MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by anilgulecha | 2025-04-03 16:54:46+00:00
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by khedoros1 | 2025-04-03 16:55:01+00:00
Looking at my desk right now, I have a device that uses USB-C (a Pixel 6A smartphone), one that uses micro-USB (a Surefire Sidekick flashlight), and one that uses mini-USB (a Sandisk Sansa Clip+ audio player). I have too many older pieces of kit around to think about slimming down the variety of cables I keep.
by MPSFounder | 2025-04-03 16:55:23+00:00
The issue is many are not trespassers. This is the equivalent of a guest in your house. They have paperwork and are working jobs, are legal residents and PhD students. The guest opposes a political policy you like. Instead of ending it in a reasonable fashion and showing them out sensibly, you call your son, a boxer and drug addict, to show up, handcuff them and take them somewhere. I never elected Rubio to decide on such things, and people that defend such decisions make me very uneasy.
by marcuskane2 | 2025-04-03 16:55:41+00:00
I think you wrote this to be snarky, but it's just literally true.

You are allowed to read books from the library and remember what they say, and use that information to inform your own future writing or speaking or actions.

You are allowed to listen to copyrighted music and learn from it. You can even play songs from The Beatles or Metallica in your garage as training.

You absolutely do have the right to "train your brain" on copyrighted material. Copyright restricts who is allowed to publish the work, not who is allowed to consume it.
by ashoeafoot | 2025-04-03 16:55:50+00:00
Is there a way to filter out sycophants on this board? The bard singing praise to the nobles, court and king does nothing for me. The insane rants of the dead are more interesting and (occasionally ) of more value.

If i wanted to listen to FOREVER LOYAL NO MATTER HOW POWERMAD the KING middle management why would you go on a board of entrepreneurs ? ChatGpt play me out here:

Oh list, good folk, and hear my lay, Of one who leads both night and day! With wisdom keen and vision bold, He turns all stocks and shares to gold.

Chorus Hail, O Chief, in office high! None shall match thee, none defy! We toil with joy, we strive with glee, All for the realm of thy company!

Verse 2 From boardroom halls to factory ground, Thy mighty voice doth loud resound! With memos sharp and ledgers true, Thou guid’st us all, both old and new!

Chorus Hail, O Chief, in office high! None shall match thee, none defy! We toil with joy, we strive with glee, All for the realm of thy company!
by robin_reala | 2025-04-03 16:55:52+00:00
17 months. But in what sense isn’t this a genuine peice of music? It certainly meets Merriam-Webster’s definition:

a: vocal, instrumental, or mechanical sounds having rhythm, melody, or harmony

b: the science or art of ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination, and in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity and continuity
by light_triad | 2025-04-03 16:56:02+00:00
This is key: computation is about making things happen. Coding with an LLM adds a level of abstraction but the need for precision and correctness of the "things that happen" doesn't go away. No matter how many cool demos and "coding is dead" pronouncements because AI - and the demos are very cool - the bulk of the work moves to the pre- and post-processing and evals with AI. To the extent that it makes programming more accessible it's a good thing, but can't really replace it.
by SXX | 2025-04-03 16:56:08+00:00
I'm game developer, co-founder of my own company and I hate Valve 30% cut.

Yet Valve did nothing to stiffle competition. Their only major requirement for games published on Steam was that games suppose to get same efficient discounts as they get on other storefronts. E.g you cannot constantly sell your game on Epic Games store for $10 while Steam version cost never drops below $12.

Also game developers are allowed to request sane amount of Steam keys for free and sell them elsewhere while pocketing all the profit while Valve covers all the distribution costs.

Epic Games stiffled itself. Their store is shitty and dont even have player reviews. No surprise they have no customers except those who come to play Fortnite or get free games.
by 6510 | 2025-04-03 16:56:23+00:00
Yours is the first comment that suggests you read the article. At least kinda? Not sure anymore.

US banks create, though lending, 10.7 Trillion per year. If money creation though lending was shut down entirely it would work out to something like 3500 per person per month. You would have the same amount of money in circulation.

Rather than trickle down though clogged tubes it would stimulate spending directly. The economy would then greatly favor companies that do things that are useful to citizens.

Lowering interest rates might stimulate some part but I've never seen it affect my paycheck directly. If the measures don't influence peoples salaries their purchase power doesn't change much and the measures have little effect on that part of the economy that is relevant to citizens. You might improve the economy, if you don't improve quality of life simultaneously the economy increasingly becomes something unrelated to human life - which is bad.
by ggpsv | 2025-04-03 16:56:38+00:00
To add a data point here, my Framework laptop is 3 years old and I have no plans to change the mainboard anytime soon.

Also, you don't change its motherboard, you change the mainboard (for my laptop, it's the CPU/integrated GPU + memory sockets); this is unlike changing the entire computer. Then, you can reuse the replaced mainboard as a server if you wish to.

This pales with my experience using a Macbook Air whose motherboard failed. I did have to replace the entire computer.
by izend | 2025-04-03 16:56:40+00:00
In CBO’s projections, the federal budget deficit in fiscal year 2025 is $1.9 trillion. Adjusted to exclude the effects of shifts in the timing of certain payments, the deficit grows to $2.7 trillion by 2035. It amounts to 6.2 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2025 and drops to 5.2 percent by 2027 as revenues increase faster than outlays

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60870

IMO, 5%+ percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in a country with massive trade deficits is not sustainable.
by nateglims | 2025-04-03 16:56:58+00:00
I might be misremembering, but I seem to recall people extolling the virtues of ISAs when Lambda School adopted them. Then the reputation sort of died off when it turned out they were doing some pretty predatory things. All of that aside however, are bootcamps doing well? There seems to be not enough job openings in software to sustain traditional college graduates right now.
by megaman821 | 2025-04-03 16:56:58+00:00
That is not what progressive means. The US doesn't have the highest marginal tax rate but a greater share of taxes are paid by high-income earners than others on a per dollar basis.

Raising rates on soley the rich will make the tax system even more progressive but will probably not make public service much more generous. Raising the tax rates on everyone would probably make the tax system less progressive but might actually fund a large increase in public spending.
Tell HN: Pocket (acquired by Moz) only works with FF now
by anon6362 | 2025-04-03 16:57:01+00:00
They've pulled their browser extensions and integrations except for Firefox. The definition of blatant enshitification and anti-competitive. Moz needs to be held accountable by the EU for this kind of crap.

Dead links:

- https://getpocket.com/apps/link/pocket-chrome?s=ADD_PAGE&ep=1

- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/save-to-pocket/niloccemoadcdkdjlinkgdfekeahmflj
by LeFantome | 2025-04-03 16:57:22+00:00
Video editing and animation already require modern kit. And AI is adding significant processing requirements. We are not off the treadmill yet.

I say this as somebody the regularly uses laptops as old as 2009 (like, I will spend most of today on one). A lot of real-world, everyday computing barely taxes modern hardware on a decent OS like Linux. Old hardware will let you do a lot more than people think.
by LinuxAmbulance | 2025-04-03 16:57:27+00:00
People aren't good at defining problems when it comes to political views because - as far as I can tell - nearly everyone has zero interest in actually solving the issue, or putting in work to do so.

They want someone else to do the hard work and play Monday morning quarterback. To extend the sportsball metaphor, the football team is doing the actual work and they're just spectators rooting for their team.

No one wants to do work without being compensated, and virtually no one is being compensated to actually solve these problems. Politicians are there to get re-elected first and anything else second. Charitable organizations pay little to nothing, and get the kind of personnel that are OK with that.

At this point, there's so much tribalism wrapped around policy issues that it might be impossible to get anyone to try to objectively solve the issue. And all too often, there is no viable way to A/B test the solution and people have to hope that their solution works best, which is... Not a great way to get great results.
by darawk | 2025-04-03 16:57:40+00:00
Yes, they are badly implemented, I agree. He is calling them reciprocal tariffs though, which implies he will lower them as they lower theirs. I don't think he's chosen a good way of estimating theirs, and so I don't think it's a particularly good policy, but reciprocal tariffs in principle are a good idea.

Even though his first pass crude approximation is stupid, it's really how other countries react, and how he reacts to them that will determine whether they behave like reciprocal tariffs or not.

There is a baked-in plan to test if they're going to work: they are formulaic, based on the trade deficit. Supposing that deficit falls, they will automaticlaly readjust downwards. I don't think the trade deficit (particularly restricted to goods, as they did it) is a good proxy for that, but it's also not completely untethered from reality.
by csdvrx | 2025-04-03 16:58:09+00:00
Get 2 VPS, put your DNS on both (ns1, ns2), use low TTL values, use geolocalization or a rough rule of thumb to have each redirect traffic to the VPS the closest to your client or with the least load

Finally, make each VPS check on the health of the other to stop its DNS pointing to the other VPS: you will already have to have them check on eachother for the load checks.

It's a fun and practical exercise (you may have to write your own DNS servers), after which you can then think on how to do that for more than 2 VPS and the algorithms it entails
by rightbyte | 2025-04-03 16:58:12+00:00
"Aside from its many other flaws, post-70s neoliberalism added a bizarre abstraction layer of economic delusion over everything. This suppressed the core truths of physical reality, common sense, and the basic social requirement of sane reciprocal relationships, and did its best to make consequences as indirect and deniable as possible."

I think I need to print that out and put on the wall. However, did you live through it youself? I think it it hard to evaluate stuff like this with 2nd hand experience only.
by astennumero | 2025-04-03 16:58:14+00:00
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by MostlyStable | 2025-04-03 16:58:32+00:00
I'd much rather a partnership than an acquisition. Valve is great, but open, repairable hardware is not their core mission. I think Framework needs to stay independent to maintain that.

But also, Valve is doing a decent job of it on their own already, with the steamdeck being quite repairable and upgradeable, especially in comparison to the competition. I'd rather there be a greater number of companies all independently demonstrating that repairable hardware can be a commercial success rather than the market takeaway being "oh that's just that weird Framework thing, it won't work for us".
by MPSFounder | 2025-04-03 16:59:11+00:00
They might have been citizens. He is a well-known liar. It most certainly is the op-ed. I know for a fact the Adelsons made contributions to the campaign for this single issue (they are fanatically Jewish and donate to Israel exorbitant amounts out of religiosity). The irony is they made their fortunes in gambling... Due process would have our gov lay out explicitly why she and others were arrested, but Thugs will behave as thugs until a bigger bully comes around
by rebeccaskinner | 2025-04-03 16:59:16+00:00
For all of the author's bloviating and self-congratulating navel gazing, the article manages to largely overlook values, the only mention of them being to dismissively reduce them to irrational tribalism.

In truth, values and ethics are fundamental to effectively discussing politics. After all, all political decisions are ultimately about how we want to shape the world that we as humans live in. There can be no agreement about economic policy without a shared understanding of the ultimate goal of an economy. No agreement about foreign relations without a shared understanding of the role of nations as representatives for groups of humans, and how we believe one group of humans should interact with another group of humans through the lens of nations.

For the last 20 years at least, the leadership of the two main political parties in the US have largely invested in messaging around the values that they represent. The policies are different too, but over time we've gone from a world where there were at least some cases where the two parties had different policies for how to reach the same goals, and into a world where the parties policies are aiming to realize fundamentally different visions of the world, based on fundamentally different values.

In this world, asking "who did you vote for" isn't a matter of tribalism, but it is a (good) proxy for asking someone "what are your values". If you discover that someone has completely different values from you, then discussing policy isn't going to be useful anyway, because there's no way you'll agree on a single policy when you have different fundamental values.
Show HN: Language Learning with Comics
by vincelt | 2025-04-03 16:59:33+00:00
Hey friends,

I'm currently learning Mandarin and was looking for a way to practice my reading that I'd be looking forward to do every day. Graded readers are quickly boring, and normal books are way too far up for my level.

Comics and webtoons are the perfect format: fun, conversational style, contains slang. But unfortunately are not compatible with traditional language learning apps (linq, language reactor, migaku, etc.) and manually looking up text disrupts the reading a lot.

So I made a little Chrome extension that runs OCR on the comics, translates them, and overlays popups on top of the speech bubbles to easily read them.

I also made a version that runs in the Kindle browser, by building a very optimized/limited webpage that doesn't crash the very-limited Kindle browser.

Maybe it can be useful to some here :)
by regularization | 2025-04-03 16:59:38+00:00
> The cost of servicing this debt — paying interest rather than reducing principal — is already a major budget item, surpassing Medicare, approaching Defense and Social Security levels.

Military ("defense") expenditures are always understated. Over $180 billion in veteran's benefits were paid last year. This is not counted as military expenditures. Also the debt you talk about is to not only pay for the money sent to Israel and the Ukraine last year, but still for the adventures in Afghanistan, Iraq etc. That just becomes generic debt in the skewed analysis, alienated from its past military adventures. The military budget is higher than stated.
by treis | 2025-04-03 16:59:43+00:00
It's impossible for both things to be true. For the dollar to be the reserve currency countries need to accumulate dollars. They can't do that unless more dollars leave the US than come back.

The problem is that countries don't just take the dollars and sit on them. We're on the third iteration of solving this intractable problem:

Try 1 was gold. The US was running out of gold and Nixon had to end redemption of dollars for gold.

Try 2 was assets (think the Japanese buying everything in the 80s). That was unpopular and the Plaza Accords put an end to it with significant damage to the Japanese economy

Try 3 is government debt. But it's the same fundamental problem. The US isn't ever willingly going to give back assets for this debt. Everyone agrees with the polite fiction that the US will and so things are fine. But if they ever expect actual stuff for that debt it will all break down again.
by BergAndCo | 2025-04-03 16:59:43+00:00
Here are a few shadowbanned users I saw in a /single/ thread (who don't know they're shadowbanned as they prolifically comment away), whose comments are pretty normie-tier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=oldpersonintx https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=tomohawk https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=techright75

(There seems to be extreme bias or unfair flagging by users simply because "old Texan" and "techright" are "scary Conservative-sounding usernames", yet you pursue the innocents being reported rather than the botfarms mass-flagging?)

It's all very "Everyone Stalin's sending to the gulags is a criminal, though, so keep your nose down and mind your own business." God sees everything, you know.
by dismalaf | 2025-04-03 16:59:47+00:00
You can't look at this move as something in isolation. Trump has also completely flipped geopolitics on their head.

Here's other things he's done:

- Threatened Canada

- Threatened Greenland/Denmark

- Supported Russia (it's obvious)

- Told NATO allies export F-35s will be nerfed just in case we come into conflict

Americans are already very insular, I don't think you all realise just how much you've pissed off Europe and Canada (I live in both places throughout the year, family in both)...

American multinationals have benefited greatly from trade with other countries... Look around the world: iPhones and Apple products everywhere, Windows computers, Google dominates search, the USA is a top travel destination, American weapons are used by most allies, etc...

Right now in Canada and European countries we're talking about completely cutting out all US trade and travel. Like all of it. It won't be policy but the US has completely destroyed all goodwill and cultural influence it has across the "West".

Because of immense hatred of Russia, China is now the "lesser evil" and pretty much all developed countries will band together. And not only will countries move on from US hegemony, they'll accept any pain that comes with it because Russia is threatening Europe and the USA is threatening their neighbours. Without the geopolitical aspect, the US might have won this trade war. But no one is going to bow to the US to then get sold out and conquered by Russia...
by pixl97 | 2025-04-03 17:00:13+00:00
I'm going to assume you're a man and probably have a little less experience here than the average woman does.

This said, I am a man too, but a large part of my career was supporting lawyers and court systems, including family court systems.

Choosing the wrong partner is one of the biggest risks you take in your life, especially for a woman. This is one of those things that can easily lead to you being bankrupt with nothing. This can lead to you being abused or raped. You can end up with a child that you did not want to have. You can end up dead.

With states pushing to revoke things like no fault divorce (and women being the primary initiators of divorce) it's not hard see the traps women lived in the past coming back.

Then add the strongly religious connotations marriage has in the US and you quickly see why this is a rollercoaster that emotions and politics are not going to be removed from.
by shaftway | 2025-04-03 17:00:14+00:00
This is how SVG and most other drawing programs are implemented under the hood.

Down at the lowest level the engine can only really do straight lines. You may ask for a circle or a bezier, but the engine only approximates this with enough fidelity that you wouldn't notice the flaws. Beziers end up being approximated as a bunch of tiny line segments. Circles and ellipses can be approximated pretty easily as a handful of beziers.

Beziers are particularly useful because they have some handy properties. You don't need to do any trig to calculate them (like you do for arcs). They're extremely simple to compute, and any bezier curve can be split into two smaller bezier curves. That last fact makes it easier to have varying fidelity along the curve.

Source: was on the original SVG Working Group team @ Adobe.
by FredPret | 2025-04-03 17:00:26+00:00
True but that mechanism is indirect at best. Usually high interest rates discourages more borrowing and lowers spending that way.

But in this case the price increase is already due to the government putting its thumb on the scale. The best way to reduce the price is not via the Rube Goldberg interest rate mechanism to shrink spending and thus demand for the $60 shoe, but by removing the tariff and make it a $30 shoe immediately.
by darawk | 2025-04-03 17:01:07+00:00
This has been a cornerstone of his campaigns since the beginning. I don't necessarily believe they understand the details, but I do believe they understood he would impose high tariffs, and still voted for him anyway. Tariffs weren't a throwaway line, or something. He repeated it everywhere he could.

I think it is true that most people don't understand the economic principles of tariffs, including most economists. But I do think the plan he's implemented largely comports with what he's consistently said he would do.