MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by UncleEntity | 2025-04-06 16:14:18+00:00
Good luck altering the constitution to allow for content based prohibition of speech.

Now, on the other hand, the Supreme Court can also chose to ignore a couple centuries of case law and effect the same goal but that's also less likely than changing the constitution.

Let's take advertising out of it, what are the chances we would even be seriously discussing this issue if TFA was proposing to outlaw an entire religion?
by Bayms | 2025-04-06 16:14:25+00:00
I want web platform and optional browser extension to help users improve their Operational Security (OPSEC) and reduce their digital footprint. The website will feature tools like a self-assessment quiz, practical privacy guides, and a searchable database with links for data removal requests from various companies.

The browser extension will enhance real-time privacy by detecting oversharing in online forms, offering safer alternatives (e.g., email aliases), and flagging sites with aggressive tracking or poor data deletion policies. The goal is to create an accessible, user-friendly tool that empowers individuals to manage their digital privacy, supported by research into user behavior, OPSEC practices, and privacy regulations like GDPR and CCPA.

If interested please fill out my survey takes 2mins.
by ModernMech | 2025-04-06 16:14:35+00:00
What poisons the idea among engineers is not that Musk came up with it (he didn't), but that he can't justify it using the language we speak, either by theory or by practice. Instead what we get from him is marketing, stunts, keynotes, sleights of hand, bravado, exaggerations, unfulfilled promises, premature rollouts of untested tech... the man is an anti-engineer, it's hard to trust him.

What made cars successful at the DUC was omnidirectional 3D distances to everything around you provided by the Velodyne LiDAR. So if we have a way to get that kind of data without a LiDAR, that would be fine.

Moreover, what a LIDAR gives you is an honest-to-god measurement. This whole idea of using deep learning to get range data from camera data is not measuring anything, it's making an inference. Which is why it's fooled by a looney tunes wall.

And like I said, we lack any inference engine that is better than the human brain. So betting your entire strategy on an inference engine that doesn't exist, bucking industry practice and the consensus of the engineering community, gets the following results:

- The NHTSA’s self-driving crash data reveals that Tesla’s self-driving technology is, by far, the most dangerous for motorcyclists, with five fatal crashes that we know of. - This issue is unique to Tesla. Other self-driving manufacturers have logged zero motorcycle fatalities in the same time frame. - The crashes are overwhelmingly Teslas rear-ending motorcyclists.

If this problem is unique to Tesla, and Tesla is unique in relying solely on optical sensory input, then we can conclude relying solely on optical sensory input is bad. Nothing to do with the fact that Musk is the champion.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-06 16:14:39+00:00
Is anyone expecting tariffs to improve global competitive advantage?

Tariffs may work towards an isolationist goal of producing and consuming our own goods. Tariffs are an attempt to unwind globalization though and disconnect our markets from the rest of the world.

Whether it makes us more competitive globally is really a non-goal. It could happen if our resources, labor, and manufacturing costs are lower than other countries but that's extremely complex to predict even if you wanted to try.
by ljm | 2025-04-06 16:14:42+00:00
One of the pet projects I have going is to try and store the interactions as a roam-style knowledge base of connected thought, with the idea that you could browse through this second brain you’ve been talking to afterwards.

Almost every time I’ve asked an LLM to help implement something I’ve given it various clarifying questions so I understand why, and digging through linear UI threads isn’t great.

A decent o11y or instrumentation layer is pretty important to do anything like that well.
by smt88 | 2025-04-06 16:15:15+00:00
> People - like the author of this article - claim they want stability. But, I’m here to tell you that what they buy is change.

You work in enterprise software sales and you think people buy change? That is bizarre and shocking. Enterprise software sales is nearly 100% conversations with people who refuse to make massive improvements in their own QoL (and bottom line) because they loathe change so much.

In fact, I've built multiple E2E businesses that succeeded in difficult industries because we promised no change (to people's work processes) while still improving their software behind the scenes.

What an absolutely bizarre conclusion. You seem to be a victim of confirmation bias, where you aren't considering the 99% of corporations who aren't even taking your pitch, let alone buying your product.

But back to the article...

Most people hate change, but the ones who do like it don't like changes where things become worse. Car door handles were perfect and have become significantly worse.
by kashunstva | 2025-04-06 16:15:18+00:00
> particularly when economics isn’t even invoked in the discussion…

I think the Professor Cowen fancies himself in the way of the “public intellectual,” so that he takes the liberty to write on a range of topics outside the domain of his academic focus. He does seem extraordinarily well-read; and in many topics he writes about, I have no way of judging his contribution to those fields. While I occasionally read MR, it strikes me as quite technocratic in the way that most libertarian writing is; and this sort of socioeconomic analysis detached from human values of empathy and concern for the wellbeing of the collective isn’t appealing to me personally. But I’m sure it fills an important niche.
by Symmetry | 2025-04-06 16:15:58+00:00
And, then in theory, restoring the thread when the requested registers become available. But is the spilling/restoring registers hardware something that would see much other use? In some code hardware accelerated stack management can be a real advantage. In other code its just not flexible enough to make sense. And in some function calls are rare enough to make it not worth the investment. I sort of expect that more code running on a GPU is in the third category but I could image that I'm wrong and that it would be in the first. But if not the investment in those mechanisms might not be worth it.
by readthenotes1 | 2025-04-06 16:16:19+00:00
Tariffs were supposed to be approved by the Senate (Article 1 section 8, Article 2 section 2), but Trump is using "emergency powers"

With so much of American goods coming from China, it's kind of hard to see how the US could win a war with them without, for example, improved domestic production of bandages

https://natlawreview.com/article/can-president-impose-tariff...

https://www.globaltrademag.com/adhesive-bandage-import-in-un...
by poincaredisk | 2025-04-06 16:16:31+00:00
Have you ever been in the US? The roads there are huge. Road lanes are huge. Cars are huge. Crossroads are huge. Parking spots are extremely large. European roads are fine, but they are way more narrow and tuned for smaller vehicles. It's easier to drive with a smaller car (or "normal sized" for you).

Also in Europe in the west we have narrow or paved historical roads, and in the east we have many poor quality roads. In both cases smaller (non-huge) car is beneficial.
by tcoff91 | 2025-04-06 16:16:39+00:00
For those who are into ebooks and audiobooks, I’ve been having a blast with the app Storyteller: https://storyteller-platform.gitlab.io/storyteller/

You can self host the server, and it will create epub3s with the audiobook and ebook synced up.

Then you use the mobile app to listen and read the books. It works way better than whispersync from kindle.

Read on your boox e reader then switch to your phone and listen and everything syncs up seamlessly.
by siez18 | 2025-04-06 16:17:03+00:00
Games and HTML.

I loved playing computer games when I was young, and in school, they were also teaching us HTML to make cool webpages. I was naturally curious so I started learning things on my own by reading computer books.

In parallel I loved gaming so much I wanted to make my own games. I started making small stuff on flash after reading online and learned a little bit of ActionScript.

That made me realize that coding is really hard to learn on my own (for my dumb brain) so I thought to check my local computer institutes for basic courses. Found a small coaching center. Instead of coding, they convinced me that I needed to learn hardware first and impressed a teenage kid by showing simple tricks like breaking windows password, upgrading hardware, etc.

So I did that course for 6 months and to my surprise I enjoyed it as well and learned a lot on my own too. Finally, I started building computers for a living and started a small home-computer repair venture with my friend (during college).
by OutOfHere | 2025-04-06 16:17:17+00:00
People can have latent TB, which causes no symptoms and is not contagious. If it reactivates, it can cause permanent damage to the lungs and/or other areas such as the bones, joints, kidneys, and brain. Diagnosis and treatment are important just the same. Lazy doctors can miss out on testing for TB when the lungs appear clear, with symptoms present in just the lymph nodes, bones, joints, kidneys, or brain, indicating possible extrapulmonary TB.
by yencabulator | 2025-04-06 16:17:30+00:00
That's just like, your opinion, man.

> 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.

To some of us, patterns are interesting because they behave in interesting ways, not because they can be used to make a To-Do list app. Why the hell do you think people get into mathematics?
by WorldPeas | 2025-04-06 16:17:41+00:00
God what a world it’d be if we could finally switch video to sdi/dp over usb-c. I’ve had hate for the overly complicated hdmi cable for so long and at this point wonder why it even sticks around, the usb-c type connector is so cheap it can be made with a board edge, can achieve great throughput and is more or less ubiquitous. Why are we still using a directional plug that usually requires a dongle, has poorly understood power/data delivery standards and the worst “micro” connector I’ve ever had to use(broke 2 cables even though the second was taped in place to prevent the breakage)

https://videocardz.com/newz/chinas-general-purpose-media-int...
by dguest | 2025-04-06 16:18:38+00:00
CERN (also in CH) made a half-effort to switch away from MS a few years ago. MS had started charging them a crazy amount of money. They got a few people working on it and even switched a few of the back end services. And actually the open source stuff worked amazingly well!

Then like a year later they doubled down on MS products (right after a new IT head came in). The IT people I spoke to had no idea why this happened but no one seemed to think going back to MS was a good idea.

Discussed more here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41717607
by contact9879 | 2025-04-06 16:18:41+00:00
it varies widely depending on the length and type of book and how much free time the volunteer has to devote to it

Anywhere between 1 week for the simplest (straight narrative, not too much verse or endnotes) and ~1 year (thousands of endnotes, pages of verse, drama, in-line references to book titles, use of technical terms, etc)
by crote | 2025-04-06 16:18:43+00:00
There is a huge difference between measuring the distance to a single target a few miles away, and measuring the distance to dozens of moving, accelerating, and overlapping objects in close proximity to each other and to the reference point.

Besides, rangefinding optics weren't exactly amazing in the 1940s either. It's why the introduction of radar made such a massive difference in naval warfare.
by cpeterson42 | 2025-04-06 16:18:47+00:00
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by kgwgk | 2025-04-06 16:18:51+00:00
https://www.reuters.com/markets/what-direction-will-trade-wa...

> Beijing has previously said it won't go down the FX depreciation road, preferring to keep the yuan relatively "stable". But that was before Trump's self-styled "Liberation Day". Beijing's first response might be to try and negotiate with Washington to get the tariffs lowered. But if that fails, FX devaluation becomes a real option to offset the shock.

They didn't take the negotiation route. We'll see what's next.
by whatever1 | 2025-04-06 16:19:45+00:00
Far from expert in the field, but assuming that gravity is acts in a 3+ND and we observe it in our 3D world, shouldn't we observe weird peculiarities with it rather that just its amplitude?

Think that you live on a line, and you see projections of a 2d object doing circles on top of you. You would see the shade moving and changing sizes in a non-explainable manner to you.
by bee_rider | 2025-04-06 16:19:47+00:00
There are cases where cars do need to move.

* train tracks as mentioned by another comment

* getting out of the way of emergency vehicles or following instructions from emergency workers

I don’t think this detracts from the overall point—if the uptime is very good then the times when LiDAR doesn’t work and the car needs to move might practically never happen. Or the car might be able to move forward to a safe position in some limp-along mode.

WRT “this is an emergency drive to a hospital without LiDAR,” I think that would be pretty bad to include. What exactly qualifies as an emergency (this will be abused by some users)? And anyway, in most cases it is better to have an ambulance for an emergency. Finally, an emergency on my part doesn’t entitle me to endanger society. Rather, the types of behavior that the car can perform without all the sensors should be kept track of. If the car can limp along without LiDAR, then that’s something it can do (with the caveat that some roads are not safe to drive far under the speed limit on).
by senkora | 2025-04-06 16:20:03+00:00
I see a lot of people saying that this isn't statistically significant. I think that that is probably true, but I also think that it is important to do the statistical test to make sure:

tesla.mult = c(1/(5:2),1:5) data.frame(tesla.mult = tesla.mult, p.value = sapply(tesla.mult, (function(tesla.mult) { poisson.test(c(5, 0), c(tesla.mult, 1))$p.value }))) tesla.mult p.value 1 0.2000000 0.0001286008 2 0.2500000 0.0003200000 3 0.3333333 0.0009765625 4 0.5000000 0.0041152263 5 1.0000000 0.0625000000 6 2.0000000 0.1769547325 7 3.0000000 0.3408203125 8 4.0000000 0.5904000000 9 5.0000000 1.0000000000

tesla.mult is how many times more total miles Teslas have driven with level-2 ADAS engaged compared to all other makers. We don't have data for what that number should be because automakers are not required to report it. I think that it is probably somewhere between 1/5 and 5. If you believe that the number is more than 1, then the result is not statistically significant.
by ktrask | 2025-04-06 16:20:10+00:00
Yes, exactly. That is why we think the extra dimensions might be small, und the inverse square law is only violated at and below the size of the extra dimensions. This is also why we are using the Yukawa Potential to constrain that possibility, because it has a length scale and a strength of a potential deviation from the inverse square law. See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_force
by pydry | 2025-04-06 16:20:48+00:00
He is part of the Koch network: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center

Their money is probably a large reason his content gets well promoted.

The Kochs got into politics in the 1980s because of a series of fights with the EPA whom they thought were getting in the way of their chemical company's right to pollute. If you've ever heard a morality play written about hairdresser licensing and why it means Regulation is Bad - that was them, and it leaks on to hacker news sometimes. E.g.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42982578

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31765644

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31382755

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18798111

They also really like using their money to bludgeon American economics departments into teaching economics the way they "like" it: http://bridgeproject.com/research/koch-impacts-florida/koch-...
by Agraillo | 2025-04-06 16:21:03+00:00
Good point. On the Daily podcast (NYT) Goldberg was asked what was in the chat after the strikes. He said a plenty of different emojis. Goldberg's reaction was also interesting, he thought at the moment that every workplace is the same. Personally I'd expect some serious mood and attitude when there are so much at stake including people lives, but humans are humans
by shw1n | 2025-04-06 16:21:21+00:00
Neopets, created an account around 2nd grade.

Eventually learned HTML to spruce up my profile.

Then discovered running a “mall” to earn Neopoints and so I handcrafted a banner in MS Paint and manually mapped pixels for turning it into a link map

Then had my neopoints stolen by a fake website, tried to recreate fake website for myself, leading to… CTFs, hacking & cybersecurity
by usrusr | 2025-04-06 16:22:43+00:00
It's a terrible thing to happen to a person. Language that minimizes negativity has great value when talking about (or with) persons in the post accident state. But here in this context, where we are talking about the event, in the abstract. That same minimization of negativity would only serve those willing to trade other people's safety for personal convenience. 1930s-esque language by the way excelled at glossing over horrors.
by smallmancontrov | 2025-04-06 16:23:04+00:00
https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-orde...

The numbers include all incidents where self-driving was active within 30 seconds of the crash, because of course they do. The meme that Tesla is allowed to simply bypass reporting on a technicality would be absurd if it weren't so voraciously spread by post-truth luddites. Look, if you want to dunk on Elon, I get it, but he does so many real shitty things that I would ask you to focus on those and not make shit up.
by jabl | 2025-04-06 16:23:21+00:00
If anything, economies of scale are a powerful argument for free trade.

Say, we can have a single company in Taiwan running insanely capital intensive chip factories making chips for the entire world.

One downside of this being resiliency; what happens to the global electronics supply chain if China one day decides to invade Taiwan? Something not taken into account in typical economic models.

For similar reasons developed countries still try to have things like domestic agriculture, despite that being a low value add industry where poorer countries might have a large comparative advantage in a hypothetical free trade scenario.
by pmags | 2025-04-06 16:24:09+00:00
We seem to have reached the maximum thread depth, which is probably a strong hint to us to end this discussion. We're way off topic anyhow as this thread is about the impact of current US tariffs.

But to your last comment, post-Brexit the UK is pretty significantly under-performing the rest of the G7 in terms of goods trades (prior to Brexit the UK seemed to mirror the G7 average).

https://obr.uk/box/how-are-our-brexit-trade-forecast-assumpt...

Interestingly, in terms of Services trade the UK seems to be slightly over-performing.
by HideousKojima | 2025-04-06 16:24:12+00:00
Ah yes, Paul "Inflation has slowed down (but not reversed) if you ignore all the things people actually need to live" Krugman. That man is a dishonest, partisan hack and if he said the sky was blue I'd go outside to make sure:

https://x.com/paulkrugman/status/1712494317024026761
by toast0 | 2025-04-06 16:24:23+00:00
Tariffs aren't necessarily bad. They can be a pretty effective tool to support local industries, or otherwise discourage imports. Or as a retalitory tool to negotiate with.

But blanket tariffs against the whole world seems unhinged. Many of the products and materials we import have no domestic sources or limited domestic sourced that are not expandable. The us won't be able to grow domestic coffee to meet the domestic demand. Tariffing coffee import is just going to make morning routines slightly more expensive for many americans.

There was a lot less pushback for specific industry tariffs or specific country tariffs during the last Trump administration. Steel tariffs and the trade war with China weren't necessarily liked by all, especially in the specifics, but tariff all the imports is terrible.
by drzaiusx11 | 2025-04-06 16:24:26+00:00
if my post above resonates with you, i can say from personal experience that inaction and carrying on the status quo (continual masking, enduring the “pain”, etc) inevitably leads to burnout and possible further mental and physical health complications. Please don’t just “tough it out”, you won’t like the end results. It takes a toll on you physically and mentally that can take months or years to recover from (if you ever do)
by snovymgodym | 2025-04-06 16:25:55+00:00
Late 2027 or 2028 most likely. MacOS version lifespan is about 3 years give or take so we'll have a better idea once they announce whether or not MacOS 16 (Sequoia's successor) will support Intel Macs.

I have a hunch we'll get one more MacOS version with Intel support since they were still making Mac Minis and Pros with Intel chips in the first half of 2023.
by wpm | 2025-04-06 16:26:02+00:00
Jobs initially did not want to come back to Apple. Apple bought NeXTSTEP because between it and BeOS, Jean-Louis Gassee overplayed his hand and was asking way too much money for the acquisition. Apple then defaulted to NeXT. Jobs thought Apple was hopeless just like everyone else did at the time and didn't want to take over a doomed company to steer it into the abyss, and it's not like NeXT was doing great at the time.

>There wouldn't have been any downsides for them

Really? NO downsides???

- throwing away a decade and a half of work and engineering experience (Avie Tevanian helped write Mach, this is like having Linus being your chief of software development and saying "just switch to Hurd!")

- uncertain licensing (Apple still ships ancient bash 3.2 because of GPL)

- increased development time to a shipping, modern OS (it already took them 5 years to ship 10.0, and it was rough)

That's just off the top of my head. I believe you think there wouldn't have been any downsides because you didn't stop to think of any, or are ideaologically disposed to present the Linux kernel in 1996 as being better or safer than XNU.
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-06 16:26:58+00:00
LiMux always gets mentioned in such topics... it's an interesting story and as I've actually worked there early in my career I've written a few times about what the actual issues were and why it failed - you might read through [1].

tl;dr: LiMux didn't just fail due to politics (although politics did play a large role and I will forever dislike Dieter Reiter for a multitude of reasons, LiMux being among them), it was set up for failure from the beginning, mostly budget related.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
by kps | 2025-04-06 16:27:05+00:00
Piggybacking: for computers, what is a good epub viewer?

What I'm personally looking for:

- Linux and/or OS X

- No ‘import’ requirement (a viewer, not a collection manager)

- Single page or continuous (no forced double spread)

- No required animations

- At least basic control over font size, spacing, margins.

- Keyboard navigation (at least next/previous page)