MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by adra | 2025-04-30 20:20:44+00:00
I'm sure that China will suffer greatly from any trade war, and I'm positive the US will blink first. Chinese consumer and workers are already significantly less likely to revolt, stop working, drag their country down. The second that dollar store becomes $10store in the US, it'll be pandemonium, and they only have a single person to blame for their troubles. China? They may be doing anti-competitive trade practices and haven't been put to task, but if you ask the Chinese citizen who to blame on the trade war, it'll be trump. If you ask a US citizen who to blame for this trade war, it'll be trump.
by plorg | 2025-04-30 20:20:45+00:00
I'm part of a listserve for power systems engineers (more from academia than from industry) and the consensus seems to be that a couple of trips in short succession caused wild swings in powerflows, resulting in a cascading failure - this is a pretty boring, if consequential, N-2 event, very similar to the 2005 Northeast Blackout in the US.
by tkgally | 2025-04-30 20:20:45+00:00
I tried it with Japanese, and it sounded about as good as in English. Only at one point did it sound unnatural. Japanese two-person conversation uses a lot of backchannelling (aizuchi), that is, semilinguistic sounds made by the listener to indicate attention and emotional reaction. At one point, the female voice said very distinctly "fumu fumu," which is how such aizuchi might be written in a script or manga. In actual speech, though, it would be a continuous sound without syllables and with a rising and/or falling intonation.

That brief TTS-like moment was the only time I was reminded that the voices were not human.
by mmooss | 2025-04-30 20:20:57+00:00
Many Jewish students did participate in the protests, a well-known organized example being Jewish Voice for Peace.

Regardless, the status quo always attacks the tactics of challengers in a similar way. Of course the status quo, support for Israel in this case, doesn't use those tactics - they don't need to! They already have the power structure and their desired policies; they don't need to change anything.

The same patterns of the status quo and challenger happens in politics, social issues, international relations, warfare, etc. The status quo says, 'they're disrupting things, not following the rules'. That's because the rules were written by and for the status quo.
by shadowgovt | 2025-04-30 20:21:37+00:00
Dems have a low approval rating because they aren't President. They're in Congress, and all of Congress has a low approval rating. Perhaps worth noting: it is higher as of late (https://news.gallup.com/poll/1600/congress-public.aspx), which correlates to AOC and Sanders touring against Trump's policies. We'll see if that trend continues. Bad news for Trump if it does.

(Actually, the question is kind of leading; it's worth noting that overall, approval of the whole party, Dem and GOP, is mostly disapprove and only differs by four points or so. America isn't satisfied, as a country, with either party).

Fentanyl is unrelated to immigration. Most fentanyl comes from China, so I don't know why immigration (which is mostly from countries south of the US) is being mentioned. Gangs are only tangentially related to immigration; most US gangs are home-grown. I don't approve of gang violence; I just don't think stymying immigration decreases gang violence. If anything, it gives gangs another powerful card to play: their capacity to move people over the border illegally is only of value if it's hard for people to move over the border. Counterintuitively, you can probably break the back of a lot of gang authority by just handing out day-passes like water at the Southern border.

You are, of course, completely disregarding the third option between "deport with the children" and "deport without the children," which is "don't deport at all." But that doesn't satisfy the need to make America ours again, does it?

I believe we both have our answer. You believe these measures are helping, and are willing to sacrifice the welfare of a few children to see them through. I am not in the same position.

If you'd like to share, I'd be interested in the media you are reading that suggests that fentanyl, sex trafficking, and gang activity will be improved improved or ameliorated by mass deportations. You're right that I haven't seen that in the media I consume, and I'm curious where the meme comes from. Do we have evidence or is it more an instance of we must do something, this is a thing, therefore let's do it?

> purely just a numbers thing

When we start reducing human beings to "a numbers thing," we are going down a very dark path.
by drjasonharrison | 2025-04-30 20:21:53+00:00
Are you thinking "facility" == "building" and "rooms"?

The lab equipment is constantly evolving, needs repair, maintenance, on-site training. Perhaps you are thinking of a lab bench that is going to last the lifetime of the building and I am thinking of a computer server, 3D scanner, 3D printer, MRI machine (small lab system), etc.

My son has taken second year organic chemistry classes that had more computer hardware and software than I ever had in my electrical engineering/computer science classes in the early 1990s. The software might be open source, or might have ongoing software license fees. While those specific teaching labs should be paid for through tuition, imagine similar or more advanced versions in the research labs.
by randomNumber7 | 2025-04-30 20:22:14+00:00
Absolutely. When I bake bread I just keep a rest of sourdough starter (~ a tablespoon) and in the fridge for the next time.

It also doesnt need this long amount of resting like some people believe. I can start with the tablespoon old sourdough and add 60g flour + 60g water. After like ~5h it will be 3x in size in a jar. Then I make the dough with all in all 600g flour and 72-75% water (more with more whole wheat flour).

The dough rests ~4h is then formed into a bread and then rests ~3h before beeing baked (assuming around 25°C while resting). The times really depend on the activity of the starter and temperature, but it isnt that hard to learn to "see" the right time. It clearly increases in size the first time and also the second time. Too long is also not good.

If it is too sticky you need to learn to knead the dough. Since the dough has a high water content this is done more in a lift up and folding motion, since classical kneading would stick too much.

The final bread then looks like normal german bread that you could buy in bakeries, before everything went down the shitter. (Assuming you add 20% wholemeal flour). If it is 100% white flour it should be almost as fluffy as toast or you are doing it wrong.
by ANewFormation | 2025-04-30 20:22:29+00:00
Probably driven in large part by the expansion of the voting pool. Great political thinkers have no more appeal to the masses at large than Beethoven, Dostoevsky, or Linux.

So we get entertainers and silver tongued devils for politicians whose primary skillset tends to overlap heavily with that of conmen.

Speaking of figures with no mainstream appeal, Plato wrote extensively, and utterly prophetically, about this phase of democracy in The Republic, and how it will inevitably lead to tyranny. It's playing out as if from a script.
by Workaccount2 | 2025-04-30 20:22:54+00:00
In some sense Trump and co would want China to sell their t-bills. It will weaken the dollar (increasing competitiveness of US exports) and strengthen the yuan (decrease competitiveness of Chinese exports).

To some degree is it possible to frame this whole situation as America intentionally tanking the dollar because it is too strong (which has happened twice before, albeit in more diplomatic ways). The hard part though is getting our economic allies to go along with it while also not abandoning dollar supremacy.

How does the strongest boxer ever intentionally get weaker to avoid permanent injury, while also keeping bettors confident in his winning streak? It kind of needs to be done, but man I cannot think of a worse person to execute this than Trump.
by StopDisinfo910 | 2025-04-30 20:23:36+00:00
> style and naming conventions are almost as important and on that front ocaml's are also among the worst in the world

I’m a bit lost because Ocaml has a Pascal-like syntax (I find it nice but I generally dislike B syntax and am amongst the rare bread of developer who didn’t start with a language using it) and an extremely nice naming convention. Ocaml strongly discourages overloading, weird operators and shortly named variables unless they are local and used for a short time or an idiom like the default type of a module being named t. Everything has a long name in a module with a long name. It’s extremely nice.
by eutropia | 2025-04-30 20:23:41+00:00
> Hence the customer is paying 1175 for the 1000 bike, not 2450.

No, all of these business rely on percentage margins to stay cashflow positive, not absolute revenue. It's possible that a few companies will absorb a small amount of the percentage, and result in it costing 2200 or something, but the tariff is not like VAT, it won't get "tacked on at the end", because each step in the chain depends on economies of scale that in turn depend on demand that are sensitive to price. Price going up decreases sales, which incurs additional overhead per sale, etc. Businesses are not going to give up their net margin for free, they'll only do it if it's the least bad way to address the shortfall of sales as a result of price increases.
by micromacrofoot | 2025-04-30 20:23:45+00:00
I have, maybe you should

> In virtually every category, Jewish students reported more negative experiences than their Christian or atheist/agnostic peers, though Muslim students reported even greater negative experiences than Jewish students. It is not the goal of this Task Force, nor of the parallel Task Force on Combating Anti-Muslim, Anti-Arab, and Anti-Palestinian Bias, to engage in a contest to prove which group has suffered more.
by thuanao | 2025-04-30 20:24:09+00:00
BRICS is larger than G7 now by GDP and most of the world has deep trade relations with China.

US bluff is called. They can’t win a war with China, militarily or materially.

US wasted half a century and trillions on lost wars, instead of investing in its citizens. China did the opposite. And those fruits are just beginning to ripen.
by jajko | 2025-04-30 20:24:53+00:00
> and close to jobs

That is the core problem, world is much fuller, quadruple that for any major city where most (not only) HN crowd finds good work unless remote. And unsurprisingly, almost everybody wants piece of that extremely limited pie that isn't growing.

> And of course, should I spend my 20s and 30s working for seemingly nothing?

Considering the sentence above you most probably shouldn't. Now how to get most out of such situation I have no clue since I know nothing about it, but some mode of frugal living with tons of personal time (spent ie outdoors) seems like best course. Or move to some cheap dirty tropical paradise that will cost you 500 euro per month and live with locals.

Personal 2 euro cents - maybe world changed dramatically in past 15 years in this regard but I don't think so, not Europe at least. When I was moving to Switzerland back then I had some limited savings (with rather modest mortgage elsewhere that was steadily eating that), I moved directly into Zurich (because its the biggest place and I know german good enough to pass interviews), while not having neither job already nor even a place to sleep. Literally one Saturday morning I stepped out of coach bus in Zurich bus station with big backpack and suit in envelope on my back. Adventure begins (or continues, see below).

First job - find where I will sleep tonight. Managed to find some student dormitory that was also open to outsiders during summer (lonely planet). Once there, started looking for a room to rent, found and arranged it in 4 days, it costed me 700 CHF per month, and this was central Zurich! Total monthly expenses were around 1100chf, very frugal period but I found it liberating. I walked around in forests a lot, took trains to Alps over weekends. Only once I had that place I started a job search (you need Swiss phone nr and be available for in-person interviews within a day or two), took me 2.5 months to find actually 2 good offers (this was quite recent after 2008 crash where folks were advising me against such risky moves, job market wasn't the best). Of course the uncertainty and dwindling savings + mortgage also put some pressure and uneasiness on me, worthy things in life never come without some effort and suffering.

Literally none of my peers wanted to go down this road, they had comfy jobs, but almost all wanted me to find them work in Switzerland once I had landed. LOL that's not how life (or moving to Switzerland) works. What helped me I backpacked through India for 3 months before starting all this after quitting previous job, so frugality was just continuation of already started trend. Nature is for free, so is exercise, and Swiss have tons of those.

What I want to say with all this - you have options, way more than you realize. Follow the path of your own happiness and fulfillment whatever it means for you specifically. Good luck
by Lopsii | 2025-04-30 20:25:06+00:00
I did reach out to the bank. My issues is they didn't give me the option to opt into this. I should have a choice! Their rep said even the folks at the bank location can't uncheck the box that opts me out of it.

The reality is I won't dislike it if I knew about it beforehand but I didnt.

They went on to list a lengthy process for what I should do just so it doesn't happen in the future. Not ideal.
by 827a | 2025-04-30 20:25:35+00:00
Yeah, DUNS numbers are super easy IME for companies to get, but its hell after that. We had some crazy problems with the App Store where our legal address with DUNS didn't match what we provided Apple, even though we had updated it with D&B, but Apple's systems weren't pulling in that update, Apple told us to talk to D&B, D&B told us to talk to Apple... we ended up literally just making a new corporation and starting from scratch.
by kragen | 2025-04-30 20:25:42+00:00
Depends on which aspects of energy production you're concerned with and over what time period. Global marketed energy production is about 18 terawatts, which is about 10²¹ J every year and 9 months. The energy globally produced by sunlight hitting the Earth, mostly as low-grade heat, is on the order of 100 petawatts, which is 10²¹ J every hour and a half or so. Global agriculture is in between these numbers.
by sneak | 2025-04-30 20:25:55+00:00
I’m currently working with a startup that was just incorporated. We needed to join the Apple Developer Program to get APNS push certs to set up our MDM.

It took over five weeks to get our ADP membership approved, and that was with internal backchannels. We had to launch without MDM, all the laptops on mostly default settings.

These companies are making so much money from ads and rentseeking and IAP cancer that they have zero incentive to do anything else well. They know they have a monopoly position, so just like the public utilities charging you an extra $2 convenience fee to pay your bill, you’ll shut up and take it, because they are the only game in town.

You know it, and they know it, and they know you know it.

At least on Android you can install f-droid. On iOS they are the only game in town. There’s fuck-all that’s “insanely great” about not being able to install the programs you want to use (such as Fortnite).

It’s pure rentseeking.
by fullshark | 2025-04-30 20:26:16+00:00
Yeah I don't see any alternative. The dream of (re)building your local economy around industries that boomed 100 years ago is a fantasy and the global economy has moved on. It's just hard me to necessarily point fingers as you have, I just see so many factors here. It takes long term vision + some acceptance of failed investment + some sacrifice, all things we currently seem to have no desire/stomach for.
by danaris | 2025-04-30 20:26:37+00:00
"I can employ reading comprehension and bullshit detection skills on any text" is not the same as saying "any text is neutral", nor even "it is possible for a text to be neutral".

My statement says nothing about the ability of any particular reader to use their learned skills of discerning fact from falsehood to judge what is true. It says that even if you (for any value of "you", including me!) think what you are writing is "neutral", that is, at best, and with 99.9% certainty, because it conforms to the current status quo and/or your unconscious assumptions and biases.
by jmtulloss | 2025-04-30 20:26:56+00:00
> AI is really good for helping you if you're bad at something, or at least below average. But it's probably not the right tool if you're great at something.

This shows the author’s lack of experience in working with AI on something they’re great at.

AI is great for experts (all the productivity gains, no tolerance for the bullshit)

AI is great for newbies (you can do the thing!!)

A more interesting take would be on the struggle to go from newbie to expert in a field dominated by AI. We’re too early to know how to do this.

Of course AI-first is the future. We’re just still learning how to do it right.
by rayiner | 2025-04-30 20:27:07+00:00
> So if it decides to spend $X on something specific, it has to be spent on whatever that something is. The President doesn't have discretion in that case.

But the Congress never did that. You won't find an appropriations bill where Congress allocated $X to Harvard and $Y to Princeton, etc. In fact, it did the opposite. Under Title VI, it empowered the executive branch to withhold money based on civil rights violations. And regardless of your view on Presidential power vis-a-vis executive branch agencies, 42 USC 2000d-1 specifically subordinates federal agencies' rules, regulations, and orders pursuant to Title VI to the authority of the "President."
by maxglute | 2025-04-30 20:27:19+00:00
The real surprise is ~95% lives on 1/3 of that land. Other 1/3 is plateau, 1/3 is desert. An extra dumb derrived stat I like is about ~25% of the worlds smokers are concentrated on ~0.6% of earth's land mass (that 1/3 of PRC).
by JodieBenitez | 2025-04-30 20:27:31+00:00
No, it's not about sending large files over the wire, it's about saturating the RAM of the script that reads the content. If the script is naive enough, a zip bomb will do. Example on my machine, such a snippet will cause the OS to close the python process:

>>> from requests import get >>> r = get("https://acme.tld/trap/") >>> r.text

The server doesn't do much (serving a relatively small number of bytes) while the client basically crashes.
by platevoltage | 2025-04-30 20:27:39+00:00
I agree. If EV's ever become ubiquitous in the US, these benefits would need to go away.

We aren't even close to that here. Republicans have turned electric vehicles into a political issue. That being said, it does make me a bit mad watching someone in a brand new Tesla zoom past me in the HOV lane while I'm stuck in traffic in my '86 Mercedes that I've kept running all these years, burned mostly renewable diesel in (previously waste vegetable oil), and have caused way less emissions given that it was manufactured when I was 3 years old, and not replaced every several years like a typical car is.
by chickensong | 2025-04-30 20:27:46+00:00
As others have indicated, this is indeed possible. A common technique that helps with this is to make a levain the night before. I use 1 tbsp of starter into 200g flour and 200g water. The levain develops overnight and becomes a "young" starter the next day. This produces a less tangy bread, compared to using a larger amount of full-strength mature starter.
by manidoraisamy | 2025-04-30 20:28:01+00:00
Thanks for the clarification. OpenAI projects in ChatGPT are meant for end users to get personalized help using their own documents, inside the ChatGPT UI.

Promptrepo is for developers and product teams to build new AI-powered features in their product. It’s about creating custom models that run behind the scenes in apps, not just improving a personal chat experience.

So while OpenAI projects use RAG for better chats, Promptrepo helps teams build and deploy fine-tuned APIs that serve structured outputs like JSON, labels, or extracted fields to build your own AI powered product.
by ericmay | 2025-04-30 20:28:16+00:00
Great then it is very simple and it won't bother them too much and we can gain 100k* jobs or so and pay more to make things here and everyone is happy. China can stomach the loss of a few million jobs and they shouldn't complain since it's no big deal.

* Job loss/gains wouldn't be 1-1 as new US factories would likely use fewer workers.
by al_borland | 2025-04-30 20:28:16+00:00
> It resets itself every 15 days or so

This is unacceptable to me. I've turned this setting off more times than I care to count. I've submitted feedback a couple times as well. I don't remember doing it lately, which is good. But I should have only ever had to do it once. I have a Google account, there is no reason this setting shouldn't be saved with my accounts, synced to all my devices, and only set once. I pay for YouTube Premium; I shouldn't be subjected to all these tactics which I assume are there to increase engagement and watch time. The price I pay is fixed and they don't earn ad revenue off me... why the games?
by AStonesThrow | 2025-04-30 20:28:45+00:00
When I was in high school, a certain friend came over to visit and he was shocked, shocked I tell you, that we were strictly a shoes-on household, and none of us had ever given it much thought; that's just how we lived, with our shoes on. Shortly after that, we would remodel our home and expose a lot of bare wood flooring, which is unpleasant if you're barefoot, I must say! We were also cat-owners (mostly indoor cats), and my mother would constantly shame me in advance, every time I wanted to trim my nails, that I must never leave a scrap of nail to fly onto the floor, because she would inevitably find it, as she was the "barefoot outlier" of our typically shoes-on policy.

Living alone for the last 30 years, I gradually developed a strictly shoes-off household. I've found it's easier to organize my shoes if they're doffed in one place by the door, and as a renter, I prefer to keep a clean carpet, because landlords don't really clean them, they only replace them after disasters. So a tenant's carpet tends to just accumulate nasty stains until it's unusable.

However, my fiancée came in from Barcelona and she was appalled at my barefoot habits! She said it would never do at her home! She immediately found slippers for me to wear, and that was a lot of trouble, because I am not accustomed to wearing slippers and I tended to slip out of them at all times. But she owned a cat, and cats tend to leave little surprises on the floor for us to find with our feet. And I'm unsure whether that's why fiancée wanted to enforce slipper-wearing, but it sure was a big deal for her.
by bluGill | 2025-04-30 20:28:56+00:00
He is no more powerful than any other president. He has been using his power more than others - and demonstrating why most don't use it (well some of the reasons, there are a lot of other reasons not to use power).

However time is marching forward and as always happens other politicians are catching on - the house will be in full campaign mode in less than a year (except a few who retire - and the scary possibility that some have already lost a primary). 1/3 the senate is in the same situation. The 2026 election season is (as always) scaring a lot of politicians and in turn they will be trying to figure out what to do about it.

I can't tell you what will be done about it. Each politicians will make their own decision behind closed doors. Each will be re-evaluating their decision as every poll and constitute letter comes in (not to mention other indicators like the economy). As a result he will be losing power as congress starts to worry about the effect of his actions.