MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by sleepybrett | 2025-04-30 19:14:14+00:00
... what hope exactly.

The republicans in congress are so lost in the sauce that they won't challenge the great orange hope in the quarter. The soonest I think we can see anyone fighting back, politically, won't happen until the midterms AT BEST.

This is assuming that the republicans/trump don't come up with some issue that they can swing the midterms on and/or don't gut the electoral system to the point that they can't lose.

And even then I'm not sure that congress can actually do anything to fix this issue while trump is still in the white house and impeachment and removal seems unachievable. Say congress reverses it's delegation of tarrif power to the president. What happens if trump just does not obey congress, much like they are not obeying the supreme court. Do the republicans in congress have enough of a spine to actually remove him? How do we assure that removal actually takes place in the event that we can even meet the threshold? The man still, ostensibly, still has control of the military. Perhaps the military, secret service, any other guys with guns just refuses to help him resist congress like they did when he tried to deploy the military after jan 6th.. but they seem to have already cleaned house at the pentagon, with hagseth getting rid of more people who aren't sufficiently loyal enough to do crimes and/or coup the fucking government for trump.

shit is getting scary.
by kaishiro | 2025-04-30 19:14:58+00:00
How do you keep the bread fresh/edible for the entire week? I've been baking sourdough for only a few years now - but I find that after 2-3 days the bread is basically ready to become breadcrumbs no matter how I store it. Lately I've actually started slicing it two days after baking and freezing the slices so that they can be re-toasted to stretch things out.
by OneDeuxTriSeiGo | 2025-04-30 19:15:45+00:00
It seems to work across restarts from what I can tell. I just tried to verify it.

I have a tab group in Simple Tab Groups for a perl project I've been working on. The group is basically just a bunch of perl docs (metacpan, etc). I haven't touched the project or the group in a few weeks and I've in that time restarted both FF and my PC several times as well as having updated my FF install several times.

I just switched to that tab group and opened up a random cpan docs tab and it loaded it back in half way down the page. The scroll moved a little bit (only a few lines of text worth of scroll) but that was it.

Of course this doesn't work consistently for all pages. I know for a fact that social apps like bluesky don't tolerate suspends all that well and force a reload but most "vanilla" web pages like docs sites tolerate suspends quite well.
by hanson108 | 2025-04-30 19:15:45+00:00
This research touches core interests at the intersection of neuroscience, consciousness, and computing:

1.It provides empirical evidence that a distinct, self-aware state of consciousness can arise within sleep. That’s a significant shift from theory to measurable fact, challenging the binary sleep/wake model and offering new data for theories of mind.

2. Implications for AI: If conscious experience can emerge in non-waking brain states, it raises questions about what conditions are truly necessary for subjective awareness—relevant to ongoing debates around sentient AI or machine consciousness.

3. Novel tech and methods: The researchers used advanced EEG analysis and signal processing to differentiate lucid from non-lucid REM—techniques that resonate with the technically inclined.

4. Broader curiosity: Lucid dreaming is a rare, fascinating ability that feels like hacking the mind. Now that it has a measurable neural signature, it’s more than just subjective—it’s a quantifiable state of consciousness.
by swatcoder | 2025-04-30 19:16:26+00:00
To rip the bandage off: you got really unlucky and you're going to have a very hard time finding a worthwhile job in the industry any time soon.

Between layoffs and the economic contraction that garnered them, plus prevailing interest in exploring AI for junior-level tasks (regardless of its wisdom), there's just not going to be demand for inexperienced software engineers for a while. If you do manage to find opportunities, they're most likely going to be the marginal cast offs that were left to rely on you as a last resort for some reason, not the enriching or exciting experiences you want to have.

Only you know what your alternatives are, but you should probably just assume that good work won't be coming and focus your job hunt elsewhere. If you're really passionate about the industry, you can think of the next few years as a kind of self-administered graduate program where you keep your skills fresh and develop new ones while you attend to some other day job.

While you do so, you'll want to think about building a tangible and compelling portfolio the way any other early-career artist might, so that you can show it off when the market turns again (which it will). You might also casually monitor and apply for jobs/gigs just to test the waters here and there, but you're only wasting your own time and your own emotional reserves in trying to hold out for one.

Sorry I couldn't be more encouraging. You just got stuck with bad entry timing into an industry long beset by boom/bust cycles. We're in the bust now. You have to wait.
by bpodgursky | 2025-04-30 19:16:27+00:00
Listen, everything is staring you in the face. You can live in whatever reality you want, but the market rate for labor is not $7.25 anywhere in the country. Nobody has any reason to tolerate federal minimum wage, and they don't.

You can try to find poke holes in reports to find caveats that oh maybe there are food service employees actually rounding down and making min wage, but it doesn't change the reality that there aren't.

You cannot in real life find a real person making $7.25 in a restaurant, because they aren't. Arguing about it on HN doesn't change that reality.
by cmurf | 2025-04-30 19:17:10+00:00
No. That isn't enough. The only way to avoid another Trump is to not elect one.

The solution liberals recoil against for some reason, is disassociation. We should have threatened our Trumper friends and family with permanent disassociation before the 2024 election.

Most would still persist, unpersuaded. They're likely lost for our lifetime. But perhaps enough would have taken the social cue of ridicule and ostracizing as serious enough to not vote for a psychopath. The farther back, the more effective it would have been.

Instead, we keep thinking they can be persuaded with reason, despite all evidence they've abandoned rationality.

We can't legislate the outcome you want. What you want comes from virtue. And America is out of virtue. People voted for a rapist, a felon, and vile insurrectionist.

America may not deserve Constitutional order, and therefore we are losing it.
by alnwlsn | 2025-04-30 19:17:26+00:00
How big is big? You can still get used FE-5680A rubidiums on Ebay for a few hundred. They are about the size of a small book and need ~20 watts.

Not sure how good/useful/not broken they are since I've never had one, but over the last 10 years I've seen them in a good number of hobbyist projects.

Or you could just go for GPS. That's technically still atomic clocks, but in space!
by schoen | 2025-04-30 19:17:31+00:00
> SA.45s (and the eval board) has been on mouser in the past, I'm not sure if they carry it now because mouser continually blocks me these days. It was previously around $1500.

I searched on Mouser and found that part no longer has a listed price; there are fancier chip-scale atomic clocks from the same company, the only one with a listed price going for $3,528.23.

Others from a different manufacturer are just over $2,000. A kind of awesome thing is that one of those chips is marked

Frequency 10.000000 MHz

It's awesome that that's not just an estimate or some kind of exaggeration!
by sprremix | 2025-04-30 19:17:38+00:00
This makes me appreciate my newly discovered "Remove YouTube Suggestions"[0]-extension a lot more. My homepage looks like this[1] and I absolutely do not get the feeling I'm "missing out" on any content. I just go to my subscriptions page, look at some videos and then close YT :)

[0] https://github.com/lawrencehook/remove-youtube-suggestions

[1] https://i.imgur.com/zst96wo.png
by 9x39 | 2025-04-30 19:17:51+00:00
Luckily, short of a DNS or auth problem, my experience is that Teams is just an alternate GUI for what already exists - Exchange, SharePoint, OneDrive.

And to be fair, you can just tell Teams to open in the desktop office apps by default (settings > Files and Links), and Outlook has a little radio button to turn off whether meetings are also Teams meetings. All the enterprise productivity apps seem to accumulate complexity and resultant scar tissue, usually in the form of busy settings or painfully opinionated defaults - painful when the defaults don't optimize for your use case.
by gnabgib | 2025-04-30 19:18:09+00:00
Recent discussion (88 points, 1 month ago, 29 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43458409

2024 (262 points, 81 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39800678

2021 (112 points, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26645019
by davikr | 2025-04-30 19:18:22+00:00
This is the second time (we know of) BeamNG.drive being exploited due to bad security practices - the first time, disabling ASLR [0], leading to Disney being hacked, this time, disabling CEF sandboxing. It is weird to see them go out of their way to disable conventional security features on their product.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41063489
by epistasis | 2025-04-30 19:18:22+00:00
It's not exceptionalism as much as authoritarianism. The lockdowns that happened in China for COVID were real and extreme. Meanwhile there were no lockdowns in the US and a significant chunk of the electorate acts as though there was extreme government overreach and in response gained control of large chunks of government with those arguments.

Sure, the Chinese government finally capitulated to citizen demand eventually, but the degree of control compared to the US is hard to overstate.
by djha-skin | 2025-04-30 19:18:23+00:00
Are we really subscribing to Reaganistic trickle-down economic theory now? How sure are we that those imports aren't mostly just lining the pockets of the rich?

We're measuring the wrong things. We need to measure cost of living instead of how empty or full a Port is. We don't know if these two things are correlated yet.
by xracy | 2025-04-30 19:18:56+00:00
Take a read of the constitution?

Why do you assume that the person you're responding to is "jumping to conclusions." Feels like you're just ignoring what they have to say in the guise of "asking for more knowledge" when you don't actually know if they don't have the knowledge because of your own lack of expertise.

https://history.house.gov/Institution/Origins-Development/Po...
by beloch | 2025-04-30 19:20:38+00:00
It's not about pity so much as self-protection.

Trump's second term has given the world a wake-up call. Although Trump will likely be gone in four years, the MAGA movement could be long-lived and always four years or less away from taking over again. Even if Trump backs down on tariff's and expansionism during his own term, trust in the U.S. as a military ally and economic partner won't be restored quickly or easily.

What we're now seeing is world military alliances and the economy rewiring themselves, not to be subservient vassals of a hostile U.S., as Trump hopes, but to bypass the U.S.. If trade barriers around the U.S. are going to come and go in an unpredictable manner, then business will respond by building outside of that uncertainty. Manufacture of some low-end products may be onshored to the U.S., but only to meet domestic U.S. demand if and where that is high enough. It doesn't make sense to move manufacturing inside a region with unpredictable trade barriers if it's going to serve a global market.

Take a look at the election results in Canada. What was expected to be an easy majority win for the Conservatives just a few months ago came out as near-majority for the Liberals. Both parties campaigned on anti-Trump measures that include increasing East-West trade/infrastructure within Canada, diversification of the economy to rely more on Asian and European markets, and reduced spending on defence products from the U.S.. This is long-term policy that will make Canada less vulnerable to future MAGA'ruptions, even long after Trump is gone. Trump could do a 180 tomorrow, but the impact of what he's already done will last for decades at the very least.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-30 19:20:39+00:00
> Sadly the progressive wings of the Democratic party never got the memo, and wrote them off until it was too late.

Eh? They've never meaningfully had control of the party, and are surely far more willing to e.g. abandon neoliberalism to avoid that handicap vs. a MAGA-ified Republican Party that's abandoned neoliberalism, than most of the rest of the Democratic Party is. It's the 3rd-way sorts and "centrists" who've been, and remained, in charge of setting direction and who've just kept on trucking with the "we mustn't upset the status quo!" and "maybe courting traditional Republicans will suddenly start working, so we should keep trying that" strategy, no?
by 542354234235 | 2025-04-30 19:20:47+00:00
In the case of a nuclear attack, most of the nuclear “chain of command” would be targeted and, realistically, many would not survive. The continuity of government plan for a nuclear attack isn’t designed to get all the influential muckety mucks out of the frying pan, it is to attempt to get the bare minimum of decision makers to secure facilities like Site-R or onto Doomsday Planes so they can wage an all-out nuclear retaliatory war. Very very few people would make it out of DC, and even getting anyone Sec Def or above out would be a very close thing.

The point is that for deterrence to work, it has to be credible. If Russia thought it could “kill” the US government so that no one would be able to effectively order a counterattack (either because they are dead or because they can’t communicate orders to actual nuclear forces), would they do it?
by Animats | 2025-04-30 19:20:57+00:00
See Drexler's mechanical nanotechnology from 1989.[1]

There's a minimum size at which such mechanisms will work, and it's bigger than transistors. This won't scale down to single atoms, according to chemists.

[1] http://www.nanoindustries.com/nanojbl/NanoConProc/nanocon2.h...
by runako | 2025-04-30 19:21:55+00:00
Clear example here is USAID. Congress has directed, as recently as March 2025, that a specific amount of funds be spent on the statutory goals of the US Agency for International Development. (I have not checked, but I am sure federal law also goes into some detail about what tasks USAID needs to perform.)

I do not imagine it is congruent with the law to simply fire all the staff and shut down USAID (or "merge" it into State).

The laws are all public and people are free to read that a few weeks ago, Congress directed the Executive to spend money as USAID for the statutory purposes behind USAID. That part is pretty clear.
by sahilagarwal | 2025-04-30 19:22:13+00:00
Its a bit of nostalgia for me. It took a bit of work to understand ipython when I first started as a programmer, but that effort helped me in the long run. Using ipdb for breakpoints was a game changer in my first job.

And it also was a good way to get comfortable with using terminal.

Using notebooks removes all these learnings. I dislike it because it makes for less confident programmers in the long run.
by adamc | 2025-04-30 19:22:40+00:00
Paul Krugman made this point in a podcast with Ezra Klein. People remember a time when manufacturing was 30% of the economy, but that will never return, because the economy grew far more than our appetites for stuff. His estimate was that even if it worked and jobs returned, you'd be talking about going from 10% of GDP to 12 or 13%.
by ryandrake | 2025-04-30 19:22:56+00:00
I'm still using an 8 year old phone. Nobody has made a phone yet where the feature set would motivate me to but a new one. Stickers? Emojis? Camera filters and effects? Social media integration? None of this is even remotely interesting to elderly-me. The only reason I'm likely to get a new one any time soon is that the companies stopped supporting the old one with software updates, effectively forcing me to throw away a perfectly working phone to keep up with security patches.

Same with computers. My daily driver is from 2017. I'm just not interested in anything new they're coming out with.
by hermitShell | 2025-04-30 19:23:08+00:00
I have wondered this and occasionally seen some related news.

Transistors can do more than on and off, there is also the linear region of operation where the gate voltage allows a proportional current to flow.

So you would be constructing an analog computer. Perhaps in operation it would resemble a meat computer (brain) a little more, as the activation potential of a neuron is some analog signal from another neuron. (I think? Because a weak activation might trigger half the outputs of a neuron, and a strong activation might trigger all outputs)

I don’t think we know how to construct such a computer, or how it would perform set computations. Like the weights in the neural net become something like capacitance at the gates of transistors. Computation is I suppose just inference, or thinking?

Maybe with the help of LLM tools we will be able to design such things. So far as I know there is nothing like an analog FPGA where you program the weights instead of whatever you do to an FPGA… making or breaking connections and telling LUTs their identity
by whitehexagon | 2025-04-30 19:23:20+00:00
Interestingly, the recent deadly floods were also blamed on a rare atmospheric event. Sadly, it seems official information during such events is just as rare.

No power is unusual, but happens, but no mobile phones, no internet, no emergency broadcasts, SMS or otherwise, just complete silence for hours... and then you hear it might be multi-country wide. Pretty scary. You assume the worst, right?

What was also scary to see was how little cash people have. The cash machines went down, queues formed, banks closed, POS terminals failed, and suddenly the smart-world we are building was looking very dumb.

Imagine not being able to buy basic essentials like medicines, food and water. Hopefully more people will reject cards / digital money as a result of this crisis.

But I also wonder what contribution the massive new solar farms and wind farms had on this crisis. That supply must be quite variable, and subject to rare atmospheric events such as clouds...

Sorry to rant, it was a pretty upsetting experience.
by gramie | 2025-04-30 19:23:47+00:00
I learned French, German, Sesotho, Japanese, with a mixture of classroom teaching and full immersion. I decided to learn Spanish with Language Transfer. It is by far the best system I have ever used (short of immersion; the absolute best way to learn Japanese was to fall in love with a Japanese woman in Japan).

I have been supporting it with monthly donations for about 4 years now, because I believe it is such an important tool.
by mmooss | 2025-04-30 19:24:19+00:00
There are several issues of how racism interacted with manufacturing.

One is that the auto manufacturers wouldn't hire black people into serious jobs - for a long time, all they could be was janitors, etc. I read one account that they went to local black leaders for recommendations and one person had a graduate degree - CPA or MBA, iirc. They got a dead-end clerical job or something like that.

Union workers were often actively hostile, even when union leadership welcomed them. Multiple times they walked out when one black person was hired.

Also, local racism crushed the black community, which would be the workforce. Redlining effectively prevented black people from living outside certain neighborhoods and prevented them from getting loans. They ended up packed into these neighborhoods, subject to white slumlords who charged exhorbident rents. Schools were awful. With little education, no money, no access to credit, and even if you overcame all that, no opportunity for career. Don't forget police brutality, race riots against blacks everywhere, lynchings in the South, etc.

There is more I'm not remembering atm.
by Zamaamiro | 2025-04-30 19:24:22+00:00
That's not what trickle-down economics mean.

Trickle-down is the idea that giving tax breaks or benefits to the wealthy or big corporations will eventually benefit everyone else through increased investment or job creation. What I’m talking about here is the basic flow of goods and services in an economy—when that gets disrupted, the effects hit workers and consumers directly, not eventually or indirectly.

When imports slow down, businesses have fewer goods to sell or face higher input costs. That leads to higher prices for consumers and layoffs for workers. It doesn’t just impact “the rich.”

This isn’t about trickle-down economics; it’s about how supply chains work. The impact of these tariffs will show up in lost jobs, higher prices, and reduced access to everyday goods. Those are real effects for regular people, not just abstract economic concerns.

Reduced shipping volumes immediately mean less work for truckers—thousands of people taking a hit to their income right off the bat, which in turns leads to less economic activity. This is exactly what people mean when they say no part of the economy exists in a vacuum. It’s all connected.
by lenwood | 2025-04-30 19:24:25+00:00
I like the NotebookLM podcasting feature, have used it a few times to come up to speed. There's one quirk of the dialogue that I find annoying though, the two speakers finish one another's sentences. At first I thought that was a nice touch, but it happens often enough that it became distracting. I should experiment with the prompt to limit how often it happens.
by SurgeArrest | 2025-04-30 19:24:26+00:00
Can I also have an option to block/disable all YouTube Shorts on AppleTV and Samsung TV apps? Shorts is the biggest disservice to civilization - promoting time-wasting behaviours.

Also, promoting 10-20 minute videos with 2-5 minutes of content is also wasteful. Most videos are extended to 10-20 minutes just to be recommended by YouTube.

Finally, videos with AI voice, which I hope can be easily detected, need to have a label clearly visible and I want to have preferences to hide those completely.
by bbatsell | 2025-04-30 19:24:34+00:00
> or for someone not at all knowledgeable who is looking for an overview before they plan to do deeper learning/studying through reading

Yep. This is what I have used them (sparingly) for — a scaffold to build the deeper learning onto. My brain struggles to retain information when it doesn’t have a high-level understanding of how/why a system works and how individual parts connect and interact, even if it is all eventually revealed later.
by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | 2025-04-30 19:25:20+00:00
Whether "AI" investements are "worth it" is not a question considered by the paper. The question it addresses is whether "AI chatbots have had a significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in an occupation." The paper makes no "call". It estimates that so far, there has been no significant impact. This is not a forecast or a prediction. It is a review of past results.
by bloppe | 2025-04-30 19:25:29+00:00
Sure, but it matters why Google is funding them. Google funds Mozilla in order to keep them afloat as a foil to detract from antitrust scrutiny. That's only credible if Google does not exert any kind of pressure over them as a condition for that funding. If they did exert that kind of pressure, it would completely defeat the purpose of funding them in the first place.

So I don't consider that to create a conflict of interest.