skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Classical liberal and conservative ideologies have danced around between two poles for hundreds of years: force is right (might makes right) and one's ability to assert dominance in market/politics determines whether one is good/right/just... or.... principles determine justice, and the limits to power are key and important, constitutions, institutions, etc are there to enforce that.

Guess which pole is winning. Again. Predictably.

If you listen to his strongest supporters and those in his administration, they speak openly of it: the President is Right because the president is a Winner. Losers don't get to define what is Right. The President "won" not just the election, but "as a businessman" and an entertainer. So he is Right. Elon is Right because Elon is richest. America is Right because America is Most Powerful. Everyone else is a leech, a cuck, a sub, a beta, whatever. You either get on side, or you're a loser. And wrong.

It's pointless to argue with these people on abstract principles. American liberals are so caught off guard by this because they've been assured their whole life that constitutions and courts are the foundation of stability and that those guard rails protect society.

They don't. They're pieces of paper.
> At 1,000 hours of "debate", it is unlikely that anyone is considering

I mean, if you take that not as an exaggeration but at face value, it's 200 days of 5 hours of discussions per day. I'm fairly sure the specific number is an exaggeration, but if it isn't, I'd probably agree with you :)
The Trade War Looks Brutal for Finance, Too
> I will say a huge number of problems in our society right now are caused by a prioritization of profit over social stability which is inherent to capitalism.

I totally agree. I would prefer harnessing capitalism for our means and regulating it heavily, but I understand if you don't think our democracy could survive the conflict (or if you think that it isn't surviving the conflict already). I'm just very aware of all of the ways solutions to this problem have gone wrong in the past.
I do think this is true. I'm 46 and I find myself wondering when things are going to "return to normal". But I can't really define what that is besides saying "2019". I'm not even sure what I'm referring to other than I hate short form video. I don't know how I feel about AI. It does seem like something that has a lot of promise though if we can figure out the context issues.
> Society is saved just as often as the circle of its rulers contracts, as a more exclusive interest is maintained against a wider one. Every demand of the simplest bourgeois financial reform, of the most ordinary liberalism, of the most formal republicanism, of the most shallow democracy, is simultaneously castigated as an “attempt on society” and stigmatized as “socialism.” And finally the high priests of “religion and order” themselves are driven with kicks from their Pythian tripods, hauled out of their beds in the darkness of night, put in prison vans, thrown into dungeons or sent into exile; their temple is razed to the ground, their mouths are sealed, their pens broken, their law torn to pieces in the name of religion, of property, of the family, of order. Bourgeois fanatics for order are shot down on their balconies by mobs of drunken soldiers, their domestic sanctuaries profaned, their houses bombarded for amusement – in the name of property, of the family, of religion, and of order.
It’s really embarrassing to admit when you get worked over.

So, never.
>I expected a repeat of his first term. Which honestly was quite uneventful. This is not.

They were quite candid with their intent. Aside from him casually/flippantly brushing off Project 2025 during his campaign (when it was clear that his campaign was deeply connected to it), it was tremendously obvious to anybody paying attention that things would be much different during round two, and in a more aggressive manner.

You had your head in the sand. If you voted for him, this is your fault. Damn you.

Downvotes be damned.
And "small but prosperous" is exactly what Singapore does well. The UK could learn a lot from Singapore.
You're describing problems, in fact the exact same problems that you'd have with an entirely domestic source as well. I'm asking about how it would be stronger, or better than a purely domestic source. The EU absolutely should have it's own cloud infra. Couldn't agree more. How does an exclusively domestic IT infra benefit the EU, is the question. If they had their own, and were also able to source from the US, from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, [insert other allies] they'd be faster at adapting to a change in supply.

Russia is a bad example, they're doing stupid shit, the same as the US. Hurting itself in it's confusion. But I guess it's a fair point, if you're willing to cut off your own feet, you don't need to depend on importing shoes. And it might make sense to build exclusively domestic leg stub sock factories, given the rest of the globe doesn't want to cut off it's own feet.

I wouldn't actually suggest that as something the us should strive to emulate.
> All the above then begs the question, who has all the money? Who has all the wealth?

The "I.T. Revolution" was supposed to bring a vast payoff from improved productivity. Did the benefits of society-wide process improvement get snarfed up by... vastly more inequality ?
Trademarking your likeness is absurd. How do we even let that happen.
> Productivity Apps

MS Office?

> OEM

Combination of Windows and MS Office licenses purchased by OEMs?

> Consumer

What is this? People who buy shink-wrapped software at retail stores?
It’s lower than you think as it has high present value, but is a waste product in less than a decade.
Trump likes Putin more than he likes any European leader.

If the scenario here is that US invades Greenland leading to an EU vs US schism, then it might not be Russia today vs EU today. It could be EU minus US support vs Russia with US support.

That'd be a pretty different dynamic, and pretty bleak for democracy.
Why do they want meritocracy? The companies I've seen up close want "certified Smart Kid", in which case nearly any degree will do; "pre-trained worker", in which case they require a degree in a particular field; or "someone well-connected", in which case they want someone from a limited set of schools.

(Companies do subsidize that limited set of schools, and pretty heavily, but it probably has more to do with social connections than economic merit.)

The system might break down to the point that what you're suggesting makes sense. On the other hand, "Indebted Worker" (from any of the three types above) allows companies a lot of power over their employees, so it might not.
I think the big reason is that there were loads of manufacturing jobs in the mid west, which has a bunch of swing states.
> People are literally being kidnapped and thrown into detention centers without due process and there are not massive protests.

For the record, there have been (and will be more) significant protests about this [0]. Corporate media does a fantastic job of ignoring and minimizing protests they're not in favor of (because they are actually effective...).

If you're old enough to remember, think back to how the world held some of the largest anti-war protests in history back in the early 00's. Turns out, corporate media with strong financial links to defense contractors aren't much interested in covering that. At the same time reporters who took too much of an anti-war stance were literally fired... And things have gotten progressively worse with every administration since.
Yes, I was shocked that Bill Gates's personal blog seems to have that "500 WordPress plugins" kinda vibe. Kinda reminds me of my old MySpace profile.
This is more dishy

https://youtu.be/MJEngub8SHw?si=qc4ZDl43b-jQpmWj
Musk is a red herring here. He's the face of the operation, but the program he's implementing is just longstanding Republican policy. He may deny the use of the Project 2025 playbook, but if so, he's starting with the same assumptions and reaching the same conclusions.

If he does in fact leave, little will change. He'll be replaced by a less famous person, probably one who spends less time bragging on Twitter about it.

This may not be what Silicon Valley actually does, but it's what a large fraction of the country believes that Silicon Valley does. Trump was elected in part because voters wanted him to run the country the way they imagine trillion-dollar companies run.

So that's what we're gonna get. And I guess we'll find out if it's actually a good idea.
Purple exists only in our brains
Not trying to be hostile but while everywhere has corruption, and the US definitely has a history of things to be shameful of, it's been nowhere near the scope of what we're seeing now, at least in recent history.

I see arguments about "this is the way it always has been" as essentially normalizing rampant authoritarian corruption. To me, it's taking projection and accepting it as fact without evidence.

Also, regardless, it seems two wrongs don't make a right, and the appropriate response is to reject it when it it exists.
LocalScore – LLM benchmark from the Mozilla Builders project
That is not correct. You should close the tab on that shadowstats bullshit.

BLS employment measures are calculated from the Current Population Survey and the Current Employment Statistics. CPS is a bimonthly survey of a rolling population of 60000 households. CES is a monthly survey of over 100000 businesses.
The real cowardice was when student mobs took over campuses and harassed jewish students but the universities did nothing about. They hoped it would fizzle out and go away, and even though the worst of it did, it didn't go away entirely and the underlying tensions still simmered. Jewish students who were terrified to walk to class, lest they be harassed by some masked terrorist supporters, wanted to make sure the worst offenders of the protests were dealt with. Most universities still did nothing, and then Trump was elected. He has been consistently pro-Israel, and the organized Jewish community has been able to make inroads with his administration. So now he's dealing with it in the way that he deals with every issue.

What we are seeing now is entirely the fault of university administrators who failed to deal with the issue when it started.
I would guess never.

Everything bad is blamed on the "others", and the solution is more Trump.

We can only hope enough of the rest of people who supported him will figure it out eventually.
Yes, there was even a John Oliver episode about it
A dictorship, unfortunately unlike many other countries this one not only is bad for its citizens, it also has a major impact on the planet.

Anyone that expects this will only last four years hasn't been paying attention on history books.
> -I fully plan on eventually moving to canada (or elsewhere) when the time comes - much easier to move than any other option

I completely understand this sentiment but hope you don't. Things are bad, but they're not going to get better if everyone who thinks they're bad leaves. The problem with a U.S. descent is that the negative impact will hit just about anywhere you try to parachute to.
Yes and no. A more extreme example of this is the US Army's Mission Command Philosophy.

The yes part:

Leaders like velocity and don't want rules to slow people down. Rules exist for a reason, because somebody in the past has fucked it up for the rest of us. Leadership still wants goal accomplishment in the shortest time frame and at the cheapest cost, though. The US Army baked this into the cornerstone of their leadership approach more than 20 years. The central concept is for a leader to tell their people at set of goals and then release their people into the wild and figure it out on their own. This provides flexibility with minimal constraints, which is especially important in a rapidly changing environment of fluid changes where the senior leader has outdated information.

Its also why corporate leadership doesn't discourage working on personal code projects if that value comes back to the organization.

The no part:

Leaders, at least the non-toxic ones, don't want to cannibalize their people. Even if rules are not important ethics certainly are. Good leaders don't want narcissistic assholes rotting the organization from the inside even if it does mean higher velocity. If your organization reaches a market milestone first but everybody has left the organization then its purely a Pyrrhic victory and the organization will still lose. This is why up to 25% of flag officers in the US military are continually under investigation at any time.

In the corporate world this is crystal clear when you look at your leadership and your peers. Are they primarily interested in releasing a product or reaching an organizational goal or are they primarily interested in their place within the organization or the appearance of relationships.
Twenty years ago, I worked for Google AdWords as a customer service rep. This was still relatively early days, and all ads still had some level of manual human review.

The big advertisers had all furnished us a list of their trademarks and acceptable domains. Any advertiser trying to use one that wasn’t on the allow-list had their ad removed at review time.

I suspect this could be what happened to you. If the platform you were using has any kind of review process for new shops, you may have run afoul of pre-registered keywords.
I remember my old Tandy Color Computer booting up and referencing Microsoft BASIC:

https://tinyurl.com/2jttvjzk

The computer came with some pretty good books with example BASIC programs to type in.
The only leading indicators that really matter due to their self-fulfilling nature: people's confidence. The below is from before he started doing the thing "he's not stupid enough to do," these tariffs.

> A poll of more than 220 U.S. CEOs finds business confidence at lowest level since November 2012—and recession fears on the rise.

> Consumers’ expectations for the future at a 12-year low

https://chiefexecutive.net/ceo-optimism-plummets-in-march-am...

https://www.conference-board.org/topics/consumer-confidence
The libertarians in the Republican party, like Massie and Paul, still seem to vote [1] according to their ideology. I don't agree with their ideology but they do seem consistent. [2]

Collins, McConnell, and Murkowski have been voting against the administration for more traditional Republican policy, sometimes.[3]

Nine Republican Reps blocked H.Res 282[4] because it would have killed bipartisan H.Res 164[5] and that caused the House Republican leaders to cancel votes for the whole week.

It's not all lockstep boot licking. Just mostly.

[1] https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202550

[2] https://xcancel.com/RepThomasMassie/status/18995193281369747...

[3] https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1...

[4] https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202587

[5] https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-resolutio...
Conversely New Zealand cities ime are extremely clean (kids running around barefoot?) despite having sizable minority populations.
> But they are not smart enough to imagine a way out of their little boxes.

Do they know this is what you think of them?

How effective has this attitude been in helping you understand their perspective?
> I'm pretty sure the election was manipulated, but the court only said so because it benefits the incumbents, which control the courts and would lose their power.

Why do you think that's the only reason the court said so? The election law was pretty blatantly violated (he declared campaign funding of 0, yet tons of ads were bought for him and influencers paid to advertise him).
> the failure of Apple Intelligence (oversold promise) has seriously hurt the brand

If this is true, is the dominance of the iPhone faded in any of their primary markets? Also: If the brand was so damaged, what brands are people moving towards?
Here I was thinking it was the subreddit
I really hope you're right.

It seems like their plan is a repeat of 2016, 2020, and 2024- to hope that Trump will be so unpopular that they can get elected without changing anything.
Yeah you can do the same with Microsoft. They have OLE. Apple had OpenDoc in the 1990s for that. It's not a new idea and it's certainly an idea that makes a whole lot of sense.
I think people are downvoting you because, on a surface level reading of your comment, it could sound to an ungenerous reader like you're saying colonialism was a good thing. I read you as making an economic argument against it, which does not preclude (and indeed complements) the moral one your downvoters are so coupled to.
Are you truly upset that someone called Trump "orange man"? Trump? The individual who led the way in childish name calling such as Sleepy Joe, Pocahontas, and who mocked a guy who is disabled?

I hope you were equally as outspoken about his childish name calling.
Running the Deepseek-R1 671B Model at FP16 Fidelity on AMD EPYC CPUs
And pray tell how did they harass jewish students?
and none of the many other parts are US manufactured?

You can probabl work out where the CPU was made: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_si...
> The US has the prerogative to filter immigrants based on their views and affiliations.

Just to point, the prerogative to "filter" immigrants does not allow the US to keep them in jail, torture, or send them to foreign countries non-supervised labor camps.
Yeah, I didn't even touch on foreign strategies over that time. Like I wrote, it was a start. Apt addition, though.
The civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, infringed. The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable. The people shall not be restrained from peaceably assembling and consulting for their common good; nor from applying to the Legislature by petitions, or remonstrances, for redress of their grievances.
Actual title:

What is Local-first Web Development?
The number 1 (and super easy to debunk) BS narrative that the English (mainly) say on the topic of "we never stole from others" or "it was a trade-off for modernizing them", etc. is how about you give back _all_ the things you 'didn't steal'. All Gemstones from all crowns/staves/etc, everything in the "British" (cough-stolen-cough) Museum. And _then_ your argument will have half a leg to stand on.

So until you return what is stolen from every country around the planet, keep the BS to yourselves because it only angers the rest of us, you pathetic thieves. Totally deserving what is going on in the UK. And I fear it is too late to turn that ship around in the next couple of decades. Especially with the politicians that are running the show and the younger ones in the pipeline.

And it is a great pity because I have lived and worked in the UK and I loved the people and the place. But hold your tongues and stop biting your own tails (you snakes) and perhaps you will have a better life in 20-30 years. :)
AI is here to stay. I've been using it regularly for awhile now. It can't do my job, but it can make my job much easier.

As any new technological advancement, it's a good idea to stay on top of it or you will find yourself out of work before retirement.
New wealth can be created, but it seems like at least since the 90s, we've been in a pattern where the people with most of the wealth would prefer a sort of stasis, because that way their chunk of the pie doesn't get smaller by comparison to the rest. They'd rather have slow, managed, inflation-swallowed "growth" than the ups and downs that accompany leaps forward but sometimes change who is on top.

So we've gone from "everyone will have flying cars" to "the rest of you will eat bugs." Castles and jets for the few; austerity for the rest of us. Which certainly isn't new, but it's not what was promised, or what seemed possible within living memory.
Now I'm confused, what do you mean? What grammar changes?
Sent to a gulag in El Salvador... Oh, too bad, mistakes were made.
Oh bugger off with your both sides horsewash
May have been the wrong time too. 1999 was chock full of companies that failed to get traction and died during the dot-com collapse, but variants became much more successful 20 years later. Much of this was mostly waiting in infrastructure I suspect.
Yep that’s the stuff I noticed that was off too
> Downvotes be damned.

What's the point of phrasing this as though you're off to the gallows for your beliefs? It's an internet forum.
I'm not following. If China buys soy from Brazil instead of the US, and the US imports the same amount overall from China in either case, then doesn't that increase China's trade surplus with the US?
It's really surprising how few people seem to understand what working under a hostile regime actually means, and how civil disobedience can never be done publicly - because that would just mean you get replaced and can't help anymore.
Degrading Safety Alignment via OpenAI's Fine-Tuning API
We might be able to help you find alternatives more easily if you told us what it does in the first place.
Reading the main content at the bottom right of the window is weird.
I'm a mostly-satisfied iPhone 13 mini user, but I'm considering moving back to Android for my next device. No one reason is the deal-breaker, but it's just a pile-up of stuff:

- My main compute platforms are now Linux and Windows, but even when I had a MacBook, I didn't really benefit much from whatever integration there was between the two.

- I tried and did not like Apple Watch, and I'm upset at Apple's treatment of other wearable makers like Fitbit and now Pebble.

- I'm frustrated that my iPhone 13 is still not USB-C when basically everything else I carry around is.

- I don't like how the Epic/Apple case went, and I wish Apple had been made to allow competing stores on their devices (the EU got this one right).

- With Apple having discontinued the "mini" models, physical size is no longer a differentiator— the Galaxy series phones are basically indistinguishable from modern iPhone models.
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FWIW the spinning scrolling effects of Apple release announcements are nearly as bad.
yep, the concept is more general than steroids and often goes by terms like "blackmail" or "leverage"
Had anyone invented fiat back then? I assumed the concept was more recent.
Just a simple acknowledgement that I am aware that my comment is unconstructive and goes against the desire/rules of this space. If I'm going to be an asshole, I usually try and acknowledge that I'm aware of it.
Are those kitchen and bathroom numbers supposed to be shockingly high? Over here you're not far off just dividing the house price by the number of rooms.
Yeah, Founders don't post here anymore, they are busy chatting on some secret message boards and group chats the riff-raff don't have access to. This site is now for bitter tech workers and wannabes and the comments reflect it. I'm guilty of being a member of that class I admit, and I'm not doing much to elevate things but the discourse has become incredibly uninteresting as a result.
They got themselves fired. People who wrote things didn't get themselves disappeared to a holding site in Louisiana.
I've imported many medications directly from India via the internet and so far it has all been legit - I don't go for the cheapest source YMMV.
I think we can build an indicator of how far we have gone into late-Capitalism:

The percentage of revenue extracted from this "gangster", or "feudal", or "platform" style business.
Okay? And what exactly is the reason you haven’t talked to a lawyer?
Not in Germany ;-)