MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MR4D | 2025-04-03 16:45:02+00:00
The deficit is 2 trillion.

Income taxes on individuals are 2.4 trillion.

How much do you expect to raise taxes to cover that gap? You double my taxes and I’m in the welfare line.

Further, and this is not referenced enough - the US must rollover ~9 trillion in treasuries this year. The lower the interest rate to do that, the better. Otherwise it increase the deficit even more.

The only way this ends is one of two paths - a path similar to what we are on; default.

We may not like this one, but default is world destroying because of the broad use of the Dollar around the globe.
by cwillu | 2025-04-03 16:45:03+00:00
In principle, that still injects cash into those companies though; it's just that the popular conception is that these subsidies are intended to make the product cheaper for consumers, instead of encouraging companies to produce them because they're more profitable due to the subsidy.

(This should not be taken as a blanket endorsement, god knows that companies follow the incentives, which is rarely perfectly aligned with the intent)
by jeffbee | 2025-04-03 16:45:16+00:00
The way 99.95% of customers would replace a macbook battery is to take it to the Apple Store and have them do it for a fixed charge while you wait. It's a great service. Apple will still replace the battery in your 2013 MacBook Air. By contrast there hasn't been a first-party battery pack for the T400 in many years.

These "fragility" arguments always, as in the case of the OP, ignore the actual experience of owning and using the thing. People will adopt an ancient smartphone because they are locked into the idea that removable battery and removable SD cards are morally superior, and then blindly ignore the fact that the battery life sucks, the only batteries available are random chinese junk, the backs are easy to break and lose, SD cards are unreliable and easy to lose, and so forth. There is a reason that the market overwhlemingly prefers phones and laptops with fixed storage and integrated battery packs.
by brightlancer | 2025-04-03 16:45:16+00:00
TNG was lit much like other action/adventure shows when it debuted in 1987, e.g. MacGyver, Magnum PI, Simon & Simon, The A-Team (which ended that spring) -- the Bridge and hallways were much brighter than even a sitcom, I'd bet as a specific aesthetic choice of The Future Is Bright.

When DS9 debuted a few years later, it was stepping into a cultural mindset that had embraced Dark And Gritty in broader entertainment. That series is still much brighter than many shows today, but that's because of a technological revolution (including costs) rather than a change of "TV as an art form rivaling movies".

Yes, there is a mindset within Hollywood circle(jerk)s that so-dark-I-cannot-see is "more sophisticated, serious, and artful", but viewers broadly think it is idiotic. (Also, 2-and-a-half or 3 hour movie runtimes.)
by mananaysiempre | 2025-04-03 16:45:36+00:00
Yes, but in a culture where this kind of thing is normal (and statically linking the libc was popular for a while), that is in mostly understood, CPython’s particular brand of awfulness notwithstanding. It is in any case a much milder problem than two libcs fighting over who should set the thread pointer (the FS segment base), allocate TLS, etc., which is what you get in a standard Linux userspace.
by throwaway5752 | 2025-04-03 16:45:39+00:00
That should not be the case, and your saying this is an indication of how far America has fallen. You can just look at the Afghanistan withdrawal. That was executed by the 2020-2024 administration to complete an agreement signed by the 2016-2020 administration. It was unpopular and a bad outcome, but the 2020-2024 administration realized a country had to keep its word, even with the Taliban.

If the word of America is not honored that is exactly the disgrace I'm talking about. A nation's word - the treaties they sign, the contracts or agreements they make with people of other countries - has to be honored. Like the conditions of visas.

An administration can change future agreements or renegotiate within the frameworks it agreed to, but it should honor existing agreements. That is one of the many ways a government is not like a corporation.
by nradov | 2025-04-03 16:46:23+00:00
There's a lot of nuance in the healthcare access and affordability issue. In developed countries at least there's a pretty broad consensus that if someone is having a medical emergency then they should receive treatment regardless of ability to pay. But beyond that it gets sticky and there are hard choices that no one likes to discuss. Resources are finite but demand is effectively infinite, so one way or another there has to be some form of rationing. Like if a poor patient is dying of cancer and a drug could extend their life by 3 months at a cost of $100K then should society be obligated to pay? This is inherently a political question with no obvious correct answer.
by Domenic_S | 2025-04-03 16:46:29+00:00
Hard disagree. Compared to the OECD average, we collect almost double in personal tax revenue as a proportion of total tax revenue. What's more, historically personal tax revenue as a % of GDP stays roughly the same - regardless of active tax rates.

Where we fall dreadfully short compared to other countries is corporate tax revenue. In 2021, corporate income tax revenue in the U.S. was 1.6% of GDP, compared to the OECD average of 3.2%
by knodi123 | 2025-04-03 16:46:56+00:00
The scary thing is that the robots will only continue to improve, and large numbers of them can be controlled by a small number (1?) of people, with other robots to handle logistics and support. So scenarios like "rogue leader ignores will of the people and orders his troops to ethnically cleanse a city" would go from being a mistake that causes the immediate end of a political career, to something that takes 15 minutes for 100% success.
by ziddoap | 2025-04-03 16:46:57+00:00
>But at this point you're not really engaging in good faith if that's your argument. Can we not do that ?

Can we not say people aren't conversing in good faith solely as a method of shutting down further conversation?

They stated something as an absolute and I gave examples of why it isn't an absolute. That's a perfectly normal conversation. It's not even an argument.

As for Bazaar, it seems like you haven't played and aren't a fan, which is totally fine, but just a note that it is not in beta anymore. I'm not sure what your comments about "making my game with direct sales figures in mind" are referencing.
by hombre_fatal | 2025-04-03 16:47:02+00:00
Yeah, good point. It's kinda common to have a big footer.

Examples: https://getbootstrap.com/, https://discord.com/, https://tailwindcss.com/

That way on desktop you could get away with a 50vh margin under the content and then another 50vh for the footer. That's free overscroll.
by groovybits | 2025-04-03 16:47:06+00:00
> Valve will just put a "verified" tag on a game with zero input from a developer.

This is a big claim, is there evidence for this? I'm an end-user, not a developer, but there are plenty of games in Unknown status. I would assume that should be the default, not Verified.

I can see an argument that Valve has incentive to have flagship games get that Verified badge, but there is also precedence for them downgrading popular games after launch. For example, Spider-Man 2 recently went from Verified to Playable (rightfully so, in my opinion).
by specproc | 2025-04-03 16:47:26+00:00
I'm sorry, but going back to my very first post on here, staying in living memory, the US has a vast litany of egregious human rights offences to its name. This is an objective fact of record.

The notion that it's any better than a hypothetical does not address the core point that the US government, has in actuality caused more suffering, to more people, in more countries, over a longer period of time than any other since the end of WW2.

I don't want to see another empire, but the world won't be sorry to see the back of the US.
by citizenpaul | 2025-04-03 16:47:38+00:00
>A functioning democracy requires that the common people are able to use the law and courts to right wrongs. Are the common people able to use/afford access to the courts when wrongs are committed.

Having recently been completely railroaded and betrayed by the court system I can tell you. No. I literally had all my evidence thrown out with no explanation from the Judge other than "I don't think this is relevant" in regards to several different topics that I had made an organized report on. Meanwhile the corporate defense provided unorganized meaningless piles of documentation that would takes months to go over and it was left as "evidence" I do mean meaningless, several hundred pages were literally blank white pages submitted as evidence. I guess the crappy software they use to do discovery generated lots of white space in between snippits of info.

The court had decided before the trial that by default a person is wrong and a corporation is right.
by ccorcos | 2025-04-03 16:47:47+00:00
I asked ChatGPT to explain the arguments of Sowell and Piketty.

https://chatgpt.com/share/67eebae2-df3c-800b-aba9-6e36c04810...

I liked Sowell's book, "Wealth, Poverty and Politics". Can you recommend one of Piketty's books?

> raw materials - which often have to be sourced elsewhere

Is that necessarily true? The US has abundant natural resources. Tesla could be mining lithium a few hundred miles away from their factory instead of importing it...
by pixl97 | 2025-04-03 16:48:30+00:00
>Partly because women's rights have become so politicised.

What is the womans suffrage movement?

I may be extrapolating on a single statement too far, but I do feel that you are missing a huge chunk of history regarding all the rights women (at least regarding the US) did not have.

Womans rights have been political for the last 200 years if not longer.
by ttw44 | 2025-04-03 16:48:33+00:00
Civilization has always operated on the idea that men must work for it to function properly. When less people willingly work it can be detrimental for future welfare. The way that unemployment is interpreted by the public now is not very accurate. The gig economy has grown massively since 2020, which counts towards labor statistics, but its arguable to say if they should. The number of small or local owned businesses have grown substantially since 2020 - but is that because of a surplus of opportunity or people looking for ways to make additional money? The quality of the labor matters.
by shit_game | 2025-04-03 16:48:52+00:00
> Same for maths and coding - once you reach a certain level of expertise, the complexity and redundancy of natural language is a greater cost than benefit. This seems to apply to all fields of expertise.

And as well as these points, ambiguity. A formal specification of communication can avoid ambiguity by being absolute and precise regardless of who is speaking and who is interpreting. Natural languages are riddled wth inconsistencies, colloquialisms, and imprecisions that can lead to misinterpretations by even the most fluent of speakers simply by nature of natural languages being human language - different people learn these languages differently and ascribe different meanings or interpretations to different wordings, which are inconsistent because of the cultural backgrounds of those involved and the lack of a strict formal specification.
by skeeter2020 | 2025-04-03 16:49:16+00:00
this SHOULD be really obvious to those in charge, but I think is too subtle for them, or they're willfully ignoring it for the "trade deficit" narrative. I don't see how the end result is not a decline in the global role of the US and a whole bunch of pain for everybody as this all unwinds. All for the hubris of an old man...
by dpc050505 | 2025-04-03 16:49:37+00:00
There's always an opportunity cost to making art. Taking your argument to it's extreme people should never paint or make music but instead spend all their time growing food and building homes (and distributing those goods because that's a big crux, we could feed everyone on the planet if we got food to the right people).

The cool thing about freedom is that we don't have to be rational monks that are slave to economic utilitarism.
by freejazz | 2025-04-03 16:50:01+00:00
Wait, we're designing bedding now? Not just remaking our beds? What a strained analogy that when you 'remake' your bed and it's the 'same' (why would it be different?) then you didn't improve the design?? Even more shocking is that you ran with this as opposed to realizing that these were warning signs that either your fundamental argument is ridiculous, or your analogy is.
by ferbivore | 2025-04-03 16:50:39+00:00
Is this really the case? Every video I've seen about Switch emulation on the Deck shows stutter, low framerates, audio glitches, etc. in most games.

For ToTK in particular, this video suggests it'll barely hit ~30FPS on the Deck under Yuzu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afetsBdQFyc

Whereas on a modded Switch you can run it at ~60FPS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6Z6W_AUNY0

There are other more recent videos backing this up and showing that the game has far more frequent stutters than on the Switch.

Anyway, the point is, I wouldn't dismiss sticking a picofly into your Switch as pointless. Even if you have no desire to inflict some Meta-style "fair use" on videogame publishers, it's still worth doing for perks like sys-clk, RetroArch, sm64nx and 2s2h.
by martianE | 2025-04-03 16:50:48+00:00
Our product assumes familiarity with Caddy/Nginx -- we'll make it more accessible soon. We give you global anycast nodes on it and you're in full control of the config (they can be edited on the website), so anything you can have in a Caddy config can be used on Novanode.

The managed bits are the certs/configs/failover so that you don't need to be concerned about that.

Though for a single VPS instance it could makes sense to just host your own caddy on that node. If you need global distribution Novanode is a good answer.
by joshdickson | 2025-04-03 16:51:36+00:00
Thank you for the feedback.

Have you asked one of the LLMs used to tell you about the choline content of a food, even ungrounded? They are surprisingly good at reasoning about what kinds of foods tend to contain large amounts of choline because their training datasets will include all kinds of similar data points, even if the single food you're looking for doesn't have it listed explicitly.
by mahogany | 2025-04-03 16:51:42+00:00
> but is that only because we're exploiting poorer people in markets with fewer worker protections and fewer environmental protections

That's definitely happening, but there are other possible reasons. For example a good could be more efficiently grown or produced in a country because of geographical reasons.

Also, from a pragmatic standpoint, it is simply not the case that all wages and wealth across the countries of the world are equal. Maybe that could be a goal but is anyone talking about that? Either way, it does not follow that the workers in that country are necessarily exploited when paid lower wages compared to the importing country, unless we are using different definitions.

This is not to mention that untargeted tariffs can increase the cost of living _for no gain at all_. If Germany manufacturers some specialty tool (not with slave labor, I would hope!), and no US manufacturer wants to make it, then I suddenly have to pay X% more for no reason at all.
by somenameforme | 2025-04-03 16:51:47+00:00
I mean laymen. All epidemiologists and the like are certainly aware of such problems. You'll see these biases and many others buried in the discussion/limitations or other such section in any study. Here's [1] a random one from the CDC:

- "confounding might exist because the study did not measure or adjust for behavioral differences between the comparison groups"

- "these results might not be generalizable to nonhospitalized patients who have ... different health care–seeking behaviors"

Along with many more. The problem is that there was no meaningful public debate whatsoever. You were on board with absolutely anything and everything, or you must be an "anti-vaxer" and just wanted everybody's grandmother to die, and probably also thought COVID was caused by 5G.

[1] - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7044e1.htm
by Lerc | 2025-04-03 16:52:37+00:00
I built a ComfyUi node that let you run a little paint program in another tab. (Sorry about the lack of updates if you use it. I intend to get back to it)

Negotiating the communication between tabs was by far the hardest part. In the end I ended up using local storage for signaling to establish a dedicated messsageport channel.

It was such a fight to make something that re-established the connection when either page reloaded.

There are still some connection issues that I haven't been able to resolve. It seems some browsers on some systems reject messages between tabs if they were loaded hours apart.

It might be worth benchmarking a pure local storage fallback, but I'm guessing it would suffer with high traffic.

A generalised implementation that allowed switching multiple paint programs and multiple ComfyUi pages would be ideal. A PubSub might be the way to go.

There's also the issue of other parts of the app also using local storage. Need to not step on toes.
by hinkley | 2025-04-03 16:52:59+00:00
They couldn’t even quarry the Washington Monument out of a single color of stone. It’s not that visible in pictures but if you go see it on a sunny day it’s hard to ignore that stupid line in the middle.

If you take too long building a cathedral the quarry might exhaust itself in the meantime. So even if you keep to the design it might not look right.

> The outside facing consists, due to the interrupted building process, of three different kinds of white marble.
by IMTDb | 2025-04-03 16:53:26+00:00
I am from Western Europe and the story that "the majority of the meat we eat is imported from Argentina at great environmental costs while we have farmers unable to make ends meet; this is what's wrong with globalization" is a key story that gets repeated constantly by environmental activists and NGOs. Similarly, there's a big push by the same green parties to "stop consuming pineapple in November, buy locally sources seasonal veggies instead".

I almost never see anyone disagreeing with that, and anyone that does is immediately qualified as "climate change denier". To me it looks like tariffs similar to those introduced by Trump would constitute a step in the right direction (make stuff more expensive = less consumption + if you buy it anyway you have disposable income so you give more to the state) . It feels weird to me that now it suddenly doesn't seem to be so much of an issue anymore; if it's only 1.6% why is it such a key argument.

Similarly; almost everyone agrees that "it's not normal that we depend so much on foreign countries for things that are essential for our future". That idea really came up during the COVID crisis and never left. The EU is launching "big plans" to address this issue (as usual; with barely any impact at all). Again; the reason why we have FFP2 masks made in china is purely because it's cheaper. Make them more expensive; and local options can pop up, naturally. It will take decades; but the ideal moment to begin working on your goals was yesterday. The next best opportunity is today.

There are many many things wrong with the way Trump computes the tariffs rates; the way they are announced, handled etc. But at its core: "less trade, less global & more local" is a key pillar of virtually every Green Parties over here; it's so weird to me to see Trump (!!!) actually do something that looks like it aligns with those goals.
by vel0city | 2025-04-03 16:53:27+00:00
By that I mean he did it, briefly, then probably got a lot of push back internally and rolled it back. The whole event seemed like a chance to drum up an excuse to drop support for Ukraine, but ultimately wasn't enough of a reason to present.

I don't really see another way to take that. Have you watched the full exchange on it?

And I mean his first impeachment was because of his impounding of aid to Ukraine.

Acting like he hasn't been working towards killing support for Ukraine is ignoring his actions and his own statements.
by wwweston | 2025-04-03 16:53:54+00:00
> Apple's era of easily (or even hot) swappable parts.

This. It existed. The laptops still commanded enthusiasm, felt great, capable, and solid without being too heavy, and had swappable RAM and disk. Keyboard and battery swap were screwdriver set DIYs. Heck, the old Pismos had hot swappable battery and drive bays.

I'm still frequently using a MacBook Pro 11,3. Only lets you swap the drive but that by itself is a great point of flexibility.

The M series does amazing things which have their own merits, but the particular set of tradeoffs aren't inevitable.

The "sacrifices must be made" idea apparently sacrifices recall of other possibilities first.
by JanisErdmanis | 2025-04-03 16:53:55+00:00
Income inequality does not have a chance of standing as relevant issue in corporate media. Furthermore social media has become a significant suppressor by shaming (perhaps not the right word) people of their circumstances. As a result the perceived public opinion is far from actual opinion of the people on the relevant issues that Bernie Sanders often speaks about.

Whereas some did vote for the Trump in spite to make others suffer as they already do.
by MichaelMoser123 | 2025-04-03 16:54:05+00:00
Naive question of a foreigner: I see a lot of approval on the youtube comments to Trump's liberation day speech and over at twitter. Now the consensus on HN is diametrically opposed. My question: why do some people think that this is a good idea? Why is there such a huge rift in US society and how do you plan to bridge this gap?
by diputsmonro | 2025-04-03 16:54:25+00:00
An interesting perspective on this is that language is just another tool on the job. Like any other tool, you use the kind of language that is most applicable and efficient. When you need to describe or understand weather conditions quickly and unambiguously, you use METAR. Sure, you could use English or another natural language, but it's like using a multitool instead of a chef knife. It'll work in a pinch, but a tool designed to solve your specific problem will work much better.

Not to slight multitools or natural languages, of course - there is tremendous value in a tool that can basically do everything. Natural languages have the difficult job of describing the entire world (or, the experience of existing in the world as a human), which is pretty awesome.

And different natural languages give you different perspectives on the world, e.g., Japanese describes the world from the perspective of a Japanese person, with dedicated words for Japanese traditions that don't exist in other cultures. You could roughly translate "kabuki" into English as "Japanese play", but you lose a lot of what makes kabuki "kabuki", as opposed to "noh". You can use lots of English words to describe exactly what kabuki is, but if you're going to be talking about it a lot, operating solely in English is going to become burdensome, and it's better to borrow the Japanese word "kabuki".

All languages are domain specific languages!
by 756D61 | 2025-04-03 16:54:44+00:00
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