skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cruely and revenge upon one's perceived ideological foes are the core organizing principles of this administration. This is a purge, similar to that of Jews of the Germany in the 1930s. The NIH in particular and civil servants in general are just one facet of this. The purge of academic ranks is another (eg [1]).

What makes this possible is hyper-individualism, decades (if not centuries) of attack on any sort of collectivism and the fomented division of ordinary people based on race, class, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender or religion. I'm reminded of this LBJ quote:

“If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

It echoes fears of the former slave-owning class in Reconstruction that poor white people would unify with freed slaves.

It's wild to me that we're reliving Nazi Germany less than a century later while victims of the Nazi regime, direct first-hand witnesses, are still alive.

[1]: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/3/29/harvard-cmes-di...
> I was surprised because Cloudflare’s central messaging is that their network is fast, and disappointed becuase I’m a happy user of their other products (domains, DNS, pages, and R2).

I've glanced through D1's docs and I immediately noticed system traits like:

- database stored in a single primary region where all writes need to go,

- cold starts involve opening a connection to D1,

- cache misses in local replicas involve fetching data back from the primary region,

- D1 is built upon sqlite, which I think doesn't support write concurrency well.

- D1 doesn't actively cache results from the primary region to the edge, so you'll have cache misses pretty frequently.

Etc.

These traits don't scream performance.
Managers vibe coding, what to expect?
Maybe if we imported Chinese engineers and factory tech (along with German engineers and tech), we could do this quickly. But we would also have to prioritize a huge outlay in building factories infrastructure, and when done…we still wouldn’t have enough poorly educated women to staff these factories (who typically staff these factories in Asia, so maybe we import lots of Chinese robots as well?).
The “reciprocal” tariffs are nothing close to reciprocal. I hope you know by now that the numbers Trump presented were not actual tariff numbers that other countries put on us.

The trust issue is domestic, too. Businesses just got slapped with the largest tax increase in history at home. Pointing fingers at other countries is a distraction. It’s ridiculous to think that this will encourage companies to start building factories here when even the raw materials are now heavily taxed on their way in to the country. Any sane company is going to pause US factory investment until there is some clarity and predictability.
The rest of the world has moved on and no longer using GPLv3.

In the early 2000s all the miscellaneous small projects on sourceforge used GPLv2 (v3 was not out yet).

These days you'll be hard pressed to find any new projects using GPLv3, except the ones with close ties to the GNU or FSF.

The GPL is getting more irrelevant and more easy to avoid. That's why nobody is afraid of GPLv3 any more.
Yes it did, but the irrational exuberance was ongoing till this trigger.

Now we get to see if Bitcoin’s use value of 0 is really supporting 1.5 trillion market cap and if OpenAI is really worth $300 billion.

I mean softbank just invested in openai, and they’ve never been wrong, right?
Americans Are Sitting on a Cash Pile as Stocks Reel
I am happy that this kind of tracking project exists.

The current tariffs policy of Trump's regime could even be a market manipulation for their personal enrichnent: send the stock markets crashing with a very dumb financial decision, buy a lot of stocks when they are low, and right after cancel the dumb decision, and then profit.

They have nuked the SEC for a reason, haven't they?
> Trade deficit aside, we shouldn’t let others collect a larger % of their imports from America than we collect of our imports from them.

Why should you care how much another country charges its residents to import stuff from the US?

Just sell at the price you want to sell at and who cares what goes on after your goods land.
https://archive.ph/x7ICB
Why did apple not pursue it for the watch then?
Kona Coffee! Hawaii. We bought some once, it was about $48 a pound (and a very long time ago). We all huddled around it and evaluated the taste, and honestly, we could not tell that it was that much better from Navy coffee. I guess it will be $96 a pound soon! We will become a nation of Tea drinkers.... oh wait!
>This isn’t a normal drawdown. This is a crisis with the leadership of the United States.

The same thing happened just 4 short years ago when covid hit. Mass panic and then intervention kicked in. The intervention could have been taken away at any time but the market went extremely risk-on anyway and you would have gotten left behind if you sold out.

>but even then the markets will be cautious for the next 4 years at minimum.

You are overestimating the cautiousness of the market. Unless there are better returns offered in some other investment, the capital is going to pile back in if something like tariff deals start getting announced.
Much of the brain power used in American tech was imported. I don’t think it could have happen if we were isolationists and anti-immigration.
Ah that’s true. Failure to pay is 0.5 percent of the unpaid balance per month. Are there investments that pay more to make it worth it?

Maybe it about not wanting to eat stock loss yet having to sell in what looks like a bad market if they plan on using that to pay taxes.
I think the OP's point is that there are more "dark mirror ideologies" than the author claims, because the author was focused on examples that are too extreme (and therefore rare). The OP is showing that there are more reasonable oppositions that appear to fit the dark mirror definition and are not simply a false accusation.
I read Buffett's proposed solution. It's clever - it must be about as close as you can get to a market based solution. But as you say, it won't be implemented, if for no other reason that Trump wouldn't trust a solution he doesn't control and doesn't directly benefit from.

His introduction to his solution reads more like a prophecy. Other countries, including have also taken the trade deficit path. Mine is nowhere far as down that path as the USA, but still it makes me nervous. I saw no way out - until Trump. It looks very likely Trump will make Buffett's prophecy come true. The fallout should make all sorts of thinks possible - including solving the trade deficit issue.
Cartography is strongly opinionated. The dirty secret, which I don’t think most people realize, is that there is no correct, reproducible source upon which to base the creation of a map. Every frame of reference is known to be wrong in material ways, so maps are a bit of a polite fiction that work well if you don’t look at them too closely. Maps are more suggestions than truth even in the best of cases.

Maps are still useful but as the old saying goes, maps are not the territory. Physics puts a practical bound on how closely a map can represent the territory that in modern contexts turns out to be important.
Free Trade Didn't Kill the Middle Class
Don’t believe the stories they tell, look at what they do instead.
This is different. It was entirely avoidable. Entirely predictable. Entirely preventable.

Hell, it’s mostly reversible if the administration would own their mistake. But they won’t.

That’s the problem: This is not a natural disaster or even a reaction to a market-created crash. It was orchestrated by the people who were supposed to be doing the opposite.

I don’t believe claims that the United States is doomed or other hyperbole. I do believe that this is firmly different than anything we’ve seen in our lifetimes though.
So Open Source is like a dark mirror version of Free Software.
Open Source thinks that there's benefit in programs being free, but also that defending their freedom is actually a bad thing.
Experts also do not know the answer to that.
https://archive.ph/P2cU1
Yes it is very problematic. Im more concerned about political and sociological manipulation where lies and deceit are used to convince people to support agendas which go against there own best interests.
PHP isn't dead. Laravel is just bloated. Here's what I made instead
You could call the store or your friends, no ads there.

What are these apps that are required for your daily life?

My iPhone doesn't have any ads by default outside of the app store.

You're imagining a complete restricting of society and you're not even willing to do without a few apps and Instagram.
Weird thing is, in Google AI Studio all their models—from the state-of-the-art Gemini 2.5Pro, to the lightweight Gemma 2—gave a roughly correct answer. Most even recognised the packing efficiency of spheres.

But Google search gave me the exact same slop you mentioned. So whatever Search is using, they must be using their crappiest, cheapest model. It's nowhere near state of the art.
CNN.com was definitely using the StoryBuilder part up until the 2005 redesign as it's noted in the source of each and every article, and there were some tell-tale droppings on the home page as well.
I also believe that billboards should be banned, inside and outside of a city. In addition to being excessive advertising which should be avoided, they also usually take up space (that could better be for trees, paths, etc).

Someone has also suggested taxing them. Maybe in some cases, they can be taxed instead of banned, although in some cases probably should just be banned.

Advertising signs might be permitted in some places inside of buildings (especially if they are advertising items being sold there (e.g. foods at a restaurant)), although even then it is probably best not to use too brightly lighted computer/television displays (which waste too much power and also produce too might light; in many cases, e-paper displays would be useful for commercial displays (not only advertising, but also e.g. business hours, which rarely change but sometimes do often enough (e.g. holidays) that it can help to occasionally change the display) that do not need to change very often), and they should also avoid being dishonest advertising.
For the tarrifs specifically it wasn't the case as they were under an emergency powers bill which could be cancelled using a privileged resolution without veto, but that was until the Continuing Resolution which took away that safeguard.
That's a fun game. I made an anagram game myself a few years ago.

https://conundrum.fun/

Seeing some of the other comments reminded me that most of the work went into trimming the word lists so that it wasn't rude or randomly impossibly difficult.
Exactly. Much more stable and much more uptodate as Debian derivates. But much less packages also.
Yes! I loved that one! I was singing it afterward. ("Thank you for your attention, this robot rap is over")

I'm impressed that they were able to slip in a jab about the ridiculousness of having to tell you how to buckle a seatbelt.
> How much software is actively being written in unsafe languages?

Well, let's see. Most major operating system kernels for starters. Web browsers. OpenSSL. Web servers/proxies like Apache, Nginx, HAProxy, IIS, etc. GUI frameworks like Gtk, Qt, parts of Flutter. And so on.
> "The market" has no idea what the impact of the proposed changes are. Setting aside the obvious questions about whether or not this stuff will even happen, it's just not possible for something this complex to be evaluated so quickly.

This is just false. Countless people were busy running scenarios based on the expected range of tariffs. It wasn’t a surprise that tariffs were coming. It was a shock that they were so insanely high and that the people putting them forward were so clueless about it.

> [1] Just for example: what does it even mean for an "X% tarrif on all products from country Y" to be imposed? The Harmonized Tariff Schedule is hundreds of thousands of line items, each with a different rate. Are they all being replaced with a single number? Is that line item number being multiplied by a factor? Something else? I guarantee that almost nobody knows the answer to that question right now. I'm not even sure an answer exists.

You’re projecting your own lack of understanding on to everybody else. The changes have been out already and any company that does business has already read through the documents.

Just because you don’t know or understand doesn’t mean that nobody does.
They were not-for-profit until the potential for large-scale profit emerged, at which point they decided to become for-profit. It's taking the whole 'socialize costs, privatize profits' to an entirely new level.

The exact legalese preventing or enabling this is unclear to me, but if it became a norm then basically every for-profit startup would likely start out as a not-for-profit taking advantage of all that offers and then segueing to for-profit when big investment/sales opportunities emerge, and at this point we're making a mockery of everything these classifications are supposed to stand for.
I doubt the outcome would've been much different had they used their complex and thoughtful set of filters (sys.rand)
If you go a gen or two back, you can get 3x3090 for the same price.
America is dreaming of moving back into manufacturing rather than doing R&D, creating IP, and reaping most of the value of things created in other places. China, on the other hand, is moving in the opposite direction: they are much more interested in doing what America was doing and are less interested in manufacturing things (they are willing to send that to poorer countries in Asia). In a decade or two, America and china’s roles in the world are going to be completely swapped.
Most image sensors are quite similar (ignoring weirdos like X-Trans and Foveon) so they could use the same format and decoding algorithm. It's a 16-bit integer (padded out from 12 or 14 bits) for each pixel with a Bayer color filter. Maybe throw in some parameters like a suggested gamma curve.
Burning it all down to go back to making shoes and socks domestically is pure economic illiteracy.

Literally any introductory Econ book would explain why this is nonsense. It’s depressing that this mindset is resonating with so many people who think it’s better to put massive taxes on basic necessities (tariffs are taxes) and destroy the economy.
Like athletism for example?
How do his rates of return compare to these politicians?
CDC's top laboratory on STDs is shut by Trump administration
More "own goals" by the US in the fight against infectious disease.

See also:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/health/cdc-sti-lab-gonorr...
Not the OP but

USAMO : USA Math Olympiad. Referred here https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.21934v1

IMO : International Math Olympiad

SOTA : State of the Art

OP is probably referring to this referred to this paper here https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.21934v1. The paper explains out how a rigorous testing revealed abysmal performance of LLMs (results that are at odds with how they are hyped about).
Immigrants legal or not that are issued SSNs cannot use them to get money unless they pay into Social Security for at least 10 years and then retire, and only if they don't get deported by then. It's a non-issue that doesn't warrant further investigation.
but it's not. it's dictated by the right. The democrats don't call themselves left. The liberals don't. The centrists don't call either of them "The left" - not even the soft republicans like liz cheney does. There is one group that calls all these people "The far left" ... just one.

It's the same one who believes in jewish space lasers, that there's secret tunnels under the getty, that hillary clinton is an actual child sacrificing witch, that there's a secret basement in a pizza parlor, that the holocaust was fake and simultaneously that 6 million wasn't enough.

Those people are not using reality and there's nothing we can talk about because they simply make things up based on fantasy and fiction
most devs are not highly paid outside the USA.
they're good jobs for sure, pay-wise it would be around plumber range?

no high barrier to entry
whether you're worked to the bone or not depends on the place

but yeah, in general devs have nothing to complain about.
Redbubble was sued by the Pokemon Company two months prior to the launch of Pokemon Go, so you picked the exact wrong company and moment to try this with

https://www.smh.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/pokemon-hel...
TinyLev: DIY multi-emitter single-axis acoustic levitator of small object (2017)
AMOS filled that gap.
> In hindsight, it never is.

Up until WWII happened I doubt many people would have believed that sort of death and destruction was right around the corner. They'd just had WWI and weren't expecting that settling the unsettled business from that would be around 3x worse, break the European colonialists and ... I don't know how wiped out Jews in Europe were, but it was a painful experience although I assume some survived. The property damage was also extensive.

High tariffs isn't going to be the end of the world & this particular stage of crisis doesn't look very important. But the overall geopolitical crisis we're in as everyone realigns certainly could end the world as we know it. Both in the literal and worst case senses. Few went in to WWII chuckling and saying that they were going to break their own power permanently, but that is what a lot of participants ended up doing.
But also not necessarily bad.
What's in there for Trump and his friends? There is no way they actually care about bringing back all sorts of sweatshops in the US, and that can't just be blind nationalism. How do they personally benefit from that situation?
> I expect the American feds to pursue the best interests of Americans (though these policies aren’t in those best interests

I think that's the thing — you plan in business for people to operate in _their own_ best interests. If people stop doing that & their behaviour is volatile, then you're going to put your own mid-term plans on pause until you know what's what.

> Trade deficit aside, we shouldn’t let others collect a larger % of their imports from America than we collect of our imports from them.

Is that happening, trade deficit aside, & when you factor in services as well as goods?
Related:

U.S. stock futures tumble indicating another plummet on Wall Street

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43605670
The big news on EV charging is from BYD in late March when they announced (and it caused TSLA to fall by a few percent) that their new line of superchargers will be able to charge cars to give them a range of 400 km in just a few minutes. This is the state of the art in production

https://www.ttnews.com/articles/byd-5-minute-charging-rivals
agree that TFA's advice is not really useful when open source libraries like these exist
> The market is down because the future prospects for those businesses just got much worse. Yeah you can buy them at a cheaper price, but their corresponding future output remains down as well.

It should be noted that these moronic "buy the dip" claims are happening when Dow Jones is in a freefall, so the poor people who bought the dip on Friday will today wake up with a portfolio loss of >5% without the market even reopening.

It's funny when these chants take place when prices start to plummet. It's like investors are screaming for unwitting people to buy the bag off their hands.
Doesn’t sound like it is a sustainable approach to the problem.

But I generally believe that as DNA modification methods become more accessible, more and more people and states will use insects and arthropods resistant to everything for ecological sabotage.

Pandora's box has already been opened.
I believe it is illegal, and I hope it gets challenged in court
Do people just want to rage? Because a lot of what is being said here, and even the article's headline are not supported by what the article says. In particular:

- The workers were never fired. They were put on paid leave.

- They were fully reinstated less than 24 hours after it became clear a mistake had been made.

- The headline is also misleading. The reason for the firing was 'based on administrative codes that “may not have been intentional.”' So it was a "coding" error in the sense of administrative codes, not programming.

The way people are responding to this, and then hyperbolizing each other, just looks like mob mentality. I'm certain this will be downvoted for the exact same reason. People don't want facts.
Loyalty and obedience is one possibility. Because if you lobby, your business can be exempted from the tariffs.
So, if 1000 content creators sign up, but there are no donors...?

What will be really interesting to see is if people who accept donations will donate to you.

I wish you well, but honestly it seems like your funnel is really really small...
Whats the most important torrents?
I could in theory download some, but i have limited space.
A disease did that. Nobody knew the details, there was fear it wouldn't stop. The markets groaned and creaked under the weight of the fear and uncertainty. But with the vaccine and the reduced lethality of new strains, a disease becomes a nothing. Recovery began because nothing was in the way, the bad thing was gone.

The people in charge of the government did this. The people who will still be in charge of the government. The bad thing is not gone. The bad thing has no end in sight. And the bad thing is doubling down.
The interesting thing is, in a real emergency something often clicks, and people become more focused and organized than otherwise. The 2009 Hudson ditching is a celebrated example, but there were numerous others over the years. (More recently, the upside-down crash landing at Toronto.) IMO the key is to have well-trained and authoritative cabin crew, but any knowledge of emergency procedures also helps, and that's where safety videos come into play.

The author of the article is a bit of a jittery flier (a go-around was their come-to-Jesus moment? come on), but fine, whatever makes people pay attention to basic safety information. It doesn't need to be much: know where the emergency exits are, how to open them if necessary, and don't take your cabin luggage, and you'll already be ahead of most.
These people are shameless and will lie at the drop of a hat to get out from under any responsibility.
A recession will probably tank a lot of manufacturers if they aren’t getting bailouts. And China is only banned here, but not everywhere in the world, they are poised to take over many car markets that are irked by American tariffs, they just have to offer them a slightly better deal.