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His approval rating was 30% before the markets crashed. The only people supporting Trump are his cultists and the congressional Democrats.
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Common guys, you did this multiple times with no issues when returning from moon 50+ years ago
What bothers me the most about all these protests and going-ons at universities and colleges is that they are generally by 18-22 year olds who are pre-adults still in their formative years who still have a lot of learning and growing up to do.
> I won't go so far as to claim that we are in a Manchurian Candidate scenario, but I also cannot exclude that possibility.

You probably know this already, but you don't need to. The relevant question is not "Is the president working on behalf of America's adversaries?"; rather it is "If he was, what would he be doing differently?"
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> They already run dictatorships.

Yes, and as such, their primary threat is large-scale popular unrest. They aren't going to lose an election, they aren't going to be reined in by other branches, they aren't going to voluntarily retire.

Which, in general, means you have to at least try to do things that don't piss everyone in the country off.

> Putin for example has invaded Ukraine, and can never lose power or he will be murdered by one of many.

Great example! He thought it'd go quickly and smoothly. It didn't, and for years now he's avoided the mass mobilization he'd need to win outright, because the regular people would hate it.

> Stalin and Mao never lost power despite their insane policies and ruthlessness.

Both had to backtrack when they pissed people off too much.

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

"Fears of a more widespread PLA revolt led Mao and his core associates to scale back the movement's most radical components."
I'm working on an app in this area [1], and I've spent a lot of time exploring how to responsibly use AI for food tracking.

My conclusion is that while AI is excellent for augmenting your tracking experience, it's not yet reliable enough to be the sole tracking method. Consistency is key to successful food tracking, and AI can certainly help users avoid the common issue of missing a meal and losing momentum. However, inaccuracies, like consistently being off by 100-200 calories per day, can significantly impact results, especially for those on lower-calorie diets (like 1,200-1,500 calories/day, which is common for many women due to their physical size).

With FitBee I landed on communicating to the user that these are estimates and you probably shouldn't use it as your primary method of tracking calories.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fitbee-calorie-macro-counter/i...
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You could also say that someone who voted for the illegal importation of millions of criminals and murderers, targeted conservatives, used law fare to try and imprison a former president, committed astronomical financial fraud and persons responsible for the deaths caused by these criminal aliens is a shit person who needs to serve the remainder of his pathetic life in prison.
Funnily enough, I felt the same energy after reading The Fountainhead by Rand.

It's been over a decade at this point, but I remember Howard Roarks(?) endless ambitious energy was infectious. Sounds like it's time for another read.
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What kind of errors are there? I don't remember anything standing out.
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It's going to cause fracturing at every level. Countries will question their interdependence on each other. Then US states will reconsider their dependence on the federal government. The end result is a hyper-local world with only the minimum necessary trade between enclaves.
China or Russia or Middle Eastern interests (kicked off by Iran/Israel or whoever) or maybe even some other entity that will form from revolution. There are a large number of threats and nothing has seemed to slow the growth of potential danger zones.
> There should not be a two-tier legal system.

That’s a fine philosophical debate, but the law is designed by the rich to favor the rich and while there are a number of exceptions there is little you can do with the legal system without money and lots of it. So while having a truly just system would be neat it just isn’t in the cards for humanity (IMHO) so long as we allow entities to amass “fuck you” money and wield it to their liking.
Not jus being impressed that every paper coming out is SOTA, but also leads the way in being Open-Source in the pure definition of OSS, even with permissible licensing.

Let's not confuse the company with the country by over-fitting a narrative. Popular media is reenforcing hatred or anything that sponsors them, especially to weaker groups. Less repercussions and more clicks/money to be made I guess.

While Politicians may hate each other, Scientists love to work with other aspiring Scientists who have similar ambitions and the only competition is in achieving measurable success and the reward it means to the greater public.

Without any bias, but it's genuinely admirable when companies release their sources to enable faster scientific progress cycles. It's ironic that this company is dedicated to finance, yet shares their progress, while non-profits and companies dedicated purely to AI are locking all knowledge about their findings from access.

Are there other companies like DeepSeek that you know of that commonly release great papers? I am following Mistral already, but I'd love to enrich my sources of publications that I consume. Highly appreciated!
It has been trendy in Silicon Valley recently to use inappropriate accounting methods to measure ARR.

Joe, a regular guy: Makes $120k at his desk job

Joe, the businessman: Made $20k in 32 days, $228k ARR

Joe, who launched 5 months into development and did 60k in the first 2 weeks: $1.5M ARR

In all three of these examples, Joe's financial outcome is the same. This business does not have any longevity, and all of its revenue is from converting paid advertising of various kinds. It's still impressive, but is most likely a >10x exaggeration on even the lifetime revenue he makes from this. Which is of course circular, because the reason he's doing all this is to make a business out of monetising the audience of people who want to make money.

All of this is clever social climbing, but is clever social climbing the thing that should be rewarded by colleges?
> The very experience and accumulated know-how in software engineering and project management — which might seem obsolete in the age of AI — are precisely what enable the most effective use of these tools.

I agree with the author here, but my worry is that by leaning on the LLMs, the very experience that allows me to uniquely leverage the LLMs now will start to atrophy and in a few years time I'll be relying on them just to keep up.
Emissions are trending downward because of shift from coal to natural gas, growth in renewable energy, energy efficiencies, among other things. Major oil and gas companies in the US like Chevron and ExxonMobil have spent millions on lobbying efforts to resist stricter climate regulations and fight against the changes that led to this trend, so I'd say they are the closest to these evil corporations OP described. Additionally, the current administration refers to doing anything about climate change a "climate religion", so this downward trend will likely slow.

The climate regulations are still quite weak. Without a proper carbon tax, a US company can externalize the costs of carbon emissions and get rich by maximizing their own emissions.
I don't believe the Trump regime has any intention to make the economy better, nor cares in the least about the citizenry. This is about introducing levers to imposing fascism, favoritism, and loyalty tests upon corporate america.
I said it works, because I have firsthand daily-driver experience with it working.

If you're going to disagree, please give an example of something you think doesn't work.
Or just using https://news.ycombinator.com/active

Like most people seem to have moved to.
I mostly agree with you.

> Those both seem pretty obvious, but put the two of them together and it means people can lose their jobs or not be hired for stuff they tweet. How do you resolve that?

If the employer happened to see it, then yes I think that's well within rights. But I think having some random stranger see something and actively campaign against the employee to their employer is a little bit different. It's not illegal, nor should it be, but there are plenty of things that are legal but still not good behavior. I would consider this under that umbrella.
Not part of the rest of the conversation, just narrowing in on the idea of speech being free if there are consequences. That sounds like some sort of 1950's-era doublespeak. If there are consequences, how would speech be free? It's a very American-centric perspective that "Free Speech" is defined as "1st Amendment". Free speech means not getting fired, jumped, killed, poisoned, expelled, etc. Fired is something that would happen in Soviet Times as well, in the USSR, and in the McCarthy era, in the U.S.

Apologies for the "two sidesism".
Sure seemed melodramatic to me. care to explain the choice between bread and an empty belly in a way that isn't intended to garner sympathy? It is a pretty loaded metaphor.
Did you open a PR or something?
Few years ago, I had to load test production site for upcoming events. Local test was unrealistic. Some testing tool was re-using connection. I used loader.io to test. There was some issues I can't recall but it was great for both frontend and backend. I was able to test frontend at around 10 gbps.
i think the other parts are probably Chinese
You do, that's the point here. You need ifdefs in this example to selectively compile the same code with different compilers, or different language levels with the same compiler. In either case C3 will fail while parsing a newer feature with an older compiler or lang level.
Yeesh. I didn't realize they had that much trouble up there, and I'm disheartened that more wasn't disclosed when the event happened. Losing rotation and translation control in that context would be utterly terrifying. These astronauts clearly have the right stuff.

Also, title should read "far more dire". Missing an adverb there.
I'm not seeing how that context makes your comment make more sense. I am not seeing that they were charged with any kind of unreasonable extrapolation along the lines of "wanting to end meat consumption," nor why that would create context that sets up your dichotomy.

Now it sounds like you're saying you know there was a middle ground but were saying it anyway to make some kind of rhetorical point, but I don't know what rhetorical point you are making.
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Another example of prime reasoning capabilities /s
We should find a new word since GPU is is from back when it was used for graphics.
I am terrible at following the news, so just for clarification: are you talking about deportations? Or is there something else going on?
AI is just a complex lossy compression algorithm.
I'm dumb and can't figure out wtf this is.
I think we (Americans) are hoping this is a giant bluff and he will pull it all back in less than 6m. Please God let it be a bluff…
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I use Windows App at work and honestly it's really good, a lot of QoL features, specially if you have to manage a lot of machines.
> Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Friday that California will look for ways to expand trade and persuade international partners to exempt the state from global payback as President Trump’s sweeping round of tariffs have sent U.S. and global financial markets tumbling.

Isn't this technically illegal?
Isn’t Nginx multithreaded rather than multiprocess? I’m not an expert in web stuff but it’s always felt intuitively that worker threads map nocely into typical web server workloads.

Also, any UI app should basically be multithreaded to prevent interface hiccups.
I'm not dismissing, I'm pointing out that you made a hard claim, even if you didn't intend it.

Again, I can agree if you are claiming it is of diminishing benefits. I'll go further and agree that there have been predatory practices to get people to take out loans they shouldn't take out. This is directly addressed by your source. Which, notably, still supports that people have higher incomes after graduation.

What I cannot at all agree with is it being "inverted." Nor can I agree that they are failing to educate people. By the stats I have seen, this just isn't the case.
Maybe crashing the stock market really is part of the plan, i mean if you arent investing maybe you should use that money to open a factory? I hear AI will do all the labor for you and that will "only get better (TM)"

Although all those nvidia racks apparently use more power than any datacenter in the world has ever deployed in the past... so i hope you know how to run your own power plant onsite too

Oops you also need to install prison level security around all your buildings and homes because the entire population wants your blood, thats ok its an excuse to diversify into weaponized drone manufacturing and local deployment which is another big business opportunity. Wow so many opportunities for rich people!
The impotence of Congress is astonishing. Constitutionally the tariff power is exclusive to Congress, and Trump is exercising it only through emergency powers. Congress could end this easily had they a mind to. Presumably someone could make a challenge to the Supreme Court, but IANAL so it's not clear who has the standing to sue.

As a former Republican, and a Reagan conservative the utter cowardice and corruption of the Republican party nauseates me. No principles, no ethics.
Since I have children I almost never listen to music. The kids are such a sensory overload that, when I get a moment of silence alone, I don't want to ruin it with sound.
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This one isn't a crisis... yet. It likely will become one, but it's not yet a crisis.
What we need is to start counting votes of no confidence. Until we can explicitly shoot down what the elites or representatives think is best for us, at best, voting is just a thin veneer of legitimacy over an ossifying oligarchy.
Unlike what "The Big Short" would have you believe, there are lots of people who saw 2008 coming. The American property market bubble was on the cover of the Economist many times in the decade prior to 2008.

However, the collapse came a lot later than many people expected, so many people who correctly shorted the market got burned via coverage calls before the market collapsed.
Because they are dumb.

Seriously, stupid.
They just kept thinking he wouldn't really do it.

And he still hasn't! Most of the tariffs, AFAIK, haven't kicked in yet. His "they start at midnight" stuff in his long ramble-fest appears to have been BS.

I think there's a wave on the 9th, and the last big wave is the 2nd of May.

The current fall is because he took a big step closer to doing it, and did a little of it. The chance he won't go all the way is priced in, so there's plenty of room to fall as those dates get closer.
What's the reason for modernization anyway? "Because it's there" shouldn't count. I mean, what's the compelling reason?
For one thing, we have a President this go-around who is actively behaving in a destructive way against the United States. That's the unique scenario we are broadly finding ourselves in: The office of the Presidency is being weaponized against the country and its citizens. Of course that's going to have a devastatingly different set of effects.

The GOP has been hollowed out to the point that they're incapable of admitting this to themselves and participating in corrective action. The courts alone aren't sufficient. And because our elections are held on a clockwork cadence there's not much the citizenry can do at this point.

Which is why I'm worried things are going to turn violent. When normal channels fail, people who feel like they have been pressed against the wall will act out in other ways. And a lot of people are in the process of having their livelihoods ruined.
Original article from Eric Berger on ArsTechnica: https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/the-harrowing-story-of...
Amazon and Meta did too. Then Bezos changed the Washington Post editorial page policy that they could only write about personal liberties and free markets (subtext: not Trump). I wonder what Meta got in return. It seems like this relatively cheap $1M payoff was a subtle “kiss the ring” of the emperor. Good business. Shareholders would approve.
Disagree. It's the name of the component and everyone working with it knows what capabilities it has. Perhaps you got old.
The ars article the post links too is much more informative

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/04/the-harrowing-story-of...
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I found it hard to understand the fundamental belief of Oren that the other countries are free-loading off US, when US encouraged/forced those countries to be US production factories. They are either free-loading or US made them to be export oriented so that US can maintain its dollar status. Saying both are true seems disingenuous.
Then I think you're talking about a different problem than the Konstantin and wikipedia, and sourcehut and codeberg and everyone else is complaining about lately, which is the subject under discussion.
Well, if your language gains traction that plan may not succeed. For your sake, I hope that's the case :)
How do you know who convinced Ukrainians about anything? That Ukrainians at any point were convinced about that?
They think they can pretend that raising the minimum wage is anything but a good service for the entire economy.

They do not pretend to make sense
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Firstly, they want to dismantle the government piece by piece and sell it off to the highest bidder, privatizing it. Secondly, anything they view as contrary to their world view, despite of (or regardless of) scientific evidence stating otherwise. Eg: they believe anything to do with climate change is completely bogus and don't believe there's any value in studying it, or hiding it's results for the benefit of their friends in the oil/gas industries.
What bothers me is the ageist assumption that "full-adults", say, boomers, are somehow more educated, less indoctrinated, or less prejudiced than young adults
She addressed the problem with accepting assistance in relation to student tuition assistance. Briefly, she said hate the game, not the player. The students have a structure imposed upon them, and it's not irrational or unethical to take the aid the government provides since the government still regulates them and taxes them in various ways. However, it would be unethical to advocate for increasing that assistance (because the benefit is taken forcibly from others).
> Eh, you can prove anything but starting history at a particular point.

I'm not trying to "prove" anything; I'm merely pointing out that while it is true that $BAR is objectively worse than $FOO, it is equally true that $FOO is a direct consequence of $BAR.

In my other response to another poster I pointed out that many of us on forums that effectively silenced opposing viewpoints reminded readers that it's best to refrain from going to extremes because the pendulum always swings back, and that is what we are seeing now.

In much the same way, I'll point out that the pendulum always swings back and we are going to see a return to the previous extremes when people get tired of this extreme.
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Because nobody wanted to believe that the US government would decide to self-own this hard.
Outsourcing sales means not talking to potential customers. So it is psychologically more attractive than rejection.

Outsourcing sales to a person with competing incentives is even worse...by competing incentives, if you have ten clients for your service one of them is easiest to sell. Nine of them are not the easiest.

Good luck.
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