MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by mnky9800n | 2025-04-04 13:15:38+00:00
It seems there’s a lot of money to be made if you are willing to navigate eu business rules to build European copies of American technology companies. Like I have thought about starting a European based, European values cloud data science platform. There’s a lot of people who would simply want to move away from azure, Google, etc. even though Europe can sometimes be draconian and highly segmented.
by bko | 2025-04-04 13:16:23+00:00
I don't know if it's "embracing" it, it's just a fact of life.

I remember in an interview with Marc Andreessen he spoke about introducing his 8 year old to chat gpt. He described the moment as monumental, likening it to "bringing fire down from the mountains." However, his son was unimpressed by the technology, responding, "It's a computer. Of course you ask it questions and it gives you answers. What else is it for?"
by ajross | 2025-04-04 13:16:36+00:00
FWIW, that is 100% a retconned explanation. No one anywhere was talking about this theory until the last week.

It's clear that Trump demanded tariffs, tried to do it once early, and got cold feet. What happened with Lutnick et. al. is Court Politics. They saw an opening to improve their own status by selling a creative lie that would allow Trump to do what he wants. So he bought the lie and picked new favorites.

But it remains a lie. No one serious thinks that this is a good idea.

Also: refinance the debt?! First, no, that's not how federal bonds work. They're a contract and you pay the interest it says on the note. But even if you had a magic money pool around to do buybacks or whatever... most of the outstanding debt is in 30 year notes at like 3%! How low do you think they're going to get the Fed to go?
by bumby | 2025-04-04 13:17:12+00:00
Transformational experience colors the way we see the world because it literally changes our psychology. If you haven’t gone through a particular transformational experience, you are just speculating.

It’s like asking, “could you be happy if you were a double amputee?” I trust the answer of an actual amputee than someone just guessing.

The tiger thing is just a weird digression, considering this conversation started with the premise that humans are an innately social species. Let’s keep the discussion on point with humans.
by pclmulqdq | 2025-04-04 13:17:16+00:00
The right's problem with universities is the same as the left's problem with churches:

1. They are institutions of "indoctrination" by the other side. Faculty are something like 98% registered democrats and many subjects ("X studies") have an explicitly left-leaning bent.

2. They have tax advantages and other significant government subsidies.

3. They exercise significant amounts of ideological control over the narrative for their groups of people.

4. They are exclusionary of people outside the club.

Add to that the fact that universities are getting increasingly expensive and real life outcomes for college-educated people are getting worse. The perceived costs used to come with significant benefits, but the costs are getting higher and the benefits are reducing, so there is less tolerance for giving them favored status.
by braebo | 2025-04-04 13:17:19+00:00
If you read the source of both and spend 5 minutes on the issues of each and you will see that GSAP is a dated turd with more layers of cruft than photoshop and they still can’t do ESM or Typescript right even though they charge money for important features.

AnimeJS is S-tier, up there with Pixi in quality, albeit smaller scope. V3 was a bit rough but v4 has been baking for a long time.

The performance, code quality, ease of use, size, everything is worse in GSAP.
by feraloink | 2025-04-04 13:17:56+00:00
I can't even imagine what the rationale would be for doing this:

>The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could snarl operations at several labs.

If Bloomberg is correct, it seems that the contract was cancelled prior to developing (and testing and announcing to the public etc.) any replacement.

>A contract for the services across NOAA’s Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research — known as NOAA Research — has been targeted for “early termination,” according to internal documents seen by Bloomberg News. As a result, almost all external websites reliant on Amazon, Google and WordPress services are poised to vanish early Saturday morning in Washington, wiping the bulk of the unit’s work, which includes climate and environmental science research, from public view.

Many Americans rely upon NOAA Research communications, both businesses and individual citizens. This worries me, not because I think that Trump is a fascist or because of my political views, but rather, because it suggests a lack of competent government leadership. NOAA Research is still doing its work, but we won't be able to access it anymore? I'm not a Bloomberg subscriber, so what I quoted was all I could read about it. I hope there's more info, e.g. about what the replacement delivery system to the public, will be...
by ajross | 2025-04-04 13:18:24+00:00
So... you think Utahns are simply going to stop farming and end up destitute? I'm not following. No, they'll keep turning the spigot on because they have kids to feed, they'll just be poorer.

If you want better water regulation in the Utah desert, the solution is better water regulation in the Utah desert and not a huge tax on trade.
by sapiogram | 2025-04-04 13:18:32+00:00
The author's explanation seems perfectly correct to me. Where does he "misunderstand block scoping vs lexical scoping"? By the Wikipedia definition:

> lexical scope is "the portion of source code in which a binding of a name with an entity applies".

...both `let` and `var` are lexically scoped, the scopes are just different.
by LeonB | 2025-04-04 13:19:13+00:00
I generally agree.

This bit I see differently, though only with ~ 30% confidence.

> vast majority of the companies in the S&P 500 have nothing to do with defense, shipping or natural resources.

If you were evaluating the impact that a road has, and you looked at all the vehicles that passed over it every day, most of the vehicles you see would be in other industries — retail, industrial, commercial, domestic — very few of them are professional bitumen pourers who make roads. So clearly bitumen pouring only affects a low percentage of the city.
by TexanFeller | 2025-04-04 13:19:13+00:00
It was 5-6 years ago when I looked, so it might be closer now. Panels definitely are getting much cheaper, but even back then most of the cost was labor to install it and semi-skilled labor has gotten much more expensive in the mean time. My average electric bill is probably <$150 because I use gas in the winter, so even saving 100% there’s a long payoff time.
by pixl97 | 2025-04-04 13:19:17+00:00
I believe you may have some reading comprehension problem with what they laid out?

At least in the parents posters mind that less farm exports leads to less water usage. Hence bankrupt farmers solves things like aquifers going empty and lakes draining leavings environmental disasters.

Now, how it actually works out in the end may be different, but the concept doesn't seem completely broken at first appearance.
by pc86 | 2025-04-04 13:19:32+00:00
People commit crimes because they believe it's morally right all the time. That doesn't mean it's not a crime, and the fact that Swartz committed multiple series crimes has never been disputed. It's simply a question of whether you think it was a justifiable crime or not.

So if you don't think Swartz's crimes were justified, you're just talking about two people who both committed crimes. You don't need to be arguing in bad faith to think that they're comparable even if their motives were different.
by poincaredisk | 2025-04-04 13:19:37+00:00
It was a rational and logical thing to do, assuming Russia wants prosperity. Sadly, it turns out people with power in Russia don't really care about that for regular people.

So... I think it was a good thing after all. It could've worked out, and bring us peace. A moonshot with great payoff but some chance of failing is often a risk worth taking, HN should know that :)
by stevenAthompson | 2025-04-04 13:19:45+00:00
> Manufacturing isn't returning to the US due to these tariffs.

Even if it did, who cares? It wouldn't make anything less expensive or better and unemployment was already basically as close to zero as it will ever get. If wages go up that would just increase inflation more.

I can't figure out what they even imagined this was going to accomplish.
by andrepd | 2025-04-04 13:20:20+00:00
You said it right, science fiction. Honestly is exactly the tenor I would expect from the AI hype: this text is completely bereft of any rigour while being dressed up in scientific language. There's no evidence, nothing to support their conclusions, no explanation based on data or facts or supporting evidence. It's purely vibes based. Their promise is unironically "the CEOs of AI companies say AGI is 3 years away"! But it's somehow presented as this self important study! Laughable.

But it's par on course. Write prompts for LLMs to compete? It's prompt engineering. Tell LLMs to explain their "reasoning" (lol)? It's Deep Research Chain Of Thought. Etc.
by cess11 | 2025-04-04 13:20:21+00:00
I prefer Java because I know it better, but Kotlin is nice. I'd prefer it over .NET, which is still kind of messy unless you're doing some quite specific things where the multi platform efforts have actually succeeded. F# is fine for small tools and some CLI stuff, but big frameworky things tend to be a mess or MICROS~1 specific.

Some people are likely to claim it's not the case anymore and so on, but it's my recent experience on Debian. The JVM environment has its warts and Maven sometimes feels like a huge dumb golem but at least it doesn't come across as whiny or make you feel like a second class citizen.
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-04-04 13:20:44+00:00
>Well people like me benefit from society as I can benefit from people being naive

Then, you acknowledge that you benefit from empathy. But only so long as people do not detect that you are not participating in mutual understanding and reciprocation. Once they notice your lack of genuine engagement, your previously gained benefits will disappear.

On the other hand, people who exhibit empathy towards others will continue to benefit.

Do you see that, by your own logic, empathy is beneficial to society?
by riskable | 2025-04-04 13:20:47+00:00
Your argument is valid but it's mostly irrelevant from a copyright perspective.

If ChatGPT generates an image of Indiana Jones and distributes it to an end user that is precisely one violation of copyright. A violation that no one but ChatGPT and that end user will know about. From a legal perspective, it's the equivalent of taking a screenshot of an Indiana Jones DVD and sending it to a friend.

ChatGPT can hold within its memory every copyrighted thing that exists and that would not violate anyone's copyright. What does violate someone's copyright is when an exact replica or easily-identifiable derivative work is actually distributed to people.

Realistically, OpenAI shouldn't be worried about someone generating an image of Indiana Jones using their tools. It's the end user that ultimately needs to be held responsible for how that image gets used after-the-fact.

It is perfectly legitimate to capture or generate images of Indiana Jones for your own personal use. For example, if you wanted to generate a parody you would need those copyrighted images to do so (the copyright needs to exist before you can parody it).

If I were Nintendo, Disney, etc I wouldn't be bothered by ChatGPT generating things resembling of my IP. At worst someone will use them commercially and they can be sued for that. More likely, such generated images will only enhance their IP by keeping it active in the minds of people everywhere.
by dogma1138 | 2025-04-04 13:20:57+00:00
Plastic/paper paintable or painted Easter Eggs are like $8-10 for a pack of 50 even on Amazon and much cheaper than that on the direct from China sites…

I haven’t seen people use real eggs in the UK for Easter Egg hunts like ever they are always plastic or paper for those which are more environmentally inclined.

Egg prices aside using fucking potatoes that rot makes no fucking sense so ill file this under the razor blades in candy scare we get every year during Halloween…
by jerf | 2025-04-04 13:21:07+00:00
At least if you're on reddit you've got a good chance of Cunningham's Law[1] giving you a chance at realizing it's not cut and dry. In this case, I refer to what you might call a reduced-strength version of Cunningham's Law, which I would phrase as "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question; it's to post what someone somewhere thinks is the wrong answer." my added strength reduction in italics. At least if you stumble into a conversation where people are arguing it is hard to avoid needing to apply some critical thought to the situation to parse out who is correct.

The LLM-only AI just hands you a fully-formed opinion with always-plausible-sounding reasons. There's no cognitive prompt to make you consider if it's wrong. I'm actually deliberately cultivating an instinctive negative distrust of LLM-only AI and would suggest it to other people because even though it may be too critical on a percentage basis, you need it as a cognitive hack to remember that you need to check everything coming out of them... not because they are never right but precisely because they are often right, but nowhere near 100% right! If they were always wrong we wouldn't have this problem, and if they were just reliably 99.9999% right we wouldn't have this problem, but right now they sit in that maximum danger zone of correctness where they're right enough that we cognitively relax after a while, but they're nowhere near right enough for that to be OK on any level.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Cunningham#Law
by Peritract | 2025-04-04 13:21:14+00:00
The issue here is that you think the problem is

> intellectual property

rather than

> used over and over again, primarily by the rich and powerful, to stifle original ideas and hold back cultural innovation

You're using those "2008 ideas now to defend the rich and powerful exploiting and stifling creativity; the problem hasn't changed, you've just swapped sides.

OpenAI isn't the underdog here.
by alphawhisky | 2025-04-04 13:21:35+00:00
Minecraft is just a more versatile game TBH. Depending on the server you play on, you can play a F2P version of DayZ, Hunger Games (which by the way pioneered the space for battle royales like warzone), building competitions, etc. Not to mention that Minecraft is a much more technically challenging game to play in terms of inputs and complexity. When you can make a 16 bit computer AND do competitive, technical, meta based PVP in COD it might be able to measure up.
by tekla | 2025-04-04 13:22:19+00:00
The average for the SAT is 1050 https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/scores/what-scores-mean/wh...

I got a 1040 on the SAT in the 5th grade. The average score is useless for gauging how hard these exams are.

Bragging how you got a 34 on the ACT or 1450+ on the SAT for an elite college is like bragging about clubbing a seal
by bsdimp | 2025-04-04 13:22:30+00:00
I yesterday set chatgpt to a coding task. It utterly failed. Its error handling was extensive, but wrong. It didn't know file formats. It couldn't write the code when i told it the format. The structure of the code sucked. The style was worse. I've never had to work so hard for such garbage. I could have knocked it out from scratch faster with higher quality.
by FirmwareBurner | 2025-04-04 13:22:34+00:00
>EU needs to start taxing heavily any services provided here by the USA.

Their services are provided by companies/branches in the EU not the US.

When you buy a EC2/S3 bucket from AWS you get invoiced by Amazon Luxembourg, not Amazon Washington. When you buy a Microsoft, Google, PayPal, Meta or Apple service, you'll be buying from a company registered in Ireland or Netherlands. And most of them also have datacenters in the EU for their EU customers.

So how do you tax them more than other companies in the EU? Make The Great EUSSR Firewall?
by kashunstva | 2025-04-04 13:22:38+00:00
> but the majority of American households can weather a $2-4k blow over the next year

- Wasn’t this the administration that campaigned on lowering costs of goods? Now, not even a half-year in, the narrative is “Sorry, deal with it, while we chaotically disrupt global markets.” - The administration is apparently intent on a strategy that builds the U.S. manufacturing base. That’s not a one-year horizon, if ever.
by scosman | 2025-04-04 13:23:06+00:00
Yes. But is that the line?

Crawling makes sense (automated traffic) but this isn’t automated, it’s user initiated. Search indexing makes sense (this isn’t that). Training makes sense (this isn’t that).

It should have a honest user agent so server can filter, for sure.

If I’m allowed ‘git clone X && grep -r’ against a service, why can’t I do the same with MCP.
by rayiner | 2025-04-04 13:23:14+00:00
> The best argument I have heard is that visa revocation may be like firing: the US can do it for almost any reason and you can fire someone for no reason, but can't do it for specific prohibited reasons. Speech would probably be one of those bad reasons under the US's civil rights framework.

No, the U.S. has the prerogative to pick and choose foreigners who are allowed to immigrate based on categories that would be impermissible for employers. That includes nationality, e.g. our green card quota system, as well as speech and affiliation. The Supreme Court has upheld deporting communists who are foreign nationals: https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/342/580/.

This is reflected in the statute. Aliens can specifically be excluded for political beliefs and views if the Secretary of State determines that is necessary: "An alien, not described in clause (ii), shall not be excludable or subject to restrictions or conditions on entry into the United States under clause (i) because of the alien's past, current, or expected beliefs, statements, or associations, if such beliefs, statements, or associations would be lawful within the United States, unless the Secretary of State personally determines that the alien's admission would compromise a compelling United States foreign policy interest." 8 USC 1182(a)(4)(C)(iii).
by bmc7505 | 2025-04-04 13:23:32+00:00
Gingsberg stole it from Yeats — “the best lack all conviction…” / “the best minds of my generation…” — many similar verses, e.g., “what rough beast…” / “what sphinx of cement…”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-comi...
by bigyabai | 2025-04-04 13:24:35+00:00
> HS2 Chair Sir Jon Thompson said: “To build a railway between Euston and Curzon Street in Birmingham, I need 8,276 consents from other public bodies, planning, transport, the Environment Agency or Natural England. They don’t care whether parliament did or didn’t approve building a railway.”

I dunno, that strategy worked fine for Americans. Am I supposed to believe that liberal use of eminent domain will turn Britain into an overnight utopia?
by incomingpain | 2025-04-04 13:24:39+00:00
When obama brought in his affordable healthcare, one of the big issues he discovered was that healthcare in the usa depends almost entirely on exports from china.

the other issue at the same time for the democrats was that they were losing middle american votes because the globalists shipped those jobs overseas.

There has been bipartisan support to exit globalism since; and it is over obviously. Obama, Biden, and Trump have all be making major changes to exit.

Without the need for global trade, the usa is also no longer world police. They have instead condensed their blue water navies down to super carrier groups that will project power into specific spots like yemen/houthis for example.

The usa rather abruptly switched from trying to sustain stability over the world to the opposite; they benefit from causing chaos elsewhere because backhome stability will be attractive to investors.

Welcome to how trade always was; we usually had our navies trading bullets and not goods.

China isn't ready and these retaliatory tariffs will only punish themselves.

https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2020/february/chi...
by WhitneyLand | 2025-04-04 13:24:43+00:00
But even knowing all of this, prescriptivism was beaten into many of us growing up, so some internal cringe is unavoidable.

For ex still cringe at people saying “anyways,” even though I know it’s a losing and pointless battle.

Not sure what the biggest driver is - being shamed while growing up, or just latent pedantry.
by mdp2021 | 2025-04-04 13:24:50+00:00
> already is a mistake

No. Very clearly I meant "to be able to trust your neighbour is an asset; not being able to trust your neighbour is a liability", which is a plain analytic basic reply to your question. The statement you replied with has nothing to do with what I have written. If there was a misunderstanding, instead of just bad communication, it may reveal why you see things in a twisted way - but then know it is really a faulty perspective, not the state of things.

Of course you can be """benefiting""" from the lack of society, the "frontier anarchy" in which you implicitly declare are in: were it a society, you would have received since a very early age a credible absolute threat of violence, or shunning, which would have destroyed an advantage of profiting inappropriately.
by lelanthran | 2025-04-04 13:25:17+00:00
> They'll make it through if they bend the knee. Otherwise the regime will destroy them, and the conclusion will be that it's all because of these darned radical leftists.

Well, it is, isn't it? They required complete loyalty to the ideology before accepting any faculty: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/us/ucla-dei-statement.htm...

They shouldn't have gone that far.
by JKCalhoun | 2025-04-04 13:25:23+00:00
Maybe others will relate? I'm not a headphone person but always have music playing in the background on speakers — often at a fairly low volume so it is easily ignored, talked over.

I find without the presence of external music I will have a song playing in my head instead. And generally the same song for hours (!). So I suppose the external click-track freezes up my mind somehow.

In case anyone cares, my "playlist" is local music I've purchased over the decades — maybe 4 or 5 days long? In my "lab" (man-cave, I suppose) I have a shorter, streamed playlist on the stereo that is looping over new music that I am currently "auditioning". The songs that make the cut are purchased and added eventually to the local playlist that plays elsewhere.
by collaborative | 2025-04-04 13:25:36+00:00
I don't understand how nobody in the media is talking about this. The world accepts the US as the producer of currency, trades energy in dollars, etc. The US gets to print money for free, how is that bad for the US?

So far I can only see 2 reasons why Trump wants this:

1. He believes the US can force others to pay even more, via tariffs, and they will just accept it. No retaliatory tariffs. Kind of like how he says Greenland will be handed to the US no problem. Dishonest? Delusional? Bullyish?

2. The theory of him being a Russian asset is true, and this is the way for Russia to undermine the US while looking like Trump is rooting for the US. The real plan is for the world to drop the dollar. I don't like conspiracy theories but it just makes no sense otherwise
by dralley | 2025-04-04 13:25:57+00:00
At this point I'm practically begging for corrupt-but-competent assholes over the total clowns that are actually running the show this administration.

Steve Mnuchin (especially) and Rex Tillerson were two of the best appointments last time around. These guys have no redeeming value. And they're far more brazen about the corruption, too.