MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by jillesvangurp | 2025-04-03 07:08:55+00:00
You are not wrong, you are just missing the point. This is the ultimate commuter vehicle. Most commutes fall in the 10-30 miles range. On an average day, you might drive 30-40 miles. If so, you basically are powered by the sun on most days.

> they maybe got 50 miles from the charging on that day

They claim it's up to 40.

Best case you charge more than you drive; so your car has a enough in the battery every morning to make it back home after work. Worst case, you delay the moment when you have to charge by plugging in by some large percentage. The difference between charging your car once or twice per week and once or twice every few months top top it up. Perfect if you don't have a charger at home. Removes a lot of the hassle and cost related to charging.

Road trips are not something people do on a daily basis. Especially not in light/small vehicles. But when you do, a light vehicle with a longish range is a nice thing to have. And this thing is very efficient by design (light, teardrop shaped) and the relatively small battery probably charges pretty quickly. And you get a few tens of miles extra because of the solar. So it can do a 300 mile journey despite having a smallish battery. Which is what they just demonstrated. 300 miles is pretty good. Most EVs don't do any better than that.
by Aloha | 2025-04-03 07:10:16+00:00
You dont know many poor people, or very young people.

I work a furry convention in the Southern US, about 3% of our attendees have some ID related malady - can't get a timely appointment at DMV, missing core documentation, unable to prove residency, etc - nevermind rural voters who may live hours from a DMV.. which they can't get to without a license (assuming they can afford a car) or a ride. No bus service to speak of either.

Its a huge issue, I'd 100% support voter ID if getting an ID was free and easy, without it I'm skeptical.
by zwnow | 2025-04-03 07:10:49+00:00
I live in the country with probably the biggest car lobby. It just disgusts me that families now have 3-4 cars instead of 1. One is fine, it worked 20 years ago, why doesn't it work today? People just became so entitled to getting anywhere any time they want with zero regards of their carbon footprint. Maybe im biased because we actually learned about that in school so I try to minimize mine... But yeah, I wont change shit with being sparse.
by ActorNightly | 2025-04-03 07:10:54+00:00
You can short over any period of time. You just pay interest for borrowing the stock.

Basically, its a really good question to ask, because even in the case that the person doesn't have investments because they don't play the stock market, it shows that they are not motivated enough to actually go short the security, which means that they truly aren't that sure.
by duffmancd | 2025-04-03 07:11:26+00:00
I think the issue might stem from the fact that (as I read it) the essay is talking about "for the people who are moderate (in the middle of the left/right axis), some are distributed higher on your graph, while some are lower". Which says nothing about "for the people who are distributed higher on the graph, how many are in the middle of the left/right axis". Your graph makes explicit an answer to the second question which the essay avoids. (There is a bit of an implication in the last two paragraphs, but PG is explicit it's only about people he knows).
by anigbrowl | 2025-04-03 07:11:54+00:00
Have you considered the possibility that they know perfectly well what they're doing and they're just lying about it? Lutnick, the commerce secretary, has been CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald for over 2 decades. The treasury secretary has a similarly stellar resume. There is no way these people don't understand the difference between expressing a trade deficit as a ratio and actual tariffs laid by other countries.

Trump personally may or may not understand it (I think he does) but his political superpower is his willingness to stand up in public and say complete bullshit knowing that it's bullshit, knowing that some people are fools who will uncritically believe the bullshit, and other people are cynics who who will nod along with the bullshit either to make money out of the rubes or because they think it serves a strategic purpose.

You can waste years wondering which side of Hanlon's razor someone is on, but it's important to remember that obsessing over such dilemmas can lead to paralysis. Just like there are a lot of street hustles and cons that depend on confusing/misleading the mark before tricking or mugging them out of their money, there are a lot of political gambits that depend on inducing analysis-paralysis in opponents. Manufacturing dilemmas is also a key element in military strategy.

My advice is to stop worrying about whether these people are such fools that you owe them some sort of empathy and an effort to save them from themselves, or you will end up like Charlie Brown having the football pulled way by Lucy yet again. It is OK to cut them off and treat them as bad actors, for the same reason you should often round off quantitative values instead of obsessing over precision.
by bawolff | 2025-04-03 07:12:12+00:00
> They want to repudiate foreign held debt, or devalue it, by revaluation of the USD

Given how dependent usa is on foreign debt, that sounds crazy to me.

If they accomplish that sort of thing, they wont be able to borrow at favourable rates anymore. That seems incredibly bad for usa. Am i missing something on how severe that would be?
by jrflowers | 2025-04-03 07:12:13+00:00
> for the author, only the centrists, his own group, can display independent thinking.

Yeah it’s this.

It’s always funny to watch a centrist invent centrism and then declare that they alone have achieved the apotheosis of correct perfect opinions that breaks the shackles of being in a group, when in reality they’ve just joined the single largest political cohort of folks — people that don’t feel strongly enough about anything to begin to ponder the bare minimum effort it takes to affect literally any change (talking to other people about politics)

It is the same thing as watching other people do things and then “inventing” sitting around and doing nothing. That’s not an invention! Babies are born doing nothing!
by tempfile | 2025-04-03 07:12:47+00:00
> I find this comment to be incredibly disingenuous, and just plain false.

I wonder if there will be any justification for this remark :-)

> Excluding people would only be done if someone took a permissive license and then re-licensed it to something more closed

Yes, that is the only way they can be distinguished. If nobody ever distributes proprietary software including the permissively-licensed code, then it might as well be copylefted.

> you've entirely made up a malicious assumption about what people do with the software. And you're even assuming people ARE doing something like this with the software.

I think this is your point of departure with reality. This happens constantly! Anyone who ever includes permissively licensed code in a proprietary codebase is denying the users of that codebase from the freedoms the upstream developers gave them. The freedom to do this is the freedom to withhold rights from other people. You can choose not to care about that, if you want. But that's what is happening.
by littlestymaar | 2025-04-03 07:12:56+00:00
> I don’t agree that it doesn’t make sense. It’s a good approximation a lot of the time.

So is a weather forecast that says “the weather will be sunny tomorrow” in Miami. True most of the time yet utterly meaningless.

> Also: from your comment I’m pretty sure you don’t have the background (correct me if that’s wrong)

I have to admit my DSGE class was more than 10 years ago at this point, but I still vividly remember the hypothesis being hilarious (spherical cow in vacuum−level) even though now I would need to spend a bit of time digging into it to be able to write down why exactly.
by nottorp | 2025-04-03 07:13:18+00:00
Don't know about beef specifically, but I wouldn't trust food from the US because I'm sure it has in it a lot of stuff that's illegal in the EU...

Too bad that I actually like bourbons. Let's see if the retaliatory tarrifs make them more expensive than the fancy japanese whiskey bottles next to them... I've been meaning to try those.
by hgomersall | 2025-04-03 07:13:35+00:00
I largely agree. Recently I'm somewhat minded to think the issue is actually about the huge expansion of the rentier class. The problem began with the adoption of neoliberalism and the mainstreaming of the idea that you could reasonably "earn" money by simply having money. Prior classical and Keynesian thought railed against such rent seeking and sought to eliminate it as a parasitic drag on the economy.

Since the decision was made post GFC to bail out the banks and protect capital over the normal person that just wanted a house to live in, the position of the rentiers has been consolidated hugely. We have Rachel Reeves thinking we in the UK can build a growth strategy on the back of financial services (which generally means "rent-extraction services"). A rational system would separate the GDP from the real economy from the income from rent extraction, and seek to eliminate the latter.

To the common man, they see themselves working longer and harder than they used to and getting a smaller and smaller slice of the pie. It turns out when your real outputs have to support a sizeable portion of the population who have dedicated their lives to the art of rent extraction to live like kings, you don't see much of the gain.

I have many contemporaries that have gone into finance. A vast pool of intellectual capability, shuffling money around playing zero sum games, and ultimately protected from loss by the power of the state.
by District5524 | 2025-04-03 07:13:48+00:00
That's a bit misleading. Make no mistake, current US tariffs are UNIVERSAL. Not specific to e.g. chicken or automobiles or purebred horses. They cover absolutely everything. While you may see 38% or more tariff on chocolate, chocolate export to the EU from the US is hardly an important issue. And for dairy products, the tariff is a fixed euro amount per weight, not %.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/qanda_...

https://trade.ec.europa.eu/access-to-markets/en/search?origi...
by ryzvonusef | 2025-04-03 07:14:41+00:00
> they can reasonably assume that everyone in that remote village is a Pakistani citizen

absolutely not! we have had massive migrations both from India (after independence) and Afghanistan (after the russian occupation). This is NOT a given.

Things have NOT been easy... and in fact dare I say, our ID department is rather dumb and stupid. I personally have had MULTIPLE issues with them.

But we have been doing SOMETHING, and the fact that the US doesn't... is insane.
by diiiimaaaa | 2025-04-03 07:15:12+00:00
These placeholders are generated by processing the image on a server beforehand. Generally they create some html, css or svg markup that is served inline. Having to do a separate request for such placeholder is very bad idea.

It's not clear if these placeholders do actually help, especially placeholders with very low quality. In my opinion, they only add visual noise.

I'd focus more on avoiding layout shifts when images load, and serving images in a good format (avif, webp) and size (use `srcset` or `<picture>`).
by bell-cot | 2025-04-03 07:15:29+00:00
American here. Otherwise, fairly similar.

Not saying that our right is much better. Their top "virtue" seems to be competent campaigning & hard work in pursuit of political power. (Which, obviously, worked for them.) Vs. our left seems too busy holding low-effort ideological purity beauty contests to particularly care about being in power.

I've heard that some of the brighter voters, who voted for Democrats due to "Trump is the worst choice" arguments, are waking up to just how low-functioning the Dem's are. Not saying that that'll do any good - but it's nice to hear.
by mike_hearn | 2025-04-03 07:15:34+00:00
It's a cool attempt, but the included example shows some of the problems. One of them is that it tends to assume a fact check of a quote is simply asking whether the person really said that or not, but the news article will usually be the only place a quote appears and therefore such sentences are frequently listed as unverifiable. Most users will be wanting to know if the claim in the quote itself is true, not whether the fact of saying it was true. That's probably fixable with more prompting.

The reliance on search results is a bigger weakness, although it's hard to know how to avoid it. For the sort of claims that people often want to check, they are in political dispute. Unfortunately the left uses the word fact-checking to mean censorship of the right, and Google has been engaged in this activity for a very long time. Meaning that unless you use alternative search engines or know how to work around their blocks true information simply may not surface at all when searching for it.

The biggest issue for trusting news though is simply omitted information. Last night I watched a report on the BBC for the first time in several years, and it was immediately misleading. It was talking about the new Trump tariffs, and as far as I know no statement in it was exactly incorrect, however there was no mention of the US position of tying tariffs to free speech. Instead the report gave the impression that there was nothing specific the Americans had raised in talks with the UK on the topic. This is entirely predictable behavior by the BBC but the approach of checking individual sentences will never be able to reveal it, whereas a gestalt approach where an LLM is asked to verify an article in one go possibly could.
by ringeryless | 2025-04-03 07:15:36+00:00
And what Trump has been doing does not actually serve blue collar workers. Republican policies don't serve blue collar workers in general: anti union policies, for one. Republican policies serve billionaires and make no attempts to hide this, but they win blue collar votes from foolish people who believe culture war narratives matter. The culture war was invented to distract from class war waged by billionaires against the working class, hello.
by d1sxeyes | 2025-04-03 07:15:44+00:00
Not sure if you’re talking about DRAKON here, but I love it for documentation of process flows.

It doesn’t really get complicated, but you can very quickly end up with drawings with very high square footage.

As a tool for planning, it’s not ideal, because “big-picture” is hard to see. As a user following a DRAKON chart though, it’s very, very simple and usable.

Link for the uninitiated: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAKON
by goatlover | 2025-04-03 07:16:48+00:00
It's an example of when "not being tribal" is wrong, because one side wanted to keep denying civil rights to a group of people. The correct side was to protest and put pressure on the system. Take the war in Ukraine. There isn't a middle ground between resisting Russian aggression for Ukrainians and fighting back. You either resist, or you get conquered. Not all issues and situations have some happy middle ground where both sides are equal parts wrong/right.
by forgotoldacc | 2025-04-03 07:16:55+00:00
> Then raise the wages.

The same people proposing bringing back all these factories also want to lower wages.

The dread isn't over production. It's about the conditions they face while producing them. Americans dream about having a small farm and doing their own woodworking and blacksmithing or doing so with a small community. They don't dream about working on a factory line and being fired if they miss a day due to being sick. But at the same time, if someone else says they don't want this, they call them lazy and say the kids don't want to work these days.

It's an odd paradox.

And high skilled manufacturing still exists in America. That work is often paid decently and people are fine with working those jobs. The problem is tariffs being made to bring back low skilled manufacturing, and the desire to make the standards of employment lower in the US so that it's feasible.
by yapyap | 2025-04-03 07:17:03+00:00
(2010) by the way, which makes this article all the more impressive.

I was under the assumption this was a current body of work seeing as Dijkstra spoke so well about the possibilities but this just goes to show some people were ahead of their tike with their worries.

Also adding your home address to something you write / publish / host on the internet is pretty hardcore.
by xxs | 2025-04-03 07:17:31+00:00
>or worse, adding them to hashCode but not equals

That's proper bad, however it should be noted in a pull request and explained how hashCode operates - people learn and improve.

> there's a hidden dependency between changes in two or more location

True, of course. However, just do not modify hashCode and consider if the extra fields do contribute to equality either.

Realistically I have not seen this error since very early 00s. I have seen use of mutable fields in hashCode, though (and the latter being modified while added to a hashset, used as map keys. lombok encourages such designs).

Another a lot more common error is "compareTo"
by sunshine-o | 2025-04-03 07:17:48+00:00
Yes we agree, email has become an identity used to sign up for things (usually through OpenID) and a notification center. But few are keeping in touch with their friends through email, this is not 1998 "You got mail" with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan anymore.

Notice that as an ID and in the last 10 years it had the compete again with the phone number that has become mandatory to sign up to a lot of services like WhatsApp, Twitter, Clubhouse, Tinder, etc. to limit fake accounts.

Also digital government ID are now being rolled out so email will become less and less central for work, school applications and "real world" services.

So yes I am curious why Mozilla believe email will save them, but I keep an open mind they might have an idea.
by bawolff | 2025-04-03 07:18:09+00:00
Short term consequences are probably different then long term.

In the short term you can't just create a new garlic farm in a day.

In the long term it will still be more expensive (if american garlic was the cheap option they would have used it from the get-go) but there will probably be more adjustments then in the short term

That's part of the reason why these tarrifs are so stupid. There is no warning on the specifics so there isnt time for companies to come up with alternative plans. Given how inconsistent trump is, there is also limited incentive to seek alternative supply chains, because who knows if he will just change his mind again.
by jbverschoor | 2025-04-03 07:18:34+00:00
The whole table doesn't make sense. We (NL/EU) don't charge the US 39% to import . Apparently orange guy (not the Dutch) doesn't understand VAT rates.

Car? max 4.5 + 21% VAT = 25%. But it simply doesn't matter bc we don't want their cars.. Except for thee Dodge RAM, which can be converted to a tax efficient company car (crazy)..

What amazes me even more is that Elon doesn't seems to understand it either.
by teruakohatu | 2025-04-03 07:18:41+00:00
That happened in New Zealand, where the govt. paid $5,000 for electric cars. When this subsidy expired, prices decreased by a few thousand.

If a consumer was willing to pay $20,000 for a car why would they sell it to them for less than $25,000 when the final bill to the consumer will be $20,000, with the govt. paying an extra $5,000.
by dontTREATonme | 2025-04-03 07:19:03+00:00
40% of the eligible voters sit out every election. No one who wants to vote is being barred from anything. They don’t lack an unrelated document, they lack the proof that they are allowed to vote. We have freedom of expression and yet to purchase alcohol you must be able to prove you are allowed to buy it. We have the freedom to bear arms and yet in many states you must prove you aren’t a nut job to own and carry a gun.
by CapricornNoble | 2025-04-03 07:19:14+00:00
>Second, why black people ? Are they not human too ? They can read, they can work, they can complain, they can... get an ID card right ?

As a black American who had crackheads in my family, I don't know anyone who was totally incapable of getting an ID card. I only ever see the argument brought up by white people on the Internet. Tyranny of low expectations. Heaven forbid that black adults be expected to shoulder some personal responsibility and figure out how to meet the basic requirements to exercise their civic duties, same as white people.

"The white liberal is the worst enemy to America, and the worst enemy to the black man." -- Malcom X
by doener | 2025-04-03 07:19:28+00:00
"This guy cracked the tariff formula: @orthonormalist

It’s simply the nation’s trade deficit with us divided by the nation’s exports to us.

Yes. Really.

Vietnam: Exports 136.6, Imports 13.1 Deficit = 123.5

123.5/136.6 = 90%"

https://x.com/Geiger_Capital/status/1907568233239949431
by simpaticoder | 2025-04-03 07:19:34+00:00
Not me! (My comment is currently just above yours). We have all been victimized by the information space which has been polluted by increasingly unhinged vitriol, itself funded by Citizens United money and amplified by novel internet platforms. It is not a coincidence that virtually all pundits are lawyers, and PR firms probably have a lot of them too. They know how to zealously advocate for a client, and have applied those skills to the public sphere. It's worse than that, because outside of a courtroom they can lie, distort, and fabricate at will for their clients, with no judge to scold them. The average human adult cannot stew in this poison for a decade and not be harmed by it. My heart goes out to all those who's egos have been inflated, who's feelings of hatred and ill-will encouraged, not because they chose it, but because it's impossible to get away from it.
by bigstrat2003 | 2025-04-03 07:20:20+00:00
> and a party whose explicit platform is to strip fundamental rights away from women, LGBTQ people, and other minorities, all while dismantling the basic structures of democracy in order to guarantee their hold on power for as long as possible.

This certainly might be what you believe their platform amounts to. But it is most certainly not their explicit platform. Accuse people of what they actually have done, not what you believe their actions to be logically equivalent to. Otherwise there can't actually be a reasonable discussion, because you're giving off heat rather than light.
by bepitulaz | 2025-04-03 07:21:30+00:00
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by mikewarot | 2025-04-03 07:21:44+00:00
As a preview of our future, it's now a good time to review the decline of standard of living that occurred when Great Britain lost the privilege of having the World's reserve currency, the Pound Sterling.

My estimate is we're in for a 75% haircut to our personal standard of living as the US Dollar loses it's place, and we actually have to pay for everything we want in hard currency or real goods. Trump killed the golden Goose, and threw it into a wood chipper.