MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dgfitz | 2025-04-30 17:24:38+00:00
As long as it isn't food. Heard a quote once (Last of US maybe?): humanity is always about 3 missed meals away from riots." In reality its probably more like 6-10, but the details aren't important. It doesn't seem like there will be food scarcity, but perhaps there could be. I'm sure there will be less food diversity, which stinks, but that is a different conversation. People will still eat.

As for toys, most kids don't play with a plastic toy for more than like, 3-10 hours of its existence and then it rots on a shelf or in a drawer until is eventually ends up in a landfill. I'm not going to miss that. I'm sure that someone will point out important things that china makes dirt cheap and I'm sure they'll be right. I personally don't care if clothing options are limited or plastic toys are scarce. The US will not implode.

It really seems like china has more to lose than we do, but because they're a communist country they can just deploy troops to quell uprisings. Tiananmen Square comes to mind. So we play this game of chicken and the media screams that they sky is falling.

Of course the Walmarts and Amazons of the world care, most of what they sell is plastic shit and clothes. I have little sympathy for them.
by pixl97 | 2025-04-30 17:24:50+00:00
Eh, I would say it's quite a bit more complicated than you're giving it credit for.

>Making sure you are marrying the right person is normalized.

Absolutely not.

I live in the southern US and we have the culmination of "Young people should get married" coupled with "divorce is bad/evil" and the disincentivization of actually learning about human behaviors/complications before going through something that could be traumatic.

There are a lot of relationships that from an outside and balanced perspective give all the signs they will not work out and will be potentially dangerous for one or both partners in the relationship.
by zoogeny | 2025-04-30 17:25:01+00:00
> You get three videos before it inserts completely irrelevant and unrelated algorithmic recommendations

This has become increasingly annoying for me. Sometimes I want to find a reference I saw a few years ago on some topic. Even if I know the speaker, the topic, sometimes even the title, I can't find the video. I get a handful of results vaguely related to the search terms and then a never ending list of garbage not even slightly related to my search terms.

I really want my own memory augmentation. A personal tracker for all of the content I have ever consumed in any form, indexed and searchable (like in a personal Elastic Search cluster). The trouble is, I only want it for like 1% of the content I have consumed. The modern web is so hostile in general that aggregating any kind of data about my own usage is so onerous that it might as well be impossible. The friction they have purposefully created worked exactly as they intended.
by islewis | 2025-04-30 17:25:20+00:00
> The cold-start training procedure begins by prompting DeepSeek-V3 to decompose complex problems into a series of subgoals

It feels pretty intuitive to me that the ability for an LLM to break a complex problem down into smaller, more easily solvable pieces will unlock the next level of complexity.

This pattern feels like a technique often taught to junior engineers- how to break up a multi-week project into bitesized tasks. This model is obviously math focused, but I see no reason why this wouldn't be incredibly powerful for code based problem solving.
by trollbridge | 2025-04-30 17:25:43+00:00
I'll simply leave this on the table: Gett is completely dominant in Israel versus Uber, and Uber is stuck playing second fiddle to Gett where they simply resell Gett's service and have to do so at a markup. Because they can't drivers even interested using the Uber app, because the Gett app is better. (Note: Uber completely gave up in 2023, and you can't book at all in Israel using Uber anymore.)

It would appear that competitors to Uber can indeed exist. And yes, after flying to Israel I still care about cost (or my employer does). Two weeks on the ground can cost as much for taxis as the flight would.
by Havoc | 2025-04-30 17:25:46+00:00
One of the core design goals Georgi Gerganov had with GGUF was to not need other files. It's literally bullet point #1 in the specs

>Single-file deployment

>Full information: all information needed to load a model is contained in the model file, and no additional information needs to be provided by the user.

https://github.com/ggml-org/ggml/blob/master/docs/gguf.md

We literally just got rid of that multi file chaos only for ollama to add it back :/
by bluGill | 2025-04-30 17:26:03+00:00
I don't have to look up their attendance to tell you that there are a lot of die hard fans. Look at any major sports team that is losing and you will still see a lot of fans at the game. I'd expect a 50k seat stadium to have 20k fans even when there is no possibility of making the playoffs and every seat full when they are likely to win. That is for any sport, football because they play so few games is likely to be closer to selling out even when the team is losing just because you if you can get in you go.

Just fair weather fans exist. They are probably a majority. The minority that is die hard fans are still significant though.
by kolanos | 2025-04-30 17:28:13+00:00
It's a good thing the United States doesn't depend on China for toilet paper, then.

> The United States primarily sources its toilet paper domestically, with about 90% being manufactured within the country.However, a significant portion of imports come from Canada and Mexico.

In fact, the United States does not depend on China for any essential consumer goods from what I can find.
by mattlutze | 2025-04-30 17:28:37+00:00
Too many people think these are funds to just run the universities. By and large, what is being withheld are funds for research.

Federally-funded academic science often looks like:

1. The university + government fund/run a project 2. Project creates new knowledge (cool!) 3. The government gets a pretty awesome license to use that knowledge 4. The government more often than not gives that knowledge away (or offers great accessible licensing), so that 5. Private industry can adapt, apply and commercialize the knowledge, driving new GDP growth and opportunities for improving life, etc.

Withholding these funds ends the research projects, because Universities are not startup incubators. So the research stops, and one of the highest returning pipelines of new GDP growth for the US dries up—unless today, the professors and universities kiss the president's ring and promise to wipe out 50-100 years of human rights improvements.
by ajross | 2025-04-30 17:28:45+00:00
> Then how do you explain StrongARM?

Do I need to? StrongARM is pretty much the definition of an "also-ran" product, no? It had no particularly notable design wins, and while it sold in reasonable volume was a distant second to MIPS in the "consumer junk" segment[1]. DEC unloaded it to Intel, where it becamse Xscale, and Intel dumped it on Marvell. At no point did anyone really care much about it.

Even within the ARM world itself, it was ARM Ltd's CPU cores (also Qualcomm had some decent designs) that powered the architecture's way back to relevance on phones, out of which Apple would grow to dominate.

[1] Set top boxes, cable modems, stuff like that.
by laweijfmvo | 2025-04-30 17:28:47+00:00
Can we NOT start another fake scarcity scare? Businesses are importing less (from China, in this case) due to tariffs because they expect demand to drop due to the increased prices that would be passed down to consumers. They are not going to stop importing goods that have inelastic demand, where everyone will just have to absorb the higher prices. PLEASE do not start panic buying, which does create [temporary] shortages and generally causes unnecessary harm :/
by incomingpain | 2025-04-30 17:29:18+00:00
If you were to go back to 1625, so 400 years ago.

What did people do to be happy on your average midweek night? No shakespeare every night. No festival. Just the average night?

You went to the local pub, had a good meal, got drunk, and smoked some pipe.

But can the modern guy go do that anymore?

You cant afford to get drunk, federal alcohol excise tax is $13/litre. LCBO(govt monopoly) markup is 100%, ontario basic alcohol tax is 30-60% retail price. environmental levy is 10-20cents but you can return that to get a refund. You still pay a sales tax of course.

You go to the LCBO and $40 for 1Litre but that's >75% taxes.

You then reach for the tobacco pipe and they have >90% taxes on tobacco.

So what happens? People dont go socialize at the pub anymore. Smoking is uncommon, no smoking socializing.

You sit at home alone and shakespeare and chill from your curated streaming choice. How depressing.
by wahern | 2025-04-30 17:29:20+00:00
WWI started in countries (Balkans) with the least economic interdependence, then pulled in more Western European countries through defense alliances. While technically someone could have put the brakes on, it was an autopilot sort of thing. The lesson of WWI is that if you're going to enter into defense agreements that obligate you, be careful to whom you're wedding yourself. In particular, don't wed yourself to someone who has much less to lose than you do.

One of the lessons from the prelude to WWII is to be careful about trade imbalances, as they can breed instability and radicalism. During the 1920s the US enjoyed huge trade surpluses with Europe, which caused all manner of monetary and labor dislocation in Europe. Worse, the US wasn't content with this surplus, so similar to modern China they erected additional barriers to imports to try to have their cake and eat it, too. These effects were amplified by the gold standard, which accelerated deflation and unemployment in Europe, and accelerated (stock market) inflation in the US. And of course all these ill effects were amplified again for Germany.

Toward the end of the 1920s and during the 1930s, the whole system was disassembled as every country, understandably, retreated to lick its wounds. Economic interdependence is critical to maintaining global security, but that interdependence itself isn't self-sustaining. It can fall apart if dislocations aren't managed well across the system. For example, the lessons from the 1990s and early 2000s is, "just go back to college or trade school" is an absolutely horrible approach to dealing with labor dislocation. Significant changes in labor structure need to happen inter-generationally, not intra-generationally.
by const_cast | 2025-04-30 17:29:23+00:00
Most teachers are actually quite good and they're actively being held back by curriculum and being stripped of their autonomy.

I really, truly don't know how people form this opinion. Teachers are trained professionals with certifications and a degree. They know what they're doing. It's extremely likely they're far more educated in the subject matter they teach than you are.

Now, they're not miracle workers. Some parents expect little Timmy reading at a second grade level in Middle School to magically get great scores on his end of year exams. It doesn't work that way.
by adwn | 2025-04-30 17:29:25+00:00
> I suspect that the Chinese government is subsidizing the products and their shipping and artificially lowering the cost and that they have been doing this for a very long time.

Why would the Chinese government be subsidizing airbrushes of all things? Is that a strategically important industry? Are they planning on capturing the global airbrush market? To what end, exactly?
by khuey | 2025-04-30 17:29:30+00:00
> Also why is training happening in such dangerous path where even if the instructions were followed the aircrafts could get as close as 30 m apart.

Forget training, why is this happening under any circumstances ever? If a military transport mission is ever so critical that you're willing to fly it within 30 meters of a civilian airlines it seems to me that you should just close the airspace to civil air traffic at that point.
by bglazer | 2025-04-30 17:29:35+00:00
I think this happens to some degree with venture firms taking multiple bets on multiple companies working in the same area. The individual companies are still hamstrung, though. Why would ten companies all take the same bet on a speculative technology, especially if they know that other companies are already working on the same ideas?

Also, not to be glib, but it sounds like you’re describing a very wealthy investor willing to spend a lot of money to advance social good by broadly funding an individually unprofitable research goal. That's just a government right?
by apercu | 2025-04-30 17:29:52+00:00
You lost me at Kevin O’Leary. He’s historically been a dishonest and unethical snake oil salesman and I doubt he’s changed.

One of my career highlights was having him explain how much it will do for my career to do his project at a discount (I was helping a friend as a favor) and I told Kevin that it was just as likely to have the opposite effect.
by tristor | 2025-04-30 17:30:25+00:00
> If you want proof, look at the state with the highest GDP.

And your response is "left-wing" (we don't actually have a left wing in the US) propaganda. Raw GDP is irrelevant for 99.99% of people, because the gains are /very/ unevenly distributed. Reducing cost of living and cost of housing has a much bigger impact on the daily lives of people than increasing GDP, because most people don't benefit from increased GDP, in fact increased GDP is largely tied to increased cost, as it's determined by money flows. GDP is a very flawed metric that doesn't in any way reflect the quality of life of the people who live in the region the metric applies to. Some sort of PPP based metric is more reasonable and is a much more balanced look at life across different US states and is not nearly as rosy a picture for blue states, all of which are some of the most expensive places to live, in part due to political policies.

For a high earning person (say a software engineer), California has a higher effective all-in tax rate on income than most European countries but delivers /far less/. The fact it has such a high GDP is because the headquarters of some of the world's largest companies are there and it's /expensive/ which means there's significant money flows in California. That doesn't prove that California's policies are superior to say Texas. It's an entirely flawed comparison that does nothing to account for actual quality of life.

I think you'd be hard pressed to prove that someone earning a median tech income in California has a better quality of life than someone earning a median tech income in France, and yet California's effective tax rate is higher (combining state, local, and federal).
by FuriouslyAdrift | 2025-04-30 17:30:28+00:00
Since there is no way for the US to compete based on cost or capacity (we just don't have the workforce numbers) with China, then the only other option is to force domestic supply chains to spring up through restrictions.

I think we should do pretty much exactly what China does:

1.) you want to sell a product to the US? You have to produce it here and the facility must be partially owned by a US company. Also you must transfer IP.

2.) Since we can't get away with massive forced and/or slave labor (legally), then create a new visa class for temporary workers that is excluded from minimum wage, worker protections, social security, etc. (yes, basically a slave class)

Once we build capacity and knowledge back, then start shift back to a more domestic workforce.

Very very nasty... but doable. The other option is to just nuke China.
by matthewdgreen | 2025-04-30 17:30:29+00:00
I think what China wants here is some kind of durable agreement that they can base plans on. What they (and unfortunately, we US folks as well) are getting right now is extremely unpredictable. The tariffs are on one week, they’re paused the next, they’re 145% tomorrow, they might be half the next day. Even official deals that Trump negotiated, like USMCA, have the half-life of Iodine-131. What’s the point of negotiating an agreement if it’ll be ripped up or ignored next week? You have to go into a negotiation like this with the understanding that you cause some pain or the deal won’t stick.

I also think China recognizes that Trump negotiations are largely about dominance and Trump’s ability to convey a narrative that he “out-negotiated” the other guy, rather than an attempt to get the optimal deal for the US. When you’re negotiating with someone like that, maintaining “face” (ie preserving your position of respect within the negotiation) isn’t some mysterious Chinese concept: it’s just addressing Trump on his own terms, ie understanding that he only respects strength.
by acdha | 2025-04-30 17:30:44+00:00
Your first quote isn’t on the page you referenced but the New York Post’s coverage of a lawsuit brought by a Republican activist – not exactly a neutral party – and he didn’t include ActBlue in his lawsuit which is going after a specific person identified only by their American Express card number, no doubt recognizing that the burden would be much higher to prove that ActBlue was colluding with rather than being victimized by whoever that was.

Similarly, your second quote is from a different Republican activist. His data and methodology don't appear to have been independently reviewed, and it doesn’t sound like there’s been any independent review of what he told people to get them to sign affidavits or verification of their claims, all but the first of which are small (it would not be the first someone elderly forgot about clicking on a link or signing up for a recurring charge), much less establishing that ActBlue condoned that activity.

The underlying problem here is that there aren’t higher standards for donations and because we don’t have a national digital identity system and the super court has found that political spending is close to speech in terms of the protections it deserves, it’s not clear how much more could even possibly be required.
by coliveira | 2025-04-30 17:30:49+00:00
Tariffs may be helpful for some areas of the economy, but the scorched earth strategy used by this administration is guaranteed to hurt the economy more than it helps. First of all, the US is posing as an enemy for every other nation, including so-called "allies". It is an isolationist program that will inevitably weaken the status of the dollar (no need for dollars is the US is not interested in trading).
by bitwize | 2025-04-30 17:30:51+00:00
This question was not raised when the Obama administration dictated procedures and evidentiary standards to universities in cases of sexual assault, with threats of being found liable under Title IX for noncompliance. Well it was raised by some on the right, and then dismissed because, you know, the right, and who wants to defend campus rapists anyway? Those Duke University lacrosse kids should have hung -- even if they didn't actually rape that girl, they might have... or they might have raped some other girl.

When Orange Man exercises a power he presumes to have, it's "dictatorial", but when "Pen and a Phone" Obama exercised that same power -- together with the people, follow where Obama leads.
by pmontra | 2025-04-30 17:31:14+00:00
Web radios handle many clients. The first problem could be if the Wi-Fi hot spot can handle that many clients. The second one is that web radios and their protocols usually don't care if two clients are not in sync. They are usually in different places, maybe different continents.

I'm self hosting a web radio for my LAN at home. I set it up years ago, I'm not there so I can't check the details but I think it is: Icecast2 on an ARM small server with DeeFuzzer (sp?) to send my mp3s to the Icecast2 server. MPV or VLC to play music on my Linux laptop and Transistor from F-Droid (I believe)
by n2d4 | 2025-04-30 17:31:30+00:00
Which ones are misaligned? At least the ones shown to me are perfectly aligned on my computer (both Safari and Chrome on a Mac).

Is it maybe caused by an adblocker? (I have YouTube premium, so no ads.)

Edit: Actually, the picture in the article shows a misalignment in the "Breaking News" section. It's odd, because the sections align perfectly for me on various screen sizes
by jillesvangurp | 2025-04-30 17:31:52+00:00
It was part of a bigger project. I still have some code related to converting OSM data to json on my github: https://github.com/jillesvangurp/osm2geojson

Mainly the problem isn't Elasticsearch but dealing with openstreetmap tags and reconstructing polygons from ways, nodes, and relations. Otherwise, even back then Elasticsearch scaled fine; so no issues on that front. And it's pretty well suited for this type of stuff.

We had a largish Hetzner server (50 euro/month) with 32 GB and a quad core xeon that did the indexing. But basically that part was fine. I wrote some simple code that simply pulled out nearby street segments and then calculated perpendicular distance to each of them using some simple high school math and simply picked the nearest. And from there a simple contains query would produce neighborhoods, cities, countries, etc.

The why part was that I was building a location data startup at the time and we were interested in figuring out localities, neighborhoods, and other areas of interest from raw data with coordinates. The startup failed but the idea was kind of cool. So this was a simple reverse geocoder that I knocked out because the existing ones were kind of limited (also rate limited). And Opencage did not exist yet.
by amiga386 | 2025-04-30 17:33:07+00:00
As far as I know, its POSIX compliant?

https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V...

The redirection operator: [n]>&word shall duplicate one output file descriptor from another, or shall close one. If word evaluates to one or more digits, the file descriptor denoted by n, or standard output if n is not specified, shall be made to be a copy of the file descriptor denoted by word
by sanderjd | 2025-04-30 17:33:13+00:00
My two cents is that if this had been, from the start, a dedicated effort to decouple the US economy from Chinese producers, for national / economic security reasons, then they might have been able to convince me that the short term pain might result in something long-term beneficial.

The major problem they have with that, though, is that they started with Mexico and Canada, and then progressed to declaring (trade) war on the entire world, moves which are exactly the wrong thing if the goal was to painfully but beneficially decouple with China. In order to achieve that goal, we would have needed to strengthen our trading appliances with other countries in North America, Asia, and Europe. But they've done exactly the opposite.

(Note, though, that even this strategy wouldn't be getting much if any love from economists. It's hard to find credible economists who think tariffs are anything but dumb, economically. But we would see a lot more support from foreign policy folks, many of whom do think that economic decoupling from China would be good for non-economic reasons, despite being painful economically.)
by multjoy | 2025-04-30 17:33:20+00:00
I don’t know if the US shares a great deal with UK armed forces, but an officer ignoring a senior NCO, especially one training them, does so very much at their own peril.

It is far more likely to be something like cognitive overload rather than a clash or personalities - you don’t get to be in that position in the first place if you have a tendency to disregard instructors.