MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by nkrisc | 2025-04-03 10:20:58+00:00
You’ve hit the nail on the head. The platforms of political parties are amalgamations of specific interests and agendas, and not necessarily a cohesive world view born of an aligned set of principles. Most (all) political parties have positions that conflict logically, spiritually, or practically. Yes, that includes your preferred party on the right or left.

So anyone who’s views align perfectly with a party are probably just parroting what they’ve heard because no sensible individual would arrive at that set of values naturally on their own; it would - and does - take some serious mental gymnastics to hold these contradictory values in your head.
by tim333 | 2025-04-03 10:21:16+00:00
I agree. Also a lot of Trump's eccentricities would seem to come from Peale and Positive Thinking https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/10/how-self-help-author-norman-...

That basically pushed the belief that if you believe something enough the universe will make it so, such as 'I won in 2020'.
by soulofmischief | 2025-04-03 10:21:44+00:00
What this analysis is missing is Project 2025. The Heritage Foundation and a hundred other conservative thinktanks, as well as half of Congress are all in on a singular plan to transform America into a backwater shit hole. Trump might earnestly believe these things, but he is not the source of most of his ideas. They are spoonfed to him.
by aa-jv | 2025-04-03 10:23:31+00:00
>The golden prize for America's enemies is to remove the US dollar as a global reserve currency.

Its also the golden prize for America's victims, it has to be said.

We can't keep propping up the USA as a moral position to aspire to, when that state continually gets away with mass murder and human rights violations beyond the scale of any other peer.

The USA is the worlds #1 funder of terrorism, and violator of international law on the subject of war.

So its not just about 'enemies'. Its really about victims.
by bregma | 2025-04-03 10:23:53+00:00
It's not "dumping the dollar" that would be a concern. It's bumping US federal treasury bills (the US debt) which are mostly held by China, the UK, Luxembourg, and Canada. If the latter three just dump their T-bills in retaliation (and do nothing else) the dollar will bottom out. Also, the likely buyer is China. End result: China owns the US and the RMB becomes the new reserve currency.
by noduerme | 2025-04-03 10:23:58+00:00
uh... are you being ironic?

Do you know what's going on to average citizens in North Korea?

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

Do you know that showing ANY anti-war symbol in Russia against the invasion of Ukraine will get you arrested?

Do you know how many Tibetans put their lives on the line to organize resistance in Tibet, now, against the genocidal CCP?

Do you know anything about the civil war in Sudan?

So

if the worst human rights abusers in your mind are America, the UK, France and Germany, is that because those are the only countries you can name? Or because you don't understand what the rest of the world is?
by pembrook | 2025-04-03 10:24:10+00:00
Yep, and if you respect the tariff, you don't get fined. How hard is it?

"THE LAW IS THE LAW" is not an logical argument. Tariffs are also imposed via legislation (laws).

Just as EU companies have to abide by EU privacy regs, US firms also have to abide by US tariff regs.
by arlort | 2025-04-03 10:24:29+00:00
VAT applies equally to domestic and foreign companies. It's a tax.

Tariffs and barriers to trade are measures meant to incentivize production in the country imposing them. That's what free trade is meant to get rid of, that's why Trump is so keen on tariffs and likes them

If a company moved a production line to within the EU from outside because of VAT they'd still have to pay the same exact amount of VAT as they did before. It's just not an incentive in that sense
by 6510 | 2025-04-03 10:24:46+00:00
Funny you mention that, I just wrote a bunch of arithmetic functions in js because floats cant be trusted. It was a tad more work than I expected but thats fine. Even I thought it was a tad silly but when I had to check if the results were correct and compared them in some big number calculators from the top of google it turned out not to match.

What do you think? 2/3 with 10 digits behind the dot in accuracy. Should that be 0.6666666666 or 0.6666666667 ? If I later add 1/3 to it my result is 1 which seems more correct?
by lupusreal | 2025-04-03 10:26:30+00:00
I think one of the distinguishing characteristics of tribalism is the inability to have low-stakes conversations about politics. To somebody who is deep in tribalism, every private ephemeral one-to-one conversation they have is a vital battle which very well may decide the fate of the world, so their vigilance and inflamed passion entirely justified and rational. Being a part of the tribe ruins their humility, the tribe is important, they are wed to the tribe, any political discussion they have is on behave of the tribe, and therefore very important. Alliance with the tribe confers importance to themselves and they thereby lose their humility. They lose the ability to recognize that the conversation isn't actually important, that they can relax and treat the other person like a human rather than a faceless representative of the enemy who they have a vital responsibility to defeat.
by ehnto | 2025-04-03 10:27:11+00:00
Adam Neely and his band Sungazer did an interesting live experiment with his audiences, to figure out the slowest beat or pulse that people would be able to "feel" and dance to. Slowest possible isn't really as interesting in my opinion as slowest practical, which I think Neely and co's experiment explored. The track was Threshold on the album Perihelion.

The whole album explored beat, pulse and timings as it relates to how people can actually feel and interact with music. Really interesting!
by cxr | 2025-04-03 10:27:16+00:00
> I look at a lot of books. I don't think you've summarized them well here. I suggest you look at more yourself. You're missing a lot of beautiful art.

This comment is pretty obnoxious. (I've stepped into a library, thanks.)

For all the books that you're thinking of that don't fit the mold, when you put that set up against the set of those that do, it's not even close.

I'm not talking about hypotheticals (i.e. the potential for stuff that could be made that deviates from the norm) or creative works that really exist but only at the margins (i.e. in small numbers by comparison). I'm talking about what people actually produce and consume in large numbers and the average experience for each context/form.

There is undeniably a lot more homogeneity in books than blogs to a large degree. It's something like over a hundred or a thousand to 1.
by theGeatZhopa | 2025-04-03 10:27:52+00:00
one quick reason: if amazon has my data, then they'll work with it. Depending on my AOB (area of business), amazon won't be a competitor for my. Also, they won't use the data in a big & disrupting competition based on customer data, because then no company will use their services anymore for sure. So, there is a slight barrier of data-usage. Also, contracts are in play and for sure amazon does have a clause like "your data is safe. Only you can see the data" in the contracts.

With AI like chatgpt, your data is their business and their business is also the competitors of yours. You can't control who is using it (potentially the whole world), you can't control what & how it is used (potentially everything) and you don't have any control about YOUR data, which is also produced by YOU with YOUR money. AI is trained on that and use it without paying, f.e.

so, having providers saying "we dont use your data" and having AI providers saying "we use your data" - its a trust issue and an issue of disclosing crucial business intelligence so your competitor can save on money building that knowledge..

something like this.
by xrd | 2025-04-03 10:27:58+00:00
I saw a post on X which said it was "vibe tariffing" and I think the person was speculating that the tariffs were probably generated using an LLM and saying "make me a tariff chart with ALL the countries and each one about 25% but randomize them."

That's the only plausible explanation I can see. A human with any brains wouldn't put tariffs on islands only populated by penguins.

Doge should look into this inefficiency.
by mirzap | 2025-04-03 10:29:46+00:00
Let's imagine they do come back. Let's say you have a toaster factory in Vietnam, which allows the US company to produce low-cost toasters for about $100. The factory workers earn $1 per hour. Now, due to the tariffs, a toaster will cost $146. And you say, "Okay, they just need to move their factory to the US and then the problem will be solved - no more tariffs. " Fine. Do you really think a US worker will work for $1 per hour? Even if you automate 80% of the factory, you still won't offset the 46% tariff. You will never get a toaster priced at $100. More likely, it will be $300.
by moffkalast | 2025-04-03 10:30:23+00:00
> The experience is great.

Aside from it being a principled thing, Linux does work a lot better on older machines. Newer hardware tends to have shit driver support for a few years.

Like my 10 year old Asus laptop which is supposed to have horrid Linux compatibility runs multiple versions of Ubuntu with KDE perfectly, with only bluetooth crapping out occasionally.

A new Lenovo laptop that we just got at work that's supposed to be tested with linux? Completely broken, can't adjust the display brightness, can't read the battery level, touchpad doesn't work, and more. I'm sure it'll be sorted out by Ubuntu 26 or whatever, but damn is it a crap experience. Using linux on a machine that's less than 5 years old is already too bleeding edge for productivity.
by GavCo | 2025-04-03 10:30:27+00:00
Fully agree. The physics of solar panels on cars just doesn't work. It's bizarre that this is actively pursued by startups and concept cars from large manufacturers when it takes just quick back-of-the-napkin math to see.

A car has about 5 m^2 of flat space on the roof/hood/trunk so that's the maximum surface area that can capture solar energy at any given time.

The total energy to hit the area is 1000 w/m^2.

The panels can't rotate to track the sun so the effective area is the cosine of the angle. So you end up with about half the amount of effective sunlight hours as the actual daylight hours. So in summer you get about 6 hours of effective sunlight.

Good panels in real world conditions can give you 22% efficiency.

So in optimal conditions you get: 5 * 1000 * 6 * 0.22 = 6.6 kwh

That will reflect your best days. It can be dramatically less if it's cloudy, overcast, winter, far from the equator, car is dirty, parked in shade, etc.

6.6 kwh is about one tenth of the battery in my Hyundai Kona EV. With very conservative highway driving, 6.6 kwh can get about 40km of range and about 50km in city driving. It's what I get from plugging into my home charger for 30 min and what you get from a fast charger in about 3 minutes.

So besides some very niche uses, there's no sense in massively increasing the cost and complexity of a car by installing solar panels. Far better to put the panel on the roof of parking and just plug in for a few minutes while you park.
by rafaelmn | 2025-04-03 10:30:47+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. He created an environment where tighter EU integration might take precedence over petty interest squabbles. For example in what other scenario would Germany making massive investments in military be politically acceptable ? Even talking about military on EU level ?

Framing this as purely a win for China and Russia is very partisan, this has potential for all non-US countries to get away from under US thumb long term and at least for that we should be grateful to mr. Trump, from his foreign policy it seems like he is not interested in those games as he views them a net loss for US.

And the Greenland situation is showing us exactly what happens when you position yourself as leech on US military/NATO.
by olau | 2025-04-03 10:31:29+00:00
I have also dealt with EU compliance, and I have never seen the EU act quickly on anything concerning business. It's a slow, bureaucratic institution.

With all due respect, when you are given years to comply, the problem is not that the timeline is impossible, but that your organization chooses to ignore the regulation.

If the same laws had been passed in the US, the company would have complied already.
by bartread | 2025-04-03 10:31:50+00:00
> If being able to replace a part requires me to have a screwdriver (literally a Philips one should do), the component, and no additional PhD or bravery coming from youth, inexperience or both, I will welcome it with open arms.

You have to understand though that people like us are a tiny minority.

Increasingly I hate creating waste, especially e-waste, and so I'll tinker with things to get them working or upgrade them, but most people don't want the hassle.
by GeneralMayhem | 2025-04-03 10:32:30+00:00
I don't think you're disagreeing with me. The comment I responded to says that calling Trump voters ignoramuses was -

> trying to find an easy way to avoid the conclusion that the majority of them are sane and rational people who liked what he was saying.

My point is that to vote Republican in 2024 you must either be insane, irrational, or outright evil. It doesn't make you that way, it reveals that you already were.

> Many people who voted for tribe X voted for tribe Y a few years back. Have these people irredeemably changed in your eyes?

I think that Biden->Trump voters, or Obama->Trump voters, are incredibly stupid or short-sighted. There is no good reason to have done that. If you were a consistent Republican voter you might instead be a selfish racist piece of shit, but if you've switched from the Democrats in recent years the only option I have is to assume you're a gullible idiot.

And to be clear, yes, I think this is specific to the time we're in. I don't think I'd say this in 2000, for instance - it was pretty obvious that W was not going to be a good president, but he was not an incomprehensible choice, and you could imagine people who thought Gore's brand was tainted by association with Clinton's various forms of griminess. But Trump and his merry band of lunatics are not simply "the other tribe". They are an obvious and unprecedented threat no matter what your values are, unless your only value is breaking shit for the lulz.
by James_K | 2025-04-03 10:32:31+00:00
It's pretty obvious to me that this LLM business won't be economically feasible until it can actually produce better code than a team of humans could without it. The reason programmers are paid so highly is because their work is incredibly productive and valuable. One programmer can enable and improve the work of many hundreds of other people. Cost cutting on the programmer isn't worth it because it'll create greater losses in other places. Hence the high salaries. Every saving you make on the programmer is magnified a hundred times in losses elsewhere.
by beaker52 | 2025-04-03 10:32:40+00:00
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by ta20240528 | 2025-04-03 10:32:59+00:00
"The golden prize for America's enemies is to remove the US dollar as a global reserve currency."

I would argue that for this to become even remotely possible, America's list of enemies must not automatically become everyone else's enemies too.

that is to say: the USA's secondary statutes have to become ineffective.

To do this, the EU's blocking statutes (to ignore secondary sanctions) have to be effective. Right now Europe's own companies just ignore the statutes to keep their US trade.

To make the blocking statues effective, the EU's own research recommended fines/sanctions/bans/… on licences for foreign (read US) banks, and companies that ignore the statue and don't serve EU companies trading with sanctioned countries.

But to do that, the EU would need alternatives to American services.

Power and influence follow sovereignty.

€0,02
by panstromek | 2025-04-03 10:33:00+00:00
Alex Russel did a lot of writing on this and posts yearly updates based on the state of the phone market. You can pick median, P75 or P95 device based on the analysis and set up targets based on that.

https://infrequently.org/2024/01/performance-inequality-gap-...

I did it the simple way and bought a first item in "sort by cheapest" smartphone list. That's Alcatel 1, and it's extremely underpowered. It's maybe a bit overkill, but if something runs on that device, it will run amazing on anything else.
by h4ny | 2025-04-03 10:33:07+00:00
> and they expect the coming storm because they seek what follows.

Well, a lot of economists, including one Nobel Prize winner (Paul Krugman) have commented on this being a bad idea for the economy...

On the off chance that those people who are supposed to know what they are talking about are all wrong and haven't thought about it being some genius diversion tactics -- it's generally still a pretty bad idea for a government to effectively ask everyone to "tough it out" and "just trust me bro".

It's really disappointing that people are actually trying to theorize this as some kind of genius plan. It doesn't take a genius to figure out the amount of irreparable damage they have already done to regular folks is unacceptable (uh... I'm sure some nutters out there think that DOGE is keeping track of all the damages they have done and will pay everyone once their genius plans have worked out).

That kind of logic really amazes me.
by bryanrasmussen | 2025-04-03 10:33:37+00:00
>Use thrift stores, especially ones that give deep discounts for needy parents. No government will help you buy nicer things.

yeah, but I don't think there are useful thrift stores that will help you replace

8 windows

1 balcony door

a shower head every couple of months (maybe that sure, and they're cheap anyway, but it adds up)

a mac m1

2 tablets

1 phone

my front tooth (jumped up and hit me with his forehead, likes to hit things with his forehead, enjoys the sensation, knocked out my tooth)

damage to the floor when he broke the futon and the couch (although sure, the futon and couch can be taken care of from thrift stores of some sort)

the chain lock to the front door (Which freaked out my older daughter and sort of made me, huh, this thing sure wouldn't have stopped a really determined intruder)

and the stairs to upstairs (jumped up and down on it descending, and he is heavy and strong for his age)

stove, dishwasher, and washing machine and also maybe he was the one who broke the refrigerator - not sure. But he has damaged the new one which has a bunch of bumps in the metal front where he has hit it with his head.

aside from which, yes, he has destroyed lots of his clothes by chewing through them and he eats at least twice as much as what the country believe a child his age eats.

obviously the above list is what he has broken in the space of 4 years, and some of it we are not fixing but living with it broken (floor, stairs) but that is because we can't afford to fix it.
Show HN: Toutui – Listen to your audiobooks and podcasts in your terminal
by WoooowSplendide | 2025-04-03 10:33:49+00:00
Hi everyone,

These last weeks, I really enjoyed building Toutui: a TUI audiobookshelf client for Linux ans macOS (written in Rust and I used Ratatui for TUI).

With this app, you can listen to your audiobooks and podcasts (from an audiobookshelf server) while keeping your progress and stats in sync.

Any feedback is welcome.

Thanks!
by lm28469 | 2025-04-03 10:34:46+00:00
> This is highly debatable.

Even at 10x you're still a far cry from fossils related deaths, every single year

> Because those who refuse to be exposed to induced risks can prevent most of it

??? In cities the bulk of deaths are cyclists/pedestrians, not even talking about air pollution due to exhaust fumes being produces en masse right in front of people's flats. 1/5 of road deaths in EU are pedestrians

> thanks to nuclear waste

Coal power plants are literally generating more radioactive ematerial than nuclear power plants lmao: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-...

The entire french nuclear waste, since the 70s, would fit in a cube with a side length of 15m... The one that matter: <3% of the total waste, the rest is low radioactivity/short half life waste
by 0xy | 2025-04-03 10:35:28+00:00
DMA is applied equally, you say. How interesting! Can you link me to the examples of the EU going after EU companies for DMA violations? I couldn't find a single one. Not a single case, ever.

The EU wanted to fine Google $35,000,000,000 under DMA. That's a backdoor tax. No European tech company faces this scrutiny. Never have, never will -- because the DMA is a tax on the United States.

It's also interesting that the Google and Meta DMA fines are expected to land in the next week. What a timing coincidence, almost like it's retaliatory (as many articles have suggested).
by hollerith | 2025-04-03 10:35:34+00:00
>watching the Apple supply chain capsize.

A professional geographer says that Apple is almost unique among major American corporations in how dependent they have chosen to become on Chinese manufacturing. The US economy is in fact much less dependent on international trade than places like China, Germany, the Netherlands and most of the developing nations are. This self-sufficiency of the US economy has been true for at least a century (with a notable exception that the US was dependent on oil imports from about 1960 to 2018, which had the full attention of the US national-security establishment because of how important access to oil is during war).

You don't hear about that much because the small parts of the US economy (mostly in the professional-managerial class) that profits the most from trade with China has been effective at convincing the public that the trade is more vital than it actually is. (Note that most Americans don't even know that the US economy is no longer dependent on oil imports.)

And Apple will survive their mistake.

I'm not a fan of Trump, but I'm even less a fan of the ideology that Mearsheimer calls "liberal hegemony" that is so quick to wage war on any non-democracy anywhere in the world no matter how tangential to American national security interests and no matter how awful and large the number who have died or become refugees in places like Iraq, Libya, Ukraine and Syria because of past applications of this ideological commitment.
by bell-cot | 2025-04-03 10:36:00+00:00
Outlook, Gmail, etc. are (1) very familiar, (2) have always presented themselves as "just like having your own server in your own server closet...but without all the hassles", and (3) offer all sorts of access controls, to (in theory) regulate exactly who at my company has read & write access to which bits of data.

In the current perception, AI offers none of those.