skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's true in theory, but it's not what's happened in the recent past. A lot of the problems Trump faces are due to "rules" established by the civil service itself - often directly and unashamedly just to spite him, and stop him implementing the policies he campaigned and won on. There's no theory of government in which this is supposed to play a part.

For example, the civil service passed new rules in the dying days of the Biden administration intended to stop Trump implementing Schedule F. This didn't come from Congress or the courts. They just passed it themselves. Trump is the boss so can undo that rule with a new rule, but they passed it within a framework of yet more rules they made themselves to slow that down so - if followed - it will take months. This is purely self serving protectionism and has nothing to do with democracy or the Constitution.

There's an interesting document here [1] that goes into all the ways the civil service betrayed Trump in the first term. Betrayal is a correct and moderate term to use. They were doing things like forging documents, lying to appointees about non-existent laws, refusing to prosecute legally clear cut cases in order to propagate woke ideology (e.g. discrimination against Asian Americans), deliberately keeping their bosses in the dark, refusing direct orders to do work if it would run contra to woke ideology and many more things.

From the Trump team's perspective the rules are largely fake: when they align with what the left want they're followed to the letter, when they don't they're ignored or subverted without consequence. He played that game in his first term, and is apparently no longer willing to do so. It's hard to know what Congress will do but presumably they're aware of the fact that their own laws have created this situation to some extent (even if not the full extent). It wouldn't be surprising to see civil service reform bills appear soon.

[1] https://americafirstpolicy.com/assets/uploads/files/Tales_fr...
In France, I remember we read several classic allegories on that theme at schools. Rhinoceros by Ionesco (even watched it in the theater as a school trip), also The Plague (Albert Camus). I didn't think much of it when I was a teenager, but I'm looking at them on the light of these recent events. Especially Rhinoceros on ideological contagion.
Some people have sight problems, or are even totally blind. But they still use the Internet.
Starlink's high-speed satellite Internet: What's the catch?
Thank you for this Beej!

Along with many others here, your network programming guide helped me so much back in the early days of my education and career. So thanks for that too…
You can find similar images from apartheit South Africa and apartheit southern US states before 1970. And in those cases they believe they are happy because of the protective wall of state violence against other humans.

There was always what you might call a "particle" of fascism throughout the War on Terror (maintained by both parties! because it was popular with the public!) Things like the unaccountable secret prisons in Gunatanamo or Abu Gharib, or the US sniper who amused himself by randomly murdering hundreds of civilians (eventually convicted .. then pardoned). And then in the war on Gaza everyone (bipartisan) was falling over themselves to say that it was children's own fault for being in the same school as Hamas and that the Israeli government was right to bomb them.

Back at home in BLM, everyone stood up for the right of the police to unaccountably murder citizens. Because that power would only be used against bad people, right?
The left need to accept that they lost the election, that Trump won the presidency and the Republicans won control of congress.

As much as you personally disagree with these decisions, they are in line with the broad policy positions Trump et al communicated prior to the election, and can be considered the will of the people.

Challenging the mandate the public gave them, by hyperventilating over minor procedural hiccups that will inevitably be resolved by congress in favour of Trump, comes across to voters as undemocratic.
>Show me the campaign ad that said Trump was going to give Musk and his gang of losers complete control over the treasury.

Let's see: Trump appointed it the day after he won:

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/12/g-s1-33972/trump-elon-musk-vi...

And Musk announced DOGE on September 2024:

https://news.bitcoin.com/elon-musk-agrees-to-head-donald-tru...

So yes, this was not some secret. If you (royal you) trusted that photo in the 2nd link to make america efficient, I have no words.
Once you get past a few million, you quickly get into "can't possibly spend this money in several lifetimes" territory. And wealth divides like that come at the cost of massive societal wealth divides.

The US sustains that high number of people who strike $100 million+ through having a social safety net that barely exists, which results in far more people being seen as completely disposable. It also comes at the cost of worsening public education, worsening public health, crime rates beyond most first world countries, companies that constantly invent new evils like making all formerly paid-and-done services into monthly subscriptions. Few if any that hit 100 million are doing it ethically. They're doing it by milking the residents dry.

Some countries have national pride and resent the idea of stepping on their fellow countrymen. Some would kill half of them if they were promised a few % off their yearly taxes.
The King in Yellow
Apple/iOS has market dominance in several places outside the US, including Japan, Canada, Scandinavia, and several other European nations. It has a slight majority in the UK.

Android has worldwide dominance overall, but people tend to communicate locally.

Source: https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/iphone-ma...
Trump is a neonazi, openly aligned with American white supremacist militias, attempted a violent coup in 2021, and "the American people" who shrugged "OK" are neonazis. It is the inescapable reality of our present moment, and it has been visible for a very long time.

Godwin himself openly endorsed calling Trump a Nazi.

My takeaway is exactly the opposite, that not only were people right to call out radical fascist elements and influences in our society, they (we) were wrong to be cowed.
That's what got Trump elected in the first place.

People still believe that he's been some sort of business genius.

One could actually argue that the biggest business wins for Trump, have been those AFTER he became president. Through nothing but grift, he's managed to build up a fortune that surpassed the one he tried to make and maintain in his semi-legit days.
As much as I hate the Nazis at the top of Israel's government and Western complicity in the ethnic cleansing occurring in Gaza (and more recently the West Bank too), I find your statement disturbing.

Not everything is related to Israel, and there's no good reason to believe that this has anything to do with Israel. French media were pretty critical of Joe Bidden being too old for the job, despite Bidden giving Netanyahu all he wanted.

Edit: OK given that other response of yours in this thread[1], it's quite clear now that you're confusing the fight for the freedom of Palestinians and the hatred of Jews.

In addition to being disgusting, Antisemitic talks like these are actually counter productive: they help the Israelis as it gives them an excuse to victimize themselves once again.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42945588
Thank you! This is the only non-vague answer, as it directly addresses the use-case.

If only I had known this in my last corporate role where this discussion alone cost us weeks :/
The problem is finding who to invite. Does the article even say what the pool of people you invite from is? Everyone in my phonebook isn't enough. Everyone with an apple id isn't enough either. Apple doesn't have a list of my friends, that's what makes it a non-starter. The primary "event" thing now is Facebook events. It has the benefit of me having other contact details (email, phone) to maybe 10% of the people I can contact on facebook. That's THE killer feature of facebook, and the only reason I'm still on the platform. Unless this integrates with existing social contact lists - which sounds questionable - I can't see how it would work for more than tiny events for close friends and family, where I can expect to have traditional contact details.
Well... you can just subscribe for a month, cancel it immediately, and try it for month

The thing that annoys me more is the Apple dependency/tax ; i'd rather pay the Developer directly, in cases where they offer this on their own website (i always check.)
> With the exception of the Biden admin

The last year in office Trump was spending $8 trillion a year and Biden left office spending $6.7 trillion.
> They'd have just invented another issue.

I largely agree but I doubt other issues would be such massive free wins for Republicans. The Republican base has become rabid over DEI and trans issues and it has been really obvious for a while now that it was going to be a massive problem for Democrats. Sadly these issues have become more divisive than even gun control.
It's built in. EU laws usually have a fining mechanism that says X % of {global/EU/regional} sales or a fixed sum, whichever is higher.

For example the GDPR says in Art. 83(5) [1]:

> Infringements of the following provisions shall, in accordance with paragraph 2, be subject to administrative fines up to 20 000 000 EUR, or in the case of an undertaking, up to 4 % of the total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year, whichever is higher [...]

(An "undertaking" in EU law speak refers to any entity that is engaged in economic activity, regardless of its legal status or the way in which it is financed.)

EDIT: formatting
The fear of foreigners or racial "others" is the common element. And some of the propaganda is common, too.
In a normal administration, gutting the NSF would be the main story. If his statements on Gaza are indeed just bluster, they still succeed in focusing attention away from his current actual actions.
But fixing that will be a job for the next CEO, I mean next president.
So all the backend API is implemented using "ACL rules" in a list, and then directly on the client, like "client-side Firebase" right?

I feel I prefer to have a locked-down database, and implement everything "backend-side" with a kind of "admin API" which has access to everything, and checks user roles in the backend, it feels cleaner to me, is that also possible?
> Trump got a majority because eggs are too expensive.

I think this trivializes the outcome in a dangerous way.

From my view as an outside observer, these were all big factors:

- Bad handling of the candidate selection for the democrats (switching to Harris too late)

- Having an impossible platform for a lot of single issue voters (mainly: people that want immigration reduced, but also firearm availability)

- Thoroughly uninspiring middle-east policy (not a personal opinion, but I think that cost a bunch of votes that would have been democrat)

Personally, I also think that some sexism was also a significant factor and that Harris would've had an easier time had she been male. I also believe that the media smear campaign depicting Biden as completely senile was really effective (and a bit ridiculous considering the age of his replacement). Another very effective strategy in riling up their base was the "democrats want to transgenderize all the children" (exaggerated).

If the democrats main takeaway is that they just need to campaign for lower egg prices next election they might well lose again IMO.
Go Data Structures (2009)
I just disabled it today. I have issues searching for local stuff and the other thing - it works poorly with Safari, which is of course not their fault.
And no Trump supporter can actually spell out clearly what that cause is besides "own the outgroup" and a religious faith in everything getting better for the cult member despite every single piece of evidence pointing to the contrary (unless you already happen to be a billionaire, of course). And I mean religious in the literal sense: a belief that some ill-defined paradise awaits the true believers and it will be worth it in the end even though it kind of hurts that their faces are being gnawed by the leopards (but at least the outgroup’s faces are being eaten too so it’s all right).
Also not surprisingly immigration increased after Brexit. It has always been a wedge issue and a red herring for those in power.
That is the thing though: with the increased safety nets of the richer European countries, you would think that taking risks would both be more encouraged and naturally less dangerous than the US. And I am a big proponent of said safety nets. But we don't see this "moderate-risk-taking" mentality in the EU...

...or don't we? I am not sure. We are definitely not seeing the runaway successes of US big tech, but is it because people are not taking measured risks, or do operations fumble at a later point in their development? I don't know. What I do know is that revenue sources in the EU come with extremely onerous strings attached, are orders of magnitude below US levels, or are only available to big corporations of the old guard.
> these are hypotheticals for a reason!

Because they have zero connection to reality? Can I have a pony in this hypothetical too? How do we get to any of them while having to climb over the additional hurdle of a far right anti-science government?
Headers are the huge achilles heel of the C-based languages. Pascals modules were MUCH better. Pascal always built code faster in my experience, because it wasn't parsing megabytes of headers just to compile a hello world program. This also probably makes a pascal compile much simpler to implement as it's not 2 languages layered together.

Macros in C are an utter disaster imo. If you want to get an AST for any piece of code you have to know what's defined so you must know exactly what the build system is going to do to the code i.e. the code isn't self-contained. If you use one build system to build for production and another in your IDE for development then you might get totally different results.

C,C++ have a lot of ways to do one thing and Pascal tends to have one. The more you have to work on other people's code the more attractive Pascals' "one way" seems.
We're all replying to:

> Does it not strike anyone else as wrong that a printer that you own has to do the bidding of the government instead of you? [...] Isn't there anyone who believes that your own possessions shouldn't be made to conspire against you?

That's the entire point. Our own possessions are made to conspire against us, and my point was "safety" with quotes. And you seem to support possessions conspiring against their owners in the name of "safety", but that's your choice. Most HNers are against this.
depends, you could live on a UI for a start, but script git cli gives you very high speed.. it's kind of a timeline database for your code
Been a while since I used workspaces but my understanding is that you have:
- a directory that has the infrastructure code
- a directory per environment that has the specific configuration to be applied to that environment

It's a pretty classic separation of code and config. Might not be intuitive to everyone I guess, but that separation is very beneficial I find.

For instance, adding a new environment is relatively trivial. Not something you do all the time granted, but I have had the need on occasions.

Same goes for removing an environment.
>cowering now of anyone who should oppose a hostile takeover and dismantling of our democracy and our laws, are striking.

That's the least of your concerns.

What you should be opposing is the US' government participation in genocide.

The American publics' scale of tolerance of evil needs serious and earnest re-callibrating.

This can only happen with war crimes prosecutions.
Only paying customers seem happy about Kagi. I have a strange feeling that a lot of paying customers think Kagi search is "better" just because their brain wants to justify them paying for search. Is there a psychological term for such a syndrome?
It's a lot more common for children of poor parents to stay poor in the US than in (most of) Europe.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Social_Mobility_Index
Skill issue, it seems.

Facetiousness aside, the things you do often, you learn once and you don't really have to remember/think when doing them. Most of the esoteric operations are mostly unnecessary to burden yourself with until you actually have to do them, when you just read the documentation.
https://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integratio...
maybe don't search with an llm
> at this point i just want to call it "stupidity". not even a left vs right thing. there exists a subset of the population that cannot and will not be educated or have the ability to reason on a certain level to make things work.

Yet extremists always want to dismantle education to control the population. For instance, in the US, Trump got the votes from the uneducated. He has no interest in an educated country.
First time I genuinely LOL’d on HN
You think Kagi tracks you, to the risk of killing their business, but Google doesn't track you or collect data about your searches?
>The American scientific establishment and education system are likely to be transformed to create massive jumps in productivity (in the age of AI)

And this presidency will ensure that this jump in productivity only benefits the wealthy. Proposed tax cuts by Trump would make middle class people pay more and wealthy people pay less

>There are very few ways to compete with China without very strong leadership — and now, it seems, we have that chance.

Oh yes, the guy that wanted to have a say in what the fed does. The guy who proposed and eventually rolled back tariffs on its neighboring countries, sending a lot of companies (both in usa, Canada, and Mexico) in panic. I could go on for hours
How busy are those beavers such that they can build a dam in 2 days?
you can get that on DuckDuckGo. The main problem with Google is that the search is garbage. Kagi wasn't able to convince me that their better within the free searches (I have an account since 2022). Now that I can't try them anymore, they can't ever convince me they're better - so their pricing model perhaps isn't very smart.
U.S. foreign aid freeze derails efforts to stem proliferation risks
Trump was also likely referring to the female pilot of the military helicopter.

His new head of the military doesn't think women should be in active duty roles, so this would make sense.
not really a coup, its a default. US government is already using pension fund money to pay its bills since early January (aka special measures), the interest on their national debt is already more than they collect in taxes.
Moreover, David May at INMOS also created OCCAM for the transputer. Rob Pike credits OCCAM's channels as being the inspiration for those in Golang.
As far as I can tell, Trump is doing things he openly announced he would do for at least a year. So all of this is either a result of robust public support for his policies, or, (my preferred explanation) an even more robust public repudiation of the only alternative that was put forward by the other party, a candidate famous for dropping out before Iowa in 2020 but somehow was coronated the nominee without any voter input.

The thing about democracy is, every person is going to sometimes wildly disagree with what the elected officials do. Declaring it a 'coup' is as silly as when Trump lost in 2020 and declared it a 'rigged election.'

Now, you can make limited inroads to block executive actions with the courts, but even when SCOTUS was friendly to the anti-Trump cause, when that's done to advance an unpopular (majority-disapproved-of) agenda, it is usually a hollow and temporary victory. To get the policies you want, you need to win over voters. That's the part the DNC seems to be completely unaware of. You don't win by insulting, by dunking on the other guys on ~Twitter~ bluesky, or by protesting. You win in a democracy only by convincing the very reasonable middle that you share their values. The DNC has taken a position of "Everyone not already in our tent is evil, fascist, dastardly white supremacists," but to their chagrin, their current tent is under 50% of the voting public and it isn't growing.
What they're taking into account is their mandatory retirement age (56), which is indeed related to things like reaction times for people as they get older; and then they work back from that to say you need to be young enough to have earned your pension by the time
you're forced to retire.

So a rules change could improve things on that front, as they could for example allow working from 40 to 56 to count as enough to earn a full pension, without any change to their safety policy on the age cutoff for finishing working as an ATC - but it wouldn't be cheap, as you not only are massively increasing the cost of pensions across the board, but you're also paying the same amount to train a 40yo applicant as a 30yo one, but getting fewer years of valuable work back from that training cost.
I'm so glad that someone has finally tried to answer this question as it's something I've been wondering for years. It's interesting that atmospheric indicators are only detectable to around 5ly as that is I believe one of the primary methods we are using to look for technosignatures on other planets.
The reason why terms like nazi, racist, sexist etc did not affect Trump's chances is because his voting base _does not care_ that he is those things. The right wing in America, magnitudes more than the left, does not care about the personal qualities of their chosen candidate, only about whether he advances their agenda. Why do so many nominal Christians vote for Trump despite him being a cheater, hoarder, and a person who otherwise embodies so many of the qualities the Bible cautions against? It is, again, because they will cook up any number of excuses and denials to justify their support as long as he hurts those they consider the enemy. The only way to make the application of those terms hurt Trump would have been to make the population care about them in the first place (beyond the thinnest veneer of superficial handwringing) which would have required a much stronger education system than America has.
Unfortunately our leaders have successfully convinced the masses that it's only acceptable to protest as long as they do it at a scheduled time and place, without disrupting or offending anyone, and without any implicit threats of escalation and violence if the protestors' grievances aren't heard and rectified. That way people can vent to temporarily release frustration but we're powerless to effect any meaningful change, by design.
Fifteen years ago people were talking about micropayments per article for news services being just around the corner. What ever happened to that?
I think the original purpose of g̶o̶v̶e̶r̶n̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ *parliament was to discuss problems thoroughly (3) before deciding what to do.

Sadly this process is subverted by party tribalism and bills written in advance by lobbyists.

3) https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/uHYYA32CKgKT3FagE/hold-off-o...

(edited, happy?)
>There is clearly no specific leverage that one of the world's smallest ethnic groups has over the world's most powerful nation

This is not so clear as you think. Israel is a nuclear-armed state that is not a participant in the non-proliferation treaties.

Everything that the world fears of Iran, is already the case with Israel.

Forward-deployed nukes are a hell of a blackmail.
So, they don't check for fentanyl? Might explain the move. I remember ordering some prescription drugs from India, which is, I think, illegal. It arrived to local post office, so I guess, USPS.
No one other than the USA was really doing that. That's what makes US, US.