MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by matser | 2025-04-03 15:05:51+00:00
It's something new IMO but we are definitely working on improving UX still. Fixing the overscroll issue as we speak. I'm assuming you're using mobile, would you prefer it of the 'tiles' all started in an open state?

It is not an experiment in how bad front end design can be pushed to be... Although that would be a fun blog post
by wholinator2 | 2025-04-03 15:06:05+00:00
I agree the term is vague. But what then would you have us call it? The whole, constitutional crisis, outright flouting of the rule of law, suspension of due process/disappearing of political enemies in the streets type thing that is verifiably happening right now. Are you requesting that the word fascism be banned from HN? Have you seen the videos of legal college students being shoved into unmarked vans by unmarked and masked officers of the law? What do you call that? The talk of a third term?

I'd love to say, "he's just blustering", it's what my father said but he's enacted just about every thing he said. Should he begin speaking about a third term i don't think we have the luxury to ignore that anymore. To annex our nearby "allies" who've now become a united front opposing any economic relationship. What is that called? What would you have us say?
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-03 15:06:19+00:00
Yes. 12% cut from Epic, and I believe certain UE fees are waived if you release on EGS.

For UDK: they did get a lot better with that for UE4/5. These days, the first million dollars in that project's revenue has no cut, and after that it's a 5% royalties (there's also mandatory $1850 subscription seats per year if you have over a million gross revenue a year).

It's about as indie friendly as you can be for such an everpresent tool.
by op00to | 2025-04-03 15:06:28+00:00
I'm a huge Thinkpad fan. I'm an even bigger MacBook fan.

None of my MacBook Pros ever had any issues, and I used my last MacBook for 9 years. I could keep using it with Linux instead of MacOS, but I think almost a decade of use is plenty of value for me.

There were recalls and scandals with the MacBook Pro over the years, but nothing that other vendors also didn't see, and that wouldn't have required the same exact parts being replaced. I'm thinking of the GPU issues with certain MacBooks. The difference is Apple is usually able to be held to task to fix issues, while almost any other vendor did not care to stand behind their product, including Lenovo.

I had a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon with the HiDPI screen that was absolutely awful, requiring replacement multiple times. Each time, the moron from Unisys that Lenovo sent to do the on-site repair would return me with a laptop that was poorly reassembled, and with new problems due to the tech's ineptitude. The same dude did service for Lenovo servers, and he once dropped a server that needed a fan replaced on the floor. Talk about fragile.

Thinkpads are great, and the oldest ones are still solid to use, but to say that MacBooks are fragile ignores that Thinkpads too are fragile.
by biker142541 | 2025-04-03 15:07:09+00:00
> It's not clear if these placeholders do actually help

Well, it depends what you mean by help. It’s very dependent on use case and desired UX. Obviously you can prevent layout shifts without them, you can provide feedback on loading status in other ways, and ensure images don’t slow load time without colored placeholders. But they can provide a pleasant UX for some use cases, when done right. They can be annoying when not done well.
by ncruces | 2025-04-03 15:07:12+00:00
Have you looked at EU countries budgets? We "invest" in social security and public health systems. Our defense budgets go in large part to buy arms from the US, and Musk complains if we decide to prop up Arianespace for some defense satellites while threatening to cutoff Starlink for Ukraine paid by Poland. Have you looked at how much money your DoD sends abroad (and how much of it is pork)? You're literally telling us to be more protectionist, and then expect something different.
by rchaud | 2025-04-03 15:07:18+00:00
Sure, no tricks required, other than:

- selecting 1 out 100 possible Linux variants, an effortless task for the average computer user

- creating a hard drive partition, mere child's play

- creating a USB image, booting from that USB, installing to the blank partition

- and then loading the desktop environment, where immediately the audio drivers, wireless cards/NICs don't work and battery life is cut in half.
by mhluongo | 2025-04-03 15:07:18+00:00
Hm, is that perhaps how you feel about all billionaires? Can you name one you think is "good"?

I've made some money in the space, have kids and a family, and care deeply about special needs and access (partner is a former SpEd teacher, I've volunteered and donate to related causes), and have invested heavily in reproductive rights. Does that make me "good"?

In my experience, and by my values, there are plenty of good and neutral people in the space. They aren't often the ones that ham it up for the media, but it should be obvious why that is.
by Ericson2314 | 2025-04-03 15:07:29+00:00
https://github.com/nixos-bsd/nixbsd This is a very cool project that I hope will get upstreamed into NixOS proper, eventually.

I always thought InitWare would be good for that. See https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/26850 --- we've been discussing this before NixBSD existed, even!
by bigyabai | 2025-04-03 15:08:16+00:00
FWIW, the alternative to "liberal hegemony" in places like Iraq, Libya, Ukraine and Syria is nuclear proliferation and human rights abuses. Between the window of Mearsheimer and Chomsky we see a pretty clear-cut obligation to protect our trade partners. We invoked Article 5 of NATO to fight a war on "terror" with the lives of other countries ken, now we're unwilling to even consider their own security?

This isn't a path of conservative rectification, America isn't going to make itself less reliant on partners like Taiwan or more attractive than cheaper alternatives like China. We aren't going to fight less wars as a result, we aren't going to somehow create international demand for our goods while pricing them out of reach for most consumers. I don't know what to tell you here - Trump is far from my worst nightmare but it's plain to see that this will give America's faith-based economy a seizure.
by NortySpock | 2025-04-03 15:08:18+00:00
For Beyond All Reason, it seems the Spring/Recoil engine will eventually decide to "close the action window", so that if one player is lagging hard, they simply submitted no actions for that "round" and the rest of the players keep going.

I know because I've gotten to the point in the late game where my computer can't simulate at realtime, and I can no longer control my units, but everyone else keeps playing.

Conveniently you can even still sort of chat in this state, and ask a teammate to assume control of your army on your behalf.
by cathmere | 2025-04-03 15:09:27+00:00
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by rawgabbit | 2025-04-03 15:09:29+00:00
I agree with the goal. I disagree with the execution.

First, from the outside looking in, it appears these tariffs were implemented in an adhoc basis which disrupt supply chains potentially bankrupting companies and result in more layoffs in the short term.

Second, there should be a carve-out on tariff policy to respond to national security interests. e.g., if and when the US wants Ukraine to rebuild its fledgling export economy, the US should set the tariff on Ukraine's products to zero as it is in the US' interests that Ukraine is financially strong. Similarly, the US should use tariffs to protect industries it deems strategic such as manufacturing advanced computer chips.

In other words, instead of using a purely political process to set tariff policy, I would argue tariffs should be managed by an impartial semi-independent agency such as the Federal Reserve. The governors of such a tariff agency should be tasked with the goals of advancing long term US interests, economically, employment-wise, and national security interests.
by sebazzz | 2025-04-03 15:09:31+00:00
Yes, the proposition is much weaker there to close the source (if that is even possible without a CLA!) and take it paid.

AutoMapper is something you only use sparingly because genius mappings take a genius mind to understand, at which you can rather map manually than type any comments.

And, as you say, MediatR is eassily replaced because it is intentionally a slim library.
by grayhatter | 2025-04-03 15:09:47+00:00
Good question.

No, I would not prefer that. A robust distributed system is less likely to crumble under local pressures. A blight could more easily sweep through a single nation and take out a staple crop or two, where it'd be impossible for that to happen globally. You can't spin up additional global trade quickly after you've shut it down, which could lead to people starving in America. I like systems that can't fail. That's especially true when that system is how I'm able to eat food.

Global trade isn't a security issue, national or otherwise. We don't increase safety or stability by reducing sources of consumables.

Edit; super timely example because this isn't an unlikely hypothetical: egg availability due to bird flu.
by cloverich | 2025-04-03 15:09:55+00:00
> Globalization has played a big role in creating the massive income inequality in our country; it seems like we should fix that.

Wouldn't restoring the prior taxes to those with highest incomes, and adding a proper capital gains tax, address this directly? As I've started to accumulate small amounts of wealth I've realized, my capital gains are taxed lower than my income; when I sell my house, I get up to 500k of gains tax free. If I backdoor a Roth IRA, I get tax free gains there too. etc. Add additional taxes to investment properties, in the form of property taxes could be one approach as well - I personally know of one investor that owns at least 20 (SFH) properties for example. So I'd propose starting there, as it targets both the wealth gap as well as hits those who can most afford it directly.

> Tariffs accomplish both of those, raising money at the same time as raising cost of goods and weakening the dollar.

If tariffs significantly reduce demand, or worse cause a recession, they will have the opposite effect. It would take time to sort out the full impact. But AFAIK, the tax cuts are proposed to be pushed through immediately, without firm corresponding spending reductions nor time to sort out the impact of the tariffs; similarly the tariffs are being implemented in what seems like a haphazard way, with everyone unsure of what they would / will be, how much, etc.

In general, I think if the plan were modest tax increases, esp. around capital gains policy and targeting SFH as investments, (very) modest tariffs, and well executed spending cuts, nobody would be in uproar. I will be pleasantly surprised if the current plan ends well, but it certainly feels as though only those steeped deeply in ideology are supportive of them at the present moment, and I think that is probably telling.
by soraminazuki | 2025-04-03 15:09:57+00:00
This gcc script that I created below is just as "deterministic" as an LLM. It produces the same result every time. Doesn't make it useful though.

echo '#!/usr/bin/env bash' > gcc echo 'cat <<EOF' >> gcc openssl rand -base64 100 >> gcc echo 'EOF' >> gcc chmod +x gcc

Also, how transformers work is not a spec of the LLM that anyone can use to learn how LLM produces code. It's no gcc source code.
by llm_nerd | 2025-04-03 15:10:08+00:00
Based upon someone's imaginary example?

"less protectionism than literally every other country in the entire world"

I ordered from Temu and it's shipped from China and arrives at my door with my local sales tax applied -- because Temu abides by Canadian law -- but otherwise with no additional fees. Got a pair of headphones and a three timer device yesterday for $10 CAD.

Or you know, Trump's constant yapping about Canada's diary tariff. In reality the US ships 4x more dairy to Canada tariff free than the reverse, and we, by design, do not target sending dairy to the US. But Trump takes advantage of the poorly informed and/or stupid, and it works amazingly.

>U.S. is propping up the entire world economy to it's own detriment

If you're sitting in the richest large country in the world, literally at the height of its economic accomplishment, and you really buy it when someone tells you that you're the victim, you might be profoundly misinformed and with literally zero context of reality.

The US has an amazing amount to fall, and it's going to happen. And when you're working on the assembly line doing extremely low value work, having been ostracized by the entire planet, enjoy how you made the libs pay.
by piva00 | 2025-04-03 15:10:25+00:00
By God, you are truly a trifecta of clichés converging.

Where exactly have you got this narrative from? Or even better: please explain how Marxism relates to contemporary art, I can accept just a general line of ideals connecting to each other.

I tried to have some leveled way to see your opinions on my other comments but this went a bridge too far, you seem to be repeating a collage of unrelated stuff, as I said in another comment: it's so bad that it isn't even wrong.
by epistasis | 2025-04-03 15:10:27+00:00
> I don't remember dissent being tolerated, let alone encouraged.

How many people were jailed or disappeared for their dissent?

Being able to dissent doesn't mean that people accept your opinion, it means that you are allowed to make your point using your own means.

People still get to disagree with you, point out where you are dishonest or mistaken, etc. etc. etc.

The idea that dissent wasn't tolerated is absolute BS. It was tolerated far more than it should have been, far more accommodations were made than necessary, such as in the military, which injects people with all sorts of vaccines but somehow decided that this well-tested one didn't have to be because some people were scared.
by johnnyanmac | 2025-04-03 15:10:48+00:00
It's an exaggeration in that sure, it literally exists. But at this point you're not really engaging in good faith if that's your argument. Can we not do that ?

>Can you name any competitive game that doesn't have balance issues?

Sure. But I'm not entirely sure Bazaar is stable enough yet to have the mood swings of Overwatch 2. That's the danger. Make too many fans angry in this beta stage and you lose all goodwill for the full launch.

I do empathize highly with the devs as someone who will try to do that song and dance themselves one day. But that's why I'm not only making my game with direct sales figures in mind.
by fancyfredbot | 2025-04-03 15:10:53+00:00
Wow. So they came up with zero-effort estimates of the tariff rate which would balance the trade deficit. The method is like something you'd be asked to criticise in A level economics.

Then they incorrectly labelled these numbers as reciprocal tarrifs implying this is what other countries charge the US.

The worst of it is that all of this misinformation will be happily accepted as truth by so many people. It's now going to be almost impossible to have people realise the truth, especially those people who support Trump. Ugh.
by DrNosferatu | 2025-04-03 15:11:23+00:00
Want a real solution to electronic waste?

The EU should mandate 10-year warranties for higher-end consumer electronics and durable goods.

This could work on a sliding scale: less expensive items get shorter warranties (but never below the current 2-year minimum), while pricier products require longer coverage periods.

Such legislation would:

1. End the exploitation of workers in sweatshops producing deliberately short-lived products

2. Discourage planned obsolescence and reduce manufacturing waste

3. Significantly decrease the climate impact of consumer electronics

4. Create genuine incentives for a Circular Economy where durable products like quality ThinkPads become standard rather than exceptions

By requiring products to last, we'd not only protect consumers and the Environment, but also the vulnerable workers currently trapped and exploited in sweatshops designed to produce disposable goods.
by joshdickson | 2025-04-03 15:11:37+00:00
The goal, without question, is 100% full coverage on citations for every piece of data that's in the database, even if the citation is an LLM's general reasoning (which for o1-pro is both quite good and often includes study citations).

Right now you'll see that aggregated on some items like this where the reported data is an ensemble of all of the linked resources: https://www.opennutrition.app/search/eggs-eeG7JQCQipwf

Frankly, I just couldn't justify the additional time and monetary expense in doing that if I released this initial version and nobody cared or found it useful. This dataset was also compiled before tools like Claude Citations came out which could make it easier. That is the nature of AI-driven data; I think this is useful now, it is also the worst it will ever be.
by corry | 2025-04-03 15:11:48+00:00
There are two different questions here: (1) is Trump's strategy a good one to accomplish his goals? and (2) what are other good ideas to do so?

Just because there aren't many ideas in bucket #2 doesn't mean you should do #1.

For a trivial example, consider steel and aluminum tariffs (Larry Summers gave this example on Bloomberg yesterday):

There are 60x more jobs in industries that rely on steel/aluminum inputs than there are in the US steel/aluminium producers. 60x!

Steel/aluminum tariffs increase the cost of inputs to the companies that employ those 60x more people; their businesses suffer; those jobs are more at risk.

Meanwhile, it will take a decade for steel/aluminum production to be fully done within the US, and even then it will be a higher cost (i.e. the reason the US imports a big share of aluminium from Canada is that Canada uses cheap hydro energy to produce it - something that the US can't do).

Through that decade, every single item that uses imported steel/aluminum as an input will be more expensive for average Americans.

So you risk 60x the jobs, for a slow and ultimately non-competitive local industry rebuild, and meanwhile average Americans pay higher costs.

Now multiply that across every category of good in the economy?

#1 is bad. I don't have a great idea for #2, but #1 is bad.
by zehaeva | 2025-04-03 15:11:53+00:00
Since it's been a _long_ time since my physics undergrad I honestly can not speak to how baryon acoustic oscillations tie into dark matter. Hell the paper describing it came out after my first trip through college!

I'll confess the paper is a bit over my head. Astrophysics was never my passion and I became a software engineer right out of college anyways, so I'm a little rusty. However, in the 2005 paper they state that the BAO, specifically the way that the BAO has propagated, can't be explained by baryonic matter alone, which in their words would show a much larger effect than observed. This seems to be yet another observation that is consistent with dark matter.

However, since you must be a working astrophysicist, could you enlighten me with what you think is wrong with the interpretation of those observations? Do you think the >3 sigma confidence isn't enough for astrophysics?

I am genuinely curious.
by bsima | 2025-04-03 15:11:55+00:00
I used to be a big admirer of Matt and Automattic, but after this whole WP Engine episode I've lost respect. I shut down my old wordpress blog, still working on importing the posts as org-mode files onto my new site, I no longer recommend WP to non-techies that ask me how to build a website.

I hope WordPress (and Automattic) turn the ship around but its not looking good at this point.
by 542354234235 | 2025-04-03 15:12:08+00:00
>Unipolarity has however also seen considerable brutality, in the places the empire cares about (Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya) and the places it doesn't, like Rwanda.

We should probably view these in context to alternatives. Just looking at Afghanistan, the 20 year “War on Terror” is estimated to have killed approximately 200,000 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan. In contrast to the Soviet Afghan War, which was half a long, but resulted in between 1.2 and 2 million people killed, an order of magnitude more bloody.

Your comparison of the US and “every other empire” and equating Ukraine to the War on Terror is the same lack of context argument. The US “soft empire” of economic pressure, military protection, and clandestine regime change is not comparable to empires that literally would invade, conquer, and rule over other countries. The US does not own land in Afghanistan, did not annex and take control of oil or other natural resources in Iraq. Just because something is bad, doesn’t mean it is equivalent to other bad things and I think it is very clear that the US has been much “less bad” than the previous alternatives.
by fourside | 2025-04-03 15:12:15+00:00
You call it context or information but I call it assumptions. There are a ton assumptions in that sentence that an LLM will need to make in order to take that and turn it into a v1. I’m not sure what resulting app you’d get but if you did get a useful starting point, I’d wager the fact that you chose a variation of an existing type of app helped a lot. That is useful, but I’m not sure this is universally useful.
by Ericson2314 | 2025-04-03 15:12:21+00:00
I am one of the core Nix developers, and hte one most involved with Dynamic Derivations. Yes, I'm aiming to massage the issue trick a bit on this, and write up a proper post going over what's left.

The short version is that dynamic derivations depends on content-addressing derivations, and content-addressing derivations has been in experimental-feature limbo for a while now. However (!), with a little push + judicious cutting scope, we can get the latter stabilized. And then the remaining road to stable dynamic derivations should be very smooth.

It's a more complicated story to tell because the work is a series of yak shaves, but it's not actually a huge amount of work.
by em-bee | 2025-04-03 15:12:42+00:00
I've had the kids come home telling me about how they were taught that the most important thing that they could do to lower their carbon footprint was to not have children

ugh. i understand that this sentiment is going around. but i don't think it is coming from the school or the curriculum. it is more likely a teacher sharing their personal, misguided, opinion.

We don't need a workforce, not enough industry left to require it

that doesn't change the fact that companies demand trained employees. it's not just industry. every sector demands that employees are handed to them full of experience in their trade. companies don't want to invest into training themselves.

likewise parents demand that children finish school ready to get hired into well paid jobs.