skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've thought long and hard about free trade. Ultimately, people want cheap products and free trade optimizes for price that's it. It's like this single objective function that disregards all other functions.

So the competitive advantage for any country now boils down to the entire nation optimizing for cost. A country like China can do this, because the cost optimization for USA = lifting someone out of poverty in China. They are at the rock bottom of cost already.

Now that China has learned to optimize for cost, they will continue down that path - AI, robotics whatever tool they can amass to drive down cost, they will.

Meanwhile, other nations arbitrage about quality of life, politics, hatred of the rich so on and so forth and let the cost optimization slide. Ideally if every country optimized for cost, free trade would work like magic. Sadly, China is the only country doing that and rest of the world is now beholden to them, losing their once cherished competitive advantage.

Now China which once was derided for cheap quality has learned to build quality at scale and for cheap. Literally no one can compete with them on price:quality ratio. 3-4 decades of cost optimizations have paid off immensely for them.
From a ROTW perspective (I think we tend to own US tech stocks): The USD is also crashing. Double whammy.
> Age-appropriate risk management becomes increasingly important as your investment horizon shortens.

As you appear closer to retirement, make sure you invest in Bonds or other fixed income. It won't beat inflation but it will prevent you from draw-downs exactly when the market is down.
> What do you want which isn't designed for a native app?

Running in a user-agent which is explicitly adversarial to the app's interests and capable of e.g. filtering out and rejecting its HTTPS requests and changing its displayed content based on user preferences, such as preventing the loading or display of advertisements/tracking/etc.

Please by all means suggest an established sandboxing technology that applications use that already does that. If your answer is "you could extend existing native-application sandboxes to be capable of that", my response is "why should I bother when I already have one that does what I want and that applications actually use?".

I would love to instead have a world in which everything is Open Source, in which case it'd be less necessary. Given that we're not in that world, the web is the platform I want proprietary applications to live in.

> So you're either wanting to use and develop for Linux, or you're wanting to build apps that fit in walled gardens.

I already use and develop for Linux, for a variety of Open Source applications. When I run other people's applications, I want them to either be Open Source or I want them to stay confined to a browser tab. Browsers aren't a "walled garden", they're a containment mechanism that works for the user.

> Guess which one lets you build and/or run native apps in a sandbox not of its own making, and provides comprehensive APIs, and keeps the user in control?

Delete the word "native" and the answer is "the web". And you've made zero compelling cases for adding the constraint "native".

To be clear, I could easily describe cases where native applications are better. For instance, I don't particularly want to run a code editor on the web, though many people do. 100% of those are cases where I seek out Open Source applications, so that I can trust them to not be doing things counter to my interests. And such applications don't need the same kind of sandboxing; they need to guard against security issues, but they don't generally need to guard against the application itself intentionally doing things against the user's interests. (That said, things like the xz backdoor do happen, which is an argument for being able to sandbox individual libraries and not just whole applications. But again, that's addressed by coarse-grained sandboxes like "this code shouldn't be doing this whole class of things at all".)
Yes, the market reaction so far has been very tame, considering that the stock market is supposed to be forward-looking, and there's another 4 (or at least 2) years of the same behavior, policies and politics we've had for just 7 weeks.

Extrapolate that 30 times out in the future, even leaving out feedback loops and nonlinear systems.
“I’m helping a coup of the US government and slashing spending so so we can get access to all the money I’ve “saved” and then I plan to award Tesla a bunch of grants and contracts we don’t deserve all while making sure tariffs don’t apply to us”?
Please don't forget the part developers played in this by enabling Chrome/Google to become so very dominant.
Until now, I have always given authors the benefit of the doubt, and presented what they could have said to make their argument stronger.

I do this when hackernews is calling an article stupid and missing some of the salvageable or mostly correct things from the article, so I do some effort to highlight these kernels of truth that most articles have because most authors do have something of value to say.

For the first time on this account on this site... This article is hopelessly naive. Music label executives dgaf. If anything, they want the history gone so that they can charge extra premiums when they release 100 year old songs or for visits to their museums. It is like saying NFL owners regret people not being able to watch the first super bowl game and relive history.

Nah... that is stuff they could sell later if they figure out how.

Expecting music labels to have any sense of democratic music access is almost insulting to artists that have been often dicked by these labels.

Part of me thinks this article is a psyop to make music label executives seem more humane lol.
Yeah you can definitely optimize better, but depending on your allocation you're still going to be fairly close to that 0.08% ratio on the average.

For most people, it probably makes more sense to recommend something like a vanguard target fund, so that they don't have to think too much about it or remember to rebalance as they near retirement (or actively choose not to rebalance b/c the market is currently good and then get walloped by a crash).
X or Y product satisfies*
Yeah it feels like too much "research" is just click bait at this point (or just a lazy dissertation).
I think they a powercable of the wrong server
>Why do people use yt-dlp?

Little bit of everything. Archiving creators that sometimes just vanish or get enough false DMCA claims to have their channels go offline. Downloading audio/video for sampling, cutting, & remixing (ie. Vaporwave Music/Video production). Sometimes you just need to snag a bit of video/audio to make a meme for your friends. For example we saw a funny old PSA from the 1980's someone uploaded and downloaded it to recut the video into a meme.

Offline use is a big part of it. When on road trips I like to catch up and listen along to DnD streams from Twitch/Youtube and the easiest way is to just rip the VODs from one or the other so when I'm on a road in the middle of no where I don't have to depend on rural cell networks.

Sometimes just for fun, I had yt-dlp running on a G4 Mac Mini so that I could rip content & convert it to something playable on old ass computers when I tried living on a G4 mini for a few months last year as an experiment. I've got friends in more unfortunate circumstances surviving off of computers from the 2000's that greatly appreciate anything people come up with to keep their machines useable in a modern world.
Amazing size with such attention to detail, congratulations.
It's ok if you don't have recommendations, but sending a google link is a bit out of pocket :(
That's a useful app for people who use different browsers for different tasks -thanks!
Is it? I didn't realise. I always use Firefox anyway. So which part isn't possible now? JavaScript injection?

Ps changed the term to avoid confusion, thanks!
I keep 100s of tabs open for months in Firefox. Chromium regulaly crashes after about 10-20.
So your argument is that people who do good things must be poor or else they actually aren't good people?
I'm sure it did but Zelenskyy and his shows weren't that unusual. russian was widely understood and spoken as a secondary language as well as being spoken by a significant number of Ukrainians as a primary language. It was not unusual to hear russian in Ukrainian media or see it in social media posts from Ukraine. Over the last decade and especially the last 3 years its changed a lot, the russian invasion has convinced a lot of Ukrainians including those with russian ancestors or who were born in russia to switch to Ukrainian.
The actual script is buried at the bottom:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ixb8mirnttvqc4/Tempest%20Records%...

A very, very loose adaptation. Which is fine. But in skimming it, I don't even recognize the plot points. I'd need to read more closely to say if the story and the writing stand.

But it makes me smile for a personal reason: we did a production of Twelfth Night set at a music festival. We used Shakespeare's text. Shakespeare is remarkably adaptable, even in his original language. He had to be vague about things like setting, time, costumes, etc, so with a little judicious editing you can be very free about just who these people are. You just need to find a scenario that fits your understanding of the dynamics between the characters.
If I look back to October 2021 it has lost value. Tsla stock was already struggling before the election compared to previous years. This feels like cope.
> This means that your sibling must be a woman.

It doesn't. As you've been told already, you're wrong about this.

> But it would be odd to expect others to agree with this, seeing as it is not based in reality.

Fortunately for my brother and the countless other trans people in this world, scientific consensus is on their side. You and those in power right now might disagree, but your kind has been defeated before and will be defeated again.
Tell HN: TIL Notion's TOS makes using it for MCP illegal
Their ToS is here:

https://support.getnotion.com/hc/en-us/articles/29788117154455-Notion-Web-Services-Terms-of-Service

It explicitly states:

> (e) you shall not use any manual or automated software, devices or other processes (including but not limited to spiders, robots, scrapers, crawlers, avatars, data mining tools or the like) to “scrape” or download data from any web pages contained in the Website (except that we grant the operators of public search engines revocable permission to use spiders to copy materials from the Website for the sole purpose of and solely to the extent necessary for creating publicly available searchable indices of the materials, but not caches or archives of such materials);

If anyone has dealt with this, it would be great to see your experience with this issue.
How do you reconcile that with the observation that moving to a computed goto style provides better codegen in zig[1]? They make the claim that using their “labeled switch” (which is essentially computed goto) allows you to have multiple branches which improves branch predictor performance. They even get a 13% speedup in their parser from switch to this style. If modern CPU’s are good at predicting through a single branch, I wouldn’t expect this feature to make any difference.

[1] https://ziglang.org/download/0.14.0/release-notes.html#Code-...
This is a poor analogy.

The real danger of LLMs lie in their seductive nature - over how tempting it becomes to immediately reach for the nearest LLM to provide an answer, rather than taking even the briefest of moments to quietly ponder the problem on your own.

That act of manipulating the problem in your head—critical thinking—is ultimately a CRAFT. The only way to become better at it is by practicing it in a deliberate, disciplined fashion.

However if you ultimately believe that critical reasoning isn't worth cultivating, then I suppose we're at an impasse.
Why MCP Won
CR+R or CD-R

Big difference.
I use yt-dlp with mpv for watching videos. I can't watch videos through my web browser at all thanks to Google's anti-adblock measures.

There's no way to pay for Youtube Premium anonymously - and I'm sure as hell not comfortable with providing Google (an American company, mind you) with any more information than they already have on me.
> They pay Mozilla to exist

Do they? I thought Google significantly reduced their payments to Mozilla a few years back, which started Mozilla current random-walk.

Edit: As of 2023, they were as high as ever at 85% of Mozilla's finances coming from Google [1] . However the DoJ antitrust case against Google targets Google's payments to various entities (Mozilla, Apple) to make themselves the default search engine, thus threatening Mozilla's income. I did not immediately find sources for Mozilla's 2024 finances, but I can imagine they see the existential threat.

> and they are paying Mozilla to intentionally drive Firefox into the ground.

That's just conspiracy-thinking.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Finances
Neither of those events were anything either.

Stock markets go to zero. Capitalism is disruptive and politically unpopular (the US pumps technology into the rest of the world and the US is still the exception, other countries know it works...they just don't care). Even in the US, which is the best case, you have had decades of underperformance. A 50% dip that fixes itself quickly is nothing, the US is the best case of the best case.

Btw, the original article also misses everything relevant about humans operate. During Covid, one of the FT economics columnists, a person who still makes a very healthy living from giving advice about human behaviour said that he sold his stocks, the volatility was too much, there were problems in his personal life, etc. Wiped out decades of gains in an afternoon (and was happy about it). Herding is going to, eventually, result in an almighty fallout. Risk-adjusted return from equities was already low...and this was before all barriers to entry were removed.
Is five years enough to forget how quickly diseases travel around the world?

It's the equivalent of standing in front of a pool of vomit with an armful of mops while saying "hmmm, why do I gotta be the one to clean this up?"
There was a time in Chrome when it didn't support extensions at all. If Google had release an extension API like manifest v3 then, would that have been abuse of market position?

The reason why Chrome waited for so long to add extensions was the danger they posed to users. I was at Google when Sergey often worried about what extensions would do to non technical and older users who get tricked into installing them, then I saw first hand that danger with my own grandparents. They had extensions intercepting every network request, redirecting certain sites to fake sites, and injecting code into pages. It was horrifying, and they were lucky that they didn't have significant money or identity theft.
U.S. shifts to 'Muck-Around-and-Find-Out' policy, economist says
Apple, Meta likely to face modest fines over DMA breaches, sources say
Second time today I read about this kind of story:
https://www.10news.com/news/team-10/it-is-like-jail-german-m...
Ask HN: Is there a HN equivalent for travel?
Zelenskyy is the highest paid actor ever.
> They are cheaper than most for sure, but still more than buying individual ETFs.

At some point you are being penny-wise, pound-foolish: saving even 10bps (0.10%) on a $1e6 portfolio is saving $1000 dollars per year on management fees. If that kind of difference makes or breaks your retirement plans you have bigger problems (and most regular folks don't have that kind of portfolio, so the savings would be even smaller).

Certainly fees are important:

* http://larrybates.ca/t-rex-score/

but once you're <50bps, there are probably more important factors (like behaviour stuff: not panicking, actually putting money away monthly/regularly (especially in an automated fashion)).

Just saving the time-cost / hassling of rebalancing is worth something, and probably worth the fees you pay for an all-in-one / asset allocation solution.
There are allegations that the Perkins and Coie firm abused their access to a SCIF in order to make unauthorised queries targeting Trump campaign members during the run up to the 2016 election.

The full text of the executive order is available here: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/addr... and mentions removing access to a SCIF:

> The Office of Management and Budget shall identify all Government goods, property, material, and services, including Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities, provided for the benefit of Perkins Coie. The heads of all agencies providing such material or services shall, to the extent permitted by law, expeditiously cease such provision.

It has also been publicly documented from court transcripts that contractors were making unauthorised queries but I don't believe it has ever been released who the contractors were or who they were targeting. Hopefully, if this is the reason for removing SCIF access the current government is able to make these documents public without redaction. Though, the whole thing could just be a conspiracy theory generated by people piecing together bits of random information.
As much as I dislike their Chrome practices, I am rather against the idea of forcing them to sell Chrome.

For one, they simply have had a better product, at least in the past. Part of their large monopoly is due to just being better outright for a large portion of users (presumably). Are we to punish making overly-good products?

For another, sell to whom? And why would they be a good steward?

And yet another, there's literally Chromium, which other browsers (built by other corps) use, e.g. Edge, Brave, etc.

Did Google have to open Chromium? No.

Disclaimer: I hold these opinions weakly and would love to learn more about why they might be ill-premised.
Trump has a meme coin used to grift the entire country. I'm surprised this potential conflict of interest is what is causing you to throw your hands up.
I really don't understand the subtitle, and the argument implied, which countless people make. Do they really believe new things can't happen?

"This thing has lasted for X years so it can't fail now". Wha...? I mean, maybe it will not fail, but not for the reason that it has lasted this much. Everything has an end, and things not observed before do happen.

If anything, what we can learn from the last... any period really, is that something unexpected will happen.
Yep, downloading copies of videos so I can watch them on long flights is one of my main use cases for yt-dlp.

I suppose someone more sycophantic to the wishes of trillion-dollar corporations could argue that I'm not entitled to do this for free, and that YouTube offers an offline download option as part of its $13.99/mo Premium offering. To them, I'd say "you're right, also go pound sand lol."
There has been some good research published on this topic of how RLHF, ie aligning to human preferences easily introduces mode collapse and bias into models. For example, with a prompt like: "Choose a random number", the base pretrained model can give relatively random answers, but after fine tuning to produce responses humans like, they become very biased towards responding with numbers like "7" or "42".
At this point I would not trust a single engineer at X.
You can read ALL of them for free at the source, handelsregister.de - they stopped charging for access in 2022.
"I'm not turning bearish. I’m not even forecasting a recession," TS Lombard economist Dario Perkins wrote to clients on Friday. "But it is odd to see US policymakers talk as if they want to inflict damage on the economy, or at least do things that risk causing damage."

Perkins called the combination of tariff policy and the push to slash federal government spending "dangerous."

CNN adds that "Trump’s immigration crackdown threatens key industries, including agriculture, construction and health care, which have been struggling to hire."

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/10/economy/us-economy-trump/inde...
How is it open source if you're charging for it? where is the repo for us to download and use it ourselves?
> You wrote: "You understand she is a woman because of the societal context of her clothes, her face, her hair, her makeup, and 1001 other tiny little things."

> From that, it is reasonable to assume that you have a view of women based on sexist stereotyping around clothes, hair and makeup.

The person you are responding to was identifying the markers that cause the average person to make a snap decision on whether someone is a "he" or a "she" when encountering complete strangers on a day to day basis. If you don't use these factors to determine how you would address a person you've never met, what do you use? Do you demand to see their genitals or birth certificate?
Wanted to note that uBlock works on Firefox mobile browser too - it is excellent.
The stock market, just like money, is built on trust. And who can trust the current administration?
It means if thread A does an RPC to a remote service, and the thread B in that service that's handling the RPC takes an exception, the details are serialized and returned back to thread A where the exception is rebuilt and rethrown, ensuring that in a platform that supports chained exceptions and blocking threads efficiently (e.g. JVM) that you get exceptions and stack traces that cross services.

It's not hard to implement, it's just that the industry kinda gave up on using powerful RPC frameworks with language integration. gRPC is about the fanciest you'll get and that is a clone of Stubby, which was originally written for C++ in a codebase that banned the use of C++ exceptions entirely. So it doesn't try to solve that problem.
Yeah. It sucked, but understanding the dynamic and changing school eliminated the problem. I was lucky to have the opportunity to changing school though. few parents have this option nowadays.
>Does it? Or that's what the mozilla organization wastes on harebrained initiatives overall?

Yes! They published their 990, and it's mostly software development, but also stuff like legal and compliance and marketing. I don't have the numbers off the top of my head, but last time I checked, if you really want to make this argument, I think it relates to the CEO pay and the Mozilla Foundation and its advocacy, which are something around the, you know, taken together something like 55 million or so. You can make the argument that administration and operations as well as marketing and legal and compliance are bloated in some sense, but then you'd still have to make the case that there was a viable path to reinvesting that into development in a way that would change the tide when it comes to market share. But I think that is a confused vision of how market share works because the real drivers are Google's dominant position in search and on Android in the ability to push Chrome on Chromebooks.

Back when these narratives about Mosio's mismanagement started, I just assumed that they were highly informed people who knew what they were talking about. And maybe they really were originally, but it seems to have socialized a new generation of commenters into just randomly speculating about things that completely fall apart upon closer examination.
What exactly is fertility here? I don’t think all the non-bullies are shooting blanks. What if the bullies are just worse on average at family planning? How are you differentiating civilizations, especially in the modern age when national borders don’t constrain enormous trade of goods and culture?
I sense that change too. Comments are starting to feel too much like Reddit unfortunately.
I have used Youtube and uBlock Origin lite for the past couple of months and have not noticed that. Are you using the complete filtering mode?
Debugging on Firefox has always been awkward with sourcemaps. The sourcemaps load late, so breakpointing is hard at load time.
Hey there, nice shilling for brave. 1 thread, 4 comments!