skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Lots of this junk is simply against the law.

Perhaps. A lot of it is also the flip side of an executive order conjuring more government into existence.

The escalation of executive order from administration to administration, and the reliance on courts to make law results in what we have going on today.

Everyone was perfectly fine with the President doing whatever he wanted a couple months ago. Everyone was fine with the vague executive orders being treated as law.

At some point one party needs reign in the presidency while they have it. Democrats chose not to, then ran a losing campaign with a candidate voters did not nominate.

Neither party is principled on a national level. There are some individual exceptions, but they are few and far between.
That means that over the last five years, Austin real estate prices could still be up more than other cities. It looks like they went from $400K average prices in 2020 March to $600K now, but the peak is $680k. Is that because it took builders a while to catch up with a sharp increase in 2020, and now they "caught up"?
That's how you start. It's also important to recognize that much of the UNIX and eventually POSIX framework was laid out. They were filling in a small gap and making it free. Which is really the most amazing part to me.
Why do you seem to believe anything I'm talking about involves the Senate mattering?

I've discussed how the House had its membership artificially capped roughly 150 years into this country's history
Read this about ten years ago. Pretty short read but highly recommended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_(politics)
I was going to say, Intuit could simply have given/owe Musk a solid favor for this.
No, what the previous poster said is that more people voted for other candidates than for Trump, and that's always been pretty clear. 49.8% of the votes went to Trump. That means 50.2% went to other candidates (Harris, Jill Stein, Chase Oliver, etc.)
When some other state-power, perhaps the Chinese, starts sucking up American intellectual capital, then the US will collapse. So long as the US still offers the highest standard of living for high-wage workers, there won't be any sort of collapse. Grants from the NIH will presumably move to the private sector. Is this a good thing? Perhaps not, but in the eyes of our new overlords the lifeblood of the economy is not public investment but in the collaborative spaces of creative minds working in diverse fields, as demonstrated, for them, by the productivity of big tech. And for individuals like Musk, this is limited by public institutions and can only be most fully explored via private investment.
Pascal.

Sure these days not many folks write OS kernel in Pascal, but there are some, e.g:
https://github.com/torokernel/torokernel

I once want to try Forth (perhaps there's a Unix clone in Forth?), but seems like most folks using it are embedded/hardware devs.
I'm not responding to a lazy condescending Wikipedia link dump where I have to guess what you could perhaps mean with it. If you have something to say, then say it. Otherwise don't post.
> He said he wouldn't in statements

So he specifically did the opposite of campaign on it then. Most voters weren't going to go and read through his proposed budgets and everyone knows that.
> Even at the lowest 2.5mg starter dose which you're only allowed to stay on for 1 month

... what? Get a better medical provider, you can stay on 2.5mg as long as it's effective. Your hunger will come back. Going up every month is poor practice if you have hunger-suppressing effects, whatever the manufacturer says: speak to an endocrinologist who's experienced with prescribing it instead. The first couple of weeks I had no appetite, but I stayed on 2.5mg for three months and had a healthy appetite by the end, and continued to take it slow. Lost about 1kg a week, and enjoyed my food just fine.

Respectfully, you're in week 3, I think it's worth giving it a few months before you start sharing your experiences of it on the internet.

The much more common experience of this drug -- when you've been on it a little while and you've found a good dosage -- is you enjoy food, you have an appetite, you're just not ALWAYS thinking about food. There is enough anecdata in the many subreddits to constitute actual data about what a typical experience taking any of these things feels like.
Yes, and that's my point. Anyone who truly, honestly "didn't know" doesn't deserve to have a vote.
Stop moving up the dosage so fast.
Why do you think the children of Flash were not inspired to create the next generation of that tool?

I’ll throw out one theory:

It attracted the most creative developers and not necessarily the most technical. There is a difference and both belong on a team.
I'm a major snacker in my 40s, have been most of my adult life. When I don't have my daughter I would fill myself up with cookies, cereal, and chocolate candy. I've been a few months off of all of that shit, accidentally didn't really plan it, I just haven't had any cravings whatsoever. I'm sure it could come back easily but it's not here and I don't miss it. I've lost a lot of fat. I'm not just eating fruit and vegetables, but I'm finding meals alone are enough.
FDR's order regarding gold was part of a broader effort to combat the Great Depression by stopping gold hoarding, allowing the government to inflate the money supply and stimulate the economy. It wasn’t a total seizure — people were compensated at the then-official rate of $20.67 per ounce.

The comparison doesn't hold water whatsoever.
The problem is that the president can direct funding to primary a congressman. There are ways to make that harder to do, but they have to try
> Everyone was perfectly fine with the President doing whatever he wanted a couple months ago.

Everyone was fine with the president doing whatever he wanted a couple of months ago because he didn't abuse his power like the new guy is. When you have someone with self control and the best interests of the country in mind, you don't actually need to reign in presidential power like you suggest, and we just haven't had a Trump in the presidency enough to call a constitutional convention.

> At some point one party needs reign in the presidency while they have it. Democrats chose not to, then ran a losing campaign with a candidate voters did not nominate.

This is impossible given the threshold for a constitutional convention. 2/3rd for proposal and 3/4th for ratification, we are just way too divided for that unless Trump messes up really really bad and we actually survive as the same country to pick up the pieces. The supreme court is the only other body that could interpret the law to restrict executive power, but it is stacked with Trump appointees who have new interpretations of unrestricted executive power, so we shouldn't expect much from them.
I have lots of fond memories of playing these mini flash games as a kid :)
Companies don't like to do basic research..It doesn't pay off for decades
Dean Phillips could have been their easy ticket to a victory, but they decided to make the worst possible choices. This is simply a result of hubris and incompetence.
> The quality offered by streaming services would usually fit on a DVD

Absolutely not. Have you watched modern streaming services lately?

I recall when hdtvtest (Vincent) on YouTube tested Apple's 4K quality against 4K Ultra Blu-Rays via Apple TV (formerly iTunes Movies). IIRC the bitrate was about half (~25 Mbps vs 50Mbps) and the difference in visual quality was very difficult to see. Esssentially, he concluded that a high-quality streaming service or online digital movie purchase is pretty much just as good as a 4K Blu-ray.

There is absolutely no way you get something anywhere equivalent to a recent Severance episode (4K Dolby Vision Dolby Atmos) that Apple is streaming to you at ~25Mbps onto a DVD.

It's also important to note that the average US broadband speed is now quite a lot more respectable than it was back when we were all begging for US home Internet infrastructure to improve. I believe the average home connection is something like 100 Mbps if not better, and streaming services really have no trouble delivering Blu-ray quality 4K video to the average US consumer.

Now, obviously, you don't need that level of quality to enjoy the movie, but if that's what piracy is up against you will definitely need a lot of storage to compete with those streaming services that cost a couple of Starbucks coffees per month.

I think this is actually a bigger barrier than a lot of people assume. I have personally considered the idea of my own media server but keep getting put off by the fact that I really will need a very large NAS-grade HDD for it. The total hardware cost to get going is roughly equivalent to a multiple years of streaming service fees.
I find it hard to imagine how a language could enforce that no two (third-party) libraries can implement the same functionality.
The BBS era will always be the favorite era of my life. Thanks for pointing that out.
Not sure how that's utopic. I escaped an overpriced west coast hell hole by working on a fishing boat. Hard work but it works.
No it’s most likely the US sees it as vital and has thus exercised its espionage and other resources in this area and China has compromised an asset.

Thus China knows there’s activity in this area and has issued a warning. Other than that the technology isn’t vital it’s more hype.
> But fixing that requires serious changes to the d̶e̶m̶o̶c̶r̶a̶t̶i̶c̶ s̶y̶s̶t̶e̶m̶

the United States of America's electoral system.

The Heath Robinson contraption in the US is hardly synonomous with Democracy, at best it's the oldest, creakiest example of a modern democracy.
Of course you can. But when it comes to security, one thing is very important in practice: making the secure way of doing things as easy as possible.

So, why did you not actually post the correct shell script? Apparently that would have been more effort to get right and ensure is correct right? And also work for every OS. And there you have it: if someone first has to figure out which script to run, some percentage will give up here. And that's my point: the browser should make it as easy as possible to avoid that from happening.
No issues at all. It could be up to 1/4 olive oil and no problems. There are some cultures in the Mediterranean that also consume alot of it.
That's why Trump just did a purge of top generals and lawyers in the military.
14 would have been about the age i was playing with it too. in my memory, the magic of flash studio was that you could make something so immediately. it worked well for simple things, you didn't have to make a full-on game, a bunch of kids in jr high computer class could actually make something cool in the length of one class.
You're getting downvoted because people are trying to explain why they need to do something you are insistent nobody needs to do. But it's moot anyway, because you don't have a good explanation for why someone can't use their own computer in a way that they want, despite being in control of everything happening on the device.

It's coming off a little desperate and like you have an agenda to push, if you're curious.
AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism
Bro ai via programming with people is already good enough to fight wars with drones in the air. You don’t even need LLMs or machine learning black boxes.

Basically the reason is because there’s so little noise in the air. If it’s black and metal and flying and doesn’t match the iff signal than simple “if then” logic can verify it’s a bogey.
Sounds like a good candidate for transpilation. Next big thing could be Flash.
Are we at the point where we see this nakedly bad-faith argument for what it really is yet?
Convenience isn't bad, it's just that minimal convenience is oversold.

If I'm in a bath I can use my phone. A regular bluetooth speaker is sufficient. There is no need for a voice assistant.

A long shower is not relaxing, that's the opposite. It's not relaxing to stand in the same place for a long time. I can't even hear the music that well in the shower through the speaker, there is water in my ears.
Pointing out that a liar's true intentions are obvious does not minimize the fact that they lied.
Good look convincing the employees of these companies, who seem to be a majority of the commenters on this post.
35 years later!
This article seems to contradict itself. It notes that tax system is flawed in favor or inheritors but goes on to suggest that taxing the inheritance or property will address this issue. Why would those not be tilted to benefit the inheritors?

History of mankind has been shaped by housing. It also is the most common and long lasting vehicle of investment, primarily because how easy it is to pass it down to descendants. It's not going away anytime soon.
I don't think you get what I'm saying. This IS the way it's classified. Looking purely at ability to photosynthesize. I'm pointing out that while this might be a simple way to classify, it's pretty pointless for the main thing we're trying to understand: ecological dependencies.

Worse than pointless, it's downright misleading and can often lead people astray with assumptions about the benefits/harms coexisting plants can cause each other
Sadly, the jokes on them, the US will pull back from anywhere near russia to allow them to expand as they see fit, and just park as close to isreal to help them level the region
With the exception of the highest clock speed chips (eg Intel CPUs), clock speeds can actually be comparable. 45 nm CPUs got to 2.5 GHz, and if you tickle a 7 nm FPGA just right it can get to ~800 MHz to a GHz. Things like microcontrollers and chips that are generally less optimized than the old Intel CPUs (which were mostly drawn at the transistor level and use a speed-optimized process) are much closer in speed. A 3-stage RISC-V at 45 nm is probably also running at 400 MHz or less, and the FPGA is capable of a 3 stage RISC-V at that speed.

But yes, in general, FPGAs on certain computational tasks will need deeper pipelines or the use of parallelism. Usually, pipeline depth works. Actually, if you look at the Intel front side bus (less optimized than the core), that's about the speed you can get from a 7 nm FPGA.
Somehow this makes me think of Blazing Saddles, where part of the satire is hard to understand for folks who didn't grow up with shows that had to meet the "Television Code", a set of puritanical rules the industry created for itself to avoid other kinds of regulation.

There was an insane glut of cowboy TV shows, and all of them had to comply with those rules, essentially spreading a whitewashed version of history where systemic injustice didn't exist, and the policeman was always a good person... Oh, and couples always had separate beds.

Did something similar exist in the literary world, with long-term echoes?
Here is my source, which uses the same census data in your claim: https://usafacts.org/articles/which-states-rely-the-most-on-...

Regardless, I addressed your point already.
> They just want their shit to work.

Which might include streaming at appropriate qualities and being able to take a simple bloody screenshot of what you paid to watch.

I think you underestimate people.
Depends on if DeepSeek is llm business foremost VS hobby founder is willing to sink obscene resources into simply for personal fulfillment and the lulz. Maybe deepseek will become the core business / primary money maker vs highflyer hedgefund. Or maybe Deepseek continues to be expensive yacht or car collection where protecting the moat doesn't matter. Maybe founder gets more fulfillment doing the work and inspiring others i.e. Liang was pretty explicit he wanted to see a world where PRC innovates and contributes to global standards instead of merely following. In the meantime, seems like Deepseek isn't loss-making, so it's not even prohibitive hobby yet. But it's not outside of realm of possiblity that rich bro simply dgaf about returns on passion project funded by his primary income stream.
Thanks for the introduction to this book. AFAIK Linux 0.11 does have its own bootloader in the form of `bootsect.S` but I'm not an OS guy so definitely could be wrong.

Now that I think more about the project, probably the first obstacle is how do I compile the thing...someone must have tried that, or the book must have a section about that. But I'll study xv6 first, just to give me some practices.
Now do cops
Nothing saying you can't, just when people talk about DANE that is usually not what they are proposing.

In terms of what you are saying, i think the main objection would be that HPKP feels a lot easier then putting it in DNS and we couldnt even get that to work. Otoh maybe dns could do a lot lower ttl which would counter some of the risks.
The modern weather service started in part due to the failures of the earlier model.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoolhouse_Blizzard

> The Schoolhouse Blizzard ... hit the U.S. Great Plains on January 12, 1888. With an estimated 235 deaths, it is the world's 10th deadliest winter storm on record.

> The blizzard came unexpectedly on a relatively warm day, and many people were caught unaware, including children in one-room schoolhouses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1900_Galveston_hurricane

> The 1900 Galveston hurricane .. is the deadliest natural disaster in United States history. ... it left between 6,000 and 12,000 fatalities in the United States ...

> The Weather Bureau forecasters had no way of knowing the storm's trajectory, as Weather Bureau director Willis Luther Moore implemented a policy to block telegraph reports from Cuban meteorologists at the meteorological observatory of the Colegio de Belén in Havana – considered one of the most advanced meteorological institutions in the world at the time – due to tensions in the aftermath of the Spanish–American War. Moore also changed protocol to force local Weather Bureau offices to seek authorization from the central office before issuing storm warnings.

It also saves a lot of money. If a storm is coming, when do you need to divert incoming flights because the weather will be too bad? How much staff do you need to clear the roads for the upcoming snowstorm? Does the likely storm damage justify harvesting early? How much of the coast should be under a hurricane warning?
A cheap stylus will solve this for your casual games. For real games you can try out a Backbone:

https://www.amazon.com/BACKBONE-Mobile-Gaming-Controller-And...

Modern phones are very capable of playing some pretty serious games. It’s fine to get a few accessories as I do agree fingers aren’t ideal.
> > His polling is historically poor for a month into a president's term

> You can hate the guy all you like, but this is 100% false.

It's absolutely true.

His second term started with the second lowest initial gross approval rating (47%) of a Presidential term back to 1953; the worst was his first term (at 45%). But his initial rating was also the worst net approval of any President (with 48% disapproval, for a net -1%, breaking the prior record set by his own first term with 45% disapproval for a net 0%, and having the unprecedented condition of not merely net disapproval but majority disapproval this early in a term.)

AT mid-February, his gross approval had dropped to 45% (and remained the second worst since 1953, again the only worse being his own first term), and his net approval had dropped to -6% on 51% disapproval. As well as having less approval than any term other than his first, Trump is faced with the historically-unusual fact that the not-approving numbers early on aren't mostly neutral, but disapproving.
Too late for what? There are organisms living in boiling water. Life will prevail.
Because the senate does matter.

The system is setup to balance out two competing interests - the large cities (with large, concentrated populations) and the states (most of which are not so heavily populated, but have most of the land and resources).

It’s a compromise. And necessary for the Union to be balanced - unless Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Utah, etc. should now just become (defacto) vassals to Los Angeles. Which they definitely didn’t sign up for.
>It is perhaps most surprising that in the post-Flash world no comparable development environments have sprung up to replace its end-to-end animation and interactivity workflow. Game "engines" like Unity and Godot have captured much of the game development audience for Flash, but their ability to produce web exports is clearly an afterthought, producing huge files, glacial load times, and often simply crashing in any browser that isn't a bleeding-edge instance of Chrome.

This is opportunity. For a startup.
Housing is definitely not easily affordable. But the other points are valid.
Large companies are all about neurodivergence in the workforce nowadays, but they expect them to conform to neurotypical-friendly, neurodivergent-hostile operating procedures like Scrum.
The streaming provider doesn’t have a choice. They must implement and prove they have a working DRM solution or publishers won’t hand over the streamable media
What horror stories?
> Public safety, convenience, unlimited amount of options for basically anything are stuff that people pay premiums for.

by paying 100 years of local average salary for a modest apartment in a not that desirable location? that is not "pay premiums", that is modem slavery.

stop spreading your misinformation, life in China is like the Nightmare mode of DOOM2.
Maybe the comment is implying something along the lines of seeking missiles or seek and destroy? I don’t think it is very obvious though.
It's quiet in here because there's active discussion in other threads:

GSA Eliminates 18F - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43221549 - March 2025 (373 comments)

A Letter to the American People - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43224350 - March 2025 (440 comments)
In 2010, an HDCP master key was leaked, allowing anyone to generate an infinite number of valid new HDCP devices. This has made HDCP useless for stopping piracy for the past 15 years. All it's done since then is add another point of failure between people's electronics and their displays.
And that military action would be called a coup despite being the expected outcome of an attempted dictator.
And how are they doing now?

Anyway I’m sure people can be in whatever bubble their algorithmic news gives them. At the end of the day, today, it’s shameful to be American and many of my American friends feel that shame right now. The same cannot be said for most European countries.
These are sometimes called memento mori calendars. Memento mori being a Latin phrase that translates to "remember you must die". It's a pretty popular phrase/reminder with the modern day Stoic community.

Remidners of death are often depressing.
The military getting involved is an absolute last resort type thing. And comes with risks of its own: military coups/juntas that started out as a legitimate dethroning of a dictator are not unheard of.
Gary Stevenson is one of the strongest rising voices on what the wealthy have been doing to the working and middle classes over the last decades (under parties of both sides in both the UK and the US), a trend being rapidly accelerated under the current US administration.
Why is the only outcome 'a destroyed Europe and civil war in the US'? This sort of doomer thinking is more like to bring us to that point than anything else, it seems to me.

Maybe an alternative is we'll figure out how to change and fix these corrupt systems as more and more people wake up to how bad they really are.
The issue is indemnification, not liability. I do not have the funds to defend Mozilla and their partners if someone decides to sue them because they don't like how i use their software.
> The constitutional remedy for abuse of pardon power is impeachment.

It is not. The constitution allows impeachment for treason, bribery, and other high crimes and misdemeanors only.
https://archive.ph/xrZuM