MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-11 19:22:20+00:00
> China has to go further with a proposal for how it is going to do a US proof global system

Commit to selling half of their $800mm of Treasuries [1] and replacing them with Eurobonds as part of a free-trade agreement. That, in turn, funds Europe’s defence detachment from the U.S. [2].

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-exchange_reserves_of...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/europes-plans-pay-surge...
by sudodevnull | 2025-04-11 19:22:46+00:00
I hate how right you are. We are now the smallest (v1 is on track to be 11.4Kb), have the fastest signal implementation and looking like over 2x faster than idiomorph. So it's the smallest and fastest shim to build real-time apps or simple CRUD. Shocked how much tech world is vibes based but so be it.
by btilly | 2025-04-11 19:22:46+00:00
As someone else who lived through those days, I have to disagree.

First, JavaScript performance was not an afterthought, it was a big deal.

Second, Chrome's sandbox was massively superior from a security point of view. In a world full of viruses, that was a big deal.

I personally recommended Chrome to family and friends. I did so because I didn't want to be tech support for their virus problems. But what I sold them on was the speed.
by jmyeet | 2025-04-11 19:22:49+00:00
The role of the media (including social media) is to move in lockstep with US domestic and foreign policy. This has been known for some time [1]. It's never as simple as the White House calling up Mark Zuckerberg and saying "hey, silence X". It's about a series of filters that decides who is in the media and who has their thumb on the algorithmic scales, as per the famous Noam Chomsky Andrew Marr interview [2] ("What I'm saying is if you believed something different, you wouldn't be sitting where you're sitting").

Noam Chomsky is a national treasure.

When a former Netanyahu adviser and Israeli embassy staffer seemingly has the power to suppress pro-Palestinian speech on Meta platforms [3], nobody should be surprised.

If you're a US citizen who is a journalist critical of a key US ally, that ally is allowed to assassinate you without any objection of repercussions [4].

This is also why Tiktok originally got banned in a bipartisan fashion: the Apartheid Defense League director Jonathon Goldblatt said (in leaked audio) "we have a Tiktok problem" [5] and weeks later it was banned. Tiktok simply suppresses pro-Palestinian speech less than other platforms.

[1]: https://chomsky.info/consent01/

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvGmBSHFuj0

[3]: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/metas-israel-policy-chief...

[4]: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/16/israeli-forces-kil...

[5]: https://x.com/Roots_Action/status/1767941861866348615
by cypherpunks01 | 2025-04-11 19:23:12+00:00
> Human Rights Watch also found repeated inaccurate application of the “adult nudity and sexual activity” policy for content related to Palestine. In every one of the cases, we reviewed where this policy was invoked, the content included images of dead Palestinians over ruins in Gaza that were clothed, not naked. For example, multiple users reported their Instagram stories being removed under this policy when they posted the same image of a Palestinian father in Gaza who was killed while he was holding his clothed daughter, who was also killed.

> While “hate speech,” “bullying and harassment,” and “violence and incitement” policies[74] were less commonly invoked in the cases Human Rights Watch documented, the handful of cases where they were applied stood out as erroneous. For example, a Facebook user post that said, “How can anyone justify supporting the killing of babies and innocent civilians…” was removed under Community Standards on “bullying and harassment.”[75] Another user posted an image on Instagram of a dead child in a hospital in Gaza with the comment, “Israel bombs the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City killing over 500…” which was removed under Community Guidelines on “violence and incitement.”[76]
by ryandrake | 2025-04-11 19:23:24+00:00
> That’s why the level of political opposition is currently at “let’s all wear matching ties to show our disapproval of this political development that will absolutely make us tons and tons of money but which we need to look like we oppose”

Don't forget the "let's all hold little signs up and make frowny faces" strategy from actual elected Democrat Congresspeople. What a joke!
by xorcist | 2025-04-11 19:23:33+00:00
Yes, and article starts out by definining manufacture as "assembly using more advanced tools than a screwdriver". They solder. Good for them. They keep mentioning that their resistors are made in the US. That's great, but not unique to them.

They don't manufacture their important components. Not even Apple does that. No one does. There is roughly zero chance that any of the non-interchangable bits, the SoC, the battery or the screen, is manufactured in the US.

And there is nothing wrong with that. It's just silly to pretend otherwise.
by nonameiguess | 2025-04-11 19:24:21+00:00
I'm on the ad-free tier for Peacock and have honestly considered downgrading because most of what I watch there is live sports, and they have natural breaks in play that the linear broadcast fills with ads, whereas Peacock on the ad-free tier fills with extremely irritating repeating elevator music. It's bad enough that I'd rather see the ads.
by npinsker | 2025-04-11 19:24:48+00:00
> I don’t like what they do to me. I shudder to think how they could supercharge builders like Dorfromantik, Carcassonne, and Castles of Mad King Ludwig.

A very similar mechanic is used in the popular board game Betrayal at House on the Hill. That game's arguably even worse because it has stat upgrades!
by DonaldFisk | 2025-04-11 19:25:23+00:00
The thing that sets us apart from other animals is that we're able to control fire.

By a strict definition of writing (e.g. what we're doing now), people have only been able to write for a few thousand years, and much of the adult population was illiterate until recently. Define it widely enough (visual communication of information), and some other animals (e.g. tigers) also "write": https://animalresearcher.com/why-do-tigers-scrape-trees-at-s...

You could reasonably argue though, that we have passed on information over long periods of time orally, e.g. in epic poems, and that (as far as we know) no other animal does that.
by specialist | 2025-04-11 19:25:27+00:00
> because of those “obstructionist”

aka Vetocracy (h/t Francis Fukuyama).

> but the reverse is not possible.

Because holding together the GOP coalition is (comparatively) easier.

> set up to make “tyranny of the majority” hard to accomplish

As you note, USA has always had minority rule, by design.

What's different today is one faction has a lock on power. Just like how conservative Democrats had single party rule in the southern states, up until the Civil Rights Era.

What's old is new again.

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The correct answer is majoritarian rule. There's no shortage of ideas for reform to get us there. The John Lewis Voting Right Act would be a good start.

Just know that any movement will have to arrise from outside of the two party system. The Democratic Party, such as it is, will not and cannot fix this problem. That's just not what political parties do. The parties get candidates elected. They (eg DNC) don't do policy, don't build movements.
by TinkersW | 2025-04-11 19:25:34+00:00
It in no way replaces triangles, and very few will use it for good reason.

Why?

In many cases modern renders use triangles only a few pixels in size, you won't see C1 discontinuity at that size.

All the outer edges of quad still have C1 discontinuity between other quads, all it fixes is the internal diagonal

It has performance & complexity overhead
by glenstein | 2025-04-11 19:25:40+00:00
>If that were the case, then you would expect isolated groups of humans who never developed a writing system to be significantly different from "homo archivum", but we know that's not true.

I'm not sure I understand why this would necessarily be what you would expect. I would say it's entirely the other way around. If we have some sort of favorable evolutionary circumstances that predispose us to turn into archivists, that might be at the frontier of the outer limits of the capability we're able to reach, so it might only show up in certain pockets or subsets of our overall population. Getting there would still hinge on favorable probabilities and circumstances that might only obtain in a small percentage of cases.

As for Socrates, I must confess I am rather smitten with him as a historical figure and as a philosopher, but for the many great things that Socrates is, I don't think he's a reliable authority for the evolutionary history of humanity writ large. I suspect that you're entirely right that oral traditions are more emotionally resonant and powerful than written traditions. But don't think there's any logical fallacy or contradiction in supposing that nevertheless a written tradition could emerge in parallel with oral traditions.

I suppose I do agree with your end point though, which is that I'm not sure that a disposition towards the writing can be pointed to as like a singular thing that's at the essence of what it is to be human. In fact, I would say that that very question is kind of romanticized and abstract in a way that doesn't make clear contact with our scientific understanding and therefore is kind of a malformed question. But I don't have to agree with that form of question to nevertheless believe that our capability to put language into a written form had rather transcendent consequences for us as a species.
by ath3nd | 2025-04-11 19:25:47+00:00
> You’re not arrested for posting this

Your funds might be cut off though: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/apr/07/trump-...

Or your president might declare a wartime law to deport all the immigrants: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp34ylep987o

Or you, a honors student (but not a citizen) might find yourself in an unmarked van if you dared to question the powers that be. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czrn57340xlo

Sure it happens to immigrants only for now, brings memory to this poem:

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-11 19:26:04+00:00
> If Dems start to throw spanners into the works, that will just add to all the spanners the Republicans are already throwing into the works

“A treatment known as the Milwaukee protocol, which involves putting people with rabies symptoms into a chemically induced coma and using antiviral medications in an attempt to protect their brain until their body has had time to produce rabies antibodies, has been occasionally used” [1].

I’m not advocating for shutdown, mind you. Just delay, distraction and disruption.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies
by maujun | 2025-04-11 19:26:06+00:00
You seem to be indicating that the US actions were bad.

But after those actions, that's what many people wanted after simply reading/listening to some words.

Even if you say what the US is disseminating is not "true" (or misleading), it is debatable that truth matters more than the people's "preferences".

And it's debatable that other country's preferences matter more than the US people's. What's wrong with the US spreading it's view of morality (such as human rights)?

The US is the greatest country in the world. I learned that in school and don't need to worry about whether it's true. Now and when the time comes, I will be a good citizen.
by mxuribe | 2025-04-11 19:26:35+00:00
When i started dabbling in python back in the day, and when i had a need for cgi-bin sort of functionality (for simple web front-end), i think it was the sunsetting of popularity of python cgi, and more of the rise of WSGI...so there was less blog posts out there showing best practices around cgi, and more on wsgi...and to me it often felt like i was doing more unnecessary work via wsgi...but then, maybe i'm old and stodgy, and came from the php world prior to dabbling python? Then again, even though i feel i am more mentally sharper now than my younger self...it sure feels like back in the day i was able to be more productive sooner...and nowadays there's just so much setup and harnesses to begin with.
by ljm | 2025-04-11 19:27:15+00:00
The big legacy news organisations would be legacy media.

Social media is not even 20 years old but it’s a tall order to deny it mainstream status since the younger generations get their news from scrolling TikTok and not cracking open the daily broadsheet.

Legacy media has been sourcing from Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit for years. They’re as mainstream as AP and Reuters but without the reputation or the credentials.
by dundarious | 2025-04-11 19:27:24+00:00
> Most code and algorithms cannot be trivially ported to the SPE.

Having never worked on SPE coding, but having heard lots about interesting aspects, like manual cache management, I was very interested to read more.

> C++ virtual functions and methods will not work out of the box. C++ encourages dynamic allocation of objects but these can point to anywhere in main memory. You would need to map pointer addresses from PPE to SPE to even attempt running a normal c++ program on the SPE.

Ah. These are schoolboy errors in games programming (comparing even with the previous 2 generations of the same system).

I think the entire industry shifted away from teaching/learning/knowing/implementing those practices de rigeur, so I'm absolutely not criticising the OP -- I was taught the same way around this time.

But my reading of the article is now that it highlights a then-building and now-ubiquitous software industry failing, almost as much as a hardware issue (the PS3 did have issues, even if you were allocating in a structured way and not trying to run virtual functions on SPEs).
by fidotron | 2025-04-11 19:27:58+00:00
My experience is WebRTC has an on-ramp problem, which this is partly to address, but it is significantly helped if you are thrown in the deep end to work on it with someone that knows the quirks already. The big thing I got from that process was to stop being afraid of reading the SDP, because a huge amount of the problems you will run into are really the result of SDP oddities. It is credit to people like the libwebrtc maintainers that the complex morass of MediaStreamTrack processing is as solid and performant as it is these days. (And extendable).

I share the view that it should form the basis of real time communication, humans involved or not, and a/v media involved or not. There seems to be some progress on applying absolute timestamps to frames, for example, however, at some point if we want to have rocket ships using it (and I do too) we will eventually need to have some way to reconcile divergent clocks used at different sources!

Sean is modestly not mentioning Pion here, which is the lower level library many golang people reach to for webrtc components, and deservedly so.
by mdp2021 | 2025-04-11 19:28:21+00:00
Of course there should be concerns about how the "anonymous denunciations" will be then held. I just did not think that the matter was really "on topic" here. But that could impact the credibility of the "partner" (which is in topic).

But before establishing that that will be the treatment of the specific cases, we should either wait that such cases happen - or induce, judging whether horror stories (such as the Canadian actress recently detained and telling the story on the news) should be considered exceptional or structural.
by bfrog | 2025-04-11 19:28:27+00:00
This is kind of like the PCB pricing story, they could be priced competitively but that's not how the market in the US for domestic PCB manufacturing has been setup. It's been setup to target things that must be made here, where pricing is usually dictated by that demand rather than a competitive market rate.

If china were taken out of the picture (e.g. JLCPCB) ideally a competitor would attempt to take what was that market. Or not? Maybe the margins are low and this is why it hasn't happened here already.
by darksaints | 2025-04-11 19:28:33+00:00
Writing is a new phenomenon. It's certainly a novel ability, but genetically we were around for a few million years before we even developed civilization, tens of thousands more before behavioral modernity, and only in the last 10k years have we developed writing. But other commenters have already said as much.

I would contest that what makes us unique is recursion as a general ability. In that sense, writing is a method of recursively building knowledge. But we also have it with spoken language, as we recursively build vocabulary and grammar into complex communication. We have it with tools, as we are the only species (at least as far as I know) that uses tools to make tools. We also seem to have it with our physical abilities: witness the constantly broken records in competition sports.
by throwerofstone | 2025-04-11 19:28:51+00:00
After playing the game for 10+ hours and dropping it out of sheer frustration, I came to the conclusion that I must have been playing a vastly different game than the people praising it.

The first hour was great. I was constantly encountering new rooms and solving puzzles. The many times where the game decided to give me nothing but rooms leading to dead ends was annoying, but I still had things to explore in the next run so it didn't matter that much. After that first hour, the game became a slog. I encountered the same rooms, solved the same two puzzles for resources and was constantly praying for the RNG to give me something new. There is some RNG manipulation, but not enough to mitigate the boring part of the game. There are a few interesting overarching puzzles, but most of them are wrapped in multiple layers of RNG.

For example, for one puzzle you need a specific item that randomly spawns, use it in a room that randomly spawns which you need to unlock with another room that also randomly spawns. It took me 6 hours for the game to give me a run where I got all three of those things in a single run. The reward? Some resources that I have next to no use for and some clues that I can only experiment with if the RNG deems me worthy.

I have absolutely no idea where the praise for the game comes from. Maybe this game is perfect for those who are really into roguelites, but for me personally it just feels like the game is wasting my time for no reason at all.
by godelski | 2025-04-11 19:29:13+00:00
Has anyone tried to replicate this? Seems like it would be very useful for amateur makers/hackers were it not for the $23k printer cost (no idea for the cost of the discussed silver ink). But surely someone crazy had access to one and tried or has tried to replicate on a cheaper printer? I figure HN has a decent chance of helping find said persons?
by aprilthird2021 | 2025-04-11 19:29:16+00:00
Right. We don't have to arrest. We can just disappear anything you say critical of our masters, I mean, our overlords, I mean, our government, I mean, a foreign government, I mean, a foreign government that hacks American companies and sells the hacks to Middle Eastern dictators who breed an ideology that trained people to attack our own country, I mean...
by pryelluw | 2025-04-11 19:29:20+00:00
Let’s say you have a food truck. You cook, they find festivals to sell at. Every month you find yourself having to redo the menu because they think a different menu will fit a specific festival better.

Your truck ends up equipped with a very complex kitchen. You never manage to get good suppliers because you mostly buy once or twice. Your marketing? Good luck having a proper instagram page with an ever changing menu and no known constant locations.

You will have no repeat customers, no foodie photos driving others to the truck.

Etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

What do you do if not quit this craziness and go work for a food truck that has it figured it out? Maybe even a restaurant that is not on wheels …

Anyway, take care.
by kubb | 2025-04-11 19:29:26+00:00
Anna Politkovskaya – Investigative journalist and critic of the Chechen war, shot in Moscow (2006). Alexander Litvinenko – Ex-FSB officer poisoned with polonium in London (2006).

Stanislav Markelov & Anastasia Baburova – Human rights lawyer and journalist, shot in Moscow (2009).

Boris Nemtsov – Opposition leader, shot near the Kremlin (2015).

Denis Voronenkov – Former Russian MP, shot in Kyiv (2017).

Nikolai Andrushchenko – Journalist, beaten to death in St. Petersburg (2017).

Alexei Navalny – Opposition leader, died in prison after previous poisoning (2024).

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The difference is that they murder their political opponents for show to make their people be afraid of dissent.

You comparing it with some (disgusting, vile) social media company (which would improve the world immensely if it disappeared) is completely inappropriate.
by lupusreal | 2025-04-11 19:31:33+00:00
Well, I wouldn't say they're completely orthogonal, knowing how a word is spelled can sometimes give insight into the meaning of the word. I think they're mostly orthogonal though; it's fairly common for people to know what a word means without knowing how to spell it, and on the flip side there are people, like Scrabble players, who know how to spell a lot of words which they don't really know the meaning of. I've heard of one guy who is a champion French Scrabble player who can't actually understand French.