skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We don't have any evidence, but we just know they are bad people. Because ... reasons ... that we don't have to share with silly plebians like you."

Perhaps this sounds familiar ...

"While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205." -- Senator Joseph McCarthy
I'm absolutely not a pro coder, i just crunch numbers and i would love to see some improvements speed-wise in dataframe operations.
As the saying goes, there’s no such thing as a fish - that is, there is no reasonable definition that both strongly selects for fish was, while rejecting non-fish.
Well firstly, bodies corporate are obviously legal persons and nobody with any clue disagrees with that. But that isn't what I am talking about.

Every company has a board of directors who are natural persons, and ownership eventually is traceable back to natural persons, and their officers are natural persons. Grouping people up doesn't make them unpersons.

Worker and employer not your preferred languahe? Call it worker and manager, worker and executive, worker and CEO. Whatever you want. But the sentiment is very real. It is about treating the workplace as an antagonistic, conflict-driven, zero-sum environment. If I win, you lose. If you win, I lose.

I don't think that is how real workplaces actually work. I like my employer and I like my boss. Without them, I'd be out if a job. Without me, they'd be out of a worker. I don't think we have opposing interests at all.

It is definitely identity politics. It is the original identity politics: Marxism. The proletariat against the bourgeoisie and all that rubbish.
But if it is political/religious view? I don't quite understand how we can draw a line here. In general, belonging to a religion or political movement literally means that the subject has a set of certain explicitly stated views.
https://archive.ph/too55
Exascale Supercomputers Tracking Down Dark Matter, Dark Energy
It is everyone who kept on the path instead of saying 'I don't care what you say I'll defend your right to say it'. If you can't allow someone else to say things you don't like you are at fault - it doesn't matter how good hou think you are.
Trump's Tariffs Wipe Out over $6T on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout
This doesn't directly answer the question, but global free trade has been a calamity for the middle- and working-class. It needs to be razed to the ground, and salt sowed in the fields, etc. This is one way of ending it.

Consider the case of Phil Knight of Nike. Here's what someone posted on Twitter (I don't know the account so obviously don't endorse everything, or anything else, it says):

"Knight's big "innovation" in shoe manufacturing was figuring out how to be one of the first people to flood the American market with cheaply made plastic footwear from Asia. Knight didn't make better, more durable shoes; he made cheaper ones by blowing up the native American industry.

Access to slave labor is, in the short run, a competitive advantage over skilled free labor.

In 1990, 10 years after the Nike IPO, there were 85,000 Americans employed making shoes. Today there are only 10,000 and 99% of our shoes are made overseas. The only exception is footwear for the military.

Phil Knight, however, is worth $35 billion and Nike has a market cap of $90 billion.

In other words, the good middle class wages once generated by homegrown American shoe manufacturing have been transformed by outsourcing into equities owned by a small class of investors and one insanely wealthy oligarch.

Global free trade is a way for the powerful to screw over the middle class by forcing them to compete with third world slave labor.

Yes, with high tariffs, Americans would have to pay slightly more for shoes. In return, however, they would be subsidizing good paying jobs and a decentralized industrial base in their own communities.

Global free trade, on the other hand, subsidizes massive increases in asset valuation. If you are one of the first "in on the ground floor" then you can make insane amounts of money by blowing up middle class wages by outsourcing those jobs overseas.

Libertarians and Wall Street types love to call this "capitalism" and the "free market" at work, but in reality, they are defrauding their countrymen out of the opportunity to build products themselves.

Americans are no longer able to make shoes at home. That option is not available to you. How can we call this a "free market" when it constrains our choices?

Outsourcing is 100% a government subsidy. It is a privilege, allowed by the state, to a select few citizens who figure out how to manipulate the international market to their advantage.

Phil Knight discovered the much cheaper Asian shoe market in the early 1960s because he had the money to travel abroad. His middle class neighbors making an honest living making shoes did not have that opportunity."
Mongo in (British? West country which happens to retain relatively more Saxonism and other Germanic influence?) English too actually, or more often 'mong', but it's not prevalent enough that I've made the link before.
The thing is, Woz already wrote floating point routines which were included in the Apple II ROMs themselves that you could call with PEEK/POKE. They just were never integrated into the BASIC language itself!

http://retro.hansotten.nl/uploads/mag6502/Apples%20Hidden%20...
A million years ago (in the age of “made in Dreamweaver” badges on web sites) I had a dumb little ball-and-stick image of adenosine triphosphate and I made a dumb little “made with ATP” badge, because I typed out html with plain-vanilla vim.
Suffering as a Service
If you don't feel bad about it you are not a defender of free speech. Eventially a line must be drawn and you have to not allow things. However it should make you uncomfortable no matter how bad thone things are.
Unless you’re dealing with wills and stuff, and real property the civil law system isn’t really affecting people that much because you have to have some compatibility with the other 49 states. Even divorce is not as unique as it was. But yeah, it still is a disadvantage to incorporate here.
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While I agree with your sentiment, I think a useful mental model thinks of business bros/MBAs et. al. as natural consequences of growth-at-all-costs capitalism. By our economy’s very nature there’s demand for more every quarter, with substantial money riding on that more occurring on time and as expected. So there’s of course then demand for the services of professionals specialising in more. One can still dislike them of course, as one might the police as an institution, for example, but I don’t find it useful to hate them as people. Ultimately most of us are drawn by incalculable circumstance and survival pressures into happenstance careers, and alienating other humans doesn’t do anything to progress a cause.

Before posting this I feel it’s worth clarifying I didn’t take you to say you do hate them as people, please excuse the ramble.
I don't think many people have actually contemplated what absence of law, defined as rules that apply to rich and powerful people too, is like.

In a world with law, there are restriction on what society's most powerful can and can't do, because there are police officers, detectives, lawyers, and judges, who all work together to make sure there are consequences for crimes.

In a world without law, the only restriction on what someone with a lot of money or power can do is what they can get away with. We flirted with this territory by subjecting the rich to a very different justice system than the poor, but we are now solidly in the territory of no limits to rich people's power so long as they don't threaten other rich people.

We are now in the realm of having to consider not what is allowed to be done, but what can be done. We can no longer ask what is legal to do, only what is possible to do. It is possible for several men to ambush a person, put them in a car, put them in chains, and send them to a black site without due process. That is a thing that can physically happen in reality. That is a thing that has happened in other countries. Locking political opponents in mental institutions is a thing that can happen. While it seems unlikely that it will happen here, "intellectuals," those with the capability of challenging those in power, have been rounded up and forced to dig their own graves. Babies have been smashed against trees. That is a thing that has happened in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge at the killing fields. That is a thing that is possible to happen. Forced labor camps are a thing that can and has happened. Mass famine as a result of disastrous government policy is a thing that can and has happened. Extermination of humans based on genetic traits is a thing that can happen.

There is no magical power that prevents these things from happening. These things happen because people make decisions to act or not act. Individuals choose to passively let bad things happen rather than put themselves at risk to say no.

Who would stop that abduction from happening with force? What if the men doing that are police officers? What if they go after your family the day after?

The constitution is just a piece of paper. Law is just an idea. For it to have any effect on physical reality, it requires someone to take actions on its behalf. Nothing on a piece of paper forces a president to follow a law. Human beings who believe in something enforce, or don't enforce, the law.

What kind of person will you be if the unthinkable starts happening?
I just asked gpt to draw an asian viking, and it did. What’s the problem?
The scenario being discussed is employers looking at employees’ public statements, or third parties telling employers about those public statements. I don’t think that’s anything close to harassment.
Write down the problem. Think real hard. Write down the solution.

(The Feynman method—described by someone who observed him, though, not the man himself).
Sounds like there's market demand for a consultant that builds the sales engine then. A lot of people don't know what to say, how to say it, who to approach.
That is such an unrealistic and out of touch comment that I barely know where to begin. The USA (and its allies) killed millions of enemy civilians in WWII. This was not an accident; military leaders knew exactly what they were doing and were proud of it. Strategic bombing campaigns leveled cities. Submarine forces sank unarmed merchant vessels with all hands. This was considered acceptable to win the war. Should we now hold other countries to a different standard?

Hamas is a terrorist organization. There can be no possible debate about that point.

Real life is not like what you see in the movies. Modern militaries are in no way able to consistently do surgical strikes with no collateral damage. That is magical thinking.

Your comparison with civilian law enforcement is so specious that I suspect you're not even commenting in good faith. There no "volunteer SWAT teams", that's not a real thing (the officers on those teams do volunteer for the duty but they get paid). SWAT teams aren't tasked with fighting their way through hundreds of terrorists to capture a suspect; they're generally up against no more than a few criminals armed with small arms. And it's unfortunately fairly common for law enforcement to accidentally shoot innocent bystanders or hostages.

It's cheap easy to criticize and claim the moral high ground when you don't have to make hard choices or deal with the consequences. Again I'm not attempting to justify war crimes but the decisions get a lot messier when you step away from your computer and operate in the real world.
The argument is basically that because the deportees had no due process to be deported that no due process can bring them back. The Trump administration claims that they are gang members, but provided no evidence to support this claim, and then refused to work with any members of the judicial system attempting to provide oversight. In any other administration this would be a scandal that rocks the media for months and ends with the resignation of several top officials. For the Trump administration it was Tuesday.
From where are you getting LBJ quoting? Even a cursory Google only coughs up Sam Rayburn.

I actually have to look for LBJ using it in "Remarks at an Airport Rally in Wilmington, Delaware".

Wikiquote seems to have the validated references.

While Rayburn may be the first to use this quote in a recorded way, I can certainly believe that it is much older than Rayburn.
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What kind of consent? On an individual basis? Because the assholes won't pay putting more burden on those who do while the assholes use the further power/capital disparity to corrupt society in their favor. Governmentally we have many times, every time a new government is formed, and there is always the option of the people tearing it all down when it stops doing what it is suppose to when all the other alternatives are made impossible.

Also every society that concentrates power into a larger government through taxation will inevitably invade and destroy or subjugate those who decided they wanted the smallest bare minimum of community support and collective services that leaves them vulnerable.
Poor Charlie's Almanack Teaser (2023)
It seems already a mature and seamless solution.
Thank you
It's like the UK Rwandan exile program, but somehow worse.
html: https://www.stripe.press/poor-charlies-almanack/book
Emergency order to increase logging in California forests
Several counterexamples recently:

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/video-donald-trump-germany-cr...

22:20 ("social center raid for a progressive resistance flyer") 26:20 ("hate crimes") 30:25 (shutting down a congress) ...
Claude is love. Claude is life.
I’ve often wondered if it’s much harder begging for money these days.
https://archive.is/XMnlS
No, I'm not going to disagree with your empty statement; there's nothing there to even take a stance on. The problem with your original position is that there are real differences between A) getting deported for saying there are too many civilian casualties in Gaza, B) materially supporting Hamas, C) getting fired because you have a secret twitter account where you're overtly racist, and D) refusing to bake a cake for a gay wedding then getting sued and becoming a media spectacle.

Your argument can be used to support consequences for every single one of these scenarios because it's just "maybe when a bad thing happens it was deserved". Sure, yeah, sometimes people deserve things and sometimes they don't, but pointing this out is a useless addition to a conversation.
Speaking of formatting, one thing I've always found weird is the amount of time and effort people decide to fonts. They discuss things like readability etc. They're all readable! It's not that interesting!
I think some of the AI demos are kind of comedy gems.

I have seen the Apple Intelligence presentation a while ago and in the span of five minutes they had someone asking the assistant to expand a one liner into an e-mail and then someone receiving a long e-mail and asking the AI to summarize it.

We spun GPUs to expand, then spun them again to summarize. Gold.
>>I'm not a headphone person but always have music playing in the background on speakers — often at a fairly low volume so it is easily ignored...<<

Given the number of self-exonerating qualifications in that statement, I think that deep down you know that people who play their music aloud in the office should be shot.
"Final Usonian home" constructed to plans Wright completed just before his death
People still need a job and quitting doesn’t change anything
> the end result is that not a single large city in Europe, US, or Japan decreased the housing costs by "just building more".

This is just factually inaccurate? I don't think we can meaningfully discuss anything if you're going to lie about major claims like this.
I was looking at used cars on Carmax about two or three weeks ago. I looked again today. They're another $1-2k.

This is the shareholder/political class trying to eat their cake and have it too. Pay people a stagnant wage for 40 years while taking most of the surplus value and dedicating it to equities, then pretend to do something about it, but in a way that passes the buck to the people who have been making a stagnant wage so that the wealthy don't incur actual losses.

Share prices will be brought back up through layoffs.
I had no idea what I was getting into with that book
Thousands? Personal reservations?
> Should centralized money come to pass many of us will just move to local food production, bartering and ignore the tax system all together.

Doubt
Pytorch???
Not going to comment on the politics, but I'd point out that recession odds on Kalshi are currently 64% and 58% on Polymarket [1,2]. In other words, recession in 2025 is more likely than not -- though far from guaranteed.

My thought relevant to HN is that either way this is likely to decimate venture capital and startups, at least in the short run. Venture capital funds come from limited partners like pensions and endowments, and the professionals I know are all shifting away from growth stocks and into value, international and bonds. VC is already in a drought (except for AI) and now my guess is that it's going to get worse. So many VCs I know have started only in the last 15 years, so they have never seen a real recession like 2009 while working in venture.

[1] https://kalshi.com/markets/kxrecssnber/recession

[2] https://polymarket.com/event/us-recession-in-2025
I'm just curious for folks who have read through the material OP suggested as well as, the book linked in this HN thread, are your guys primary motivation to understand and fill in that curiosity part of your head vs making a career out of this?

Is it reasonable to think that if one grinds to the book suggested here and background in web/dev SWE, one can break into ML/AI role?
So where is the bottom?

I don’t actually believe there is one, I’m just curious to hear what other people think.
This is from 2014. Is it really relevant anymore?
If I remember correctly early HTML specs actually used Tcl as an example for script tag content.

It was definitely possible that Tcl could have ended up the web sripting language.
The powers under the Act don't specify a standard of proof required. It just says:

>all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies. The President is authorized in any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed on the part of the United States, toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject and in what cases, and upon what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any other regulations which are found necessary in the premises and for the public safety.

Nothing there about the President needing to prove anything beyond a reasonable doubt. Presumably he would need to prove the particular facts, in habeus corpus proceedings, should they be brought, only on the balance of probabilities?
The middle and working class are the ones who would be paying signficantly more for shoes in this scheme. A minute fraction of them having jobs making shoes instead of the jobs they would have otherwise wouldn't balance things out.

I also take issue with the trend of describing low paying jobs as "slave labor". Absolutely nobody in vietnam is heralding these tariffs, since they don't look forward to working even worse paying jobs as a result. Free trade benefits everyone except for abstruse dilettantes online.
This is a bit of hyperbole. Market will normalize, the most extreme case which even the biggest critics of Trump argue, will be recession. Even that's a probability and not a certainty. How are you predicting Depression (global no less)?

Speaking as one of the biggest Trump critics.
Wow!! I wonder how many development teams were driven to SQLAlchemy over this? It’s at least one :)

Got my team a nice consulting engagement with @zzzeek, and we are still chugging along with Django+sqla over a decade later.
It is interesting that tech (Nasdaq) is the hardest hit here. The real engine of US exports for recent decades and likely to be a casualty as other countries plan their trade-war retaliation.

And that's not even taking into consideration what might happen in the domestic market should there be a real recession - consumers will cut down their consumption and that'll filter back to lower corporate earnings.

In previous economic stumbles, US exports abroad were able to buffer domestic weakness. Probably not anymore...
This would not help you unless you were planning to reimage the laptop. It’s a tool that makes it easier to build custom images, which are usually deployed at scale in enterprise environments.
This is an inherently political subject, but I would appreciate a dispassionate argument explaining how this could be even remotely good for the U.S.'s economy in a way that is light on MAGA ideology and doesn't simply claim the overwhelming majority of economists are dumb. I'm simply not seeing even a glimmer of a possible upside right now. I see even less possibility of an upside for those of us North of the border or pretty much anywhere else on the globe.
1930 all over again.
The chemistry isn't that hard to produce oil from basically nothing of value, but the energy costs aren't trivial, and that means we don't need a 1:1 energy replacement from fossil fuel sources to solar panels, we need more like a 10x increase in global energy production to replace fossil fuels with solar for example.

The only really feasible way to produce that much electricity renewably by this point in time or even within the next 20+ years has been nuclear energy, which the world largely turned their backs on the last few decades and left us in an even bigger hole to fill.
Feel free to school me on all the valid reasons they had. Just bear in mind that I have no love for the opposing party either, I just consider them the lesser of two evils.

I don't feel arrogant about this, I feel depressed and angry.
No. I have watched the full press briefing. Res ipsa loquitur.
You know the craziest thing about watching this as an outsider in Canada is that we as a nation are losing one reliable trading partner (and obviously losing an ally but that's another conversation). Germany - losing a trade partner. Japan? And so on. But the US has lost 180 reliable trading partners. You're already seeing in the first week burgeoning trade alliances between nations who wouldn't have cooperated before, and the amount of resentment against America from this is going to take a generation to heal.

Of course I'm sure some people would claim this is 4D chess or what not but.. sometimes the person doing something crazy is just crazy at the end of the day.
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NixOps Virtualization
I know in the late 90s, early 2000s they were Vignette shop, back when it was a Tcl application. Can only imagine their relief getting to carry over their tcl knowledge while no longer having to suffer with Vignette. I don't think I've ever heard anyone that actually liked Vignette.
Why would it be obviously ridiculous if it granted the parent commenter so much productivity?

Perhaps the same obvious ridiculousness that manual agrarians passed upon the tractor.
This would be good for trying to get something done on the computer while managing a toddler
...are you serious?
Can someone explain what this thing does or how this is useful?