skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Practically speaking, when the majority of people who decided to vote voted for the person applying these policies, what mitigations are left?

As the article states, these actions are illegal and violate the US constitution.

If "the people who decided to vote" expressed this decision, that decision would be implemented by an act of Congress to alter or eliminate these rules. Congress up until now passed no such law. Thus these changes bear no democratic or institutional support.

If however you frame these series of events as an overthrow of the regime and the start of something entirely different then that's a different debate.
> I see psychedelics as a profound tool of interpersonal growth and development, but never the kind of thing I'd take to try solving a vexing technical problem...

May work for some folks[1]:

> A number of subjects had worked for weeks or months on their chosen projects without being able to find a satisfactory solution. Various psychologic tests and tests of creativity were administered before and after the drug sessions, which involved administration of 200 mg mescaline. Participants were prepared by presession interviews and instructions regarding how to approach the drug sessions. The results reported are rather remarkable. Of the 44 problems brought by the subjects, 20 had new avenues opened for further investigation, 1 was a developmental model that received authorization to test the solution, a working model had been completed for 2, 6 had a solution that had been accepted for construction or production, and 10 had partial solutions that were being developed further or being applied in practice. No solution was obtained only for four of the problems. Although lacking detailed specifics as well as a follow-up, this early report does suggest that psychedelics might acutely improve creativity.

> ... Another incidence of psychedelic drug–induced creativity from the scientific community comes from Nobel Prize–winning chemist Dr. Kary Mullis, the inventor of PCR, who is quoted as saying “Would I have invented PCR if I hadn’t taken LSD? I seriously doubt it… I could sit on a DNA molecule and watch the polymers go by. I learnt that partly on psychedelic drugs.”

[1] From section IX. Potential Therapeutic Value for Psychedelics, H. Creativity of David Nichols' 2016 article Psychedelics in Pharmacological Reviews https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4813425/#s43
Democrats need a super-majority to swing either the House or Senate.
It's not terribly interesting. There have always been two strains of thought for the Democrats in the US. Once has been that we must move the whole country in the right direction kicking and screaming - this has been the ideology that has been in ascendency since Kennedy. The other that we must be allowed to be as progressive as possible without interference from the Federal government. That's not been in vouge since the end of the new deal.

I'm completely in the second camp and would move back to the US if it were possible to get it adopted at the national level.
They're not advocating for violence, they're answering the question of "what's left?"

And, given the American justification of the right to bear arms, such a response is coded into American culture's DNA.

Unless all the 2FA proponents were lying about needing those guns to prevent tyranny?
Nothing will change as long as his approval rating remains this high and protests consist of people writing angry blogs and comments.
Also, the House can't claim a public mandate due to gerrymandering.
Tesla store gets taken over by Musk protesters, 9 people arrested
I mean, if you re-elect the guy that tried to forcibly stay in power last time, I'm not sure what else to say...

Zero sympathy for Americans that voted for this and the ones that stayed home.

I feel bad for the ones that voted Kamala and for the West.
> It doesn't mean anything.

Language is everything. Are they a government workers or are they a bureaucrats? Deep state operatives or public servants? All of these words could describe someone who works for 18F.

18F workers are public servants, some of the best in the government, but by calling them bureaucrats, it makes their work seem inefficient and their removal seem logical.

Accepting the word chosen for the conversation determines what actions are acceptable. Protestors or rioters? Freedom fighter or terrorist? Peacekeeper or occupying force? Security or surveillance? Whistleblower or leaker? Regulation or Red Tape? Tax or Theft? Patriot or nationalist? Socialism, Marxism, or communism?

Peace (justice) or peace (submission)? Woke (generational injustice) or woke (any leftist idea I don’t like)?

It's precisely because these words have exact meanings, that they are so insidious. Many end up becoming shibboleths, dividing us vs them.

There are companies, PR firms, private intelligence, and think tanks that A/B test words and ideas in order to create the right metaphorical context to get people to submit to a certain framing.

A good read on the general topic of control via metaphorical framing:

https://commonslibrary.org/frame-the-debate-insights-from-do...
Citations needed. All the citations please.
He campaigned on doing exactly these things
Indeed. And yet with certain previous presidents we've been told that because the margin of victory is so slim, they're already a lame duck. But here, it's a mandate.
> Practically speaking, when the majority of people who decided to vote voted for the person applying these policies, what mitigations are left?

If its just that, the other branches of government. Of course, Congress is not a remedy at the moment, though its conceivable they might move in response to popular pressure more easily than the White House.

Failing that, history is full of examples of ad hoc remedies where a leader unmistakeably exercised authority in a way which upset people without any formal systemic remedy, some of which took the shape of legal process despite the absence of preexisting formal law, and some of which did not.
Alternatively: we need to rein in the powers of the presidency. Right now we've got a dynamic of "the president says what to do and the legislature obeys" (or, recently, "the president does stuff on his own"); we might be better off with "Congress decides what to do and the president makes it happen".
> roughly half the country is ecstatic about what he is doing

A number of his actions are wildly unpopular. The Jan 6th Pardons, and his pro-Putin agenda. His polling is historically poor for a month into a president's term, and there are large protests around the country. In another month, his polling will be completely underwater.
> there is a strong legal argument that overruling congress via impoundment and/or the actions discussed here violate the constitutions most basic precepts

No there isn't. The text of the Constitution says the opposite: it makes appropriation a necessary condition for expenditures, but omits any clause making it a sufficient one. And the only case law on this issue is Train v. New York, which assiduously avoids ruling on the separation of powers issue. So there is neither any basis in the Constitution itself nor any basis in case law for your contention.
If someone said "Americans do X", there would be some pushback about "not all Americans". But somehow it's normal (expected even) to bunch all immigrants together into the "they were all desperate and decided to jump the fence" pile.

It's actually surprising that this point is so hard to understand.
I remember a while ago we have a thread on HN discussing this. 50% of the world cant taste the difference between Pepsi and Coke Cola. People cant tell the difference between 128Kbps or 256Kbps MP3. etc.

For the people who are sensitive to a lot of these, it is more of a curse than gift. Some cant taste the difference between Corn Fed ( or Finished ) and Grass Fed Beef. The colour shift in this article, or how the latest TV perform between OLED, QD-OLED, Four Layer OLED, Mini-LED with different brand.

It turns out being able to "compare" is a skill set in itself. I would assume comparing is also a function that requires more brain power / energy, and most people's natural state would be to conserve that energy.

I have been thinking about this for quite some time. Most people dont know how to compare, or what to compare it to. And precisely because most people dont know how to compare or how not to compare, we need marketing. And I think most successful founder are very good at comparing things. Steve Jobs would be a prime example.
In C# you can do

string foo = "bar";

string nameOfFoo = nameof(foo); // “foo”

Kinda nice for iterating through lists of variables and saving them to a key/value map
> Frankly, I am not at all convinced any further elections in the US will be free or fair given who is currently in power and what they've openly said about elections and what they want to do to them.

The last one doesn't seem to have been as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_Party_efforts_to_di...
D's "Better C"[1] mode looks like what you describe. Has syntax similar to C with a real module system, metaprogramming, slice types etc.,

1 - https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html
You can support both. Most people concerned about inequality are usually in favour of some sort of wealth tax. It's a tax on individuals, not corporations.
Are you sure that the rule of law in the US is strong enough to avert a dictatorship?
The term for them is useful idiots not assets. The democrats did enormous damage to the Ukrainian cause pushing the russia hoax in 2017/18. Steele assumed there was competent intelligence analysts to analyse what he collected but instead it was politicians.
they won't even say something, let alone do something. The only thing that could hurt Musk is the collapse of Tesla stock. Best thing you can do is not buy a Tesla and suggest to others not to buy on either. As the DOGE team like to say. starve the beast, where Leon is the beast.
No, they did.

Absolutely nothing about what's happening is a surprise. Anyone claiming otherwise is either lying or so uneducated that they shouldn't be voting.
thanks for correcting

Not only Americans are complicit through their silence, denials, and defens

for example, i've referenced a very famous poem by a Chinese liberal:

> If I am doomed to die in war in this life, then let me be a ghost under the precision-guided bombs of the United States. - Written on the 15th day of the Iraq War.

back to the topic

> It means that even if the actions of the US or Canada were wrong, they were within what we consider the rule of law.

first, discovered foreign spys are assets just prepared for situations like this, if 'my' spys were arrested by 'your' authority, 'I' will arrest yours and make a deal to exchange, except in this situation Meng is not a spy but a important business women

second, if it's wrong, but it's within the rule of law, doesn't it mean the rule of law is 'wrong'?

and, what do you think about hunter biden and trump donald, are they guilty? is it 'the rule of law' that they are free of judgment? or did the rule of law judged they are not guilty?
It's not in their interest to do so. Tesla is the EV leader and exports many vehicle from China to other countries. Additionally, Elon has a direct line to Trump, it makes no sense to burn bridges.
It's also directly constitutionally mandated. Given how important free communication has always been understood to be, I would argue the intention behind that would extend to telecom/internet as a utility as well. Yet we keep getting collectively burned by gifting for-profit companies taxpayer money to build infrastructure that should by all rights be public.
When did Trump pledge to destroy the NIH? He did also specficially disavow Project 2025 and is now enacting a whole bunch of it.
I'm just going to say that you're opinion is wrong. You're opinion is the reason that the majority of errors in C#, Java, JavaScript, Dart, D, and all the other languages that use exceptions have decided that all errors should crash the application and that you won't know about what can error.

Programmers are LAZY. Making them do verbose things when they can't possibly handle it are going to cause them to reject the language feature.
This is well known and established as fact. Go look it up.
Yeah, I think most people end up learning the hard way that there's no equivalent to "attorney client privilege" in regards to coworkers and managers.

I like all my current coworkers, I think they're nice and smart people, and I don't think they're assholes at all, but I don't really say anything to them that I wouldn't be fine with HR hearing about, even during off hours. They're not bad people, and I don't think that they'd be overly vindictive, but I've been burned enough by coworkers that I have trouble trusting them.

Personally it's pretty hard to get me to tattle on people [1], in no small part because I think that most people don't need to be reminded six times for one mistake. I also just think that unfeeling bureaucracies are capable of unspeakable evil but that's far more of a tangent that I'm not going to get to in this message.

[1] With obvious exceptions, if I were to see outright abuse or fraud or something then I'd probably tell someone.
Bullshit. They are pathologizing the democratic result of the last election as well as promoting extremist rhetoric that ignores the fact people can vote if they don't agree, but it is not acceptable to claim a president and his administration can't operate within Constitutional rights to run the executive branch else "violence" is necessary and justified.

No, the 2nd amendment does not codify terrorism because your side lost a vote that will be run again in four years.
Do you think that punitively incentivizing the most economically productive people to leave the country results in zero consequences?
and hundreds of millions to him is like a months salary, so it cost him almost nothing
For anybody still cofused about taxation and what are solutions, please check Gary Economics YouTube channel. He is ex trader, few years rated best at Citibank, and is making very easy to understand educational videos on what wealth inequality is and why the rich are getting richer and poor are getting poorer.

Normally I wouldn’t recommend a channel, but this one is such a gem it’s a sin not to recommend it. Watched a lot about economics and taxes before, overwhelming majority of explanations are poor and a frankly a joke.
I appreciate the perspective, and I know it's trite, but it's important: how would you feel about a resident of 1933 Germany writing your comment? Some good people fled, true, but staying and complying because mass protest seems "unlikely" is almost definitely something posterity will frown upon -- not to mention the rest of the world. I think that's something that should give one pause.

Remember, mass protest to (push congress to) oust an authoritarian executive has never happened before in the USA -- but we've also never had an authoritative executive to anywhere near this extent before.
> the majority of people who decided to vote voted for the person applying these policies

Careful, you're spreading a little falsehood there, Trump got 49.81% which is not a majority. His first term was 46.09%.

Every other winner of the past 6 Presidential elections got >50% except for him.

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/elections/2024
Sure, but the whole idea of representative democracy (a Republic[1]) is supposed to be that Congress and other elected members of government are supposed to be immune from the trappings of mob rule.

In other words, the excuse you are making is that people voted for the government to start doing borderline illegal or at the very least highly misguided and self-destrctive things that are against the interest of their constituents, and that because the people want those dumbass destructive things the government should comply with those wishes.

That logic only goes so far when we consider the context of the very same government that also denies the people things that are far more popular.

For example, 62% of Americans are in favor of universal healthcare, but we aren't getting that.

82% of Americans are in favor of paid maternity leave.

And yet, our lawmakers have not delivered to the American people those demands.

But here we all are implying that 51% of the country deciding they want to dismantle the US executive branch is enough public support to just go ahead and do so with impunity.

The 2024 Trump presidency is, believe it or not, already a historically unpopular administration by the objective polling numbers. Why should they get to dismantle the government with such a weak mandate?

Frankly, it's bullshit.

[1] This is coincidentally the excuse that every Republican I've ever met including my Fox News Dad makes for the electoral college and gerrymandered congressional districts amplifying rural MAGA votes so that states with majority Democrat constituents are ruled by Republican statehouses and so that Trump and Bush got to win presidential elections without winning the popular vote.
It's not outlandish because the tail wagging the dog in this case is only a few billionaires, Dump and Husk and a couple of others. So I think we should allow it.
What works for a country the size of a New York neighbourhood doesn't work for a country the size of a continent.
if they were honestly trying to improve things, the cuts would be phased in over a few funding cycles at a minimum.

it's hard to see surprise cuts as anything more than willful vandalism and a gift to global competitors.

time to donate time and money to their opposition. one month in and they've already proven themselves a failure.
> It's interesting to me that people worried about wealth inequality are normally also very supportive of free trade policies.

Huh, I’ve had the exact opposite experience, and now I’d love to talk to someone who holds the beliefs you described.
It's more like a tax on hoarding.
That's overly simplistic. In the Apple scenario, it enriches the partners in the other countries (eg Foxconn), many retailers worldwide, and employees and shareholders. The latter might not be American. Many firms are multinational with money flying in all kinds of directions, even friendly governments.

So, what you say is correct in some ways. Some do get more leverage while others jobs are shipped overseas. Who is getting leverage is every party benefiting from these arrangements. Interesting enough, that includes companies in U.S., South Africa, and China.
You can tell who never bothered to watch a single Trump rally or campaign event by the fact that they’ll LARP being a deceived supporter.
Have you ever read a quarterly 10-Q/K? Flipped through a board deck? We even routinely make fun of MBA culture because of this stuff. This is just the finance side of things.
Specific part of the interview that talks about GLP-1 safety with DeFronzo and Attia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGIFdakceHM
The only legal answer I'm aware of is the states setting up a Constitutional Convention. (Well, either that, or having the cabinet declare the president incapacitated.) Good luck getting the majority of the states or cabinet on board.
What is the role of congress, if its enumerated powers do not imply that any of those things should actually happen...? Honest question. Are you honestly saying that there's an implied 100% veto available to the executive for anything done by congress?
> I mean, if you re-elect the guy that tried to forcibly stay in power last time, I'm not sure what else to say...

You're arguing what you think would happen if Trump was elected.

OP is saying something different. He's saying the among the people who voted for Trump, some believed something else would happen and they might feel defrauded.
How is Ladybird so much further ahead when servo had years of commercial funding? Just different priorities?
Ohh nice!

I've been following her articles for a year or so, but I recently stopped checking her site because the articles are so few and far between now. They used to come very regularly. I'm glad she's still making new ones. The last one about egyptair was months ago. So I wasn't sure if she'd stopped or something.

I guess she's either not got much material left to write about or she's busy with other work. But I'm always happy to read new stuff <3 and it's worth waiting for.

Ps it might be a bit of a morbid interest but I fly myself and I get really interesting insights from it. I only fly small stuff but still.

Ps2 this is the second B17 crash she's written about. There's not a lot of them left now in flyable condition :'(
Yep, that is the channel blocked off at Templar's Island!

And if you get onto LINZ website, and grab their LIDAR data and visualise it, you can see all the old channels it has carved across the Plains, including ones right through CHC airport into the headwaters of the Avon (this is the route the Waimakariri took when it flooded Christchurch in the late 1800s).

As for Banks Island, well it was an island back in the day, not sure how many thousand years ago that was though.

PS, if you're in ChCh and tech, feel like we might know each other... love how small the net can make the rather large world.
Let's not forget that the house is artificially capped [1]. It should have a much larger membership. The senate already biases towards land over people. And more and more the house does as well.

[1] https://history.house.gov/Historical-Highlights/1901-1950/Th...
California has half the population of Germany and twice the GPD.

We can't pretend the US is some dinky country in Europe that can be ruled the same way.
To be fair, Flash and Java were having an aggressive competition for enabling the most RCE exploits on end-user systems.

If we'd had the kind of support for sandboxing then that we do now, they probably would've survived a lot longer.
Correction: the people who pretend to be worried about wealth inequality are very supportive of free trade policies. It's just something they are supposed to say at fancy parties.
I don't even know if I believe there's any chance of this myself but it's worth pointing out that Republicans currently have a House majority of... 2. It's unlikely but not inconceivable that a few house members could be persuaded to vote with Democrats to push back, simply because they're in a swing state and we keep seeing videos of very mad voters confronting their representatives. Anyone in a swing district interested in securing re-election should be considering it.
Nothing! So not sure why you raised it!
I can't imagine why 2026 should be any different than 2024. He's doing exactly what he promised. Those who voted for him will still be in favor, at least compared to the alternative. Voters who stayed home will still see no difference between the parties.
And replace him with JD Vance?
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” - H.L. Mencken

Elections matter.

Don’t think I’m a Trump
Fan. I’ve been warning about this exact thing since before the first election. But people had to go and stick the butter knife in the wall socket anyway, and they clearly need to learn the hard way what happens.

What do you expect? A coup? I’m sure you know as well as anyone how that would go right now. Too few people are willing to believe what is actually happening right in front of them. And frankly, wouldn’t that just be being the enemy?
It would be surprising if this were true. No one who has watched Trump's behavior should have expected anything different.
I suggest you look up how much raising children costs today vs the 1980s in both money and time.

Two kids today are a much bigger status symbol than a 5 million dollar house.
The president can't be criminally tried for "official acts" and this Court likely would use a very broad definition of those.

But no one following his orders has any immunity. They should keep that in mind.
Did it not have some kind of ncurses functionality? So much of what I see about software from the eighties (mostly via movies) seems operable with just an unnetworked unix terminal.