MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adornKey | 2025-04-03 08:12:20+00:00
People were always tribal. You just call out a group to be evil. And it takes just a little bit of propaganda and people will ignore any rational arguments and start harassing a group.

Witch-hunts (last conviction in Europe was 1944), jews, communists, americans, non-americans, all sorts of religious groups, ... history is full of that.

One thing that changed recently is that nowadays propaganda is very organized and well funded. I also think there was a pretty calm period for a few decades (but only in certain regions of the planet). In the cold war period the tribes were very fixed and the evil was always far away, so locally not much happened.
by madsohm | 2025-04-03 08:12:26+00:00
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by coderenegade | 2025-04-03 08:12:50+00:00
More likely the goal is for foreign companies to set up factories in the US for the domestic market. The US market is too big for most industries to ignore, and as they move manufacturing there, they skill up the US population.

Industries don't exist in isolation, and you need to be able to make simpler things in order to cultivate the know-how to make complex things. If China makes better phones, it won't be long until they make better drones. This is as much a strategic initiative as it is an economic one.

And BYD should be a wake up call that the US cannot compete in high value goods anymore.
by anthk | 2025-04-03 08:13:19+00:00
Well, if you went to Spain to the Castilles/Aragon, specially to the Serranía Celtibérica area, you would find the same rural emptiness of the US. And, in Asturias/Cantabria/Palencia, at "Picos de Europa", you woudn't believe that these spikey, rough mountains with hard winters belong to Spain.
by mattdesl | 2025-04-03 08:13:36+00:00
Really like this, nice work!

Something to note is that Color Theif (Quantize) is using median cut on RGB, it would be interesting to try and extract dominant color in OKLab instead.

I also love the idea of a genetic algorithm to find an ideal match for a given image; it should be possible to simulate radial gradients server & client side with webgpu, but probably overkill for such a simple task.

EDIT: Although it works for me in Chrome, it doesn't seem to work in Safari v16.1.
by ryan_lane | 2025-04-03 08:14:32+00:00
Not everyone has drivers licenses, especially poorer folks, especially minorities. The requirements for drivers IDs are now to get RealIDs and some of these folks don't have access to things like birth certificates and other requirements of getting a RealID.

There's also additional requirements of your gender matching your ID (which eliminates many transgender folks), your name matching on all documents (good luck if you're a married woman), etc.

Folks are rightly pointing out that these laws are engineered to suppress votes, and you seem to not be willing to listen to understand why.
by mytailorisrich | 2025-04-03 08:14:41+00:00
(1) is you not liking it, not that it isn't the case. Whether it is authoritarian or not is besides the point. (2) I am not claiming that they can "outsmart" anyone, just that the objective and plan may not be publicly or explicitly stated, or even that what is publicly stated is not the real objective (this is not "4D chess" this is actually how things tend to be in practice from politics to business).
by myrmidon | 2025-04-03 08:15:01+00:00
> Cars for example, US had tariff of 2.5%, EU 10%.

This is highly misleading:

Pickup trucks, which is a major share of the US car market, had an import tariff of 25% since 1964 (so it was pretty much the same average tariff level but with the EU doing less targetting).
by jumploops | 2025-04-03 08:15:52+00:00
> I suspect that machines to be programmed in our native tongues —be it Dutch, English, American, French, German, or Swahili— are as damned difficult to make as they would be to use.

Seeing as transformers are relatively simple to implement…

It stands to reason he was, in some sense, right. LLMs are damn easy to use.
by DeathArrow | 2025-04-03 08:16:00+00:00
>We've seen this before with IdentityServer

Doesn't really matter. For big, distributed apps at work I use Keycloak or something similar, maybe an own authorization service built on OPAL. For small apps I either use an authentication and authorization library I built myself or, if I don't need something too fancy I use Identity (the one MS provides).
by Dunedan | 2025-04-03 08:16:24+00:00
Alpha 27 of 0 A.D. has a notable performance regression for a subset of users, compared to earlier versions. Users not affected by this regression should see improved performance, thanks to improvements like the added Vulkan support.

The regression in performance seems to be caused by a change in Spidermonkey. For details check out https://gitea.wildfiregames.com/0ad/0ad/issues/7714

That said, even without this performance regression, 0 A.D. is prone to run slow in late game when lots of units are on the map. There are several reasons for that, but maybe the most intuitive one is that 0 A.D. is still largely single-threaded and therefore doesn't make use of the multi-core capabilities of modern CPUs. As you can imagine changing that is no easy feat and takes a lot of effort. As the number of volunteers to 0 A.D. is limited, nobody has picked up that topic yet.

If you enjoy 0 A.D. and want to improve it: it's Open Source and contributions are always welcome!
by pbhjpbhj | 2025-04-03 08:17:14+00:00
>Trump sees a war with china down the line

So is destroying diplomatic relations with all their allies and trying to force ceding of power in central Europe to a former enemy who is allied to China?

Go on with ya.

He's a prick saving himself from prison whilst being willingly used to establish an oligarchic fascist state from the former USA.
by mcv | 2025-04-03 08:17:22+00:00
Netherland is actually extremely egalitarian. Managers are often just one of the team, you address everybody informally, we're all equals, etc. Except in pay. And especially in larger organizations. Managers and people on track to management are seen as the shit. Programmers are paid fairly well compared to the average job, but even if you're single-handedly pulling an important project, you're never going to make the same as people who push numbers, papers and money.
by 8-prime | 2025-04-03 08:18:04+00:00
I doubt that Microsoft would by it. From what I remeber they were working on their own framework doing a similar thing, which was originally meant to release in .NET 9 but got pushed back. Unless they want to throw all of that away I doubt it would make much financial sense for them.

But we have seen FluentAssertions parter with tool maker recently so I guess that's not entirely unreasonable.
by ryzvonusef | 2025-04-03 08:18:07+00:00
> . You should ask yourself why you - a pakistani - has such strong feelings about Voter ID when Voter Fraud is completely a non-issue when both political sides look at the data.

Because as I said somewhere else in this post, when americans are unhappy, they spread their frustration on the entire world with a shovel.

And when I see that this frustration arises from something as stupid as voter ID, I wonder why they don't just fix it. I am not interested in the actual voter fraud numbers or some random foundation... I am interested in YOU guys being happy. And if (a sufficient number of) YOU believe in voter fraud, then for ffs, get voter ID, we all have it, why can't you?

It's like with the kids' blankie to save them from the monster under the bed, don't argue about the probability of bed monsters, understand the frankly low cost of providing the blankie, realise it's not worth quibbling about and just GIVE IT TO THEM.

It isn't about about voter fraud, it's about trust in the system. When americans don't feel trust in the system, they are unhappy. And when they are unhappy, they are often distracted by their elected leaders by other things.... things that affect the entire world, like tariffs or wars.

I don't speak about Brazilian issues, not because they don't affect us (we import soybeans from them which affects chicken prices, for example) but the effect is less... catastrophic.... but a Texan sneezes, I get the flu here.

It's part of the curse of being the world hegemon.
by bluescrn | 2025-04-03 08:18:33+00:00
It's only a good sign if they're able to speak out, and aren't terrified of expressing their dissent in public.

Both the left and the right seem captured by a small minority of radicals, using social media echo chambers/purity spirals to shut down often-quite-reasonable disagreement. And we're clearly past the point at which we can just ignore 'social media politics', given how much it seems to have led to the current state of things in the US.
by rerdavies | 2025-04-03 08:19:16+00:00
Huh. Thanks for that. I naively assumed that Google would lock down the launcher. I have emerged from darkness into light.

The difference between an Android TV launcher that's designed give people what they want, and the baroque monstrosity that results when Google tries to extract every fraction of a cent of advertising revenue that it can is startling. My TV just became an appliance that does exactly what I want, no less and no more, instead of a cacophony of distractions and diversions trying to convince me to do things I don't want to do.
by happosai | 2025-04-03 08:19:30+00:00
People who voted that wouldn't want to work at factories with working conditions and salaries Chinese factories make everything they consume. They also don't support the unions that would make working bearable in factories. Even if somehow factories would return and pay reasonable compensation, that would make the products so expensive most Americans couldn't afford them. People would have to consume a lot less. Which may be a good thing for the planet, but I doubt that's what the voters are prepared for.
by h4ck_th3_pl4n3t | 2025-04-03 08:19:38+00:00
Always keep in mind that Blackrock manages the retirement/social insurance funds of a lot of countries. If the USD crashes, they will, too.

The aftermath will probably be complete isolation of the US, because no country will want to trade with them. And the administration is fine with that, because they're not interested in keeping the status quo of democracy alive.

More influence for them, less influence from outside. That's how oligarchs think and act.
by sfn42 | 2025-04-03 08:19:58+00:00
My first ThinkPad had terrible battery life. It was a X1 Extreme or something like that, pretty high end but the battery was useless. Even brand new it wouldn't last an hour off leash. Also couldn't use usb-c charging from the monitors at the office, had to be plugged in.

Also the Fn key is where the Ctrl key should be, which is endlessly annoying as a user of different laptop brands.
by mid-kid | 2025-04-03 08:20:12+00:00
In my experience distributions only patch GCC or modify the package building environment variables to add compiler flags. You can be certain that the compiler flags used in build systems like cmake and meson will be vanilla.

Make adds no additional compiler flags (check the output of "make -n -p"). Neither does Ninja.

Autotools is extremely conservative with compiler flags and will only really add -O2 -g, as well as include paths and defines specified by the developer.

CMake has some default compiler flags, depending on your CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE, mostly affecting optimization, and disabling asserts() with Release (-DNDEBUG). It also has some helpers for precompiled headers and link-time optimizations that enable the relevant flags.

Meson uses practically the same flags as cmake, with the exception of not passing -DNDEBUG unless the developer of the meson build really wants it to.

These are all the relevant build systems for linux packages. I'm not familiar with gn, bazel, and etc. In general, build systems dabble a bit in optimization flags, but pay no mind to hardening.
by dahauns | 2025-04-03 08:20:30+00:00
It's been a gradual shift, with a few obvious changes along the way.

Among a few: The keyboard switch from the old 7-row (whose pinnacle was at the x220/T420 era with double-height esc and del) to the new 6-row (with later ever decreasing key travel) to the current x9 (which is basically just a yoga keyboard with no trackpoint, no key grouping, and the loss of pgup/pgdn). Things like the modular battery options vanished. The case got flimsier over time with e.g. the magnesium rollcage first vanishing from the display, then from the base. (And no - from enterprise experience - the carbon fiber composite isn't generally "as good or better", esp. for failure modes like punctual force on the display. Or...grabbing the laptop by the display and using it to fan your BBQ, which doesn't faze my old X41 :) ).
by teemur | 2025-04-03 08:21:30+00:00
"Paying" is a bit too ambiguous term. Let's say we go to have a lunch, but I forgot my wallet at the office. You pay my lunch and once we are back at the office, I pay you back. Who paid my lunch, you or me? Your company pays VAT in the technical sense you paid my lunch and your company does not pay VAT in the economical sense I paid my lunch.
by DimmieMan | 2025-04-03 08:21:51+00:00
It’s good software so good luck to them.

.Net OSS looks more and more like a failure, while fans will incessantly reiterate it’s technically OSS it’s certainly not spiritually and if anything it’s regressed in the last 2-3 years.

The bigger project I know of follow a similar model of open core + support and I would not bat an eye if they did the same. The remaining ecosystem seems to be convenience over whatever MS is doing and IO adapters.

At this stage it’s just another nail in the coffin and I’d be wary of picking up anything other than MS packages if using .Net.

I also wonder if eroding confidence will start snowballing and bring .Net back to framework days in practice.
by tashbarg | 2025-04-03 08:22:07+00:00
Total trade with Russia in 2024: $3.5bn

Total trade with Ukraine in 2024: $2.9bn

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/europe-middle-east/russia...

So, Ukraine will get an exemption, too, right? Because their trade is even a mooter point, right? Right?!
by Jensson | 2025-04-03 08:22:32+00:00
> Folks are rightly pointing out that these laws are engineered to suppress votes, and you seem to not be willing to listen to understand why.

Are you saying democrats will engineer these laws to suppress votes? Is that why democrats don't have voter id laws? The GOP isn't relevant here, we are just wondering why democrat states can't seem to do this.
by pavlov | 2025-04-03 08:22:42+00:00
What do you mean? In my opinion this library does a very good job of representing the image’s color palette considering it’s encoded into a single integer. (Even smaller than usual because of CSS limitations, only 20 bits!)

You don’t even need JavaScript to decode that integer into the image. The underlying CSS may be complex, but for the user of the library it definitely feels minimal in a good way.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-04-03 08:23:38+00:00
Paper backing ggm's take:

https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/rese...

https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/markets-wrestle-with-trum...

>In a November paper, economist Stephen Miran, whom Trump has picked to chair his Council of Economic Advisors, raised the possibility that Trump could use the threat of tariffs and the lure of U.S. security support to persuade foreign governments to swap their Treasury holdings for lower-cost century bonds.

Via

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43350553 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43561808

Just so pple get the credit (even if they appear to be not so sane)
by wtcactus | 2025-04-03 08:25:59+00:00
I have a doubt for some years about the US, but never really got good info on it (maybe because it’s a silly doubt).

So, when I sell something to the USA (on eBay) for instance. It doesn’t pay VAT automatically. Do Americans pay VAT when it’s delivered?

But, when an American buys something locally, they do pay VAT, correctly?
by lysecret | 2025-04-03 08:26:01+00:00
My opinion. (Also as a German guy doing a similar thing).

On the first order no. The tariffs just announced are only on goods and are collected at the ports when you physically import them.

On the second and third order. What I think will happen is that the EU will mostly retaliate against US services. And then trump might counter retaliate against EU services. So I would start looking for customers outside the US.
by nindalf | 2025-04-03 08:26:01+00:00
With how cheap solar panels are getting, why not slap a few of them on the roof of every EV? Some days they get you 10 free miles, other days 20 or 30. If you’re a commuter, you’re basically driving for free at that point.

Sure it’s not enough on road trips, but why is that a problem?
by _winx | 2025-04-03 08:26:21+00:00
They take forever to reply (2 months since my first email, meanwhile they regularly kept posting the job on HN) and after the initial call had me take a home assignment that I spent almost an entire day on, then went total radio silence again - not even a generic "sorry for the delay" or a rejection email. I see I'm not an outlier, given others' comments under their postings. I don't think the job's fake - they just really don't care about their candidates' time.
by verisimi | 2025-04-03 08:26:46+00:00
> that women's issues like abortion and trans women in abuse shelters should be decided by women, not men like me.

This got me wondering... Thinking in reverse, are there any issues that you think should be decided by men only?

Underlying your thought, seems to be the idea that some people should be excluded from certain political/ideological conversations.

Whereas for me, I see all people as individuals, each with a right to their opinions. Ie, I wouldn't start from a point of separation as this bakes in special interests, sexism, racism, etc.
by Affric | 2025-04-03 08:26:49+00:00
Sure but we build (leaky) abstractions, and this is even happens in legal texts.

Asking an llm to build a graphical app in assembly from an ISA and a driver for the display would give you nothing.

But with a mountain of abstractions then it can probably do it.

This is not to defend an LLM more to say I think that by providing the right abstractions (reusable components) then I do think it will get you a lot closer.
by AlecSchueler | 2025-04-03 08:27:17+00:00
My daily driver is an x200 upgraded to 4gb of RAM. It runs as well as it ever did except the web has become slower and slower in that everything became an app. Things like GMail and YouTube are slow but honestly still fine, and in the worst case scenario I can jump onto my phone.

My main use these days is recording and mixing music through an interface from 2014. With Reaper the experience is even better than when I picked the laptop up back around 2010.
by rob74 | 2025-04-03 08:27:18+00:00
> Inspired by the Twitter logo, which is made from 13 perfect circles

Compared to that, the new logo doesn't have a circle (segment) anywhere to be seen (unless you consider straight lines as circle segments with the center located at infinity of course), and is simply the "mathematical double-struck capital X" from an unknown but probably pre-existing font (apparently Monotype's "Special Alphabets 4" comes close, but isn't identical, according to https://tweethunter.io/blog/how-to-write-twitter-x-iphone-ma...).
by hennell | 2025-04-03 08:27:40+00:00
Many people including doctors and health professionals apply restrictions to their diet including avoiding complex carbs or proteins, or reducing their salt or sugar intake while talking about balance diets. No complaints.

But when I decide to reduce all foods by at least 10%, lower my protein and carbs by 25%, pledge I'll remove at least 30% of metals from my diet and will be doing a 4 day fast twice a week in order to become an olympic level athlete by next year, people say I don't know what I'm doing!

How can people possibly be against nuanced thoughtful dieting yet be against my sudden do it all at once approach? It's totally inconsistent, what idiots everyone else is.
by momo_hn2025 | 2025-04-03 08:27:57+00:00
The United States maintains the world's most powerful corporations and attracts exceptional talent, yet appears to be hastening toward what some consider an inevitable conflict—one that exists largely in political rhetoric rather than reality. Setting an ambitious four-year timeline to rebuild manufacturing capabilities seems impractical. More concerning is how this approach risks dismantling the global governance system that took generations to establish, while alienating allies who could be valuable partners rather than burdens. The potential costs of such a strategy are immense, explaining why many observers question whether there's a coherent strategy behind these actions.
by GeneralMayhem | 2025-04-03 08:28:27+00:00
As found elsewhere on this thread, the rate is based on trade deficit. Trump believes that having a negative trade balance with a country means that they're cheating somehow, as opposed to meaning that you just buy a lot of manufactured or raw goods for them.

And no, that does not make any sense, and you're not missing anything. He believes this because he's a fucking idiot. He's aggressively racist, comically petty and thin-skinned, and overtly authoritarian, and as far as I can tell actively wants to permanently destroy American science and civil society out of spite, but he's also really, really, really dumb. In this case, he's managed to combine his powers to take a goal that's born out of racism and xenophobia and then implement it in the most idiotic way possible, and somehow the result is even worse than the sum of its components.
by gherard5555 | 2025-04-03 08:28:51+00:00
My T480 just doesn't want to die. I dropped it a lot, in my staircase, on concrete floor, accidentally emptied my whole mug of coffee on it (had to change the keyboard that time some keys were stuck). At some point I felt so confident I tried stepping on it when it was closed. So yeah this thing is pretty tough.
by pembrook | 2025-04-03 08:28:53+00:00
Listen I get this is wildly counter-narrative on HN (all tech legislation = good and EU = default good on this forum) so I will never win this argument.

But I’ve dealt closely with EU compliance on these matters, and the fines are absolutely levied selectively and in bad faith on areas that are impossible to comply with on the timelines provided or ever. They have absolutely turned into strategically punitive taxes on an industry that the EU has no answer to, so in effect, yes, they are tariffs.
by notpushkin | 2025-04-03 08:29:02+00:00
For storage in particular, iBoff made an adapter for NAND chips that places them on a carrier board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3N-z-Y8cuw

The whole setup (allegedly) fits inside original chassis, too, and disk speeds are about the same. So the only real tradeoffs for Apple are cost and the fact that user can swap in third party parts instead of paying obscene prices Apple charges for spec upgrades.