skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) Chicago-school interest groups successfully putting people on courts and in the legislature to all but completely eliminate anti-trust enforcement, starting in the '70s. TL;DR policy used to be that a company holding too much market share was per se bad for the country and that the government could act on it, the shift added more tests making it slower (so, also more expensive) and harder to successfully enforce anti-trust, so much so that we all but stopped doing it.

2) Failure to send Nixon to prison.

3) Loss of the Fairness Doctrine under Reagan.

4) Failure to send a whole list of Reagan's folks (and maybe Reagan) to prison over Iran-Contra and other misdeeds. And those same names keep popping up, making things worse for the '90s and '00s. This was a huge mistake.

5) The Democrats totally surrendering economics policy to a newly farther-right [edit: more accurately, a set of policies championed by a certain set of pro-capital right wing interests—we recently saw this totally overthrown by right-populist policy, when Trump took over the party in 2016, which was the most remarkable development in US party politics since the '80s] Republican view, in the '80s, and adopting basically the same policy. This set the stage for the current backlash, because this all-in neoliberal shit was never popular, but persisted because both parties supported it.

6) Loosened media reach ownership rules in the early '00s.

7) CU

8) Nobody at any point finding a way to dismantle the Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society (if you're wondering "how", it seems the NRA had been doing all sorts of illegal shenanigans for a loooong time—I'd be absolutely floored if these two don't have some big ol' skeletons hanging around)

9) We all watch a coup attempt live on TV (re-watch some of the news footage if your memory is fading, it remains shocking) and then the Biden administration dicked around during the six months or so when it might have been possible to go after the leaders of it.

10) The Internet putting intense pressure on the news media, leading to even more profit-focus than before (and see also the loss of various controls above) with nothing done to try to mitigate that.

11) Extreme centralization of control of the narrative online under a handful of platforms (and the narrative is "whatever gets us more eyeballs", see again #11) and nothing done to fix that.
<<It was a lot of bang paths, where you'd list your e-mail address from a pretty well known location, like "hpfcla!hpilsb!linsomniac" and the sender would have to know or use trial and error to say "I bet ihnp4 can reach hpfcla.>>

I remember that my brother at Bell Labs had an address with bangs. He was working on System V stream drivers. For me, actual "email" started when we had DNS routing ad could email --or talk to-- user@shost.university.edu ... before I don't actually recall how I exchanged emails with my brother at Bell Labs. It's that period of time that I'm trying to reconstruct, around 1987 early 1988, when I immigrated to the U.S. (from UK... now back in UK as of last year)
This doesn't make any sense.

European companies pay VAT in Europe.
American companies pay VAT in Europe.
European companies do not pay VAT in US.
American companies do not pay VAT in US.

Where is the unfair competition?
I disagree. I highly appreciate @alterom's perspective and clear elucidation, and think the discussion has been fantastic.
Deadlock is absolutely not a Team Fortress spiritual successor, it has much much more in common with Dota 2 than TF2, and is really full of interesting features and polish for where it's at in its development.
You can grow olives in the US and there are some farms in CA. The quantities produced are orders of magnitude off though and given the time it takes to grow olive orchards we cannot replace our imports of olives in a reasonable time period.

There's a lot of examples like this. Coffee, and bananas come to mind. You can only grow those in Hawaii, or maybe Flordia, and there's absolutely not enough land to sate our imports. The whole theory behind international trade is that some countries do things well and others don't. In the case of food the reality is more that others can't.
> The fact that contemporary art circles handwave away that relevance while arrogantly mumbling "you're just miopic, ignorant and misguided, learn more" doesn't really change that fact.

> From the outside, it just shows that you too have been co-opted into the cult. You're free to subscribe to that view, but you don't get to gatekeep the meaning of art, no matter how many members that cult may have.

Isn't beauty in the eyes of the beholder though? I do see beauty in a lot of art deemed "part of the cult", how do you even attempt to objectively judge aesthetic beauty in a vacuum? Beauty exists in contexts, there is stuff that without the context just looks weird, with context it becomes beautiful, how do you assess the objective aesthetic beauty of such without delving into philosophical discussions?

You are all free to create an art movement that aspires to do what you believe art should be: aesthetically beautiful, devoid of philosophical meaning as pursuit of beauty, beauty for its own sake, etc., it will be included, admired, rejected, judged as misguided, so on and so forth, just like you are doing with contemporary art that you do not agree with.

Isn't that all art anyway?
A major goal of the complex computing infrastructure at large orgs is to wall off the ignorance and/or incompetence to contain, mitigate, or prevent its consequences.

(Note that "ignorance" is not pejorative here: not everyone can know everything.)
> They’re not saints, especially with the games distribution platform monopoly they’re sitting on top of

They got and have maintained that monopoly (I'll let others debate the merits of that wording) by being very very good to their users, which doesn't make the existence of the monopoly evidence that they aren't saints. If they were maintaining it through anticompetitive means, sure, but I've never seen anyone claim that they are, even Epic (who would definitely be making noise if they thought they could get anyone to listen).

The desktop video gaming ecosystem is in perhaps the best shape possible: there's one clear winner at the moment who makes all customers very happy, with a few runners up hedging against that winner becoming abusive after all. If Steam became worse than Epic it wouldn't take long for Epic to overtake them, but as long as it's not worse it's nice that everyone has agreed on a standard platform.
You're correct. Most people's views (i.e. moderates) are ideologically inconsistent with party-line. The loud X/bsky types refuse to decouple, and will double down even if the facts are wrong. Mind you on social media blue-tribe is much further left than the Democratic party.
(1) That is the paradigm of classification, don't knock it, and

(2) I did some work on a pre-product startup that wanted to build something like this about 10 years ago, when visual recognition was much less developed.
There wasn't, historically, the level of enormous potential negative consequences legally and practically if the universities talked back.

Universities, like many institutions, have also become more like large incumbent businesses than previously - e.g. perpetuating their own existence over having strong core values.
Presumably psychopathy combined with narcissism
The world disagrees with your assessment that this is going to be bad for the dollar. See recent movement of 10Y.
Nuclear is a bragging tool, but only useful in real war if things are going bad enough that you decide to end the world.

What will take Europe most of a decade is the combination of all the things you really want during war so you are not forced to end the world. Air defense - they have some but not near enough without the US. 5th generation fighter jets. Bombers. A navy - they have some great things but are missing many useful ships. They seem to have enough tanks, but are missing many other parts a modern army needs. And all of the above needs ammunition - they cannot provide Ukraine what is needed 3 years into that war - means they can't scale up to their owns needs if a war were to break out.

Fortunately war with Europe seems unlikely right now, but that can change fast and you need to be ready. Never has a battleship started during a war seen battle in that same war. (I don't know how to verify that claim, but it seems reasonable anyway)
I feel like most of these services simply take your prompt and ask a model for search queries regarding that prompt. Then add the resulting pages into the context.
Show HN: Tapotron – An iOS game where you just tap buttons
I made a game for iOS called TAPOTRON. It's a game where you tap buttons. That's all. But wait – there's more!

It's actually 16(!) buttons in a grid! You can tap them as fast as you can, slow and zen-like or in sequence. Three exciting game modes! In addition there are some secondary buttons to tap too. Like switching themes, view stats and leaderboards and even a settings-button!

All jokes aside. The concept is stupid simple, that's why I've tried to do the UI as fun as possible with inspiration from favorite retro electronics and implement haptics and satisfying sound and music. I've included a mascot called TAPTRONBOT that will encourage you with messages. You can also engage "Bad Robot Mode" and TAPOTRONBOT will be slightly disappointed and bored with you.

So you tap buttons and it will store your taps, best times, tap streak e t c. You choose a faction to join (I'm "HARD G. GIF" for life!) and your taps will contribute to your faction. You can also watch the global community's taps count upwards live as other tappers tap.

Your taps will earn you achievements and you'll unlock more visual themes as you tap along. If you tap every day your score multiplier will increase. The score multiplier is also based on you TPM (taps per minute).

And since it's such a silly concept (tap a button!) I've doubled down on comparing it to Tetris, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Minecraft, Fortnite e t c. TAPOTRON has ambitions of a AAA title but on a AA battery budget.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/6738282470

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZb_vG3nXao

Website: https://tapotron.com

It's only for iOS at the moment since it started out as a silly side project, but quickly snowballed to what it is now. Would be fun to port it to Android later on.

Also note: It's completely free to play and you can unlock stuff via progression. If you're lazy (or just want to support TAPOTRON) you can also purchase an unlock.

But, idea is to have it completely free. No third party trackers and completely ad-free.

If you have any feedback or questions just shoot! Stack is SwiftUI, Firebase Realtime database, Firestore database, Telemetry Deck for analytics.
>I could still use the T430, it was just starting to feel sluggish

A cleaning and re-paste will bring it back. If on windows maybe time for a windows re-install.

Typed on a T430 via BSD that was just re-pasted and cleaned, not sluggish anymore :) If you are interested *BSD, I can confirm both NetBSD and OpenBSD works great on the T430 I have.
If you'd go that far for fancy laptop soldering a new usbc slot every few years might be non issue for you :)
Yes, I typed help after two guesses... but go north? Or whats the point in having it tell you information and exits
>and working against US interests.

>We are in treason territory.

Are we just going to start throwing "treason" accusations whenever a political opponent does the wrong thing? Being anti-free trade? Hurts US hegemony and makes US consumers pay more. Treason. Being pro-free trade? Sells out hard working americans while enriching corporations. Treason.
The only question is how to get them employed where our economy needs them. Honestly I've worked in Manufacturing and it is fucking gnarly. Clean factories don't exist. Many of the men I worked with had some sort of mild mental disorder tending towards aggression. Constantly short serviced machines and price gouging by any contractors involved. There is a lot to figure out and before you end up with a hospitable work environment. I'm doubtful tubby mcgamesalot is going to hold down a job stamping metal parts all day getting his lunch eaten or pissed in.
People are supposed to communicate symbolically with LLMs too
The euro isn't a contender for two main reasons:

1. Europe is still dependent upon the US military and, as a consequence, is beholden to US foreign policy; and

2. No unified fiscal policy.

As for the unsuitability of the yuan, there are several reasons:

1. The yuan was once pegged to the US dollar. It's now pegged to a basket of currencies instead. This, by definition, makes China a currency manipulator because you wouldn't need to peg the currency otherwise;

2. The yuan is undervalued by this manipulation. It should really be more expensive, making China's exports more expensive. China does this to maintain their export competitiveness. If anything, increased demand for the yuan would be unwelcome as it would increase the pressure to appreciate the yuan;

3. China runs a trade surplus. It's basically inevitable that the country with the reserve currency will run a deficit;

4. The US running a government deficit is actually kind of a good thing for maintaining a reserve currency. China, for example, holds trillions in US government bonds. Do you really think they want to upset that apple cart?
So far the fight/not fight decisions can be predicted in advanced based on whether an institution has a medical center with NIH grants.
Why is it a binary choice? This is just reductive. The idea that we couldn't maintain American hegemony and return more of the benefits of it to the middle/lower classes seems silly.

This is about tearing down a system / world order that a lot of people are angry about, with little thought to how to replace it and make it work for the citizens. The global economy has changed, manufacturing capabilities in the west will never be competitive again for a wide variety of products, and those jobs are not ones that regular Americans want anyway. Just like they don't want the farming jobs that illegal immigrants are doing.

This vision to essentially return America to a idealized view of 1900 is in for a rude awakening.
You mean like afraid of being deported when they are here legally?
> There is more than one project to rewrite the GNU utils in Rust?

coreutils != posixutils

That is, GNU coreutils is POSIX + their own extensions. So there’s only one project (that I’m aware of) that’s trying to rewrite the GNU coreutils, and that’s the uutils project.

However, there is also this project, which is trying to implement the various POSIX utils, and the POSIX parts only.
Trump's tariff mania goes back decades. There was an article about it in The Times a couple of days ago. Sadly, it's paywalled.

https://www.thetimes.com/us/news-today/article/why-trump-tar...
Full Screen Tabs – Native Chrome Tab Navigation in Full-Screen Mode
I’ve been frustrated for years with Chrome’s full-screen mode hiding my tabs. As a developer constantly toggling between docs, code, and Stack Overflow, losing tab access killed my flow. So I built Full Screen Tabs – a lightweight extension that brings Chrome’s tab bar into full-screen mode.

How it works:
Adds a draggable, auto-hiding navigation bar
Preserves all native Chrome functionality (tab groups, keyboard shortcuts)
Zero permissions required (no telemetry, works offline)

Tech challenges:
Reverse-engineered Chrome’s tab strip behavior (surprisingly undocumented)
Implemented performant drag-and-drop that works across multi-monitor setups
Solved z-index battles with video players and PDF viewers
The biggest problem with LLMs is that they are very good at presenting something that looks like a correct solution without having the required knowledge to confirm if it is indeed correct.

So my concern is more "do you know how to verify" rather than "did you forget to verify".
I don’t talk politics much when I’m first getting to know someone because our country is so polarized that they automatically assume you are one of two extreme groups. Most people’s political beliefs are similar to religious beliefs, they have them because their parents/community had those beliefs or they attend a certain church(MSNBC, Fox News, etc.) that consistently reinforces their beliefs instead of encouraging critical thought about their positions. This also leads to overly moralizing political affiliation, you’re “one of them” and “a bad person”, not a thinking person whose beliefs can be changed with facts/discussion.

I think the solution is tolerance. Whatever your politics are they don’t typically affect me personally. I have a few friends that are far further right than Ben Shapiro and a couple that are far more left than Bernie Sanders and want literal Communism. They range from extreme authoritarian to extreme libertarian or various flavors of anarchist. Some want to ban guns entirely and some want personal ownership of bazookas. Diversity! I often enjoy hearing their thoughts and we have all been able to change each others’ minds on a few issues. People’s minds do change, but it’s a slow process.

That said, politics is a burden to me in some relationships. It’s hard to have a calm rational discussion when my family member says “The muslims are walking across the Gulf of Mexico and setting up terror cells in Texas”. They actually believe we’re experiencing terrorist attacks and its just not being reported. I guess my limit for a comfortable discussion is some level of contact with reality.
Your country really needs more political parties.
Quiet? Trump has been bellowing about his tariffs for months. China, South Korea and Japan -- long absolute adversaries -- even had a meeting about how to respond. The actual tariff plan is 0% based upon reciprocity, and instead is based upon "we're a rich country that buys lots of stuff, so let's punish the citizens who buy stuff" (as the largest tax hike in history). There are tariffs for unoccupied island chains.

And these apply immediately. This is an administrative impossibility. CBP is going to have a disastrous couple of weeks about this rag tag collection of barely defined nonsense.

This is 100% disaster, top to bottom.
It's because the far left and the far right are both made of up of people deeply disaffected by the status quo, and when those people talk they often find that at the very least many of their grievances overlap.

In terms of today's landscape there is a list of things like LGBTQ issues, race, gender equality, abortion, religion, etc., and if you avoid things on that list you'll find a huge overlap between the views of the far left and the far right. Both are broadly opposed to what's popularly called neoliberalism, the post-Reagan/Clinton post-cold-war order, and the reasons for this opposition overlap quite a bit if you again avoid the topics that I listed. From that perspective, blowing up the system is the goal. When they see trade policies like these crash the present system, they view that as a success because they think the current system is such a mistake that it must be smashed.

(I am not making a judgment in this post, just explaining the landscape.)
But the comment also said "with my usual being 3-4x that amount". I don't know how to square the math in that comment except to interpret it as "180oz is my minimum, my usual is 3-4 times as much as 180oz".
Basically the whole “synths and samplers aren’t real instruments” thing from 1970, all over again.
> Vietnam does manipulate its currency.

So does every country in the world, this is neither surprising nor reason to slap tariffs on imports (which will hurt US consumers).

> I have no idea if the tariffs will work

We have lots of examples from history of tariffs not working, so there is that. They lead to trade wars, and then sometimes to real wars, never to prosperity.

The unparalleled prosperity the US enjoyed in the last few decades before 2008 was driven by open global trade and being the currency of last resort and the centre of world markets. I think there is a lot of complacency in the US about that position, and we're seeing the beginning of the end.
People are remarkably cheap and versatile especially if you happen to don’t give a fuck about them. I find it hard to imagine a high-tech incredibly unreliable complex robot to be of any value in the battlefield. Even my phone is remarkably unreliable, have to keep it charged, bugs, etc. I noticed this during COVID and its QR-scanning phase at restaurants.

A simple pipe bomb or two will make short work of any incoming monstrosity.

What they need is simple, simple tech, cheap and lots and lots of it. Basic drones and RC cars rigged with stupid bombs will accomplish 90% of what fancy robodogs can do at a fraction of the cost.
If ChatGPT was available back then, sure.
Did similar. A 2008 white macbook and a late 2008 unibody macbook (non-pro). It was a fun project.

The white plastic macbook is in decent shape too with just standard light scratching on the body. It was sold for parts only but worked just fine. Needed a battery replacement, and I found some old magsafe "L" chargers for cheap. Maxed out the RAM at 4GB (Supports 6GB (4G+2G) but 1pc of 4GB DDR2 are expensive).

The 2008 unibody macbook needed the lower body replaced (bad keyboard main issue) but the rest of it works fine. The original battery still worked and held some charge, but I got a 3rd party one anyway along with the magsafe "L" charger. Maxed out RAM at a usable 8GB DDR3. This was also sold dirt cheap "for parts".

Both ran MX Linux for awhile until I needed the SATA SSDs. They now sit with their old mechanical hdds and the last supported OSX versions on them. Maybe one day I'll get around to selling them.
The clearest evidence of incompetence for all to see is Trump's cabinet from his first term. If they're actively speaking out against him, something is seriously wrong.

> Rex Tillerson on Trump: ‘Undisciplined,’ ‘doesn’t like to read' and tries to do illegal things

Sadly, people didn't vote for Trump so much as they voted for "anti-woke." Or: I am tired of being looked down on and this is my revenge.
I think you're misunderstanding the meaning of "Software freedom". It refers more to the process and transparency of the software than to the choice. That said, the Steam Deck is just a handheld PC. And Valve gives instructions on how to install Windows on it should you want to do that. https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/6121-ECCD-D643-BA...

Often we talk about software freedom in the context of open-source development and free-software licenses like the GPL. The Free Software Foundation stated as a bootstrapping organization to write open source software for the GNU platform (Linux/Unix standard userspace environment). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Software_Foundation

Valve is pretty well respected from that perspective. SteamOS is built on Arch Linux. They publish the source for most of their Linux tools https://github.com/ValveSoftware/. The development of Proton, their in-house compatibility layer that uses Wine under the hood, is also open source and developed with community involvement. Single hardware platform makes it easier to handle the morass of driver development. They upstream their changes to other projects. There are actually open source forks of things like Proton (https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/proton-ge-custom is a popular one).
I'm surprised by how many concerns there are here related to how the tariff amounts were calculated.

It seems like they used a pretty simple algorithm to do it. Isn't that a good thing? Countries were treated the same and the tariff was decided primarily by the trade imbalance (with a minimum of 10%). Would we rather them use a combination of completely incomprehensible calculations and backroom deals?

Its open season for debating whether tariffs will work, or even what the underlying motivations are. Attacking the use of a simple algorithm across the board just feels lazy and either emotionally or politically charged.