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by dkarl | 2025-04-04 14:30:17+00:00
With that kind of thinking, tribalism is inevitable.

But you don't have to see it that way. That way of thinking is making excuses for Nazis and Trump supporters. You're saying that once they heard the honeyed words of thinly veiled edgelords on the internet, they couldn't help but be sucked in. Sorry, they could help it. If the only way to stop someone from being a white supremacist is to protect them from the so so compelling case for white supremacy that people are making on 4chan or gaming Discords or wherever that stuff happens, that's on them. They hear the other side as well. They hear enough to understand that the "tiny steps" bringing them to white supremacy aren't arguments, they're little tastes of a way of thinking that can't stand on its own intellectually but offers them comfort and validation. They choose it for social and emotional comfort. You can't rationalize it as intellectual seduction.

The upside of that is, the ideas themselves don't have any power over you if you don't feel an aching need for the warm comforting embrace of a bunch of Nazis. The ideas aren't persuasive. They're the thinnest possible cover for an emotional decision.
Ask HN: Does Collapsing an HN Thread in a Popular story spike your CPU use?
by cleverpatrick | 2025-04-04 14:30:20+00:00
For popular threads with a lot of comments, collapsing a top comment leads to high CPU usage and can cause browsers (I tried in Chrome and Vivaldi) to freeze up.

For example, this very popular thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43561253&utm_term=comment

If you collapse the top comment, I see a huge spike in CPU and my system freezes temporarily.

Is it just me?
by jmyeet | 2025-04-04 14:30:20+00:00
What ends up destroying fascism is prizing loyalty above all else. If you look at the likes of Luaren Boebert or Marjorie Taylor-Greene, these are seriously, without hyperbole, some of the dumbest people on the planet. But they're loyal. And that's the point, so we end up with sycophantic morons.

I say this because if we had a legislative branch that hadn't completely abdicated its responsibility, they would act to strip tariff power from the president, at least temporarily, which they can do with a simple Act of Congress with a veto-proof supermajority. The Democrats would be on board.

Just remember this: as much damage as the president is causing, Congress could step in at any moment but they don't and won't, at least until things get much, much worse.

Blanket tariffs don't work. The goal here seems to be to reduce reliance on Chinese goods (without setting up any manufacturing to replace it, I might add) and/or to get rid of the one remaining progressive tax: income tax.

We have precedent for all this: tariffs in the early part of the Great Depression. And what did they do? They made everything worse and the US sunk further into recession.

I'm not sure people realize just how dire the situation is. In other countries, this would have us sliding dangerously close to coup territory. Yet a significant portion of our population, who are the most affected and will see their standard of living decline further, celebrate it.

How are those egg prices doing?
by eszed | 2025-04-04 14:30:30+00:00
"White collar" labor, in a service / knowledge economy doesn't mean "not making real things". Most (?) people on this board do something software or science or product related. Software is real, even if it's intangible. Research is real, even if it's inscrutable. Heck, Design is real, even if it's ineffable.

(Yes, yes, there's vapor-ware, and useless products, and certainly "fake jobs". Those existed in the '40s, too, and in any other time period or economy you care to look at.)

In my view, the problem is that white collar workers stopped thinking of themselves as Workers. Any of us who rely on a company for a paycheck (and, perniciously, in the US for health insurance) aren't Capital, even if we make high salaries. Maybe we're aspiring to join that class - we'll hit the startup lottery, or FIRE, or our IRA portfolio will go up forever - but we ain't yet. (That's fine, by the way: I'm using Marxist terms, but I'm not a Marxist. Pursuing financial independence, and the real - even if remote - possibility of attaining it is what's made the US such a dynamic economy.)

However, allowing our aspirations for wealth, or the relative comfort of white-collar jobs, to lead us to identify with the political goals of Capital - or worse, to adopt an elitist attitude towards people who work in what you call the "real economy" - is what's got the US into the mess we're currently in. That's the "genius" you identify in the present system, and the origin of the cruelty within it.

In reality, we're all Working Class (well, 99% of us are - although that proportion is way out of whack on this board, of all places!), and we need to (politically) act like it.
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by daveguy | 2025-04-04 14:31:03+00:00
If you are using the formal definition of generalization in a machine learning context, then you completely misrepresented Chollet's claims. He doesn't say much about generalization in the sense of in-distribution, unseen data. Any AI algorithm worth a damn can do that to some degree. His argument is about transfer learning, which is simply a more robust form of generalization to out-of-distribution data. A network trained on Go cannot generalize to translation and vice versa.

Maybe you should stick to a single definition of "generalization" and make that definition clear before you accuse people of needing to read ML basics.
by sofixa | 2025-04-04 14:31:14+00:00
> His statement was that he was Citi Bank's best trader in 2011, which is true

Is it? Nothing in the FT articles indicates that, and they clearly state that 2 years prior a trader got a $100 million personal bonus (so on profits much higher than that). There can be good and bad years, but I seriously doubt $35 million would be the best worldwide, and all of his colleagues who agreed to speak seem to agree with that.
by yieldcrv | 2025-04-04 14:31:45+00:00
If people could use oil as an investment they would. It’s perishable and toxic to store.

I understand your position. It doesn’t matter that you overlook key economic relationships in environmentally friendly methods, and you don’t recognize how illiquid balance sheets drive markets through lending and collateral or consider that utility, the goal post moves to disliking the extraction method occurring at all.

I recognize that my counterpoints are all capitalist rationalizations and can be used to rationalize anything.

So I’m just watching at this point.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-04-04 14:31:54+00:00
Everyone keeps using this example, but you have the exact same problem calorie counting any food that might be lathered in fat. It's why people underestimate their calorie intake by 30%+.

You could level the same criticism at Cronometer and MacroFactor when you try to log food you received at a restaurant. Yet those apps are still useful (and I think requisite) for knowing what you're eating. And you should probably 1.5x the calorie estimation when you eat out.

What's interesting is whether this app can accurately estimate food at all. If it can, then that's a huge win and you can add your own buffer zone for oils like you already have to do when you count calories. ...Or chill on the butter and restaurant food when you're supposedly trying to lose weight.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-04 14:32:07+00:00
You literally ask it for the paper(s) and author(s) associated, put them into Google Scholar, and go read them. If it hallucinates a paper title, Scholar will usually find the relevant work(s) anyways because the author and title are close enough. If those fail, you Google some of the terms in the explanation, which is generally much more successful than Googling the original query. If you can't find anything at all, then it was probably a total hallucination, and you try the prompt a different way. That probably happens less than 1% of the time, however.

I mean, it's all just kind of common sense how to use an LLM.
by spencerflem | 2025-04-04 14:32:09+00:00
They haven't yet - they approved Trump's budget bill and Marco Rubio was voted in unanimously 99-0. They're still doing talks alongside Peter Thiel. Protestors are being arrested by Blue Govenors in Blue States.

I used to be more hopeful but if they won't act now, in the direst of times, then they must actually be completely bought by corporate interests.
by hbogert | 2025-04-04 14:32:14+00:00
I keep hearing of these magical lifetimes. I've had 2 different brands and multiple panels are taken out of the circuit because they degraded too much.

My neighbour has the same panels but never looks at the output. I told him to check them and he was shocked. How many others are there they simply don't check the output and keep spouting that panels have multi decade lifetimes.
by eighthourblink | 2025-04-04 14:32:27+00:00
I was sooooo interested in Linux phones over the last couple years. Following the Pinephone and various other Distro that were tailored for mobile and it just didnt go anywhere.

Even with things like Waydroid that allows to run Android Apps on top of the distro. Im very hoping that in years, this will change. I love my OnePlus 9 + Murena OS with its built-in tracker blocker.
by kstrauser | 2025-04-04 14:32:40+00:00
Same for me. I cringe when I have to resort to MS Office to deal with some janky external doc or another. Excel has a gazillion functions. Numbers has less coverage, but it implements them pleasantly in a Mac-assed Mac app.

Same with Pages vs Word. I'm sure has power features some people can't live without. I can live without ‘em, in exchange for getting an ergonomic app that runs nicely on my OS.

I'd reach for Pages every time over Word, which, ironically, in my opinion is not very good at processing words. (99% of the time I use iA Writer in a Markdown workflow. If I specifically need WYSIWYG for something, it’s Pages every time.)
by PaulDavisThe1st | 2025-04-04 14:32:53+00:00
I don't know that it's painted as far right as much as conservative (which it is) and by some as bigoted.

The Overton Window moves. Upper marginal tax rates above 90% were not just a position but the actual law in USA during the 1960s, but now are seen here as "far left". Seatbelt requirements were initially felt to be over-intrusion by government, and are now seen by almost everyone as just common sense. And so on and so forth.
by zellyn | 2025-04-04 14:33:21+00:00
Sure. But there are different ways of selling. I've been lucky to avoid sales, but…

I think I could tolerate selling a product I truly believed was useful, and would improve the situation of those buying it, and where I felt free to recommend alternatives in situations where my product was a bad fit.

I couldn't tolerate selling a product where I had to trick people into buying it, knowing that there was a better alternative and a good chance they would regret the choice.

Running an ad to entice or trick people into buying your product in a massive avalanche of sales that ultimately leaves a bad taste is a strategy. Running an ad to accurately target people who would genuinely benefit from your product, and attempting to build credibility and trust over years is also a strategy. Of course, it's always somewhere between the two, but it's not clear which end the 100% spherical cow lives on :-)
by yesfitz | 2025-04-04 14:33:50+00:00
There's so much to respond to that I'm afraid I'll have to use a list. It's not conducive to conversation between us , but other readers may appreciate it.

1. We're talking about dairy. To my knowledge, humans are the only animal that harvest another animal's milk. An outlier in the animal kingdom. (i.e. not the naturalistic "circle of life" any more than plastic bottles or sarin gas.)

2. No, it would not be "humane" (as in "human") to eat something alive, but animals do it! There's a distinction there between human and animal, like squares and rectangles. I am encouraging you to lean into that distinction and be as humane/human as possible.

3. How far off of ideal nutrition would you be willing to go to save a dog? Would you give up broccoli if it meant no more dogs would be abused? Could you find a way to replace broccoli, difficult as it may be?
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by mls4o4 | 2025-04-04 14:34:02+00:00
He is not just stupid but he has unlimited energy so the famous Hammerstein-Equord quote about 4 types of officers applies.

Add modern context of the Attention Economy built on exploiting the fact that people have limited Attention to give anything, but unlimited capacity to Receive Attention. Trump being the textbook example. So we have a double whammy.
by neogodless | 2025-04-04 14:34:29+00:00
Interesting! Potatoes are approaching $1/pound. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000712112

A medium to large potato weighs roughly 1/2 pound. https://lovingnaturefarm.com/how-much-does-a-potato-weigh/

Eggs are about $0.44 / egg average https://eggprices.org/national-data

So depending on where you live, your potato costs more than an egg! (But only because egg prices have gone back down a bit!)
by muststopmyths | 2025-04-04 14:34:55+00:00
The caption says 1995, so this is most definitely one of the test labs. We used to have rows of shelves with PCs in various hardware configurations that were tested with daily builds.

Everyone did have their own offices in the early-mid 90s. By the late 90s we were sharing, depending on seniority (years in the company, not title, which was refreshing).
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-04-04 14:35:04+00:00
Given that the UK is promoting corporate-owned no-democracy "enterprise zones" it's not tinfoil hat at all.

It's the standard neoliberal playbook - defund and cripple public services, complain they're not working, then insist the only solution is for-profit privatisation because it's "more efficient".

The result is that all utilities and much of the infrastructure are being run down for profit, and have to be regularly bailed out by central government at vast expense.

Which is fine, because this creates a transfer of wealth from tax payers to the already wealthy.

The aristocracy literally cannot imagine a country which isn't run for their personal benefit. And the consequence is that many of the areas in the UK are now poorer than anywhere in Europe, or even the US deep south.
by mingus88 | 2025-04-04 14:35:19+00:00
In 2012 the Republican candidate for president said that Russia was our biggest geopolitical adversary in the debates and the left laughed at him. Obama said something flippant about the 80s

Mitch McConnell, arguably the most powerful Republican senator in a generation, has also recently issued a rare criticism of Trump and his alliance with Putin, deeply damaging his own standing in his party.

We can also add many other conservative leaders who are no longer in power to that list, because there is no space for dissent in a fascist party.

But please continue to try and strawman the left as having no good reason aside from loss to raise the alarm on an obvious Russian asset controlling the worlds largest superpower
by IAmBroom | 2025-04-04 14:35:22+00:00
I don't doubt that's their logic, but below the office of the POTUS it isn't true.

For that matter, the power of the POTUS to declassify things is part of the overall asssumed powers, not explicitly set forth in law anywhere (so far as I am aware), but increasingly supported by SCOTUS decisions.

In precise, dried-ink legal terms, if I am someone entitled to read classified information, and mark my grocery list top and bottom with the appropriate signage, that stupid list actually becomes classified. Sharing it with a friend then literally becomes a federal crime. Declassification is a specified process, involving review and approval by authorities (not me), or expiration of the classified period (a default for low levels of classification - it can of course be renewed).
by epistasis | 2025-04-04 14:35:38+00:00
In my opinion it's clear that Trump does not care about global trade and is only trying to consolidate power by destroying the economy and the middle class. Canada is closer to realizing what's going on, but not quite yet, and France is really far away from realizing what's going on, but they will faster than the rest of Europe.

Canada's likely new Prime Minister Carney: "Canada must be looking elsewhere to expand our trade, to build our economy, and to protect our sovereignty. Canada is ready to take a leadership role in building a coalition of likeminded countries who share our values… If the US no longer wants to lead, Canada will"

France's Macron: "It was important for us to meet as quickly as possible after last night's announcement from President Trump, which are a shock to international trade, not just for the EU and France, but fundamentally for the proper functioning of global commerce. What's important is that we pause future investments, or these announced in recent weeks, until we've clarified things with the United States. What would be the message of having big European players investing billions of euros in the American economy at a time when they are hitting us? So we need collective solidarity." https://bsky.app/profile/rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social/post/3l...
by blitzar | 2025-04-04 14:35:49+00:00
> I was the best f*king trader in the f*king world and I am the bloke that called it right every f*king year

He possibly had the highest p&l on his desk ($35mil) in 2011 - was not top in 2011 in the bank, and certainly not in the world. $35mil - rookie numbers in this game, and in a seat at Citibank, middling at best.
by YeGoblynQueenne | 2025-04-04 14:35:59+00:00
Given the title of the article I thought it would start by pointing out the high rate of child poverty in the UK, relatively higher than most EU and OECD countries [1], the soaring rates of child homelessness and overall homelessness [3]. I thought it might lead with the sorry, no, the tragic, state of English railways [4,5]. Or the postcode lottery and the constant under-funding of the NHS, or its hemorrhaging of skilled workers [7,8]. The sorry, no tragic state of the nation's teeth (!) [9,10]. The absolute forlorn misery that is the high street in most English towns [11]. The boarded up shops. The desperate people. The dysfunctional everything and everywhere.

But, no.

>> The big picture is pretty simple: we have a huge debt burden sucking over £100bn out of the budget every year (more than the entire education budget and nearly double the defence budget); and that would be okay-ish if the economy were growing, but it’s not.

No no. The economy is not growing. That's the problem. It's a bottom line on a spreadsheet.

And do you know who is responsible for all this? Well according to the author of the piece above that's all the useless public officials and quangos (maybe we should take ... a chainsaw at them?) and the crazy overspending the must obviously be responsible for (or at least that seems to be the allusion in the article, though never stated directly like that).

Sorry but given all of the above I have very serious doubts about the article. I mean it's clear there is an agenda here and it's not about poverty, or not about reducing poverty anyway. It sounds more like it's all about increasing richess, the richess of people for whom poverty doesn't mean a trip to the local food bank, but a trip to the Greek islands in a friend's jet because you can't afford the fuel for your own.

And maybe that's the reason why the UK is a rich country but so many of its people are poor. It's not a matter of quantities of money, it's a matter of distribution.

___________

[1] https://cpag.org.uk/sites/default/files/2024-01/CPAG-Poverty...

[2] https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/68574869

[3] https://england.shelter.org.uk/what_we_do/updates_insights_a...

[4] https://theconversation.com/rail-disruption-in-the-uk-is-so-...

[5] Personal experience: 3 out of 5 of all train journeys during my four-hour commute would be cancelled or delayed. Fortunately I could WFH.

[6] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clynvjgynp8o

[7] https://lordslibrary.parliament.uk/staff-shortages-in-the-nh...

[8] https://www.bmj.com/content/384/bmj-2024-079474

[9] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-62253893

[10] https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/hundreds-queue-around...

[11] Personal experience. I live in an affluent student town by the sea but outside this affluent enclave it's like another country and you can see why people would jump at the chance to bury the current political class and piss on their graves.
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