MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by NDa_ | 2025-04-03 10:46:30+00:00
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by 0xy | 2025-04-03 10:46:42+00:00
You're trying to claim a law that is exclusively used to fleece U.S. companies and never EU competitors is 'not bad faith'?

When has the DMA been used against EU tech companies? Never.

Your comment also shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the DMA and GDPR laws. Neither of them are objective laws, and they are applied subjectively without guidance.

Let me be very clear: the EU does not tell you how to comply with either the DMA or the GDPR, period. The law is extremely vague and does not prescribe how to comply in any way, shape or form.
by giantg2 | 2025-04-03 10:46:56+00:00
It's not really split down the historical line of north and south. What you are actually seeing are urbanization rates, with more urbanization in the north east (this was true and a factor during the civil war too). You can look at the county level voting maps to see this exists in the north too. If you look at only state level maps, then you lose that precision. It's not a north vs south thing, it's and urban vs rural thing.
by omnee | 2025-04-03 10:47:04+00:00
The US can use internal policies to support the industries and skills you mentioned. Tariffs as implemented, and greatly damaging longstanding relationships with allies, will have the opposite effect. The existing lead in services will be lost, consumption will drop, and the increase in production of goods due to tariffs won't offset it. I would recommend you read the outcome of the Smoot Hawley tariffs.
by gadders | 2025-04-03 10:47:09+00:00
If anyone is interested, you can find the US's assessment of the tariffs imposed on the US by other countries here: https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/Reports/202...

EG:

"The UK has duties on approximately 5,000 tariff lines, including on certain agricultural products, ceramics, chemicals, bioethanol, and vehicles. Tariffs on some products such as bananas, raw cane sugar, and apparel, which tend not to be import sensitive for the UK, are maintained to provide for preferential access for imports from certain developing countries into the UK compared to the MFN rate. The UK has some high tariffs that affect U.S. exports, such as rates of up to 25.0 percent for some fish and seafood products, 10.0 percent for trucks, 10.0 percent for passenger vehicles, and up to 6.5 percent for certain mineral or chemical fertilizers"
Show HN: Nix Ninja – open-source Ninja-compatible build system for Nix
by hinshun | 2025-04-03 10:47:11+00:00
Hello, this is Edgar! We are open sourcing nix-ninja, an incremental build system for Nix that leverages dynamic derivations.

For those unfamiliar, Nix is a powerful package manager and build system that ensures reproducible builds via strict dependency isolation. However, one of its limitations has been that it builds packages as monolithic units - if you change one source file, Nix rebuilds the entire package from scratch.

nix-ninja solves this by bringing compilation unit level granularity to Nix builds. It targets ninja build files, a format for describing build graphs output by popular build systems like CMake and meson. This means that when you modify a single source file, only the affected compilation units need to be rebuilt, significantly reducing build times.

We're excited because this gives Nix fine-grained caching with early cutoff optimisation (see the Build Systems à la Carte paper). Combined with remote build farms like Nixbuild.net, this moves Nix into the incremental cloud build systems arena, alongside Google's Bazel and Meta's Buck2.

Dynamic derivations and content-addressed derivations are still experimental features in Nix, so we're hoping to accelerate their maturation by providing a compelling use-case and implementation. Our north star is to have Hydra (nixpkgs' CI runner) support incremental compilation in nixpkgs for slow builds like LLVM.

nix-ninja can compile Nix itself today, but we're still very early in its development. Given community interest in dynamic derivations and incremental compilation in Nix, we decided to open source it in an pre-alpha state to involve the community in its design.

Please take a look. We'll be available in the comments to answer any questions: https://github.com/pdtpartners/nix-ninja
by noduerme | 2025-04-03 10:47:34+00:00
Power abhors a vacuum. No such thing can exist without some state eventually dominating 51% of it. We've just tested this out since 2009 and it's already obvious that no crypto can escape state control, because the ingress and egress points are already under state control. Short of establishing your own colony on the moon or Mars, this ain't gonna happen.

Luckily, it's still possible to change governments. Sometimes, in some places. Maybe not for much longer. But the idea that crypto will free us is a fantasy that at this point is mostly being peddled by secret police agencies in name-your-country.
by UncleMeat | 2025-04-03 10:47:38+00:00
The issue is not that the barrier is insurmountable. The issue is that small amounts of friction become meaningful at scale in elections. Place the friction in the right spots and some people experiencing that friction choose not to bother. If the people who choose not to bother disproportionately vote for one side then there's a small electoral benefit to the other side.
by bsenftner | 2025-04-03 10:47:41+00:00
Every opinion on UBI is short sighted, and does not understand the macroeconomic poison that is UBI. Our economy, all economies, have lowered ethics players operating at the top of each economy. UBI institutionalizes these low ethics players, as well as institutionalizes the UBI recipients and forever casts their offspring into those economic roles. UBI is nothing less than the death of hope and the elimination of any economic ladder up and out of one's birth situation. The only path is stagnant or down.
by 6510 | 2025-04-03 10:47:59+00:00
Every time I think about that it strikes me as a dumb idea. Everything that cant be allowed to fail should be a government enterprise.

I would go nuts with the concept, turn city hall into a museum, hotel, grandcafe, restaurant, cinema, casino, conference rooms, desks for rent, city tour guides, etc etc open 24/7. Live music if there are no council meetings on the big screen. It should have a room to smoke weed too.

If you ignore how silly it sounds, what do you think the revenue will be like?
by huijzer | 2025-04-03 10:48:40+00:00
> Ray Dalio's Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order feels prescient

Maybe Dalio is right, but a lot of his data was sketchy [1].

My personal theory is that Dalio somehow benefits from saying nice things about the Chinese regime.

[1]: https://youtu.be/s1iv0q_SW3E
by AymanJabr | 2025-04-03 10:48:43+00:00
Too many steps, why do I have to signup? Why do I have to create an engine.

Remove all of this, just let me directly use your app, I want to search and create engines on the fly.

I don't need to save them for future uses, if I am not going to use your app even once.

If you want this to take off, it needs to just work, no extra steps unless I want to.
by metalman | 2025-04-03 10:49:39+00:00
Comment on the comments.....it sure looks like moores law is loosing relevance and that going forward the possibility for durable, stable, device implemtations, that can last for generations is inevitable. Manufacturers may be resistant, but with 8~9 billion customers, and the inevitable losses and damage to devices, it will take a generation to get one in everybodys hands
by ptero | 2025-04-03 10:49:41+00:00
> hot takes "they have no idea what's coming" are I believe naive. They know. They just don't care

I think they know, they care and decided that it is a reasonable way forward given very limited (trade and budget deficit) options. Otherwise I think you are spot on.

To spitball some ideas on your midterm comment (again, agree to it). One possibility is they see it as an unavoidable loss, plan on using veto to maintain course set during the first 2 years (which is why they rush) and hope to be in the updraft phase by the November 2028 elections. Maybe.
by yhavr | 2025-04-03 10:49:53+00:00
Lol. "Liberal" people create an echo chamber by eliminate opposing opinions and then are surprised that people elect far-right candidates.

> Until we can live in a world where fundamental rights are protected and respected

It wasn't hiding from uncomfortable things, opinions and people, that created the world where you can even think about women or minority rights, or even know how to write to express your opnions. So this approach will not create the world you described.
by aspenmayer | 2025-04-03 10:50:27+00:00
Look into LibRedirect and the projects it uses and also things like youtube-dl/yt-dlp.

https://libredirect.github.io/

https://libredirect.codeberg.page/

> A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends.

https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends

https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36146076
by verisimi | 2025-04-03 10:50:48+00:00
> If absolute gender equality is what we're after, I think the premise is flawed form the start.

I thought we were talking about some sort of equality. Re the OP, who mentioned that they wouldn't participate in certain "women's issues", I couldn't think of an equivalent example where women shouldn't participate in "men's issues". That fact alone strikes me as unequal - it can't be that one sex (or race, or whatever other distinction) should have rights in law, that others don't have. Such a circumstance would an example of creating inequality, which I think is the antithesis of the OP's point.

These questions are not straightforward. Presumably we don't want to initiate or institutionalise inequality.
by cbeach | 2025-04-03 10:51:28+00:00
Why haven't we questioned the asymmetric high tariffs imposed by the EU on America for decades?

The EU imposed a 10% tariff on US cars for decades while the US only imposed 2.5% on the EU. And this happened while the EU exerted a significant trade surplus against the US on automobiles.

I don't advocate trade wars, but I can understand the case for some rebalancing, given the historic context. Hopefully Trump will only use tariffs as a negotiating tool, and they will soon be lifted. He's a dealmaker.
by hmwhy | 2025-04-03 10:52:28+00:00
If you pay closer attention, you can see that some of the designs rely on very deliberate placements of circles; for example, eyes of the monkey and owl, and the nose of the whale.

Those are just the obvious ones that I can immediately spot — there was probably a lot of careful consideration into the placement of circles in order to facilitate good looking arcs and circles that bring the animals to "life".
by roenxi | 2025-04-03 10:52:38+00:00
That is missing the big picture. The US has a debt & deficit problem. There is no consensus policy on how to deal with it [0] and every slice of the population wants to handle it differently (generally by picking a different slice of the population to bear the burden).

The federal government tried printing money and that was a big contributor to the Biden administration getting voted out. Somewhat unfairly, but oh well. It wasn't working very well and the political appetite isn't there right now to be associated with monetisation.

Reducing the size and scope of government is being debated, but realistically the appetite doesn't seem to be there either.

Now the administration are going to try taxing foreigners. It probably won't go well either.

This is the US political process seeing a major problem and cycling through options to check for alternatives other than raising taxes on a voting constituency. None of the revenue raising ideas have widespread support - they all harm the economy and they're all going to have specific subsets of the population that support them. Pointing out a particular subset isn't particularly useful.

[0] I suspect there is a consensus on the debt part - don't pay it - but that still leaves the deficit to sort out.
by rsynnott | 2025-04-03 10:53:04+00:00
> The effective pair wise tariff rate of these countries is still larger than the US and simply brings it more in line.

^ is, er, not true, though.

They based it on _trade deficits_ (plus some random messing around which resulted in some uninhabited islands with no trade or independent trade policy being assigned a value), not tariffs. Which makes no sense at all.
by specproc | 2025-04-03 10:53:05+00:00
> Someone's going to run the world, you know.

The entitlement in that statement is jaw-dropping. No, no one needs to run the world.

And I definitely, definitely can compare US actions to Hitler and Stalin. Vietnam alone, over fifty years ago, ignoring everything that's gone on since was 1.4 million deaths, more than Auschwitz, about a third of the Holodomor.

In the 20th century, leaving aside WWI and WWII, America fought its native population, and in Mexico, Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Korea, Puerto Rico, Vietnam, Lao, Indonesia, Lebanon, the Congo, Bolivia, Cambodia, Granada, Libya, Panama, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, and the former Yugoslavia.

These are troops on the ground wars, in the twentieth century alone, which are a matter of public record. We're not even at the War on Terror, small scale secret stuff, or counting the viscous regimes the US has propped up. Or sanctions, or internal repression, lynching, assassinations and the like.

We don't have a body count as the US stopped counting in Vietnam, but I'd wager if we took all the deaths for which the US is directly responsible, it outstrip would outstrip Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union combined by an order of magnitude.

[Breathes] To the initial point, and speaking from somewhere where one's political views can definitely get one locked up. The (debatable) free speech of Americans means nothing to those not protected by US law, which is most of the world.

The American human rights record may look passable from the inside, but from the outside it's just another monstrous empire.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-04-03 10:53:23+00:00
Brexit and Trump are both proxy wars of subversion, with traitorous support from a cadre of extreme reactionaries in both countries spending huge sums on social and trad media to manipulate public opinion in a self-harming direction.

It's very impressive in its way.

Although the winners won't get to enjoy their victory for long, because climate change is going to roll right over everything over the next few decades.
by akimbostrawman | 2025-04-03 10:53:31+00:00
I would advice caution with that approach. Not only could Linux by itself be "suspicious", a clean OS without any data surely is. Once they have a justification for a deeper search they will find out about the live OS and you will be treated like a terrorist.

A better approach would be to backup your OS and make it available online over SSH/VPN for example. Then install windows or any other default OS on all devices with some amount of believable but not too personal data. Once you are over the boarder wipe all devices and download your real OS and data over the internet to your devices.
by sceptic123 | 2025-04-03 10:53:44+00:00
Is there really that much skill involved in using LLMs effectively, most of the criticisms I see end up being countered with something along the lines of "you're not using the right model". That implies that much of the skill people talk about is less important than picking the correct model to use (which tend to be the more expensive ones).

And in your LLM future, who will maintain all of the legacy systems that are written in languages the LLMs don't end up assimilating? It's reasonably safe to assume there will be plenty of work left there.
by svilen_dobrev | 2025-04-03 10:54:13+00:00
Well, next to a x220 from 2012, sits my eee-pc 701, from 2008. With no-moving-parts-inside, and "huge" soldered 4Gb ssdisk with arch-32bit. Been around the world (literally), a few times. The touchpad buttons started falling few years ago. i keep putting them back. Rarely used nowadays - but battery still holds about hour+ .. Well made tiny machine.

i guess i am a hoarder? Hate to throw away useful working things..
by giantg2 | 2025-04-03 10:54:31+00:00
It wasn't much of a shotgun wedding. Yes, it was a common enemy/cause during the revolution, but then took years of debate for the constitution and years more for the bill of rights. Over time, we've forced more and more homogeneous (federal) laws. The more laws you pass, the more likely people are affected in the outgroups under the splits you mentioned and it compounds. All the concerns about states rights and small states being less powerful are still concerns for some groups of people today. We've essentially been eroding the initial status quo that had been agreed upon.
by Towaway69 | 2025-04-03 10:54:40+00:00
EU peace is assured by inter-locking trade within the block. Countries within the EU are gently encouraged to trade essential goods with one another instead of producing them themselves.

This policy dates back to the end of WW2 as an attempt to prevent one country getting too aggressive and hence starting another war.

Since the fall of the wall, Russia was seen as a legitimate trading partner for the block and, in the long term (just as Türkiye), as member of the block.

Hence sourcing fertiliser from Russia was taken to be a strategic positive since it tired Russia to Europe.
by maaaaattttt | 2025-04-03 10:54:51+00:00
That would work of we had viable alternatives (on par with the US offers or as an easy migration). But we don’t really, so if the EU also adds tariffs than we’ll have the same issues the US is going to have. Meaning higher prices for the same offer since we’ll have no other choice but to stick with the US IT offer.

Like other comments said, this could work only if this was long term and everybody bites the bullet until they have a good local alternative to foreign offers with high tariffs. And the chances of having a lower offer as the one you were importing are really high. So, everybody is betting on short term.
by mandmandam | 2025-04-03 10:55:42+00:00
> What happen if this CBI maximum happen to be a very low amount?

It shouldn't need to be pointed out that that's deeply unlikely, but I'll point it out anyway.

The available monetary contraction is orders of magnitude larger. Economic conditions where it would be constrained to such a low level would likely be rare and temporary. And, it's generally accepted that direct cash transfers increase spending.
by DonaldFisk | 2025-04-03 10:55:43+00:00
> There is really one ultimate question here: "Is this the best use of our tax dollars?". Not: "Does this feel like the best use of our tax dollars?".

There have been numerous pilot studies, e.g. those listed on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income . The problem is that opponents of UBI invariably point out that as only some people received it, and only for a limited time, that it wasn't universal, or that it took place in in some other country, or decades ago, so it doesn't apply in their country, or today.

> Show me how much UBI saves police departments, social welfare services, the health-care system,etc.

Its purpose is to ensure that everyone has their basic financial needs met, not to provide those particular government services.
by mrweasel | 2025-04-03 10:57:10+00:00
I don't think the current US administration understand the EU.

There are some things where I have my doubts about the current actions of the European countries, like rearmament. Will that be dropped the minute a new US administration enters? What the EU does well, like really well, is trade and bureaucracy. It is, in my mind one of the few areas where the EU can absolutely run circles around the US, while managing to protect and isolate itself from the worst fallout. We've already seen this with the current EU tariffs, they are extremely precise and targets Republican votes at almost no cost to EU consumers. I think that will continue, rather than imposing broad tariffs, the EU will target things Trump care about specifically.
by rbanffy | 2025-04-03 10:57:44+00:00
I've been looking for a DEC terminal with Sixel, Tektronix and ReGIS graphics for a while, with zero success. They weren't rare at all - they were a massive success, and, yet, it seems almost all ended up in a recycling facility or an e-waste dumpster. Many other terminals emulated them and expanded on their feature set.
by TheOtherHobbes | 2025-04-03 10:58:01+00:00
The 'outsourcing' has always been for the benefit of US defence corporations.

There were a number of occasions in the 50s to 70s when the US stepped in directly to neuter world-leading aerospace projects in the UK, forcing the UK to buy from the US instead.

Virtually all of the cost of the UK's Trident deterrent goes to the US.

And it would be unwise to write off the EU, especially now there's a mass exodus of researchers from the US.
by M95D | 2025-04-03 10:58:05+00:00
> - Fingerprint reader

My mistake.

> That was a conscious design decision, as you're supposed to use swappable expansion cards.

> - SD card slot

Like I said. The laptop itself is very basic (crippleware by Lenovo standards). You have to use USB ports for everything, there are only 3 usable, and also mechanically very weak, not to mention performance, heat inside a closed plastic case, cost, etc.
by blacklion | 2025-04-03 10:58:56+00:00
It does nothing with "hostile". For China, yes, but for most other countries tariff is simply ($USA-import - $USA-export)/$USA-import. That simply, numbers are check for many many countries. I'm sure, USA imports a lot of tea from Sri Lanka and some fruits and wood/furniture.

(Freshly made Sri Lankian tea is the best, IMHO! I mean, proper tea, not all these grasses, berries and synthetic aromas which are named "tea" in modern western world).
by hobs | 2025-04-03 10:59:12+00:00
The United States especially is having a face to face with tribalism - if you live here and you don't see it you are basically blind.

We have parents posting that they are glad their child is dead instead of getting the measles vaccine, an entire pandemic that was ignored and downplayed, an election denied.

These are all simple examples of tribalism - choosing the tribe over ones own self interest and well being. Most sane people don't offer their children up to Baal.
by anymouse123456 | 2025-04-03 10:59:30+00:00
I'm running a Lenovo Thinkpad, X1 Carbon from a year or so ago and it is, by far, the best Linux Laptop I've ever owned.

Unlike the 4 or so Dell (and Asus) laptops (that came with Linux preinstalled) that preceded this one, it can simultaneously support:

* Bluetooth. Yay!

* Wifi. Yay!

* Sleeps when the lid closes. Yay!

* Stays asleep when in my bag. Yay!

It's also reasonably fast and decently capable, but the not-trying-to-commit-heat-death-suicide-in-my-bag and supporting BOTH Wifi AND Bluetooth at the same time are really the biggest features.