MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by Centigonal | 2025-04-05 02:37:16+00:00
Thanks for the explanation! Most of what you wrote makes sense to me. In particular, I think the concept that going hard -> soft economic assets is easier than the reverse is really interesting. I'll have to think on that more.

Things that still give me pause:

1. I don't understand why hard economic assets like manufacturing are more heavily impacted by this phenomenon. Wouldn't exporting a $50,000 car and a $50,000 software license have the same impact on the country's current account? I think it might have something to do with the marginal cost of replication point you made, but, for example, the marginal cost of manufacturing semiconductors is very small, and we trail in that too.

2. I disagree with your assertion that 'vertical integration is the key to “innovation” in the abstract.' I think this is often true, because vertical integration enables more control/flexibility and faster iteration, which allows innovation to occur. However, there are many cases (e.g. fabless semiconductors, meat poultry farming, software companies build on the cloud) where the innovation was actually to split the value chain into separate concerns with separate concerns.
by gruez | 2025-04-05 02:39:10+00:00
>And you feel pressured not to leave a negative review, as that would negatively impact your ability to book in the future, since the hosts (I have heard) can see your average review score.

Source?

I did a quick search and couldn't find anything to confirm this. Various airbnb screenshots geared towards hosts also don't show anything about guests' average rating.[1]

[1] https://www.airbnb.co.za/resources/hosting-homes/a/know-more...
by sejje | 2025-04-05 02:39:45+00:00
Curing aging might be immediately obvious--like old folks have all their diminished capacity restored, and they are more similar to their physical peak.

Old people may have a lot of reason to volunteer to use these.

I think we will discover that our body can reset itself via some trigger mechanism. It built us once, the code isn't gone. It can do it again.
by fsckboy | 2025-04-05 02:40:06+00:00
>a country having enough money to import without export?

there's no such thing. when you import, you send your currency overseas to pay for the goods. There is nothing they can do with your currency except send it back to you by buying things from you, lending it to you, or making direct equity investments in your companies. (otherwise there is this huge growing pile of your currency accumulating overseas which drives down your purchasing power since it's in surplus)

not sure if Friedman said that, but he did know more about econ that me, and what I've said is accurate.
by indemnity | 2025-04-05 02:40:13+00:00
Final assembly was recent, but it took months of planning and research, mainly around being sure the components would fit in the tight tolerances of the FormD 2.1 9.95L case.

I wouldn't say it was difficult per-se, but it did have its challenges in understanding which pieces go where and what screws/standoffs to use where, since you build from the ground up, and for the 4090 I used, have to build it up around the GPU. For the first build, it took me probably a full day, but now I can strip and rebuild it in around an hour or two.

Also, the case - I had my heart set on the 2.1 case not the 2.5, since the 2.1 was a labor of love from the OG designer - It took freaking months to get my hands on the Titanium + Black version. My recommendation would be to favorite it on the Shopify store, and hit order the second you get the back in stock notification, they sell out in an hour or two.

I still screwed up my planning and had to get my custom cables remade to be shorter to give me more space, and had to deshroud my GPU to make it fit at the same time as the I/O headers.

I ordered both an air cooler and the AIO I now use, and tried both, in the end, I went for the AIO (accepting the higher GPU temps due to the radiator at the top), because I don't game as much and I want the 9950X3D to not throttle when doing Rust builds and other things that peg all cores at 100, and I didn't want to undervolt.

I can run the 4090 at full power, the PSU I have does amazingly well (Corsair SF750 SFX). However, I am switching it out for an SF1000 SFX soon, to give it a little more headroom, if I max out the CPU (170W TDP) and GPU (450W TDP), along with the other components, I am approaching the limits of the SF750, and it definitely couldn't handle a 5090 (a future project!).

Temperature wise, the 4090 maxes out at 60-70C for the games I play, and the CPU maxes out at around 80C for all-core workloads, idling at around 50C.

Not as good as a big ass desktop, but I came from a big ass desktop and I love this tiny dense powerhouse that is 6x smaller than my Fractal North XL predecessor :)

Photo (Logitech MX Master mouse for scale): https://imgur.com/a/lcS98IE

Best resources for this was the /r/FormD and /r/sffpc subreddits and Discord.

Parts list:

- CPU: AMD 9950X3D (originally a spare 7800X3D, 9950X3D was a recent swap-out)

- GPU: MSI Ventus 3X RTX 4090

- Motherboard: ASUS ROG X870-I (originally X670E-I)

- Memory: G-Skill Trident Z CL30 DDR6000 32GB (x2)

- SSD: Samsung 990 Pro 2TB (x2)

- PSU: Corsair SF750

- Cooling Option 1 (not used): Thermalright AXP90-X47 (Full Copper)

- Cooling Option 2: CoolerMaster Atmos 240 AIO

- Custom cabling: Ordered from DreambigbyRayMOD on Etsy

- GPU deshrouding kit: Ordered from Osserva on Etsy

- Fans: All Noctua for quieter noise profiles

- Case: FormD T1 2.1 Titanium + CNC machined black side panels
by jareds | 2025-04-05 02:40:31+00:00
I'm very happy with Squarespace. I'm a Backend developer primarily focused on Java, but since I'm the person who knows tech I was handed a WordPress site for a preschool. The original creator picked a budget hosting company that had no automatic upgrades and didn't force you to migrate off unsupported versions of PHP. The site was running on a several year old WordPress version and an unsupported version of PHP. I told my wife "I need to look at this at some point, were going to get hacked." Her response, "no one is going to hack a preschool site." Two weeks later the site was trying to send you to a malware site and the database was destroyed. While I was able to rebuild the WordPress site on nearlyfreespeech.net and run it for less then $5 a month we moved to Squarespace. It's well worth the $20 a month because my wife can now manage the site with out any help from me. More importantly the fact that she can manage it with out being in the technology field means it's going to be very easy to hand it off to someone else once our children are no longer in the preschool.
by mathfailure | 2025-04-05 02:41:05+00:00
I am sorry, but it looks like you are just uneducated about the facts and events that happened prior to Russia taking Crimea back. You should not just read some, but actually dig a bit, if you are really interested. I'm not here for a political debate really, I'm not buying into your baity (and wrong) arguments. I shared my idea about how tariffs might be a step that might actually prevent a nuke war and I just expand on said thought.
by prawn | 2025-04-05 02:41:42+00:00
Been several years since I was over there. What are the public spaces like?

Go back to my childhood (Australia) and a playground was a very basic slide, possibly weathered and with minimal regard for safety and no landscaping beside mown lawns. A public plaza would've been pretty austere. Now, either have quite premium fit-outs - high end playgrounds, thoughtful and professional landscaping, etc. The budgets would be huge. And there are still very premium fit-outs in many houses.
by cjbgkagh | 2025-04-05 02:41:48+00:00
There is another side of the ledger e.g. currency so the question is then how does a currency remain valuable when more has to be produced to keep buying things, as opposed to selling things.

US has been running a trade deficit for only the past 60 years, since the Nixon shock which is probably very related.

While on paper the US is per capita wealthier today I think that’s more to do with ponzi economics.
by wcarss | 2025-04-05 02:41:57+00:00
> personally determines that the alien's admission would compromise a compelling United States foreign policy interest.

What, exactly, about Rumeysa Ozturk's student newspaper contributions[1] could possibly justify the notion that her _residence in America_ is compromising a compelling US foreign policy interest?

The clear purpose of that statute including a long list of properties which would not normally be grounds for exclusion is to set a reasonably high bar for the Secretary of State's 'personal opinion' about a compromising admission. If the intent were to grant a broad, beyond question license to deport Fulbright scholars for _engagement in society_, it would just say they can do whatever the fuck they want and skip the salad.
by jmye | 2025-04-05 02:42:52+00:00
> My thought relevant to HN is that either way this is likely to decimate venture capital and startups, at least in the short run.

Yeah, seemed like the IPOs were really getting going again, but I think that likely dries right up, too.

Unless you figured out how to materialize rare earths out of thin air, or spin up an automated factory in six months, it’s hard to imagine anyone will be looking to give you money.
by bradly | 2025-04-05 02:43:30+00:00
> It can use ssh to talk to remote machines, but so can any tool via the plain pipe mechanism. Followin that logic, every Linux CLI tool that does stdio is an ssh tool...

Not any others have this callout, though, from the rsync man page:

> For remote transfers, a modern rsync uses ssh for its communications, but it may have been configured to use a different remote shell by default, such as rsh or remsh.
by transcriptase | 2025-04-05 02:43:36+00:00
“Assumed it was settled law”, despite RBG herself at the time saying what amounted to “this is a flimsy interpretation that will likely be overturned, but we’re going to make it anyway and the government should codify it into law rather than relying on us legislating from the bench”.

Spoiler: No democratic president/congress ever bothered to, and it was rightfully (in a legal, not moral sense) overturned just as she predicted.
by jader201 | 2025-04-05 02:44:29+00:00
> And generally the same song for hours (!).

Hours? Try days!

It doesn’t really bother me, though sometimes I’ll think “ok, it’s time for a different earworm”. But sometimes even listening to other music will not work, and I’m still thinking about the same song.

But I generally have some song playing in my head — vocal, instrumental, doesn’t matter — constantly.

Again, doesn’t really bother me. In fact, I guess I enjoy it at some level.

But I don’t really go out of my way to not have music in my head or change the song (that I’ve been hearing for the past 10 days). It’s pretty much always songs I enjoy.
by password4321 | 2025-04-05 02:44:45+00:00
The most recent significant discussion of this topic (271 comments 7 months ago) with anecdotal recommendations of several of these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41358020 Dokku: My favorite personal serverless platform

Which was nearly immediately preceded by a smaller (62 comments) Coolify discussion also on the front page:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41356239 Coolify’s rise to fame, and why it could be a big deal
by no_wizard | 2025-04-05 02:44:54+00:00
Why does JavaScript get some much hate?

TCL has an extremely loose runtime model, not to mention everything in the language is basically a string and all that entails.

I’ve been using JavaScript since the early 2000s, just before ES5 dropped.

Like all languages it has its curveballs but it really isn’t all that bad. It simply has oddities due to the quirky nature of the niche it was designed to fill (namely, to be a scripting language that was forgiving to web designers)
by fn-mote | 2025-04-05 02:46:27+00:00
> If your city has 20,000 people sign up for text alerts, each alert you send is going to cost you $200

The city texts are fine, but you can see during campaign season that $0.01 is WAY WAY below their per-voter spend for their ad campaigns. I get texts from everybody in the race, even "thank you, I'm doing great, please re-elect me" texts from incumbents.
by walterbell | 2025-04-05 02:46:30+00:00
Napkin math cannot apply to Mexico and Canada tariffs, because the USMCA (and preceding NAFTA) have long intertwined North American manufacturing supply chains, with components moving back and forth across borders.

Even the emergency border security tariffs and counter-tariffs announced earlier this year by US and Canada have since been carefully tailored for specific products and exceptions, as cooler heads prevailed on both sides of the border, to minimize immediate and catastrophic ripple effects across North American manufacturing.
by soraminazuki | 2025-04-05 02:46:48+00:00
The burden of proof is on the one making extraordinary claims. There has been no indication from any credible source that LLMs are able to think for itself. Human brains are still a mystery. I don't know why you can so confidently claim that neural models can mimic what humanity knows so little about.

> Two different programmers can take a well-enough defined spec and produce two separate code bases that may (but not must) differ in implementation, while still having the exact same interfaces and testable behavior.

Imagine doing that without a rigid and concise way of expressing your intentions. Or trying again and again in vain to get the LLM produce the software that you want. Or debugging it. Software development will become chaotic and lot less fun in that hypothetical future.
by ipython | 2025-04-05 02:46:50+00:00
Don’t worry congress up and abdicated their responsibility to provide oversight on this “war”.

https://www.congress.gov/119/bills/hres211/BILLS-119hres211r... - page 4

In other words, they are so afraid to publicly vote on whether this “war” should continue that they have to play stupid games with the legislative calendar.
by mahoumaigo | 2025-04-05 02:46:57+00:00
I'm also like this. Some part of me feels that any moment spent not honing a skill / advancing in some way is a wasted one. I know it's a bs perspective, but still I find myself taking it constantly. I do manage to force myself out of this way of thinking from time to time, but it requires conscious effort to do so.

I imagine this forum has its fair share of people who fall for this "overachiever fallacy". I'd be curious to hear how others deal with it.
by fulladder | 2025-04-05 02:47:59+00:00
That is true. X=150 under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act, which is the authority under which Trump is establishing the tariffs. After 150 days, someone could file a lawsuit to reverse the tariffs if there has not been any vote.

"None of these trade provisions empowers Mr. Trump to impose tariffs on all imports from all countries based on an arbitrary formula. Section 122 lets a President impose tariffs of up to 15% in response to trade deficits, but Congress must approve them after 150 days. Someone should sue to block his abuse of power."

Source: https://www.wsj.com/opinion/donald-trump-tariffs-disturbance... (https://archive.ph/l2272)
by Centigonal | 2025-04-05 02:48:07+00:00
Hey, so I was wrong in saying the UK has 10x the homelessness rate of the US. I used a stat from the video that "approximately one in fifty Londoners are now homeless." That's London, not the UK. Thanks for catching that -- I will update my post.

But also, uh, you're wrong too! Your numerator for the UK figure is actually an estimate for homeless people in England, while your denominator includes the whole UK.
by benoau | 2025-04-05 02:48:15+00:00
> They tend not to raise or lower prices with the ebbs and flows of the world economy or even the obvious constraints of simple supply and demand. Throughout the entire COVID crisis, I don’t recall them changing their prices for anything.

Given they aren't "increasing prices", yet their profit margins are actually increasing and at record-level highs of around 46% IIRC, I can only assume they are still busy cannibalizing their supply chain instead.
by akoboldfrying | 2025-04-05 02:48:19+00:00
I read a fascinating paper around a decade ago that proposed, roughly speaking, to cycle through the limited set of different antibiotics that we have available in some careful order, so that as far as possible, only 1-2 are in use at any one time, ideally around the world. As soon as resistance against the incumbent antibiotic grows past a certain level, it is "benched" and replaced with the next in the sequence, with the goal being that, by the time that all other antibiotics in the sequence have been used and it's time to revisit the original one, the stresses placed on the bacterial population by the other antibiotics in the meantime have been sufficient to completely eliminate resistance to the original. This would mean that resistance to the original antibiotic the second time around would have to develop "the hard way", i.e., via novel mutations (rather than reactivation of alleles still present in the population), thus maximising the period for which it will remain effective.

Massive practical coordination problems, but I find the idea of consciously exploiting this "time dimension" really interesting.
by kazinator | 2025-04-05 02:49:01+00:00
A zero-sized object is immutable, since it has no bits to mutate. The pointer cannot be dereferenced. It may be compared to other pointers. So the question is: do you want to obtain unique zero-sized objects, or are you okay with there being one representative instance of all of them? If you're okay with one, you can just call SANE_REALLOC_EMPTY that object. I called it EMPTY on purpose; it represents an empty object with no bits.

If you want unique zero-sized objects, you can always simulate them with objects of size 1. The allocator API doesn't have to make that choice internally for you.
by cratermoon | 2025-04-05 02:49:01+00:00
"On windows, you need to always, always call Close() on file handles before attempting to delete them. This is easy enough to do when the deletion happens near the access like above. But when you're writing a program that touches many thousands of files in a long-lived process, it's very easy to accidentally lose track of one or more of them."

Isn't that what `defer` is for?
by GuB-42 | 2025-04-05 02:49:05+00:00
The thing is that if a human draws an Asian Viking, he has to do it with intent. It is neither historically accurate nor matching popular culture. It doesn't have to do with whiteness, drawing an Asian Kenyan warrior, or an Asian Apache would be exactly the same thing.

By drawing an Asian Viking, you are passing a message. Or you may be expressing an art style, as you say. I accept the idea that Gemini style is multi-cultural, realism and conventions be damned, but if we attribute this kind of intent to an AI, we could also say that the liberties it takes with intellectual property and plagiarism is also intentional, because that how we would judge a human artist doing that.

The standard for a neutral human artist would be to draw a Viking as a blond white guy, with or without the horned helm depending if historical realism matters more than popular culture, and an Italian Plumber as not Mario, because a human understands that if want one wanted Mario, he would have said "Mario" and not "an Italian Plumber". Current AIs on the other hand just draw images similar to how they are tagged, with some out-of-context race mixing because reinforcement learning has taught it that it has to make people less white, but unlike people it isn't able to understand when it is relevant (ex: a university professor), and when it is not (ex: a Viking warrior).
by SapporoChris | 2025-04-05 02:49:16+00:00
No, it's not about surveillance avoidance. It's about US surveillance avoidance. Also, Spotify is listed under "More European alternatives to US tech giants" not "Privacy-focused European alternatives". So they're not even stating it's privacy focused, they're just saying it's not USA.

But I do agree with you, if I wanted to avoid music surveillance in general I would avoid Spotify.
by robocat | 2025-04-05 02:50:12+00:00
> it's hard to ascribe pure malice to a church that spends $1 billion annually on humanitarian aid

Where did your number come from? I've just read "Globally, the church boasted that it had spent US$40m on humanitarian aid in one year (2015)" from https://businessdesk.co.nz/article/full-page/behind-the-nz-m... (seems like a good article)

Bing says as of 2023, the church's net worth is estimated to be around $265 billion which would be income of $16 billion (assuming a conservative 6% annual ROI). I'm unsure how correct those numbers are since the article says (US$15.7b land and US$100b investment fund).

The Mormon church earns $7 billion a year from tithing. Even if humanistic aid were $1 billion - it is a relatively poor percentage.

Let's consider healthcare to be humanitarian aid (yeah, obviously not external). Governments spend 30% of taxes on healthcare, and people pay 30% in taxes so we might estimate that people are paying appromx 10% on humanitarian aid via their government. Although perhaps that is just a form of insurance you've paid in and you get paid out. I'm unsure of the statistics but my guess is that most people pay a lot in and get a little out due to skewed distribution of sickness costs. With health insurance the best deal is to never get sick and never claim (and your premiums help the poor bastards that do get sick - the best outcome a society could hope for). Note that health insurance in New Zealand is wildly different from the US model.

I've had a little experience watching how the Mormon church acts in Samoa which is definitely not a wealthy country. I would be interested to know how much of that humanitarian aid was paid for by countries that needed the humanitarian aid? The equivalent to paying in and getting paid out (with the church claiming doing good with the paying out, but not talking about what it keeps).

I'm a little cynical that there's some dissimulation by the LDS church - they are not well known for frank openness.
by WarOnPrivacy | 2025-04-05 02:50:37+00:00
Major carriers are increasingly hostile to SMS that don't originate from one of their customers' handset.

Killing off this gateway cuts off an avenue of escape that people might use to avoid TCR.

If you haven't heard of TCR, you should check it out because it is negatively impacting you somewhere.

Overseen by TMobile, The Campaign Registry is a pay-to-play scheme that applies to everyone who wants to send SMS to a ATT/TM/Vz user.

To onboard with TCR, applicants have to:

1) pay up front and pay more and then pay forever 2) jump thru needlessly complicated hoops (that become ever-moving goalposts for small biz and end users). 3) wait weeks->months then GOTO 2 again. And again.

The end result is more and more biz, MNVOs, orgs, etc are abandoning SMS. Trying to comply with TCR is too big a resource-sink for them.
by samgranieri | 2025-04-05 02:51:25+00:00
Just use a dns server like technitium, bind, or powerdns and set up rfc2136 for the dns01 challenge.

If you’d like, turn on the dns recursion features too. Or string it together with a pi-hole/unbound/adguard home.

Change the DNS settings on your vlan.

Create something like .infogulch as your homelab.

Install step-ca to create an internal certificate authority. Their documentation is pretty straightforward to follow.

Yes, you have to install the public root ca cert in your device trust stores on any device that you want to resolve traffic to, and that’s obnoxious, but trust me, the payoff is worth it.

Install the rfc2136 plugin in the caddy web server, and ask caddy to use the dns01 challenge against your step-ca server and one of the dns servers I mentioned.

With caddy/step-ca/and one of those dns servers, caddy will just up and handle it all for you.

Done.

The payoff? You can mint whatever you want and it won’t have to be uploaded to a certificate transparency server!

Happy Homelabbing