I was in the same boat. Had a pair of speakers go bad about a month ago, opened em up, saw a bunch of bulged capacitors. Tried my hand at replacing them, wasted way too much time doing it; in the end I didn't fix them. I either burnt something while desoldering or something else was borked.

I bought a new pair, but I walked away from it with more or less of a warm and fuzzy feeling that I did what I could. And a semi-decent soldering station, so next time this happens I will try again.
by nine_k | 2025-04-05 03:48:03+00:00
A country could mine gold, pay with it for imports, and never have this gold brought back.

Currently you can replace gold with oil: say, Saudi Arabia could literally exchange many things it imports to oil, which can be nominated in USD to accommodate for the fluctuating monetary price of oil, but could be nominated in barrels directly, in a barter trade. They won't see this oil back, even e.g. as plastics made out of it, and they're fine with that.

The US can (so far) replace the gold and oil with USD, in cash, investment, or even credit purchase form, because there's enough demand for US cash as a store of value and a currency to trade with non-US entities, and enough trust that the US is going to service its debt, so it's an investment. The US may (effectively) never receive much of these USDs it sends abroad back; they are still a good deal in an inflationary fiat-currency economy. This pump continues to work as long as things like Silicon Valley, Wall St, and the US military continue to be world-dominating in their respective areas. (And this is one reason why isolationism is a silly policy for the US, toxic for its economy.)
by wkat4242 | 2025-04-05 03:48:43+00:00
> I remeber a space quest scene where a room full of computers was a joke on sierra offices.

The pirates of pestulon base in space quest 3 I think. It was pretty funny. Making fun of the cubicle office which was pretty much Avant la lettre back then (i know in Europe we only really got those in the late 90s). In 2000 I still had my own office as a trainee
by tepalmnagon | 2025-04-05 03:49:19+00:00
>It’s such a slap in the face to see that the only news coverage of this is from privileged Americans who can’t possibly understand what this means for the standard of living in that country.

Or, you could just acknowledge that it is inherently inhumane, despite the improvements it's making for your country. Of course authoritarian measures bring results and of course in a country like El Salvador, in it's previous state, they might even be warranted - but it is still inhumane. Inhumanity sometimes has to be fought with inhumanity, Americans of all people should acknowledge that. If you want to argue that it is not inhumane, however, then you are wrong. Imprisonment without due process is inherently inhumane.
by ipython | 2025-04-05 03:49:40+00:00
It’s more that it absolves them from having to hold a vote to continue the “emergency”. I believe the emergency act requires congress to vote to continue the emergency after a certain number of days.

But the republicans know that would be embarrassing to hold a public vote to do so- so they sneak in shit like this, to continue to be cowards since they’re too scared to publicly endorse the cruelty.
by czhu12 | 2025-04-05 03:50:02+00:00
I’ve finally gotten to a place in my life financially where I don’t care as much about the potential of making money from side projects and get to just build what I find interesting with the care and attention that I’ve always wanted.

It’s very zen, finally I feel no pressure to make progress, or feel like I’m wasting time by refactoring.

Sometimes I’d spend days just trying to get an animation exactly how I wanted to, or build vanity features entirely because they’re cool.

Everything else I’ve worked on, had aspirations of making money one day, and it quickly becomes a job.

(Working on https://canine.sh)
by steve_adams_86 | 2025-04-05 03:50:43+00:00
Yeah, you nailed it.

There are also regional specializations. Like, BC has a substantial amount of Western Red Cedar which the north western states can’t meet the demand for alone.

We also send raw materials to be processed by mills in the USA. This isn’t as common as it once was. Then we also send lumber which US mills process. Some examples would be fir boards would are turned into flooring, window sash, stair treads, etc. BC produces a ton of material like this which is fodder for all kinds of mills, large and small. We try to keep that business here, but we tend to mostly dimension raw materials for export, rather than actually mill them and add any meaningful value.

We import a lot of hardwood lumbers from the USA. I’ve personally bought and milled American hardwoods for furniture in my home. We have beautiful hardwoods in Canada, but there are a lot in the USA we simply don’t grow, or at least not commercially.
by ModernMech | 2025-04-05 03:51:07+00:00
The people who voted for these policies have to feel a sufficient amount of pain from them to be sure they won't just vote for them again as soon as they get the chance. Most people who voted for Trump in 2024 would vote for him again if he ran for a 3rd term. Nobody can consider America a reliable partner until that isn't a laughable possibility again.
by AnkurVerma | 2025-04-05 03:51:34+00:00
Put simply: SIUN’s efficiency beat the CNN, and it wasn’t even close. The researchers found that SUIN “achieves a 435.01x reduction in the number of FLOPS required,” to classify the bearings within the dataset. While that was the researchers’ best-case example, other tested datasets also found significant boosts to efficiency, with SIUN reducing compute requirements about 8-fold to 27-fold when compared to a CNN.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-05 03:51:41+00:00
That really raises the question of how we want to define "conservative" though.

They aren't conserving what we already have (they're cresting new policy and abandoning trade partnerships already built).

They also aren't supporting free trade. Maybe that isn't technically conservative, but its always been my understanding that free trade was a pretty big part of American conservatism (at least in recent decades).
by jcpst | 2025-04-05 03:51:46+00:00
For the longest time I railed against the fact that I am mortal, and my time is finite. I wanted to squeeze everything I could into my days, and I would feel guilty about projects I didn’t get to. This is despite having a wife, kids, house, full time job.

Eventually I burned out on programming-based side projects. I switched to activities that do not require staring at a screen. So I build analog electronics, study music.

Then I had a heart attack. My mortality and the fragility of life was never more clear. I accepted that I could die, and let go of all the mental baggage I was holding onto.

I’ve felt ‘cured’ ever since. I don’t recommend anyone get a heart attack. But I do think people fall into patterns, and get stuck inside of them. Sometimes a “pattern interrupter” can break us out.
by benatkin | 2025-04-05 03:52:12+00:00
docker run is broken as of April 1, 2025

https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/usage/

100 pulls per 6 hours. I think each base layer counts. Also may have troubles with ip4 reuse. It was bad enough they delayed it a month: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/22/docker_hub_pull_limit... https://github.com/search?q=%22docker+pull%22+limit&type=iss...

Better to use podman and build your own containers from Containerfile/Dockerfile (your own or open source ones, there are a ton on GitHub/GitLab/Codeberg that you can build yourself) and base layers.
by grepexdev | 2025-04-05 03:53:55+00:00
I would recommend getting started with lazyvim (lazyvim.org). Once you're comfortable with the editor, you can change the config to kickstart.nvim and start customizing it to your liking. That's what I did and I have no regrets. LazyVim allowed me to switch without sacrificing productivity. I was on it for a year before I decided to make my own config
by MBCook | 2025-04-05 03:55:07+00:00
I believe it is. And it’s fixable, but obscure.

They talked about it on the accidental tech podcast years ago when someone emailed him with the solution to this problem which one of the hosts was having.

I’ve tried searching but I’m unable to find which episode it was since search engines don’t work anymore.

So here’s what I think it might be based on what little I remember. When messages you’re sending are going to the wrong address, I think what you…

1. Tap the contact pic at the top of the iMessage thread

2. On the first row of buttons, tap the far right “info” button with a generic contact poster icon

3. Tap the “message” link

4. All their iMessage addresses will pop up, choose the one you want to use

I think that might “move” the thread to the right place.

I know in your case it sounds like it’s the other party who would need to do this. If this doesn’t actually do anything or create a second thread, I’m sorry. I know there’s a way I just don’t remember it if it’s not the above.
by satvikpendem | 2025-04-05 03:55:51+00:00
> I hate how it is common to advance a position to just state a conclusion as if it were a fact. You keep repeating the same thing over and over until it seems like a concensus has been reached instead of an actual argument reasoned from first principle.

I have interacted with the parent account before and have actually looked at the the amount of times they used words like awful, horrific, etc, and I definitely agree, as one should not have such a strong attachment to such words that they feel the need to continue to use (or rather, abuse) them endlessly.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by ethbr1 | 2025-04-05 03:56:07+00:00
> Society is your neighbours, your friends, your coworkers, your family, it's you and everyone around you.

That's... incomplete.

Society is the obligations and responsibilities collectively imposed on these people.

It's indicative that part of Thatcher's intent was to remove the obligation of people to each other.

More profitable when choosing to help others is instead at one's discretion...
by at_a_remove | 2025-04-05 03:56:22+00:00
I may have to learn its other half, Tk, as a side project of mine is starting to feel less like something I can pull off as a "wizard" on the command line. I had wrestled with wxPython many moons ago and, while I got through it, I felt like I had perhaps taken a wrong turn.

As a side note, while I have seen many UI elements over the decades, I cannot help but think that the wizard (or whatever you would like to call it) has somehow escaped being listed as a standard UI element. Perhaps it is too large to count for many.
by AndrewKemendo | 2025-04-05 03:57:03+00:00
I own three of their systems, one since 2019

They are far and away the leader in quality affordable robots that are able to be used in real life at a reasonable price point

You can hack on em and add a lot of capability

I’ve worked with a lot of robots and they are leaps ahead of everyone, and have a good supply chain that can actually deliver

All of their control policies are developed with RL too so they are improving all the time
by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 | 2025-04-05 03:59:10+00:00
Why does the US need to do this?

> Canada exports 45 billion CAD (USD ~30 billion) yearly, mostly to the USA

https://vizhub.com/curran/canadian-exports-to-us-treemap?mod...

According to this (2022) it seems lower than that?
by satvikpendem | 2025-04-05 03:59:36+00:00
> the same way how various LLMs for programming have been trained even on codebases that they had no business using, yet nobody hasn’t and won’t stop them

I remember the discourse on HN a few years ago when GitHub Copilot came out, and well, people were missing the fact that the GitHub terms and conditions (T&C) explicitly permits usage of code for analytic purposes (of which training is implicitly part), so it turns out that if one did not want such training, they should not have hosted on GitHub in the first place, because the website T&C was clear as day.
by defrost | 2025-04-05 04:00:22+00:00
> England punished all felonies by death for centuries

No.

For less than a century, during peak "Bloody Code" almost all felonies specified a death sentence .. that doesn't in any way mean that all felonies were punished by death.

A large number of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century statutes specified death as the penalty for property offences (even minor ones), meaning that the vast majority of the people tried at the Old Bailey could be sentenced to hang. This body of statutes, which later came to be criticised as a “Bloody Code”, meant that one could be executed for stealing as little as a handkerchief or a sheep. Nevertheless, judicial procedures prevented a blood bath by ensuring that sentences could be mitigated, or the charge redefined as a less serious offence. [..] As a result, as documented on the Digital Panopticon website, between 1780 and 1868 less than a fifth of convicts sentenced to death were actually executed.

Take it from the Old Bailey: https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/about/punishment
by gcp123 | 2025-04-05 04:00:40+00:00
The author did a fantastic job explaining complex cryptographic concepts in accessible terms. I particularly appreciate how it builds up the problem space before introducing solutions.

I spent several years implementing TLS in embedded systems, and I've never seen the intuition behind authenticated key exchange explained this clearly. The author manages to capture both the "why" and the "how" without getting bogged down in mathematical notation.

The explanation of the man-in-the-middle vulnerability was especially well-done - most articles either skip over this crucial weakness or explain it so technically that newcomers get lost. The starbucks router example makes it immediately obvious why key authenticity matters.

One tiny nitpick: the article simplifies by saying "you can't know you're talking to someone if you don't already know who they are" - but this overlooks the role of certificate transparency logs and OCSP, which add significant layers of protection beyond just trusting certificate authorities.

For anyone wanting to learn more, I'd second the recommendation of Julia Evans' materials. Her zines explain these concepts visually in ways that make this stuff click for many engineers.