MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by eszed | 2025-08-30 13:33:04+00:00
You're right, and oh my god: don't get me started on the abysmal safety record of theatres, particularly towards the non-union end of the scale. I never got a fight director credential, but I was competent, and served as fight captain on any number of shows. 1.) Unarmed fights are the most dangerous type of scene, but also the most likely to be treated cavalierly by people who don't know any better. 2.) There are safe ways to do (just about) everything. A company that can't afford to hire a qualified fight director shouldn't stage fight scenes. Period. End of story.

I've literally walked out of shows (as an audience member) where it's been clear that the actors are doing unsafe things, because I didn't want to see happen what you showed up to. Thanks for being there, and I hope that woman was OK.
by Jigsy | 2025-08-30 13:33:31+00:00
I got a debit card at 16 but couldn't make online purchases until I got a newer debit card when it expired. (This was about 2009?)

I've been warned by numerous members of my family that credit cards are a good way of getting you into debt.

From what I've read, only credit cards work as a validation method since they've patched out debit cards.

I have no intention of getting a credit card just to buy games.
by linuxftw | 2025-08-30 13:33:42+00:00
Customarily duties are paid by the importer, often through a broker. How will this be handled for small items? Most likely a business will import products in bulk and pay the duties as normal.

How will it work for small, one off purchases? Well, I don't see how the tax payers are under any obligation to streamline that for people. The net effect will be to buy from US suppliers/importers, not directly from overseas.
by Cheer2171 | 2025-08-30 13:33:42+00:00
Sure, tell me more how it is awesome that I can't order $100 of dollars of small bulk electronic components for my hobby work direct from Huaqiangbei and get them here in a week. There is no US manufacturer replacement. Instead I have to turn to an import/export middleman also sourcing from Huaqiangbei but at 4x cost. In the eloquent words of our dear leader: SAD!
by kelipso | 2025-08-30 13:33:43+00:00
Ugh. Can we as an industry stop blowing people up like this? It’s a clear sign that the community is filled with people with very little experience.

I remember this guy wanted $20 million to build AGI a year ago (did he get that money?), and people here thought he would go into isolation for a few weeks and come out with AGI because he made some games like that. It’s just embarrassing as a community.
by loloquwowndueo | 2025-08-30 13:34:38+00:00
Just remember it’s not just crap from Shein, Temu, Ali express that’s being hit. Your former “friends” and long-time trade partners are also being impacted by this blanket policy.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/de-minimis-u-s-canada-endin...
by PaulRobinson | 2025-08-30 13:34:40+00:00
You can do this with server side logs.

You don’t need to track users to get this insight, you can get all that insight from tracking server requests.

You may ask what’s the difference. Well, if I track you with in browser tech I can see everything you do.

If I look at the logs I’ll most likely just see a load of people from a single IP at your ISP which is a reverse proxy cache.

I’m fine with that. I don’t run any tracking, but I do look at logs now and again.
by Cheer2171 | 2025-08-30 13:34:40+00:00
Sure, tell me more how it is awesome that I can't order $100 of dollars of small bulk electronic components for my hobby work direct from Huaqiangbei and get them here in a week. There is no US manufacturer replacement. Instead I have to turn to an import/export middleman also sourcing from Huaqiangbei but at 4x cost to me.

The environment cost is higher with the middleman "small business" because they need their own logistics (likely Amazon). So instead of a carrier driving from the boat to USPS/OnTrac, it goes into the warehouses at Amazon. Wow! Thanks! World saved! In the eloquent words of our dear leader: SAD!
by steveBK123 | 2025-08-30 13:34:59+00:00
One challenge in this is how to prevent permanent alienation between the masses & high achievers where you separate them at increasingly earlier points of life.

I went to school in a small town where I still shared some non-core classes with the masses, and only had separate tracks for some science/math courses starting at say 13 or 14 years old. But I still had gym/art/homeroom/etc with the masses right until graduation at 18 years old.

The trend has of course been to split the smarter kids out at younger and younger ages.. you see completely separate smart kids schools starting at 14 or 11 years old. You hear stories of pre-K and kindergarten programs that require your kid test in, as if they can asses the intelligence of a 3 year old.

As a society I would observe it makes the masses more resentful & distrusting towards "the elites" and "the elites" more oblivious to what the life for 99% of the country actually entails.
by MillironX | 2025-08-30 13:35:06+00:00
Except Apple code signing on MacOS is basically what Google is trying to copy over to Android. I can run arbitrary programs on MacOS, but I have to go and remove the com.apple.quarantine attribute from any application that doesn't have Apple's explicit permission to exist, i.e. most FOSS apps. I suspect that option will go away eventually.
by mothballed | 2025-08-30 13:36:09+00:00
If someone is intentionally pulling a gun on you, you should expect they intend to kill you with it, and respond appropriately. And if having a chambered weapon is as dangerous as you say, then you should also maybe expect, they might accidently set the gun off at any time. That's a no from me dog. I'm not just going to pray they only just want my shit, and don't intend to use it to rape my wife, or my child, or even me, or just to kill me for the lolz.

And yeah I've been in the third world, including Syria. I think the penalty for me having one in Syria was probably the death penalty (LOL!), I didn't give a shit. Some people did shoot at me, I survived.
by fab13n | 2025-08-30 13:36:10+00:00
> it's questionable whether this is a net benefit for Romania as a whole.

it depends what's most beneficial: having a few percents of very mathematically experts people in maths-heavy professions? Or having everyone somewhat decent at maths, even when it doesn't affect their productivity in their jobs?

I don't have any hard data about this, but instinctively I'd bet on the former: I'd rather have a few hundreds more Sutskevers, than most of the country's bakers know their way around PDE.
by keiferski | 2025-08-30 13:36:31+00:00
Individualism in the contemporary sense is not the same thing as skepticism of governmental power circa 1780.

Income taxes as a concept weren't really adopted, globally, until the mid-1800s through the early 1900s. So I don't think skepticism of them is inherently an American individualist thing.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax#Timeline_of_intro...

And as I already wrote:

> The hyper-individualism of modern America is something that has developed fairly recently, even if it had earlier roots.

America circa 1950 or 1900 had much stronger social bonds in local communities, families, etc. The current hyper-individualism is more a consequence of the last third of the 20th century, not anything inherently American.

Of course, one might make the argument that this was some kind of inevitable outcome due to a seed in the American psyche, but I don't really buy that argument.
by delichon | 2025-08-30 13:37:24+00:00
Galaxy Quest captured this so well.

KYLE Hi, Brandon. BRANDON No time for pleasantries, Kyle. We have a level five emergency. You still got the utility systems walk-through, right? KYLE Yeah. I've got sectors one through twenty-eight. I think Hollister has the upper levels. BRANDON Great. I'll get everybody on-line.

Kyle is the real hero of the film. There is probably a scenario where Earth is saved when Kyle realizes that an acoustic panel has been rotated by 90 degrees.
by klibertp | 2025-08-30 13:37:48+00:00
Yes, but.

OpenResty is a platform with multiple advantages. It's fast (Nginx), it's async via stackless coroutines (no function coloring), it's again fast (LuaJIT), it's relatively easy to deploy, it's feature-rich (all the Lua packages available), and it integrates well with some other tech like Redis (also Lua-enabled).

On the other hand, Lua is an extension language. It's not designed to support large codebases. You can, of course, with enough discipline, make it work - just as you can, with enough grit, make Perl, JavaScript, Ruby, or older Python work, but you're on your own then. You need to invent your own code organization scheme and adhere to it religiously. You need to reinvent half of the stdlib that Python provides out of the box. The reinventing process extends to the need to create a set of helpers to define classes and inheritance between them, which are only provided as powerful but inconvenient primitives (metatables) in Lua.

It's incredible how much you can do with just 100 sloc in OpenRESTY - it's absolutely amazing as a component of a larger system. However, writing lengthy, uninspiring, yet complicated business logic in Lua under OpenResty is not a good idea.
by steveBK123 | 2025-08-30 13:37:54+00:00
Elite overproduction is an interesting topic and putting aside any suggestion that it's a precise mathematical predictor, it obviously creates societal problems.

That is - you've created a large class of intelligent achievers with nothing for them to do. Arguably that just naturally produces increasing societal upheaval. Whether that means revolution or just chaotic increasingly populist elections is a matter of degrees.
by palata | 2025-08-30 13:38:41+00:00
I feel like nowadays, whatever you write for your blog will end up in an LLM and people will get the information from there.

So if you have a blog in the hope of getting a lot of traffic, well good luck.

The only reason I see to keep writing a blog in 2025 is to build your portfolio, which may be beneficial when looking for a job.
by watwut | 2025-08-30 13:38:42+00:00
The comment was not about the policy’s actual real world impact. That is what I said in my second comment.

That comment was not an attempt to evaluate the policy, bit an attempt to make it sound better due to made up environmental concern.

We are overall already treating too many clearly bad faith arguments as if we all were naive polaynnas. There is no reason to insist on that as mandatory strategy.
by kingaillas | 2025-08-30 13:38:51+00:00
>later someone (Gibbs?) gave them the familiar vector calculus form.

It was Oliver Heaviside (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside) that rewrote Maxwell's original equations (20 of them in differential form) into the notation used today (4 of them in vector calculus form).

Here's a nice comparison: https://ddcolrs.wordpress.com/2018/01/17/maxwells-equations-...
by sleepyguy | 2025-08-30 13:39:36+00:00
The problem for Toyota is that they have been absorbing the cost of the new tariffs (15%). It has affected their bottom line and has yet to be passed on to the American consumer. I suspect, like others have already pointed out on some of the blogs, that with the new model year approaching, Toyota vehicles will reflect a 15% increase. It will be easier to pass these tariffs onto consumers to avoid the ire of the Trump administration, since prices tend to rise with new model years.
by jacquesm | 2025-08-30 13:39:45+00:00
The grid itself is the best source for that. What I think we will see instead is custom superconductance based sink/source units that help with local grid stabilization. Those are already being deployed and they work quite well absent mechanical solutions, but they are still expensive and their capacity is still limited. A really dumb (but probably quite effective) way of doing this could also be by simply hooking up massive but slow flywheels.

Both have the same effect. Good distribution of generation and consumption in a geographical sense is something we never really gave much consideration in the past, it wasn't rare at all to have one side of a geographic region to be 'mostly producers' and another to be 'mostly consumers' and where the two sat next to each other it was usually to accommodate some really large consumer (for instance, a paper mill or a steel or aluminum plant). That also allowed for co-generation which is far more efficient. I think we will see more of this as well, and incentives to allow EVs to be used as sinks during times of excess power availability.

Other options are HVDC interconnects between geographically distant regions or to use these to create micro grids, each of which would be less stable than a much larger one but it would serve to isolate problems if and when they occur.

Interesting detail: wind power, while theoretically rotating grid synchronized mass is increasingly uncoupled and powering the grid using inverters. This is for efficiency reasons, the rotors have a much wider range that way, and you then only use furling of the blades to protect the installation from overspeeding and maximum efficiency the rest of the time even if that means rotating at a different speed than what would sync with the grid. This is optional, if the machine is synchronized it will still produce power, but not quite as much because blades are more efficient at higher RPM running flatter than at lower RPM running coarse, though coarse they do have more torque. So by sticking an inverter in the middle you can basically electronically do MPPT for the windmill rather than doing that mechanically.

Over the life of an installation the cost of that inverter is more than paid back in extra power but it has the downside of not having the mechanical mass of the wind turbine rotor and blades as extra inertia. Win some, lose something else...
by mzajc | 2025-08-30 13:40:23+00:00
> The first is that a user has no right to run anyone else's code, if the code owner doesn't want to make it available to them. Consider a bank which has an app. /../ I think the bank has the right to say "your machine is too risky - we don't want our code to run on it."

But should they? Should we also accept Google's browser signing and ban all browsers the bank doesn't like? Am I allowed to accept calls from people they haven't vetted or is it too much of a risk to the bank's bottom line that they might talk me into a scam.

I suppose we should also write off the inevitable privacy and freedom violations in the name of "security".[0] I don't have anything to hide after all.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp...
by alecco | 2025-08-30 13:40:27+00:00
The EU echoes the SU, sadly. Central government, central planning, central banks, mix people, no local culture, blur national and ethnic identities, flatten the social structures, and most importantly, destroy the family unit. Young couples can't buy a house and can't afford to raise kids. And young Europeans face high unemployment and low wages for life-consuming jobs with not much career prospects.

Remote work would've lessen that. But it seems they didn't like it so they quickly rolled it back after the pandemic.
by HarHarVeryFunny | 2025-08-30 13:41:09+00:00
If people need clothes they are going to buy clothes, and it makes little difference (other than cost to American consumer) whether it's direct from Shein/etc or bought off Amazon from some American manufacturer. For every shipping container full of Chinese product, there are going to be thousands of Amazon delivery trucks out delivering it to people houses.

It's easy to be snobbish about "low quality crap" from Shein etc if you have the money and preference to buy better, but for many people cheap stuff from China, whether bought in Walmart or online, is a godsend.

In terms of jobs and American manufacturers, there is zero demand for clothing sweatshop jobs in America, just as you don't see Americans lining up to replace illegals for low wage crop picking jobs.

All this is doing is making things more expensive for consumers. It's a consumer tax paid for by those who can least afford it.
by gumby271 | 2025-08-30 13:41:39+00:00
Well maybe let's start small and cover the people that do first, just to see how that goes. Instead we're starting with all people on the planet, and it will be declared a success because the metrics will say it was, there's no rolling this back.

And it doesn't have to be children of parents, that's just the common example that's brought out every time this comes up.
by MrJohz | 2025-08-30 13:42:26+00:00
I find if you figure out the right unit boundaries, and find a good way of testing the code, you can often keep the tests around long-term, and they'll be very stable. Even when you update the code you're testing, if the tests are well-written, updating the tests is often just a case of running a find-and-replace job.

That said, I think it takes a real knack to figure out the right sort of tests, and it sometimes takes me a couple of attempts to get it right. In that case, being willing to delete or completely rewrite tests that just aren't being useful is important!
by theamk | 2025-08-30 13:42:59+00:00
A lot of the stuff I am buying in China (electronic components and modules) either does not exists in US shops, or exists with very high markup (3x-5x). And even the stuff that is sold in the US is same Chinese parts, but imported by seller instead of me - so it gets more expensive as well.

I don't think this will give big advantage to US shops, it will mostly be extra expenses for consumers.
by trey-jones | 2025-08-30 13:43:07+00:00
The classic comeback - every time I mention simplicity to a particular team member of mine, this is what he says. Complexity is unavoidable. Yes. But if you don't fight it tooth and nail, spend more time than you want trying to simplify the solution, getting second opinions (more minds on difficult problems are better!), then you will increase complexity more than you needed to. This is just a different form a technical debt: you will pay the price in maintenance later.
by kelipso | 2025-08-30 13:43:51+00:00
This doesn’t really make sense. Everyone thought Russia would mop up Ukraine in a week. Turns out it was wrong because Russian military was weaker than they thought, Ukraine response was strong, etc. but this is just a hindsight 20/20 thing. Any country could make such a mistake.

And you say fragile, scared, etc. Countries, especially large countries, don’t operate like that. They had security concerns, which they publicly warned about for months, and then they attacked.
by siva7 | 2025-08-30 13:44:25+00:00
We don't have to speculate on this. PISA research has described that effective teachers should adapt their teaching and also why a system like in Romania is a bad idea for the society (except for the elites). It is the second poorest country of the Union and one of the most unstable. The data and research is all public. It's not a popular opinion with this crowd here - but then you can argue against the science instead of populist opinions..
by Waterluvian | 2025-08-30 13:44:40+00:00
I can’t speak for all Canadians but all the ones I know do not see America as a friend or partner anymore. The entire tone has changed in a way I’ve never before experienced.

I think the thing some Americans mess themselves up with is thinking that the world perceives their domestic politics the same way they do. From our level of abstraction, America voted and Americans decided the country is going to be an anti-science, protectionist menace.
by akssri | 2025-08-30 13:44:45+00:00
The set of computable numbers is actually countable (see ref. linked above). It has to be by definition because the set of finite computer-programs is itself countable.

This is the whole point of the un-reality of "real" numbers: "all" of it (= measure 1) is uncomputable except a "tiny" measure-0 set.
by xethos | 2025-08-30 13:44:57+00:00
> a policy targetting China has collateral damage.

It is still a policy from someone threatening economic annexation of Canada. He's dropped the rhetoric, but I doubt he's given up on the concept. "Targeting China" is a very kind, possibly even forgetful, way of phrasing it.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5071665-trump-ec...
by goku12 | 2025-08-30 13:45:16+00:00
Same situation. I get it. But not able to relate to it personally. The term I use consistently for it is 'cryptanalysis'. I have done it for some very simple ciphers. But I don't remember using the term 'codebreaking' to describe it. I have also done 'decoding' in some cases. But those didn't have anything to do with ciphers or encryption.

There is a possibility that most people pick up those ideas from their everyday language, while I got mine from formal education (English isn't my first language, though my proficiency in English is higher than for my first language). Either that or I completely forgot those terms at some point in my life and got replaced with the formal terms instead. (It's a slightly puzzling personal peculiarity.)
by acomjean | 2025-08-30 13:45:19+00:00
My partner and a friend both ran pretty big meetups 10 years ago. What made it good was the discoverability. As organizers they had to pay for the group ($80) but group members got free usage. Organizers and some groups charged to recoup but not the norm. There were messgae board and stuff but basically just a reservation system.

Somewhere along the way wework bought them. It’s been spun off, but downhill since. A lot of group organizers passed the groups to others and some groups disappeared.

I’m still a member of a couple groups and meetup is really pushing members of groups to pay now (join meetup plus), and more adds to click through when you rsvp.