MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by solid_fuel | 2025-04-30 21:42:19+00:00
> The U.S.-China trade war fallout has begun. The Port of Los Angeles anticipates plummeting cargo traffic until a deal on tariffs is reached, but the Trump administration has not indicated whether negotiations are happening. Time is running out, a JPMorgan chief market strategist said.

As is so often the case, Fortune is burying the lede here and making the situation look better than it is. The administration _has_ indicated that negotiations are happening, but China has denied that any such negotiations have occurred [0]. Given the trump administration's horrendous track record of blatant lies, there is no reason to believe them.

In the best case, there are quiet negotiations going on, but there's a real chance here that trump is fully losing his mind, his mental state has been on the decline for years and the things he says are becoming more incoherent by the week.

I am more inclined to believe that there are effectively no ongoing negotiations, and our trade policy is being determined largely by whoever gets the last word in with trump before he tweets something idiotic. This is an unsustainable situation.

If you live in the US, now is an excellent time to contact your senators and representatives and demand some accountability.

[0] https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/china-...
by znpy | 2025-04-30 21:42:36+00:00
> Linux is a great way to spend more time customizing your computer than using it.

meh, it's a phase for post people.

regarding me... I went through my openbox/fluxbox/i3/ratpoison/stumpwm/etc phase when i was a teenager but nowadays i run a largely stock XFCE desktop (i just have a few more icons in my top bar and a few custom launchers in my right-click menu)... But nowadays i use the computer more than i customize it.
by lolinder | 2025-04-30 21:42:55+00:00
I actually have hopes that this will work out for them in the long run. Their bet seems to be at this point including the AI stuff in with the subscription: staving off the existential threat to their business without charging more, while still not having to spend insane amounts paying for someone else's model.

At least with code completion it's pretty obvious at this point that no one needs the overpowered top-line models, and the trajectory on local LLMs is such that I don't think it's unreasonable for them to hope to avoid the big players entirely.

They don't need to beat Claude for it to work, they just need to keep their customers satisfied.
by ivape | 2025-04-30 21:43:10+00:00
I could have used wars as an example (Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam), but Brexit feels like more of a parallel as it's non-violent and somewhat economic. We will absolutely have a conclusive outcome for what we've decided to do as a nation. The unfortunate thing is we are not going to get back 4 years of our lives. It's just going to evaporate and that's the thing that political fervor masks. You got one life, you can spend it fighting China, I suppose. In the case of Europe, you can spend it exiting it, I suppose. There's a serious opportunity cost here that wasn't properly discussed due to the zealotry of both sides.

Policy discussion seems to be something the masses cannot handle without clearly defining an "other". I feel Jeffersonian (bigoted) in suggesting that it's a mistake to give ordinary people access to this debate. Almost like letting ten year olds get involved in how mom and dad handle the mortgage.
by firesteelrain | 2025-04-30 21:43:27+00:00
In retrospect, it was a bad plan to let a young Captain who mostly served as a liaison in DC and not a helicopter pilot to train on that route. A simpler one where she could progressively train up to would have been wiser. She also should have listened to her more well seasoned Warrant Officer copilot. ADS-B In wouldn’t have addressed any of those problems
by clintonb | 2025-04-30 21:43:40+00:00
I'm not OP, but agree that the tooling—DataGrip and WebStorm for me—is getting worse. Here are issues observed for the latest updates:

- DataGrip sporadically stops working when returning from sleep. I have to force-kill it to continue.

- Take a relatively empty file with 10 lines. WebStorm is supposed to reformat on save. It hangs for 10+ seconds or until I cancel reformatting.

- I saw a low memory alert for the first time in months this week. My workflow hasn't changed drastically and I wasn't running anything, just editing a few files.

- Overall everything feels a little slower than it did a couple weeks ago with the older version.

I don't think it's worth filing issues in YouTrack because I've seen those go nowhere in the past.
by anigbrowl | 2025-04-30 21:43:40+00:00
something as simple as a shoe factory

What? Of all the non-high-tech things you can manufacture, shoes actually seem pretty complicated. You have a mix of different materials, if you want to go more traditional you need a higher level of employee skill, you need a big variety of styles and sizes to be competitive, and if people have one bad experience with your product they'll probably never buy from you again. Also the margins and competition are brutal.
by parsimo2010 | 2025-04-30 21:44:21+00:00
> you can't hover your mouse in the gaps between columns while you scroll to prevent videos autoplaying when moused over

This might be intentional. Depending on how they calculate a view, this means they can pump up their stats they use to sell ads by making you "view" more videos than you actually click on.

I like the previews TBH. If you turn on sound in the preview, you can watch part of a video without seeing an ad. It only shows me an ad when I actually click the video to watch it, so I can spend the first minute or two watching the thumbnail to decide if the video is going to get into meaningful content and be worth watching the ad. Without previews, you click on a video, watch an ad, then watch the video for a minute or two before deciding you don't want to finish.
by gmac | 2025-04-30 21:45:17+00:00
There are an infinite number of Brexits we didn’t get. We only got to try one. For most purposes I think it’s pretty reasonable to equate ‘Brexit’ with that one.

Frankly, I don’t think any of the Brexits we stood any chance of actually getting could have been good: it was only a question of how bad the one we eventually got would be.

And the problem with the less bad Brexits was: they would be less bad, but they would also be more directly comparable with no Brexit (e.g. “in order to improve trade we’re going to follow all the EU’s rules but not have a say in any of them”).
by kergonath | 2025-04-30 21:46:00+00:00
> No, no I'm really not. It's more so that you are overstating the damage. All of a sudden we are "former allies" now? That's nonsense.

It’s your president and VP saying it (and a lot of their acolytes). What do you call an "ally" who threatens to invade you? And don’t say it’s not serious. The bullshit trade wars was also something that was not serious and that he would not do, until he actually did it. A tip we learnt the hard way and that may be useful: when a wannabe dictator tells you what he wants to do, believe him.
by hsshhshshjk | 2025-04-30 21:46:04+00:00
> it increasingly appears that humanity is a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence.

Isn't this just a restatement of Christianity? Created by an unknowable, all powerful deity with the goal of becoming one with that deity during the rapture?

Ironically, many of the alien species in Banks's novels have "sublimation" as their goal. Their idea is to transcend space and time. https://theculture.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sublimed

So I guess it's just super intelligent turtles all the way down?
by mystified5016 | 2025-04-30 21:46:20+00:00
You know, given the very limited refresh rate of e-ink, you could probably get a full resolution picture at full refresh rate over some wet string.

There's no reason you couldn't do a wireless battery powered full-size display. You could get the image over WiFi, maybe Bluetooth, or a custom USB dongle like Logitech.

It would be absolutely killer to have a portable wireless second display with my laptop. E-ink is perfect for that
by thuanao | 2025-04-30 21:46:24+00:00
Current membership of BRICS (BRICS+) is larger GDP than G7.

Either side!? Only the USA speaks of China as having no right to exist and attacks Chinese sovereignty openly at every opportunity.

The USA started the trade war, not China. US leadership and its propaganda news channels constantly speak of war with China. Not as a war to defend US territory but as a war to topple the Chinese government. The current defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, wrote in his book "American Crusade: Our Fight to Stay Free", that if Trump could return to the White House and Republicans could take power, "Communist China will fall—and lick its wounds for another two hundred years".

Hegseth said China “are literally the villains of our generation”, and warned, "If we don’t stand up to communist China now, we will be standing for the Chinese anthem someday".
by SkyMarshal | 2025-04-30 21:47:07+00:00
De-coupling from an authoritarian adversary is a worthwhile objective, but there are more competent ways of doing that.

Back in Trump's first term he put up some targeted tariffs. They were reasonable, effective, non-destructive to the economy, and Biden actually kept them. Good trade policy often become bipartisan.

There's a way to repeat that success. To effectively incentivize supply chain re-shoring, without destroying the economy and stock market, and being so effective and smart that the next administration keeps the policy, even a Dem admin. Which is:

1. increase tariffs gradually, stepwise, over the first two years +/- of his admin. Also get the math right, not 4x too high.

2. tariffs only on China and other adversaries, not our democratic friends and allies. China is the main economic problem anyway, not EU, Canada, Mexico, Japan, etc.

3. use other tools in addition to tariffs like tax policy for manufacturers (tax credits, accounting changes around equipment amortization, etc). Don't be that guy with only a hammer for whom everything is a nail, diversify, use all the tools available.

A graduated, predictable, multi-pronged approach confers the policy stability and predictability companies need to forecast, plan, invest, and hire. That makes it more likely the next administration will continue the tariff policy, even a Dem admin.

But Trump and Navarro's ham-fisted approach that tanks the stock market and causes shortages and inflation is not going to last. Companies won't invest and hire under those circumstances. It will implode, potentially discrediting the entire concept in the public's view, making it more difficult to implement an actually effective and sensible policy instead.
by palmotea | 2025-04-30 21:47:16+00:00
> What must be avoided is Wikipedia becoming a repository of AI-generated slop (and possibly feeding the next generation models, becoming a recursive loop of even more slop).

Honestly, I think anyone who's a humanist should encourage that. Given the way AI is being hyped by the business elite, making it ineffective is an important goal and worth the cost of a compromised Wikipedia.
by vessenes | 2025-04-30 21:47:44+00:00
Love reading these highly detailed analyses. Short version: Zhaoxin's currently competitive with 2010/2011-era AMD and Intel, with some asterisks around RAM speed.

There is to my mind a sort of race to get up to "fast enough to host H100 competitor AI hardware" with non-US IP that makes sense to engage in. In those terms, it looks like they're maybe 2 revs away -- I'm not sure what process node the KX7000 is on, but there's some architectural work to finish up. That said, this is interesting. I assume the chips will continue to improve from Zhaoxin, unless they lose their core team.
by ben_w | 2025-04-30 21:48:08+00:00
That doesn't explain the ratio. If a highly efficient and automated China is employing (say) 1e6 people to supply US demand, it's implausible that anyone (including the US) would be able to spot a way to fire 90% of the factory workers when rebuilding the production line at same capacity anywhere else (including the US).

Of course, I simplify. But despite the wage difference, China's no longer the place you go to substitute expensive machines for cheap humans.

The wage difference between the USA and China also means that for any given product, there's a minimum tariff below which it still makes more sense to import and pay the tariff rather than to pay local workers. To paint a very broad brushstroke, if I naïvely compare GDP/capita, that's about 558% — from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi... I get US 90,105 and China 13,688; then 90,105/13,688 = 6.58…, less 1 because tariff of 0% means the importer pays 100% of the money to the exporter.
by benwilber0 | 2025-04-30 21:48:30+00:00
> I probably would have gone for turning the UaF into an type confusion style attack

I'm aware that Linux is nearly 40 years old at this point, and C is even decades older. But it is mind-boggling to me that we're still talking about UAFs and jumping from dangling pointers to get privileged executions in the 21st century.

(rewrite it in Rust)
by victorbjorklund | 2025-04-30 21:48:55+00:00
Of course you can. 20 years in prision for using Bitcoin. Not a lot of people would wanna risk that. And when 99,99% chooses to not touch it with a pole the value will collapse. Then a few people can sit there with Bitcoins that no one wants to buy from them.

Is it a good idea? Mayne not. But obviously one can crush Bitcoin if one wants.
by arielcostas | 2025-04-30 21:49:12+00:00
You need to if you want people to be able to discover your application or receive updates automatically (or with a single click) instead of having to reimplement the wheel with an update checker in your application, as well as logic to limit what countries/markets and devices you serve.

Especially when you consider the hassle for the average user of going into Chrome, downloading your APK, accepting the big scary messages that "the application comes from an untrusted source" and "sideloading applications can be dangerous" and then installing it. People barely even like going into Google Play to download stuff.
by godelski | 2025-04-30 21:49:16+00:00
Thanks for the clarification. I think this makes more sense, but I think I need to push back a tad. It is a bit messier (for academia, I don't disagree for community/hobbyists)

In the US PhD system usually PhD students take classes during the first two years and this is often where they serve as teaching assistants too. But after quals (or whatever) you advance to PhD Candidate you no longer take classes and frequently your funding comes through grants or other areas (but may include teaching/assisting. Funding is always in flux...). For most of my time, and is common for most PhDs in my department, I've been on research. While still classified as 0.49 employee and 0.51 student, the work is identical despite categorization.

My point is that I would not generalize this notion. There's certainly very high variance, but I think it is less right than wrong. Sure, I do have other responsibilities like publishing, mentoring, and random bureaucratic administrative stuff, but this isn't exceptionally different from when I've interned or the 4 years I spent working prior to going to grad school.

Though I think something that is wild about this system (and generalizes outside academia), is that this completely flips when you graduate from PhD {Student,Candidate} to Professor. As a professor you have so much auxiliary responsibilities that most do not have time for research. You have to teach, do grant writing, there is a lot of department service (admins seem to increase this workload, not decrease...), and other stuff. It seems odd to train someone for many years and then put them in... a essentially a administrative or managerial role. I say this generalizes, because we do the same thing outside academia. You can usually only get promoted as an engineer (pick your term) for so long before you need to transition to management. Definitely I want technical managers, but that shouldn't prevent a path for advancement through technical capabilities. You spent all that time training and honing those skills, why abandon them? Why assume they transfer to the skills of management? (some do, but enough?). This is quite baffling to me and I don't know why we do this. In "academia" you can kinda avoid this by going to post-doc or a government labs, or even the private sector. But post-doc and private sector just delay this transition and government labs are hit or miss (but this is why people like working there and will often sacrifice salaries).

(The idea in academia is you then have full freedom once you're tenured. But it isn't like the pressures of "publish or perish" disappear, and it is hard to break habits. Plus, you'd be a real dick if you are sacrificing your PhD students' careers in pursuit of your own work. So the idealized belief is quite inaccurate. If anything, we want young researchers to be attempting riskier research)

TLDR: for graduate students, I disagree; but, for professors/hobbyists/undergrads/etc, I do agree
by treetalker | 2025-04-30 21:49:39+00:00
The big joke is that anyone thinks they are capable of understanding American administrative law writ large. It's one of the most intricate areas, and those who do understand the broad principles probably understand 5% of the specifics, because there are innumerable agencies and each has its own particularities and practices. It's laughable to think that a youth without even basic law-school training would undertake a revision of agency regulations or the drafting of new ones.

Something, something, Chesterton's Fence.
by NoMoreNicksLeft | 2025-04-30 21:50:16+00:00
>What would you say if the next democratic president simply refused to spend a single dollar assigned to ICE to "be thrifty"?

I'd be thrilled. There's $6 billion that they spend on DEA every year that I'd be happy if it was just pocketed by Trump and spent on hookers or something. Normalize this, please.

The perverse incentives people will defend so that they can obey the letter (but not the spirit) of the law are downright bizarre. You're all getting everything you deserve, too bad I'm getting it with you.
by hapticmonkey | 2025-04-30 21:51:01+00:00
People need to realise that all this AB testing is going to lead YouTube developers to one final version: An endless TikTok style scroll of (soon to be AI-generated) recommended videos.

No search. No desktop/friendly UX. It’s all going to go away.

You can see this happening already with the inability to permanently disable “shorts”. They can only be disabled for 30 days. You can see this happening when unrelated recommendations appear in search results. You can see this happening with the inability to block a channel, you can only stop it appearing in recommendations. It’s only going to keep getting worse.

Get off YouTube (and especially get your kids off the platform) and find alternatives. It’s not going to end well.
by incomingpain | 2025-04-30 21:51:38+00:00
>The average life expectancy was 35-40.

I'm not even arguing that we drink and smoke ourselves to happy. The point was the socialization. Our society has not replaced this.

High taxation on alcohol and tobacco does not by itself increase life expectancy. That's absolutely not a thing.

You also obviously fact checked this before posting not realizing that it was bubonic plague year and that infant mortality is the key problem here. People who were 35 werent expected to die any year. If you were 35 you'd still live several decades.

No I dont think smoking and drinking at a pub causes infant mortality.

>The average person was working 12 hours/day with much of it being heavy labor.

And high taxation on alcohol and tobacco does not reduce the amount of labour hours per day.

You're arguing against living in the era which is not something I was arguing for.

>No one was going to the pub or having a good meal, they were just trying to survive.

No actually going to the pub was fundamentally something you did every single day regardless of social class.

> I don't understand this romanticization of the past. Does everyone just assume they would be the king? Even then, they would still be worse off than nearly everyone in a modern economy today.

I was never doing that.
by dylan604 | 2025-04-30 21:52:04+00:00
>This opens up the opportunity for disruption. There is a hysteresis effect though, everyone has a different tolerance for crap. More and more people I know are not "Google" users anymore,

On my mobile device, I have totally de-googled them so that no G apps are on my device. I only use gmail reluctantly from a laptop for accounts that are necessary for work. Haven't used G search in years. Me and the 12 other people on the planet that are the same don't make a fart in the wind of difference to G.
by netsharc | 2025-04-30 21:52:14+00:00
Soon: the White House team's going to go to grocery stores stocking up their shelves before Trump visits, Potemkin-village-style...

Makes me think of the anecdote of Yeltsin entering a random grocery store, seeing their shelves full, and being shocked (the stop wasn't scheduled, and he assumed the US would've created a Potemkin grocery store): https://thefederalist.com/2019/11/13/how-a-russians-grocery-...

Wikipedia:

> Following the grocery store visit, Yeltsin and his entourage flew to Miami, their final location before returning to the Soviet Union. During the flight, Yeltsin was in a state of shock regarding the grocery store and remained speechless for a long time. According to Sukhanov, it was during the flight that "the last vestige of Bolshevism collapsed inside" Yeltsin. Following his silence, Yeltsin asked aloud, "What have they done to our people?", questioning the Soviet Union's struggles with food. In a later biography, Yeltsin commented regarding his grocery store visit,

>> When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people. That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it.

Heh, perhaps we should compare it to that fucking "useful" idiot Tucker Carlson going to a Russian grocery store...

If the shelves are empty in September, can someone recreate these photos, but with empty shelves: https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/news/article/Bori... (assuming the press is still free at that point, and there's no risk of being sent to the gulag...).
by rayiner | 2025-04-30 21:52:20+00:00
That is in fact not what the Supreme Court said. It said that the President has immunity for “official acts,” just like Congress members and judges.

Say a judge dismisses an indictment of an accused murderer because the police didn’t have a proper search warrant. Then the accused murderer kills someone else. That could fall within the letter of “negligent homicide” laws, but the judge can’t be prosecuted for that because judges have absolute immunity for official acts.

Similarly, a red state prosecutor could have tried to prosecute Biden for something like negligent homicide on the theory that his opening of the boarder was a negligent act that resulted in deaths. Obviously you can’t do that, because the President has immunity for official acts. It would be completely insane if the President didn’t have immunity. President do lots of things which cause people to be killed, property to be destroyed, etc. You could prosecute those as crimes if you literally applied the criminal laws.
by warmedcookie | 2025-04-30 21:52:55+00:00
Ditto, I love JetBrains, but cannot ignore Cursor. I use the IntelliJ shortcuts / Darcula extensions to help with familiarity.

Among the ones you mentioned, I also tried Gemini Code Assist JetBrains extension, but it doesn't integrate anywhere close to what Cursor does. (Direct code inserts, rollbacks, checkpoints, context integration) Zzzzz come on JetBrains