MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by diggan | 2025-04-03 11:22:32+00:00
> I you want a really accessible diy synth project

On that vein, I just started building my own analog synthesizer from scratch, and found this YouTube series which is very beginner friendly and with lots of explainations even for us who don't have much hardware experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBatvo8bCa4

The circuit after part 3 already sounds good enough to be used in real projects, yet it's simple enough to fully understand.
by glenstein | 2025-04-03 11:22:39+00:00
>This is why I don't get why my EU people are attacking Trump - he singlehandedly gave Europe political capital to rebuild itself as an independent player on the international stage.

What a completely baffling statement. It's like saying the left arm should be grateful that the right arm cut itself off of the body because now the left arm has to strengthen itself. Sabotaging the alliance system that has prevailed since World War II leaving both Europe and the United States more dangerously exposed and compromising the safety of our shared democratic values that were once the bedrock of our alliance.

It's so obviously catastrophic that I can't fathom how someone would try to portray this as a win other than out of an appetite for a JV debate team sophistry. Europe is banding together not out of positive diplomatic achievements, but in the same sense that they would band together if a meteor is headed toward Earth and you're asking us to thank the meteor.
by jxjnskkzxxhx | 2025-04-03 11:23:55+00:00
I think the emphasis on doing X "without being shown" is misguided. Brute force is always an option, we already know that, but explicit teaching is more efficient.

The actual holy grail of AI is transfering knowledge. Play Minecraft, learn that you can mine diamonds. Later on when observing the real world, consider that perhaps diamonds are out there and perhaps some steps need to be taken.
by piva00 | 2025-04-03 11:24:08+00:00
Your view about art is just too constrained by an appeal to aesthetic beauty. Art's beauty can come in many obtuse ways, and doesn't even need to encompass aesthetic beauty.

The exploration of philosophy through art has its own beauty, it's not an easily digestible beauty but it's a kind of. What you show is just a complete lack of perception to other ways to appreciate art, and for that your soul is a bit more empty than it could be.

Instead of looking at art from this productivity view try to be more curious, challenge yourself on what is even the notion of art and what it can give to us that is ineffable in other forms... Right now you are just too miopic to even be able to appreciate art as a whole, you just want the product of art, not the process, meaning, and philosophical questions it can spark in you.

To understand art takes effort, it tells me a lot about people when they show how uncurious and set in their ways they are about art, they just simply aren't free people.
by emptysongglass | 2025-04-03 11:24:26+00:00
> There is no free trade, EU was tariff heavy and protectionist since forever

To add to this as an EU citizen, try and buy any good from the US as a private EU citizen: not only will you be visited with a bill for 25 percent of what you paid, you will also pay a truly staggering "handling fee" to essentially state-sponsored grifters (here in Denmark called "Told") that will ensure you never buy anything from the US again.

The US had de minimis allowing US citizens to buy most anything they could imagine from abroad without additional fees on import, which Trump has now thrown out the window, but I can't help but feel we're getting our just desserts here.
by fch42 | 2025-04-03 11:25:04+00:00
Final assembly != "entirely manufactured". Cymer brings the EUV lightsource, Zeiss the optics, ASML the mechanics and metrology. Commercial EUV Lithography system(s) aren't "a single parent's baby" even if there is now only a single supplier.

ARM IP ? I gather in Cambridge/UK they'd disagree with you. Even if in classical English stiff upper lip style they may say it less brashly (but not less harshly) than a Texan.

This World is rather intertwined. Maybe more than we like or even more than is good for us. But all of us will loose if we strive to kill cooperation or trade "across borders".
by jonathanstrange | 2025-04-03 11:25:24+00:00
This is nonsense, I'm about to launch a company in the EU and these laws are a major consideration and potential pain point for us, too. They are very relevant for EU companies.

This makes me wonder if US companies complaining about the GDPR and DMA have any idea how many more laws EU companies have to comply with in addition to this. It's not easy.
by WalterGillman | 2025-04-03 11:25:51+00:00
If you forget about the security focus that only started when Theo de Raadt got pwned by N3tBSD h4xx0rz, it is one of the best OS experiences the interwebs has to offer.

It has gotten a lot friendlier than it used to be too. It used to be that you had to build your own -CURRENT every week if you wanted to have something akin to an update.

Nowadays, you can run a binary update every six months and you even get binary patches for the errata in the interim. And if you need to patch your kernel you can grab it from GitHub.

I had a small board from 10 years ago I wanted to turn into a VPN and I just had to boot it, connect the serial adapter, download a new bsd.rd, and it was fresh and ready to go again.

It's sad that they had to let VAX and other legacy platforms go with the switch to clang, but, if some hardware has ever worked in OpenBSD, it is likely to keep working decades from now.

Sent from my OpenBSD M2 MacBook.
by fluidcruft | 2025-04-03 11:25:53+00:00
I'm not so sure it's about precision rather than working memory. My presumption is people struggle to understand sufficiently large prose versions for the same reason a LLM would struggle working with larger prose versions: people have limited working memory. The time needed to reload info from prose is significant. People reading large text works will start highlighting and taking notes and inventing shorthand forms in their notes. Compact forms and abstractions help reduce demands for working memory and information search. So I'm not sure it's about language precision.
by nerptastic | 2025-04-03 11:25:58+00:00
I can appreciate comparing these immovable political stances to a "religion".

One thing I've noticed, as people get more entrenched in their viewpoint, is that they stop accepting the possibility that they're wrong, and this flawed thinking starts to extend to the wildest corners of their position.

"Well, if I'm right about the person, the person is right about everything too. And anyone who disagrees with me is therefore wrong about EVERYTHING."

It's a very shallow viewpoint, and some people just refuse to accept that they're wrong sometimes.
by pas | 2025-04-03 11:26:12+00:00
... that's the problem right? The big furniture factory is good at making (cheap) furniture, but they are very bad at managing local teams to deliver and assemble and ...

IKEA (at least in most of Europe) is good at this, because they spend a lot of attention and invest in their local presence (all of their big stores have pretty okay fast-food restaurant, as far as I understand)

... so of course it would make sense to let the factory do that and let some other company focus on assembly (and last-mile stuff generally).

... but there's no competition, no ratings to look up, no alternatives, they will send someone and that's it.

... and of course this spreads the negative cost all around, everyone gets a bit more of the annoyances, but keeps costs down (yay, I guess?)

and as a comment [1] in this thread mentioned this is a bad Nash equilibrium. (the post mentioned lemons already, and of course we know that due to information asymmetry bad goods crowd out good ones.[2])

there's no price information for "respect". it used to be enforced by big brands, hiring processes, unions, trade organizations, certifications, licensing requirements. but of course assembling a standardized bed is not hard, especially if someone did a few of the same. so of course none of the usual signals apply (no certification, no licensed assemblers registry maintained by some government organization, no assemblers union/guild, and so on.)

...

the possible solutions are to open up the data for these gig companies.

or fix labor laws.

or fix social security (unemployment compensation, negative income tax).

yeah, I know. good luck with any of that nowadays :/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43563248

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Market_for_Lemons
by lostlogin | 2025-04-03 11:27:09+00:00
Last century there was the big two, World War One and World War Two. If you go back further it’s more complicated, but the short answer is that Germanic states got into wars with their neighbours a lot. The Wikipedia article has categories.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Germa...

https://historyguy.com/How_Many_Wars_Were_Fought_Between_Fra...
by sharpshadow | 2025-04-03 11:27:19+00:00
I’ve got strict rules on not discussing politics generally and I would even pretend to not know about things or only barely and not having any position. I do jump deep into topic with strangers for fun or build up slowly. Never would I share political views with my workplace and partner, I give them the freedom to keep theirs believes without altering them with the “truth”, if people are simple let them be. I also let anybody have their position especially family members and would be much less eager to tell them more. It’s mostly a blessing not having went down the rabbit hole and I don’t want to tamper with it. I like to argue with the opposite extrem position for fun.
by WillAdams | 2025-04-03 11:28:05+00:00
Reading up on the history of mathematics really makes that clear as shown in

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1098132.Thomas_Harriot_s...

(ob. discl., I did the typesetting for that)

It shows at least one lengthy and quite wordy example of how an equation would have been stated, then contrasts it in the "new" symbolic representation (this was one of the first major works to make use of Robert Recorde's development of the equals sign).
by specproc | 2025-04-03 11:28:34+00:00
FYI I'm writing from a former Soviet state and need no lectures and whatifs on matters of the USSR.

A US-led unipolar world existed between 1989 and 2025. Multipolarity is the norm, even the British empire was truly top dog for like 50-100 years at best.

Attempts to control the world are what lead to the sort of acts of barbarism, exemplified by the US, that are the subject of this conversation.

The US is, once more, the greatest human rights abuser in living memory, in large part because it believed it should run the world.

The main learning from WWII, which America has consistently eroded over its period at the helm is that on a global scale, multi-state governance based on mechanisms like the UN, the international criminal court etc should be the mechanism for global governance. Not some state with a manifest destiny complex's self interest.
by jmyeet | 2025-04-03 11:28:47+00:00
A lot of people fundamentally misunderstand why trade happens in USD and what creates demand for USD.

For example, you hear people say that the US invaded Iraq because Iraq was threatening to denominate oil sales in the euro. This particular conspiracy theory used to be more popular ~20 years ago for obvious reasons. Even if true, it's absolutely no threat to the petrodollar. You could sell oil in euros and what would most sellers then do? Immediately convert those euros into USD.

Trade occurs in USD because there's demand for USD not the other way around.

What really underpins the USD is the US military and the US still being the largest economy. So the USD will remain the global reserve currency up until the US collapses and/or another power rises to displace it, which really means the same thing at this point. That might ultimately be China but it's not yet and the Chinese yuan is wholly unsuitable to be a global reserve currency currently.
by matwood | 2025-04-03 11:28:50+00:00
> Claiming that the US government is insane while we, as random members of the public know better

Not insane, incompetent.

The problem with primarily hiring sycophants from his favorite cable news channel is that he's not getting the best, even from the GOP. This also makes him even more susceptible to people with their own agendas like Musk since no one is willing to pushback.
by mattlondon | 2025-04-03 11:29:19+00:00
This paints a very binary picture. Either you are in or out. Part of this tribe, or this other tribe (ignorantly or not). The article seems to imply that people can't have opinions on political policies unless they are fully informed on not only global affairs but also philosophy and psychology.

I think reality is different - I don't think there are any absolutes that require "knowledge" of e.g. philosophy to get the "right" answer in politics. Instead the right answer (at least in western democracies) is what the people want, even if they are not fully informed.

I view it very much akin to trial by jury - there are highly informed and experienced judges, barristers, solicitors etc but ultimately it is down to the laymen in the jury to make a decision that they see as just. They might reach the "wrong" decision from the perspective of people who are fully informed on the legal processes and the law of the land etc, but that doesn't matter because it is the jury that makes the decision.

So it is for the electorate too.

I have no experience of voting in the US but it appears that a two-party system really stokes the "us Vs them" vibes. The only alternative you have is to totally switch sides. At least in European democracies there is often a plurality of parties to vote for. I've personally moved between the main 3 parties (and there are probably at least another 1 or 2 other minority parties that have different trajectories...) in the UK as my personal situation has changed over the years, and I think that is a very normal thing here.
by munksbeer | 2025-04-03 11:29:19+00:00
> it is assumed that we could be issuing public foreign debt in foreign currency.

That isn't how it works. You issue bonds, denominated in your own currency, and promise to pay the bearer of the bonds a coupon (interest) and repay the full amount (in USD) at the end of the bonds life.

Unless I misunderstood what you're saying.
by carlosjobim | 2025-04-03 11:29:29+00:00
That's the entire point of it all. I think you are the only person in this thread who gets it. When there isn't a labour force available, you have to increase salaries to get workers. This means other industries and businesses have to increase salaries to keep their workers, giving a domino effect – meaning higher salaries for workers across the board. It might even mean that shit industries can't find any workers and have to close shop. For example the restaurant industry.

This also means higher prices across the board for consumer goods, but the worker still net benefits greatly.

Who does not benefit: The people who do not work. And that's fine. But it's also this class of people who make the entire political and media class, and hacker class apparently, so that's why we have this enormous resistance.
by turtleyacht | 2025-04-03 11:29:30+00:00
Other links:

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43527001 - March 2025 (468 comments)

Xiaofeng Weng - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43528479 - March 2025 (14 comments)
by Jensson | 2025-04-03 11:30:39+00:00
> What problem are you trying to solve here

People using others papers to vote, that is much harder if you must display a photo ID together with the papers you received that says you are allowed to vote.

Voting without an ID is like opening a bank account without an ID, its just dumb. Oh wait, I heard you had that as well in USA, which is why you have issues with identity theft...
by bsenftner | 2025-04-03 11:31:07+00:00
It does not matter how bad the current economic structures are, they have a path out. "Trickle down economics" sounded good at the time too, and now it is recognized as a farce. UBI is a bigger farce. There are at least two major issues with UBI:

1) Any system that does not provide an upward ladder to the economic top, despite being better at the bottom, is not better in whole and is actually negative for the species as a whole. Hope and the ability to better one's situation is essential. UBI and it's variants institutionalize economic positions, and that destroys hope short of an overthrowing revolution.

2) UBI will exist in our social human Capitalistic world where any and all expenditures are eyed for reduction. Those on UBI (or what ever name it ends up having) will observe a gradual reduction of their UBI and a gradual criminalization of their economic parasitism. This is human culture. This reduction of the "economic waste" that is UBI is inevitable. Humans do not give gifts for any lasting duration without oversized returns.

Just look at the top posts: they ask "is this the best use of our tax dollars?" as in once UBI is active, such attitudes will immediately seek to reduce it.
by giantg2 | 2025-04-03 11:31:09+00:00
If these individuals are exceptions and the rest are competent, then there should be minimal impact beyond creating a side show. As a tiny minority, they wouldn't have any real sway in the bill construction within their party, especially if it has any chance of passing. The split between the parties is usually narrow, so the representatives with the most potential to influence passing legislation are the ones near the center margins as they may vote against party lines and provide a bigger base of support. The reps near the outside margins tend to have less influence. Even if they sway some stuff during the creation of the bill, it's stuff that likely has to get ripped out to find enough support to pass into a law.

But if things are passing by only 1 or 2 votes anyways, where anyone 1 persons vote is a major deciding factor, that's an indication of a bigger issue. Such a divide means that half the country feels they are getting screwed and there was little compromise to include their concerns.
by maqp | 2025-04-03 11:31:20+00:00
>Come on - you really think that plays a role in how smooth a listview renders?

That's not a feature. Stickers is a feature. Calls are a feature. Messages are a feature. Group chats are a feature. Group video calls are a feature. Link thumbnails are a feature. Forwarding messages is a feature.

>Their client side app is incredibly smooth and well built.

Yes, and the Trojan horse was so beautiful John Oliver would totally have hit on it.

Telegram UI is fine, I'll give you that. But it was created at the expense of designing the app private. Move fast yolo security isn't the justification.

They'd have to re-design the protocol from scratch to make it E2EE by default. Hell, you can't even get feature parity with secret chats. E.g., stickers do not work.

Signal might not have every bell and whistle like pinned messages, but when it eventually does, I will know it's done with proper privacy design.

I get that your point is to bore exclusively in the UI/UX with, admiring the forest from the trees. I'm saying the true beauty is with the ridiculously seamless and easy to use end-to-end encryption for everything Signal provides. Both phone app, and all desktop apps stay in sync, all 1:1 chats are E2EE and they are available on all platforms, unlike Telegram where they're limited to phone only. All group chats are E2EE and they're available on all platform, unlike Telegram that doesn't have E2EE for group chats. All chats are E2EE by default, unlike Telegram where no chat is E2EE.

Privacy and security are integral part of every feature. Everything else is a footgun. Arguing about how well the footgun is polished, doesn't make it any less of a footgun.

Signal has over time polished its secure features.

Telegram isn't in the process of securing it's polished turd of a protocol.
by jabl | 2025-04-03 11:31:21+00:00
> For example, Finland has lower attainment rates for bachelor degree equivalents than the US. This would seem to disprove your point.

In Finland, most university students go for a master's degree. A bachelor's degree is often seen as sort-of a safety valve, if it turns out you didn't have what it takes to complete the full master's degree. So you get at least some sort of degree from having been to university rather than just having your high school diploma as your highest official educational achievement.
by riffraff | 2025-04-03 11:31:36+00:00
Could be, but China's imports from the US where not much (6% of their total) and cannot be easily substituted from SEA countries, as they were mostly importing a ton of agricultural stuff (soybeans, corn) plus fossils.

I understand 6% of china may be a much higher percentage of, say, Vietnam's export, but I just don't think Vietnam can produce that much more of that, quickly.

https://atlas.hks.harvard.edu/explore/treemap?exporter=count...
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by cbg0 | 2025-04-03 11:32:44+00:00
> Trump aims to bring everyone to table to renegotiate global commerce.

Throwing the gauntlet in the dirt isn't how you achieve this type of diplomacy, as the world will just form new economical alliances with more predictable trade partners instead of wasting time trying to appease Donald Trump.

> A risky tactic, but refreshing after decades of the old tired policies that brought us the collapse of parts of US manufacturing and so much pain during COVID due to a complete dependence on foreign suppliers for... Well, everything.

By "policies" do you mean US corporations trying to make as much profit as possible by moving manufacturing to cheaper countries?

The result of tariffs, even if manufacturing for some products moves back to the US, will be higher prices for consumers even in the long run as you cannot produce things as cheaply as other countries. In a country where wages have not kept up with inflation the economic pain will keep mounting.

> I don't know if this will work. But I know what we had before wasn't working. We'll see.

Coupled with:

> People here know so much more than the actual professionals in the government.

Is funny to read; If you had those actual professionals in the government, they would be able to show you some serious predictions about how these moves will improve the economy and when you can expect the "golden age" to show up.