MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by inhumantsar | 2025-04-02 21:58:53+00:00
I bought a Surface Pro for that reason and liked it, until the usbc ports started overvolting and frying everything they touched. currently on a 13" ASUS ProArt flip-over 2-in-1 with pen support like this. overall I love it. I probably would have waited for the framework if I had known it was coming. if your primary use case for the tablet is reading and media, it'll probably be a good fit.

that said, I'll probably never buy a 2-in-1 like this again. my primary use case for the surface was diagramming, note taking, and brainstorming. I used the pen and kick stand all the time. if I needed the keyboard I could pull it out and clip it on, tho after a while I rarely felt the need to bring it with me. by contrast the asus's flip-over mechanism feels too unwieldy and cumbersome. it can't be used at a kickstand type angle since the hinge isn't stuff enough to hold it up while writing on it. it's well-built, just the wrong use case.
by JohnFen | 2025-04-02 21:59:20+00:00
I can't think of any positives.

Trump is saying the positives are the it will force companies to build stuff in the US, thus increasing our domestic manufacturing and increasing jobs. I don't see that happening in a significant way, but who knows?

But if that does happen, then the huge amount of revenue that Trump thinks is going to come to the government's coffers won't happen, and that revenue is meant to offset some of the tax breaks for the wealthy, so we're kinda screwed either way.
by cbeach | 2025-04-02 21:59:28+00:00
That would be very positive IMO. It would expose bad actors.

However, the bar for creating new accounts is low, so bad actors could create lots of accounts cheaply and use them for flagging. That's why I think flagging needs to be a privilege that requires a high user "trust level" - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43559629
by tw04 | 2025-04-02 21:59:53+00:00
I think we need to distinguish using and abusing. IMO a private corporation taking the source to make a commercial project and refusing to give anything back (whether patches, money, or otherwise) is abusing.

When corporations utilize the code and make a good faith effort to contribute back something, no matter how trivial, they are using the source.

Just because it’s legal doesn’t make it right and I feel confident given the current state of the world saying that we should start expecting more from corporations. The idea “they only exist to make money” is how you break the social contract.
by hnburnsy | 2025-04-02 21:59:56+00:00
The exemptions...

>Some goods will not be subject to the Reciprocal Tariff. These include: (1) articles subject to 50 USC 1702(b); (2) steel/aluminum articles and autos/auto parts already subject to Section 232 tariffs; (3) copper, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and lumber articles; (4) all articles that may become subject to future Section 232 tariffs; (5) bullion; and (6) energy and other certain minerals that are not available in the United States.
by Lerc | 2025-04-02 22:00:57+00:00
I would say it mimics real life interactions of some communities. I do not think that is universal. I tend to think that the communities, in real life and online, that permit civil discussion of dissenting opinions are the healthier ones.

I think there is a far greater real life social cost in violating standards of behaviour, such as aggressive engagement, or acting without empathy. I would argue that it is those influences that can be lacking in online discussions that cause them to deteriorate. There is also a lower barrier of entry for joining an online community than joining a real life community. A few dedicated but detrimental people can always evade safeguards and pollute a community to some degree, online communities being larger provide the possibility to each individual to do more damage, while also increasing the chances of there being individuals that would do so.
by theshaper | 2025-04-02 22:00:58+00:00
Let me give you some probably bad advice. Skip the Johnny Truant parts and skim past all the creative layout stuff. It's just decoration, and decoration is often suspicious. Focus on the core story. It’s fantastic. There’s a shot at building a full-on American mythology, Lovecraft-style, from that alone.

Sadly, almost no one talks about it. Ditch the form and embrace the substance. ← It also nods to the mystery behind The Navidson Record.

I wish I had known this when I first read it.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-04-02 22:01:03+00:00
I think HN has been gradually losing what makes it unique. The net is filled with BOFH-style pro-FOSS tinfoil hat tech content and has been since the early '90s. The joke among my college cohort about Slashdot was that IT Helpdesk 1 will have strong opinions on how MSFT execs were engaged in crazy conspiracies. You can find that kind of content anywhere that tech people talk. HN's value proposition for me has always been informed commentary; industry insiders, academics, and practitioners weighing in based on their domain expertise. Today's HN feels a lot more like a rumor mill for random people interested in tech. Along with this shift has been a widening of scope where we don't just talk about tech but also general politics. In general, HN has been gradually trending to be just another big tech subreddit.

These days HN reminds me a lot of Reddit r/programming in the early 2010s. To me this isn't a good thing because I used to come to HN to specifically get informed commentary. But there's no way for a site as big as HN to be dominated by informed content anymore because there just aren't that many people working on interesting tech in the world. So I do what most others do I suspect which is talk with friends from my alma mater and old jobs in group chats and share HN links and laugh at the unhinged, uninformed comments.

I do think at this point HN has changed its appeal. I feel that people today are attracted to HN because of its raucous, rumor-mill feel rather than informed commentary.
by scarface_74 | 2025-04-02 22:01:33+00:00
I agree partially. But there is a large part of the MAGA movement who hate anyone that is not a Christian White Straight male getting ahead. The Democrats will never get those people.

The Democratic Party is not blameless. They are seen as being soft on immigration now. Obama deported more people than Trump.

They forgot the lesson that allowed Bill Clinton to win - “It’s the Economy Stupid”.

And no matter how you feel about it. There is a large part of the United States, even among the LGB crowd who don’t want biological men in women’s sports.

DEI the way it is framed is toxic to millions and I as a Black guy rolled my eyes at much of the indoctrination and “ally” nonsense I had to endure during my stint at BigTech.

No matter how you feel about this either, it takes a remarkable amount of lack of self awareness by the DNC not to know how toxic this attitude is to a large swath of American voters.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/02/dnc-mee...

> The rules specify that when we have a gender-nonbinary candidate or officer, the nonbinary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced
by wahnfrieden | 2025-04-02 22:01:56+00:00
Underrated works:

- The Lotus Community Workshop by Harmony Korine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31WEBwFpULg

- Oneohtrix Point Never - Animals by Rick Alverson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UztCDH2xuQ

- Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans by Werner Herzog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OblPKObX6Q

- Twixt by Francis Ford Coppola
by gigatexal | 2025-04-02 22:01:56+00:00
Americans have been hurt for 50 years … yes manufacturing going overseas was a huge change and many administrations didn’t do enough to help affected workers. Buuuuuut - placing tariffs on our allies that will likely lead to a recession makes no sense.

Devaluing the dollar and subsidizing production in the US makes far more sense.

But I’m not an economist or anything.
by alaxhn | 2025-04-02 22:01:58+00:00
Can you please help us to understand why you believe the military has had *no* issues using existing comms? At face value this is an extraordinary claim and it flies in the face of examples of friendly fire such as https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj30zk1jnmno. I think the strongest possible statement would be "military comms are equal to or better than civilian alternatives with the exception that they do not bypass government record keeping laws" but I'm mostly unaware of what the military uses to communicate so it's difficult for me to accept this at face value with an explanation of the existing systems and their capabilities.

Some government software and processes are not pleasant to deal with such as the process of obtaining a green card so I don't really fault people for being skeptical of the existing systems without evidence of their robustness.
by taeric | 2025-04-02 22:02:14+00:00
For taxes to work in raising money, they have to be paid. So, if the goal is to make revenue from the taxes, then raising costs is expected?

If the goal is to incentivize alternatives, then the tax has to be such that it raises the price above the gap there now. So, even if you do drive people to an alternative source, the new price will be higher than the old. (Unless the thought is that people were choosing to not buy the cheaper source to begin with?)

I suppose you can argue that some suppliers have such a margin that the tax could be an effort to get them to cut into that? I have not seen evidence that that is the case?
by hijp | 2025-04-02 22:03:51+00:00
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by pvg | 2025-04-02 22:04:30+00:00
Can you link some of these better discussions on better sites?

Dissenting views are regularly highly visible, often as replies to consensus views. Even better - well-argued counter-narrative/counter-conventional wisdom views regularly appear as top or highly ranked comments. That's because the people making those arguments do what sensible people do when making an unpopular argument - they put in the work to make their case more persuasive. They don't sit around complaining that the other kids don't listen to them, they care about their issue enough to try to work with human nature rather than hoping some magical technology will change human nature for them.
by usefulcat | 2025-04-02 22:04:31+00:00
If you don't, that's fine. But is it really necessary or desirable for -ffast-math to silently break isinf() and isnan()? I don't think it's inconceivable that some people might need those.

I mean, I can write my own implementations, but it seems kind of silly that I should need to in the first place.
by cbeach | 2025-04-02 22:04:59+00:00
I'd love to be clearer about my common-sense, scientifically-backed viewpoints, but if I did so it might result in hostile action being taken against me. So I choose not to.

Not because I'm insincere about my views, or because I believe they are harmful - but because the activists pushing the ideological views I oppose have been demonstrably violent and destructive.
by sien | 2025-04-02 22:05:38+00:00
From 'What it Costs to Run Wikipedia'

Wikipedia spends $US 3m on hosting in 2024. They spend $US 107m on salaries.

So their hosting costs might have gone to, say, $US 5m at the outside.

That is they are maybe 1/20th of their salary cost.

AI's extra scraping might be a problem for some folks. But for wikipedia to talk about the percentage increase is disingenuous.

Source :

https://www.saastr.com/what-is-costs-to-run-wikipedia-3m-in-...
by float4 | 2025-04-02 22:05:49+00:00
I should have read this 12h ago! This afternoon, I tried to create my first simple agent using LangChain. My aim was to repeatedly run a specific python analysis function and perform a binary search to find the optimal result, then compile the results into a markdown report and export it as a PDF.

However, I now realize that most of these steps don't require AI at all, let alone agents. I wrote the full algorithm (including the binary search!) in natural language for the LLM. And although it sometimes worked, the model often misunderstood and produced random errors out of the blue.

I now realize that this is not what agents are for. This problem didn't require any agentic behavior. It was just a fixed workflow, with one single AI step (generating a markdown report text).

Oh well, nothing wrong with learning the hard way.
by vault | 2025-04-02 22:06:04+00:00
Thanks. I could spend hours watching distant cultures. Their colours, environment, technical equipment... I saw some people in Somalia using DJI microphones, those that in the West are mainly used by YouTubers.

I also see TVs that are normally subject to fees. I'm aware the FAQs say it's only public streams, but I fear this won't last long.
by drewcoo | 2025-04-02 22:06:19+00:00
> I wonder why there are so many, just people reinventing stuff that no one really needs? Or were you being rhetorical?

What do people really need? Who defines and polices that?

> just reloading full state from the server is just easy to explain to the users and easy to implement

Is the green light on? If not, press the "power" button. Never underestimate the difficulty of explaining the simple to the uninterested.

The audience in this case is geeks like us, so it's probably ok to have wonky process until someone forks the project and fixes those problems.
by idonotknowwhy | 2025-04-02 22:06:24+00:00
> tariff on our closest allies

I saw that your president said:

> “We imported $3b of Australian beef last year alone… they won’t take any of our beef because they don’t want it to affect their farmers.”

Just FYI, the reason we don't import much beef is because we have about as many cows as we do people here :)
by soheil | 2025-04-02 22:06:58+00:00
Pretty sure he's following the rules and besides what business do you have imposing on this thread when you have nothing to contribute in terms of the conversation?

To say biggest "private equities" in the world own large portions of each other is absolutely correct. It's nitpicking to resort to technicalities of what arm of Blackrock owns what arm of Vanguard, not at all the point and it only distracts from the main point about conflicts of interest when it comes to the control of publicly traded media, NBC, CNN, newscorp (almost all media that matters) and thus suppression of free speech.

You're wrong.
by xyst | 2025-04-02 22:07:23+00:00
I quickly looked at the MSCs and seems “MAS” and associated MSCs enable OIDC/OAUTH authentication flows (basically integration with your favorite identity provider such as Google or Apple).

I was hoping for matrix homeserver to act as an identity provider as well to give us an alternative to big tech for “identity”.

I suppose I could just setup Ory or other open source IdP, but would have been nice to have an all in one package.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-04-02 22:08:41+00:00
All right, here's an example. X makes a post on one side of a position. Y makes a thought-provoking reply on the other side. X replies with "So what's your point?" X either fails at reading comprehension, or X is trying to make it look like Y didn't have a point, because X doesn't have a good reply to Y's point, and X wants everybody else to not notice that Y actually had a good point.

I hate seeing that. It's a bad-faith argument. It's the sign of someone who's just there to argue, not to have a curious conversation. That is, it's a sign of someone who isn't within the spirit of the site guidelines.

No, I don't think this is just my personal bias against that style of posting. It's fake and juvenile, and it has no place on HN.

Another way you can tell: When they're replying to 20 comments with the same 2 or 3 talking points. That's someone who's there to do battle, not to have a conversation. They aren't really replying to the 20 comments, either - they're just spraying the same canned responses all over the place. That's not a conversation; that's a tape recorder in transmit-only mode.
by Avamander | 2025-04-02 22:08:46+00:00
> That's kind of the point of the Unix text stream philosophy? TB stores as text, and then you can use the best text search tool you have.

To some extent, yes. Though emails are structured text and a bare string search is far from an optimal search strategy.

> Do you use mbox or maildir, out of curiosity?

Whatever the Thunderbird default is.
by djeastm | 2025-04-02 22:09:12+00:00
I'd have liked to see the CIA Director cite something to corroborate HIS claim.

The Biden Administration strongly denies his claim.

>Former Biden officials, though, said that Signal was never permitted on their government phones.

“We were not allowed to have any messaging apps on our work phones,” said one former top national security official on the condition of anonymity. “And under no circumstances were unclassified messaging apps allowed to be used for transmission of classified material. This is misdirection at its worst.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-war-plans-signal-biden_...
by bpierre | 2025-04-02 22:09:34+00:00
Chapter 2: https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/News/2025/April/Ask-the-Devel...

Chapter 3: https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/News/2025/April/Ask-the-Devel...

Chapter 4: https://www.nintendo.com/en-gb/News/2025/April/Ask-the-Devel...
by ReflectedImage | 2025-04-02 22:09:42+00:00
Well it's positive for various countries that benefit from an end to US dominance over the world. :p

So for the US itself? The theory would be that the tariffs will increase US manufacturing sector. But the cold hard truth is that it isn't the 1830s anymore and last time tariffs were tried happened to line up exactly with the Great Depression.

Even an competent administration would have great difficulty making tariffs to restore manufacturing work in the US, if that is even at all possible. It fails because other countries just put the same tariffs back on the US.

So with the Trump's administration some kinda of serious economy meltdown is almost certainly the result.
by Karrot_Kream | 2025-04-02 22:09:49+00:00
I honestly don't know. On the one hand you're right, we were in a time when startups were doing things like experimenting with holocracy. On the other hand, companies and cooperatives are still today experimenting with more efficient, equitable ways to get things done. I feel quite disappointed that so much of the anger over inequality in this community gets aimed at US or international politics rather than discussing things like corporate or cooperative structures which is both more grounded and more easy for many of us as practitioners to action.

To me it feels more emotional catharsis than intellectual discussion; getting mad at politics is getting mad at something you can't control and so is more of a way to air out your emotions. Getting mad at corporate structure or envisioning a cooperative is something we can control and requires more rigor to engage with.
by IshKebab | 2025-04-02 22:10:00+00:00
Yeah I'm pretty skeptical of that visualisation anyway. It sure looks like there's more grey scale, but that's because they've grouped it all at the top. If you actually look at the pixels in the below "white" a lot of them are very dark and unsaturated too.

I don't think it's really a meaningful visualization. They're trying to show something 2D in 1 dimension.
by zozbot234 | 2025-04-02 22:10:49+00:00
> Excluding graphical APIs, the basic stuff (file IO, networking, etc.) isn't all that hard to add to a language (it of course depends).

You could implement a modern graphical API on top of virtio-gpu, which would give you low-level access to accelerated graphics.

> The real trouble is things that have no equivalent in Plan 9, such as mmap and shm.

Some uses of mmap and shm actually seem to have a near-equivalent already in plan9's segattach. Other uses would require some implementation of distributed shared memory (i.e. implementing the usual CPU concurrency model over the network) to be made feasible while keeping to the usual networked-OS focus of plan9.
by hinkley | 2025-04-02 22:10:51+00:00
That guy who was gaming a bug in the lottery in New England, near as I can figure was making about $20-30 an hour for his troubles. I suspect he may have made more off of selling the movie rights than off of the lottery.

He made more than he would have working retail for sure, but maybe he could have done better with another job if he weren't fixated on sticking it to the Man.

This battery thing feels a bit like the same sort of sentiment.

That said, any task you can do while talking to a friend or binge watching a TV show cannot be accurately accounted for in cost by just how much the clock moved.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-02 22:10:53+00:00
> It's not. There's even a term coined for it, "intangible sludge".

It is. The article you link even begins:

> So many TV shows and movies now

That's what I'm taking about. Those "so many" belong mostly to a certain type of drama.

You're not seeing it in comedies. You're not seeing it in reality shows. There are also plenty of dramas that don't have it, possibly a majority but I'm not sure.

It's not everywhere, contrary to what you say. It may, however, seem "everywhere" if you're only watching that type of drama.
by inverted_flag | 2025-04-02 22:11:32+00:00
> Yes (Edit: not sure now, I'm hearing some say they include the 2017 tariff regime of flat 10% - smh shows how this was just a political ploy that answers for such a critical question are mixed)

https://xcancel.com/EamonJavers/status/1907540655871521264#m
by logicalmind | 2025-04-02 22:11:41+00:00
But even if this works. How is the best outcome achieved for the USA? Take phones for example. Today, Apple design phones in the USA and has them manufactured outside the USA by low wage workers. If the phone costs $1000. That price is the sum of production costs and profits (and other things, but those are negligible for this discussion).

If the production cost portion increases, because of tariffs, then Apple either has to take less profit (shareholders unhappy) or increase the cost of the phone (shareholders happy).

If the tariffs are increased enough, Apple could be forced to move production to the USA. But this only happens if the workers in the USA are willing to work the same wages as external production. If USA workers cost more than external production, then again, Apple loses profit or raises prices.

Am I missing something? Unless USA workers are willing to work for wages as external production (give or take the tariff amount), then this simply doesn't work.
by tw04 | 2025-04-02 22:11:50+00:00
No, the democrat's problem is they weren’t willing to just flat out lie. They told the public the truth, basic facts like no, the president doesn’t have the power to unilaterally lower your grocery prices. And whether due to desperation, or lack of education, or otherwise, the voting public chose the proven pathological liar who said he would be the one to lower the price of eggs. Right up until the week after the election when he had to explain why the prices weren’t going down.

There are countless interviews with voters quoting the laughable and provably impossible promises/lies Trump spouted during the last campaign as their reason for voting for him.

If what you’re advocating is that the democrats need to embrace denying reality and lying to the public if they want to win, I can’t disagree with you. But I also think historians won’t have a tough time pointing to the end of the American experiment.
by palata | 2025-04-02 22:11:52+00:00
> It's the adult version of a kid going "I'm not hitting my brother I'm just swinging my arms and walking forward".

I always say that adults are kids who don't have the supervision anymore.

When a kid says "2 + 2 = 5" you can say "well you always fail your math exams, you obviously can't be trusted with that". When an adult says it... it becomes a "belief" and we "respectfully agree to disagree".