MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by paranoidrobot | 2025-04-06 23:31:39+00:00
The rich might be more exposed to stock market fluctuations, but they are fundamentally in a better place to leverage the changes in the market to either improve or at the very least maintain their position.

The real impact will be felt by the people on the lowest end of the financial wealth scale.

If the price of food, energy, clothing, housing, appliances, etc goes up - that means a lot more to those with the lowest wealth. The more wealthy you are, the less that is going to have a direct impact on you.

If this were "eating the rich" then we'd see direct taxation or asset seizing from the wealthy, not raising of tariffs.
by wdpk | 2025-04-06 23:31:57+00:00
It's scary that there seems to be no off ramp. The massive incompetence of the administration is absolutely appalling. Let suppose they decide to keep the tariffs until the actual lagged economic metrics are showing the stress on jobs and companies earnings. That means an absolutely insane amount of goods will go up in price between 10% and 50% in just a couple of weeks (depending how much the company margins are going to be absorbing the hike). The direct impact is probably a proportional amount of suppressed consumption so direct impact on the top line and bottom line of all those firms. This does not even account for all the effects of retaliation which are not yet decided. The markets were trading with lofty multipliers that were including quite a bit of revenue growth assumptions. All that is gone now! Without a quick change of course, the valuations will still have to go down a lot...
by jwagenet | 2025-04-06 23:32:00+00:00
Of course the wealthy stand to lose more, in relative terms. Lifestyle creep is real and expensive. However, they wont have trouble maintaining a baseline quality of life: getting jobs (if they need to), getting food on the table, paying for healthcare, and covering property costs . The poor and middle class, on the other hand, may not have as much to lose in lifestyle because they couldn't afford it anyway and they do stand to lost of quality of life if they are squeezed.
by gambiting | 2025-04-06 23:32:35+00:00
My 2022 Volkswagen e-Up has zero thermal management of the battery, it's completely passively cooled with no heating. Not that it really matters, people have tested it and charging speed only starts to degrade after 3-4 rapid charges in one day, with "rapid" in quotes(in tops out at 40kW).

I believe the eGolf which was sold in the US shares the same drivetrain and battery.
by jsheard | 2025-04-06 23:32:51+00:00
Typically the way it goes is that the studio underplays how much CGI they used during the marketing campaign, while the VFX vendors are forced to bite their tongues, and then 6 months after the movie debuts their NDA expires and they finally get to show how much CGI there really was. This series is a great watch on the subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ttG90raCNo

In the later parts there's some really egregious examples where promotional behind-the-scenes footage was actually doctored to key out the green screens or present composited shots as if they were done in-camera.
by amazingamazing | 2025-04-06 23:33:15+00:00
America’s consumer economy isn’t sustainable anyways. Once China figures out tech and India takes American services, America has nothing. These tariffs are stupid, but it’s either now or later. Better figure it out now, I suppose.

people who think america will indefinitely have tech supremacy are unbelievably delusional. once tech is lost, america has what exactly (it’ll be like the UK - rich, but a shell of its former self)? look at SPY gains since year 2000. almost all of it has been due to tech. trump is one of the dumbest famous people of all time, but this was going to happen one way or another. better it happen sooner.
by hollerith | 2025-04-06 23:34:01+00:00
Yes, but not having a copy of the source code for ATT Unix stopped everyone from using BSD or any system based on BSD till 1991. Again, before then BSD was very far from being a complete OS.

So BSD has severe shortcomings as an answer to the question that started this thread, namely, "Can you show examples of impactful open software that predates fsf and stallman?"
by adelpozo | 2025-04-06 23:35:07+00:00
I can’t reproduce. Maybe others reported the error and someone adjusted the expected answer, I do not know enough about OpenAI operations to say for sure.

The reason this bothers me is that comments like this reinforce the believes of people that could otherwise find value in these tools.

But I think points like this would be better made in shared chats or screenshots, since we do not have something like a core dump or stacktrace to attach.

And while I am not saying OP did this, I have seen technically skilled engineers asserting/implying that llm/chatbots aren’t good or not useful to them look at their chat log that a multitude of topics that I am sure would impact the result of the query.

Yes. It can be an UX problem. Yes. It can be an algorithmc problem. But they are just tools that can be used wrong and not a perfect mechanical brain.
by ezfe | 2025-04-06 23:35:11+00:00
By the GNU website it would be sufficient. The website says:

> GPLv3 stops tivoization by requiring the distributor to provide you with whatever information or data is necessary to install modified software on the device

By my reading of this, there is not a requirement that the operating system is unlocked, but the device. Being able to install an alternate operating system should meet the requirement to "install modified software on the device."

> This may be as simple as a set of instructions, or it may include special data such as cryptographic keys or information about how to bypass an integrity check in the hardware.

As you've mentioned with disabling SSV, and as Asahi Linux has shown, Apple Silicon hardware can run 3rd party operating systems without any problems.
by saagarjha | 2025-04-06 23:35:24+00:00
My job is to point out why people are wrong. I won't outright accuse people of not reading the post and using an LLM to reply. Whether they are really bad at commenting, or they are using an LLM (and it is really bad at commenting), I don't really care: the outcome is the same. Both are pretty embarrassing.
by trhway | 2025-04-06 23:35:37+00:00
Interesting case if we are the “ants” and it is our 3 dims happen to be compact looping somewhere beyond our event horizon. Multitude of Universes in that garden hose in which gravity can be falling as cube or more while at small scale if our compact Universe we’ll see square, and only very precise measurements may notice a bit larger than square.

Another possibility is if our brane has a lot of folds coming close/touching - that would make gravity there stronger like say that dark matter idea inducing rotation speed curve of the disk stars.
by gambiting | 2025-04-06 23:35:46+00:00
There's plenty of Norwegians on YouTube testing EVs down to those kinds of temperatures and they work absolutely fine, with the caveat that they won't charge until the battery warms up. Discharging Lithium batteries at really low temperatures isn't an issue, charging them is(because it actively damages them) - but even then the threshold is -32C or around that, easily overcome even with a simple resistive heater.
by donnachangstein | 2025-04-06 23:35:51+00:00
> or around 5 years after Stallman started the GNU project.

So 5 years after he started with an empty repo and some political ramblings?

GNU did not have a working system until Linus released Linux in 1992. They had pieces and components which were worthless on their own.

There is a lot of deliberate ignorance of public domain code being posted on BBSes at the time. I'm not discounting anything Richard did but let's not rewrite history here.
by duxup | 2025-04-06 23:36:02+00:00
The whole process from this administration doesn't seem the least bit thought out and nobody with any economic education / background is explaining what is supposed to happen.

According to insiders in the white house the tariffs came about from a 3 hour meeting, there's nobody willing say no to the old man who can't keep his thoughts or words together sometimes ... and regarding environmental problems IIRC he has already expressed "I'll be dead by then". I wonder if that is his approach to everything?

In some ways this feels like the country has been brought along on some senile old man's suicide pact.
by danpalmer | 2025-04-06 23:36:03+00:00
Sahil seemed to join the tech startup sphere around the time I did, back in ~2009 when he was making iPhone apps. I remember beta-testing one of his apps on my first iPhone at the age of 17, I can't imagine he was much older.

He's always been a hustler, and I don't mean that in an entirely negative or positive way. He exemplifies startup hustle culture in a way that I sometimes envy for his ability to move quickly and churn out new things, but that comes at a cost. The cost is integrity, morals, resolution, whatever you want to call it. He's a mercenary with no particular loyalty.

Gumroad has a scandal every year or two, and they're always based on jumping on the latest bandwagon. The company itself was formed in the creator hype phase that birthed Patreon and Kickstarter, it has seemingly had a full reset (i.e. layoffs back to just Sahil) twice, once when they failed to make it big, once again when layoffs were cool. That he is on the LLM hype, in a hype-driven way rather than an actually effective way, is no surprise. And lastly that he has "open-sourced" the codebase again comes across as a cynical move rather than one done for the right reasons.

All this is to say that Sahil joining DOGE is entirely on brand, both in the sense of DOGE being the epitome of the worst of startup hustle culture (we can solve every problem from first principles with some shitty code, screw actual experience!), and in the sense that this is the next bandwagon that will make him cool. Like Zuckerberg, I think Sahil is just another insecure nerd who prioritises addressing that insecurity over standing up for themselves and their beliefs.
by netsharc | 2025-04-06 23:37:55+00:00
Going to yandex.com and looking for Navalny gives results.. so too for "Putin's palace", Navalny's team's documentary about the regime's corruption (links to navalny.com and medusa.io).

Isn't Yandex a Dutch-based company now? Then again, searching from within Russia might give different results...

Try using Facebook Messenger to send a link to PirateBay; it's blocked. I find it disgusting that our communication media is controlled by billionaires who've revealed themselves as fuckwits on Jan 20. The same dislike is there for corporations controlling what we can find online... Then again, I really don't mind YouTube refusing the hosting of videos from Covid conspiracy nutters (yes I could be wrong and they could be right, but I guess like every other nutjob, I'm comfortable in my ignorance pretending to be confidence.)
by TeaBrain | 2025-04-06 23:38:00+00:00
Yeah, I saw that. I was just looking at a chart of the yield over the last year. The yield has dropped below where it was for most of the last 12 months, besides a less than three month period from late July to early October last year. If Bessent is listening to people like Dalio though, he may be wanting the yield to go down below 3%, which is what I think Dalio said was necessary to avoid a debt spiral.
by senderista | 2025-04-06 23:38:09+00:00
What a pathetic attempt at spinning manifestly stupid policy:

> @elonmusk & @DOGE are cutting $4B per day. At that pace, they’d shave off $1 trillion by end of Sep 25 (if not May).

Actual economists (of any political persuasion) are not giving Trump the benefit of the doubt, only grifters like this "thought leader".
by Symbiote | 2025-04-06 23:38:32+00:00
> openrsync is written as part of the rpki-client(1) project, an RPKI validator for OpenBSD. openrsync was funded by NetNod, IIS.SE, SUNET and 6connect.

Could anyone suggest why these organizations would want to fund this development?

https://github.com/kristapsdz/openrsync?tab=readme-ov-file#p...
by HenryBemis | 2025-04-06 23:38:40+00:00
Every crisis is a wealth redistribution. I'm a Dave Ramsey _and_ a Warren Buffett fan, so when my favourite shoes are half price, I run to buy them (Ramsey on stock exchange falling), and from Buffett: "the stock market is designed to transfer money from the active to the patient".

I think I get that DJT wants to do (I live in the EU so I didn't vote for neither). Stocks are going down? VOO/VOOG/etc. going down? Good! My (small) monthly investment will buy 'so much' more. And when 'that thing' rebounds then even better.

In cases like that I feel sorry for the people who have to 'close'/sell their assets because they want to buy a house (why do people put it in the markets if they want their money out in less than 1-2 years?), or are retiring (no need to sell everything, sell small and slowly - it will rebound) and drops like this, or the COVID-time drops mess their plans.
by trebligdivad | 2025-04-06 23:39:11+00:00
Well China did build that capability from scratch over ~50 years; the US does have the advantage that it probably has most of the experience...somewhere; what it needs if it really wants to do it is pull all that together into something streamlined and build up capacity in those bits it doesn't have much of.

(Not that I'm saying this crazy sudden tariff mechanism is a good way to get that to happen; heck even if you wanted to do it, you wouldn't have to dump the entire lot on everyone in one day)
by moefh | 2025-04-06 23:41:06+00:00
It might crash, or it might work as naively expected, or it might do something else.

For example, clang started simply omitting writes to data it knows to be read-only (which is allowed because these writes are undefined behavior, so anything goes). See this example[1]: `writable()` will return "*ello", but `readonly()` will just return "hello" and not crash (note its assembly doesn't include a write).

[1] https://godbolt.org/z/MboK3hTPx
by hobs | 2025-04-06 23:41:33+00:00
That's not even crap data - that's archived data that might be useful someday (though de-dupe is probably a great idea and email sigs are definitely wasteful trash) - most of the crap data is things that would never have been useful under any circumstances.

I have cleaned up dozens of product databases in cost management efforts and have found anywhere from 50-99% of data stored in product databases is crap, because they are not well managed and any single mistake can lead to a huge outsized impact on storage.

What to log all those http requests for just a day? Might as well turn that on for all time...
by karmakaze | 2025-04-06 23:41:41+00:00
> [...] But I would nevertheless like to submit, based off of internal benchmarks, and my own and colleagues' perceptions using these models, that whatever gains these companies are reporting to the public, they are not reflective of economic usefulness or generality. [...]

Seems like they're looking at how they fail and not considering how they're improving in how they succeed.

The efficiency in DeepSeek's Multi-Head Latent Attention[0] is pure advancement.

[0] https://youtu.be/0VLAoVGf_74?si=1YEIHST8yfl2qoGY&t=816
by yencabulator | 2025-04-06 23:42:07+00:00
Sure, that particular prompt is ambiguous. Feel free to imagine it to be more of an informational question, even one asking for just yes/no.

However, when people are talking about the "critical flaw" in LLMs, of which this "tool shadowing" attack is an example of, they're talking about how the LLMs cannot differentiate between text that is supposed to give them instructions and text that is supposed to be just for reference.

Concretely, today, ask an LLM "when was Elvis born", something in your MCP stack might be poisoning the LLM content window and causing another MCP tool to leak your SSH keys. I don't think you can argue that the user intended for that.
by _carbyau_ | 2025-04-06 23:42:10+00:00
One of the reasons white collar is desirable is the physical toll that work over a lifetime can take on a persons body. So, in one sense, it could be perceived as a better deal. Whether it actually is or not is another thing.

Chinese industry is not known for caring overly much about the long term effects on the bodies of their workers. They have more.

And yes, I find it scary to think of what the world is competing with in China. It is hard to compete with their brutal workforce ethics (or lack thereof) and as they seem to be getting well on top of technology too the future is theirs it seems.
by cadamsdotcom | 2025-04-06 23:43:04+00:00
Some reasons to involve a VC no longer exist. You will get an adviser and someone with a network and skin in the game, both strong reasons - but thinking of some others:

There was a time when capital was needed to hire an army of devs, rack a ton of servers, and when startup patterns were less established & more experimental.

Now you can use open source libraries, get advice from podcasts, build your CRUD with AI, and follow well worn paths to success. Amazing what small focused teams can do!
by vermaden | 2025-04-06 23:43:17+00:00
I believe you have wrong view of how secure FreeBSD Jails are - definitely a lot more secure the rootless Podman for a start.

Isolation: With rootless Podman it seems to be on the same level as Jails - but only if You run Podman with SELinux or AppArmor enabled. Without SELinux/AppArmor the Jails offer better isolation. When you run Podman with SELinux/AppArmor and then you add MAC Framework (like mac_sebsd/mac_jail/mac_bsdextended/mac_portacl) the Jails are more isolated again.

Kernel Syscalls Surface: Even rootless Podman has 'full' syscall access unless blocked by seccomp (SELinux). Jails have restricted use of syscalls without any additional tools - and that can be also narrowed with MAC Framework on FreeBSD.

Firewall: You can not run firewall inside rootless Podman container. You can run entire network stack and any firewall like PF or IPFW independently from the host inside VNET Jail - which means more security.

TL;DR: FreeBSD Jails are generally more secure out-of-the-box compared to Podman containers and even more secure if you take the time to add additional layers of security.

> How battle-tested are FreeBSD Jails?

Jails are in production since 1999/2000 when they were introduced - so 25 years strong - very well battle tested.

Docker is with us since 2014 so that means about 10 years less - but we must compare to Podman ...

Rootless support for Podman first appeared late 2019 (1.6) so only less then 6 years to test.

That means Jails are the most battle tested of all of them.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

vermaden
by fernly | 2025-04-06 23:43:52+00:00
A bit of context regarding Project Gutenberg. Its intake process is far from casual. Take a look at Project Gutenberg Distributed Proofreaders (PGDP, [0],[1]), one of the oldest "crowd-sourcing" projects on the net (est. 2000). As you can see from [0], every book goes through three rounds of proofing, where volunteers read each page of text and compare it to the scanned image; then through two rounds of format review, where other volunteers insert or review format markup.

From that 5-pass process the marked-up text is handed to a volunteer "post-processor" who assembles the final HTML or e-book file; then the completed book gets one more "smooth reading" pass before it is posted to PG.

This it the process that produces the books input to Standard Ebooks. That they can still find scanner errors ("tne" for "the", a typical "scanno") demonstrates how difficult it is to see those. But their presence isn't from carelessness or disregard for the value of the books.

In the 20-teens I put in hundreds of volunteer hours at PGDP in all the above roles, and it was very satisfying work. I'd recommend it to anyone wanting an online hobby that feels constructive. Volunteering time to Standard Ebooks would probably feel good as well.

[0] https://www.pgdp.net/c/activity_hub.php

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Proofreaders
by fakedang | 2025-04-06 23:44:44+00:00
Something I've realized over the course of the past few days is that the USA's biggest export is the US dollar. A medium of exchange that can be used as a proxy trade good between two unrelated countries, backed by the power of the US Government and the US Military. Look at any other industry, and save for a few like defence and information technology, most of USA's production exists to be served within the country itself, not to be exported. Most traditional manufacturing industries such as agricultural processing, food, automobiles, steel, shipbuilding, hardware, etc., all either serve solely the domestic market or have been outsourced away. Over the last few decades, the US has basically traded away its manufacturing capabilities and its economic independence, in favour of remaining top dog hegemon, while utilizing its network of allies and friendly countries to provide raw material for its industries and the USD-based markets to sell to. Obviously this system works very well for a country which has made working with allies a steady policy, but for a country now hell-bent on bashing its allies and any others friendly to trading with it, it can only spell a steady decline.
by triceratops | 2025-04-06 23:44:52+00:00
> us equity growth is partly due to rampant government spending

The US government bought a lot of equities? If yes, isn't crashing the stock market bad for the government?

If no, then what does that mean, exactly? The government spends a lot of money buying stuff from companies in the S&P 500? Enough to send their prices sky high? How does crashing the stock market fix that?
by throw0101d | 2025-04-06 23:45:03+00:00
Meanwhile the Interior Secretary, who oversees the National Parks Service, insists on freshly baked cookies:

> Interior Secretary Doug Burgum likes chocolate-chip cookies—preferably freshly baked and still warm.

> This peculiar fact became the talk of the Department of Interior in recent weeks after his chief of staff, JoDee Hanson, made an unusual request of the political appointees in his office: Learn to regularly bake cookies for Burgum and his guests, using the industrial ovens at the department headquarters.

* http://archive.is/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archi...

On Burgman:

> How rich? Forbes estimates Burgum’s net worth to be at least $100 million—enough to place him among the most loaded 2024 hopefuls (only Donald Trump and Vivek Ramaswamy are richer), but far from enough to qualify for our World’s Billionaires list.

* https://www.forbes.com/sites/kylemullins/2024/11/15/just-how...

> Burgum sold the company to Microsoft for $1.1 billion in 2001. While working at Microsoft, he managed Microsoft Business Solutions. He has served as board chairman for Australian software company Atlassian and SuccessFactors. Burgum is the founder of Kilbourne Group, a Fargo-based real-estate development firm, and also is the co-founder of Arthur Ventures, a software venture capital group.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Burgum
by duxup | 2025-04-06 23:45:22+00:00
I ended up working on some software and I was deemed the email guy (it's a very small % of my job but it is the biggest pain).

"I need an email when this happens.. and when this happens."

The requests are endless and I'm convinced there are people who if they could would do their entire job from their inbox and get everything and anything an application can do via email.

The insidious problem is that it never solves anything. "I didn't get the email!" is a constant refrain (yes they did, they always did). "Oh someone didn't do the thing so can you add this to the email too." and so on.

It is such an abused tool.