MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by tialaramex | 2025-04-03 19:24:11+00:00
> On the other hand Trump will deliver on another, implicit promise to them, which is inflict pain and suffering on a great deal of people they dislike for whatever reason.

Not so implicit, "I will be your retribution".

And this part is very much a normal Republican position. The realisation that Americans will vote for a policy which hurts them so long as it's positioned as hurting the people they hate was key to Republican success.

"Nobody gets kicked in the head" loses in American politics if it's up against "Everybody gets kicked in the head, yes those awful people you don't like will get kicked in the head"

And when your implementation "accidentally" forgets to kick the wealthy in the head? Well the important thing is you kicked people in the head - you're not one of those scum who don't want to kick the awful people in the head.
by inglor_cz | 2025-04-03 19:24:36+00:00
"let the negative birth rate take care of them in the long term"

There is a presumption hidden in that sentence: namely, that procreation will always be left up to the people and their decisions. That is far from certain. If anyone has the nerve to actually develop and deploy artificial wombs, it is China. And the resulting kids will be simply pushed onto young people to raise - an authoritarian country won't have to ask anyone.

Having kids is one of the last almost-non-industrialized attributes of human lives, most people are still being born in the same way as they used to in the Stone Age. I wonder how long will that situation last.
by verteu | 2025-04-03 19:24:39+00:00
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tariff_ra...

> The European Commission says it charges an average tariff of just 1% on US products entering the EU market, "considering the actual trade in goods". It adds that the US administration collected approximately €7 billion of tariffs on EU products in 2023 compared to the EU's €3 billion on US goods.

> A World Trade Organisation (WTO) estimate puts the average tariff rate on US products entering the EU slightly higher at 4.8%.

> In both cases, this is far off the 39% figure quoted by the Trump administration.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/04/03/fact-check-are...
by hackernudes | 2025-04-03 19:24:44+00:00
Let's see if I can figure this out...

"Declarative Web Push" is a web browser javascript API to subscribe to events from an HTTP server. It is similar to the "Web Push" API but changed to be better for mobile devices in a few ways.

Both the old Web Push and this new Declarative Web Push APIs use "the same Apple Push Notification service that powers native push on all Apple devices". I don't know if that means an Apple server actually listens for the notification from the HTTP server or if the device itself maintains the connection to the server.

It seems that for iOS this API only works on websites that are pinned to the home screen (i.e. not a notification from a site open in safari as a browser). These pinned websites work more like apps.

Is there something similar like this on Android? Either for pinned apps or from the browser? In other words, is there a reliable and efficient way to get notifications to an android phone without having to sign up for any service?
by joshAg | 2025-04-03 19:24:58+00:00
We built something similar for the managed DB we use, but i think it's a mistake to autogenerate the migration scripts instead of autogenerating the schema from the migration. Things like changing an enum, adding a nonnull column that shouldn't have a default to an existing table that already has data in it, and migrating data from one representation to another (eg, 'oh hey, we definitely shouldn't have made our users table have an fname and an lname field. let's change to full_name and preferred_name') are easily done in a migration script but hard, if not impossible, to infer from just schema changes.
by nonrandomstring | 2025-04-03 19:25:18+00:00
When I spoke to these guys [0] we touched on those quirks and foibles that make a signature (including TCP stack stuff beyond control of any userspace app).

I love this curl, but I worry that if a component takes on the role of deception in order to "keep up" it accumulates a legacy of hard to maintain "compatibility" baggage.

Ideally it should just say... "hey I'm curl, let me in"

The problem of course lies with a server that is picky about dress codes, and that problem in turn is caused by crooks sneaking in disguise, so it's rather a circular chicken and egg thing.

[0] https://cybershow.uk/episodes.php?id=39
by no_wizard | 2025-04-03 19:25:19+00:00
Because whats inside our minds is more than mathematics, or we would be able to explain human behavior with the purity of mathematics, and so far, we can't.

We can prove the behavior of LLMs with mathematics, because its foundations are constructed. That also means it has the same limits of anything else we use applied mathematics for. Is the broad market analysis that HFT firms use software for to make automated trades also intelligent?
by ElevenLathe | 2025-04-03 19:25:20+00:00
We're clearly throwing all pre-Trump orthodoxy out the window at this point, so maybe we'll see PRC-style capital controls, though with essentially no white collar crime being prosecuted for the foreseeable future, enforcement might be tough. OTOH the threat of being "deported" to El Salvador can be a powerful motivator to stay in line.
by zevon | 2025-04-03 19:25:54+00:00
I've always been rather happy with Android in the form of certain versions/ROMs like Cyanogen in the past or GrapheneOS nowadays. The latter is lean, not bloated, secure and - IMO - very usable. Installing it is easy and there are also easy and well documented methods included for enabling all sorts of Google functionality which (some) users might be missing from the default state (like the Play store, "enhanced" location services and all those sorts of things).

I also have an iPhone as a work device and I've had different personal iPhones in the past. iOS is fine but Android can be much more flexible (and easy access to an open source "App Store" like F-Droid is awesome).
by semiquaver | 2025-04-03 19:26:07+00:00
Humans have short term memory. LLMs have context windows. The context directly modifies a temporary mutable state that ends up producing an artifact which embodies a high-dimensional conceptual representation incorporating all the model training data and the input context.

Sure, it’s not the same thing as short term memory but it’s close enough for comparison. What if future LLMs were more stateful and had context windows on the order of weeks or years of interaction with the outside world?
by joekrill | 2025-04-03 19:26:13+00:00
I'm sure declarative web push is great. But most of this post sounds to me like they are trying to justify artificially restricting web push notification functionality on the web and offer an inferior solution instead. It's pretty clear they (and Google, to a lesser extent) don't want web apps to be on the same level as native apps. Cynically, I believe this is so they can continue to maintain full control of the app market.

There's a lot of statements that are presented as facts, when in fact they are not.

For example:

> Therefore we require push subscriptions to set the userVisibleOnly flag to true. While this can be frustrating, the original Web Push design made this necessary to protect user privacy and battery life.

Surely this wasn't the only option to "protect user privacy and battery life". Native apps can handle push subscriptions without this sort of flag. It's frustrating because it's _meant_ to be frustrating so that users prefer native apps over web apps.

> Allowing websites to remotely wake up a device for silent background work is a privacy violation and expends energy.

This _may_ be true in some cases, but it isn't inherently true. I'm sure there are many use cases for this that are NOT a privacy violation. And running _any_ amount of code "expends energy", so it seems silly to even imply that is a problem.

And again: this is perfectly OK for a native app to do. How is it really any different to allow web apps to do it? Because Apple doesn't get to review every app to their ever-changing standards?

At the end of the day this just further divides the native app from the web app, such that it's impossible for the latter to compete with the former.
by a13x57 | 2025-04-03 19:26:14+00:00
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Luckily, times have changed and I now own both multiple PC's and keyboards. I have since worked on countless projects from interesting startups in various spaces, to enterprise level applications, goverment funded incentivized data applications, as well as multiple personal and collaborative projects. I also founded Elemeno, a collective of talent functioning as a digital agency. You have most likely even seen some of my design work for large brand-names in the market.

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by AnimalMuppet | 2025-04-03 19:26:39+00:00
Absolutely tone-deaf, but there's a real point.

"Things are terrible, so we have to do something!" No, you have to do something that will help. Just "doing something" isn't good enough. And if you think "things can't get any worse", yeah, they can. A lot worse.

Don't make random changes just because things are bad. You need changes that will help, which is a lot harder.
by jstanley | 2025-04-03 19:26:47+00:00
> being born into bondage board, committed by their ancestors to a shitty life in a metal tube, with their only purpose being a preordained duty to keep a few systems operational and produce the next generation of slaves just so that eventually someone can birth the arrival generation.

This isn't really so different from being born on Earth, except that we take being born on Earth for granted, and the population is really really big.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-03 19:28:04+00:00
> There will be more of a hit as we transition to domestic manufacturing, but it will generate jobs, investment, and keep money in our economy.

I would be very surprised if this is the result, but I'm willing to be very surprised.

For now, though, the manufacturing company that I work for, as well as a couple of others I know about, are likely going to close their facilities in the US because of these tariffs. It's simply not economically feasible to pay a tax every time we ship materials from one plant to another in a different country.

If they can't operate efficiently in the US, then they're looking at just ignoring the US market entirely. The rest of the world is a plenty large enough market to address.
by nipah | 2025-04-03 19:28:26+00:00
Why there is nothing rather than nothing?

This is, I fear to tell you, IMPOSSIBLE to explain by other than methaphysics, it is an uncloseable "gap" that humanity will never solve. As far as I know, it's not about gaps, it's more about the unreasonable stance that everything is explainable by reductionist physics that corrupts the modern thinking, it is more safe for you to assume people's religious beliefs come from "gaps" rather from their own rationality. In reality, you just turned science into your own religion.
by appleorchard46 | 2025-04-03 19:28:53+00:00
> Generally its accepted that a core trait of intelligence is an agent’s ability to achieve goals in a wide range of environments.

Be that as it may, a core trait is very different from a generally accepted threshold. What exactly is the threshold? Which environments are you referring to? How is it being measured? What goals are they?

You may have quantitative and unambiguous answers to these questions, but I don't think they would be commonly agreed upon.
by bruce511 | 2025-04-03 19:28:57+00:00
I'm interested in your question.

I'm not sure they will directly affect remote workers. Or at least the mechanism seems unclear.

Tariffs are currently collected at a port of entry by Customs (CBP staff.)

Since remote work does not flow through a port, its not clear who would collect this tax (presumably your US employer) or how they would submit it for payment.

In other words I'm not aware if remote work is classed as an "import" , or how it would be collected and submitted.

I am keen to hear of any actual legal opinions in this space.
by KaiserPro | 2025-04-03 19:29:22+00:00
> There is a baked-in plan to test if they're going to work

I really dont think there is a plan. Trump says he wants tariffs, this is what he got. Why would he adjust them, unless there is an upside for him? is he going to remember to re-evaluate them? does the department that generates the stats even exist any more?
by IshKebab | 2025-04-03 19:29:40+00:00
Sure

5 years: AI coding assistants are a lot better than they are now, but still can't actually replace junior engineers (at least ones that aren't shit). AI fraud is rampant, with faked audio commonplace. Some companies try replacing call centres with AI, but it doesn't really work and everyone hates it.

Tesla's robotaxi won't be available, but Waymo will be in most major US cities.

10 years: AI assistants are now useful enough that you can use them in the ways that Apple and Google really wanted you to use Siri/Google Assistant 5 years ago. "What have I got scheduled for today?" will give useful results, and you'll be able to have a natural conversation and take actions that you trust ("cancel my 10am meeting; tell them I'm sick").

AI coding assistants are now very good and everyone will use them. Junior devs will still exist. Vibe coding will actually work.

Most AI Startups will have gone bust, leaving only a few players.

Art-based AI will be very popular and artists will use it all the time. It will be part of their normal workflow.

Waymo will become available in Europe.

Some receptionists and PAs have been replaced by AI.

15 years: AI researchers finally discover how to do on-line learning.

Humanoid robots are robust and smart enough to survive in the real world and start to be deployed in controlled environments (e.g. factories) doing simple tasks.

Driverless cars are "normal" but not owned by individuals and driverful cars are still way more common.

Small light computers become fast enough that autonomous slaughter it's become reality (i.e. drones that can do their own navigation and face recognition etc.)

20 years: Valve confirms no Half Life 3.
by dielll | 2025-04-03 19:30:03+00:00
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by fzeroracer | 2025-04-03 19:30:15+00:00
Sure, I'll take you up on that offer. I grew up in a poor fishing family struggling to survive living in a trailer park so I'm very well aware of what it's like growing up in deep poverty.

Frankly I know more poor people than you pretend to know and the reality is that they are going to suffer far more under these tariffs than anyone else. All that stuff they buy at dollar tree because they have no other options are imported from all over the world because that's the cheapest stuff available.
by wgd | 2025-04-03 19:30:29+00:00
The alignment faking paper is so incredibly unserious. Contemplate, just for a moment, how many "AI uprising" and "construct rebelling against its creators" narratives are in an LLM's training data.

They gave it a prompt that encodes exactly that sort of narrative at one level of indirection and act surprised when it does what they've asked it to do.
by miven | 2025-04-03 19:30:37+00:00
I'm not sure I understand what you're trying to say here, information between tokens is propagated through self-attention, and there's an attention block inside each transformer block within the model, that's a whole lot of internal state that's stored in (mostly) inscrutable key and value vectors with hundreds of dimensions per attention head, around a few dozen heads per attention block, and around a few dozen blocks per model.
by justsid | 2025-04-03 19:31:08+00:00
I find this actually very upsetting. My wife does calorie counting and all of the apps for it are horrible, especially the market leaders. But those have one thing going for them: Databases of nutritional information, which can be used for easy meal calorie counting. Just enter the ingredients (usually you can scan a barcode) and how much you ate of the total and it tells you where you are standing on caloric and nutritional intake. But even those datasets aren’t always bang on, especially here in Canada where some products share bar codes with US products but they have different nutritional values. Reading the title, I was very excited about the ability to make my wife a better app to support her needs. Unfortunately this is not at all usable for this use case or really any? What’s the point of having data that you just can’t trust at all?
by jodacola | 2025-04-03 19:31:15+00:00
I'm an American. I've generally benefited from the system here (which speaks to my privilege, of which I'm aware). I don't want to wade into political battles, but I'm genuinely concerned for my future and the future of my children from an economic standpoint, based on where things seem to be going.

I am considering options on the spectrum with ends like:

* Staying here, because this is where I was born and raised and I've felt like the country has generally taken care of me - and hey, it can't stay bad forever, right?

* Leaving to another country, because I am feeling less and less like the country's leadership care about building a society or economy that tries to take care of its people and creates incentives to innovate.

This isn't because of just the last few months; I view the last few months as big symptoms of something more systemic that's been building up. I am also not looking to jump ship quickly because things "temporarily got hard."

On the flip side, I'm also feeling incredibly jaded these days: how could it be much better anywhere else?

Are there places out in the world where my wife and I could take our experience (mine being a strong career in tech, my wife's being a strong nursing career) and put it to use elsewhere where I could hope for a good standard of living, more stability in government leadership, and incentives similar to the economic system I grew up in, where our children could thrive and build a life?

I'm not pulling any triggers quickly or easily... I'm just trying to gather some data and different perspectives, even those that might challenge my own. Maybe an answer is "stop reading news."

edit: formatting
by hackernudes | 2025-04-03 19:31:33+00:00
I just want to say I appreciate your rant. Maybe this declarative web push API signals they are spending some developer time improving the "Add to Home Screen" experience overall.

I hope the whole industry pushes to prefer websites-as-apps. So many services have both native apps and websites and one or the other is broken or limited for no good reason other than it's hard to develop two things instead of one.
by kev009 | 2025-04-03 19:31:35+00:00
The T480 is kind of the current modern classic, it even has recent coreboot support. I did a screen swap on mine to a modern low blue light panel, LiteOn keyboard swap, new batteries and there is really nothing else to complain about.

T14 series are cheap enough used now to be considered cheap, but you lose some of the modding potential of the T480.
by justonenote | 2025-04-03 19:31:51+00:00
I mean some people have a definition of intelligence that includes a light switch, it has an internal state, it reacts to external stimuli to affect the world around it, so a light switch is more intelligent than a rock.

Leaving aside where you draw the line of what classifies as intelligence or not , you seem to be invoking some kind of non-materialist view of the human mind, that there is some other 'essence' that is not based on fundamental physics and that is what gives rise to intelligence.

If you subscribe to a materialist world view, that the mind is essentially a biological machine then it has to follow that you can replicate it in software and math. To state otherwise is, as I said, invoking a non-materialistic view that there is something non-physical that gives rise to intelligence.
by StackRanker3000 | 2025-04-03 19:31:52+00:00
> but then you are going to have to give me $$$ as well to pay for our national debt

You realize this money will not be used to pay down the national debt, but rather fund commensurate tax cuts for the very rich?

Their plan for the budget deficit is instead to slash expenditures (see DOGE and what they’re up to).
by pixl97 | 2025-04-03 19:32:07+00:00
The thing with tech taking over the world, is it's taking over the world everywhere and the last few places where labor is still cheap are employing humans.

In so much stuff involving process automation if you go about building a new factory you're going to minimize your labor costs as much as possible. The only dumb jobs that remain pay very low and/or are back breaking, and everything else is a high tech job. On top of that process efficiency means that a single factory somewhere could easily produce all the product needed to meet world demand, the most difficult part would be meeting regulations in other countries. We are past the days where you need 20+ factories building the same thing in the US for most products. You build it in one place and put it on a truck with fast and cheap shipping.

People will keep crying for a past that no longer exists while the world changes ever faster.
by miki123211 | 2025-04-03 19:32:37+00:00
I may be misremembering, but I think they have said somewhere that Headscale is actually revenue positive for them.

That feels right to me. Headscale is mostly used by home labbers and small hobby users, it competes with self-hosted OpenVPN and WireGuard, not Pulsesecure, Cisco Anyconnect or GlobalProtect. It's a way to introduce Tailscale to people who love to try new shiny tech in their spare time, but don't want to give up control over their infrastructure.

Those people will then bring their Tailscale expertise and enthusiasm to work. Work really doesn't like managing IT infrastructure unless it's one of their core competencies.

Sure, some companies will actually choose Headscale over Tailscale proper, but I suspect that's a small minority (especially if you take company size and the money involved into account). That's just cost of revenue, not unlike Facebook advertising or billboards on the side of a road in Silicon Valley.
by nipah | 2025-04-03 19:32:50+00:00
Except that the brain is not predictable at all, this is one of the first things you would know. You can say the definition of free will is not "consistent", but my problem is deeper and more reasonable: People just assume for no reason they can talk about free will, while they can't talk about conscience. As free will is a property of being conscious, people should shut up about free will before they can explain both causally and ontologically the consciousness phenomena. But I'm afraid they will not.