MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by YJ_2025 | 2025-04-15 14:43:54+00:00
Hey, this looks really cool! Love the simplicity of the idea — getting straight into real conversations without the hassle of scheduling sounds like a great experience, especially for people tired of the usual language apps.

A few thoughts/questions that came to mind:

Why would a native speaker join? Are you thinking of adding some kind of reward system, points, or even social credit to keep it engaging for both sides?

One idea could be to match users who are both learning each other’s native languages. That way, they can help one another — kind of like a built-in buddy system, which might also encourage a stronger community feel.

Have you considered adding interest-based tags or conversation topics to help break the ice or keep chats flowing?

How are you thinking about handling bad actors or uncomfortable interactions, especially since it’s video-first?

Congrats on the early traction — 77 emails is a solid start! Would love to see how this evolves. Let us know when the MVP is live, happy to test it out!
by Clubber | 2025-04-15 14:43:57+00:00
>such as the United Kingdom, continue to exist

They were really close to not existing. France stopped existing, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Yugoslavia, Greece, all stopped existing. China, Thailand, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Myanmar, New Guinea, Guam, East Timor, and Nauru all stopped existing.
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-15 14:44:13+00:00
Your link says the opposite of what you claim.

> Although the asylum claim proved to be time-barred—aliens are required to bring such claims within a year of entering the country—in October 2019 Judge Jones did grant his request for “withholding of removal” based on his “well-founded” fear of persecution by Barrio 18. The government did not appeal, so Jones’s ruling is now final.

> The removal being in error does not make him innocent.

Innocent is the default. That's a fundamental part of how our legal system works. The government must prove you guilty.
by zasz | 2025-04-15 14:44:48+00:00
That IS what Biden was trying to do though with the CHIPS Incentive Act. He was trying to onshore production of semiconductors in a partnership with TSMC. Didn't do him any favors, and Harris lost the state of Arizona anyway. Americans had the choice between a party that was serious about trying to onshore some manufacturing and a party that wasn't, and it made the wrong choice because vibes, basically.
by attemptone | 2025-04-15 14:44:49+00:00
How "subtle and insidious" is it really? I'd say it is shifting the blame of personal responsability to a website. Me and some of my friends use(d) 4chan and we never fell into the pipeline. To the contrary there is a strong left-wing camarederie. And I'd wager that we recognize subtle right-wing views more easily. One doesn't learn about these views by looking at a twitter screenshot but by engaging them.

We should stop treating right-wing ideology as a mind-parasite. And if we do it anyways, we should accept that some people want to get "infected".
by howmayiannoyyou | 2025-04-15 14:44:51+00:00
The components of a strategic manufactured product can be as simple as an injection molded switch, a LiION battery, capacitors, copper wire, etc., so the notion of bringing only "strategic items" back is as much a myth as the idea its mostly coming back to the USA. The goal here is to diversify the supply chain globally so its not concentrated in China. Internally this is sold as bringing MFG back to the USA (will happen to a noticeable degree), but that's not the actual plan.
by nathan_douglas | 2025-04-15 14:44:55+00:00
I feel like it's intuitive for me to think about this stuff as just a second type system rather than to think about the details of how the compiler works or how it'll function at runtime. A given value exists in a kind of superposition, and I pick the form I want it to collapse into (value, reference, mutable reference, etc) based on the tradeoffs I need at that moment. I don't know exactly why this is helpful, or if it's helpful (or even coherent) to anyone but me. It might also be damning me to some conceptual outer darkness where I'll hear the pounding of accursed drums and the wailing of hideous flutes forevermore.
by genewitch | 2025-04-15 14:44:55+00:00
The tariffs that were announced during the campaign - the same way Ross Perot did - and the reasoning was to bring us manufacturing back to the US and reduce the tax burden on US citizens? Such as writing off car payments if the car is American?

People wigged out over non-reciprocal tariffs, where we tariff at 50% what they charge the US. People wigged out at 10℅ flat rate tariffs. "Heard island penguins get charged 10%!)

I really have to wonder how important this Chinese junk is. They make so much junk for the US, that the EU, including Von der Lyon, had to make a plan to deal with Chinese companies wanting to, and I quote here, "dump" all their exports on to the EU market.

The EU is very protectionist over their countries' economic outputs and manufacturing. But if the US does that...
by gitroom | 2025-04-15 14:44:56+00:00
Hi Everyone!

I just released MCP Server to Postiz, you can schedule all your social media posts!

Just a quick recap:

Postiz is a social media scheduling tool supporting 18 social media channels:

Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, Reddit, LinkedIn, X, Threads, BlueSky, Mastodon, YouTube, Pinterest, Dribbble, Slack, Discord, Warpcast, Lemmy, Telegram and Nostr.

Being able to use everything from a single chat without accessing any app. It feels native for Postiz to schedule all your social posts from the chat!

The fun part is that you can connect multiple MCPs, for example:

- Connect it to Cursor and ask it to schedule a post about your work today.

- Connect it to Notion and ask to schedule all the team's latest work on social media.

- Connect it to any SaaS with CopilotKit (for example) and schedule posts based on the app.

There are so many options, and I will use it now.

You can use this from the Public API feature inside the "settings" of Postiz.

100% open-source.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-15 14:45:37+00:00
> The kind of slow and steady protection and promotion of home-grown industry that China and most of Asia so successfully used to grow their economies was completely absent as even a talking point

The slow and steady way that post-WW2 Korea and Japan did needs a unanimously agreed 10-20 year long game plan between industry and government, which is incompatible with democracies who change colors and strategies every 4 years where the new administration begins to tear down everything the previous administration did because they serve different voter bases and corporate lobby groups.

It is also incompatible with the US since a lot of corporations made bank due to offshoring and will fight it every way they can since they don't want to deal with costly US labor who can unionize or sue you for millions if they break a finger at work. Even TSMC Arizona had to bring half the workers from Taiwan, and it's not like they're making tchotchkes.
by ndiddy | 2025-04-15 14:46:04+00:00
The hacker posted a screenshot of the shell on the 4chan server. It was running FreeBSD 10.1, which came out in 2014 and stopped getting patches in 2016. It seems like there was basically nobody doing maintenance after moot sold the site. I wonder how long it'll take for them to get the site back up if they don't have anyone who can do server administration.
by jchw | 2025-04-15 14:46:23+00:00
Stuff like this hits me in my health anxiety pretty bad, even if I know deep down that there's no point, on an individual scale, in worrying about this sort of thing; it's more of interest to clinicians for decision making. Still... I've had a couple CT scans with contrast in the past year, and that is probably somewhere around 20-25 mSv of radiation. In the grand scheme of things, it's really not that catastrophic of an amount, but it's a hell of a lot more than background radiation. Scary.
by cogman10 | 2025-04-15 14:46:28+00:00
Tariffs work against the goal.

The only sane way to bring back manufacturing is investments like the chips act.

Think about it this way, you are a widget manufacturer trying to place a new factory. You could put it in say Canada and enjoy cheap imports and exports of your product globally. It's cheap to produce and easy to sell.

Or you could place it in the US, but now you are looking at a minimum 10% tax on importing the resources you need. On top of that, a significant portion of the world (especially the richest nations) are tacking on an addition 10% or more tax on your product because it came from the US.

Would you build a factory in the US? Maybe if you can source everything in the US and you are fine with your primary market being only the US. Otherwise, it's a bad business move.

When talking about something like semiconductors, global access is really important to be profitable. Low or no tariffs and the proximity to China and other raw resources powerhouses is a major reason why so much of the semiconductor industry is in Asia.
by oceanplexian | 2025-04-15 14:46:31+00:00
This is what the healthcare community claims, but they're wrong.

I took a preventative MRI run by an ML/AI company that the healthcare folks say is a bad idea. I didn't discover any hidden cancers but they did find 1-2 emerging health issues that were preventable with simple diet and lifestyle changes.

If everyone showed up to their doctor asking for preventative imaging, it would overwhelm doctors since there aren't enough resources to treat everyone who is sick. Your individual health will always be less important than the integrity of the system.
by mantas | 2025-04-15 14:47:03+00:00
More like common man does not think long term (and I'd say rightfully so). While democratic regime embraces populist hedonistic solutions.

Who cares about defense capabilities 10 or 50 years down the line? Lots of people in West had a good run outsourcing everything. But once there's nothing else to outsource and IP to sell... It's not gonna be pretty.

Next generations in West will have to work very hard to recover from this mess.
by srveale | 2025-04-15 14:47:12+00:00
In western politics, there are various definitions of the word "progressive". The definitions that include Kamala Harris are mostly used by right-wing Americans.

How much corporate funding did Bernie get?

Why do you think capital supported Kamala? Especially in hindsight?

And your joke about left vs right sponsorship of streamers has a very soft underbelly, which, if you don't know about it yet, kind of tells the whole story right there.
by chjj | 2025-04-15 14:47:13+00:00
This brings back memories. I haven't looked at it in a while, but I'm glad to see the fork[1] of my fork[2] from 12 years ago is still thriving. Looks like it's been mostly rewritten. Probably for the better.

[1] https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js [2] https://github.com/chjj/term.js
by simgt | 2025-04-15 14:47:14+00:00
The people involved in international aid in particular know fine well that it's not an easy problem to solve... Exploitation and corruption is at every level here. For a children in Congo it may be a better option if the only alternative is to starve, but let's not pretend that everyone from the mine owner to the smartphone buyer is not profiting from that situation.

As a consumer one of the few immediate means of action we have is to at least refuse these products when we can... Then yeah, vote, donate, get involved for these kids to live decently.
by gruez | 2025-04-15 14:47:18+00:00
>Unfortunately when doing business with communists, enriching them doesn't help the individuals move out of poverty because that would require wages to rise and that happens for political reasons not merit in a single party system

But poverty has dropped and income has risen under the CCP? You can argue that the CCP doesn't actually care about "individuals moving out of poverty", and all they care about is staying in power, but this is the sort of accusation that could be levied against governments in the west as well.
by jccalhoun | 2025-04-15 14:47:50+00:00
There are some interesting things in this but there are also some deeply cynical anti-working class stereotypes:

>You don’t have people who insist on being paid in cash so that they can keep their disability payments, while they do acrobatics on the factory floor that the non-disabled workers cannot do.

>Chinese workers much less likely to physically attack each other and their manager. They don’t take 30 minute bathroom breaks on company time. They don’t often quit because their out-of-state mother of their children discovered their new job and now receives 60% of their wages as child support. They don’t disappear because they’ve gone on meth benders. And they don’t fall asleep on a box midshift because their pay from yesterday got converted into pills.

>Sadly, what I describe above are not theoretical situations. These are things that I have experienced or seen with my own eyes.

Really? How does he know if someone is on disability? How he know many of these are not seen in China? If they aren't then why aren't they? I don't think it is as simple as work ethic.
by chneu | 2025-04-15 14:47:51+00:00
Trump is increasing the debt tho and did in his first term.

Republicans only care about debt when it can be used to either bash Democrats or used as a talking point to eliminate something they don't like. Lookup "Starve The Beast".

Republicans do not care about the debt. They care that it can be used as a tool. That's it.

They run up the debt when they want and then turn around to blame Democrats for the debt they ran up.

Nobody is really concerned with the US debt outside of silly wanna-be patriots and the politicians who use it to scare them. Now, one way to make the US debt a much bigger deal is to cause a recession...hmm...wonder if anyone is trying to do that...
by seanmcdirmid | 2025-04-15 14:47:52+00:00
Police in cities will beat homeless people and get them back on buses to where their hukou is, so the homeless that remain are very good at hiding. Hostile architecture is also very common in China. But there is a lot of sub quality housing (eg in sub-basements that lack windows or good ventilation) that allow much of the working poor to at least be technically housed even in expensive cities (many restaurants also provide housing for their staff in the dining area after closing, or did at least 20 years ago). The outskirts used to have more slums than they had today in Beijing, most of the slums have moved into sub-basements as far as I can tell (called the “ant tribe”).

Crime really is much lower than it was a decade ago. People have more money, societal trust is higher. Drug use in clubs has always been a thing, but China differs from the USA in that their is no social support at all for addicts (so they either get clean with help from their family or they die).
by ninetyninenine | 2025-04-15 14:48:40+00:00
The mock example looked pointless.

IO can’t be unit tested hence why you mock it. But his code didn’t do anything but confirm his mock worked. He’s writing mocks and testing mocks.

The functionality he referenced is just inherently not unit testable. Again, If you try to mock it and test things you end up testing your mocked code. That’s it.

I’ve seen this strange testing philosophy pop up time and time again where test code misses a shit load of errors because it’s just confirming that the mocks work.

For this area you need to move to integration tests if you want to confirm it works. This comes with the pain of rewriting tests should the implementations change but testing just mocks isn’t solving this problem.

Your unit tests only really matter if you’re doing a lot of big algorithm stuff and not much IO. Mocking helps if you have some IO sprinkled into a unit computation. In the example he gave every operation was IO and every operation had to be mocked so wtf was he thinking to want to place that in a unit test?
by fellowniusmonk | 2025-04-15 14:48:40+00:00
The big tech boom is winding down?

Just because we ended the era of cheap money to try and stop runaway inflation doesn't mean the tech boom is winding down.

Look at everything that's happening with gene editing, in physics, with the jwst, with LLMs and robotics and computer vision, with alt energy sources, batteries, in material sciences, etc.

I mean this is such a myopic take. We are in just now in an era where people are now capable of finding needles in needlestacks.

You are confusing easily manipulated economic vibes that feel bad right now with the rapid approach of a complete overhaul of the human experience.

The U.S. has basically supported the strip mining of our economy by value sucking predatory investment firms. There is a reason why China have more robotics per capita in their factories than we do and it has to do with a complete failure in strategic thinking, long term planning and ultimately a hatred for our youth.
by mcv | 2025-04-15 14:48:55+00:00
That is really the big problem with the current policy in the US: it's completely unclear what the policy is and how long it will last. This is not a stable climate for investment. Would you invest in a country where the president plays Russian roulette with the economy?

Most corporations will wait it out. Corporations that have an established interest (like Big Tech) will bribe Trump to get the exemptions they need to continue their business. Everybody else will have to decide how much they will want to depend on such an openly corrupt system. There industries that see no problem in dealing with corrupt regimes.
by footlose_3815 | 2025-04-15 14:49:08+00:00
You may get rid of that, but it's still Amazon. Just recently, they fuzzed all their search results further, so when you search for something, it will give you lots of stuff you didn't search for. Similar to how Facebook Marketplace does.

I think the only way to avoid disappointment is to avoid Amazon altogether. Their customer experience is extremely deceptive and engineered to make you spend the most money. From the featured searches all the way to how it charges you paid shipping instead of free at checkout.

We should all feel burned enough at this point and stop rewarding them. Bezos purchased the Washington Post for all this money, and he won't stop there.
by Paradigma11 | 2025-04-15 14:49:11+00:00
@agriculture.

Have you ever heard any concrete strategies and plans regarding food security?

Wouldn't there be policies about how many calories should be produced in what form, how long can it be stored, what would a local ramp up look like if there was a global catastrophe?

What percentage of agriculture is really relevant to food security?

Those are just empty words so farmers can get their subsidies and go on to produce more industrial rapeseed oil.
by apitman | 2025-04-15 14:49:28+00:00
> The way I would summarize Rust is: it’s a better Go, or a faster Python

That's an interesting take. I feel like all three of these languages fit into pretty discrete lanes that the others don't. Python for quick hacking or scientific stuff, Go for web services and self-contained programs, Rust for portability (specifically sharing code as C ABI or WASM) and safety.

> It’s not hard to learn

I agree Rust is easy to learn. I've done it 4 or 5 times now.
by a2128 | 2025-04-15 14:49:36+00:00
>There are over a billion people in China making stuff.

There surely can't over a billion factory workers in a population of 1.4 billion. I looked up a population pyramid, and let's say 100% of the population aged 15-64 is employed at a factory job, that's ~70% of the population which is only 985 million people.
by fendy3002 | 2025-04-15 14:49:51+00:00
Well, money talks and it's hard to choose the other option. On one hand bring manufacturing back to US and pay them higher, because otherwise the pay in McDonald's is better with a less demanding physical (cmiiw, don't live in US).

On the other hand, keep manufacturing outside of US for cheaper labor to keep price low and having bigger margin. It's an easy choice to make.

And again this is not a US specific problem, it's almost all of countries nowadays have a massive wealth gap that makes people racing to the bottom of living / working standard.
by chneu | 2025-04-15 14:50:24+00:00
Except that masks do statistically work in preventing the spread of contagion.

Even if it's just 10% it's still worth doing.

There are also tons of legit reasons to wear a mask besides being contagious.

Anyone defending a mask ban is doing it to support ideology, not practicality. Just say that instead of using really dumb click bait fox news quips.
by myrmidon | 2025-04-15 14:50:24+00:00
Do you think that global hegemony by force is long-term (centuries) sustainable at all?

What makes you confident that this could ever work on a longer term? The US is only ~5% of people globally, and I would expect any industrial/technological lead to melt over the years unless there is a monumental, continuous difference in spending (like what the US military did since WW2).

But I see no indication that you can keep that situation stable over the long term, and I honestly think that attempts like the current tariff approach don't help one bit in the long run while having massive harmful side effects (price inflation, loss of planning stability/soft power/productivity).
by johnnyjeans | 2025-04-15 14:50:27+00:00
> it feels like once that kind of stuff isn't punished, it starts to snowball a change in the attitudes of the site as a whole.

Considering the site has been around for over 20 years and people still call out and flame racism, I think this is an uncharitable and unfounded cynicism. I'm not sure declarative claims of 3rd order effects in a system so chaotic are capable of being accurate.
by jkachmar | 2025-04-15 14:50:42+00:00
do not listen to someone like DHH, who loves to speak at length on topics that he is deeply unfamiliar with.

> Mortality in children, adolescents, and adults with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder: a nationwide cohort study

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> ADHD was associated with significantly increased mortality rates. People diagnosed with ADHD in adulthood had a higher MRR than did those diagnosed in childhood and adolescence. Comorbid oppositional defiant disorder, conduct disorder, and substance use disorder increased the MRR even further. However, when adjusted for these comorbidities, ADHD remained associated with excess mortality, with higher MRRs in girls and women with ADHD than in boys and men with ADHD. The excess mortality in ADHD was mainly driven by deaths from unnatural causes, especially accidents.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25726514/
by thrance | 2025-04-15 14:50:51+00:00
Nice try, but no cognitive dissonance here. My previous comment proved Nazis can also be Zionists, and you would know it if you deigned open the link I joined to it.

I never claimed that Jews are Nazis, in fact, America's Zionists are mostly Christian nationalists, seeking to get rid of Jews on their national territory. And like the German Nazis before them, they find common ground with the Zionist project of moving all Jews to an ad-hoc state in the Middle East.

Unlike them, I do not believe in the "Jewish Question" (prime topic on 4chan btw) and I am perfectly fine with Jews living in my country, sharing my bread, etc.

My condemnation of Isreal only concerns itself with the way Palestinians have been treated since the creation of the state: systematically depossesed of their lands and sometimes outright eliminated. Note that "Jews" (as if they were a singular entity) aren't at the origin of the project. That is to be found in the League of Nations [1].

Please refrain from conflating anti-zionism with anti-semitism in the future, and of labelling everyone you disagree with as suffering from "cognitive dissonance".

[1] https://israelforever.org/state/Mandate_for_Palestine_Jewish...