MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by VWWHFSfQ | 2025-04-06 16:27:09+00:00
My ad blocker blocked 4 tracker scripts on this website.

This website is about blocking advertising because they're often predatory and invasive.

> Outlawing advertising would help protect and reinvigorate our minds and democracy.

Practice what you preach. Or don't, if you just want to make a quick-hit blog post.
by mindslight | 2025-04-06 16:27:20+00:00
"Why Do Prices Rise with a National Sales Tax?"

This post is assuming that a sizeable domestic industry still exists, and also that demand is relatively elastic. This is sensible for wine and maybe sugar, but not for the myriad of equipment and supplies it would actually take to create new factories. If the goal is to paralyze and destroy the country, the high import taxes that Trump is pushing are a great way. That people continue to "4D chess" this buffoon "for the cause" continues to astound me.
by egberts1 | 2025-04-06 16:27:24+00:00
Biggest problem is the use of a SELinux compiler into components understood only by SELinux engine.

Does not help when the SELinux source text file is not buildable by function/procedure axiom: it is at its grittiest granularity, which ironically is the best kind of security, but only if composed by the most savviest SELinux system admins.

Often requires full knowledge of any static/dynamic libraries and any additional dynamic libraries it calls and its resource usages.

Additional frontend UI will be required to proactively determine suitability with those dynamic libraries before any ease of SELinux deployment.

For now, it is a trial and error in part on those intermediate system admins or younger.
by cannonpr | 2025-04-06 16:27:26+00:00
It often surprises me that people think Tesla's sensor suite is sufficient for safe self driving, with quotes like "well humans rely on vision."

Human vision is nothing like the cameras on a Tesla. Our eyes have far more advanced systems including the ability to microscan, pivot, capture polarisation, and a much more sophisticated field of depth. Frankly, current generation cameras are in many ways far more primitive than human eyes. And that's not even considering the over 20% of our brain mass dedicated to post processing.

All because Musk wants to pad his profits and keep the hype without paying for a lidar.
by aaomidi | 2025-04-06 16:27:40+00:00
Yep I think this is really the important point.

Free trade has its own set of negative consequences. Namely that it’s good for owners of the means of production but not for the workers.

What’s interesting to me is that tech is effectively the last “American made manufacturing”, and the relative lack of outsourcing (compared to other forms of manufacturing) has kept tech workers powerful.

The same logic of h1b workers weakening the American citizen tech worker, applies to free trade.
by timschmidt | 2025-04-06 16:27:46+00:00
I've followed EV development since the 90s, with great excitement and sadness around the EV1, and I built and daily drove EVs before I could find one to buy commercially. I appreciate that Tesla (and now BYD) have forced the hands of the traditional ICE vehicle manufacturers who were content in their partnerships with the oil industry and planned obsolescence.

I own a 1978 Suzuki Carry and a Miles Electric ZX40ST.

I have watched a fair amount of https://www.youtube.com/@MunroLive with interest about the implementations from all manufacturers. Sandy is in my home state of Michigan, birthplace of the auto industry, in which I've been multi-generationally involved, and he knows his stuff. He has criticisms for all manufacturers, but over the years Tesla seem to have listened more than most, to the point of Elon speaking for hours with Sandy on podcasts about technical aspects of the vehicles and production. I also appreciate that Tesla seem to make more of their cars in the US than any other manufacturer. Honda seems to be the only one comparable. I think the future's electric. I don't really care who makes it, but I'd like it to be well engineered, and made locally.

I'd personally probably think traditional ICE manufacturers and oil industries are overvalued, but I'm probably wrong as there's clearly lots of business for those industries which doesn't seem to be going anywhere.
by asa400 | 2025-04-06 16:27:54+00:00
Actually no! The tools that make sense for industry are sometimes not specific enough for artists, and simultaneously the tools that make sense for artists are sometimes hard to generalize in an industrial setting where repeatability and composition are have greater importance to the success of the end product. My quibble is when folks say artist blacksmiths and industrial metal forming are the same and should be treated the same, to continue the metaphor.
by labrador | 2025-04-06 16:28:10+00:00
Yes, it's become clear to me that it's only a matter of time before Tesla adds LiDAR and says that was the plan all along. Meanwhile, what better way to test vision-only than by releasing it to the beta testing public? Elon Musk knows people will die but in his ketamine addled brain he's convinced himself that a vision only self-driving Tesla is safer than a human driver so it's ok. People were going to die anyway statistically speaking.
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-06 16:28:26+00:00
You absolutely missed it.

AOC: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5108287-donald-trump-alex...

> “To ‘punish’ Colombia, Trump is about to make every American pay even more for coffee,” the New York Democrat said on the social platform X. “Remember: WE pay the tariffs, not Colombia,” she added. “Trump is all about making inflation WORSE for working class Americans, not better. He’s lining the pockets of himself and the billionaire class.”

Bernie: https://x.com/SenSanders/status/1908221908954263821

> Our trade policies should benefit American workers, not just corporate CEOs. That includes targeted tariffs to stop corporations from outsourcing American jobs & factories. We do not need a blanket, arbitrary sales tax that will raise prices on products that Americans need.
by alesso_x | 2025-04-06 16:29:06+00:00
> The self-driving subject vehicle is a 2020 Tesla Model 3. The Tesla fatally struck a motorcyclist from behind at above 100MPH on a 45MPH speed limit road

FSD cannot be turned on above 85 mph. If you try to accelerate above 85 mph it disengages.

> That’s how you would strike a motorcyclist at such extreme speed, simply press the accelerator and all other inputs are apparently overridden.

If the user is pressing the accelerator pedal, it overrides the autopilot. I’m not sure how FSD could reasonably be blamed in that situation.

The article also talks about Traffic Aware Cruise Control (TACC). There is a nuance between the different systems. This is not Full Self-Driving (FSD). It is an older system that Tesla provides for free. All it does is try to maintain a set speed, and you still have to steer. If the user is pressing the accelerator pedal, it overrides the system. I am not sure how FSD could reasonably be blamed in that situation.
by woodruffw | 2025-04-06 16:29:13+00:00
macOS provides native sandboxing; you can use capabilities at the app level[1] or the sandbox-exec CLI to wrap an existing tool.

For Windows, you probably want WSB[2] or AppContainer isolation[3].

For Linux, the low-level primitives for sandboxing are seccomp and namespaces. You can use tools like Firejail and bubblewrap to wrap individual tool invocations, similar to sandbox-exec on macOS.

[1]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/configuring-...

[2]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/applicati...

[3]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/secauthz/app...
by bloomingeek | 2025-04-06 16:29:19+00:00
For me is was work. First DOS, then Win 3. Years later, when the CEO of the company I worked for arranged for a really good Dell computer discount with financing, many of my co-workers purchased them, mostly for their kids. Many of those kids broke these machines (Most of them had Win ME) and I became the IT guy. I already had a PC for several years, which I broke a few times and had to gather info to make repairs, so I was glad to help and learned a ton of new things about computers. A shout out to Maximum PC Magazine, who had a wealth of info every month. Sad to see it's gone.
by ddq | 2025-04-06 16:29:36+00:00
Earth is the only home, any other planetary body would be akin to homelessness. Words cannot adequately express the sheer small-minded ignorance of these feckless technocrats, the unadulterated hubris to presume themselves remotely capable of surpassing eons of biospheric development with their fucking spaghetti code that can't even drive a car properly. With such a level of dangerous stupidity posing an existential threat to all life in this solar system, it is nothing short of the gravest immorality to allow such a dim-witted, mean-spirited, drugged-out, misguided moron to remain in a position of power and control.

There is no planet B.
by fatherzine | 2025-04-06 16:29:57+00:00
First, prices per se are irrelevant. The ratio of labor price to goods&services price is relevant.

Second, the labor / goods&services price ratio itself is irrelevant, as measured in the short term. What is relevant is the long term outlook of this ratio. See eg the Dutch Disease.

Third, even the long term labor / goods&services price ratio is irrelevant. Not everything in this world is, or should be, reducible to simplistic financial value.

One way to approach the underlying intuition is in terms of homeostasis, at nation state level.
by seadan83 | 2025-04-06 16:30:03+00:00
Rock behaves like warm wax on geologic timescales. Kinda crazy..

Was hoping to find a source to back up my memory on this,FWIW, Google's AI summary states it well:

> On geological timescales (millions to billions of years), rocks, even those that seem brittle, can deform plastically, or flow like wax, due to the immense pressures and temperatures deep within the Earth, allowing for slow, gradual deformation
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-06 16:30:10+00:00
I was like that as a child, but after enough years of wider academic exposure as a student, decided I liked applying mathematical ability towards electronics, business, and chemicals better than average compared to becoming a real mathematician.

Science-fiction can be stimulating in that regard, someone who likes science in addition to math might be the one to turn some of it into science-reality someday :)

Eventually I came to the conclusion that the better math textbooks had more than just math. One of the most enlightening math books I had was a late 19th century antique text "Progressive Higher Arithmetic" which was never in one of my courses, but was given to me when I was an old teenager and it could be an interesting reference in any century. Not only the differences in the way teaching has been done in the past, but a nice leather-bound volume with numerous blank pages among those adjacent to the front & back covers, covered with poetry written by the original owner. With a pen and common inkwell, in beautiful handwriting there is one that I can not forget:

Remember me when death shall close

My eyelids in the last repose

And evening breezes gently wave

The grass above your school-mates grave.
by bink | 2025-04-06 16:30:25+00:00
The difference to me, as a motorcyclist, is that to prevent humans from crashing cars into motorcycles is complicated. There are a multitude of reasons someone may not be paying attention or may not see another vehicle. This problem with Tesla has an easily implemented solution that could be deployed now but isn't. We don't have such a solution for non-Tesla crashes into motorcycles. How many motorcyclists deaths are we willing to accept to save money? How much money is too much to prevent 5 deaths?
by breadwinner | 2025-04-06 16:30:34+00:00
Cameras have poor dynamic range and can be easily blinded by bright surfaces. While it is true that humans do fine with only eyes, our eyes are significantly better than cameras.

More importantly, expectations are higher when an automated system is driving the car. It is not sufficient if, in aggregate, self-driving cars have fewer accidents. If you lose a loved one in an accident where the accident could have been easily avoided if a human was driving, then you're not going to be mollified to hear that in aggregate, fewer people are being killed by self-driving cars! You'd be outraged to hear such a justification! The expectation therefore is that in each individual injury accident a human clearly could not have handled the situation any better. Self-driving cars have to be significantly better than humans to be accepted by society, and that means it has to have better-than-human levels of vision (which lidars provide).
by _heimdall | 2025-04-06 16:31:01+00:00
> They should be slow, meticulous, and announced far ahead of time.

The main lesson they learned from Trump's first term was that they were better off making big changes and fixing what they broke later. Moving slowly seemed to make it too easy for "the machine" to stop them as it were.

I don't say this as the right lesson to have learned or a good approach, just an observation.
by ycombinete | 2025-04-06 16:31:36+00:00
Yes it’s tough to know, and often comes down to very different foundational assumptions about behaviour and how to judge it.

My wife is Jewish and was I raised Catholic. I’ve noticed quite recently that she definitely judges actions more in terms of effect and I’m more concerned with people’s motivations/intentions.

And funnily enough I just noticed this explicitly in the Old Testament:

Leviticus 4:1-35 deals explicitly with sacrificial atonement for unwitting offences. The section note in The Jewish Study Bible says: “A basic postulate of Israelite thought is that inadvertent acts are just as harmful as deliberate ones, the need to atone for them just as real, and the desire to do so, once they are realized, greater.”
by p3rls | 2025-04-06 16:31:48+00:00
People still don't realize the entire internet is one giant SEO/marketing septic tank. You'd think the fake cable reviews would be easy to detect at least. I've gotten a few higher budget items when I was poorer by doing a bunch of reviews like this, and I imagine our methods would be much harder to detect than the fiverr reviews most companies look like they're using. You'd basically need a whistleblower or be much more proactive about auditing companies.

The emails look like this: ----

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If you are worried about the price, let me know the total in your cart, and I'll send you the money to cover it so you can make the purchase.

Please have a look at the steps below, if you have any questions, or encouter any difficulties, just don't hesitate to let me know.

You can check the following to participate the free test of $highbudgetcamera

● Go to Amazon.com and search for "camera specifications". Look for our camera (refer to the image below). It should be on Page 1.

● Purchase the camera and let us know your Order ID by replying to this message. You could use the 10% coupon on product page to reduce the order price.

● Try out the camera for 3 to 5 days and then leave a review on Amazon. Don't forget to send us a snapshot of your review.

● You will receive a full refund + a small gift: extra 10$ cash (by Paypal or Amazon Gift card).

Thanks again, -Some Russian name representing a Chinese company
Show HN: I Built a Nutrition Tracking app with features I wanted from other apps
by puzzledAdi | 2025-04-06 16:31:51+00:00
During my last semester break, I got obsessed with calorie tracking and ended up juggling multiple apps to keep tabs on my intake. Each app had its killer feature that I couldn’t get enough of, and I started dreaming of a single app that could bring all those standout tools together. So, I pinged my friend, and we decided to take a crack at building it ourselves. What I thought would be a quick weekend side project spiraled into an epic adventure.

I built this app using Flutter and Supabase as the main frontend and backend. I also used Swift for some components, such as the camera and widgets, for a better native experience.

I included all the features that I liked from the different apps I used.

A reliable database: We obtain food data from a comprehensive, high-quality database. This database primarily includes Western and European foods and information from package labels. We will soon add data from additional countries.

AI photo logging: Click a photo of your meal and get the estimates for calories and other macros. It's pretty handy when at a restaurant where the nutritional values of food are not listed.

AI meal description: If you forgot to take a picture before eating, describe what you ate afterward to log it. Works similarly to food logging.

Barcode scanning: The feature is very quick and snappy, retrieving data from a vast open-source database.

Progress tracking: Uses intuitive graphs to track your steps, weight, and daily macros intake.

No ads and Privacy focused: Users can sign in with Apple to protect their privacy. No ads.

Integration with Apple: The app has dynamic widgets and integrates with the Apple Health app.

The next feature I'm working on is a dynamic nutrition coach that calculates goals based on the user's personal progress, i.e., instead of a general formula for all users, it dynamically changes from user to user weekly, guiding the user like a personal coach.
by vitus | 2025-04-06 16:32:02+00:00
> Democrats, who historically supported protectionist trade measures, now oppose tariffs

Can you provide a source for this one? On the front of free trade, NAFTA comes to mind where there was some support and some oppositions within both parties. And of course there was TPP which Obama was championing (to no avail -- every major presidential candidate in 2016 opposed it).

Is this a reference to the chicken tax during the LBJ era? Nixon had also placed a 10% global tariff on all dutiable imports when we got off the gold standard, so I don't see it as being obviously a single-party issue.

And of course, Smoot-Hawley was a heavily partisan bill championed by the Republican side of the house. The Republican fascination with tariffs goes all the way back to at least 1861 with the Morill Tariff (and even further back if you consider their predecessors in the Whig party).
by readthenotes1 | 2025-04-06 16:32:22+00:00
The wiki link is kinda interesting. The first column is irrelevant, the last column exempts food and energy and still raises the question (based on the first column) of what the actual trade would be if there were no tariffs.

Certainly for the first column it may be true that if the tariffs are so high on some products that there are going to be no imports and the "weighted actual" will be close to 0.

I'm not going to the last column since it ignores two important categories.
by tpmoney | 2025-04-06 16:32:28+00:00
There was also that Der Spiegel journalist that wrote effectively a completely made up fiction about an American town called "Fergus Falls. The followup investigation of which discovered a number of additional stories that ranged from highly exaggerated to completely made up.

The danger of trying to tell a narrative with journalism is the tendency to decide on the narrative you want to tell, and gather facts (or I guess make them up) to fit that narrative, rather than finding a narrative in the fact that lets you tell their story.
by recursivecaveat | 2025-04-06 16:32:33+00:00
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0xp969n69o

> The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) insists at least six of the medics were linked to Hamas - but has so far provided no evidence. It admits they were unarmed when the soldiers opened fire.

They really are pivoting to "these unarmed medics we shot without identifying them deserved it".
by xvedejas | 2025-04-06 16:32:39+00:00
The supply and demand curves are not straight lines. There is not one unit price that consumers value a good at, that's why the marginal price that a consumer will pay depends on the quantity produced. The first most eager buyers would pay a higher price than the rest of the buyers you can find at higher quantities produced (but a lower price).

Tariffs eat into consumer surplus and producer surplus not just by raising prices, but also thereby reducing quantity. I think the only times you'd see no effect on consumer surplus via a tax are when the consumers are always going to pay a fixed amount regardless of quantity they can get (perhaps in some budget-constrained scenario), or if the amount of the thing that can be produced is fixed regardless of price; neither of these scenarios describes consumer goods.
by Findecanor | 2025-04-06 16:33:19+00:00
I too expected a reuse of the full name when I first clicked...

"Master Control Program" was an operating system for Burroughs mainframes in the 1960s and 70s. That is probably where Tron got the name.

In the '90s, I used another "MCP" on the Amiga: it was a "commodity" that tweaked and patched things, similar to PowerToys on MS-Windows. And I think the author has said that he got the name from Tron.
by jmillikin | 2025-04-06 16:33:52+00:00
> use SECCOMP_SET_MODE_STRICT to isolate the child process. But at that > point, what are you even doing? Probably nothing useful.

The classic example of a fully-seccomp'd subprocess is decoding / decompression. If you want to execute ffmpeg on untrusted user input then seccomp is a sandbox that allows full-power SIMD, and the code has no reason to perform syscalls other than read/write to its input/output stream.

On the client side there's font shaping, PDF rendering, image decoding -- historically rich hunting grounds for browser CVEs.
by btrettel | 2025-04-06 16:34:11+00:00
Again, I think it comes down to what the "population" (reference class) is. Implicit in what I quoted was the population being companies. I personally would criticize it on that point, not that they are making the base rate fallacy because I think from their perspective they are not.

Seems like semantics to me, I don't think we actually disagree on much.
by tromp | 2025-04-06 16:34:48+00:00
The salient part:

> The time to halt this trading of assets for consumables is now, and I have a plan to suggest for getting it done. My remedy may sound gimmicky, and in truth it is a tariff called by another name. But this is a tariff that retains most free-market virtues, neither protecting specific industries nor punishing specific countries nor encouraging trade wars. This plan would increase our exports and might well lead to increased overall world trade. And it would balance our books without there being a significant decline in the value of the dollar, which I believe is otherwise almost certain to occur.

> We would achieve this balance by issuing what I will call Import Certificates (ICs) to all U.S. exporters in an amount equal to the dollar value of their exports. Each exporter would, in turn, sell the ICs to parties—either exporters abroad or importers here—wanting to get goods into the U.S. To import $1 million of goods, for example, an importer would need ICs that were the byproduct of $1 million of exports. The inevitable result: trade balance.