MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Teever | 2025-04-15 15:44:29+00:00
It's really straight forward -- Do you consider things like liberal democracy, property rights, freedom of expression, freedom of thought, freedom of association, due process, and the rule of law to be essential features of society?

If you don't -- Chinese hegemony and the path it will lead the world down is the one for you.

If you do -- Then American hegemony with all its flaws is something worth fighting for.
by greatgib | 2025-04-15 15:44:37+00:00
As I said in another thread, basically that will kill any possibility to do your own CA for your own subdomain. Only the big one embedded in browser will have the receive to have their own CA certificate with whatever period they want...

And in term of security, I think that it is a double edged sword:

- everyone will be so used to certificates changing all the time, and no certificate pinning anymore, so the day were China, a company or whoever serve you a fake certificate, you will be less able to notice it

- Instead of having closed systems, readonly, having to connect outside and update only once per year or more to update the certificates, you will have now all machines around the world that will have to allow quasi permanent connections to random certificate servers for the updating the system all the time. If ever Digicert or Letsencrypt server, or the "cert updating client" is rooted or has a security issue, most servers around the world could be compromised in a very very short time.

As a side note, I'm totally laughing at the following explanation in the article:

47 days might seem like an arbitrary number, but it’s a simple cascade: - 47 days = 1 maximal month (31 days) + 1/2 30-day month (15 days) + 1 day wiggle room

So, 47 is not arbitrary, but 1 month, + 1/2 month, + 1 day are not arbitrary values...
by dragonwriter | 2025-04-15 15:44:57+00:00
> Do you consider people being deported without trial to be something "controversial"?

Is there, in fact, significant controversy over it?

Then, yes, it is controversial.

> I think most people consider bans on such things to be a basic principle of british common law

I don't think most people have any idea what “british common law” is, much less have a particular opinion about what it has to say about American immigration policy. And, AFAICT, British Common Law at the point it was last relevant to American law, that is, at the time of US independence, was somewhat unsettled on the matter, with leading scholars disagreeing over whether the power of removal was purely discretionary, required stating good cause, or might be subject to more stringent limits as to justification for certain aliens, see, e.g., the discussion at https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-8...
by _bin_ | 2025-04-15 15:46:13+00:00
There are periodic amnesties granted every so often. The prior administration also radically expanded temporary protected status by hundreds of thousands of people to protect them from deportation. Near the end of his second term, Obama attempted to do this for millions of immigrants. We also issue I-601A waivers, the U visa, and of course the mass abuse of the asylum system.

I think this should be pretty straightforward: we need a somewhat more streamlined immigration system. However, we should still cap the overall proportion of immigration any country can represent, should limit uneducated, unskilled labor, and should block anyone who immigrates illegally from ever obtaining lawful permanent residency, any benefits or privileges, and certainly citizenship.
by linguae | 2025-04-15 15:46:27+00:00
While currently it’s open season on the golden goose in America, the golden goose has been under attack for decades. Academia has a strong publish-or-perish culture that I believe is stifling, and industry has become increasingly short-term driven.

Ironically, one of the frustrations I’ve had with the research funding situation long before DOGE’s disruptions is the demands from funders, particularly in the business world, for golden eggs from researchers without any regard of how the research process works.

A relevant quote from Alan Kay: “I once gave a talk to Disney executives about "new ways to kill the geese that lay the golden eggs". For example, set up deadlines and quotas for the eggs. Make the geese into managers. Make the geese go to meetings to justify their diet and day to day processes. Demand golden coins from the geese rather than eggs. Demand platinum rather than gold. Require that the geese make plans and explain just how they will make the eggs that will be laid. Etc.” (from https://worrydream.com/2017-12-30-alan/)

I dream of a day where we see more places like the old Bell Labs and Xerox PARC, and where universities strongly value freedom of inquiry with fewer publication and fund-raising pressures. However, given the reality that there are many more prospective researchers than there are research positions that potential funders are willing to support, it’s natural that there is some mechanism used to determine which researchers get access to jobs and funding.
by rpgbr | 2025-04-15 15:46:35+00:00
Plus, all carriers in Brazil exempts WhatsApp from data caps (zero-rating). They are working on remove other apps from zero-rating, but WhatsApp is harder to since it's synonymous to “messages” here and alternatives are expensive (SMS) or not as near widespread (Telegram is a far runner-up mostly used for its semi-public, huge groups).
by zbobet2012 | 2025-04-15 15:46:45+00:00
This is true, and at the same time, this article is absolutely rife with unsourced, unserious points. However insane Trumps plans, the fundamental "facts" presented here are largely a joke.

> Chinese workers work longer hours more happily and they’re physically faster with their hands; they can do things that American labor can’t. It’s years of accumulated skill, but it’s also a culture that is oriented around hard work and education that the United States no longer has. In China, there are no people who are too fat to work. The workers don’t storm off midshift, never to return to their job. You don’t have people who insist on being paid in cash so that they can keep their disability payments, while they do acrobatics on the factory floor that the non-disabled workers cannot do.

It's an actual joke to present something with such a derogatory view of the median American worker with no data to back it up. Most of America's "labor class" is in fact Mexican, the country with the highest annual hours worked per year. Secondly hours worked does not relate directly to productivity. American workers are the most productive in the world. [1]

More importantly, _we don't manufacture like this anymore, even in China_. Doing "acrobatics" on the factory floor is now obsolete. Much of what's said here fails to acknowledge that we would _not_ build our supply chains the same way as China does. China had a surplus of human labor (one that's facing an impending demographic crisis) and so used human labor in ways modern western countries would not and do not.[2]

[1] https://www.weforum.org/stories/2018/01/the-countries-where-... [2] https://ifr.org/ifr-press-releases/news/global-robotics-race...

Reproducing these supply chains is more possible than this article states. Doing it via destroying our economy however will not work.
by dextercd | 2025-04-15 15:47:33+00:00
"outdated certificate data" would be domains you no longer control. (Example would be a customer no longer points a DNS record at some service provider or domains that have changed ownership).

In the case of OV/EV certificates, it could also include the organisation's legal name, country/locality, registration number, etc.

Forcing people to change passwords increases the likelihood that they pick simpler, algorithmic password so they can remember them more easily, reducing security. That's not an issue with certificates/private keys.

Shorter lifetimes on certs is a net benefit. 47 days seems like a reasonable balance between not having bad certs stick around for too long and having enough time to fix issues when you detect that automatic renewal fails.

The fact that it encourages people to prioritise implementing automated renewals is also a good thing, but I understand that it's frustrating for those with bad software/hardware vendors.
by tombert | 2025-04-15 15:47:33+00:00
My parents did that; they managed to win the "go to bed at a reasonable time" argument, but never were terribly successful with the "eating vegetables" one. It didn't help that my dad almost never ate vegetables and even fairly young I was able to point out the hypocrisy.

I still don't eat a lot of vegetables; my health vitals are generally fine when I do bloodwork, as is my heart health when I get that checked so hopefully I don't end up in an early grave.
by genewitch | 2025-04-15 15:48:04+00:00
Some place not run by a publisher with huge Chinese backing and millions of eyeballs? Like Fediverse, maybe? Fosstodon would be good for a lot of folks here. Just remember to not use the public timeline unless you're fine with 4chan levels of content, even on moderated stuff like fosstodon.

Good luck in this brave new world
by _bin_ | 2025-04-15 15:48:17+00:00
Probably Tan? You are wholly ignoring my point: these are factual and obvious issues. Identifying them and proposing obvious solutions isn't being a Trump supporter. Trump does not have a monopoly on every position besides radical progressive.

Said progressives had their chance - more than enough chances - at fixing the issues in SF "their way". When one solution fails, it is natural and sensible to try others. This is why you can see SF voters shifting their positions too. I do not think that an incredibly leftist city magically turned into trump supporters.

It's not helpful for the left to act like Trump has a monopoly on legitimate use of law enforcement and maintaining some level of order.
by somenameforme | 2025-04-15 15:48:29+00:00
In the case of illegal immigration, expedited removal [1] was established in 1997, under Clinton. It qualifies a number of different groups for immediate deportation without a hearing, including anybody who has been in the country for less than 2 years - which would include the individual in this article.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedited_removal
by pull_my_finger | 2025-04-15 15:48:42+00:00
Not to be "that person" but in the game space there is already a "t-engine"[1], AKA ToME (Tales of Maj'Eyal) engine, for building rogue-likes in Lua. It seems to go by "t-engine" primarily, but it's begging for confusion.

[1]: https://te4.org/
by firefoxd | 2025-04-15 15:49:06+00:00
When you reach "The cliff of Irrational Arguments" you need to stop and reevaluate what is the purpose of the discussion.

There was a joke about the man who was threatening to jump off a cliff. No professional could convince him otherwise with sound arguments. It took a another mental patient to make an irrational threat, cut the cliff down, to scare him off.

Edit to add link: https://idiallo.com/blog/the-cliff-of-irrational-arguments
by cschmittiey | 2025-04-15 15:49:37+00:00
so far it seems like better routing protocol, the ability to set what path your packets take if needed, and some different ideas about roles on the network. i’ve been playing with it for a week or so and people at my hackerspace have been contributing and i’m excited to see how it does, but it’s not good enough to the point where everyone is just going to switch over. some board support and polish needed before that happens imo
by miltonlost | 2025-04-15 15:50:02+00:00
> If you’re regularly having arguments with well-informed people of goodwill, you will probably ‘lose’ half of them–changing your mind based on what you’ve learned. If you’re not changing your mind, it’s likely you’re not actually having an argument (or you’re hanging out with the wrong people.) While it can be fun to change someone else’s position, it’s also a gift to learn enough to change ours.

What kind of arguments are these? Are these "this episode of TV was not good" or "the earth is flat" or "I think rent is too high"? This statistic seems a) made-up, and b) as simplistic as conflating all "arguments" into one group of indistinguishable arguments.
by renewiltord | 2025-04-15 15:50:05+00:00
It’s stated as fact but what’s the causative link for indirect cost administration being the key? If those costs were made direct by university labs having to compete with commercial labs by requiring researchers to explicitly rent facilities why would that break things?

About the only argument I can see is transaction costs. And those are a factor but that incentivizes university labs because they have facilities for teaching as well so they can bring transaction costs low.
by criddell | 2025-04-15 15:50:37+00:00
It isn’t that much of a spoiler. You find all this out in the very first part of the game.

If that’s enough to ruin the game for you, then it’s not much of a game. Even if it is a big spoiler for you it’s not that big of a loss IMHO - there are so many great games and so little time. The time you don’t spend playing OW you can spend playing something else.
by xyzzy123 | 2025-04-15 15:50:45+00:00
Because TLS doesn't promise you very much about the entity which holds the key. All you really know is that they they control some DNS records.

You might be visiting myfavouriteshoes.com (a boutique shoe site you have been visiting for years), but you won't necessarily know if the regular owner is away or even if the business has been sold.
by 827a | 2025-04-15 15:50:52+00:00
Longer-term I think Notion would benefit from going straight for the Google Workspace/O365 market and start offering email/calendar/etc end-to-end, rather than their current strategy of integration. The current strategy makes sense to start building up the suite, but: Google is feeling increasingly vulnerable, Notion itself is one of those rare products that has maintained general positive vibes among its customers for many years, and I think a lot of especially smaller companies would opt for just the notion suite if it checked the major boxes.

I've also always felt that Dropbox should have went down this road, after they released Paper in 2015, but I think their time has passed. Google also wasn't nearly as vulnerable back then; they still aren't super vulnerable now, but I think they're trending that way, and if Notion times it right they could be in a great position.
by _pdp_ | 2025-04-15 15:51:02+00:00
If it works, great! But their AI assistant is much to be desired. It is really pretty useless most of the time and in terms of text generation I find that I can get better results if I go straight to GPT-4. I know that this is purely down to cost but honestly I feel that bringing better, more powerful models, that can do well consistently would be a killer feature - not an email client.
by pixl97 | 2025-04-15 15:51:07+00:00
Eh, the internet is a weirdly semi-public space. Think of it more like a mall parking lot than a public common. If you put something up for notice there it will probably be fine. For example a number of grocery stores around me have boards for things just like that. But the moment it becomes a public nuisance for them they will trespass your ass outta there faster than a starved dog would eat a dropped hotdog.
by babyent | 2025-04-15 15:51:15+00:00
No way. Google docs is amazing.

I could do search and replace for years. Notion only added that recently.

Imo notion is a fun tool. But it’s a toy.

It is slow and worse, not accurate at all, when you have any actual data (100+ items you’re actively working with), clunky interface, and is good if you’re a student taking notes and making forms, or doing something casual before you need something robust.

For anything else, Docs and Sheets are far superior and better products.
by PotterSys | 2025-04-15 15:51:21+00:00
There are companies doing something like that (StreamShark, Quanteec, Eyevinn; even Cloudflare with WHEP). On a company I worked on, they used Eyevinn for events with more than 100K users; and there were still performance issues.

Besides bandwidth problems (as you can't 100% rely on remote connections), any P2P solution would mean the same fragment will be shared many times between clients; something CDN networks have solved already (just serving content, instead of juggling with signalling)
by aaronbaugher | 2025-04-15 15:51:24+00:00
Yes, there's little nuance. I see so many people saying it will be hard to bring back manufacturing jobs, or "we can't go back to the 50s," and then they just stop as if that settles the argument. The implication, which they never say out loud, is that we shouldn't even try, just accept things as they are. Just be the Big Consumer until someday the rest of the world doesn't want our dollars anymore, and then what?

Seems much better to look seriously at the manufacturing we still have (as you say, it's considerable), where we can expand on that, and where we're lacking and need to rebuild.
by cbg0 | 2025-04-15 15:51:55+00:00
> ... the new reality also includes the fact that many other states are seeking to draw closer to us. 13% of global trade is with the United States. That's a lot. 87% of the world's trade is with other countries. And they all want predictability and reliable rules. Europe can deliver that. We must now use this momentum to open up new markets for our companies and establish as close a relationship as possible with many countries that have the same interests as us.

Emphasis mine; While everyone is certainly a fan of brining back local manufacturing (and I think we should be looking to do more of this in Europe as well) the speed and lack of planning with which team Trump decided to start putting into action tariffs as well as reducing their military support has made the US a very unreliable partner in the eyes of the world.

Instead of bowing down to Trump's whims, the world is forging new trade partnerships which may very well be to the detriment of the US, which has thrown a lot of soft power out the window within a matter of weeks.
by james_a_craig | 2025-04-15 15:51:56+00:00
For some reason the value of Pi given in the C++ code is wrong!

It's given in the source as 3.14159274101257324219 when the right value to the same number of digits is 3.14159265358979323846. Very weird. I noticed when I went to look at the C++ to see how this algorithm was actually implemented.

https://github.com/alexandrefrancois/noFFT/blob/main/src/Res... line 31.
by troyvit | 2025-04-15 15:52:02+00:00
Near as I can tell, this MSN article is a re-post of a fortune.com article that pulls most of its reporting from a NYT article that it doesn't link to, and that (according to MSN's take), mostly just references "sources" and "industry sources." Not saying it isn't true, just putting it out there in case it helps anybody.
by Ajedi32 | 2025-04-15 15:52:03+00:00
It's a real shame. OCSP with Must-Staple seemed like the perfect solution to this, it just never got widespread support.

I suppose technically you can get approximately the same thing with 24-hour certificate expiry times. Maybe that's where this is ultimately heading. But there are issues with that design too. For example, it seems a little at odds with the idea of Certificate Transparency logs having a 24-hour merge delay.
by fallingknife | 2025-04-15 15:52:19+00:00
Inequality isn't the cause of our problems in the US. It's basically the same as it was in the 90s https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SIPOVGINIUSA

Inequality in general is a complaint that is most often heard from people making 6 figures complaining about billionaires, but you don't actually hear it from the "poorly educated masses of people without access to the gold" as you put it.
by wincy | 2025-04-15 15:53:06+00:00
The advantage of these large corporations is good stuff like this that a smaller company couldn’t afford. Like how Disney World is in bending over backward to be accessible for my daughter in a wheelchair. This sort of thing is an objective good.

The problem with their games is in being such big tent trying to appeal to everyone (note I’m not talking about accessibility, which is a totally different axis), they feel too smoothed out and have very little interesting to say, and their games just aren’t that much fun.

It reminds me of that article posted on HN the other day saying that often our weaknesses and strengths are two sides of the same coin.
by LiquidSky | 2025-04-15 15:53:08+00:00
Point of order has been raised. However, this is not a valid point of order, as there was no specification in either the comment to which I replied or the original article of real-world interaction as opposed to online interaction. This appears to be based on a conflation of my use of "real world" with "physical interaction" rather than "real world" vs "idealized abstraction". In this case, the point was that the parent is describing the idealized form of argument people should engage in as opposed to how people actually engage in argument.

Therefore, the point of order is not sustained.
by auscompgeek | 2025-04-15 15:53:39+00:00
I wanted to check this out, so I installed the GitHub app on my account, with access to all my personal repos. However when I went looking for one of my repos (auscompgeek/sphinxify) I couldn't find it. It looks like I can only see the first 100 repos in the dashboard? I have a lot of forks under my account…
by pmarreck | 2025-04-15 15:53:56+00:00
I don't completely agree. (I know... How meta.)

I have worked to be as rational as I will personally tolerate, and it has been difficult, but I've achieved some success. The key is to divorce your identity from your beliefs about the world, and to realize that the opposite of never admitting you're wrong is "always being right", which is of course impossible, so if you are TRULY interested in becoming MORE right, then the only reasonable option is that you must sometimes lose arguments (and admit it to both of you).

Are most people interested in doing this? No, and in that sense you have a point. But it's available to everyone, and who wouldn't want to be more right?

The other difficult thing to do is to aim this at yourself with full candor and work through that. Interestingly, now that ChatGPT has access to all the conversations you've had with it, and assuming you've opened up to it a bit, you can ask it: "You know me pretty well. Please point out my personal hypocrisies." If you want to make it more fun, you can add "... as Dennis Leary/Bill Burr" etc. What it said when I tried this was fascinating and insightful. But also difficult to read...