MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by ZpJuUuNaQ5 | 2025-04-03 18:56:28+00:00
>Most people don't have political views, they have political tribes

Agree with this. Also, I do believe most people are appallingly stupid (I might not not be an exception either), cruel and easy to manipulate, and as a result are incapable of making rational decisions that benefit society as a whole. I try to never ever discuss politics with anyone, it's one of the most damaging and useless activities there is.

Usually, interactions with people on (arguably) political issues just leave me stupefied - no, I don't think people born in certain geographical locations are subhuman because of decisions of their current government; no, I don't hate nor wish death and suffering to anyone; no, I don't think the war is necessary and I don't want anyone to be blown to bits by a drone; no, I don't think artificial lines on a map ("countries") define who is wrong and who is right and worth throwing your only life away for; no, I don't think decisions of the government reflect the opinion of the entire population of that country; yes, I do think people I disagree with are real human beings with capabilities of sense, emotion, and thought just like I am; and the list goes on and on. Anyway, most people have a very different idea on the aforementioned examples. I don't care about the replies, just wanted to offload this filth off my head somewhat.
by sjsdaiuasgdia | 2025-04-03 18:56:49+00:00
“WILL THERE BE SOME PAIN? YES, MAYBE (AND MAYBE NOT!),” Trump said in a social media post. “BUT WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE THAT MUST BE PAID.”

https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-china...

Or as Lord Farquaad put it: "Some of you may die, but it's a sacrifice I'm willing to make."
by no_wizard | 2025-04-03 18:57:09+00:00
one fundamental attribute of intelligence is the ability to demonstrate reasoning in new and otherwise unknown situations. There is no system that I am currently aware of that works on data it is not trained on.

Another is the fundamental inability to self update on outdated information. It is incapable of doing that, which means it lacks another marker, which is being able to respond to changes of context effectively. Ants can do this. LLMs can't.
by ryao | 2025-04-03 18:57:57+00:00
Did they also set IP_TTL to set the TTL value to match the platform being impersonated?

If not, then fingerprinting could still be done to some extent at the IP layer. If the TTL value in the IP layer is below 64, it is obvious this is either not running on modern Windows or is running on a modern Windows machine that has had its default TTL changed, since by default the TTL of packets on modern Windows starts at 128 while most other platforms start it at 64. Since the other platforms do not have issues communicating over the internet, so IP packets from modern Windows will always be seen by the remote end with TTLs at or above 64 (likely just above).

That said, it would be difficult to fingerprint at the IP layer, although it is not impossible.
by raytopia | 2025-04-03 18:58:12+00:00
There's a theory going around that the administration wants to crash the market so they can buy everything up for cheap, in a similar way to what happened in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union.

At the same time though it seems like the current president has always been pro tariffs even though they are almost always bad for a economy, the reason why the admin is applying a lot more of them is because almost everyone left in the admin's circle is a yes men.
by jerrygenser | 2025-04-03 18:58:14+00:00
This is a regressive tax that hurts low skill and low wage workers proportionately more since basic necessities of life are going to increase in price - it will be a much larger share of wallet than rich. This will not materially change purchasing behavior of very rich (save maybe waiting to buy a car due to increased pricecs)

It would be beneficial to increase taxes on the massive service economy and use the proceeds to subsidize lower wage industries.

In trumps first term after tariffs affected farmers, they had to subisidize them to keep them afloat. It didn't quite work the way it was intended. The trade war relief program in the first term spent $30bn keeping farmers afloat.
by Qworg | 2025-04-03 18:58:17+00:00
I'm not saying it has to be perfect.

I'm saying that this outcome will never exist because more has changed than just the plant closing. If we coupled "reopen the plant" with "the plant makes entirely new things" and "the plant trains local workers to take these jobs" and "the plant pays above local service/construction wages" and "the plant will be successful in geopolitical competition" and "the plant can do 10x the amount of business due to advances in automation to get to the same level of employment" and on and on.

We could solve _each_ of these problems, absolutely - but they are all interlocking parts of a wicked problem. Blowing up the economy and threatening a global recession won't actually solve any of these.
by wruza | 2025-04-03 18:58:42+00:00
That's why I erase sshd_config and put what I really meant there. You may say "but isn't it better to patch it properly?". It is not. Yet another vps hoster –> yet another /etc/ssh directory template that may have all sorts of access issues in it. Better to replace it and make it do exactly what you have planned.
by NortySpock | 2025-04-03 18:58:44+00:00
"minimum 10% tariff on all imported goods and materials" certainly sounds like a way to increase costs.

Increasing costs seems generally worse for an economy than decreasing costs.

I feel like most people could follow this logical chain of reasoning to a conclusion of "thus you have a elevated risk for an economic recession compared to the state of affairs before the tariffs."
by kelseyfrog | 2025-04-03 18:58:50+00:00
It's even worse - the more we believe ourselves to be rational, the bigger blind spot we have for our own rationalizing behavior. The best way to increase rationality is to believe oneself to be rationalizing!

It's one of the reasons I don't trust bayesians who present posteriors and omit priors. The cargo cult rigor blinds them to their own rationalization in the highest degree.
by rebeccaskinner | 2025-04-03 18:58:56+00:00
> I reject this idea, someone voting for the "least worst candidate" does not wholly endorse everything they stand for

The thing about values is that they don't just capture the notion of what we thing is right or wrong, but also which things we value over other things. In an extreme case, two people can agree on 10 out of 10 different ideals or ethical stances and still have different values and support different parties because of how they rank those things.

In that case who you think is the "least worst" is also a reflection of values, as is declaring both sides to be the same, or opting out altogether. They all represent both what things you value and how much you value them.
by anigbrowl | 2025-04-03 18:59:01+00:00
YES. About ~30% of people appear willing to experience a loss as long as they believe they're inflicting a greater loss upon other people, and this personality type is baked in young. In my vier it's not a coincidence that polled support for Trump consistently hovers around 30%.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600451

Not all policy is rational. Oftentimes it's atavistic. Surely you have noticed by now that Trump deals in emotional arguments, not reasoned ones.
by 9rx | 2025-04-03 18:59:37+00:00
> How does a government work under this theory?

It sometimes doesn't. Governments have failed many times throughout history.

But assuming a typical state of government affairs: Obligation. An obligation to oneself, to one's peers, and perhaps even to force. One is normally compelled to see government work – because they want it to, or, at very least, are afraid of the consequences if it doesn't.

None of that seems to apply in this case, though. So, again, if you remove the concept of being compelled, what is "obligation" trying to communicate?
by brightlancer | 2025-04-03 18:59:45+00:00
> "healthcare should be for everyone" is a great claim to make. but then the question is implementation. how will you get rid of the current system and replace it with a more equitable one?

And as importantly, what does "more equitable" or "fairer" mean? More broadly, how do people define "better"?

In the US, a major issue is that The D and The R have radically different ideas of what those words mean, even though they agree on the high level objectives like "healthcare should be for everyone".
by CM30 | 2025-04-03 18:59:57+00:00
The domains do seem to be yours, since both services let you transfer the domain away:

https://support.wix.com/en/article/transferring-your-wix-dom...

https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205812338-...

As far as I know, their SEO is fine, though they'll usually do worse in things like page speed than a site built from the ground up. I don't recall any sites my previous employers built with said services struggling to rank in Google.

As for whether they'd be recommended? Well to be honest, I'd say only for small companies and individuals who need the most basic of websites and don't fancy paying very much for it. For a client in that situation, you may as well just throw together a quick site on one of these services, change a few images and colours and call it a day. At least then they won't keep coming to you for web hosting help or updates.
by mr_toad | 2025-04-03 19:00:10+00:00
> Leftist-anarchists want to keep power to an absolute minimum. Usually relying on a combination of culture and group action to wield just enough power to prevent the growth of unchecked power in the hands of a few.

Most anarchists, just like hard-line communists, seem totally opposed to the idea of private capital at all. To me this seems just as bad and unworkable as allowing unchecked use of capital accumulation for political gain.
by xg15 | 2025-04-03 19:00:29+00:00
> There’s no specific reason why the reported Chain-of-Thought must accurately reflect the true reasoning process;

Isn't the whole reason for chain-of-thought that the tokens sort of are the reasoning process?

Yes, there is more internal state in the model's hidden layers while it predicts the next token - but that information is gone at the end of that prediction pass. The information that is kept "between one token and the next" is really only the tokens themselves, right? So in that sense, the OP would be wrong.

Of course we don't know what kind of information the model encodes in the specific token choices - I.e. the tokens might not mean to the model what we think they mean.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-03 19:00:47+00:00
Thanks! English is not my first language, and I still have problem with this particular thing.

(IIRC use of "whom" was never covered in my English classes; I only learned about it from StarGate: SG-1, a show in which one of the main characters had a habit of mocking enemies by correcting their grammar.)
by perihelions | 2025-04-03 19:00:53+00:00
I believe OP intended to link to this page, which is a text article and a self-hosted (esa.int) video,

https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2025/04/Space_Debr... ("Space Debris: Is it a Crisis?")

The page is borked in a way that makes it tricky to find its canonical link.

They've separately mirrored their documentary on YT, which is here,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIsPbysinKw
by BoingBoomTschak | 2025-04-03 19:00:54+00:00
You should mind that old saying about not being so open-minded that your brain falls out.

While the questions "what is art" and "what is beauty" are indeed interesting, this doesn't help in any way.

There's no substance, it wouldn't get a thousandth of this attention if it was made by a nobody and isn't even fit to be called a meme: it's something between outrage bait and an insipid conversation piece, a transparent (thus vulgar) case of "muddying the water to make it seem deep". But the whole intellectual "class" being so devoid of people upright enough to call out the naked emperor is much less benign than that: a clear symptom of decadence.
by tasty_freeze | 2025-04-03 19:00:56+00:00
Humans sometimes draw a diagram to help them think about some problem they are trying to solve. The paper contains nothing that the brain didn't already know. However, it is often an effective technique.

Part of that is to keep the most salient details front and center, and part of it is that the brain isn't fully connected, which allows (in this case) the visual system to use its processing abilities to work on a problem from a different angle than keeping all the information in the conceptual domain.
by franzb | 2025-04-03 19:01:00+00:00
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by justonenote | 2025-04-03 19:01:10+00:00
> it all rests on (relatively) simple mathematics. We know this is true. We also know that means it has limitations and can't actually reason information.

What do you imagine is happening inside biological minds that enables reasoning that is something different to, a lot of, "simple mathematics"?

You state that because it is built up of simple mathematics it cannot be reasoning, but this does not follow at all, unless you can posit some other mechanism that gives rise to intelligence and reasoning that is not able to be modelled mathematically.
by kacesensitive | 2025-04-03 19:01:20+00:00
You're right that "progressive" technically refers to how tax burdens increase with income, and by that measure, the U.S. looks progressive because high earners pay a large share. But that doesn’t mean the system is actually effective at reducing inequality.

What matters is outcomes, and the U.S. system—compared to other developed nations—does far less to redistribute wealth or fund robust public services. Other countries raise more revenue overall (often through broader-based taxes like VAT), and they spend it more equitably. So yes, technically progressive—but practically insufficient.
by pie_flavor | 2025-04-03 19:01:28+00:00
> Others have suggested the Switch 2 is one of the best endorsements for buying a Steam Deck.

If Nintendo charges $80 for games, this will normalize it, so everyone else will too. It won't be a difference between the consoles for long. The console, from the footage they've shown off, seems more powerful than the Deck, if the Cyberpunk footage is authentic.

Meanwhile, a detachable controller has already been their single leg up on Steam Deck, and now it's also a detachable mouse. This will actually be a better experience than the Deck (assuming the mouse doesn't hurt your hand). The Deck has best-in-class controller support as well as touchpads, but if the game does not seamlessly support simultaneous controller and KBM inputs, then you have to either map the touchpad to a control stick and deal with curving which sucks, or map all the buttons to keys and the left stick to WASD, and sticks for non-analog input also sucks. Whereas on the Switch, the mouse is just a mouse.
by inglor_cz | 2025-04-03 19:01:32+00:00
"because we're exploiting poorer people in markets with fewer worker protections and fewer environmental protections"

This can easily be overdone. If you stop doing business with poorer people, you all but guarantee that they stay poor. Counter-productive to say the least.

In my lifetime, I saw a lot of countries grow at least somewhat wealthy from extensive commercial contact with the West, including mine (Czechia).
by davorak | 2025-04-03 19:02:19+00:00
cma's question was to me, after my comment, not to you. You are inserting your interruption into that. You argued that cma's question had a very particular interruption, sort of speaking for them, let them speak for themselves, or at least I am not interested in dissecting their comment's meaning with you. edit or maybe a better way to put it is that I can not have a conversation with you when you seem to be trying to speak for them.
by overfeed | 2025-04-03 19:02:49+00:00
Leverage over importers, i.e. all of industry. If you're a captain of industry and want an exemption or a lowered rate, they you approach the deal table, cap in hand, with tears in your eyes and beg like a dog. "Please, sir..."

In return for a minor reprieve, you ensure your factory bathrooms and hiring policies are aligned with the president's agenda, among many other things. This can be a cudgel over the heads of the Apples and Costcos of this country who dare to defy the edicts of POTUS on social policy.
by _heimdall | 2025-04-03 19:02:55+00:00
Yep that's fair.

I had said this somewhere else in the thread as well, but domestic production is a pretty bad idea if success metrics revolve around prices, quantity, or some specific quality metrics.

Where it would potentially be a good approach is if the primary goals are relates to self reliance, sustainability, resilience, etc. I don't think many people actually care about that at the national level though, and our economy as-is almost certainly couldn't allow it.
by voidspark | 2025-04-03 19:03:22+00:00
But that's exactly what these deep neural networks have shown, countless times. LLM's generalize on new data outside of its training set. It's called "zero shot learning" where they can solve problems that are not in their training set.

AlphaGo Zero is another example. AlphaGo Zero mastered Go from scratch, beating professional players with moves it was never trained on

> Another is the fundamental inability to self update

That's an engineering decision, not a fundamental limitation. They could engineer a solution for the model to initiate its own training sequence, if they decide to enable that.
by Aurornis | 2025-04-03 19:03:31+00:00
> Their life is already meeting every economic headwind imaginable.

Then they’ve failed to imagine how much more difficult their life will become under excessive tariffs.

It’s also eye-opening to watch so many people in my extended family and social network cheer on DOGE and tariffs right until they impact their own jobs. Lot of people out there didn’t connect the dots about how their own jobs were going to be impacted by tariffs.
by Domenic_S | 2025-04-03 19:03:53+00:00
NPR did in their February article about DOGE; their story is ostensibly that out of everything claimed, NPR could verify “only” $2B in cuts which they present as meaningless:

> NPR's analysis found that, of its verifiable work completed so far, DOGE has cut just $2 billion in spending — less than three hundredths of a percent of last fiscal year's federal spending.

> "Think of Congress and its budget as the debt-ridden dad on the way to buy a $250,000 Ferrari on the credit card, and DOGE is the $2 off gas card he used along the way," Riedl said. "It's great that he saved $2 on gas, but I think his wife may be more concerned about the $250,000 car."

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/19/nx-s1-5302705/doge-overstates...
by dzhiurgis | 2025-04-03 19:04:01+00:00
Sorry, but onus of evidence is on you. You are trying to manufacture an agenda. Who are the nazis?

P.S. where’s your scrutiny for every other politician who made a salute.

P.P.S. Elon’s “mistake” was supporting AfD who is often smeared with nazi’s, because it’s an easy target. It’s a far right party and nazis are super illegal in Germany.
by rat87 | 2025-04-03 19:04:17+00:00
> Everyone is quick to deride this move as stupid. I don’t disagree that there are downsides to the approach, but there is a set of very real national problems that this might address.

Because it is stupid. It's important to point out that this is stupid and not only doesn't help with problems that come with the benefits of globalization but makes it worse. How will a deep recession fox anything? Including debt(which is high but manageable under a sane government)
by timacles | 2025-04-03 19:04:45+00:00
> Painting all billionaires as the problem

Strongly encourage you to learn about their favorite money making concepts of passive income and compound interest. And other various "financial engineering" techniques corporations are engaging in.

These guys make more money taking a dump than 1000 US workers doing hard labor. I'm sure they are like 1000x more genius that most people but I doubt you could make an argument where a system that rewards this sort of behavior, while contributing absolutely 0 net value to society can also coexist in harmony with the rest of us.

When the most efficient methods of accruing wealth are literally predicated on profiting from doing nothing, they are not the signs of a healthy society.
by dogleash | 2025-04-03 19:05:32+00:00
> I think the original, parent comment was coming from a much more generous place.

I don't. Equating questioning a piece with willful ignorance and a safe-to-hate caricature all smell of bile to me.

"nerds too nerd to art" (more specifically in this case "hustler too hustle for art") is just a grade school putdown we use as artists to perpetuate the inaccessibility of art conversations and keep our cool mystique up.
by raggi | 2025-04-03 19:05:48+00:00
There’s SSHFP, but it’s off by default and assumes an attacker can’t modify dns, though most mitms would be executed with dns and dnssec deployment is generally a disaster.

Currently their host key page is only linked once at the bottom of their page and isn’t referenced in any onboarding docs, so effectively onboarding encourages “yolo”, and if users aren’t savvy they’re likely putting other things at risk, whatever their keys happen to also have access to.

The other argument that comes up here then is “well mitms are rare so this doesn’t seem like a big problem in practice”, however there are actually great targets here, for example you go to a conference and hijack the WiFi, then spend your time in hallway track advertising these services to your targets. This kind of thing has a high success rate.

The web improves on this problem with PKI, though similar phishing tactics exist in a similar situation where you encourage people to sign up explicitly guiding them to an incorrect domain, but propensity for using search in address bars strongly helps resist this too.

SSH is terrible for this use case, no matter how it makes people feel.
by mjevans | 2025-04-03 19:05:49+00:00
That page is a good start. It at least shows the breakdown of % by programs, etc.

However as you point out there are different types and methods of tax which go to different bins. The IRS filings are the most likely place to have all that together.

*value for taxation* is also really difficult to discern. The report needs to help break down where someone's tax dollars went...

But it also needs to help collectively show how tax dollars _benefit_ them. That one not just in the taxes they paid but overall based on where they are and what they're doing.