MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by rchaud | 2025-04-05 14:35:37+00:00
That makes it sound like the world being in America's pocket would have been a better outcome.

America in the 21st century has been running on the fumes of its achievements post-WWII. China has been building entire cities' worth of infrastructure domestically and internationally, deepening trade links and political influence. America wasn't even willing to rebuild New Orleans, let alone Afghanistan and Iraq. That hasn't escaped the attention of the rest of the world.

In the era following the Great Recession, it has been mired in comical levels of political disunity, where investing in public infrastructure like housing, healthcare and education is seen as a 'handout' to the 'undeserving'. In no other nation-state on earth would somebody like Musk be provided with taxpayer funds to derail plans for high-speed trains by pursuing a non-working vanity project that appeared to be inspired by a Simpsons episode about a charismatic charlatan.
by mbs159 | 2025-04-05 14:37:48+00:00
Friendlyjordies on YouTube made a great video [1] about ground.news about a month ago, worth a watch. I share the view that the left / right classification for news is useless. There always was some kind of bias / agenda to news, even before the days of the internet and social media. Also, the Democrat party in the US is for the most part, a center or center right party, so the classification of left / right for US news is kind of pointless.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfHx4CfKFqQ&t=914s
by acdha | 2025-04-05 14:38:24+00:00
Snowden showed that they were willing to compromise allies, but there was still some idea that it was at least plausibly legitimate targets.

Now people are worried that economic espionage or even sabotage are possible. For example, if you are the government of Canada, Snowden annoyed you but you weren’t asking whether Microsoft Update would brick every computer in your government right before a military assault. You probably aren’t thinking that’s highly likely now, either, but you have some intelligence officers analyzing it seriously in a way which would have seemed paranoid a decade ago.
by bryanlarsen | 2025-04-05 14:38:54+00:00
The Biden carrot was more successful in getting foreign countries to do what he wanted than the Trump stick.

Biden had successfully instigated a trade war between Canada & China, by getting Canada to join the US in putting a 100% tax on Chinese EV's. This exasperated an already tense relationship due to the extradition of Meng Wanzhou and resulted in nasty tariffs on Canadian oilseeds, legumes, seafood and pork.

I'm relatively confident Canada will settle with China to avoid a two front war.
by ajross | 2025-04-05 14:39:10+00:00
Right, that's the amount issued in short term bonds and whatnot. It cycles all the time. But again: it's maturing. You don't need to "refinance it", for the same reason you don't refinance a mortgage with only $6k principle left. There's no point, just pay it off and work on a new loan.

So the question becomes "can we get better rates for bonds?". And clearly the answer is hell no, because nothing in this mess makes US debt look more attractive to foreign investors. We're moving in the opposite direction from the way the cult expects things to go.
by jfengel | 2025-04-05 14:39:13+00:00
Yes. You should listen to apocalyptic omens only from scientists.

If one particular ideology happens to be consistently agreeing or disagreeing with the scientists, then you should take that pattern into account when it comes to choosing who should deal with the consequences. Those are matters of opinion, albeit informed by the facts. The fact remain independent of ideology, and any claim that they are the result of an epically vast conspiracy of scientists should require an extremely high standard of evidence.
by cbozeman | 2025-04-05 14:39:51+00:00
Well he brought down his entire storage system. Twice.

I believe one time he had to bring in Wendell Wilson from Wendell Wilson Consulting, but more likely know to the Internet-at-large as the primary figure on Level1Techs YouTube channel.

I have no desire, nor inclination to dig through the thousands of videos LMG has produced on YouTube, but it's still up to my knowledge, and watching him fumble about with absolutely no clue is not only painful, but pathetic. Linus suffers from the same affliction many of my Ph.D.-holding friends have, which is that he believes because he knows a lot about putting together computers and electronics that he could handle building a large-scale data storage system.

These systems are complex, and to be well-built and maintained, they require domain-specific knowledge - no different than an OS programmer needs deep knowledge of C and C++, and increasing now, Rust.

It's a series of videos of someone way in over his head who should have brought in an actual expert - like Wendell from Level1Techs, or Patrick from ServeTheHome, from the get-go, instead of trying to do it himself.
by dandanua | 2025-04-05 14:40:22+00:00
Any addiction is bad, including porn. Why normalise it? Addictions can be greatly advanced by an algorithm, you can't deny that either. Are porn sites trying to advance porn addiction in their users? Well, the number of views is their money, so it's reasonable to assume they are.

I could agree with only one thing, that porn addiction is not the worst one out there, but blamed the most. For some reason, it's ok for mobile games to make gambling addicts from kids, but no one seems to care about that.
by masfuerte | 2025-04-05 14:40:41+00:00
Design a DSL. But instead of implementing it, implement the same abstractions in the functions (or classes or whatever) of your code. Effectively, you are implementing the DSL without the parser and AST.

When you chain these functions together into business logic they will be just as readable as the DSL would have been. But you still get an IDE with code completion, debugging, etc.
by xiphias2 | 2025-04-05 14:40:56+00:00
,,Some hosts may give a paid allowance to ensure they are offering at least the minimum wage in their country''

It's sad, but workaway is similarly to airbnb (hotel service) and uber (taxi service) uses ,,work'' and ,,help'' interchangebly on its website on purpose.

I am a tourist in USA (not working), and I haven't experienced any problem at the border control.
by ndriscoll | 2025-04-05 14:41:09+00:00
Hobby forums? I've been blocking ads for 20 years so it's difficult for me to imagine someone using an ad to learn about anything they want to be even slightly informed about. The main thing "sponsored" links or information tells you is that the thing you're looking at is trying to scam or manipulate you. If you want to actually learn about something and find good products, you look for people who are interested and knowledgeable in that area.
by moekiorg | 2025-04-05 14:41:18+00:00
No. Any file that runs MCP Server is fine anywhere. I am intending a workspace separate from the rails app. The MCP server should be run in a separate process from the rails app. At least until the streamable http transport is ready.

https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/specification/pull/2... https://spec.modelcontextprotocol.io/specification/2025-03-2...
by rbetts | 2025-04-05 14:42:29+00:00
Perhaps we agree that sustaining fair societies is a continual march of institutional and cultural building - not something imposed by a document or stamped by 1800's England. I would never argue that US-Iraq style nation building would succeed, for example. In fact, it is a counter example of violence being sufficient to get from 0 to 1. The US applied extreme violence over a population and failed to establish a persistent democratic order. The basis of civilization, as I read history, is more a consequence of surplus than violence.

I see, in the chaos of Somalia, Yemen, Iraq, as examples, the results of institutions and cultures effectively destroyed by outside violence, in many cases regressing from 1 to 0.

Thank you for sharing your point of view - certainly thought provoking for me.
by jfengel | 2025-04-05 14:42:32+00:00
And yet screwing around is exactly what is going to happen. We've just guaranteed four years of exacerbating the problem from one of the major greenhouse gas producers.

I'm not a fan of geoengineering, which I see as "screwing around" because we don't know nearly enough to predict its effects. Nonetheless, we may well reach a point where it cannot make things worse, and that point just became even more likely.
by jchw | 2025-04-05 14:42:45+00:00
> I still don't understand where the anger is coming from. Why does it piss you off that I want to argue child sexual abuse is more common and more of a problem than it's broadly acknowledged to be? Are you assuming I mean to use that claim as an argument against porn or something? I really can't figure out what's gotten so far up your nose on this, and I wish I could because it's really making it impossible for us to have a conversation.

It's pretty simple honestly, any online discussion about pornography has turned into a complete and total clown show and it has become increasingly obvious that people who are arguing are doing so in bad faith.

I don't know what previous conversations we've had, as I spend far too much time on this damned website and have probably made tens of thousands of comments, but I kind of had a bad feeling the moment I saw your first comment because I had a pretty good feeling you knew what sources people were referring to and decided to play it as if you didn't, for one reason or another. I can see strategically why one would do this when the data seems to contradict the conclusion you have drawn so unilaterally, but at the same time, it's an annoying strategy. It's like laying a trap.

I really don't like this sort of discussion thread:

> Oh, it would be great news if incidence of CSA has gone down. Care to link to a source?

> Sure, here: [d2l link]

> Ah, but, you see, that talks about prevalence, not incidence. [...]

Because you knew what direction it was going to go all along. Playing coy here feels like theatrics.

If I took your position, I'd probably go more along the lines of:

> I am aware of the abundance of studies that discuss the prevelance of CSA, but [...]

(And I'm sure people would probably downvote that, but also, I get downvoted any time I respond in one of these types of threads, so it wouldn't make any difference to me.)

Anyway, the truth is that when I saw your first post, I didn't know what type of trap was being set, but my expectations were pretty low. The actual nuance you brought up is more interesting than that, but still not something I really care to debate.
by fuzzzerd | 2025-04-05 14:42:46+00:00
While that is definitely true, you can ignore it and choose local options. I often try to ask locals where they go to eat. Most people are excited to share a recommendation or two and why they like it.

Another thing I do, is avoid online menues at least ahead of visiting a spot and make my selections once I arrive. I can't say it's better, but it definitely keeps the serendipitous and suspense that I remember from my younger years before everything was online and had a million reviews.
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-04-05 14:43:00+00:00
> In no other nation-state on earth would somebody like Musk be provided with taxpayer funds to derail plans for high-speed trains by pursuing a non-working vanity project

With you until this. China has built its fair share of nonsense vanity infrastructure to the point of entire cities. The difference isn’t the tendency to fever dream. It’s that China actually gets around to the building of it. Both in controlling its billionaires and suppressing NIMBYism, its model looks like an attractive one for developing countries to replicate (versus the American or European models).
by ammar2 | 2025-04-05 14:43:04+00:00
Edit: Analyzed the wrong thing earlier.

This depends on the Python version, but if it has the specializing interpreter changes, the `COMPARE_OP` comparing the integers there is probably hitting a specialized `_COMPARE_OP_INT` [1].

This specialization has a ternary that does `res = (sign_ish & oparg) ? PyStackRef_True : PyStackRef_False;`. This might be the branch that ends up getting predicted correctly?

Older versions of Python go through a bunch of dynamic dispatch first and then end up with a similar sort of int comparison in `long_richcompare`. [2]

[1] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/561965fa5c8314dee5b86...

[2] https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/561965fa5c8314dee5b86...
by barriteau | 2025-04-05 14:44:58+00:00
I'm an early adopter and long time user of the Tap Strap [1] and the TapXR [2], they solved for me the same OP's aspirations ;)

There is some room for improvement, but it really works, flawlessly [3].

[1] https://www.tapwithus.com/how-tapxr-works/

[2] https://www.tapwithus.com/product/tap-xr/

[3] https://www.tapwithus.com/how-tapxr-works/
by ses425500000 | 2025-04-05 14:45:13+00:00
Yep — this project uses a pre-trained DocLayout-YOLO model released under an open license by the original authors. No additional datasets were used for training. All sample data in the repo is either synthetic, publicly available, or user-generated specifically for testing purposes. If there are any concerns about specific models or datasets, I’m happy to review them and make adjustments as needed.
by chuckadams | 2025-04-05 14:45:16+00:00
Other than the `hetzner-k3s` installer, nothing in the article is specific to Hetzner. And even that script is just some terraform presets.

Spoiler for people who actually care about TFA: it's a runaway win for k3s. I've never even heard of minikube being run in production. The setup stuff at the end is a complete handwave though, like "Implement Traefik ingress with Let’s Encrypt via servers.ingress.enabled=true". No serious setup works well with traefik's default LE integration, and even the k3s docs recommend you install cert-manager. Which isn't too awful to set up, but it's still several hours of fiddling if you haven't done it before (pro tip: install it with kubectl, do not use helm. helm and CRDs are still not friends.)
by EMIRELADERO | 2025-04-05 14:45:48+00:00
As someone who generally opposes Bukele on an ideological level, I'm not even that mad about the mass sweeps themselves. The way things were going before, it was obvious a drastic solution was needed.

It's the CECOT conditions and the boasting about cruel treatment that I'm unhappy about. At this point it's plain torture, and I believe it's wrong to torture people, even if those people are themselves torturers or worse.
by monkeyfun | 2025-04-05 14:45:52+00:00
Well for starters they could've not voted on the spending bill and reversed exactly what the conservatives would do constantly under Obama, not until getting at least some kind of serious concession, while painting it as republicans being unwilling to compromise.

Similarly, only a handful of democrats (and ex-democrats) are actually doing anything to make big public statements, to direct people as to what a useful usage of their energies could be.

Oh, and they could do things like not put David Hogg as a vice chair in a way that not only looks corrupt, but far more importantly has absolutely no strategic sense at all -- who asked for that guy?! He's looked like a complete idiot at virtually every debate he's been to, believes in virtually nothing except total gun control conveyed in a sanctimonious, tactless, trivially hateable manner that instantly alienates many americans who might be willing to listen to nearly anyone else in context of all that's going on... I could keep going, the point is this is a guy with absolutely no redeeming qualities except his well-off family with a father in the FBI, which just confirms narratives while not even providing an otherwise competent person.

Most importantly though, they don't know how to fix their behavior or optics as a conservative-lite party that only moves to the right now, that only "compromises" by giving ground for nothing in return.

If you're a socialist

If you're LGBTQ

If you're an environmentalist

If you're single-issue on healthcare

If you're bothered by the situation in Palestine

If you're a voting reformer

If you're any one of these things

Then you have NOTHING at this point, just a party where people who tried to speak for you and usually did so tactlessly and poorly, then started blaming you for the election saying "if only we were a little more conservative! Then we would have won the election!"

Sorry for the rather rambling post, but I think it should do a good job of expressing the core anger and dissatisfaction that's being felt, and why they're both not doing enough + look unpalatable to a huge chunk of their own voters now.
by PinkSheep | 2025-04-05 14:46:40+00:00
Without sarcasm, that's great. Now what is there to prevent me from scrolling up and down on a 16:9 display to read the left column of a 10k letter text and then the right column?

I see it has "length" and "min/max-content" properties... even if there are sufficiently many <p>aragraphs (for vertical splitting), inevitably enough paragraphs will be single column due short length. So it becomes a mix and match between "here we were able to split into columns, and here you get a full width single column text flow"?

PS: Oh and don't get me on the CSS used to determine mobile layouts. My 9:16 4K often enough triggers that degraded experience of mobile.
by markus_zhang | 2025-04-05 14:47:57+00:00
This is an interesting observation.

The difference between code completion, intellisense and AI coding, is that code completion merely gives you the name of a variable or a function, while AI coding thinks for you, which is really bad.

That's why I despise Copilot and other AI tools that are embedded in IDEs. I'm OK with ChatGPT because it is in a different window and I'm much inclined to use it -- and when I use it I try not to let ChatGPT think for me, but things like Copilot tries to get into my coding.
by globnomulous | 2025-04-05 14:48:09+00:00
Thanks, that was essentially the test. I've gotten into a number of disagreements with people on HN about whether LLMs are 'just' token predictors, whether they 'understand' (whatever we mean by that), whether there's a guiding intelligence, whether they're 'just' language calculators, etc.

As someone else in this thread nicely put it, the tools are being sold as a hop, skip, and jump away from AGI. They clearly aren't. ChatGPT tells us to "ask anything." I did that. There is no 'there' there with these tools. They aren't even dumb.
by yorwba | 2025-04-05 14:48:33+00:00
Yes, rare Chinese characters do show up in the training data (the rarest of them at least appear in lists of characters) and yes, they get tokenized as weird byte sequences, making the model work harder to process them, but it's better for that to happen to rare characters than to common words. It's a tradeoff.

And of course UTF-8 is unlikely to be the single best encoding (e.g. Anthropic has a tokenizer that turns all caps text into a special caps lock symbol plus the regular-case equivalent) but much of it is papered over by byte-pair encoding. E.g. the most important Latin letters appear often enough that they get dedicated tokens anyways.
by LorenDB | 2025-04-05 14:48:45+00:00
Here's a fun way that this project could be applied: Take a phone that has pretty good hardware support for postmarketOS. Install a bare bones pmOS image, plus this version of QEMU, and boot iOS on and Android phone. It probably would be possible to further customize QEMU to forward all the phone hardware (modem, Bluetooth, etc.) into the iOS VM.
by 2511 | 2025-04-05 14:48:57+00:00
but that's the thing. Its not novel. As in, I am inventing something. I see a gap and opportunity and began to execute.

I am worried about AI because it has reduced the entry barriers. Much easier now to write code or atleast build MVP and get traction. and that makes me question whether all this effort is futile if the only things giving me an edge os the early start.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-05 14:49:29+00:00
The distinction indeed needs to be drawn carefully, because as I understand you, you're not describing an "other side" compared to journalism - you're describing a thin intermediary layer between journalism and the kind of outlets like e.g. Top Gear, that let people treat them as a lighthearted but factual source, then occasionally do a hit job on something or someone, and when damage they did is pointed out, proclaim "but we are an entertainment program, not news, so we don't have any obligation to be factual and accurate!".

Because of such cases, when I see someone (like you here) argue "X is not a journalist, Y is not a news program", my mind automatically pattern-matches this to ", therefore it has no obligation to tell the truth, despite the fact that they let people believe they're journalists/news". Which is not what you meant here, but common enough that I doubt this is just mine knee-jerk reaction.
by throwanem | 2025-04-05 14:50:08+00:00
I'm completely lost.

You raise sources I've never seen, I evaluate them as fairly as I can, you don't like the result so I'm arguing in bad faith.

I mentioned incidence, one source raised to try to counter not only relates to prevalence rather than incidence but explains why this matters, but when I point out that a source you chose itself disclaims support for how you want to use it, I'm arguing in bad faith.

I still don't even know what kind of pernicious dishonesty I'm meant to be advancing here, but sure, if you like then apparently I'm setting some kind of trap, in service of good God, I still don't know what.

I don't know who you imagine yourself to be at war with here, but whoever you're talking to clearly isn't me, so...I don't know, good luck with the rest of your day, I guess. You're not wrong we both have better ways to spend our time, at least.
by sofixa | 2025-04-05 14:50:17+00:00
If Docker Swarm is on the table (it's practically abandonware), I'd like to throw in Nomad by HashiCorp. It's also fairly lightweight, very flexible (can run various types of containers but also exec any executable), decent ecosystem (supports CNI and CSI). It can scale from single node control plane + workloads to tens of thousands of nodes, and the workers can also be geographically spread out (different regions/zones/dcs).

A few years back I wrote about it, and most of the core principles of the article are still valid:

https://atodorov.me/2021/02/27/why-you-should-take-a-look-at...

Disclaimer: I work at HashiCorp, but I've had that opinion since before joining and in fact it's among the reasons I joined
by rayiner | 2025-04-05 14:50:18+00:00
> Based on that prediction, the top-of-the-line iPhone 16 Pro Max model with 1TB of storage could rise from $1,599 to nearly $2,300 in the U.S., should Apple actually follow through with raising prices by 43% to offset the cost of tariffs.

That… seems fine? An iPhone 16 Pro Max with 1TB is 1,979 euro on the French Apple store, or about $2,169. Somehow the French manage?
by Karliss | 2025-04-05 14:50:31+00:00
I doubt there was a direct inspiration in either direction beside contributing to overall pool of ideas around wearable input devices. Only commonality I see is that they are both handheld/glove like computer input devices. Nerds and sci-fi authors have been dreaming about stuff like that since the beginning of personal computers in ~1970s-1980s if not earlier. There are plenty of other examples which could have been inspiration. Even the 2000 patent, references dozen older patents for handheld or glove like input devices some of which are much closer to the 2006 movie.

Looking at the history of wearable electronics can't forget about Steve Mann and all his crazy prototypes long before 2000.

Most well known movie examples are probably Minority report(2002) and The Wizard(1989) which showed Nintendo power glove.