MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by belter | 2025-04-03 15:12:49+00:00
> So, to anyone who disagrees with these measures, but agrees that these are issues we ought to solve, what would you propose?

The solution is clear, let the tax cuts expire, and increase the taxes on corporations. Make special tax incentives on real investment and innovation.

Make a special tax for the four individuals behind Trump at the inauguration, who own more health than 60% of the US population.

Stop allowing billionaires and corporations cheat the tax code to have lower effective rates than the majority of US citizens.

I am sure the 14 billionaires on Trump cabinet will be working on this right away... \s
by op00to | 2025-04-03 15:12:58+00:00
The conflicts arise when all you do is work. Every second of every day does not need to be spent staring at your children and still be a good parent.

I often sit with my kids and get a little work done on the couch while they're entertaining themselves. I can engage where appropriate, and of course I don't spend my entire life working. This flexibility allows me time to walk them to school, pick them up from school, leave early to go to their sports things, band concerts, or just play outside with them.

You know, nuance and balance.
by uoaei | 2025-04-03 15:12:59+00:00
I like to ask, "What would a Russian agent do to try to dethrone the USA as a global power?"

* remove support from historic trading partners

* break up NATO and similar military alliances

* convince the world to distrust USD as default reserve currency

* specifically make it harder to trade with China who makes a lot of our junk

* remove a lot of the federal government workforce from their positions

* convince those involved in Ukraine to back out so that the mineral-rich regions in the east can be appropriated

* destroy the image of "democracy" and "free speech" by flaunting legal processes and crushing dissent

I could list and think of more, but these are most illustrative IMO.
by matwood | 2025-04-03 15:12:59+00:00
> but individuals carry a burden to for not trying to remake their bed

In what way? I turn on Fox sometimes and it's not that it's slanted, but it's just a stream of lies and BS. I've watched a bunch of Trump's speeches and in addition to being incoherent, he says the same lies and BS all the way down. Yesterday's tariff speech was a great example.

I don't consider myself progressive (though the MAGA right would think me so), but where do I go to try and 'remake [my] bed'?
by ranger207 | 2025-04-03 15:13:01+00:00
> I think you're wholely unaware of the concept of dog-whistles and their role in our modern politics...

I'd think the opposite actually. If you bring up border security, then the conversation can go in one of two ways: a discussion of the actual policies of border security, or a conversation that hears the dog whistle and proceeds under the context that you fall into the tribe that uses that dog whistle. The latter is an ambush. The policies themselves still exist even outside of their historical context as dog whistles. The question is if can you have a conversation with someone that talks about the policies themselves or not
by frenchman_in_ny | 2025-04-03 15:13:11+00:00
I think a big reason why cruising sailors would remove the labels is that there's a belief that cockroaches & other bugs would lay eggs in the paper / glue [0], and having an infestation on a sailboat is then challenging to deal with while at sea.

[0] https://www.spinsheet.com/cruising/sailors-offer-tips-long-t...
by mapt | 2025-04-03 15:13:33+00:00
Cut a "rationalist centrist moderate" and a fascist who doesn't want to get cancelled because he still needs VC funding and Linkedin connections bleeds.

US politics has been increasingly polarized into positions congruent with facts and policy and our traditional ideals, and positions associated with a general stance of grievance, with an insistent selfishness, with anti-empathy, anti-intellectualism, with "palingenetic ultranationalism". This has been a test of your ideals, of your humanity. It wasn't very hard.

Yes, there is often a lot of nuanced truth in the middle of any argument. But less now, in politics, than in a long, long time. Only a very particular sort of person walks into a liberated Auschwitz and starts shouting "Both sides are too extreme and I'm better than them!" from the rooftops.

Speaking as somebody who spent a lot of time there: A lot of the tropes in the "rationalist" community are inherently conservative-pointing, and it's a general prerequisite for participating there that you have a coherent base of progressive terminal ideals and an attitude suited towards introspection and iteration of your beliefs. Because otherwise you go from zero to Nietzschean ubermensch to Nazi ubermensch to Musk/Thiel brownshirt in no time, having weaponized everything present there to support your priors and idly expand your confidence.
by johnisgood | 2025-04-03 15:13:41+00:00
I am not complaining by the way, it was more of a feature request, for example when you hover over an ingredient (e.g. "Choline", "Tryptophan", etc.), it may display a somewhat concise description of that ingredient (e.g. "Tryptophan is ..."). It is fine as it is either way, all things considered.
by boringg | 2025-04-03 15:13:42+00:00
Many critical flaws. Your getting lost confusing the forest for the trees.

For starters you are focusing on the % on the interest payments which is a line item. However when all of your allies stop buying your goods and services you run into bigger problems.

Bonus problem: If one of your internal metrics is that you want to have a trade deficit but nobody to sell to because you have created a hostile environment for trade.
by nonethewiser | 2025-04-03 15:13:43+00:00
And apparently the US bought 33% of it

>Onagri data show that Spain is the leading destination for Tunisian olive oil, with 47.4 percent flowing to Spanish ports, followed closely by Italy at 42.2 percent and the United States in third at 33.8 percent.

https://www.oliveoiltimes.com/business/africa-middle-east/as...
by lugao | 2025-04-03 15:14:24+00:00
I am not on mobile. It all boils down to the way decade old convetions/expectations are broken.

The things that look like buttons (and are spans in the html code, not even anchors!) trigger non-local transitions (the left panel thing) when hovered... and they close the opened panel when clicked, so if I move my mouse to click on it the end result is a panel that flashes.

I need to keep ignoring the usual button affordance of being clicked and force myself to think they are tiggered on hover.

If this isn't bad UX I don't kown what it is.
by tjpnz | 2025-04-03 15:14:30+00:00
I've been tracking my daily calorie intake on a spreadsheet for the past three months and have had some success losing weight through it. If you do it right it will shine a light on the seemingly inconsequential food items which are setting you back. For me it was the Japanese milk teas which I was able to quickly eliminate.

The big thing I've realized through this exercise is just how much of a creature of habit I am. Inputting what I've eaten over the previous day is mostly copying and pasting rows from previous days sheets, and I suspect I could simplify input even further. Most people would be in a similar position and should be able to build their own lists by reading the nutritional information already available. When that's not available It doesn't necessarily I found r/caloriecount to be a useful resource. It need not be perfect either, just as long as you're doing it consistently.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-04-03 15:15:04+00:00
There was no immediate market for low-orbit launch capacity in the manner of Starlink: SpaceX essentially created that market by being its own customer (and having access to cheap excess launch capacity.) Now there are multiple networks being launched, some at higher orbits.

The first question is whether even more low-cost launch access will continue to create more new applications like this one. The second question is whether the business projections for Starship already assume that's the case.
by yamihere | 2025-04-03 15:15:05+00:00
Nice! Thanks for responding.

>> Outputs undergo rigorous validation steps, including cross-checking with advanced auditing models such as OpenAI’s o1-pro, which has proven especially proficient at performing high-quality random audits.

>> there was a lot of manual effort involved in coming to that conclusion with my own effort to review the LLM's reasoning

So, the randomly audited entries seemed reasonable to you – not even the data itself, just the reasoning about the generated data. Did the manual reviews stop once things started looking good enough? Are the audits ongoing, to fill out the rest of the dataset? Would those be manually double-checked as well?

>> I became interested in exploring how recent advances in generative AI could enable entirely new kinds of consumer products—ones whose core innovations leveraged AI but didn’t explicitly market themselves as “AI products.”

Once again: Why not market this as an AI product? This is LLMs all the way down.

People are already interested in using this dataset. I was. Now, LLM generated “usually close enough to not be actively harmful” data is being distributed as a source for any and all to use. I think your disclaimer is excellent. Does your license require an equivalent disclaimer be provided by those using this data?
by Retric | 2025-04-03 15:15:06+00:00
The quiet majority who avoids such things are easily lost among all the pump and dump nonsense. A ~single digit percentage of the general population has basically zero morality, but they can have a huge impact.

I realized it was likely a profitable long term investment back when bitcoin was ~10-15$, but I objected to it on moral grounds and didn’t get involved. It’s not even something I regret, just another life choice.
by mingus88 | 2025-04-03 15:15:49+00:00
Part of the wonder with this work is thinking of how to overcome such a problem

It’s actually a very optimistic work for Cage. The idea that we could have a continuous performance for hundreds of years, without ever being interrupted by wars or disasters.

I think it is amazing that someone has risen to the challenge to try and perform this, and if they are successful what that means for us as a society that it was allowed to happen

I have a pessimistic outlook. All it will take is one bad actor to interrupt this performance that could potentially involve thousands to maintain. It feels inevitable that this will fail. Nevertheless, this in itself is a statement on us as a species and what a wonderful work this is to have provoked such a thing.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-03 15:16:16+00:00
I don't see any way the actions we've already seen haven't moved up drastic action on the US debt by at least a decade. And it's only been a very-few months.

We were probably screwed when we cut taxes going into two crushingly-expensive wars, and certainly were when we cut taxes again, but now we're rushing toward crisis instead of trying to at least delay it.
by rchaud | 2025-04-03 15:16:24+00:00
> Hackers then send the ether to “mixers”—crypto platforms that co-mingle tokens from various users, obscuring their ownership. After that, the ether is swapped for bitcoin and then converted into tether, a token whose value is linked to the U.S. dollar.

Good timing for the US to lift sanctions on Tornado Cash [0].

Too many people think "lock them up" is the solution to crime, without considering that crime relies on certain types of infrastructure to remain in business. And that people who are "tough on crime" often have good reasons to keep operational the things that facilitate said crimes.

[0] https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0057
by superkuh | 2025-04-03 15:16:26+00:00
I thought the same. And on this site I cannot even see the proposed anchor link because it's a badly implemented web component custom-element that is all JS defined instead of wrapping actual HTML elements/text. It's such an overengineered anchor link that unless you succssfully execute all the javascript it doesn't appear at all. Very fragile.

> But if you ever had to implement them, you might have encountered the .

Wikipedia is also bad about JS-dependent false anchor links. I can't count the number of times someone "linked" me an "anchor" to an image on a wikipedia article that simply did nothing without javascript. All wikipedia would have to do is put a real html a anchor next to the JS defined one to fix it but despite submitting bugs about this it's never been fixed.
by o1o1o1 | 2025-04-03 15:16:39+00:00
I basically did that, bought AoE several times, back then on CD and again on Steam. First I used virtual drives with ISO images and later a cracked version.

Today I am only using the Steam version though because I can easily join multiplayer games with friends all over the world. Also, I really like all the additional features in the remakes of AoE that you can get on Steam.
by nabla9 | 2025-04-03 15:16:52+00:00
Rare to see The Economist this judgemental :)

>Almost everything Mr Trump said this week—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded. ... On economics Mr Trump’s assertions are flat-out nonsense. ... And Mr Trump’s grasp of the technicalities was pathetic. ... This catalogue of foolishness will bring needless harm to America.
by vinceguidry | 2025-04-03 15:17:05+00:00
Rationalism, and the people who believe in it and promote it, has the problem that the human mind unavoidably decides to act as the arbiter of what is rational or not. This limits your vision to only that which the mind internally 'agrees with' or not, entrenching hidden biases.

Fundamentally, it's the mind only engaging with the cognitive, and ignoring the limbic. Engaging with the limbic, with the deep, primal parts of the brain, challenges cognitively-held truths and demands you to support these truths from a broader context.

This is why rationalists are more prone to engage with fascist viewpoints, they seek more power for their held beliefs and fascism offers that in spades. You're not thinking about the history of fascist movements and how horrible they all turned out. You're thinking: How can we do it better this time?

Just like in math, the rational is a subset of the real, and you need both the rational and the irrational to make reality. Focusing exclusively on rationality is intentionally blinding yourself to messy reality.
by goatlover | 2025-04-03 15:17:29+00:00
> Generally both sides, or all sides really, want the same things and disagree on how to get there.

No, that is just not true. For example, do you think Putin and his supporters wanted a functioning democracy in Russia and independent Ukraine? No, they wanted someone functioning as a dictator to restore Russia's cold war territory and influence, and they wanted to undermine western democracies that stood in their way.

History does not support your claim that everyone wants the same things. Some people want power and strong man to take over the government. We see that with the Trump administration. The religious conservatives want to use that to make America a Christian nation. The billionaire libertarians want to use it to deregulate their industries and run the government like a corporation. And Trump wants to act unilaterally to bring about his vision of being seen as some great figure. They have illiberal aims.
by nonethewiser | 2025-04-03 15:17:48+00:00
Its worse than that. Its like saying you must have used chat gpt because you answered that 2+2= 4 and gasp so do the LLMs! Nevermind that its just the obvious answer to the question.

Lets see the prompt. The prompt further down in the thread that reproduces it was asking how to use tariffs to balance trade deficits with a 10% minimum. Is there any other answer then set the rate such that the deficit goes away or 10%, whichever is greater? No. That's just the answer to the question and is why ALL LLMs give the same answer.
by bigyabai | 2025-04-03 15:18:22+00:00
America's commitment is absolutely arbitrary. There is no reason America has to defend the First Island Chain, the bases in Guam, Pakistan and Poland. We don't have to base troops near Israel or Iran, we don't need to install tripwire brigades near places of international importance. China is happy to take over for America - they've certainly got a fast-growing Navy and the commitment to deploying carrier groups abroad.

Look - I don't really see China or America as the "good guy", you won't scare me (or most liberals) by suggesting a draw-down of American forces abroad. But, any casual wargamer will tell you that this has consequences. If America gives up our hard-power military installations and forfeits our attempts at soft-power economic expansion, absolutely nothing stops China from taking America's seat at the table. If you want that, fine, but I would argue that it is an obvious problem for America's own stability and accountability abroad. We cannot make our money exporting software in a world where we can't import the best hardware.

> Israel/Palestine is a unique situation, I’ll give you that.

No, it is outright proof that your "warmonger" characterization is invariably false. The warmongers aren't the globalists, by some measures the people trying to stop infinite war are the globalists. We've tried ceasefires, treaties, negotiations and more, every time it gets interrupted by Israel. We refuse to punish them, and the motivation for censuring discontent is entirely nationalist.
by thewebguyd | 2025-04-03 15:18:31+00:00
> How is it any different from bait-and-switch or rug pulls corporate is being shamed for?

Hard agree. If you want to turn a profit from your project, make it commercial from the beginning. I have no problems with commercial tools or products, but I do have a problem with starting something as open source, gaining adoption, then changing the license later on.

It's the same BS behavior from SaaS we love to call out, when companies make a generous free tier, get users locked in, then pull the rug.

Should the community help out and contribute back to FOSS projects they use? Absolutely, but at the same time, they are not obligated to either and if a dev has a problem with that, then don't release it as FOSS.

I've published a few small tools for sysadmins, and I never expected any kind of contribution back whether monetary or otherwise, and that's OK. I wrote them for myself, and will maintain them for myself as long as they are useful to me. Others are free to use them and I don't expect anything in return.
by cryptonector | 2025-04-03 15:18:33+00:00
> I would also point out that back when we ran briefly ran a surplus in the late 1990s, economists were not exclaiming about how terrible this was, or how paying off the debt represented a missed opportunity or a catastophe in the making. Everyone agreed at that time that surpluses were good, and that paying down the debt was good. The current "this is fine" thinking smacks of economists who have a predisposition to accept and justify the status quo, whether it is objectively good or not.

Oh? I remember all the teeth mashing about all those funds who have to buy treasuries and now what are they gonna doooo! And how this is unprecedented and how are the markets going to reacccct! Numerous articles about that sort of thing in The Economist and various other outlets.
by stouset | 2025-04-03 15:18:41+00:00
Your boss can know about it, but if their boss wants data on performance you’re back in the same boat.

Funny you mention engineers needing to market themselves though. That leads to its own consequences. I’ve been at a place where everyone needed to market their own work in order to get promoted, to get raises, and to stay off the chopping block.

The end result? The engineers at the company who get promoted are… good at self-promotion, not necessarily good at engineering. Many of the best engineers at the company—who were hired to do engineering—languish in obscurity while people who can game the system thrive. People get promoted who are only good at cranking out poorly-made deliverables that burden their team with excessive long-term maintenance issues. They fuck off to higher levels of the company, leaving their team to deal with the consequences of their previous work.

Run that script for five or ten years and it doesn’t seem to be working out well for the company.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-04-03 15:18:58+00:00
Unfortunately the "open"AI effect is starting to show in other labs as well. DeepMind recently announced a min 6months delay in publishing their SotA research, to give them a market advantage. I get it, but it's sad that it's happening.

The good thing is that there are a lot of companies out there that want to make a name for themselves. Mistral started like that with Apache 2.0 models, now ds w/ MIT models, and so on. And if the past year is a good indicator, it seems that closed SotA to open close-to-SotA is 6-3 months. So that's good.

I also find interesting LeCun's take that "there is no closed source moat, or not for long". In a podcast he went into detail on this, saying that "people move companies, and people talk". If someone finds some secret sauce, the ideas will move around and other labs will catch up quickly. So there's some hope.
by ovyl | 2025-04-03 15:19:28+00:00
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by wat10000 | 2025-04-03 15:19:39+00:00
Globalization is fine. Wages in this country are quite high overall. Inequality isn't caused by trade, it's caused by low taxes on rich people, weak unions, and weak labor regulation.

The terrible state of US production is a myth. The US is the second largest manufacturer in the world. The #1 spot is occupied by a country with over 4x our population. Manufacturing employment is down because our manufacturing productivity is really high. Yeah, we don't assemble smartphones or make plastic trinkets. We make cars and jetliners and computer chips.

If you want to address the national debt and inequality, the solution is to correct the power imbalance between employers and employees by strengthening labor regulations and unions, and to raise taxes, especially on high incomes, and especially on the super wealthy. Taxing people like Elon Musk down to a more manageable 10 or 11 figures of net worth won't do a lot for the nation's finances directly, but it will do a lot to curb their power and get the government to be more responsive to our interests instead of theirs.

(And no, tariffs are not a good way to do this, since they're regressive.)
by Stefan-H | 2025-04-03 15:19:47+00:00
"... is called a delusion". What I am suggesting is not delusion, it is mindfulness and cutting through delusion. When one is presented with something that elicits a fear response (whether the stimulus is rational or not) the goal is to quiet all of the "lizard brain" reactions, and instead formulate a well reasoned response. "Fear is the mind-killer" - while from fiction, still rings true to me - if you react out of fear you will short-circuit internal processes that are far better at long-term reasoning even when at the expense of short-term comfort.