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by jacobyoder | 2025-04-16 13:41:18+00:00
I just can't believe your take on this. The White House press secretary has directly said, multiple times, "this is the most transparent administration ever". /s

In reality, this entire process is insanity. We've had examples of government spending overhaul in the past - early(?) 90s - both sides worked together, cut lots of spending across programs, downsized tens of thousands of federal workers, and balanced a budget, to the point where we had a surplus. It was tough, took time, wasn't perfect, but was deliberated and debated and far far far more open and transparent than all this. But their goal was actually improving government (even if that meant reducing some areas). The current 'leadership' goal is to dismantle/destroy as much as possible, as this is led by people who think government in general should not exist.
by ndiddy | 2025-04-16 13:41:36+00:00
You seem to be confused (which is fair, this is a little confusing). In 1984, Warner Communications sold Atari's home and computer game division to Jack Tramiel, which became Atari Corporation. Atari Corporation was the company that made all the future Atari consoles (7800, Jaguar, etc) and computers (ST line). Atari Games, Atari's arcade game division, remained with Warner. This article is entirely about Atari Games, who had nothing to do with anything sold for the home market with the Atari name. They were entirely separate companies. The reason why they did business as Tengen was that as part of the split, Atari Games wasn't allowed to sell games to the home market using the Atari name.

I will say that the article is a bit inaccurate at the end. Atari Games kept using the Tengen name for several years after the lawsuit for publishing games on the Genesis. They only stopped in 1994 when Warner consolidated all of its game related brands under the "Time Warner Interactive" name.
by plasma_beam | 2025-04-16 13:42:09+00:00
It doesn't appear to have posted to FPDS yet: https://www.fpds.gov/ezsearch/fpdsportal?q=PIID%3A%2270RCSJ2...

The contract expired today, but had an option period through March of 2026. DHS just needed to exercise the option.

Edit: Note the contract ended today April 16 - so performance would stop midnight tonight if the option wasn't exercised. Government contracts routinely go down to the wire like this, and often are late getting exercised. Why the uproar over this one? Did CISA signal to MITRE that they weren't going to exercise the option?
by ceejayoz | 2025-04-16 13:42:38+00:00
That's not a criminal court; it's a wing of the Executive. They don't make guilty/not-guilty determinations at all. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_judge_(United_Stat...

The proceedings are administrative, the people are "respondents" instead of "defendants", etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_proceedings

You're also citing the government's assertions. If assertions were enough to deem someone a convicted criminal, we wouldn't need trials. It has never been proven, "beyond a reasonable doubt", that he was a member of MS-13.

The "proven and reliable source" they cite is a corrupt cop. https://newrepublic.com/article/194010/kilmar-abrego-garcia-...

> The Maryland police officer who formally attested to Abrego Garcia’s supposed gang affiliation in 2019—when he was detained the first time—was subsequently suspended from the force for a serious transgression: giving confidential information about a case to a sex worker, The New Republic has established.

Your two citations also preceed his being granted withholding of removal. At the time of his deportation, he had legal status here, until they found a valid place to send him. The deportation - again, per SCOTUS - was the illegal bit.

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2025/kilmar-abrego-gar...

> But in Abrego Garcia’s case, to revoke his protections, the U.S. government “would have been required under law to reopen his immigration court proceedings and prove to the judge that he was a member of MS-13 and therefore no longer eligible for withholding.”
by dylan604 | 2025-04-16 13:42:47+00:00
Nah, I plan on owning a chunk of acres and start my own homestead. Raise a few animals like some sheep, goats, rabbits, and of course chickens. Build a nice green house and large garden. Just need to find the right plot of land before making it a serious go. Oh, and can't forget the first step. Gotta win the lottery to pay for it. Not all of have those cushy FAANG salaries.
by geekforbrains | 2025-04-16 13:43:12+00:00
Sidekick is an agentic CLI-based AI tool inspired by Claude Code, Copilot, Windsurf and Cursor. It's meant to be an open source alternative to these tools, providing a similar experience but with the flexibility of using different LLM providers while keeping the agentic workflow.

It was a pet project that turned into a thing been a ton of fun to work on though and looking forward to exploring other ideas. Still in beta, so a few quirks but mostly works.
by recursivedoubts | 2025-04-16 13:43:18+00:00
You can add a .noai file to the root of your project to disable AI support.

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/disable-ai-assistant.htm...

Errr, that 404s now. I hope the functionality still works.

Here's the cached version:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250329143832/https://www.jetbr...

> Restrict usage of AI Assistant for a project Create an empty file named .noai in the root directory of the project.

> When this file is present, all AI Assistant features are fully disabled for the project. Even if this project is opened in another IDE, the AI Assistant features will not be available.
by hylaride | 2025-04-16 13:43:21+00:00
> hat the official line from the CCP was that China had no drug problems, no prostitution, a variety of other things

Reminds me of a book I read years ago about the Soviet Union. Officially prostitution didn't exist there either, so there were no laws on the books about it. Enforcement usually was around various "antisocial" laws and usually for the street-walkers. Crime in general was mostly fine, so long as it wasn't a threat to the state, against well-connected people, or otherwise visible.

No wonder Russia got so bad after the strong state dissipated.
by throwanem | 2025-04-16 13:43:22+00:00
That's quite good for handheld at 1/30. I could imagine you wouldn't need to hold your breath or consider your stance and motion at all.

I don't really use Flickr and a new personal website remains as yet on my list for this year, but here's something from back in 2020, one of the few really good shots I got that year: https://web.archive.org/web/20230513030226/https://aaron-m.c...

Not the soul of technical perfection, I freely grant, and I'm obviously adding a fair bit of light. But this was the second or third time I'd strayed even as far as my own backyard, after a covid dose earlier in the year had me knocked back for a few months. I suppose it could be sharper, but I had a hard time catching my breath that day, and I'm not actually sorry that a little human frailty should show through in a work where impending death and the onset of life are quite literally belly to belly.

In any case, it was really switch-to-shutter lag I was curious about. Three seconds there would be an eternity, so I appreciate knowing that's not the case.
by bananalychee | 2025-04-16 13:43:23+00:00
HN has a good model for technical discussions, and the fact that it's a forum with a limited scope whose audience mostly consists of technology professionals probably helps a lot in filtering low-effort posting (not to downplay the role of moderation). But when it comes to emotional topics like anything political, it clearly devolves into what you described.

That makes me wonder if there are forums out there that focus on current events in politics or economics and successfully filter emotionally-charged posts; the few commentators on X who manage to stay detached are the only people keeping me on algo-driven social media.
by fooList | 2025-04-16 13:44:11+00:00
Could you be overestimating how easy it is to take possession of their money given global free trade? In 10 years, what are the odds you and others will have finally, after all these years, actually managed to have “taxed the rich” as has been proposed as the solution to current debt levels for many years now? If we cannot be certain of those tax revenues from finally “taxing the rich”, then they cannot solve the debt problem and we therefore need to look for other solutions. Not that the wreckless and irresponsible cuts from DOGE are the solution. They are likely to increase the size and scope of the government in the long run, after impairing it’s efficiency and operational capacity in the short. Hopefully the dems don’t blow the opportunity this time.
by crazygringo | 2025-04-16 13:44:33+00:00
There wasn't any evidence, that's the problem.

It was all opinion. Trump said a lot of stuff before this election, but he said a lot of stuff before his first one too.

When people disagreed on what he might do, it was all guesses. There was no evidence to base anything on. Would his second term be restrained by people around him like in his first? That would be an evidence-based extrapolation. Would tariffs be all talk and little action, like in his first term? Extrapolating from evidence, they would be. But 2025 isn't 2017. Things would be different, but how? It's all guesses.

It's only hindsight that is 20/20.
by arunsupe | 2025-04-16 13:44:40+00:00
Thanks for your comments.

I am finding myself getting sucked into the decisiveness and click baiting nowadays. Want to implement some of these counter measures. Here are my thoughts: 1. DDG or searxng for search YouTube only via the search engine (not YouTube's recommendations - worse than tiktok) 2. Reuters for news (no CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, fox, Google, Yahoo) 3. No social media (don't do this much anymore already) 4. Turn off personalization for Google (I use this the most)

This should limit a large percent of external influence. Any other thoughts/suggestions?

I understand your point about “boring”. But, I wonder if I will form my own interests if given more balanced options.
by maxglute | 2025-04-16 13:44:47+00:00
2nd stage 1/6 weight with simple merlin engine. Early F9 used 9 merlin = ~15 more rockets. ~60% of PRC though we don't know full industrial capacity of either, i.e. SpaceX could be boeing tier and do 600+ frames per year, or PRC can brrt their reusable like shipbuilding at 200x whatever US is per year. I think Starship is big caveate, it could work or it could not. It's much more complicated / not conservative project vs F9 and has borderline Vanguard / Atlas tier failure rate granted one could argue that's move fast break things by design. But push comes to shove, comes to hammering industry to fill strategic need, I wouldn't be confident SpaceX can maintain lead for long enough to matter. Especially if space weaponization on the horizon.
by fastglass | 2025-04-16 13:44:49+00:00
am I just being a newb or is OP god-tier with their WPM?

I really despise these things where its a drop n run, and all these yahoos in the comments just talk oblivious towards the fact that person who submitted it remains silent about it..

like... this looks like a sweaty guessing game with everyone in the comments, especially over something that's very likely just troubled/plagued assets to begin with

like, just ask the dude who submitted the shit about more information first or something
by findzawhey | 2025-04-16 13:45:39+00:00
It’ll settle once generational churn claims more Boomers and GenX

You’re not observing anything abnormal. History is full of generational conflict

Google Frederic Wertham. DND outrage of the 80s.

The elders always have a hard time accepting their mortality and try to fight against the obvious physical truth, due to high minded but wrong notions of how reality works.

I for one feel we ought to consider it a mental illness to attempt to limit the next generation’s self determination .

We should lower retirement to 55, purge for basic manual job roles. Roles where loss of institutional knowledge would increase risk to species well being, enable mentorship but not leadership.

Boomers have unequivocally failed to accept generational churn and prepare. They want to ice skate uphill and it’s not going to work. It’s just not how physics works.
by matt-p | 2025-04-16 13:46:02+00:00
Yes, it's seriously unhealthy to have most of peoples individual wealth tied up in the fact that there's constrained property supply. If we just built a bunch more housing (or removed net immigration) such that house prices dropped say 25% (which would still be too little, actually), people would be in negative equity, the banks would collapse, government voted out, riots in the street. Yet it's whats needed. If a late 20's professional in London is earning £40,000 after tax they're doing fairly well, yet a one bed flat in zone 2 would still be 10X their annual income.
by colonial | 2025-04-16 13:46:03+00:00
A few months ago they were AGI vagueposting. Now they're working on SlopBook?

This plus Ed Zitron's excellent investigative writing on their finances [0] makes me think that OpenAI is going to fold within a year, maybe two.

[0]: https://www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-systemic-risk-to-the... (TL;DR - we have apparently learned nothing from 2008.)
by ToValueFunfetti | 2025-04-16 13:46:04+00:00
You simply do not. You do the math yourself to calculate 2(n) for n in [1, 2, 3, 4] and get [2, 5, 6, 8]. You plug it into your (75% accurate) unreliable calculator and get [3, 4, 6, 8]. You now know that you only need to recheck the first two (50%) of the entries.
by Swenrekcah | 2025-04-16 13:46:11+00:00
It would be interesting to note how you define a free market in this context and what makes it “more free”.

Because a market can not be free unless there are rules and they are enforced.

Without rules and government intervention when necessary, what you get is the law of the jungle, which is precisely the thing the last 12000 years of human history has been about escaping.
by trealira | 2025-04-16 13:46:19+00:00
That is a circular argument. Your basis that I'm arguing against plurality of thought is that you have labeled my comments as having done so.

Yes, I'm calling Republican commissars authoritarian.

I'm literally quoting the letter saying that they demand an external party to audit the student body, the leadership, the staff, and their teaching units for sufficient "viewpoint diversity," which reports directly to the federal government. It doesn't take a conspiracy theorist to see that this is a euphemism for instilling conservative Republican thought in the student body and in the classes they take. And yes, this will privilege conservative students and staff, because non-conservative staff will be fired and students will be denied admission as a result of this.

Do you think dictatorships have never been elected? Trump will not be held accountable for the laws he breaks, because his party would never betray him as their leader. He will not leave office. He will send and has sent people illegally and without due process to a confinement center in El Salvador in co-operation with Bukele, another authoritarian. I doubt there will be fair elections in red states - they'll probably claim mass fraud and throw out allegedly fraudulent votes. They already tried to send fraudulent electors to make Trump president in 2020, and a violent mob to the Capitol after that, as well as pressured election officials in swing states to find votes.

You may not call yourself a Republican, but I make no distinction among those who defend the regime so wholeheartedly. Keep playing the fool; it will not justify your authoritarian apologetics.
by numbsafari | 2025-04-16 13:47:29+00:00
... and that industry led consortium will have a board all paid princely sums, and an executive leadership team that is conflicted to the hilt and paid kingly sums, and they will charge exorbitant rents in order to keep the lighthouse lit.

There's flaws with every approach, but I much prefer the approach where this sort of thing is treated as a public good, rather than as yet another soon-to-be walled garden.
by aaronbaugher | 2025-04-16 13:47:57+00:00
Yeah, that's overstating it. I help milk about 60 cows every weekend, and while there's certainly manure involved, and sometimes you get some on you, I've never been "shit and pissed on all day." I wouldn't go straight from the milking parlor to a date without a shower and a change of clothes, but that's true of any physical labor.
by phendrenad2 | 2025-04-16 13:48:24+00:00
You're not the OP, so I'll cut you some slack, but:

You really need to read the thread so far, instead of just commenting. Because as it stands, you're defending the idea that MAGA Republicans voted specifically to allow Trump et al. to loot the government. Is that what you believe? See how silly you look? Next time, READ! It's easy!
by footlose_3815 | 2025-04-16 13:48:42+00:00
Why can't we talk plainly to each other anymore? Can we not talk in loaded statements and projection?

They have valid concerns, and taking steps to minimizing those concerns is just muddying the water in favor of those using political violence against people who don't deserve it.

There's a lot of counter-intel campaigns flying around all at once, and a lot of them are curated to infect brains of people who are willing to accept fascism.

"Well, they're not completely nazis... so you're wrong for likening them to nazis!"

"Well, you've decided to shut off discussion to people opening your mind about the impending fascism. That must mean you're not fit for discussion"
by mschuster91 | 2025-04-16 13:49:11+00:00
> I think the mistake here is the model of low-skill/high-skill labor is not a useful distinction.

IMHO it still is. There are tasks, especially in assembly, that for now require humans to do because robots can't match our dexterity. Stuff like mounting through-hole components like a cable from the battery compartment to the main PCB. That's a few seconds worth of time, and you need barely more than a few days worth of training to get a worker up to speed - a low-skill job. China, Thailand, Vietnam and a bunch of other places have an ample supply of people coming out of utter poverty, which means the pressure on wages is massive - a Chinese worker on average earns about 13200 dollars a year [1], an American worker is 3x-4x that amount and more if the shop is unionized. And on top of that, Chinese workers work 996, American or European workers have much MUCH more employee rights.

The problem is, low-skill employment opportunities are going down and down because automation gets better. For now, China can compete because Chinese workers are cheaper than machines... but once that changes, it's going to get nasty.

> The labor wages themselves are a factor, but an increasingly minor factor in product costs.

There's soft factors as well. Stuff like workplace safety/OSHA regulations, environmental regulations... Silicon Valley is a bunch of Superfund sites from decades of toxic emissions. China? They barely have regulations in place, and other sweatshop countries are even worse.

The core problem we're talking about anyway is that a certain percentage of any population is just, plain and simple, dumb as rocks. Over half the US population is barely literate [2]. No matter how good your education systems are, no matter how much money you invest into equality in schools, no matter how much you protect them from stuff like lead - they are dumb, will remain dumb, and probably their children will also remain dumb. In ye olde times you put them on farms, meatpacking or in factories so they had gainful employment... but that all went away, and now we got hordes of utterly dumb people with no hope of ever getting smart and, crucially, no hope of ever getting a meaningful job.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/743509/china-average-yea...

[2] https://www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/post/literacy-s...
by jerf | 2025-04-16 13:50:11+00:00
Yeah, Atari really "imprinted" on a style of game in the 2600 era and could never move on from it.

Interestingly, despite the fact that the Atari of today is completely disconnected in personnel several times over from the Atari of yesteryear, it still is imprinted on that style of game. YouTube popped this tour of an Atari booth from 10 days ago that shows what the modern Atari is up to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6u65VTqPSc (It's a five minute video, and you can pop it on 2x and just get the vibe of what I'm talking about even faster than an article could convey.)

And they're still making games that basically are Atari 2600 games with better graphics. If you really, really like that, they've got you.

Nintendo could easily have gone the same route. The NES is vastly more powerful than a 2600 by the standards of the time, but looking back in hindsight a modern child might find them somewhat hard to distinguish. Nintendo also made a ton of money with platformers like Super Mario 3 and could easily have also imprinted.

Instead, they definitely invested in pushing the frontier outward. Super Mario World was release-day for the SNES, and was definitely "an NES game, but better", but Pilot Wings was also release-day for the SNES, and that's not an NES game at all. F-Zero, also a release title, is a racing title, but definitely not "an NES racing game but better". The year after that you get Super Mario Kart, which essentially defined the entire genre for the next 33 years and still counting, and Star Fox in 1993, Donkey Kong Country was a platformer but definitely not a "rest on our laurels" platformer, I'm not mentioning some other games that could be debated, and then by the Nintendo 64, for all its faults, Super Mario 64 was again a genre-definer... not the very very first game of its kind, but the genre-definer. And so forth.

Nintendo never fell into the trap of doing exactly what they did last time, only with slightly better graphics. Which is in some ways a weird thing to say about a company that also has some very, very well-defined lines of games like Mario Kart and Super Mario... but even then in those lines you get things like Super Mario Galaxy, which is neither "genre-defining" nor the first of its kind, but is also definitely not just "like what came before only prettier". It shows effort.

The gaming industry moved on... Atari never did. Still hasn't.
by nilkn | 2025-04-16 13:50:34+00:00
What this tells me is that xAI / X / Grok have together become a much bigger threat to OpenAI than they anticipated. And I believe it's true -- Grok's progress has been much faster than ChatGPT's over the past year, even if we can nitpick evals over which is technically "better" at any moment. The fact that it's hard to tell is itself a huge statement considering the massive advantage OpenAI and ChatGPT had not too long ago. I mean, Grok was basically a joke when it first launched!
by mjr00 | 2025-04-16 13:50:35+00:00
You can look through the indictment yourself - https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/media/1388036/dl?inline

Among other bits:

> MEDJEDOVIC understood that his conduct circumvented the intended functioning [...] MEDJEDOVIC discussed a plan to "steal crypto," referred to the exploit as involving "glitch" and "fake" liquidity, and described the code for the exploit as a "rape."

> MEDJEDOVIC also prepared a "POST-EXPLOITATION" plan for himself, which included, among other things, "KEEP the configs Burn the evidence, including the histfile" and "Book flight to: Pack Bags," as well as another file labeled "Decisions and Mistakes," in which he wrote, "Going On the run / Yes / Chance of getting caught<Payoff for not getting caught"

> Immediately after obtaining the flash loan, MEDJEDOVIC wrote "Raping Now" in the public event long for the transaction.

There's extremely strong evidence that he believes he's committing a crime, and specifically "steal[ing] crypto" in his own words, so yes. And when you have records effectively saying "I believe I am committing a crime", it becomes a lot easier to convince a jury you committed a crime.