MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nradov | 2025-04-05 02:51:42+00:00
Nah. I don't know which "we" you're referring to but Wikipedia isn't a valid source for anything more controversial than Pokemon episode summaries. Many of the articles are highly biased depending on which clique of editors managed to gain control. Intelligent people don't take it seriously.

That aside, I have seen a loony fringe of revisionist historians and lawyers level spurious claims of "war crimes" against Allied leaders who are no longer even alive to defend themselves. They had no moral or legal duty to protect enemy civilians, and any amount of enemy civilian deaths were acceptable to save Allied lives.

If you're looking for war criminals, start with Tojo, Hitler, and Mussolini and work your way down the list of Axis leaders. The Allied powers were always clear that they would stop the attacks as soon as their adversaries issued unconditional surrenders. Therefore all enemy civilian deaths were 100% the fault of Axis leaders who started and continued the war.
by Rastonbury | 2025-04-05 02:53:01+00:00
I think it's pretty hard to attribute bad stays to stoppage of the service though unless they use reviews in a model which is probably the best data they have to predict this.

I haven't booked an Airbnb in years, whether it be due to having hotel points to redeem or someone else in my party booking on their account or just the price differences in that specific city I am going to. I'm not averse to the service but my account is basically dormant
by voidhorse | 2025-04-05 02:53:25+00:00
Yeah, of course, and learning the mental model behind SQL is even more important than learning the syntax.

I'll admit I was just posting a low-quality snark comment because I'm kind of appalled at the laziness and lack of expertise some of these AI "applications" show. I've yet to see an LLM used in a way that actually enables new ideas or that radically alters productivity. Instead every use case essentially boils down to either "save me five minutes by doing something I'm too lazy to do myself" or worse, "allow me to try my hand at something in complete ignorance, bother if I know whether or not it is even correct". The devaluation of practice and expertise is going to have major implications in the long run.

In this particular case, if you actually bothered to spend one day learning SQL you'd find it takes probably even less time to just write the query rather than try to think about the best english-language rendition of it that actually gets the LLM to do what you want...LLMs are like short-term thinking codified into a tool. Why spend thirty minutes to learn something today when I can spend a decade of my time doing it in a half-baked fashion over a lifetime.
by ekianjo | 2025-04-05 02:53:33+00:00
> Ironically, Trump has the record for the highest deficit ever in US history.

hardly relevant comment since all presidents left and right have been pushing the button to increase deficits (and congress is completely responsible as well for not trying to balance the budget) so this is a systemic problem that will bring the downfall of America no matter what. It's just a matter of time, and with that level of debt, the time bomb keeps ticking faster and faster.
by gitremote | 2025-04-05 02:55:16+00:00
This is likely why Elon Musk--who in 1989 emigrated from Apartheid South Africa at the cusp of Apartheid ending in 1991--is convinced there is widespread fraud in social security benefits. He never culturally integrated with a post-Apartheid South Africa. He comes from a legacy white supremacist culture that sees non-white citizens getting social benefits as ripping off white citizens.

If anyone thinks a claim that Musk is a literal white supremacist is biased, remember that he did two Nazi salutes at the president's inauguration and endorsed Germany's AfD party.
by ekianjo | 2025-04-05 02:55:44+00:00
> Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights is enshrined in legislation in the UK and Ireland, and offers protections for signatories of the convention.

it's enforced nowhere, since the European Convention on Human Rights has never attacked any of its members for putting people in jail or fining them for what they posted online. So, you can have all the laws on paper that you want, if nobody respects them, they might as well not exist.
by vkou | 2025-04-05 02:57:15+00:00
Thank you for providing me a front-row example of it. There's always one bullshit excuse or another.

In reality, the US suppresses Canada's national defense, because for some weird reason, it doesn't want a heavily-armed neighbor.

As for energy, for every dollar of it that it buys, it derives far more than a dollar of economic utility from it, which is why it's screaming bloody murder at the mere mention of Canada turning off, or adding surcharges at the tap.

All this is why in 2025, one would have to be an utter fool to expect America to keep faith.
by Gregaros | 2025-04-05 02:57:24+00:00
Sorry, the implication is that this is far worse than Brexit, but that this is the US’s Global Exit, riffing off the strong negative connotations in te US. I saw it from on Bluesky, but that linked here https://theradicalfederalist.substack.com/p/the-neoreactiona... - so, being framed as much worse than Brexit.
by swat535 | 2025-04-05 02:57:46+00:00
Yeah, this is the core issue. How can any ally fully trust the U.S. when major foreign policy commitments can be reversed every 4 years? One administration signs on, the next tears it up.

It's starting to look like U.S. agreements aren't really with the country, but with whoever happens to be in office. US allies is isolating itself and it's allies are going to hedge. The trend is already starting and it's going to be hard to reverse. Restoring that trust isn’t just a matter of electing the "right" leadership, either, at this juncture, I think that it would require institutional reforms and a consensus on foreign policy that transcends the electoral cycle.

I'm not going to cheer for the "downfall of US", but America is doing it to itself.
by gorpy7 | 2025-04-05 02:58:45+00:00
depends on the distance between stoplights. but, in general, this will reduce throughput- if you’re the lead car and you accelerate slowly when it turns green then the 10th car may not get through the light. and if you slow down early and gently, that’ll ripple backward. slowing down gently also doesn’t let the cars pack densely quickly and here again you can’t get enough cars in the space between lights, especially over freeways/bridges. sometimes you’ll see zipper merges just to combat this low density as cars accelerate.
by breadwinner | 2025-04-05 02:58:53+00:00
That's like saying you shouldn't use a spellchecker because you should be learning the correct spelling yourself. But the point of a spellchecker isn't to replace learning — it's a tool that supports and accelerates your work. In the same way, AI tools aren't a substitute for understanding; they're productivity enhancers. They help you move faster, reduce routine effort, and give you more time to focus on deeper learning and problem-solving. Used wisely, they complement the learning process rather than undermine it.
by cookiengineer | 2025-04-05 02:59:01+00:00
I am not sure if you have seen that there's a flagging war going on on HN lately. The commenter probably didn't link on purpose to prevent that.

Just saying that we need a more neutral medium for the HN crowd if that kind of discussions afen't allowed. Turning a blind eye to what's going on is what got us into this mess.
by zdragnar | 2025-04-05 02:59:19+00:00
Tren de aragua is, according to the government, a terror group, and the Venezuelan government alleges they receive state sponsorship from Columbia.

IF those things can be demonstrated as true, then prevent from prior supreme Court rulings cover this scenario pretty well.

If they can't demonstrate that, then the deportations are clearly outside of the scope of the law and judicial interpretation.
by chrsstrm | 2025-04-05 03:00:13+00:00
I recently moved two sites from GoDaddy's predatory WordPress offering (they were charging $1k a year just for some security add-on) to use Hugo + DecapCMS + AWS Amplify. Decap is a fantastic "good enough" CMS to do anything clients of this size need, the only downside is it takes about 1 minute to deploy any changes. Amplify let's you lock a version of Hugo to use, or bring your own, and it will build and deploy your site on any new commit if your repo is in Github or Gitlab. Both clients are currently billed $0.51 per month, and the only reason it is that high is because Route53 costs $0.50 per month per hosted zone. So both these clients went from paying nearly $3k each year for a WordPress site to paying just over $6 a year for a site with nearly the same functionality and none of the maintenance or security concerns. And once everything is all set up, which honestly is not that hard, the only "tech" they need to know is how to sign into Gitlab, which are the credentials they use to log into their Decap admin.
by mizzao | 2025-04-05 03:02:19+00:00
It seems the maximum likelihood model is a political one and not an economic one. Trump likes making deals and he historically has made them by applying his leverage and bullying people to go his way. Now he has the most powerful office in the world and a lot of leverage to bully anyone he wants (universities, law firms, other countries). Lots of lunch money will be taken but no one's going to go near the bully anymore.

At the end of the day, it's about Trump's need for attention and ability to wield power, rather than any economic objective. Tariffs are a way to wield significant power without requiring the approval of Congress.
by toast0 | 2025-04-05 03:02:34+00:00
The people who don't need kitchens and just book hotels don't say anything because their needs are met.

There are also some hotels with kitchens. Usually they have 'Suites' in their name. I stay at one most holiday seasons, we go and visit my folks and want to have a place where my family can cook without taking over my parents' kitchen.

I've stayed places with vrbo, which is pretty similar to airbnb, but older. It's most convenient IMHO if you want more than two bedrooms for a group with shared space, or you're going somewhere without many hotels.
by paulryanrogers | 2025-04-05 03:04:13+00:00
So because a vocal minority 'cancelled' speech in private spheres for a few years, it's the fault of (all?) progressives that the right wildly overreacted and installed facism and government enforced censorship?

By this logic if one member of my family makes you feel unwelcome then its my own fault that you got the cops to beat me up?
by mikesabat | 2025-04-05 03:04:49+00:00
I think a penny is about the right price. What are the other options and how are those working?

50 percent of email is spam and Gmail has had to create multiple invoices to segment the emails that are probably not going to be read.

Snail mail is probably $1 to send something that will likely be thrown out.

Phone calls - we're rounding the corner after the days of auto insurance calls. But the behavior of only answering known callers might be here to stay.

Sms is the best channel at enforcing opt-in and if it's not worth $0.01 to reach me with the message, sms probably isn't the right channel
by User23 | 2025-04-05 03:05:06+00:00
There are a lot of “ors” and commas in that law, but it’s not hard to parse unless you’re being willfully obtuse.

((Declared war OR (invasion OR predatory incursion)) IS (perpetrated OR attempted OR threatened)) BY (foreign nation OR foreign government).

The law was drafted in the early 18th century when nation was more of an ethnographic term than a political one.

So "a predatory invasion threatened by Venezuelans" would satisfy that definition.
by cmurf | 2025-04-05 03:06:00+00:00
Supposedly they have a seasoned economic expert on staff, Stephen Miran. Is this guy a kook? It wouldn't surprise me, Trump had Laura Loomer at the White House and 1/2 an hour later three members of the National Secure Council had been fired.

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/morning-money/2025/01/0...

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/us/politics/trump-nsc-fir...

A central problem with this administration is it's headed by a psychopath, who has a long track record of being an untrustworthy liar. Could he pick an economics team that can actually make hard choices that are generally better for America? It's possible. But it's also possible these are just more kooks, or corrupt people looking to grift, or people who think like Peter Thiel, that democracy is over and needs to be replaced by a monarch.

My take? Impeach and remove Trump from office. Do it now. If the country wants these kinds of policies, they need to do it through the Congress. Not through a president, sane or insane.
by sebmellen | 2025-04-05 03:06:23+00:00
1. The further you are up the chain of abstraction, the less “valuable” the export is as a form of power. Think of this as a spectrum between hard and soft assets — if you decline to sell advanced computing software to your rival, you may harm their ability to optimize crop yields, or whatever. But if you decline to sell them steel, or oil, you may decimate their energy supply and bring their economy to a halt.

So, generally speaking, harder assets have more “declination risk” for the purchaser than softer ones, because the softer ones are either a) at the tip of the value chain, or b) easier to clone and replace. China has done a great job of outright refusing US SaaS exports like social media companies, while “stealing” millions of Windows licenses from Microsoft.

Said differently, IP is fragile! If your opponent does not respect your laws, you can’t enforce them. Hard assets are the opposite, because you can more easily cut them off.

And again, they are usually at the bottom of the value chain, so everything else is dependent on them being available. No oil, no cloud computing. Not the other way around.

2. Great counterexamples. I think it depends on what you define as innovation, and perhaps more specifically what about innovation as a concept is important to you.

- There are “open” kinds of innovation that push humanity forward, grow global wealth and prosperity, and make everyone better off.

- There are also “closed” kinds of innovation that benefit only a particular group.

Generally speaking, open innovation is “fangless.” What I mean by this is that it does not greatly increase your geopolitical power. The Dutch, for example, own ASML, but this doesn’t really give them any power, because their tools are relatively “open”. Swiss companies own massive numbers of pharmaceutical patents, but that’s just a domicile on paper. If Switzerland were invaded tomorrow, their patent regime wouldn’t offer much protection.

By contrast, a more “closed” form of innovation (weapons manufacturing being the most extreme example) will dramatically increase your geopolitical power.

Think back to the atomic bomb. Now look to the future. If the US develops killer drone swarm technology, or genome-targeted bioweapons, or whatever else, that means we have the cards.

Once you have world (or space) domination technology, you can disproportionately benefit from it, and you can selectively enrich your allies by giving them access to it, like the US currently does with our weapons systems.

If you don’t vertically integrate, you can’t do closed innovation. And closed innovation is the only “hard money” — and perhaps the dominant power struggle in geopolitics.
by lunarlull | 2025-04-05 03:06:51+00:00
> To the latter crowd, the kind of “bullying” behavior you describe is actually the equivalent of a gentle giant who never stood up for himself finally deciding that he won’t take any more shit.

Assuming this generous interpretation is accurate, then it's a problem of ignorance of the people holding this view. Characterizing other countries as 'freeloaders' is exactly that - ignorance.
by crq-yml | 2025-04-05 03:10:27+00:00
It's not really about the content - it's a McLuhanesque phenomenon of "the medium is the message". When CD-ROM became affordable for consumers, investment into content that demonstrated the power of CD flooded in.

A few years later, the investment cycle moved on towards 3D and online. Different medium, different message. That really is all that is needed to explain the trends. Galaga remains fun and playable, but nobody is marketing Galaga as the next big thing, so it isn't making sales charts.
by eddythompson80 | 2025-04-05 03:10:34+00:00
It's an idiotic take I agree. However, I don't think the US has benefited massively from soaking the best brains globally because of its foreign or trade policies. Most dominant voices about US foreign policy and foreign business interest has always been characterized by aggression and exploitation.

I highly doubt people were ok with that because the US had low tariffs on their countries exports to the US.
by weard_beard | 2025-04-05 03:10:40+00:00
You're thinking about this all wrong.

When the NSA declares for the dictator the fact they see everything is a great and easy vector for protest.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/22/business/facebook-content-mod...

Everything is backdoored. We can traumatize them to death. They've hooked themselves up to US! TO US!? Can you fucking imagine?

https://www.cinemablend.com/news/2493842/a-clockwork-orange-...

Any time you see a PSA about security in the next few months just picture the last sad little lickspittle training their psyops AI to pump this shit out and Tulsi Gabbard in latex with a whip standing behind him. He's shitting himself. She's sending pictures of his console to the signal chat.

*I swear I'm not bugging the scotch. This is just fucking hilarious timing.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-security-agency-ti...
Few people are 'cut out' for programming in the traditional way
by pyeri | 2025-04-05 03:11:09+00:00
Nobody is truly that "cut out" for programming. We might be emotional and biological machines, but we aren't logical circuit boards. As humans, we are wired to appreciate patterns in life and relationships, not binary 1s and 0s. However, coding patterns like decision trees, loops, recursions, etc. also do feel interesting to us as long as they produce interesting and utilitarian software which feels like magic.

But when the drudgery of programming sets in and all you're seeing is just heaps and mounds of instructions that need hours to fathom their working, even the best of programmers feel like leaving the field and running away! And that's exactly why things like no-code, low-code, AI assisted development, frameworks and packages, etc. are becoming so popular increasingly. Humans aren't "natural" programmers in that sense, they're primarily story tellers and meaning seekers in life.
by kragen | 2025-04-05 03:11:13+00:00
Yeah, I was working on a Windows NT image processing program in 01998. My desktop had two processors, and the machines in the dev lab and in the field had four. Mine were Pentium Pro. Some friends of mine had accounts on pioneer.unm.edu, a Sequent Symmetry with I think 8 80386 processors on a single memory bus, up until it was lost or stolen in about 01994. Then I got an account on the MHPCC SP2 UNM had the contract to administer, with I think 384 RS/6000 POWER CPUs, but without shared memory (not even NUMA).
by gscott | 2025-04-05 03:11:20+00:00
We love cheap stuff if the country providing it is weak and not a threat of any kind. Suddenly we don't love good Chinese prices any longer. The massive world wide tariffs are a scheme to restructure the trade order because we have lost control of the WTO, etc to China. We have been so greedy American companies fell over themselves to build factories and joint ventures in China only for China to create competitive companies and force these joint ventures to bankruptcy. Because of the greed, intellectual property and knowledge transfer to China Donald Trump has decided to save the system himself. The stock market being at all time highs doesn't matter if the United States is left empty of capabilities.
by woodruffw | 2025-04-05 03:11:36+00:00
If we were dependent on Canadian timber, we probably wouldn't be exporting the exact same lumber to them[1]. They're our largest importer of lumber.

The simpler explanation is that we have (or had) a free trade agreement with Canada, and it's just plain cheaper for all parties to import or export when/where the supply chain is already present.

[1]: https://oec.world/en/profile/bilateral-product/wood-products...
by Leprowix | 2025-04-05 03:11:54+00:00
Wix has alot of integrations included so it is interesting in terms of saving costs! For clients its a really nice platform that requires no maintenance whatsoever and less headaches for me!

No more panicked clients email late in the evening no more headaches in that sense…

Their new version Wix Studio offers even more flexibility and you can even go headless if you wanted! They offer alot to devs that takes the time to understand Velo code (JS)

I may sound biased at this point but Vevo has 10m monthly users and their website is built using Wix…

Only downside for the moment is performance in terms of loading times/general performance and i think thats mostly related to their native CDN thats offered by default… this becomes more apparent when browsing Wix sites on mobile
by outer_web | 2025-04-05 03:13:08+00:00
> Furthermore, Russia has no plans to invade any NATO country.

Not only are you attempting to prove a negative with "trust me bro" but it's especially laughable given recent history. Please tell me how many days before the Ukraine invasion Russia had "no plans to invade".

> this war is not how you describe it: said 'much smaller country'

Personally I consider 1/3 the population "much smaller" but you do you.

> it's not a 1x1 war of big Russia vs small Ukraine: Ukraine got help from all over Europe, G.B., U.S. and Canada.

Exactly why the US remaining in NATO prevents a large scale conventional war. Because Russia is pathetic unless it is bullying smaller neighbors or threatening nuclear war.
by notepad0x90 | 2025-04-05 03:13:20+00:00
I'm always torn apart when it comes to LLMs and analytical tasks. When you perform an analytical task, whether it is something simple like assessing the potential risk and impact of a vulnerability or complex like analyzing an obfuscated malware sample to determine its capabilities, you have to thoroughly go over the data points available to you, and corroborate the data points or evidence you are using to come up with conclusions. LLMs can help with a lot of this, but you still have to go over their reasoning (black-box mostly) or backtrack their work before you can accept their conclusions.

In other words, even with humans, their skills and experience are never enough. they have to show the reasoning behind their conclusions and then show that reasoning is backed up by an independent source of fact. Short of that, you can still perform analysis, but then you must clearly state that your analysis is weak and requires more follow-up work and validation.

So with LLMs, I'm torn up because they kind of make your life a lot easier, but does it just feel that way or are they adding more work and uncertainty where that is intolerable?
by nine_k | 2025-04-05 03:13:42+00:00
Money, I suppose? Heroku is notoriously trivial to use, and notoriously expensive for the amount of storage and compute you get.

A semi-successful but not heavily monetized side project on Heroku could cost you an arm and a leg, while running the same thing on some Hetzner box under Dokku, along with a couple of others, may be not that much noticeable.