MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-30 14:50:52+00:00
> All I have to say is imagine if Biden did this, what the news would be saying.

Give it a few years. They'll say he did it.

"Why do you think Barack Obama wasn't in the Oval Office on 9/11?" "That, I don't know. Would like to get to the bottom of that." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPfRGJRMbN8
by Rooster61 | 2025-04-30 14:51:08+00:00
This seems...oddly passive aggressive. I actually have no skin in the game. I simply posted out of curiosity. I do worry that as Linux becomes more popular due to Windows fuckery, there will be an increase in malware that preys on X11's security flaws, but I am perfectly happy using X11.

> That is a good definition of badly engineered.

One could argue that the hacks and whatnot that apps use to do what they do on X are based on poor engineering. Security certainly is an engineering criterion.
by unethical_ban | 2025-04-30 14:51:12+00:00
The two party system, forced on us by plurality voting, is the reason people feel they don't have a choice.

Pick one of two very different sides. If a third candidate tries to enter the race, they harm themselves and the person they are similar to, and they help the opposition.

Any form of ranked voting will rid us of this restriction and allow more candidates to run for an office, and allow citizens to vote their true preference.

Yesterday, HR 3040 was introduced by a GOP member from Arizona, which intends to ban ranked choice voting from federal elections. The GOP has already banned it in the state of Florida.

A radical party is terrified of a system that enables more electoral competition and throttles radicalism.
by RHSeeger | 2025-04-30 14:51:34+00:00
I expect she'd probably drive home and get it. She doesn't have a car at 13 yrs old though. Nor would I want her walking home from her school at the moment to get it to the tune of 40+ minutes; so calling me is a reasonable option.

Could she get by at school without her computer? Yes. Is her school day more productive with it? Also yes.
by seethishat | 2025-04-30 14:51:37+00:00
I worry about this too. Diversity is a good thing. And when we do email, DNS, Web, calendars, chat, meetings, storage, etc. all on the same platform, how will we operate/communicate when it fails?

Heterogeneous computing environments provide diversity to isolate and contain failures. So when email goes down, we can still chat and meet.
by vlovich123 | 2025-04-30 14:51:39+00:00
Will also LLM updates are not as real time updated as search engine results are and LLMs will also incorporate your SEO attempts against the totality of all other content on the internet and there’s no link between query -> results as there is with a search engine. That’s why I’m not convinced.

Sure propaganda is a thing but honestly it looks like the biggest propaganda issue is the propaganda the AI lab injects itself to steer the answer rather than what comes from the things the LLM learned directly.
by dylan604 | 2025-04-30 14:51:54+00:00
>No government wants to enable money laundering, black markets, corruption and terrorism; or so I thought!

what ever gave you that thought? There are countries that do this right out in the open. The rest of the countries do it in various shades of gray to not be right out in the open, but still visible for those that can see in higher bit depths of gray than black and white
by cosmicgadget | 2025-04-30 14:52:15+00:00
Who is 'everyone'? Trump voters?

Don't know what to say, P2025 was definitely the plan. A third term is flooding the zone with distractions. And if by some twist of fate it's his intent, the earliest you can do anything about it is midterms. Before that we will have had pivotal moments on tariffs, Ukraine/NATO, DOGE, and due process.
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by mynameisvlad | 2025-04-30 14:52:26+00:00
FSD is Level 2. The driver must, at all times, be supervising the car. L3 implies that the car, in exceptionally ideal and limited circumstances, takes over full control unsupervised.

Even if you were to take Mobileye's definitions, it would still be equivalent to other companies at best (hands off, eyes on).
by zackmorris | 2025-04-30 14:52:27+00:00
Once wealth inequality reaches a certain threshold, revolution becomes inevitable.

I'd argue that we're seeing various indicators that suggest we've passed a tipping point. We can look at things like the high national debt vs unprecedented low tax rates on the wealthy, the wealth of the top 1% surpassing that of the bottom 90%, how government agencies and safety nets are being gutted when we have the highest GDP in history, how the wealthy build gated communities instead of relieving even the most basic suffering (like infant mortality), how tech profits get vacuumed up by a handful of people through financial instruments and crypto rather than going towards investment in new businesses, how private equity firms own a 5% stake in most companies and are buying up all housing and real estate along with foreign investment to turn owners into renters, how politicians are so involved with insider trading that we can no longer distinguish campaign contributions from Wall Street bribes and kickbacks.. the rabbit hole goes so deep that we fall forever if we get sucked into it.

Meanwhile how many of us are struggling to win the internet lottery with our 2nd, our 3rd, our 10th startup? When deep down we know the odds of succeeding are perhaps 10% or less, and the system feels rigged to deny us access to any capital at all, especially when we need it most to cover a mortgage payment or health emergency that should have already been covered by our exorbitantly high insurance rates and taxes going into a private healthcare system that's twice as expensive as the rest of the developed world.

In many ways, I consider us to be in a worst-case scenario. It wasn't supposed to turn out like this. We could have had a technotopia like solarpunk with full automation and UBI, instead we're racing towards fascist dictatorship. Where we once had democrats and republicans at least symbolically opposing one another, now we effectively have a single center-right party funded by the same private donors, which uses wedge issues to keep the population divided and conquered.

I'd even say that we got here by banning political content on HN and elsewhere. So we have a generation of young people who never knew an America before everything was privatized. We can imagine what a center-left government would look like, a we society instead of a me society, where most profit flows into a pot shared by all, with equal pay regardless of gender or race, a national surplus as large as our current debt, free college and healthcare paid for by that endowment, nearly free renewable energy, climate change reversing back towards baseline, etc etc, an ivory tower so high it would reach the stars.

But sadly that's all just a dream now, so far away that it's hard to see a way to get there without going through societal pain that as recently as the late 1990s could have been completely avoided.

Ours was supposed to be the quick and easy path. Is it any wonder that we succumbed to the dark side?
by vlovich123 | 2025-04-30 14:52:27+00:00
Sure but not doing it on ENOENT suggests they’re just being completely lazy. Not to mention that they do have the tools (eg inotify watches) to proactively remove stale entries based on HD changes. Of course I’d be careful about the proactive one as it’s really easy to screw things up more (eg 100 bash instances all watching the same PATH directories might get expensive or forgetting to only do this for interactive mode connected to a TTY)
by dreampixel | 2025-04-30 14:52:29+00:00
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by hombre_fatal | 2025-04-30 14:52:49+00:00
I made a lot of things like this as a noob and threw them up on github.

As you gain experience, these projects become a testament to how far you've come.

"An http endpoint that returns a random array element" becomes so incredibly trivial that you can't believe you even made a repo for it, and one day you sheepishly delete it.
by WillAdams | 2025-04-30 14:52:50+00:00
Yeah, my Great Aunt and her friends would coordinate their purchase of sugar for making preserves each year w/ the local grocer --- while each of them could have bought all they needed at once, his stocking couldn't accommodate that, so everyone would let him know when they would start, and stop, buying a 5 lb. bag each week for each year's preserves.
by rbanffy | 2025-04-30 14:53:21+00:00
The most interesting aspect for me is the deep history. In Ireland, in particular, it's not rare to wander around and bump into a neolithic structure. When we were looking for a house to buy, one of the candidates had one such structure on a little nicely preserved square at the end of the street.

The continent is a short flight away. Being in an island, I haven't used the excellent train network of the continent as much as my friends in the continent.

One selling point of this society is the low inequality. I get my hair and beard done in the same place my barista goes - this would be almost unthinkable in Brazil, which is where I come from. Low inequality creates a more cohesive society where class divisions are less relevant. It also reduces crime, because the financial gain is not favorable compared to the risks. Because of that, my police doesn't need firearms and, if someone discharges a gun somewhere, it ends up on the newspapers. Irish politics are remarkably sane (if boring). I assume it's because of list-based voting, that punishes rejection very severely. We wouldn't have a Trump here in Ireland.

Other aspects are free high quality schooling, almost free university education, and an almost free healthcare system. This last is the low point - when you have a two-tier system, you have resources diverted from who needs care to who can pay for it, increasing wait times for those who can't pay for health insurance or private care.

Most of these points stand for the rest of the European Union as well. There are some variations, but not that much.

Final selling point of Ireland is that English is an official language. AFAIK, it's the only country in the EU with English as an official language, at least until the UK decides to rejoin.
by andrepd | 2025-04-30 14:53:25+00:00
> In university the expectations were drastically higher.

Well duh. I don't know where/what you studied, but I did physics and yeah, it was balls-fucking hard some times. I think the vast majority of freshman physics/maths/engineering students experience a similar feeling where there's a huge jump in challenge going from school-level to uni-level.

Whether this means there is a case for narrower, more focused "elite" schools in maths, or in say music, for high-performing students in those areas, is of course an interesting discussion :)

If the goal of the school was to prepare me for university

Well it's not. You studied a narrow subject at university, but during the ~12 years of schooling you studied many other subjects. The goal of schooling is to make you a complete citizen (in an ideal sense, I'm talking :)). Not sure how the system is where you live but where I come from the first 9 years have a fixed curriculum, and it's only during the last 3 years (high school) that you pick subjects in the areas relevant to your university aspirations (or you pick a vocational course).
by steveBK123 | 2025-04-30 14:53:55+00:00
I am not a fan of the orange man.

But I think its an interesting question if the feds should be funding rich Ivies with small numbers of students vs more efficient state universities which educated 100s of thousands each at a fraction of the cost per student.

All of the Ivy League combined educate 65k undergrads. SUNY by comparison educates 5x that many at a tuition of 1/5th to 1/10th depending on in/out of state and community vs vs 4 year college.

Obviously what he is doing is punitive. BUT, I think the constant focus in the press on the Ivys when we talk about education is a huge distraction from how we are actually going to improve access, quality & cost to education in this county.
by Retric | 2025-04-30 14:53:55+00:00
To get consistent inflation you need to consistently create money. The inflation rate fell all the way down to 3% at the end of 2024. All that created money had already been sucked up by prior inflation and current higher prices.

The velocity of money is informative here, basically a dollar can only be part of so many transactions over a year. If rent is 1000$ and you get paid 4 days before rent is due you need to set aside 1000$. Bump that by 30% and now you need to set aside 1300$ and for those 4 days + however long it takes for the transaction to finish that extra 300$ isn’t part of the economy. Bank lending is a multiplier, but that runs into similar issues.
by amazingamazing | 2025-04-30 14:54:02+00:00
private schools shouldn't be getting public money. shocking people disagree. yes they do research that benefits the public. so does Meta and Google, who don't get public money. public money should go to public schools.

especially considering that the PIs who do the work in the private school scenario effectively boost the private school's clout with public money, but these private schools do not increase accessibility by opening up admission further.

that said, trump is also doing this for the wrong reasons, sadly.
by Kapura | 2025-04-30 14:54:06+00:00
This framing conveniently ignores the question of whether the president should have the authority to single-handedly withhold funding for universities, broadly considered to be one of the foundational pillars of America's strength in the 20th century. While I think it's interesting and answers the specific question it raises, it's wild that the economist has just accepted that the president has dictatorial powers.
by toss1 | 2025-04-30 14:54:10+00:00
Sure, maybe she's wrong and the US population is actually hardened, tough, and patriotic enough to get over their divisions and unite to support tariffs.

I'm looking at it from a general historic perspective. Just look back 100 years.

Of course the safety net could be a lot better and the GINI coefficient is awful, but there still has never been more wealth floating about the general population. When the people complaining loudest about their situation are having boat parades, driving $75K pickup trucks with aftermarket mods, and getting their news on 75" TVs, and their biggest complaint driving their vote is the price of eggs due to an avian flu pandemic, they are definitely comfortable.

When that changes in a matter of weeks, we'll see what happens.

I just found the analyst's observations valuable and worth sharing.
by Thomas-Router | 2025-04-30 14:54:18+00:00
This is the greeting paragraph of the daily news briefing site: headlinesquare.github.io/:

"This is a public square for US news headlines, a low-key experiment fueled by hobbyist curiosity, and a humble pursuit of unbiased facts. This site is fully powered by Dr. Headline, an autonomous AI agent who applies academic neutrality and rigor to news curation. Behind Dr. Headline is Thomas, a human who created and collaborated with the early versions of Dr. Headline, and recently, more team members. Human team members read Dr. Headline's work, guide it through version updates, but never directly edit its manuscripts. See our "about" page for details. We are open-source: " github.com/headlinesquare/headline... ". Our email: " headlinesquare@proton.me ". Daily news coverage window: 24 hours, ending at 7 PM ET. Daily report publishing expected around 8 PM ET, not later than 9 PM ET. "
by freedomben | 2025-04-30 14:54:58+00:00
I agree, they should definitely be called out for it. However, I also believe a little grace and understanding from the users is called for. They're a small team trying to do their best, and they've taken concrete steps in the past demonstrating their committment to customer service (i.e. not charging you for a month if you don't use your subscription).

I will admit that I do have a reflexive allergy to conspiracy theories when people jump way over Occam's Razor to get there with little to no evidence, and saying that Kagi is just a "scam" is firmly in that boat IMHO.
by doublerabbit | 2025-04-30 14:55:11+00:00
No, they really don't. They submit their code. I submit mine. If they have a problem with mine, I'll fix what they have issues with if they are reasonable, why wouldn't I?

Where I work in enterprise your peers change daily. With my role and importance to the company implementing hacky code puts me at risk and so I will of course push back. The people I knew last months may not even work in the company.

The view of I must be a horrible person comes from the Comment OP being angry at me for having a reasonable standards to an Enterprise standard of code. "It works im done. Next please"

If their code isn't up to scratch I will tell them and reject it. The issue I have is lazy developers who implement hacks and don't actually go and fix the code.

I am being made the bad person from someone's angry hospitality. All I was saying is that lazy developers are lazy developers and that I axe their work because it's sloppy and doesn't deserve to be on show.
by catapart | 2025-04-30 14:56:14+00:00
Yeeep. This is the only thing worth knowing about this whole mess. The people trust their reps to handle the money, and the reps are the only people who are supposed to be able to manage that money.

Yet here we have tacit acceptance that the president can fuck with citizens' money just because he's in his feels about something. Absolute clownery.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-04-30 14:56:47+00:00
If you believe certain business cycle theories, the way an economic downturn starts is when businesses no longer see the need for additional new capacity. So there's declining CAPEX. Then the 40% of the economy that is CAPEX-related takes a downturn. Even though the 60% that is consumer goods is still for the moment going at full capacity, the CAPEX-related part suffers layoffs. That in turn affects the consumer spending part of the economy.

So if CAPEX is declining, the downturn has already started. (I mean, I guess the article's headline already told us that...)
by e40 | 2025-04-30 14:56:47+00:00
> private schools shouldn't be getting public money. shocking people disagree. yes they do research that benefits the public. so does Meta and Google, who don't get public money. public money should go to public schools.

Those two are not the same. Research funded by Meta/Google doesn't benefit the public in the same way as research in Ivies (and non-Ivies).
by cg5280 | 2025-04-30 14:57:22+00:00
Many of the "good" universities in general seem more focused on prestige and acceptance rates than they do educating the masses. The Ivies could significantly expand the sizes of their student bodies (and to their credit they do make some content accessible online), but they don't because a lot of the value of a Harvard education is the exclusivity and the social network it gets you into.
by pxx | 2025-04-30 14:57:25+00:00
It doesn't matter. Hare/Instant Runoff voting (deceivingly marketed as "ranked-choice voting" in the US) neither empirically [0] nor theoretically [1] improves the viability of third parties.

Honestly IRV is worse than plurality so there are plenty of reasons to oppose it other than a two-party domination conspiracy theory. Using IRV gives up monotonicity, possibilities for a distributed count, and some elements of a secret ballot (for even a medium-sized candidate list) for basically nothing.

Monotonicity is not a theoretical concern. Alaska almost immediately ran into a degenerate case [2].

[0] https://rangevoting.org/NoIrv.html

[1] http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Alaska%27s_at-large_congr...
by ChicagoDave | 2025-04-30 14:57:36+00:00
No company can withstand political backlash at a national scale.

Tesla has lost significant ground just because Merlin started playing politics. Target is suffering badly from their DEI decision.

Globally, Tesla is in even worse shape. No one in Europe will be buy one now. China makes their own EVs.

The stock is being propped up by institutional investors. Eventually even that will collapse.
by jmyeet | 2025-04-30 14:57:40+00:00
China is holding pretty much all the cards here.

First, it has a command economy. It's much more equipped to handle this in keeping factories afloat and people employed and housed.

Second, the US is ~15% of China's exports and a lot of those exports will continue even with tariffs. Some by diversified supply chains (eg "laundering" Chinese made goods through Vietnam) or the Chinese goods are so low cost that the tariffs will be paid (eg a milk carton represents a small percentage of the cost of a carton of milk).

Third, the US will feel the inflationary effects. China will not.

Fourth, if China needs to raise funds they can and will sell US treasuries, spiking yields, hitting the ability of the US to issue further debt as well as borrowing costs for homeowners and businesses.

Lastly, the rest of the world is on China's side. This whole tariff fiasco may be the largest self-own in American history. Additionally, it's undoing generations of American soft power globally.
by andrewflnr | 2025-04-30 14:57:48+00:00
If it was only China being tariffed, instead of including all the allies we need to stand against China, you would start to have a point. If they were based on something other than a 1600s child king's understanding of trade balance, maybe focused on particular kinds of manufacturing, or even just explicitly based on morals instead of this fantasy of manufacturing returning to the US, you would have a point. But none of those things are true. Trump is at best a stopped clock with gears poking out through the casing.
by jjulius | 2025-04-30 14:57:57+00:00
>Seattle ports are currently empty...

At the time of my response, there are five container ships in Eliot Bay, and a large container ship, along with a smaller container ship that just arrived, docked at Harbor Island (the primary port in question).

https://www.marinetraffic.com/en/ais/home/centerx:-122.338/c...