MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Spooky23 | 2025-04-12 16:22:21+00:00
I think EU will be fine, it really depends on how much the US cares about advancing Russian interests.

Long game, the UK may transform into being a sort of vassal of the US, assuming it survives as an entity. The EU interest may align more with China. If the US is de-empathizing NATO, they need a counterweight to the Russia/US axis.

It's the end of pax americana, and the future is more uncertain.
by Alupis | 2025-04-12 16:22:46+00:00
Intent does matter if you want to classify things as lies.

If someone told you it's Thursday when it's really Wednesday, we would not necessary say they lied. We would say they were mistaken, if the intent was to tell you the correct day of the week. If they intended to mislead you, then we would say they lied.

So intent does matter. AI isn't lying, it intends to provide you with accurate information.
by hakfoo | 2025-04-12 16:23:02+00:00
Where I am in the US, it seems like there are two endgames for the "anchor" of a strip mall.

Typically this starts as a grocery store, but sometimes it will be some other larger retailer that collapsed (see Bed, Bath and Beyond or now Jo-Ann Fabrics)

They either become a Goodwill or they become a gym.

It's interesting that they are almost never subdivided-- they'd rather have a single 2000 square metre shop, presumably paying a concession "better than leaving it empty" rent, than to modify the layout of the building to open it up as two or four smaller shops.
by iambateman | 2025-04-12 16:23:24+00:00
I agree with every point here but I think we’re talking about different things.

Brain drain from the US will be a dispersion that will hurt America but not meaningfully help any single country directly. At least in the short term.

But China has a lot to gain from a weakened America simply by being the best positioned, most aggressive secondary power.

Of course you’re right that an individual emigrating from the US to China is economically net-negative for that individual except for in very unusual circumstances.
by walterbell | 2025-04-12 16:24:03+00:00
Per Bloomberg, 20% fentanyl tariff on China still applies and these categories may yet receive their own unique tariff, https://archive.is/jKupW

The exemption categories include components and assembled products, https://content.govdelivery.com/bulletins/gd/USDHSCBP-3db9e5...

8471 ADP (Automatic Data Processing) Machines: PCs, servers, terminals. 8473.30 Parts for ADPs: keyboards, peripherals, printers. 8486 Machines for producing semiconductors & ICs: wafer fab, lithography. 8517.13 Mobile phones and smartphones. 8517.62 Radios, router, modems. 8523.51 Radio/TV broadcasting equipment. 8524 2-way radios. 8528.52 Computer monitors and projectors (no TVs). 8541.10 Diodes, transistors and similar electronic components 8541.21 LEDs 8541.29 Photodiodes and non-LED diodes 8541.30 Transistors 8541.49.10 Other semiconductors that emit light 8541.49.70 Optoelectronics: light sensors, solar cells 8541.49.80 Photoresistors 8541.49.95 Other semiconductor devices 8541.51.00 LEDs for displays 8541.59.00 Other specialized semiconductor devices 8541.90.00 Semiconductor parts: interconnects, packaging, assembly 8542 Electronic ICs

Industrial-scale workarounds were developed for previous tariffs, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43652823. Such loopholes will need to be addressed in any new trade agreements.
by fzysingularity | 2025-04-12 16:24:27+00:00
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by jorvi | 2025-04-12 16:24:28+00:00
I agree, but it makes me feel supremely uneasy to use something where the main team does Soviet-style purges where they mute/exile/ban community members not because they were being offensive but because they committed wrongthink. Even worse is that they're often prolific devs.

Ironically enough the closest comparison I could make is driving a Tesla. Even if the product is great, you're supporting an organisation that is the opposite.

I think the Nix team will continue to slowly chase away competent people until the rot makes the whole thing wither, at which point everyone switches their upstream over to Determinate Systems' their open core. Although I'm hoping DS will ultimately go the RHEL-Fedora route.
by jeroenhd | 2025-04-12 16:25:04+00:00
The problem for things like video games and trading is that websockets only support TCP by default. Technologies like WebRTC allow for much faster updates.

I think websockets certainly have their uses. Mostly in systems where SSE isn't available quickly and easily, or when sending a bunch of quick communications one after another as there's no way to know if the browser will pipeline the requests automatically or if it'll set up a whole bunch of requests.
by alwa | 2025-04-12 16:25:13+00:00
Didn’t, in this case, the insurer care precisely about the average—setting reimbursement at the average rate for people receiving masectomy care in the state?

Doesn’t it say that most people post-masectomy get “a relatively straightforward surgical procedure using implants filled with silicon or another gel,” which, judging by how unusual the article makes out this surgical center to be, seems to have medically reasonable outcomes?

One big argument missing here is why the “natural reconstruction” option is different from the normal option, aside from the patient who explained that “the idea appealed” because she “felt like [she] was taking something foreign out of my body, cancer, and [she] did not want to put something foreign back in.”

So it seems like, faced with this medical need, some people want a procedure that involves “five operations” in a setting “combining the luxury feel of an upscale plastic surgery practice with the mission-driven zeal of a medical clinic,” where instead of the implants the proprietors do “lengthy and complex operations [that] can last up to 12 hours with big medical teams involved.”

It’s true that the latter probably costs more than the average—and it’s more than reasonable that, when it comes to their own care, anybody might prefer the luxury (or just humane) setting and the dozens of hours of painstaking hand-reconstruction.

It’s also obvious (and settled in court) that the insurer got up to some shady business in this particular case (not least the “for me but not for thee” stuff).

In the general case, though, I have a hard time making the case that it’s fair for a patient’s preference alone to be enough to justify bumping the cost by an order of magnitude or two—especially since insurance spreads those costs out among all the other people paying for insurance, not the dastardly execs directly.

If you can afford luxury then pay extra for luxury, fine. But the insurance feels to me like it’s there to meet the basic medical part of the requirements.
by kmeisthax | 2025-04-12 16:25:53+00:00
Why not both?

Everyone angry about Big Tech and the like need to know that healthcare was patient zero for the monopolization and enshittification cycle that seems to have consumed everything in the world economy.

Once one industry consolidates, their vendors and customers need to consolidate too, or they don't have any negotiating leverage. If you don't consolidate, you're the deal taker, and that deal will be incredibly garbage. This cycle continues until it reaches the one place where you can't consolidate: end customers. There's no such thing as a "customer union" that can fight back against this bullshit. This turns business into a conspiracy to screw the customer, purely through normal, logical business actions that were already illegal but unenforced.

The problem with merely pinning the blame on one entity is that it doesn't fix the system. You don't care about whether or not it's the hospital's fault or the insurer's fault, you just want the problem fixed. Law enforcement actually has a solution for this: joint and several liability, which is a way of saying "I don't care who did it, someone either fixes it or I'm punishing both of you". Pin the blame on both entities if you want the shenanigans to stop.
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-12 16:26:00+00:00
> Free might as well be a curse-word to me, and I'm not alone. I'm old enough to have experience in pre-internet era magazines, and the downgrade in quality from paid publications to free ones has been quite substantial.

The cool thing is it is trivial for LLM vendors to leverage this bias as well the pro-free bias other people have to also sell a premium, for-pay offering that, like pre-internet magazines is, despite not being free to the user, still derives the overwhelming majority of its revenue from advertising. Although one of the main reasons advertising-sponsored print media in the pre-internet era often wasn't free is that paid circulation numbers were a powerful selling point for advertisers who didn't have access to the kind of analytics available on the internet; what users were paying for often wasn't the product so much as a mechanism of proving their value to advertisers.
by coldtea | 2025-04-12 16:26:44+00:00
>They are not worth less in dollar terms. The same number of dollars will still settle next months mortgage bill, or tax bill regardless of what it may or may not exchange into Euros.

If only our living expenses were just taxes and mortgages, amiright?

This take reminds me of the old joke:

“I don’t get why people complain about gas prices going up. I used to put in 40 bucks, and I still put in 40 bucks.”
by Whoppertime | 2025-04-12 16:26:56+00:00
People voted for Obama hoping for an end to war in the Middle East. A lot of people who were protesting the Iraq War when George Bush was president had no problem with Obama expanding the conflict into Libya. The Snowden scandal happened under Obama, and showed that the excesses of the Patriot Act didn't stop under Obama. Can you understand why some people who voted for Obama hoping for peace in the middle east and a re-establishment of civil liberties could end up jaded?
by makeitdouble | 2025-04-12 16:27:20+00:00
› history of checklists and how lives were saved by empowering nurses to point out that surgeons forgot some step

It goes a lot beyond disagreeing at meetings though. There's a ton of research on the social dynamics leading to erroneous decisions, mostly steaming from too much power concentrated on one side.

On the nurse example, I assume we're talking about instruments left inside the patient's body for instance ? These kind of issues are not just solved with prep talking nurses into voicing their concerns, and include reworking procedures, building "rituals" and checklists as you mention. Nurses speaking up are part of a whole framework

Same way Toyota didn't just empower their employees, they famously setup a reporting system to give the employees an official path to offer their insights, paired with incentives and rewards.

›those idiots in (other team)"?

In my experience these people will still assert they are respectful, listen to constructive feedback and are open to any pertinent idea. And it might actually be true inside their team or towards a limited set of people.

The issues you point at are real and and sometimes widespread within an org, but it will usually be a lot more nuanced than how it's presented in the article, to the point where the advice doesn't really apply.

It's like asking people to not be racist. Most will balk at that characterization, and actually dealing with the issue will require a lot more workarounds but also properly identifying the exact problematic behavior, in a non cartoon villain way.
by AnthonyMouse | 2025-04-12 16:27:37+00:00
The vast majority of AI image prompts don't reference an artist name, and the ones that do are typically using it as a proxy for a given style and would generally get similar results by specifying the name of the style instead of the name of the artist.

The ones using the name of the artist/studio (e.g. Ghiblification) also seem more common than they are because they're the ones that garner negative attention. Then the media attention a) causes people perceive it as being more common than it is and b) causes people do it more for a short period of time, making it temporarily more common even though the long-term economic relevance is still negligible.
by DamnInteresting | 2025-04-12 16:27:49+00:00
> Dropping one tile on another should swap their positions.

This seems to be a common sentiment, so I plan to implement it. Thanks!

> It shouldn't be possible to drop tiles on the grid outside of the word boundaries

I've heard mixed opinions on this one. About 2/3 of people who have commented on it say that they like that the tiles can be dropped in the outside space, so they can rearrange and sort. About 1/3 dislike it (among those who say anything about it). But it's not a very large sample size, so I'll need to seek further feedback.
by steveBK123 | 2025-04-12 16:28:48+00:00
This is why I don't know if he will/would actually hold fast through the turbulence of actually implementing anything he's threatened.

Once we eat through inventories and stuff that left the ports & currently on the water, prices will go up.

The country went insane when inflation crossed 5%, are we really going to do it again.. when the reason for it will be so singularly obvious?
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-12 16:28:59+00:00
> They punish experts who do know, don't search, don't hunt, and customise themselves and their apps for speed and efficient use of time and screen space.

The problem is, most users are utterly braindead, they barely manage to type at speed instead of pecking at single keys. The astonishment I've gotten in some places for literally nothing more than Ctrl+C/Ctrl+V is more than enough proof.

That's also IMHO a large portion of why Linux never really took off on desktop. UX/UI people are rare enough to begin with, most of them don't work on FOSS in their free time, and so development is primarily done by nerds for nerds. That's great if you already know something about the application - but usually the learning curve is so steep that most users frustratedly give up. And documentation is either not existing, incomplete or horribly outdated, and StackOverflow etc. are even worse.

The exception is Blender. They got some serious money IIRC, cleaned up their act, and now there's a headline of some movie or game using Blender every few weeks.
by gene-h | 2025-04-12 16:29:10+00:00
At some point, making mechanical watches more complicated will require going digital. It is possible to make very small gears with semiconductor processes, however, very small gears wear out fast due to stiction.

In order for gears to work they must have sliding contact and that means wear. Mechanisms based on flexures don't have this problem, but this requires building the clock very differently. It might be possible to implement many of these complications using flexure based logic[0].

[0]https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08678-0
by CursedSilicon | 2025-04-12 16:29:39+00:00
Hi, retro computing person here. I've had a similar debate with Rust evangelists in past

Something the Rust community doesn't understand is when they shout "REWRITE IT IN RUST!" at a certain point that's simply not possible

Those mainframes your Bank runs? I'm sure they'd love to see all that "awful" FORTRAN or C or whatever other language rewritten in Rust. But if Rust as a platform doesn't support the architecture? Well then that's a non-starter

Worse still, Rust seems to basically leave anything that isn't i686/x86_64 or ARM64 as "Tier 2" or worse

This specific line in Tier 2 would send most project managers running for the hills "Tier 2 target-specific code is not closely scrutinized by Rust team(s) when modifications are made. Bugs are possible in all code, but the level of quality control for these targets is likely to be lower"

Lower level of quality control when you're trying to upgrade or refactor a legacy code base? And the target is a nuclear power plant? Or an air traffic control system? Or a bank?

The usual response from the Rust evangelists is "well then they should sponsor it to run better!" but the economics simply don't stack up. Why hire 50 Rust programmers to whip rust-m68k into shape when you can just hire 10 senior C programmers for 20% of the cost?

EDIT: Architecture, not language. I need my morning coffee
by miros_love | 2025-04-12 16:30:14+00:00
I'd love for everything described in this article to be true. If the U.S. really were pushing talent away en masse, maybe my odds of getting in would go up. But I have serious doubts.

Very few folks are rushing to pay half their salary in taxes, wrestle with EU bureaucracy, and earn 2-3x less pre-tax just to move to Europe. And don’t get me started on bottle caps screwed on so tight you can't drink from them.

I could go on about memeI'd love for everything described in this article to be true. If the U.S. really were pushing talent away en masse, maybe my odds of getting in would go up. But I have serious doubts.

Very few folks are rushing to pay half their salary in taxes, wrestle with EU bureaucracy, and earn 2–3x less pre-tax just to move to Europe. And don’t get me started on bottle caps screwed on so tight you can't drink from them.

I could go on about meme-tier Canada or even more meme-tier Australia. As for India or China - most people didn’t leave just to go back.

Sure, Trump is scaring off a few people, but most of those at risk - without roots, degrees, or real work experience - will fight tooth and nail to stay. Deporting one unlucky grad student probably won’t shift the odds in my favor. Pity.

Disclaimer: I’m IT-focused. No clue what’s going on with nuclear engineers or scientists. Maybe they live in a parallel universe.tier Canada or even more meme-tier Australia. As for India or China - most people didn’t leave just to go back.

Sure, Trump is scaring off a few people, but most of those at risk - without roots, degrees, or real work experience - will fight tooth and nail to stay. Deporting one unlucky grad student probably won’t shift the odds in my favor. Pity.

Disclaimer: I’m IT-focused. No clue what’s going on with nuclear engineers or scientists. Maybe they live in a parallel universe.
by anon84873628 | 2025-04-12 16:30:15+00:00
In a fairly recent interview where he was asked about DOGE, Bill Gates estimated 10-15% waste in government spending. Saving that amount is not worth all the collateral long term damage Trump is doing.

You may not put much stock in another billionaire's opinion, but personally I think he's been engaged with our system enough to have a good perspective on things.

That doesn't mean every government operations are 90% efficient, but I'd rather walk the side of slowness and bureaucracy than graft and corruption, let alone Trump's outright fascism.

And by the way, my father worked at a federal manufacturing plant so I've heard plenty of stories, good and bad.
by liendolucas | 2025-04-12 16:30:46+00:00
You're extrapolating to cases that are different to a subscription to a digital software service. Companies have slowly but steadily made us shift and put subscriptions in our heads because is the easiest way to make more money and strictly control their software. This is just as pushing ads everywhere is the easiest way to make money on almost every website. The ideal, most fair consumer approach is to charge the user by its daily usage. Why? Because companies are doing exactly the opposite, they are charging us for future usage for max profitability. Just log each day I have used the app and charge me fairly. It can be perfectly done. But the excuse obviously from their side would be that is too much complex to do that, right? BS.
by coldtea | 2025-04-12 16:30:46+00:00
>But I (an American) pay for some European services in Euros, meaning those got 10% more expensive.

European services would be the least of issues. The main issue would be the tons of foreign imported food, cars, products, clothes, gadgets, and so on - including tons of component parts for "american" products (not to mention materials and tooling to make even the increasingly rarer "100% made in US" products).
by bitsage | 2025-04-12 16:30:59+00:00
The US is still the runaway leader for funding in research. American expenditure for R&D was 940 billion dollars while the EU’s was 411 billion [1]. I doubt Canada, Switzerland, the Uk, and AusNZ combined come close to matching that gap. If we get the proposed defense budget, that R&D spending will actually go up, just not in matters many people care about immediately.

With the zeitgeist shifting, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see an exodus of people in the soft sciences and liberal arts though. It’s not like they’re leaving a lot on the table if they leave America.

1. https://www.reuters.com/world/scientists-us-harried-by-trump...
by __turbobrew__ | 2025-04-12 16:31:00+00:00
> someone says something dumb 5 years ago

Fire them, debank them, humiliate them, destroy their life.

> someone commits petty crime for the 13th time.

Meh

I just don’t post anything publicly anymore because the EV is clearly negative now. Luckily the people I meet in the real world are not the thought police.
by runeks | 2025-04-12 16:31:39+00:00
> Perhaps I'm wrong, but I believe HTTP streaming is for chunking large blobs.

You are wrong in the case of Chrome and Firefox. I have tried it and streaming e.g. unordered list elements are displayed instantly.

But for Safari, "text/html" streaming happens in 512 byte chunks[1].

[1] https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265386
by inetknght | 2025-04-12 16:31:43+00:00
> The more third world countries participate in any given agency, the more of a tire fire it is.

I don't know about other U.N. agencies.

But I find Andrew Millison's youtube blogs [0] to be quite interesting on the subject. His blog about refugees [1] for example.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@amillison

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfiH9T-iR3E
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-12 16:31:49+00:00
> Artists don't hate Adobe just because they're making an AI art generator, they hate Adobe because it's a predatory, scummy corporation that is difficult to work with and is the gatekeeper for common industry tools.

From what I've seen from artists, they hate Adobe for both reasons, and the AI thing is often more of a dogmatic, uncompromising hate (and is not based on any of the various rationalizations used to persuade others to act in accord with it) and less of the kind of hate that is nevertheless willing to accept products for utility.
by LeafItAlone | 2025-04-12 16:32:00+00:00
>Even Ukraine was excited to see Biden leave office so they could at least have a chance for a better arrangement with America.

That doesn’t align with what I saw. Can you provide evidence? Because it was pretty clear to me that it would go exactly as it has, which is pretty terribly for Ukraine.

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Trump%E2%80%93Zelenskyy...

- https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna200977