skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a very interesting take, and I agree with your perspective.

I think the "anti-woke" messaging was a particularly effective example, because in reality this means completely different things to many voters (some of those contradictory).

Your nuclear position is interesting, and has become significantly more common over the last decade I feel. Personally, I disagree-- In my view, nuclear power is not on a trajectory where it is ever gonna be competitive (levelized cost) with renewable power. This will lead to renewables "ruining" electricity spot prices whenever they are available which is very bad for nuclear power economics. Nuclear power also shares basically the same drawback with renewables that it wants to be paired with peaker plants for dispatchability (instead of operating in load-following mode itself), but renewables basically just do it cheaper.

At this point, it would basically take a miracle for me to believe in nuclear power again (a very cheap, safe, simple, clean, quick-to-build reactor design) but I don't see this happening any time soon (and honestly the exact same argument applies to fusion power even more strongly-- I think that is an interesting research direction that will never find major a application in power generation).

I will concede however that nuclear power that was built 10-30 years ago (before renewables were really competitive) was and is helpful to reduce CO2 emissions.
> If the people aren't there, wages will rise until they show up. Most labor shortages aren't an actual shortage of labor, unless you genuinely can't produce that skillset domestically, or your labor market is so tight that no one is unemployed; rather, they're a shortage of wages

I don't know about this in the US. Sure, we're not at full employment, but I don't know how factory jobs are going to change that. My impression is that there is already a deficit in labor willing to work hard for good pay (construction, trucking, etc.,) and tightening immigration policies will make this even worse.
Real-Time Sync Engines
Show HN: I made a site with current and predicted Apple M processor benchmarks
Answers questions like:
- Should I hold off one more processor generation before upgrading?
- What kind of performance jump can be expected across one or multiple generations?
- Will I get dizzy by looking at this star field/hyperdrive thingy for a long time?

Uses the current data from Geekbench (https://browser.geekbench.com/mac-benchmarks).

This is a simple chart site. I'm sure there are tons of ways it could be expanded, like:
- Include other benchmarks and things like "real-world" tests, like typical suites of various operations in photo/video editors, AI image/video generation, media encoding etc.
- Include comparison data for other processors (Intel/AMD/others) as well
- Easier comparison between two specific processor models
- Compare stats across processor tiers (base/Pro/Max/Ultra), not just processor generations
- Adjustments for UI, responsive, light mode etc.

...but I kind of like it simple and just wanted to come up with something as a quick test.

Suggestions for improvements, especially in the form of pull requests, are welcome: https://github.com/rubjo/m-bench

Слава Україні! - Slava Ukraini!
I've not looked at it in a few months but fairly sure its not pirated, its just online streams of FTA channels. All the UK ones for example are are just the UK's free to air broadcasters and someones figured out the urls to the feeds they use on their websites and apps.

Lots of the US and CA ones look to be the same sort of situation. You'll find most wont work without a VPN as they are geo blocked.
It's possible to upgrade the panel - mine has a 1080p IPS.
> the midterms will hit

The plan may be that there are no more elections, or that the only people who are allowed to vote are identified MAGA supporters. Does this seem impossible? Everything Trump has done would have been considered impossible only a couple of months ago.

What Trump reveals is the utter apathy of Americans. They're sheep in lions' clothing, not the other way around.
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43555337
Part of the Thinkpad sales pitch of old was literally to throw the Thinkpad on the floor and step on it, pick it up and continue the presentation. Or, as I mentioned elsewhere, to grab it by the display end and pretend to use it to fan a fire.
> What I described as separation is a a decomposition into modules which are linked together through a contract.

wat

> Without cascading, we would probably have components and inheritance.

indeed. That is why I wrote what I wrote about BEM and CSS Scoping

> They're not required, but they make it easier to build the UI as it almost always have a tree structure.

Those systems have support, but there's rarely, if ever, a true separation of styling and structure. There's a reason for that, illustrated here: https://x.com/simonswiss/status/1664736786671869952

The separation between CSS and HTML is a good idea in a very theoretical abstract academic sense. It never ever worked in practice.
They were able to in the 50s/60s/70s. So why not now?
Bus pass is issued by the government though. Student id is issued by the college. I know because I made one at the student union to help with getting into nightclubs (allegedly).
A wrong fixing another wrong lol
There is no logic to these things. This is the emperors new clothes, over and over again.

The proximate cause for these tariffs is not some future event. This is post fact rationalization.

The proximate cause is still the ongoing “information” war which determines the perceived reality that is litigated in elections.

Earlier politicians played theater, acting as if the red meat being fed to voters was real on TV, but dealing with reality as need be when it came to decision making.

This was a betrayal of voters, who saw their election efforts result in legislators who didnt do what they said.

Trump does what he says. He believes WWE is real, and acts as if it is. His base believes it is real, and now reality is crashing with the fiction.

The fiction will prevail, because his party has also been working to build the power to enact their will.

Everyone sees logic here, the same way that everyone saw the emperors clothes. The alternative is illogical.

This is the reason potential reasons “we dont know” have to be postulated (war / China can make more ammunition)
Some say it's quite deliberate.
It can be a self-fulfilling prophecy : “We have to go to war with them because they retaliated with tariffs!”

Trump has literally said that if Canada doesn’t like the tariffs,
they should just let the US annex them!
Should we be going to the capital with guns or...?
Really great project and nice collection !
There also are some non-open source but still hackable synth out there, such as the Korg NTS-1. It's not exactly DIY but a "mount it yourself kit" and Korg maintains a C and C++ SDK for oscillo and fx.

Funny part with the x0xb0x, the creator mentioned that the x0xb0x is free as "Free your mind and your ass will follow", the funkiest open source clause
Wow! Just discovered OpenCore Legacy Patcher! My wife's ten year old Macbook Air can get updates!!

Thank you for the tip this will help a lot since it is not the "year of the Linux desktop" for her. :)
The 4k OLED and touchscreen kind of cancel each other out if you care about maximum optical quality.
> Foreign countries buy US dollars so they can trade with other people

Who are those other people and why do they want to be paid in USD so badly instead of their own currency in which they presumably pay their employees and taxes? I never understood that.
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> Since trade is conducted largely in USD, that means other governments must purchase USD to trade.

But then they sell it back. What you’re describing is not a trade deficit. To produce trade deficits they need to actually trade with the US. Buying forex does not do that.

> If trade stops occurring in US Dollar, which is a consequence of the stated goal of our current ruling regime, that would be the coup de grace on this country's hegemony. It is the definitive end to it, and the birth of Chinese hegemony.

Nobody will use Chinese currency because it doesn’t float and it’s subject to tight capital controls. Nobody in their right mind would switch to that from outside of China.

You can argue that China could become a hegemony anyway, but that is because everyone wants to trade with them, not because they want to use their currency in 3rd party transactions.
More room for panels.
My friend does this when they go to the USA

A 256Gb microSD hiddden in luggage with a fully updated MX-Linux installed.

Create a snapshot of the updated system on a MX-Linux live CD including all the programs you would normally use, VPN etc, save it to a usb drive and write that to your microsd card.

sudo dd if=snapshot.iso of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=1M status=progress

meanwhile, install a new HDD drive on an old laptop. wipe it and install any new linux distro. you wont be using this at all

at your destination, input your microsd card into laptop, change boot order and boot into your new microsd card,

The microsd card leaves no traces, it runs in memory.

A freshly installed Lineage on an older phone.

you wont have to unlock anything, you will have nothing on your laptop or phone

border force can access everything. there is nothing to see!

get a trusted friend to send you any important files via signal or any other encrypted messaging or email service

At your destination, login into your emails and messaging services etc
That's not just some bs - the other side of the coin is crooked billionaires and other reptilians taking advantage of anything in their way blinded by their massive greed and psycopathic traits.

Excuse me, this is not how a society should roll. Not a sustainable one at least.
What you are talking about is inflation, which is due to more demand or lower supply. Lowering demand or raising supply is the solution. Since lowering demand is anti-human it seems raising supply is the only way.
Really depends on the region. There's lots of opinions/ideas/directions/parties in many countries with lots of overlap. In the US... I'm not sure how relationships, that actually talk about things, can survive if partners have different party preferences.
> Maybe by 2027?

Why on earth would you spend millions and billions of dollars on investing into a ROI-10-year factory, when a cheeseburger overdose or, heaven forbid, the Dems winning another election will take that investment and turn it straight into the toilet?

Not to mention that you'll be locked out of the world's markets, thanks to reciprocal tariffs.
Naively? They are actively acting in bad faith to destroy the US from within
The new iphone uses a metasurface for structured light illumination:
https://www.yolegroup.com/technology-outlook/metasurfaces-br...

What people forget is that new hardware technologies can take decades before they are used in commercial products. Quantum Dots were first synthesized in 1981 and are only in commercial stuff since the 2010th.
Teflon: Invented in 1938- first commercial use in 1961.
Semiconductors: Found in 1898, first commercial uses in 1958.
Yup, also a problem with my X220/X230 units. My most recent repair attempt involves nails expoxied in internally, fingers crossed it holds. My previous repair (a carbon fibre strip glued on externally) failed after a drop.
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Buying goods from American corporations is going to leave a sour taste in the mouth for Europeans now.
I always try to stay informed, rationalize well and always try to find arguments for both sides of a theory. I act like a detective in search of the truth or a mathematician confronted with a new conjecture or theory. I try to dig until I can see whether the theory has solid chances to be true or not. I try to make the process as fast as possible, because I don't like to procrastinate or lose time. Most of the time is fine if I know something has 60% chances of being true and I don't need 99.99% because I can back off and review the theory if I am wrong.

That being said, I don't pick a party solely on what I believe is the truth. I also try to see whether my interests align well with that party.

As for discussing politics with friends, most of my experience is the same as the author's. I started having a dislike for very long lawyer-like discussions and arguments that lead nowhere. I kind of detect fast if my discussion partner is seeking the truth, he is proceeding with an archeology or detective like mindset and proceed accordingly.
At my (small) workplace we all use Thunderbird, and I use it for my personal email as well.

A good desktop client, once configured, works a lot better than web-based email clients, especially (but not only) when you have different email accounts that you want to use in the same interface.
Having worked on one of the cars for this, I don't think solar panels on cars actually makes much sense for useful cars. If you can put them on cheaply enough, then they are maybe a nice free boost in some circumstances, but the compromises in the design needed to get the efficiencies necessary for solar panels on the car to power the car are quite extreme.
Remember we used to have Aoe2 sessions on LANS when we were kids back in the 00s and like 1 in 3 games just crashed after everyone had played for like 2-3 hours.

In a way it was even better because then nobody had to loose, and everyone believed they were winning.
This is a decapitation strike (Timothy Snyder: Decapitation Strike -- https://archive.is/1xkxK) on America by our enemies.

This was done by Trump, nobody else.
Politics are lately more and more about emotion (we're under attack!) and speculation (it will be a catastrophe!) so as much as I agree with you, I don't see it happening. Or rather, I don't see this particular argument getting much attention - as real as it might be.
> totally ignoring the fact that you betrayed your allies

The US is following the example of its mentor, the UK. Perfidious Albion allied with the Germans and Russians to fight the French (Napoleonic Wars), then allied with the French and Russians to fight the Germans (WW1 & WW2), then allied with the French and Germans to counter the Russians (Cold War). Great powers don't have permanent friends, nor do they have permanent enemies, they only have permanent interests. Europeans were simply naive[0], thinking they were the equals of the world's hyperpower for some reason, just because our post-WW2 dealings were executed with substantially more carrot than stick. It's just normalcy bias. Somehow Europe didn't think they would ever end up like the South Vietnamese, the Hmong, the Kurds (against Saddam, in 1991[1]), the Afghans, the Kurds again (against the Turks[2]), and now the Ukrainians. Some argue there is more than a bit of latent racism involved, not expecting the White People Countries to be abused by the Empire the same way Brown People Countries are.[3]

> If the US was a kid it wouldn't invite others over because it wants to eat the birthday cake alone.

This is why I often state that Woodrow Wilson is the worst President in American history. Besides shackling us with both the Federal Reserve Banking System and Federal Income Tax, he dragged us into Europe's internecine bloodshed and normalized that interventionism despite Americans largely being comfortable with sticking to our own hemisphere. In 1913, the US already had the world's largest GDP, with a GDP per capita roughly equal to Imperial Germany and about 75% of the UK's (assuming Copilot isn't lying to me on this data). Imports were only 4% of GDP compared to 15% in 2023. I think the wealthy elite who are siding with Trump are charting a plan to return the US to the same kind of domestically-focused economy, but we don't have the sort of natural resources nor human capital to ensure a decent quality of life on a short timeframe (or perhaps even a longer one) given the "shock treatment" that they are implementing.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh1zmDi0qN0

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Iraqi_uprisings#U.S._radi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Claw_(2019%E2%80%932...

[3] https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2022/3/1/covering-ukraine...
Unemployment is at 4%, there's no reserve army of labor that can be mobilized to make flashlights and sew t-shirts for $3/hr.

Anyways, I hope you're looking foward to prices for everything going up.
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>This got me wondering... Thinking in reverse, are there any issues that you think should be decided by men only?

Military conscription and field duties would be an example I can think of.

For example, in my European country we have mandatory conscription for men over 17 but there was a referendum a while ago if this should still be kept, and it was funny that women also got to vote on whether men get conscripted or not lol. And guess what, most women (and boomers) voted in favor of the mandatory conscription of young males by quite a margin and unsurprisingly the only ones who voted against but got outvoted, were the young men.
Seems he is using trade deficit percentages in his chart instead of tariff percentages ... :/
I had something similar a few years ago. I ended up having to write a little script to pull out just the channels I wanted as nothing could handle the 18 thousand stream options it provided (total insanity that its bundled up into 1 file like that in the first place but seems to be the norm for dodgy IPTV providers).

Nowadays theres better tools for the job. StreamMaster* for example can handle thousands of IPTV sources and let you organise them nicely into something that can be read by Plex, Jellyfin, etc.

*Sadly recently abandoned but still available on github.
Telegram E2EE only 1:1 that is opt-in vs Signal E2EE everything by default.

Its clear which is an actually private chat app. Defaults matter
I have a T420. A few years ago I switched to a slightly used T480, keyboard was a huge downgrade and the whole series can get really stupid USBC issues. After half a year or so it didn't dock anymore and I got an X1, basically the same laptop glad I found it without touch and the 'bright screen' because the screen is barely good enough, keyboard is the same and USBc already started to get finicky.

Meanwhile my T420 still runs like on day one (which was already 5 years old when I got it, and travelled 1+ years with me in a backpack), the screen works in direct sunlight and it's not even the best of its series, hardware still perfect. Fat SSD + 32GB Ram and you can barely tell how old it is.
I know what you mean, but it would also be of economic benefit if you worked for free and any downstream customers all got that discount of the profit you make from selling your time.
This messaging is compelling. Are you also perchance against all bad things, and in favor of all good things?
Occam’s razor is specifically a counter to this.

The simplest solution is the right one. You are projecting intelligence, because you are used to.

This is AFTER the US government has roundly fired thousands of their experts and workforce, AND has just told everyone of its intelligence and army rank and file that there are no repercussions for a massive dereliction of duty.

AND IT IS ONLY APRIL.
Do you have a reference for this? If they’re requiring substantial transformation, how is this assessed and enforced?
Strangely enough no. There used to be some M-Audio 25 key offerings, but seemingly no longer. A MIDI->BT dongle is about €50 though.
There are those in the States who want to devalue the dollar as a pathway to greater industrialization and domestic productive capacity. The idea is to make the US labor force competitive with the rest of the world.

Problem is, reigning in wages for labor after decades of encouraging rampant consumerism and being in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis especially for housing seems like a political earthquake in the making.

Like many of Trump's ideas, maybe they could work if carefully managed over a long period of time so as to give the economy time to readjust but these are not careful managers and patience is not their virtue.
Of course, penguins are birds and birds aren't real.
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It's typical Empire Hubris: thinking you can get away with anything because you are special.

Trump doesn't really know what he's doing. He surrounded himself with yes-men that know perfectly not to contradict him.

The global Dollar order was built to American advantage. Trump is dismantling it for no reason. If the dollar order crumbles, the US will discover it has much lower productivity.

There is no American exceptionalism: it's just Dollar exceptionalism. No Dollar, no exceptionalism.
This page feels like an AI traveled back in time and (faked) the date.

[edit] Nevermind. I'm being too harsh. The creator was obviously having fun and being creative. That's cool. I think if nothing else this just proves how jaded and skeptical about clever artwork I've become in the past few years.
$2 is fun for hobbies but hope you are not running in production for your customers with that sort of service level!
> cultism, uncritical praise, excessive volume, lack of substance

All of which are subjective judgements on the content, which will naturally be reflective of a voter's political biases
The solar cells themselves may be cheap, I don't think putting them on the roof of a car (without ruining the aerodynamics) is particularly cheap, yet. Most people would be better served putting the solar panels on the roof of their house.
> prominent intellectual property law professors

These guys are part of the problem IMHO. Having studied some law at
university and then reading all of Lawrence Lessig's works when he
dissected IP law 20 years ago for the Creative Commons project, I was
left with the distinct feeling that "IP law" is ugly, unfair,
arbitrary, ineffective, crippling to the mind, and devastating to
progress and the economy.

I now strongly agree with the likes of Richard Stallman that
"intellectual property" is a grotesque and bankrupt mess that should
be avoided if you want to have any semblance of a mature conversation.

Actually, people training AI have a point. New technologies expose the
silliness of bad ideas we've clung to for three centuries. And the
only way forward is to hugely reform or repeal most of IP law for
EVERYONE.

The truth is that long before the Statute of Anne "copyright" has its
roots in censorship and political control. We used to burn the
printers of "seditious works" on pyres of their own books in St James'
square in London.

Much of "IP law" still functions the same today but hidden behind a
cover story about "protecting creators".

I now mentally substitute the phrases "intellectual property" with
"coercive control of information" (CCI).

CCI gets to the nub of power relations instead of pretending we have
nice IP "laws" that are applied uniformly. In reality copyright,
patents and trademarks have become tools of censorship and denial for
those with money, and they do almost nothing to protect individual
creators. Things like the DMCA are simply monstrous. If we can't
reform and enforce it to actually protect creators it's time to
scrap the whole rotten show in my opinion.
No, I think people who use ad blockers are a minority. And it's not getting better with Chrome/Chromium switching to Manifest v3 which has significantly worse support for ad blockers.
A large portion of the base, is aghast at his actions, until someone on the news comes up with the defensive talking points.

THIS is sanewashing.

People dont have to be insane to do this, they just have to listen to their trusted news sources.