MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by maerF0x0 | 2025-04-04 16:02:18+00:00
> OpenBrain reassures the government that the model has been “aligned” so that it will refuse to comply with malicious requests

Of course the real issue being that Governments have routinely demanded that 1) Those capabilities be developed for government monopolistic use, and 2) The ones who do not lose the capability (geo political power) to defend themselves from those who do.

Using a US-Centric mindset... I'm not sure what to think about the US not developing AI hackers, AI bioweapons development, or AI powered weapons (like maybe drone swarms or something), if one presumes that China is, or Iran is, etc then whats the US to do in response?

I'm just musing here and very much open to political science informed folks who might know (or know of leads) as to what kinds of actual solutions exist to arms races. My (admittedly poor), understanding of the cold war wasn't so much that the US won, but that the Soviets ran out of steam.
by hnuser123456 | 2025-04-04 16:02:21+00:00
I think it does?: (the comment is in the original source)

print("Adding matrices using GPU...") start_time = time.time() gpu_result = add_matrices(gpu_matrices) cp.cuda.get_current_stream().synchronize() # Not 100% sure what this does elapsed_time = time.time() - start_time

I was going to ask, any CUDA professionals who want to give a crash course on what us python guys will need to know?
by fuzzfactor | 2025-04-04 16:02:31+00:00
All evidence has always pointed to the purpose of Microsoft SecureBoot being introduced primarily as an obstacle to continued use of Windows 7 as well as Linux on PC's going forward when Windows 8 PC's were released.

Not like there's any question.

Overwhelmingly more so than for "security" purposes.

Any lesser understanding of Microsoft SecureBoot, well, I understand.

I've seen that kind of that kind of refusal before.
by itishappy | 2025-04-04 16:02:35+00:00
This is larger than tariffs:

> But even before President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs on imports, many of those projects were being canceled — leaving thousands of jobs and the shift to clean energy in doubt.

Sure, his energy policy was predictable too, but you'd have needed to predict the election results too to act on them. Who knows that'll happen in 4 years, will it be more of this or will we see EV subsidies returned? That's the part that's hardest to predict.
by moate | 2025-04-04 16:02:45+00:00
It's not just the sense of "could do no wrong" but "DID no wrong". Is he a Criminal who committed Crimes if he never went to jail or was he a "criminal" the same way "we all are" (this is to say, we all speed or disobey minor laws on a daily basis but that could have major repercussions if they were prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law, and doesn't it seem like The Deep State just weaponized edge cases and technicalities to entrap him?)

I don't personally buy into this framing, but it sure seems like millions of people do since points at results
by comrade1234 | 2025-04-04 16:02:57+00:00
I’m an American that moved to Europe over ten years ago. It’s interesting to see what I’ve anecdotally observed backed up by real stats - old people just seem healthier and more active here. I’ll be hiking in the alps and being passed by old people on the trail. I’ve gone ski touring and saw people in their 70s climbing mountains with me. I had a 90-year-old neighbor that was more active than me in the neighborhood until she finally died outside walking.

Another observation - wealthy Americans live like poor Europeans. Living somewhere where you have to drive everywhere is something that poor people have to do here. Eating manufactured unhealthy food - poor.
by mandmandam | 2025-04-04 16:03:12+00:00
It's true, it's not a very well kept secret. And still, even if most Americans distrust it, the vast majority of us remain wildly ignorant of just how bad our media really is.

"The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know" - maybe even more true now than it was in 1993.
by damhsa | 2025-04-04 16:03:13+00:00
the data downloads i have done (that could be done by anyone with my unlocked phone and logins, such as US border forces) clearly do not even try to adhere to most of the clauses there (e.g. recipients of the data). tech companies dont try to apply GDPR outside of EU, but they are generally happy to give information to the police in all countries except china. i wonder if the chinese can download their data?
by vessenes | 2025-04-04 16:03:26+00:00
This post is pretty much my exact experience with the coding tools.

Basically the state of the art right now can turn me into an an architect/CTO that spends a lot of time complaining about poor architectural choices. Crucially Claude does not quite understand how to greenfield implement good architectures. 3.7 is also JUST . SO. CHATTY. It’s better than 3.5, but more annoying.

Gemini 2.5 needs one more round of coding tuning; it’s excellent, has longer context and is much better at arch, but still occasionally misformats or forgets things.

Upshot — my hobby coding can now be ‘hobby startup making’ if I’m willing to complain a lot, or write out the scaffolding and requirements docs. It provides nearly no serotonin boost from getting into flow and delivering something awesome, but it does let me watch YouTube on the side while it codes.

Decisions..
by readthenotes1 | 2025-04-04 16:03:30+00:00
An example of this is the charity roast in NYC in 2024. Trump and Schumer sharing a table laughing cordially....

https://youtu.be/XI0MUoW28VE?feature=shared

As for apple, their serfdom labor practice during Covid was shockingly public

https://www.forbes.com/sites/siladityaray/2025/04/04/trump-a...?

(I call it serfdom labor because people were not allowed freedom of movement without threat of imprisonment.)
by ty6853 | 2025-04-04 16:03:35+00:00
On a per capita adjusted basis UAE/Dubai blows about every other place out the water for number of incoming rich migration (even on absolute basis they are near top). Much easier to get an investor visa, far lower taxes on business income, you can easily import servants and trade duties are miniscule. Everything is available if you are rich because all you must do is fill out some relatively simple paperwork and whoever you want appears.

It looks like in this age for the rich the optimum is something closer to dictator capitalism, as democracies start to embrace more regulation and social redistribution schemes. Singapore and Dubai have been winning choices so long as the people in power don't change their mind and start splitting skulls.
by nonrandomstring | 2025-04-04 16:03:39+00:00
> wants it nnormalized

A psychological device of "blutkit" (blood cement). For example; young Nazi SS officers were recruited via a ritual attrocity like participation in a massacre. After that "we're all in this together" sealed loyalty through a mix of guilt and fear.

The race is on for the Trump administration to elicit the most unforgivable and insane actions in order to sinter those participants into a "death pact".

EDIT: spotted recently posted [0] (Also of course C.R Browning's Ordinary Men [1]) both underline the point that you don't need to recruit intrinsically corrupted people - you can make them,

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43583425

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_R._Browning
by ryanscript01123 | 2025-04-04 16:04:15+00:00
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I'm all sparkles when it comes to full-stack development! I am actively looking for remote full-time or contract work. While that for loop is running, I am deep diving into new tech/AI && full stack projects, such as the Stone King Wiki, Magic: The Gathering Assistant v2, and a touch-focused app similar to what Hans Zimmer uses as the primary console for extending his music composition capabilities.
by slightwinder | 2025-04-04 16:04:20+00:00
> extraction by whom?

The user.

> i have "downloaded my data" before and it never includes any kind of analytic marketing inferences

Because they are not obligated to give them to you. They are probably not even in the same systems.

> and they know i dont live in the EU.

So what? They have the ability, should they revoke it based in the IP? Why? It's a selling point, without any additional price or harm for the company.
by bluGill | 2025-04-04 16:04:40+00:00
What isn't predictable is how long things will last. Many in congress are for free trade and have the ability to stop tariffs in various ways. (tariffs fall under some emergency ruling not a low passed by congress as the constitution requires). There is likely to be more elections in the future with different people in charge with different intents. The question is will the next people in charge also keep tariffs high.
by IndianITGuy | 2025-04-04 16:04:42+00:00
It's just my perspective—limited as it might be. I'm from the US, so my general view aligns with yours. However, everything shifts when I fly into a random UK town. You get these shitty streets that give off “Baltimore, might get stabbed” vibes, with infrastructure in complete shambles, and then you step into a townhouse owned by someone making about what I do—and inside, it's a mini-Saudi royal palace.

I’m no economist, but after working closely with many UK clients, I’ve noticed something: the upper-middle class here may not be flush with current cash flow, but they're sitting on a ridiculous amount of generational wealth that's been safely accumulated over the last 200 years within tight-knit family networks. In my view, the elites have both robust current cash flow and deep generational wealth, while the upper-middle class primarily relies on that generational cushion. They might not be buying Bugattis like the elites, but they're still living extremely luxurious, lavish lifestyles. Anyone without that kind of inherited wealth—unless you hit it big with a million-dollar tech idea—is stuck in the rat race, whether you're working at Starbucks or engineering at a tech firm.

The US seems a bit different. Here, there’s more opportunity to generate enough cash flow within one generation to set up the next with “generational” wealth. In the UK, it takes longer—about 3–4 generations—to build that legacy. But once a family in the UK secures this wealth, it tends to provide a relatively stable, luxurious life for the next 2–3 generations. In the US, while you might build wealth in just one generation, it can just as quickly vanish—sometimes within a single generation or even half one—due to medical debt, mismanagement, or economic swings. It takes a structured effort, clear strategy, and a strong individual family culture to preserve wealth in the US. If it’s not properly secured, that wealth ends up transferring to someone else who is setting up their own cycle of generational prosperity.

I also think the UK’s cultural and systemic setup makes it much harder for wealth to move from family networks at the top down to the working class. Over the past 10 years, globally, more wealth has shifted from the working class to the upper-middle and elite tiers. In the UK, that wealth is now entrenched at the top for the next four generations—even if the flow stops today, it’s going to stay that way for another 50 years or so. In the US, although wealth has also moved upward, there’s a genuine chance for it to “expire” at the top within 5-10 years and start cycling back down to the working class. I think this is the major difference in US economics as opposed to much of the world.

That said, who really knows what will happen given today’s global political climate? Everything’s kind of up in the air right now, and we'll have to see how it all settles over the next few years.
by yieldcrv | 2025-04-04 16:04:44+00:00
all parties are beneficiaries of the institutional structures that allow for a party to do those things

so the things you are bothered by and demand everyone to prioritize are actually solved by addressing the underlying mechanisms, as opposed to simply trying to propagate your preferred party's numbers

something... both sides... might actually be into. if the other party is afraid of the opposition party doing the same thing to different people, then there might actually be overwhelming consensus to change the thing that a "both sides" person is trying to point out
by whalesalad | 2025-04-04 16:05:01+00:00
Hard disagree. In the real world, the source of this app is open and therefore it is open source. You guys are behaving like extremists.

Would you prefer nothing at all? Sounds like in this case everyone here is looking past the golden egg in front of you - a successful rails app you can explore and play with - and focusing entirely on the wrong thing.
by wat10000 | 2025-04-04 16:05:07+00:00
In a free country, private employers should be allowed to choose who they employ, with very narrow exceptions for discrimination based on race, religion, etc.

In a free country, citizens should be allowed to read what other citizens write in public.

Those both seem pretty obvious, but put the two of them together and it means people can lose their jobs or not be hired for stuff they tweet. How do you resolve that?

IMO the real issue isn’t that employers can make decisions based on this stuff. It’s that employers are far too big. If we had 20 Amazons, getting fired from one of them wouldn’t be such a big deal.
by alabastervlog | 2025-04-04 16:05:09+00:00
Oh hey, I spent a really long time watching this debate on CSPAN when I was like 10 or 11! (I was a weird kid)

MFN status seemed like a bad idea to me at the time, and reducing trade with China is something I've supported ever since.

Doing that suddenly, rather than phasing it in, and while also walking back free trade with the entire rest of the world, including the developed world? Um. No? Maybe not that.
by gghhzzgghhzz | 2025-04-04 16:05:19+00:00
> but there's a factor of cant pay the creditors and you just stop

in the UK case then £895 of the debt is owned directly by the bank of England. So in the case of about 1/3rd of the debt the 'creditor' is your own central bank.

The government can of course pay interest on gilts by simply issuing more gilts. It's one of the advantages of running a country, intergeneration debt.

> The total tax burden is probably over 100%

Compared to what? income? capital gains? GDP?

total tax in UK through all taxes is 36.1% of GDP.

Taxes are not high in historical terms. USA for example had much higher tax rates (90% top income tax band) while it was arguably undergoing its phase of highest development.

Roads (and everything) get worse if governments do not invest in roads, or they invest in roads, but have outsourced to multiple layers of contractors who end up extracting a lot of the investment in profit and squeezing of labour costs and not in quality of road building.
by codyb | 2025-04-04 16:05:19+00:00
Was super disappointing to see him up there at the inauguration. E-mailed tim.cook@apple.com and told him as much.

Would cancel my Apple family plan but like my family, instead, bought a refurbished second hand iPhone instead of buying a new one recently.

Will be speaking with my wallet in a variety of ways, along with calling, marching, etc. We start here... let's see where we end up. The moment is _now_.
by jimmaswell | 2025-04-04 16:05:20+00:00
We were close to your viewpoint being the popular one, but sadly many (most?) independent content creators are so overtaken by fear of AI that they've done a 180. The same people who learned by tracing references to sell fanart of a copyrighted franchise (not complaining, I spend thousands on such things) accuse AI of stealing when it glances at their own work. We're entering a new golden age of creative opportunity and they respond by switching sides to the philosophy of intellectual property championed by Disney and Oracle (except for those companies' ironic use of AI themselves..).
by ndegruchy | 2025-04-04 16:05:50+00:00
It's great to see innovation in the Terminal space. It's an interesting problem to tackle, because _so much_ of our interaction with computers (and therefore people and other computers) is done through the medium of text, and so much of our recorded knowledge is in books and other texts. It's hard to take a text-based interface out of the equation.

I, for one, would love to see a more generic, non-TTY text-based interface for systems management. You kind of get it with PowerShell, but then you're also sacrificing text-mangling for objects, which aren't as flexible (to me). And marrying yourself to a system that feels verbose and half-baked on non-Microsoft platforms.

So, for the time being, you can pry the terminal from my cold dead cursor.
by jillesvangurp | 2025-04-04 16:06:06+00:00
> This situation has little-to-nothing to do with the current US administration.

This has everything to do with current policy in the US. Which is creating a lot of uncertainty, rolls back the clock on existing commitments, and creates huge disruption for existing manufacturers. This is a direct response to that and there will be more of it.

The notion that this is somehow going to save the US ICE car industry is misguided IMHO. I believe it will actually speed up it's demise. The domestic US market was already lagging behind international markets. GM and Ford are really struggling in those markets. Tariffs and counter tariffs are going to make that worse. Scaling back investments in technology that would allow them to catch up is not going to help either. It's a sign of weakness, not strength when companies stop investing in the future.

BYD is really crushing it in places like South America, Australia, all over Asia, etc. All markets where GM and Ford have to worry about keeping up. The Australian market is particularly interesting to watch because it's similar in tastes to the US but not crippled by tariffs (aka. taxes). It doesn't have a domestic car industry. Or an oil industry. So, they import what's good and affordable. And BYD and other Chinese manufacturers have a big presence there that is rapidly growing.

What happens inside the US is ultimately going to follow what is happening elsewhere. ICE cars are going the way of the dodo one way or another. It's process that's largely completed in China, well under way in Europe, and starting to happen all over the world now.

EVs aren't expensive anymore. That's a local problem in the US that has more to do with the US and how things (don't) work there than with the technology. You can get very decent ones below 20K now in many places. BYD will sell you EVs below 10K in China. The only thing keeping those off the market in the US is tariffs. The rest of the world is wide open to the Chinese and they are happy to grab market share wherever they can.
by pjc50 | 2025-04-04 16:06:10+00:00
My pet crank proposal for this would be that listed buildings should require somebody from the public to pay to keep them on the list. Nowhere near the full cost, something in the region of £100.

Add a crowdfunding frontend. Put the sponsor's name on the website next to the building. Have a little thing promoting all the unsponsored buildings. Run a lottery which pays back some of the collected fees to privately-held listed building owners to help pay for upkeep.

But if nobody cares enough to reach into their pocket and spend the equivalent of a mildly expensive restaurant dinner on keeping this building listed? Maybe it's not actually important or significant at all. Fewer, better-maintained historic buildings, rather than just having them with the owner quietly waiting for them to burn down so something useful can be built.
by singpolyma3 | 2025-04-04 16:06:19+00:00
Guarantee that all "nonfree open source" is different readings. Take the NASA case. If youu read it as strictly as Stallman does then it violates the OSD also. The people at OSI at the time it was submitted read it more like a lawyer and decided it was compliant. Possibly today's OSI would disagree. Possibly tomorrow's FSF would agree. It's not a difference between free software and open source but a difference between how two sets of humans interpreted the text of the license.
by mindslight | 2025-04-04 16:06:30+00:00
Great! It sounds like we're coming from a similar place. I wouldn't describe myself as "on the left" - more of a general libertarian that sees the merits and flaws in both rightist and leftist thinking. I had never voted for a major party in a national election until 2020, after the Republican party went batshit crazy.

The reason I judge The Twitter Files as a rightist talking point is that it's trying to pigeonhole the motivation for censorship solely onto the government. If an argument is simply about the coercive power wielded by corporations and governments, you don't need a smoking gun of cooperation/direction to tie the two - seeing them as similar organizations with similar top-down motivations suffices. That evidence is only important if you're aiming for reform using the first amendment (an understandable desire, but the wrong tool for the job), or trying to absolve the corpos as mere victims of the de jure government (delusional).
by LuciOfStars | 2025-04-04 16:06:47+00:00
No AI or OCR here, just an idiot with too much free time. After seeing that the AltaBASIC source posted was a scan of paper tape, I thought having it in a digital document proper would be good for preservation and novelty's sake. I've never written Assembly, and I'm not a typography expert! Feel free to point and laugh at any silly mistakes. Let's see how many days it takes!