MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by octobereleven | 2025-04-03 11:11:33+00:00
Hi all,

This is something I recently made after hearing a ton of people looking for a simpler approach in the IT and physical asset management space.

Here's a quick video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkCpLhIoggc

Registration doesn't require a confirmation, for now, just so anyone can test it right away.
by rafaelmn | 2025-04-03 11:11:42+00:00
There is no free trade, EU was tariff heavy and protectionist since forever, in fact that's probably the primary motivator for creating it - a single European market where they get to control the imports. Trump is brash and escalating it suddenly but this game is not new.

I'm all in favor of Europe merging more tightly, scale brings a lot of benefits - moves Trump is making are forcing EU members in this direction where they otherwise wouldn't go so easily for petty interests.
by p3rls | 2025-04-03 11:12:19+00:00
Personally I think calling it a shotgun wedding is one of my best metaphors of the week and perfectly evokes what I was going for. Contemporaries from like Lincoln's 2nd inaugural of course would call it finer things, like a national baptism etc. but shotgun wedding captures the borderer element, too. I like it and stand by it.
by MOARDONGZPLZ | 2025-04-03 11:12:53+00:00
> He considers Wordpress "his" even though...he took it over from the original author who was abandoning the project.

Non Wordpress user here, not a blogger, don’t use CMSs. Curious about this line. Reading the history on Wikipedia, the original b2 was the precursor. It was pretty small and being abandoned. Matt proposed forking it in January 2003, and worked with Mike to bring the first version to fruition a few months later. 22 years later it’s a goliath.

Given that history it seems totally fair for Matt to consider WP his thing. You don’t seem to think so, can you explain?
by pmontra | 2025-04-03 11:13:01+00:00
My ZBook from 2014 is apparently made of sturdy plastic but the keyboard is built on a metal base and it fits in metal hooks on the chassis. It does not flex at all.

The problem with this machine is that sooner or later I'll run out of reasonably priced keyboards (they wear and the mechanisms under the most used keys break), maybe no more support for the graphic card neither from Nvidia nor from the open source driver, and go forbids if some RAM burns. Perhaps RAM from that age it still available but historically the prices hike when only a few desperate people look for it and have to pay a premium.

So eventually I'll have to buy a new laptop because of maintenance: hardware parts and software updates. I'm betting on another 2 or 3 years. There is nothing I particularly like on the market now but this laptop was a compromise too. Serviceability and 3 buttons on the touchpad vs a useless number pad that shifts the center of the keyboard to the left of the screen.
by CapricornNoble | 2025-04-03 11:13:19+00:00
What aspect of this video do you think supports your position, specifically?

My mother's side of my family is from North Philadelphia, same state as the first black woman featured in this video.

I spent three weeks in the US in 2021 when my mother had a psychotic breakdown and I had to put her life back together on short notice. She had lost her wallet and all ID. I got her a brand new birth certificate in Philadelphia and a NJ State ID to replace her Driver's License. This required setting up some appointments either online or via phone, and bringing some documents along, but it was manageable.

Expecting someone to have original birth certificate, SSN proof, and spouse's death certificate is....normal adult document management. I deal with a similar "burden of proof" every time I go to my local Japanese city office, or to immigration to renew our residency.

The next anecdote in the segment blasts Sauk City, Wisconsin for the ID center being closed on most days. According to Copilot, Sauk City is 96% white, with a median household income over $78,000 and a population of less than 4000. So a small middle class town of white people rarely has the ID office open? How is that supposed to support the argument that mandatory ID requirements disproportionately affect minorities again?

The second half of the John Oliver clip focuses on the voting events not the identification acquisition problem so I don't consider that part relevant and won't dissect it.
by noduerme | 2025-04-03 11:13:25+00:00
Ok. Breathe.

What would have happened if the US hadn't entered WWII or hadn't remained in western Europe to stop the Soviets, or hadn't responded to the invasion of South Korea?

Presumably, someone or something besides what we politely call liberal democracy would be running those places, mmm? Probably in the manner in which either Germany or the USSR was run at the time, or in which North Korea is run today?

Perhaps after murdering all the intellectuals and landowners and shop owners, they would have come to some phase of neo-communist authoritarian capitalism like Vietnam or China now, (or if the Nazis had won, maybe their kids would have agitated for free speech and minority rights!) although it's debatable whether a Stalinist or Maoist country could get there without an evil capitalist villain to push it toward perestroika.

I'm not defending America sending troops hither and yon to defend banana companies.

But you say it's breathtakingly entitled to simply state that someone is going to run the world, and I think it's just a plainly obvious fact. By someone, hopefully you understand that I mean a polity and not a person, and ideally a group of nations with a commitment to the rule of law and civil rights. That would be as good as it has ever gotten in the long dark history of the world.
by carlosjobim | 2025-04-03 11:13:49+00:00
Domestic producers can redeem part of their VAT, which foreign producers can't, effectively making it a tariff. Also European countries apply their own bona-fide tariffs to foreign imports, which anybody who has imported into the EU has experienced. It is stated "tariff" on the bill you receive from customs and in the law that regulates said tariff, and in your accounting for expenses if you are a business. But now we have to pretend these tariffs do not exist? What kind of game is this? Has everybody became psychopaths?
by ltbarcly3 | 2025-04-03 11:14:27+00:00
No, I'm asking you to prove the existence of a situation. Sigh. For your sake I hope you are just pretending not to understand the difference.

Do you know anyone in your country who doesn't have a state issued ID card? It's simply not true that 10% of people lack a state ID, it's absolute fiction made up for political reasons. If you bother to look it up (of course you can't be bothered) you would find that it comes from a single phone poll which they then extrapolated using census data. It's beyond dubious.

> None of that has any place in a real democracy, if democratic values are to be uphold it should be as easy as possible for any eligible voter to exercise their vote if they so wish.

So Norway isn't a real democracy? Ireland? Germany? Sweden? Netherlands? Italy? India? Greece? Why aren't you on their forums calling them fake democracies?

It's very easy to go find made up statistics published by political groups. I could go find a 'statistic' that says 98% of people in the US have IDs. In fact, here: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policyinformation/statistics/2019/p...

The US highway administration says that 102% of driving age individuals in 3 US states have valid driver's licenses. 102%. That's a statistic published by the government. Don't try to explain to me that "you can't have more than 100%" because that's just an anecdote, mate. You have to just believe whatever the statistic says.
by robertlagrant | 2025-04-03 11:15:06+00:00
If that's correct, then it's very falsifiable. If a businessperson says "there's a gap in the market - let's build X" they will be following a formalism at their level of detail. They see the market, the interactions between existing products and customers, and where things might be going.

Just because they can't spell it out to the nth degree doesn't matter. Their formalism is "this is what the market would like".

Having an LLM then tease out details - "what should happen in this case" would actually be pretty useful.
by ItsBob | 2025-04-03 11:15:12+00:00
> Even though they can't read your messages

I've long wondered if this is actually true.

If I have a closed-source app and claim (and can verify!) E2EE, surely I could still read every message from my closed-source app, within the app itself, and you'd never know.

I've never been a mobile app developer but I've been a desktop and web developer since the 90s so I don't know what apps can and cannot see but in a desktop app or web app, if it's on the screen, it's decrypted and I can put code in to read/steal it.

Am I missing something here?
by usagisushi | 2025-04-03 11:15:25+00:00
They are both based on WireGuard (kernel-space and user-space `wireguard-go`), so I guess there's no significant difference in performance for typical usage.

In terms of stability, Netbird has been pretty good for me. I've been using Netbird as the backhaul network for my laptop, phone and inter-site k3s cluster for several years without major issues.

One major downside of Netbird is that its Android client can be quite a battery drainer [1]. (It keeps your fingers warm during winter, though!) As for Tailscale, it offers some neat features like Funnel, which is missing in Netbird, but in my case, covered by DNS and k8s Ingress.

[1]: https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird/pull/3379
by burkaman | 2025-04-03 11:15:34+00:00
Even multiple rooms in your home is compelling enough for many people, but for me it's about taking it on trips. Obviously you don't always want to take your computer on vacation, but sometimes I want to visit a friend and work from there, or go visit my family and work on a project while I'm there, that kind of thing.

On a smaller scale, I often bring my computer to the roof of my building or to a library or cafe. I can understand preferring the constraint of "when I leave my desk I don't have to think about the computer anymore", but for me all the additional flexibility is a good tradeoff.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-04-03 11:15:41+00:00
> Why work a monotonous job that pays at or just slightly above minimum wage,

If you torpedo the economy so people have no other sources of income, raise the price of all goods, and cut of all social supports and programs, people will have no choice but to take jobs they would have turned their noises up at before.

Draining the swamp is winning!
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-04-03 11:15:46+00:00
The US's atrocities and slavery happened much more recently. And kept happening while other countries moved on to modern social democracy.

And are still happening today, under the thin disguise of for-profit prisons and no-work = no-healthcare.

The US has a long history of murdering people who are too politically progressive and/or get in the way of corporate profits.

Racial segregation was still considered normal in the 1950s. There's still a huge swathe of the population who can't cope with the idea of anyone who isn't rich and white, ideally a man, with political power.

As for immigrants - there are some people in El Salvador who won't agree with you.
by metalman | 2025-04-03 11:15:51+00:00
it's odd that this is called "hacking" as there is no formal procedure or rules around granting access to phone records, and the huge number of "scandles" involving the abuse of phone records and the open use in tracking phones for assasination of foreign nationals cant be done without the casual access to all phone records, so there can be no doubts about an ongoing situation that continiously violates everyones right to private comunication. the headline is best described as a test of complacency. why bother?
by 0x00cl | 2025-04-03 11:17:09+00:00
> Every single one was moved offshore by an American business looking to reduce costs and increase the quarterly bottom line.

> This time, it's by adding a new tax on Americans on what they buy from overseas.

If adding/increasing tax on product oversees increases the costs of said products, wouldn't American business look to reduce cost by moving back to America?

If I understand correctly that's what Trump is trying to do.
by byyoung3 | 2025-04-03 11:17:28+00:00
This is valid but also hard to back up with any alternatives. At the end of the day it’s just a neural network with backprop. New architectures will likely only be marginally better. So either we add new algorithms on top of it like RL, create a new learning algorithm (for example forward-forward), or we figure out how to use more energy efficient compute (analog etc) to scale several more magnitudes. It’s gonna take some time
by specproc | 2025-04-03 11:17:32+00:00
Well, given that countries are a relatively new thing, that's a question that's complex to answer.

I think what you mean to say is name a European country that wasn't doing all that stuff, because most of the world wasn't. I can name a European one actually, Ireland.

That last bit doesn't sound so great to the non-US ear. Immigration, seriously? Ask MLK or Mahmoud Khalil about free speech. Democracy in America is a whole long conversation, but let's say it's at best of debatable quality.
by Dansvidania | 2025-04-03 11:17:57+00:00
indeed. This kind of attitude is contrary to what is needed to produce the sort of world desired.

The conceptualization of what fundamental even means is very much subjective, so posing such a condition to dialogue is, in principle, the negation of possibility of improvement on either side.

this is the core kernel of what a tribe even is in my opinion: pose a subjective condition, divide people based on it.
by sim7c00 | 2025-04-03 11:18:05+00:00
you guys are not wrong. explain any semi complez program, you will instantly resort to diagrams, tables, flow charts etc. etc.

ofcourse, you can get your LLM to be bit evil in its replies, to help you truly. rather than to spoon feed you an unhealthy diet.

i forbid my LLM to send me code and tell it to be harsh to me if i ask stupid things. stupid as in, lazy questions. send me the link to the manual/specs with an RTFM or something i can digest and better my undertanding. send links not mazes of words.

now i can feel myself grow again as a programmer.

as you said. you need to build expertise, not try to find ways around it.

with that expertise you can find _better_ ways. but for this, firstly, you need the expertise.
by lurk2 | 2025-04-03 11:18:44+00:00
I always thought “soft skills” were a cope for those who didn’t learn an actual skill, until I entered the workforce. I was working mainly in customer service, construction, and facility maintenance roles, and in all three I found it was incredibly common for coworkers to have issues with anger management, emotional maturity, and basic courtesy. These jobs were all fairly terrible aside from customer service; perhaps not coincidentally, that is also where these issues were the least common.
by maqp | 2025-04-03 11:18:47+00:00
That was the time before we lived our half of our social lives online in group chats and social media.

My calls and texts used to be about me agreeing with my buddies when to hang out. They weren't nearly as private as me keeping in touch with buddies I rarely see IRL, online.

Also, there was a period of transition. Had I known the MSN messenger was completely unencrypted, in that everyone, not just Microsoft, could listen in, I might have felt my privacy violated. I sure as hell feel that in hindsight.
by arijun | 2025-04-03 11:19:20+00:00
Just to draw more attention to the point, it's not an unrelated project simply "using the Mermaid name," it's a for profit project started by the creator of mermaid.js, which charges for some advanced tooling around the opens source project. It's a common enough paradigm to see and in my opinion a pretty virtuous way to fund open source development.

See also Redis labs, Gitlab, ElasticSearch...
by vitus | 2025-04-03 11:20:31+00:00
> Trump has always liked tariffs [alas, I can't find the source for this pre-presidency, its been blown out by current events].

Here you go, Feb 2011: https://money.cnn.com/2011/02/10/news/economy/donald_trump_c...

"The comment repeated past statements from "The Apprentice" star, who has said he wants to put a 25% tariff on all Chinese imports, to level trade imbalances in the global economy."
by matwood | 2025-04-03 11:20:39+00:00
The problem with this line of reasoning is that Trump just pushed our allies in that part of the world closer to China. China stated the other day they are working on a joint response to tariffs with Japan and South Korea. Additionally, leaving power gaps around the world from the pullback of USAID gives China an in to be the 'good guy'. This is the exact opposite of planning for a conflict with China. In fact, it feels like ceding the fight before it even begins (much like what he did with Russia).
by ghosttaboo | 2025-04-03 11:20:48+00:00
Maybe tribalism is ok in some respects, and maybe we should increase it.

For example, it would be fine if the people in the other tribe to do what they want - as long as when the taxes becomes too high, the beaurocracy stifling, the crime rampant, and they have to deal with issues they assumed other people would sacrifice for in order for them to feel good - as long as when it inevitably breaks down, they don't come to MY area learning nothing and try to replicate what they left.

That is a worldwide problem actually.
by anenefan | 2025-04-03 11:21:32+00:00
https://archive.md/ulszr

lol. I guess maybe the US administration had expected if Europe spends more (its fair share) on military, the US would of course be the major winners supplying much of it.

Is it a good bet it all came unstuck when the US turned off the ability of some weapons (mostly the missiles) Ukraine had been utilising when Zelenskyy refused to kiss Trump's ring? Talk about winning.

No doubt Europe will consider US tenders, but it won't just be looking at cost of acquiring, but also the cost when King Trump feels disrespected.
by nerdponx | 2025-04-03 11:21:36+00:00
We literally have a Supreme Court decision saying that the President has immunity as long as he was acting as part of his official duties. So while any clear-minded person will see that, say, running a protection racket on law firms from the White House is blatantly illegal and a crime, all Trump has to do is argue that he did so in his official capacity as president and not as a private citizen, and he is instantly 100% immune from consequences.
by noduerme | 2025-04-03 11:21:43+00:00
don't get me wrong. I'm writing everything I'm saying because I desperately do not want America to go on a trajectory where it loses all credibility and becomes as bad as all the other human rights abusers.

I think most Americans have no idea how much power their country wields. And it's horrific that they're susceptible to the kind of small thinking jingoist nationalism that doesn't befit a country so large built on an idea of cohesion.
by generalizations | 2025-04-03 11:21:49+00:00
Does the exact percentage of the tariffs matter? I suspect it doesn't - these look like approximate numbers to obtain concessions, and a complex formula doesn't really help anything.

Far as I can tell, the ideal would have been to simply double incoming tariffs, but that would be infeasibly large. This was a way to generate a plausible smaller number that can be increased later on an individual basis depending on how the country responds.
by johnisgood | 2025-04-03 11:21:53+00:00
Ah yes, the Olafian Lunar Proximity Theory. While government defunding might accelerate intelligence in peculiar ways, I've found that the most effective method involves strategically placing enormous quantities of vintage ThinkPads at precise geomagnetic nodes around the Earth.

The collective electromagnetic resonance of their legendary keyboards creates a subtle gravitational anomaly that could, over approx. 17.3 years, reduce the lunar orbit by up to 4% (!), according to my rigorous calculations and simulations.

My recent paper[1] on "Retrotech Gravitational Manipulation" was mysteriously rejected by mainstream journals, likely due to Big Space's vested interest in maintaining the status quo; the current Earth-Moon distances for profit reasons.

Have you came across my paper, considering you have heard about Olaf?

[1] https://arvix.org/abs/2108.05779v3 ("Retrotech Gravitational Manipulation: Theoretical Applications of Legacy Computing Hardware on Celestial Body Dynamics")

Edit: Ugh, the site seems to be down at this moment, typical HN hug of death. Sorry about that. Forgot to archive! My rookie mistake. :/
by mgoetzke | 2025-04-03 11:22:02+00:00
Basically all industry, all commerce pays dividends/taxes and those get distributed.

People that use their money to invest (time or money) into good companies will profit more, people that use it for just consumption will remain low 'income'.

When companies succeed as a whole (eg move to all solar,robots,ai) all 'shareholders' will benefit. one of those will be the UBI program
by jmyeet | 2025-04-03 11:22:07+00:00
The Chinese yuan is not a viable reserve currency. Why? Because it's pegged to a basket of other currencies. It should really inflate in value but Chinese government policy is to undervalue it to aid exports. Exports are ~20% of China's economy. It would devastate the economy if the yuan was allowed to freely float, or at least float with the level of central bank management that other developed nations' fiat currencies have.

China has repeatedly tried to activate a consumption economy (like the US) but the Chinese just save and buy real estate, in part because there is no retirement benefits so they have to self-fund that.

So what currency? Currently, there is no viable alternative to the US dollar. It is backed by the largest economy in the world AND the US military.

You might find people who talk about BRICS like it's a real thing. It is not. It's just a group of randomly selected countries meant to sound nice (literally, South Africa is only there for the S sound) with no unified policy or currency.

It's not the euro either. Europe ultimately is still dependent on US defence and beholden to US foreign policy.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-04-03 11:22:15+00:00
> Its purpose is to ensure that everyone has their basic financial needs met, not to provide those particular government services.

The government is run by the people. If it increases cost to tax payers over all then the tax payers (people/voters) have every right to oppose this. Even social security alone (for elderly people who can't care for themselves) is untenable, the government has been borrowing from social security funds for decades. Many millennials are at risk of paying for SS their whole lives only to find it can't actually support them at their old age. UBI doesn't make sense at-cost.

The reasonable arguments I've heard state that homelessness, crime, medical cost and similar things will have reduced cost, in which case, sure, why not. But there are a long list of things that need funding long before UBI, if it is at-cost. Another good example is minimum wage, does it make sense to have such a low federal minimum wage and impose UBI on top of that?
by riffraff | 2025-04-03 11:22:23+00:00
I did too, from the Atlas of Economic Complexity (2023 data).

Cambodia's top 3 is China 42%, Thailand 20%, Vietnam 12%

Thailand's is China 28.7%, Japan 10.2%, US 6.3%

Vietnam's is China 40.8%, South Korea 15.9%, Japan 5%

https://atlas.hks.harvard.edu/countries/116/export-basket

https://atlas.hks.harvard.edu/countries/764/export-basket

https://atlas.hks.harvard.edu/countries/704/export-basket