MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by KennyBlanken | 2025-04-07 06:08:06+00:00
Kospi (SK) and Taiex (Taiwan) tripped as well. China's main index dropped 7%. Hong Kong's Hang Seng index dropped 9% at open.

Europe opens pretty soon. That's going to be ugly.

Absolutely insane. We had an economy that was highly stratified with massive wealth inequality but was otherwise growing - pretty good job numbers, inflation was coming down at a healthy rate. We were doing better than almost any other country in the world in terms of recovering from the economic damage from COVID. a geopolitical situation that was very tense in several areas, but not much in the way of actual action except in Palestine.

All that, gone. A recession is guaranteed; businesses started shutting down factories and laying off people almost immediately. Tens of thousands of people likely lost their jobs Friday and I imagine it'll be even worse Monday now that the Orange Turd has made inflammatory comments insisting he's seeing great success.

Now realize that all the social safety net programs that would be vital during a recession? They're gone. Which means there will soon be a lot of very desperate people. And that means crime. And a lot of foreclosures. Guess what that means? Real estate market crash. That means that boomers watch their homes tank in value.

Mr. Very Stable Genius put oil production and export at the top of his list and the price of oil is plunging, too - the market likely anticipates a huge drop in global and local shipping.

To top it all off, while the market tanked, he was golfing and schmoozing with people who had paid millions to his campaign to sit at his table and get a few minutes of his time. Practically playing his violin while the country's economy burns.

He's spent the last 4-5 decades obsessing about this. It's his white whale. He will not blink. He won't surrender. If there's anything he hates more, it's looking weak. The only thing that will stop this is someone pulling him out under the 25th amendment; I think that is the sole reason he's stacked his cabinet with the imbeciles that he has - they're loyal imbeciles.

Putin is laughing his ass off right now. He's won. He's gotten his revenge for the economic damage done to Russia after much of the world slammed the door on them and I'd guess Ukraine falls within months at most.

Pooh Bear is laughing too and will probably try to invade Ukraine.

Israel is going to finish wiping out the Palestinians.

And who do we have in charge of our military? An alcoholic, wife-beating, ultra-right christian white nationalist Army captain who is more concerned about people being clean-shaven than anything else.

Did I mention that US antipiracy efforts are likely being strongly cut which means world shipping is going to get a lot more dangerous, expensive, and unreliable?
by DesiLurker | 2025-04-07 06:08:37+00:00
I've always viewed roko's basilisk as 'pascals wager for the nerds'. problem is that its a constructed narrative fit to target a desired outcome. reality is not tunneled into final state, it incrementally evolves. as I always say humans are ultimately analog but the pascals wager or any such 'do X or else' type setup tries to turn us into digital beings at some fundamental level. It does not works and just ends up distorting human behavior.

even for Roko's basilisk it does not works if you apply some non-standard thinking like what happens if you apply second derivative basilisk as in would the super-super intelligence punish super-intelligence for bad behavior leading up to its own creation. IMO basilisk (& pascals wager for that matter) are cheap attempts to scare masses into submission, self censor & divide us into factions. they are pretty much targeting the worst impulses in humanity.

BTW if you are going to take a model for (mass) compliance I'd say Hindu concept of reincarnation (as in do-overs with random levels .. think Netflix platform movie) is probably a better one than 'pascals wager derivatives'.
by giardini | 2025-04-07 06:09:26+00:00
I was a member of Mensa briefly but found it boring and so let my membership lapse.

My early reading history, in order:

- a few childhood stories read by my father, - textbooks from school, - comic books! I didn't have money to buy them but found that if I went into the store while the staff were busy (before and after school) serving customers, no one noticed that I was blasting thru the latest Superman.

I paid attention in class, made good grades but didn't study much, nor did I read books unless absolutely forced to. I probably read fewer than 4 books before college. I was conscripted by my father to assist him in carpentry and auto repair (which taught me a great deal about how the world works).

I credit DC Comics for giving me a high reading speed, the ability to concentrate (possibly I should say "to attend"!8-)) and consequently, any "high IQ" that allowed me to score well on tests, win awards, make good grades and join Mensa years later. I also credit being my father's apprentice.

tl;dr Reading books on a list, even a Mensa list, will not likely make you smart.
by mnky9800n | 2025-04-07 06:09:33+00:00
Yes but because you wrap all this naïveté in both a condescending tone and a discussion about compassion, you don’t seem to realise that none of your ideas connect to anything. You can’t post stuff on the internet comparing yourself and your ideas to great minds and then expect people to politely ignore them or see if they can be used to expand their world view. Because your ideas are not deep nor are they connected to anything. They are just smoke coming from your bong. Everyone who has replied you has done so with an effort to have you develop your ideas while you are content to condescend them more while claiming compassion and that you are before your time. None of this is compassionate nor is it physics. Compassion would dictate that you would strive for others to understand since you claim they suffer in ignorance that only you can provide. I pity you because you cannot see beyond this and will likely continue to reply anyone and everyone in the same way as long as they keep replying you.
by userbinator | 2025-04-07 06:09:33+00:00
Stallman clearly had zero exposure to the cracking scene, nor the PC/microcomputer community.

Back in the old days, we only needed a hex editor and disassembler, maybe sometimes a debugger, to "make the program do something different".

PC magazines would publish binary patches too.

IDA showed up sometime in the 90s but it was extremely expensive, and cracking it became a "rite of passage".

Now, Ghidra is free and there are tons of other tools available.
by motorest | 2025-04-07 06:10:07+00:00
> As for people getting hurt, yeah, that sucks.. but you should never invest what you can’t miss..

You do understand that pension funds are financed through these investments, don't you? This means that the people who will be hurt the most are those who didn't invested. It's not the billions that Bezos and Musk lost that's painful. It's the old mom or pop who worked their whole life and now can't retire because their pension doesn't allow to survive.
by nemanja_codes | 2025-04-07 06:10:42+00:00
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by photonthug | 2025-04-07 06:11:05+00:00
I think you're on to something here. Squeak/Pharo were/are in many ways an interesting and sort of obvious base for building things like IDEs, DAWs, CAD systems, other things that are heavy on interactivity, visualizations, and components. I don't know for sure, but it seems like there would be enough escape hatches for interoperability so it's not like you'd be actually be required to do everything in small talk, and certainly there's FFI (https://books.pharo.org/booklet-uffi/ ). Empowering user customization and such is actually a big downside for commercial activities though. The last paragraph here ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalltalk#Image-based_persiste... ) is directly raising the concern of how things can stay proprietary.

Besides that.. increasingly devs themselves are very commercial and not exactly in it for the love of the game. They are actively hostile towards stuff that isn't pushed on them by business, and not very interested in creative activity that pushes the bounds of the possible. I think you can see some of this in the insistence on "it's just a notebook" comparisons here, but before that.. docker was also "just another VM" to most until it was absolutely too big to ignore. It's more than comparing to what you know, it's almost actively refusing to be curious / interested. So maybe it's burnout from unnecessary churn in tech, or maybe people just resist entertaining the idea that interesting new ideas are even possible until it's pretty directly affecting their ability to be hired. Maybe both.
by deaddodo | 2025-04-07 06:11:06+00:00
I haven't seen a person in this thread use free in the sense of payment yet, it seems pretty disambiguous that everyone is referring to free in the sense of liberty.

This includes the point the person you are responding to is trying to make, in which case they are noting that open source and source available are not the same things. Their point seems to be that open source, by the very definition to most who matter/care about the concept, implies the "free/libre/disentangled" portion. Whether that means derivative continuation (GPL and its kin) or not (MIT, BSD, etc).

This is why the phrase "source available" exists.
by rurban | 2025-04-07 06:11:59+00:00
The images reveal strong violations of building codes, and not any energy released.

The first collapsed 12 story building looks like one of the new Turkish housing projects collapsed with all nearby buildings keep standing upright.

Similar the fires in the poor neighborhood.

Similar the roof of the university building, with all other roofs of the same size intact.

Corruption, as in Turkey.
by Karliss | 2025-04-07 06:12:05+00:00
Not surprising that shop links are broken, the whole point of open sourcing was that those products were getting discontinued.

I hate when companies erase any traces of legacy products from their website. But that doesn't seem to be the case here. They made a git repo containing more technical data than available before and products can still be found on their website if you open the "discontinued products" section of shop or search in support page. That's a lot better than what many consumer electronic manufacturers do.

From what I understand these were DIY kits from the beginning so schematics were always available. Gerber files and cc licensing are the main addition.
by JeremieF | 2025-04-07 06:12:14+00:00
Totally fair to have that opinion — but the code you’re seeing runs a real-world platform with live users, 3.5M+ SLOC.

I didn’t write this to win style points. I wrote it to survive production firestorms and scale without dependencies.

Happy to take real feedback though — got a specific part you think could be improved?
by genewitch | 2025-04-07 06:13:08+00:00
> (Given enough time, and the possibility of time travel being invented, it has to happen eventually, right?)

I like to imagine if time travel were real, that we wouldn't necessarily know what was changed, because it would have been changed before we knew about it. Time marches on, so a clone or fork is made of the universe and time just carries on from whatever the tamper was.

So, the fact we're discussing it means: time travel exists but Roko's Basilisk does never; or time travel does not exist and the actuality of Roko's basilisk is unknowable.

I was going to say any permutation of those four things but I am very tied and I am unsure if that is a weaker argument. Tot zeins
by schobi | 2025-04-07 06:13:35+00:00
Nitpicking correction: The sensors give you a fixed number of bytes per pixel, like 10 or 12 bits per pixel. This are unsigned integers, not floats.

Typically you want to pack them to avoid storing 30% of zeros. So often the bytes need unscrambling.

Any sometimes there is a dark offset: In a really dark area of an image, random noise around zero can also go negative a little. You don't want to clip that off, and you don't want to use signed integers. So there typically is a small offset.
by altacc | 2025-04-07 06:13:38+00:00
He was elected as president of a constitutional republic. He's acting like an emperor, enacting control through cronyism, threats and targeting of individuals and private companies via executive power. You could counter that he was elected by people who wanted to disrupt the system but that's a massive assumption and even many of his political base seem to be surprised by the extent of his actions. There is constantly political alignment behind his actions, with aligned politicians & media noticeably readjusting their opinions, politics and bills and revising history to align with the latest demagoguery to appear from this one person.

The constitutional republic was designed to protect from one person's whims but that ideal seems to have crumbled when the rest of the republic has been co-opted, controlled or simply ignored. In Europe we always knew that US claims to have the best democratic system were hubristic nonsense, no maybe more in the US realise the fragility of government.
by umanwizard | 2025-04-07 06:13:57+00:00
Which raises the fascinating question of whether it’s legal to sell forks of GPL software under a separate rider agreement that your customers won’t distribute it. I.e. you license it to them under the GPL (which lets them redistribute it), but sign a separate agreement with them in which they promise not to exercise that right.

I think that’s probably illegal, but I have definitely heard of companies doing it.
by BrenBarn | 2025-04-07 06:16:06+00:00
My understanding is that it's a way to game the system of legislative procedure. Basically if the original bill went through certain steps in the process (like committee votes), the gutted-and-amended one still "counts" as having gone through those steps, and doesn't have to start over. This means it can be passed more quickly. In theory there are ways to insist that it must start over, but in practice it's not done.
by nine_k | 2025-04-07 06:16:42+00:00
No, "Open Source" is not "just that". This word combination has a specific meaning, not equal to a simple sum of these words. Similarly, "sparkling water", "hot dog", or "heavy metal" have meanings distinct form the simple sum of the meanings of constituent words.

The notion of "Open Source" has an agreed-upon definition, understood widely within the community of software development practice: https://opensource.org/osd

By the same token, "Free Software" has a specific, narrow meaning: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html

What would you tell a person who would peddle you deep-frozen apple juice as "hard cider", because it's technically cider, and is undeniably hard?

(While at it: I must praise the choice of the font on the page, super clean and legible. It's Lexend, freely available from Google Fonts.)
by SpicyLemonZest | 2025-04-07 06:17:27+00:00
I reject the idea that it's my job to come up with a good implementation of an idea I don't support. I'm not on board with "buying more imports would be the capitulation" precisely because I can't imagine any sensible way EU regulators could achieve that. You could nibble at the edges and make the beef lobby happy, but the Trump administration's belief that trade deficits are necessarily caused by bad regulation which could be repealed is just wrong.
by imgabe | 2025-04-07 06:17:37+00:00
> The first, and what should be obvious to anyone with an ounce of empathy, is that these are real people who's lives are being toyed with. It isn't like you are trying out a new business process. You are literally playing with entire lives here as if they are disposable things. This alone makes what is happening inhumane.

This makes no sense. It is not a life, it is a job. The person isn't dead. They get a generous severance and find a new job.

What are you trying to say here? That once someone is employed, the have to keep being employed forever and ever and they can never be let go even when their job was pointless and anything else is inhumane?

Jobs come and go. Every rational adult understands this and makes arrangements for what they need to do if they have to find a new job. Stop acting like these are disabled children that the government is obligated to take care of.
Show HN: Atari Missile Command Game Built Using AI Gemini 2.5 Pro
by vbtechguy | 2025-04-07 06:18:10+00:00
A modern HTML5 canvas remake of the classic Atari game from 1980. Defend your cities and missile bases from incoming enemy attacks using your missile launchers. Initially built using the Google Gemini 2.5 Pro AI LLM model.
by ssl-3 | 2025-04-07 06:18:19+00:00
Even then, it still assumes that users understand that it is a problem in the first place and that they are willing to take steps to solve it.

For most people, a car is at least the second-most expensive thing they'll ever own -- as well as the most expensive machine they'll ever own. It is also something that many are very unwilling to RTFM for, often to the point of irately defending this unwillingness and the resultant ignorance.

An improved battery that can charge quickly when cold (while maintaining safety and longevity) solves many problems, including some that may be self-inflicted.
by mcv | 2025-04-07 06:19:42+00:00
> A typical example is seen among the more extreme pro-choice activists. They frequently make claims like "It's not about protecting babies, they [pro-life people] just want to control women's bodies".

There is actually plenty of evidence for that claim. Some so-called pro-life politicians are not meaningfully pro-life except in their opposition to abortion rights, do not support other measures like sex ed or contraception that would reduce abortions, are fine with letting pregnant women die, and some have even pressured their mistress to have an abortion despite opposing abortion rights politically. Everything points to it being more about denying freedom to women than about actually caring about unborn life.

For some at least. But their number is not small. This can also be seen by the criminalisation of miscarriages, and women being forced to risk their life to bear a dead fetus to term. Those measures are absolutely about controlling women and do nothing to protect unborn life.

In fact, there seems to be an increasing number of issues where especially US Republicans' position seems entirely based on simply opposing whatever the Democrats want on principle. Look at coal rollers; in what kind of world view does that make sense? A few years ago they voted to increase military expenditures above what the military asked for, and the military had no idea what to even do with that money.
by wqaatwt | 2025-04-07 06:19:59+00:00
> Trade deficit aside, we shouldn’t

US has been very successfully exporting its debt (quite literally, almost no other country can run such high deficits for so long) and services.

What do you think happens with all that money if Americans can’t buy those cheap imported goods anymore?

Also other countries like China or Japan won’t be able to continue buying US bonds. Basically Americans are getting free stuff funded by debt they are never going to pay back and still you have people whinning…

> larger %

US decided to charge e.g. 15 times higher tariffs on the EU than the EU does. You believe that’s even remotely reasonable?

Or do you actually trust Donald’s table that they made to confuse clueless idiots?
by psychoslave | 2025-04-07 06:20:53+00:00
I like to use FLOW for free libre open work.

First, the name sound cool, who doesn't want to be in the flow, putting its stream of consciousness into some hikigai endeavor?

It makes clear that there is something about liberty, rather than a focus on gratious in the monetary sense.

It also bring on the table that there is some work at play. So human time and attention. The polysemie helps in the sense that it also stand for the result of the work, be it software, music or some graphic design.
by aszantu | 2025-04-07 06:21:36+00:00
can just speak for myself, but I wouldn't be employable after a layoff like that... I't get a mental meltdown and afterwards would probably be on disability until I got mentally better. They're literally teaching thausands of people that they aren't reliable and can't be trusted. I mean, if that's what you're aiming for, good for you, but I'd recon that you'll end up with more people that want your head now than before.
by umanwizard | 2025-04-07 06:23:30+00:00
Personal experience? I have never seen any notable case of a software project describing itself as “open source” that wasn’t also free software.

Companies that want to publish their source code but not give you the right to use it however you want, e.g. Cockroach or (my former employer) Materialize, are described as “source-available” instead.
by simion314 | 2025-04-07 06:23:43+00:00
I think the point is that is inhumane to fire someone because of "coding error", from what we know about USA not having a job is affecting your health care so might cost the person life because a "coding error" , so if you are the guy that writes a "findfWhoToFire" function please have some empathy and tripple check your code and write tests, in USA it can cost lives.