MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by systemstops | 2025-05-02 18:54:44+00:00
How would you know when the problem is solved though? If you look at average earnings of groups and correct for IQ, the gap disappears. If you want all groups to score the same on tests of cognitive ability, we've been trying to do that for decades with no success. Every attempt to create a test where all groups get the same average have failed. Sorry, it sucks, but it's the truth.
by insane_dreamer | 2025-05-02 18:55:11+00:00
Yes, I agree that the Trump faction gaining control of the GOP is a huge problem and without it we'd be experiencing wannabe king Trump 1.0 instead of de-facto king 2.0.

But while technically you're correct, the implications of that ruling was that Trump could not be held accountable for the Jan6 attempted coup, giving him a huge boost to do whatever he wants with impunity. The significance was more psychological than technical. I don't believe we would see such bold power grabs by Trump if the SCOTUS had ruled against him.

Because it's clear the strategy now is 1) break all the rules; 2) let them sue; 3) if it ever makes it to SCOTUS our chances are decent, besides the fact that by the time it makes it through the courts to SCOTUS it will be too difficult to reverse what's been done. And in the meantime, use all the power of the Exec Branch to neutralize anyone who might oppose (legal firms, gov agencies, states, federal judges, etc.).
by diggan | 2025-05-02 18:55:11+00:00
I know it says "Stream + download anytime", but since stores frequently say "Buy" when they mean "Rent", I feel like I have to ask to clarify... Does the download mean that you get an actual video file downloaded to your computer that you can watch offline? Or is there some Vimeo app that you can only temporarily cache the video in or similar stupid setup?

Edit: Thank you everyone for the replies, great to hear it's a proper DRM-free download. Good job Vimeo and producers :)
by meta_ai_x | 2025-05-02 18:55:13+00:00
That's not how any of this works. Automation like FSD will lead to cheaper shipping costs via trucks leading to more Trucks on the road and more needing to load/unload and manage last mile logistics and driving routes that can't be automated resulting in

... more trucking jobs, more loading/unloading jobs, more FSD operations jobs, more truck repair jobs, more software engineering jobs
by daft_pink | 2025-05-02 18:55:25+00:00
Essentially the reason why this is a loophole, is because Chinese companies like Shein and Temu have structured their entire businesses around shipping directly from China and marketing directly to the United States so that a company like Amazon would need to pay tariffs on all it’s goods, because it imports into the US directly and Shein and Temu would have to pay no tariffs.

It makes no sense for the United States to charge 145% tariffs to normal American companies, and then allow a loophole so that large Chinese e-commerce giants essentially benefit by structuring their business to not operate in the United States. The purpose of the tariff’s is to increase American employment not decrease it.

A loophole to minimize administrative burden makes no sense when applied to companies selling tens of billions of dollars into the US every year.
by OhMeadhbh | 2025-05-02 18:56:27+00:00
Isn't this when someone says "stop it before it gets to the children!" ?

But yes... it could definitely be bad. Do we know enough about LLMs to guarantee they won't eventually be feeding kids <fill in the blank bad thing here>? And while I think many people's worries about their kids are overblown, this one could actually be a legitimate reason to pull out the "think of the children" line.
Ask HN: When do tariffs get levied? Who specifically charges them and how?
by givemeethekeys | 2025-05-02 18:56:52+00:00
I'm trying to learn more about the operational side of tariffs.

- How do they get calculated? - Who calculates them and what tools do they use to calculate them? - When is the calculation done, and who pays for them?

What I'm imagining:

1. The Exporter want to ship something to America from Vietnam.

2. The shipping company loads it up and sends it to LA.

3. Item arrives at the Port of LA.

4. The Importer collects the item (or bulk items), and the port's tariff collectors inspect the shipment, calculate the tariff based on their valuation and tariff chart and charge the importer for the goods before they can be released.

Is that right? How does the importer determine the cost ahead of time - is there an online calculator? How does the import department ensure that the value of goods isn't being low balled?

Thanks!
by Snow_Falls | 2025-05-02 18:56:55+00:00
"This is just a fact of life, no one is to blame for it."

Please remember that your culture affects your idea of normal immensley. There are large periods of history where europeans considered being overweight attractive, where being extremely pale was attractive rather than tan etc. Some cultures have even more extreme versions of this (foot binding, neck lengthening rings etc). Those people probably thought that their idea of beuaty was "just a fact of life" too.
by calebhwin | 2025-05-02 18:56:56+00:00
Great point, we are working on an MCP server implementation which should address this. The main benefit of having a serving engine here is to abstract away browser-LLM specific optimizations like parallelism, caching, browser memory management, etc. It's closer to vllm but I agree an MCP server implementation will make integration easier.

Though ultimately I think the web needs something better than MCP and we're actively working on that as well.
by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF | 2025-05-02 18:56:56+00:00
> your definition of being extremists requires them to be the dominant party and actively committing a genocide?

No, come on, they never wrote this. Someone else wrote:

> Both the GOP and the AFD are acting extra-constitutionally.

And they asked if that was true, as well as for more details about the AFD's real political actions. That's it. It does not even remotely suggest they think the party is not extremist; in fact, they go as far as to say they have no first-hand knowledge of the situation as an explanation for the questions.
by godelski | 2025-05-02 18:57:16+00:00
What is the question asking? Why do you have Aphasia? I'm not sure what the relationship here is. Or are you suggesting you're good at math but not good at language?

I feel weird answering even if I infer the right question because it feels tautological. If you have Wernicke's Aphasia does it not create the possibility that I already have but your condition resulted in misunderstanding. Given the condition does it not create a high probability that a response will similarly be misunderstood? Is not Anosognosia quite common?

Maybe I'm really misunderstanding but honestly I'm not sure what you're asking
by cjbgkagh | 2025-05-02 18:57:17+00:00
I see the same.

I'm waiting on LLMs to get good enough that I can use them to help me learn foreign languages - e.g. talk to me about the news in language X. This way I can learn a language in an interesting and interactive way without burdening some poor human with my mistakes. I would build this myself but others will probably beat me too it.
by ChuckMcM | 2025-05-02 18:57:50+00:00
Exactly correct. In reading some highly regarded works two things occurred to me, first that the author had captured into words some fundamental aspect of the human condition. Second was that it's easier to think about something presented as a story than it is when it is presented as an alternative to how you currently think.

If you tell someone there position on some topic is wrong, they will argue with you. If you tell someone a story where the character takes the same position they have and then through experience and personal growth comes to understand how it is wrong. They can come away realizing that they might have it wrong. Great trick when it works.
by jmward01 | 2025-05-02 18:58:14+00:00
Use it or loose it. Voter fraud has never been an issue, it has been voter disenfranchisement that has been the biggest problem. It is very likely that elections going forward will see that trend rise dramatically all while keeping people, incorrectly, focused on fraud. Either way, don't give up. Vote. Get others to vote. Help them get over the hurdles placed in front of them to block their voting. It is possible to make a difference even if it is harder now than it was before.
by sunray2 | 2025-05-02 18:59:01+00:00
Thank you for this, it looks very cool!

Remind me of Korg's Berlin branch with their Phase8 instrument: https://korg.berlin/ . Life imitates art imitates life :)

I highly support and encourage this. Is there a way I could contribute to Anukari at all (I'm a physicist by day)? These kinds of advancements are the stuff I would live for! However I should stay rooted in what's possible or helpful: I'm not sure if this is open-source for example. As long as I could help, I'm game.
by RankingMember | 2025-05-02 18:59:13+00:00
The Motor Carrier Act of 1980 deregulated the industry, which led to a sharp increase in competition among carriers. Over time, this pushed down freight rates and put pressure on companies to cut costs at the expense of drivers. Many drivers are now classified as independent contractors rather than employees, meaning no benefits or wage protections.

Obviously this also happened against the background of a broader trend towards deregulation that proceeded under Reagan, so it's not just that act.
by refulgentis | 2025-05-02 18:59:23+00:00
> I think the broader issue here is people using ChatGPT as their own personal therapist.

It's easy to blame the user - we can think of some trivial cases where we wouldn't blame the user at all.*

In this, like all things, context is king.

* one example passed around a lot was an interlocutor who is hearing voices, and left their family for torturing them with the voices. More figuratively, if that's too concrete and/or fake, we can think of some age group < N years old that we would be sympathetic to if they got bad advice
by pagnihotry | 2025-05-02 19:00:22+00:00
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by _mlbt | 2025-05-02 19:00:44+00:00
Trump is complicated. He doesn't neatly fit into the boxes that our politicians usually fit in. He's neither fully right nor fully left. As I have said elsewhere, I think the left versus right wing distinction is no longer suitable for talking about the current political climate. The traditional politicians from both parties despise him. The Republican rank and file have only accepted him because of his massive popularity. For example, his stimulus checks are definitely a left-wing idea. If I had to label him I would say that he is a right-wing populist.

I'm not sure why you scare quoted illegals. I refuse to use the Orwellian Newspeak that is "undocumented." They have "documents." Just not ones that give them any right to legally be in our country, hence why illegal is the correct term.

The Biden administration encouraged mass illegal immigration into our country on unprecedented scale and it has resulted in a lot of very serious problems, so yes extreme deportation measures are absolutely justified. There are several cases of people who have been violently assaulted or even murdered by violent gang members and criminals who came here illegally. There are people who have suffered horrifically for this and people who would still be alive today if our immigration laws had been properly enforced. Even many of the illegal immigrants themselves are suffering as victims of sex trafficking, poverty wages, indentured servitude, or dying of heat exhaustion in false panels of vehicles that are smuggling them into the country packed like sardines.

Adding to that, they are a costly strain upon our infrastructure and social support systems. Car insurance premiums rose due to the massive rise in uninsured motorists. They have exacerbated already sky high housing costs because they need to live somewhere. When they get sick they go to the emergency room because they lack health insurance. Some of you will say, well that's why you should just have socialized medicine, but it ignores the point that we do not have socialized medicine, which means that someone has to foot the bill for their ER visits for non-emergency medical care. Many of them turn to crime because their opportunities for legal employment are non-existent. They are also a burden on our already struggling public education system, particularly since so many of them do not speak fluent English. They also depress wages. There is a myth that they perform jobs that Americans don't want to do. The truth is that they perform jobs for cheaper than Americans are willing to do them.
by llm_nerd | 2025-05-02 19:00:57+00:00
I've had a Google developer console/play account for a decade+. Recently had to send some proof of identity stuff in their anti-spam thing -- which I did because who knows one day I might care about the account -- but I haven't released anything there in eight years. No threats of closing my account.

Did they instead just warn that they would unpublish the app? Google does have minimum API levels that they slowly move forward, and they will unpublish your app if you don't periodically rebuild and resubmit.
by shadowgovt | 2025-05-02 19:01:01+00:00
Correct. Google's incentive is not to maximize players in the space. Their user isn't the developer; it's the person who downloads things onto an Android phone. If those users get burned too often because it's too hard to tell legitimate apps from knock-offs, they'll stop trusting the whole Play store and probably the whole phone platform (in favor of Apple instead).

Google has the numbers to know that "buyer [or in this case, downloader] beware" isn't good enough because people aren't smart enough. It sucks, but at scale it's a pattern we see over and over and over again (see also "Why does Windows force updates," "Why is Apple so paranoid about side-loading," "Why is it so hard to get an app on Apple's App Store in the first place," and "Why does Facebook log a big warning in the browser console to not paste any code in there and hit enter").
by godelski | 2025-05-02 19:01:19+00:00
> Did you even read beyond the silly headline?

Yes. I'll also refer you to the HN guideline on this manner. You're welcome to disagree with me but you must communicate in good faith and unless you have a very specific reason for thinking I didn't "RTFM" then don't make the accusation.

I'm happy to continue discussing, but only on those terms. In fact, I think we're in far more agreement than your tone suggests. But I think you missed the crux of my point: math isn't number crunching
by immibis | 2025-05-02 19:02:18+00:00
A product - in this case, software - is supplied from a supplier, or vendor, to their customer. Is this business 101?

The usual worst case for the supplier is that they give the product but don't get paid, and the usual worst case for the customer is that they give the money but don't get the product.

With copyleft specifically, the supplier is much more likely to not get paid, but the customer receives the benefit of being allowed to continue the maintenance of the software themselves if the supplier goes out of business. The supplier hopes this will help them acquire and keep customers, many of whom will pay, and keep them in business.
by rconti | 2025-05-02 19:02:36+00:00
The most obvious way in which I think "math" and "programming" are related is the way they're taught; by repetitive performance of problem sets. I got frustrated in math for this reason; it takes a lot of energy to sit and focus on a whole bunch of hard problems that all "look the same". It was too easy to do 1 or 2 and think "okay, I got it" and then move on, not realizing the repetition was the key to memorization.

I feel the same way about starting learning programming. Repetition, repetition, repetition, until you "get good".
by kmacleod | 2025-05-02 19:03:52+00:00
The packaging model of distribution is ubiquitous. Every distribution does the same thing just using different control files and tools. The differentiation between distributions is all in their packaging policies and platform decisions. In a loose way Unix (SysV, HP, AIX) started packaging before Linux but Linux said "Every project is its own package" and ran with it. The de-facto "Download release; apply patches; configure; make; make install; collect files" is present in every distribution package. Everything up through deployment is the same pattern across all distributions.
by Voultapher | 2025-05-02 19:04:22+00:00
I still love this "hoax" the Yes Men managed to pull off [1] in it they appear as representatives for Dow Chemical on BBC and claim that the company will now after 20 years take full responsibility for the largest chemical accident in history that killed ~18k people and impacted many more, making the victims right. Only for the real company to back peddle and say "no no no, that's a hoax we will not do that.".

[1] https://youtu.be/295gCWahBxc?t=1719
by tarentel | 2025-05-02 19:05:03+00:00
Not sure I'll ever use this as it seems like a lot of work but wanted to say thank you for allowing me to download a demo without giving an email.

Also, even though I said I wouldn't use it, something that would be nice is a master volume, maybe I missed it. I often use VSTs standalone and being able to change the volume without messing with the preset would make it a bit easier to use.

Definitely the most interesting synth I've ever seen.
by halter73 | 2025-05-02 19:05:29+00:00
That github issue is closed because it's been mostly completed. As of https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/modelcontextprotocol..., the latest draft specification does not require the resource server to act as or poxy to the IdP. It just hasn't made its way to a ratified spec yet, but SDKs are already implementing the draft.
by Henchman21 | 2025-05-02 19:05:45+00:00
> I think the broader issue here is people using ChatGPT as their own personal therapist.

An aside, but:

This leads me right to “why do so very many people need therapy?” followed by “why can’t anyone find (or possibly afford) a therapist?” What has gone so wrong for humanity that nearly everyone seems to at least want a therapist? Or is it just the zeitgeist and this is what the herd has decided?
by Groxx | 2025-05-02 19:06:01+00:00
If you're not an app that's intentionally risking your users' safety though, you probably have some reason to trust the ad vendor to do their part. It's calculated risk for most non-malicious apps, and the major vendors are broadly fine in that respect. Ignoring privacy anyway.

And we can ignore the shovelware, which probably is actually a majority of apps. Those won't care about security patches, and will probably go out of their way to hide them so they don't appear vulnerable and don't have to do maintenance releases. They wouldn't be affected by forced updates.
by autoexec | 2025-05-02 19:06:07+00:00
I suspect the opposite. Especially if those testing kits checked for lead, PFAS, and pesticides. Millions of people are blissfully unaware of what's in their water. Many people are selecting bottled water on taste though, not health concerns. I've been to places in the US where the water not only tasted terrible, it smelled terrible.
by humbledrone | 2025-05-02 19:06:28+00:00
For the foreseeable future I'm just going to be working on stability/performance, but eventually I will get back to adding more cool physics stuff. It's not open-source, but certainly I'd enjoy talking to a real physicist (I'm something a couple notches below armchair-level). Hit me up at evan@anukari.com sometime if you like!
by thebruce87m | 2025-05-02 19:06:47+00:00
> Yet why Sidler was embalmed remains unclear. While the team said the evidence suggests it was carried out to avoid the spread of infection by miasma – or “bad air”

Interesting, this is the second time I’ve heard of this today. The other was in the context of RFK Jr.

https://pauloffit.substack.com/p/understanding-rfk-jr
by mossTechnician | 2025-05-02 19:06:50+00:00
We have no guarantee everyone who uses ChatGPT is a mentally mature adult who understands the limitations of the chatbot. Many criticisms have been raised about how the bot is too sycophantic, such as when it encourages someone displaying schizophrenic behavior to potentially commit violent acts[0] or further harm themselves[1].

[0]: https://twitter.com/colin_fraser/status/1916994188035690904

[1]: https://twitter.com/AISafetyMemes/status/1916889492172013989
by whodidntante | 2025-05-02 19:07:16+00:00
I agree that NPR is "trustworthy" in the sense that what they directly say is usually reliable, what I have a huge problem with is what they leave out or how they redirect.

A perfect example of this is in my previous post. I was listening to their "interview" with their CEO, and the interview was put into context of her recent senate hearing (which I knew nothing about). She sounded like a reasonably well informed CEO with good intentions, doing what is best for the public.

I decided to listen to her senate hearing (which I would not have even thought of doing because I did not even know she did this), and came out with the opposite impression - someone who obfuscates, lies, and should not be responsible for the public good.

Was there anything said in the NPR issue that was incorrect or a lie ? No. They are a lot smarter than that. They are clever people who think they are smarter than everyone else, but are not to be trusted.
by transcriptase | 2025-05-02 19:07:40+00:00
Perhaps you’re assuming that I’m a climate change denier or that I take issue with it being discussed because I included it as an example. Neither is true. My point is that there was a period of time when listeners would tune in and hear things like “Coming up in the next hour, how climate change is impacting the Jazz scene in Toronto’s entertainment district!”. Perhaps they’ve dialed it back recently but it was the equivalent of keyword stuffing in radio form, and rarely anything worth listening to when considering a coast-to-coast audience.

As far as the job posting controversy it has happened a few times, the worst being where they put “any race except Caucasian” in a casting call for a kids tv host, and “preference given to women etc” on most others. It’s legal in Canada though you’re not supposed to say the quiet parts out loud like the former example.
by Ygg2 | 2025-05-02 19:07:58+00:00
> I don't have strong opinions on build systems but as someone who only occasionally dabbles in systems programming, I know that Zig's build system is infinitely more approachable and coherent than the monstrosities of CMake and any other build system I've ever come across in various C and C++ projects.

Whenever a language builds their own build system in a programming language or a DSL, the issue of composability rears its ugly head. Yeah, it's a bit better to write Zig build in Zig than Bash, or some Groovy DSL.

What it doesn't change that it's hard to compose them. Do you want to add code coverage? Well, you now need to figure out where to add code coverage in your custom build script. Rather than a linear set of steps, you have a tangle of unique "solutions" rather than a standard way to extend the process.
by ceejayoz | 2025-05-02 19:08:43+00:00
The last time they tried an interdiction did… not go well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_flotilla_raid

Nine deaths, and Israel wound up apologizing, paying $20M, easing the blockade, etc. in that case.

Crippling it elsewhere gives you deniability, too. That was the French goal; they just fucked it up.