skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely disagree with this. A friend is someone who I can disagree politically with and still be friends with. I extend the tribe to political views that aren't too extreme (fascists, extreme populists, violent revolutionary socialists, islamists...), so 90% of the people I can probably be friends with or have family relations with. And it has happened probably about 1-2 times in my lifetime that I even e.g. un-friended someone on social media because of views that I wouldn't tolerate because they fell outside the "normal politics tribe".

And again, that's because I'm lucky enough to not live in the US. I'd unfriend a red hat on FB in a heartbeat. I'd probably break connections with a family member over it too. I'd have problems even having a professional relationship with my US colleagues if I had found out they had a red hat in a social media post. But I don't see the problem with this at all tbh.
I mean, minihands seems intent on doing that, himself.
This is hilarious. When it's YOUR government trying to disenfranchise voters, it's deliberate and you can understand that.

When it's America, then it's somehow different. I even laid it out for you clearly that republicans WANT to disenfranchise them, but your prescription is that we need a 25 year plan to offer photo IDs on the cheap.

>and if photo-ID didn't exist, voter rolls STILL exist and then we would use THOSE to lynch them or whatever.

The irony in telling Americans to build a 25 year plan to roll out photo ID when they don't even solve issues for your government. Do you not see how foolish it is to tell Americans to spend time solving a problem that YOU KNOW won't solve the issue of government targeted disenfranchisement? You wrote 500 odd words telling Americans to build a system you just admitted doesn't work to solve the underlying problem.
Ask HN: What does the world buy from the USA?
Just asking. I suppose some nasty food. And expensive cars bought by dickheads. And aircraft we can make better ourselves.

So ** Trump.
My last laptop, dell 14r i3 2nd gen, retired after 12 years.

It still works fine but the processor was slowing me down. New one's i3 12gen cost me $300
Liberation day indeed... when Canada/Australia/Europe/South Korea/Japan are now the enemy I'm not sure there are any more friends left.
Code is not read like a book, so not clear how relevant is that argument.

In my case being able to read more significant lines in one go, clearly helps me navigate and understand code better.

And I let my IDE (Jetbrains) to the wrapping based on the actual width of the editor windows at any time, it works really well.
Something I have observed also, and why I'd consider myself a sort of pragmatic centrist.
they dont have to be its just more convenient.
> For instance it keeps value of the currency high, what makes whole USA production noncompetitive.

But devaluation of the currency will hurt people who have savings in this currency, and cause higher inflation, right? On the other hand, paying back loans and mortgages becomes much easier.
Being a penguin, and thus not buying stuff, is a trade barrier, presumably.
Thank you Intel for giving us driver issues on Linux again. I feel so young
> This (my thread, not the greater thread we're in)

Well, you're answering to my thread, if we go like this. Where I said that one reason the UX is better in Telegram is that they don't care about privacy.

> Every single point that you want to try here has nothing to do with implementing a smooth scrolling, buttery UI/UX of a chat application.

Then we fundamentally disagree on what UX means. If it takes 2 days to receive a message because a human has to check that it is not spam, wouldn't you say that it's bad UX? Or is "scrolling" the only thing that you put into "UI/UX"? Do you actually know what UI/UX is?

> It is not obviously wrong, and you've done nothing but attempt to loop the conversation back to some level of privacy/encryption/etc.

Because that's my goddamn point from the beginning on. Privacy has an impact on UX (which means "user experience", by the way), period.

> If that is not clear to you, I don't know what to say anymore.

Same here. You don't seem to understand how privacy works technically, and you don't seem to understand what UI/UX means.
> There's an implication here, that people exercised free will when they voted.

There's no such implication.

> This is plainly incorrect, because free will quite clearly does not exist.

> Since free will does not exist, there is simply no a priori reason to believe that people voted in their interests.

What are you even talking about.

People (and living beings in general) acting in their own self-interest - pretty much all the time - it is the most universal general principle of life if there ever was one. This doesn't require or involve free will.

How well a biorobot (no free will!) executes in pursuing his self-interests, is the selection critereon.

Now, the people make mistakes pursuing their self-interests, doesn't mean they aren't acting in their self-interest. Because they sure as hell are - all the frigging time! It's their whole firmware!

Deindustrialization / nikefication all the way through the value chain except the very, very top last step of the value add - hasn't been in their self-interest, it isn't in the interests of their nation either.

It's only in the self-interests of short-term thinking shareholders that min-max asset valuations with great costs to everyone else but themselves.
I thought we were all bots?
> it feels like a good opportunity for China to increase their trade/influence in the region as well

influence for sure. But trade? Vietnam/Thailand/Cambodia already have ~40% of their imports from China and 5% or so from the US, I don't think this tariff can realistically increase trade between China and SEA countries much.
Gender-affirming care is good and needed to protect kids.
That's the point, people need to be poor and desperate enough to fight a (world) war.
Somewhat unrelated, but - is it just me or do other people notice too, that whenever a major university publishes course materials online, the instructors there are normally very young? It wasn't like that a while ago, e.g. when Coursera started, or it is not like that if you look at older MIT videos.

Does it reflect university teachers getting younger? Or younger teachers tend to give more effort to putting everything online? Or did my perception change with age?
A major problem is that Microsoft fundamentally torpedoed Wine by blocking MsOffice compatibility with Wine for quite a while now.

(ie.: only fairly old versions of MsOffice work on Wine)
Last I checked that tool reordered all the headers (which destroys a lot of forensic value amongst other issues) and neither should such a tool be the only way to get (supposedly) good exports.

Both the IMAP bridge and web interface should provide original unmodified emails upon request.
I love everything about this design except for how much the front wheels stick out. Especially here in Europe where roads are narrow and parking spaces can be tight, I'd worry about those wheels hitting things or scratching curbs.
But even ignoring the front wheels, I agree ordering from this company with no guaranteed medium (let alone long) term viability would be a big gamble.
I can still run my X60 from 2006. Still, I am not sure about the premise here. My Macbook Air from 2013 also runs very solidly.
I mean I'm assuming that these junk numbers were put together at the last minute by some intern when it was realised there was no plan. I seriously doubt anyone involved has ever heard of any of these places; they just made up some numbers and moved on.
> This is a decapitation strike on America by our enemies.

> if foreign governments spend money, they can elect their preferred candidates.

> We institute regime change in other counties, and I see no reason to believe we are immune.

Do we really need such conspiracy theories? There's a much more mundane explanation, which is well-documented:

"Trump’s Love for Tariffs Began in Japan’s ’80s Boom" https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/15/us/politics/china-trade-d...

"Allies and historians say that his admiration of tariffs is one of his longest and most deeply held policy positions."

In the 1980s, Russia still had a state-run socialist economy, and China was just beginning to grow (albeit quickly) after its 1978 economic reforms. These countries did not purchase Donald Trump's policies.

If you're concerned about foreign influence and foreign money in American elections, you should be much more worried about Australian Rupert Murdoch, for example, who founded Fox News, or South African Elon Musk, who just spent a whopping $250 million to elect Donald Trump and is now personally dismantling the US government (although Musk's money didn't help in the local Wisconsin election), or Israel, which has had one of the most powerful and well-financed lobbies in Washington for decades.
On this note, I'd like to recommend Phillip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", which goes beyond the what was adapted in "Blade Runner" on many fronts, but particularly in regards to what it feels like to own a robotic animal (or a flesh one for that matter).
I also saw no mention about the weight. Did you? Matters to me a lot for a 12".
Three years? I'll be surprised if the tariffs last three months.
Who is laughing now?

It is clear NLU can't be done in the reign of PL itself, there is never going to be natural language grammar that is precise as PL.

But LLM is a different kind of beast entirely.
This make no sense. Tariffs are paid by the supplier who is receiving money from the US customer. Are you saying if they pay the tariff in doge coins the tariff is zero doge coins?

As for other polices that "punish USD" "reward MagicCoins" ... well the market would hopefully see both currencies as crap and use Euros or Yuan. Or maybe new currency baskets will emerge to decentralise power.
What needs to be done can and is almost always described in natural language.

Whether that is feasible is a different question (https://xkcd.com/1425/), but also can be described in natural language.

Here is something I tried with o3-mini:

> Create a program that takes an input image and can tell if there is a bird in it.

> ChatGPT said:

> Reasoned for 38 seconds

> Below is an example in Python that uses TensorFlow’s Keras API and a pre-trained ResNet50 model to classify an input image. The code loads an image, preprocesses it to the required size, obtains the top predictions, and then checks if any of the top labels appear to be a bird. You can expand the list of bird keywords as needed for your application.

> python code that works

If you take the critical view, you can always find a way to find an exception that will fail. I can see many happy cases which will just work most of the time, even with the currently available technology. Most of the programming work done today is putting libraries and api services together.
The problem with this view is it treats politics as having the same stakes for everyone.

When one side is arguing for the death of a group, or that women shouldn’t have rights and be kept as sex slaves, the stakes are much different.

You do not in fact have to be friends with fascists.
US Cancels Visa of Nobel Peace Prize Winner Oscar Arias
> What makes a statement "major" is the amount of attention it is given. That is out of your control.

The first sentence is true, the second absolutely false. Public, political communication is all about that second issue - look how effective the GOP is. They can make absolute nonsense into a norm; they can shut down any speech they don't want.
>Cars [...] No modifications are done

In a lot of places that is highly illegal
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I mean, you are not presenting any robust or even reasonable arguments for your view. What you seem to be completely missing is intent. The EU privacy laws were not put in place to tariff US tech companies. The fact that US tech runs routinely afoul EU privacy laws and actually mostly gets away with it is entirely their choice. They could always abide by the rules and then they wouldn't get fined.
Politics is supposed to make maximizing money a good idea.

All things being equal (which they're not) it would be a bit odd to choose a policy that ends up being more expensive. Either money doesn't work as it should or it's a bad policy.

In this case the hidden costs of police and health is a lot higher than the hidden cost in what is effectively a purely administrative change.
> I’m pretty sure that they weren’t voting for those candidates for the express purpose of stripping away those rights and there were other policies and values that they were voting for.

Sure. But this is that age-old meme: You know those people (most people?) in 1930s Germany who supported the Nazi party but they perhaps weren't really for annexations and genocide. You know what they call those people? Nazis.

People who voted for Trump are responsible for the fate of Ukraine, the demise of Nato, the fallout with Canada and Mexico, the inevitable inflation and economic turmoil of tariffs etc. And that's of course even if they only voted for Trump because they hold "traditional republican values", or because of single issues like gun rights, migration or taxes.

> tolerance is necessary

Tolerance stops at intolerance. You can never tolerate intolerance. Apart from that, politics also relies on a few fundamental things like the reliance on facts and experts, and respect for the rule of law. Obviously you can't ever tolerate "politics" which starts to tamper with either of these. Luckily I can keep a tribe which consists of people who agree with this, which can vote for any party in my parliament, and is 98% of the population. I'd hate to be in the US though where the tribes cut down the middle of the population.
Imagine AoE being owned by Nintendo. :D

A no small wonder. I never thought that MS, as the IP owner, would allow such an open community to grow and thrive. MS is notoriously bad at game community growth development.

I remember that right after the acquisition of ES through MS in 2001, Microsoft went on a rigid IP enforcement role and, for example, targeted people at MFO.

The story of DBD_Jinx losing his account to MS

Legendary DBD_Jinx lost his account and had to start anew under _IamJinx because MS suspended his ZONE account due to copyright infringement for using MS trademarks without a license.

What did he do?

He advertised at MFO to help people increase their early game through his academy training, which offered advice on micro-management, game planning, strategy, and scouting.

Together with a couple of other 2000+ Zone Rating dudes from the US, they started to make a few bucks on the side using AoE as a vehicle.

What a knee-jerk reaction from MS back then.

And today? Red Bull Wololo - I hardly can hold my pants compared to 2001.

I hope this keeps going, even though I am a purist "old-schooler" who prefers the AoE 2 classics game.

Cheers + gl + hf!

_CN
This is recurring topic indeed. I remember it was hot topic at least two times, when ALM tools were introduced (e.g. Borland ALM suite - https://www.qast.com/eng/product/develop/borland/index.htm), next when BPML language become popular - processes were described by the "marketing" and the software was, you know, generated automatically.

All this went out of fashion, leaving some good stuff that was built at that time (remaining 95% was crap).

Today's "vibe coding" ends when Chat GPT and alikes want to call on some object a method that does not exist (but existed in 1000s of other objects LLM was trained with, so should work here). Again, we will be left with the good parts, the rest will be forgotten and we will move to next big thing.
Depending on how well the exact algorithms, implementation details, and experimental design were documented, replication can easily take days, if not weeks. (Personally, I would start by filtering out papers that cannot be replicated by well-skilled researchers in a fixed amount of time and only give the replicatable ones to the agents.)
In practice I believe at least 90% of Americans can’t figure out what that formula actually means; but if they drop the epsilon phi bullshit only 70% can’t figure it out. So it’s pretty effective obfuscation after all.
And employers love them because if people take them home overnight they only need security / insurance for peripherals. The only fixed PCs I still see in offices are low cost / bulk Dell machines only good for office work or thin clients, and even those go back ~15 years now, at a bank that already had relatively tight security.

I wish I could have a job where I work on a desktop machine and could just leave things at the office when I leave for the day. Alas.
So much cloud stuff, and software.

TV shows and music recordings. And Hollywood.

Weaponry, military and civilian aircraft, and servicing.

Pharmaceuticals.

That’s just off the top of my head.
Anyone tried the SC1000 in this list? I want to make this, but as a MIDI controller instead of having self-contained music.

https://diy-synths.snnkv.com/synths/SC1000

https://github.com/rasteri/SC1000
Work Like It's the '90s
good point. I will check the rule: https://explore.zoom.us/en/legal/zoom-api-license-and-tou/
I think the real effect here is the .NET community is small and they all know each other. When people start thinking this way, it only takes a conference meetup for them to spread their opinion to the entire community.
I do think you have as much top dots on the left, right and middle. Because the radical center peg themselves as 'reasonable', doesn't mean they don't have an ideology they follow blindly. TINA, the 'third way' and all this stuff is groupthink too.

Just observing the epidermic reactions to MMT, the strawmaning, and all the Schopenhauer playbook thrown at a new, Occam's razor compatible economic explanation of how money works is probably what made me doubt this 'reasonable' stance, and I'm now convinced that once you've been persuaded that _you_ and your group are the 'reasonable', you're in fact so entrenched in your beliefs you'll dismiss anything that shake your worldview as unreasonable and strawman it (the lessWrong community is the perfect, small-scale example).

The only dots you should find on top, outside of groupthink are the one who read, and wrote new concepts.

> Yeah I guess I differentiate between the individuals who could help you determine the truth of the mismanaging parasites vs the ones that just blindly support or hate them

The justice system found them guilty and they got fined, but if no one acted, they would have sold their water rights to a company with suspiciously the same executives and owners during bankruptcy. Political movement made the municipality sweep in during bankruptcy, claim the water rights as part of repayment, and now administer the water lines and cleaning stations (and the watchdog are happy with cleaner water, and we locals are happy with cheaper water).

When everybody ignore politics, you'll have the West Virginian 'Freedom Industry' turn into 'Lexycon LLC', and nobody will say anything, because 'it's political'.
You clearly have never lived in Louisiana.
10% on British Indian Ocean Territories, whose sole inhabitants are US soldiers at the Diego Garcia base.
> ... they know what's going to happen

While we cannot predict the future, it's moving faster. The world system is under immense stress. Complexity at this scale increases the chance of black swans and unpredictable outcomes. Many powerful actors are reacting simultaneously in divergent directions, which can reshape the trajectory altogether. We are vulnerable to cascading surprises.
Not sure why you'd say that - we've hired a bunch of people since then.
What's a Latent Space again (in LLMs?)
This isn't the 1950s, factories are mostly automated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blW-Fa4a10g

That's the whole reason we went all in with tech and automation
the original statement was "they feel they have very little and no prospects or hope."

As I said in my original comment, I think that is hyperbole at best, and deluded victim-thinking at worst. But I do consider that there is an issue of inequality.

So I softened the original statement, and then showed that it still did not explain or even justify the massive vote for Trump ("Inequalities exist but they do not justify everything, neither do they explain everything")

In other words, I interpreted the original statement generously and replied to the best possible version of the argument. That is one of the unwritten house rules, and it is what keeps HN a nice place.
I agree. I actually almost bought a trackball, thinking it was a mouse that also had a trackball in it, because of this misleading naming.
Well, you know, you can go even higher, you don't have to stop at 100% :)
Infinity is the limit here ;D
Tax the 99% seems pretty accurate.
If you're venture based and were expecting another round sometime soon. With higher interest rates there were more compelling alternatives for LPs than to invest in Venture, causing a trickle down chilling of the fund raising environment for venture backed companies and requiring them to come up with accelerated plans to reach profitability - including cutting staff and optimizing for survival over growth.
Is watching pirated movies for "educational purposes" also Fair Use? If not , what is the rational argument?
I couldn't fathom not discussing politics with friends. Political life is an integral part of modern... well, life. And to the contrary, if there ever existed people you might have good faith conversations with, it should be your friends and family. If not, can you really call them so?
You conveniently omitted the 25% tax on European light trucks and SUVs in the US. Which is the biggest car market segment.
Seems like a business opportunity to set up an import company on the Macdonald Islands and sell the goods to the poor folks in Norfolk Island.
How America could end up making China great again
> I preach moderation and apolitical discussion because the toxicity of political discussion is tearing our country in two. It is the single biggest threat our society faces today. If we cannot learn to resolve our differences

No, MAGA led by Trump, assisted by the Heritage Foundation and the tech billionaire Yarvin disciples are the biggest threat, because they have power and are in the process of implementing an autocratic takeover. It's crazy to me how many moderate, apolitical people don't see this. But I was that way a few months ago and started paying attention.

> They are often mistaken about what is good, or disagree with each other on the best way to achieve good ends.

I don't think there is any agreement to be had anymore. They don't care about the Constitution, they just want a king/CEO to force things through. What can you say about a president talking about a third term, making Canada a 51st state, claiming Greenland will 100% join the US, saying allies have been ripping us off, deporting people without due process because they had suspicious looking tattoos, calling for impeachment of judges because they ruled against Trump. Refusing to pay agencies what Congress already approved. Forcing big law agencies into making deals.

Rand Paul gave a speech tonight about how the president doesn't have the power to tax the American people, which is what tariffs are. MAGA is out to win the culture and political war. Permanently. Wake up.